Our Overnight Voice: Aoife O’Donovan, “Magic Hour”
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After another grueling day of politics, Aoife O’Donovan’s crystalline voice is my antidote.
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re: #1 freetoken
Irish version of Eve, basically. I’ve heard it pronounced “ee-fuh.”
Study: Bagels linked to increased risk of lung cancer
There is only one solution: Stop smoking bagels.
Well, poo, a new thread and I just posted a photo downstairs. You can go look there.
Meanwhile, here’s another, from my office window.
I’m watching a show called Homme Less about a guy in NYC who presents an affluent lifestyle but is homeless.
He’s a small time actor, prior model, and photographer he gets small royalty checks, wears suits, $200 shoes but he lives on the roof of a building.
He maintains a gym membership where he showers and shaves. He goes to high class parties.
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
We seldom get snow here in this part of China, and even more unusual is snow in March.
re: #6 MsJ
I’m watching a show called Homme Less about a guy in NYC who presents an affluent lifestyle but is homeless.
He’s a small time actor, prior model, and photographer he gets small royalty checks, wears suits, $200 shoes but he lives on the roof of a building.
He maintains a gym membership where he showers and shaves. He goes to high class parties.
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
Wasn’t there some IT person who living out of her car in SF, because she couldn’t afford an apartment?
re: #9 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Wasn’t there some IT person who living out of her car in SF, because she couldn’t afford an apartment?
Given SF prices that wouldn’t surprise me.
re: #4 KingKenrod
I guess this is what happens when the Queen’s somewhat-Norman-ized English with its non-phonetic spellings gets mashed up against the intractably opaque origins of the Goidelic language of the Irish.
re: #5 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Meanwhile, here’s another, from my office window.
So, what’s it really like working at the Overlook Hotel?
;-)
This song puts me in mind of Rickie Lee Jones, minus the hipster affectations.
re: #6 MsJ
I’m watching a show called Homme Less about a guy in NYC who presents an affluent lifestyle but is homeless.
He’s a small time actor, prior model, and photographer he gets small royalty checks, wears suits, $200 shoes but he lives on the roof of a building.
He maintains a gym membership where he showers and shaves. He goes to high class parties.
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
re: #9 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Wasn’t there some IT person who living out of her car in SF, because she couldn’t afford an apartment?
Likely. I didn’t see or read about it.
Jelly Clarkson, the first American Idol (and the most successful, even above Carrie Underwood), lived in her car when she auditioned.
Every time I have the first inkling of having a pity party, I remember how blessed I am. I have a roof over my head, never worry about my next meal, am pretty healthy and I never forget that lots of people don’t have that.
This show is blowing my mind.
Love a caption at en.wikipedia.org
“Nadezhda Krupskaya, Lenin, Lenin’s cat, and an American journalist in the Kremlin, 1920.”
Barack Obama Talked About Donald Trump in a Speech in 2005
[…]
Here’s the relevant bit:In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society. But in our past there has been another term for it - Social Darwinism, every man and woman for him or herself. It’s a tempting idea, because it doesn’t require much thought or ingenuity. It allows us to say to those whose health care or tuition may rise faster than they can afford - tough luck. It allows us to say to the Maytag workers who have lost their job - life isn’t fair. It let’s us say to the child born into poverty - pull yourself up by your bootstraps. And it is especially tempting because each of us believes that we will always be the winner in life’s lottery, that we will be Donald Trump, or at least that we won’t be the chump that he tells: “Your fired!”
[…]
re: #16 MsJ
Likely. I didn’t see or read about it.
Jelly Clarkson, the first American Idol (and the most successful, even above Carrie Underwood), lived in her car when she auditioned.
Every time I have the first inkling of having a pity party, I remember how blessed I am. I have a roof over my head, never worry about my next meal, am pretty healthy and I never forget that lots of people don’t have that.
This show is blowing my mind.
So did Jewel, before she hit the big time.
I can’t find the story now, because I’ve forgotten the details, but a woman working in IT for some big firm got real media attention recently when she blogged about living out of her car, despite having a well-paying job at a famous company.
I hope someone here remembers the details. I want to say the CEO wanted to fire her, but I could be making that part up.
In happy OT news, my sister got a job offer for another internship (this is what they call the seasonal positions in all environmental ed) that includes administrative experience - which will be a huge stepping stone into hopefully a full time position. (They’re all big on having administrative experience.)
Not the 100% ideal job, but the guaranteed experience is going to be great. The only downside is she’s going to leave CA pretty much as soon as this job is done and that makes me sad. :(
With Sanders’ vote to protect the Minutemen, his vote against the Brady Bill and his opposition to holding gun manufacturers liable for the consequences of the products they aggressively sell, he really does seem more like a libertarian Ron Paul type than a left wing socialist.
Orange County is run by corrupt thugs y’all.
James Crawford, a criminal defense lawyer who recently defeated the Orange County district attorney’s office (OCDA) in a major case tied to the region’s ongoing jailhouse informant scandal, claims an OCDA employee assaulted him on a 10th floor courthouse hallway this morning.
Crawford’s swollen face and bloody shirt resulted after one of DA Tony Rackauckas’ investigators “pummeled” him in the midst of a brief, terse exchange about who was more sleazy: defense lawyers exposing the systematic cheating involving jailhouse informants or prosecutors and police who’ve repeatedly violated constitutional rights and hidden evidence to win convictions.
According to Irvine-based lawyer Jerry Steering, who is representing Crawford, the investigator, whose identity the Weekly is not publishing until it’s officially confirmed, grabbed his client, knocked him to the floor, jumped on him and then “punched him at least 10 times in the face” before officers in the courthouse pulled him away.
Courthouse officials refused to arrest the DA investigator who assaulted the attorney.
Since this was a topic around here the other day -
An opinion piece in Nature:
Policy: Reboot the debate on genetic engineering
[…]
And some US regulatory agencies are heeding these calls. Thanks to emerging methods of gene delivery and gene editing, genetic engineers no longer need to use DNA sequences from plant pests to introduce engineered genes into host plants. In part because of this change to the process by which the organisms are being made, the USDA has, for about five years, decided not to regulate about 20 engineered plants (see ‘Looser scrutiny’). Several have entered the market without going through any formal regulatory review — either by the USDA or other agencies.
[…]
GE developers and some regulators have been inconsistent in their product-versus-process arguments for good reason. The dichotomy doesn’t work, in practice or in theory. In fact, product-based arguments lead to one of two conclusions: if all products (GE or otherwise) are to be treated the same, then either all products — GE and conventionally bred — should be regulated, or neither should be. The first option is impractical and the second inadvisable given that some products could be harmful.
It is time to reset the debate. Product-versus-process arguments reflect world views about the desired level of regulation for GE organisms. These underlying viewpoints should be made explicit, and the idea that product-based regulation is the only science-based approach rejected.
In reality, it is impossible to be completely ‘science based’ in a regulatory system. Value judgements are embedded in all risk and safety assessments. For example, the dose-response curve for a certain food additive might be known, but such data do not by themselves tell regulators where to set an acceptable safety limit. More often, the dose-response curve is not well established, or known at all. This uncertainty leads to various interpretations of the data.
[…]
re: #3 Shiplord Kirel
Study: Bagels linked to increased risk of lung cancer
There is only one solution: Stop smoking bagels.
I can handle no bagels, just as long as lox doesn’t cause lupus or something.
re: #6 MsJ
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
That sounds terrible. Like Ben Affleck as a homeless guy who lives under a bridge but is actually a billionaire who’s also a bat man terrible.
re: #6 MsJ
I’m watching a show called Homme Less about a guy in NYC who presents an affluent lifestyle but is homeless.
He’s a small time actor, prior model, and photographer he gets small royalty checks, wears suits, $200 shoes but he lives on the roof of a building.
He maintains a gym membership where he showers and shaves. He goes to high class parties.
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
What’s a New York roof go for? Like, $800 a month?
re: #28 De Kolta Chair
That sounds terrible. Like Ben Affleck as a homeless guy who lives under a bridge but is actually a billionaire who’s also a batman terrible.
Well, it’s a documentary, which is what makes it interesting, I guess.
BREAKING: Four dead in Pennsylvania mass shooting
At least four people were reported dead after a mass shooting in the eastern Pennsylvania suburb of Wilkinsburg Wednesday night.
The exact numbers of victims was unknown, though KDKA reported that police confirmed four deaths.
As many as eight were reported to be injured in the shooting, as neighbors said they heard more than 25 shots and dozens of shell cases were found.
[…]
As a result of the publicity surrounding Homme Less, Reay abandoned his rooftop abode and began secretly living else where.
re: #30 Nyet
Well, it’s a documentary, which is what makes it interesting, I guess.
Not having seen the film, what do I know, aside from not a damn thing? ;-)
re: #24 Charles Johnson
With Sanders’ vote to protect the Minutemen, his vote against the Brady Bill and his opposition to holding gun manufacturers liable for the consequences of the products they aggressively sell, he really does seem more like a libertarian Ron Paul type than a left wing socialist.
Yes, but that’s one side of the coin. On the economic/safety net side, he is hard left.
Some of his positions, I stand and applaud, some, I hold my nose and wince.
The old man has some nuance in him, and it’s not dictated by by focus groups. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’m not jumping in to his camp, as I can’t support him, at this time. But discounting him as viable is also silly, it seems to me.
But he really needs to get some control of his social media folks. “Mississippi Berning” was just as offensive as shit.
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn:
Ammon Bundy, others face new charges in Oregon standoff
The federal government on Wednesday leveled additional charges against Ammon Bundy and dozens of others who staged an armed takeover of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon. One weapons allegation carries the possibility of life in prison.
A grand jury indicted Bundy and most of his co-defendants on a new charge of firearms possession in a federal facility after the group seized the nature preserve in January to oppose U.S. land restrictions. Others are accused of a second firearms allegation, theft or damaging an archaeological site considered sacred to the Burns Paiute Tribe.
[…]
But Bundy will be a dick to the end:
Ammon Bundy’s attorneys told the judge that he wanted to be advised of his rights. U.S. District Court Judge Anna Brown denied the request, noting that they were read at three prior court appearances.
“I know I have no rights, so thank you,” Bundy said.
re: #25 goddamnedfrank
Wow. Just wow. And they wouldn’t arrest him even after they witnessed it. Just fucking wow.
‘Night all
Sandon, Henry Sandon — Antiques Roadshow (UK)re: #28 De Kolta Chair
That sounds terrible. Like Ben Affleck as a homeless guy who lives under a bridge but is actually a billionaire who’s also a bat man terrible.
It wasn’t at all. This guy isn’t wealthy. He pays out $1500 a month for living - just with no home. He deposited four checks which likely were maybe $500 collectively. He eeks out an existence. That says it was his choice to live that way.
It was…tragic. That’s the only word I could think of.
It was a very good film.
re: #29 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
What’s a New York roof go for? Like, $800 a month?
He snuck up there and slept under a tarp.
So, what are the chances that this will come up in tomorrow’s “debate”?
Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us.’
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday that be believes “Islam hates us,” and called on the United States to “expand” laws on using enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorist groups.
“I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “There’s something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There’s an unbelievable hatred of us.”
Trump was responding to a question by Cooper about whether he believed the West is at war with Islam. Cooper asked Trump if he was referring to Islam at large or to radical elements within the faith.
“You’re going to have to figure that out,” Trump said. “But there’s a tremendous hatred and we have to be very vigilant, we have to be very careful and we can’t allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States, and of people who are not Muslim. “Cooper again pressed Trump on whether he was talking about “radical Islam” or “Islam itself.”
“It’s radical but it’s very hard to define, it’s very hard to separate because you don’t know who’s who,” Trump said.
[…]
So, when is the RNC going to stop the Trump dog and pony show?
Found the details finally. Bing is a lousy search engine for these sort of things. Google’s much better.
The woman was a Yelp worker who wrote a lengthy piece for Medium about how hard it was to live on her salary in SF. Then she got fired.
re: #40 MsJ
He snuck up there and slept under a tarp.
To be honest the documentary sounds problematic as hell to me. I generally dislike it when complex systemic social problems like homelessness are presented as something that can be effectively navigated by an individual having the just right kind of plucky, “can do” attitude. But I haven’t seen it so I’m talking out my ass here.
re: #31 freetoken
I used to live in Wilkensburg back in 1990. Not the nicest and quietest of suburbs. It was also a dry borough. You knew you were leaving it when you encountered the bars.
re: #42 freetoken
So, what are the chances that this will come up in tomorrow’s “debate”?
Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us.’
So, when is the RNC going to stop the Trump dog and pony show?
How can they? They invented the meme.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
What I’m saying is that based on what I’m hearing I’m catching a distinct impression of bootstraps being sold.
re: #42 freetoken
So, what are the chances that this will come up in tomorrow’s “debate”?
Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us.’
So, when is the RNC going to stop the Trump dog and pony show?
They won’t, because that’s right up their alley. My Trump fan co-worker repeated Trump’s “we need to play by their rules” meme today and I didn’t even know where to start arguing against that. I think I realized it was a hopeless cause. Once you think you have to be a terrorist to fight a terrorist, are you really going to listen to reason?
This shit lets Trump lead perfectly intelligent people around by the nose. Once you believe The Leader is For You, you’ll believe anything he says.
re: #43 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Found the details finally. Bing is a lousy search engine for these sort of things. Google’s much better.
The woman was a Yelp worker who wrote a lengthy piece for Medium about how hard it was to live on her salary in SF. Then she got fired.
Another reason to hate Yelp. Funny how another tech company gave every be of its employees a $70k salary and continues to make great profits.
The Yelp CEO came off as a total dick.
re: #39 MsJ
It was a very good film.
I didn’t expect much from the Amy Winehouse documentary until I saw it and was deeply impressed.
Perhaps the most important memo one can write to oneself is “Never Assume.”
Kissinger / Castro 2016.
Shit is getting out of control.#DemDebate— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
To be honest the documentary sounds problematic as hell to me. I generally dislike it when complex systemic social problems like homelessness are presented as something that can be effectively navigated by an individual having the just right kind of plucky, “can do” attitude. But I haven’t seen it so I’m talking out my ass here.
I haven’t seen it either, but it would suggest that many people around the USA may have co-workers or acquaintances who are in fact homeless, but don’t look like it. As this guy says, if you’re clean, well-dressed and can afford a cup of coffee and a piece of pie at a cafe, no one would suspect you’re homeless.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
To be honest the documentary sounds problematic as hell to me. I generally dislike it when complex systemic social problems like homelessness are presented as something that can be effectively navigated by an individual having the just right kind of plucky, “can do” attitude. But I haven’t seen it so I’m talking out my ass here.
I didn’t see it that way at all. He talked about having wanted to commit suicide the year before. Honestly, there were times I thought there may be some mental illness going on.
Watch it if you get a chance. I’d love your thoughts.
re: #48 Pawn of the Oppressor
They won’t, because that’s right up their alley. My Trump fan co-worker repeated Trump’s “we need to play by their rules” meme today and I didn’t even know where to start arguing against that. I think I realized it was a hopeless cause. Once you think you have to be a terrorist to fight a terrorist, are you really going to listen to reason?
This shit lets Trump lead perfectly intelligent people around by the nose. Once you believe The Leader is For You, you’ll believe anything he says.
If they were perfectly intelligent people, they wouldn’t allow themselves to be led around by the nose. Self awareness is important. Being sheeple kind of obviates the claim of them being “perfectly intelligent people”.
re: #52 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I haven’t seen it either, but it would suggest that many people around the USA may have co-workers or acquaintances who are in fact homeless, but don’t look like it. As this guy says, if you’re clean, well-dressed and can afford a cup of coffee and a piece of pie at a cafe, no one would suspect you’re homeless.
Good point. The stigma goes a long way towards perpetuating the condition.
re: #49 MsJ
Another reason to hate Yelp. Funny how another tech company gave every be of its employees a $70k salary and continues to make great profits.
The Yelp CEO came off as a total dick.
Yelp and Uber come off as firms that are quite willing to shaft their workers, as long as the top management gets big bucks. Contrast those two with Google and Costco, who treat their workers as worthy human beings and whose management still get paid big bucks.
Having listened to the clip that everybody is talking about… I must say, it’s weak stuff. What Bernie said was not that much different from explaining why Hamas is popular - without endorsing Hamas.
re: #56 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Yelp and Uber come off as firms that are quite willing to shaft their workers, as long as the top management gets big bucks. Contrast those two with Google and Costco, who treat their workers as worthy human beings and whose management still get paid big bucks.
In the town I live in Costco has been a tremendous economic boon and tax base. Since the store opened the town’s finances have been squarely in the black and improvements to infrastructure and other little things have been efficient and timely. The starting wage at the store is $15/hr.
re: #57 Nyet
Having listened to the clip that everybody is talking about… I must say, it’s weak stuff. What Bernie said was not that much different from explaining why Hamas is popular - without endorsing Hamas.
But…but…Benghazi!
re: #42 freetoken
So, what are the chances that this will come up in tomorrow’s “debate”?
Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us.’
So, when is the RNC going to stop the Trump dog and pony show?
I still think the Paris attack freaked him the fuck out.
He probably has the butler check under his bed for Muslims every night.
Nothing is more pathetic than a bully who keeps pissing his pants.
re: #58 teleskiguy
In the town I live in Costco has been a tremendous economic boon and tax base. Since the store opened the town’s finances have been in the black and improvements to infrastructure and other little things has been efficient and timely. The starting wage at the store is $15/hr.
Funny how paying a decent wage to workers manages to help an entire community. That’s real trickle-down economics, not the cut taxes BS the GOP’s been selling for the past 30 years.
You can’t make this shit up. pic.twitter.com/aZzSmk6JYm
— Elon James White (@elonjames) March 10, 2016
Clinton campaign says there’s more in the unaired portions, so I would like to see this, but reading comments about this clip killing him in FL I expected some bona fide praise of Castro and got only something that may be presented as such as a stretch.
The mother of all non-sequiturs. Probably a bot.
@Karoli
You are a LIAR! Trump campaign nothing to do with eastern Oregon protest. DONT BELIEVE NOTHING THIS WOMAN HAD TO SAY I LIV OREGON— USA VOTER (@Vote4TrumpPrez) March 10, 2016
Good gif.
@elonjames pic.twitter.com/hmDwUwVdjh
— JadaB (@ThisisJadaB) March 10, 2016
re: #63 Nyet
Clinton campaign says there’s more in the unaired portions, so I would like to see this, but reading comments about this clip killing him in FL I expected some bona fide praise of Castro and got only something that may be presented as such as a stretch.
1,000 hours of early jazz music released online.
A collection of early jazz recordings, including works by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, has been meticulously archived and released online.
At archive.org, 650 cassette tapes from the personal collection of David Niven are available to listen to. The archive includes handwritten liner notes and narration by Niven introducing the recordings.
The archive includes a lot of very early jazz music going back to 1921, much of which is difficult to find recordings of.
[…]
The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991
One of the examples:
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
The mother of all non-sequiturs. Probably a bot.
You are a LIAR! Trump campaign nothing to do with eastern Oregon protest. DONT BELIEVE NOTHING THIS WOMAN HAD TO SAY I LIV OREGON
Oh turd balls. Looking through the timeline, I’m not convinced it’s a bot. Retards with Twitter accounts. Ullr help our republic.
re: #68 freetoken
Wow. Musicologists are gonna go nuts!
re: #68 freetoken
Thanks very much for the tip, freetoken. As far as I’m concerned, the purpose of evolution was to give us Louis Armstrong. I mean that in all seriousness, and I’m always on the look out for hitherto unheard recordings of the maestro.
re: #67 goddamnedfrank
Halfway through that, and while Bernie is a bit too praiseful of the Sandinistas - which, considering the context of the times, e.g. the US support of the Contras, is forgivable IMHO - I can’t work up any outrage about what he is saying.
Poor Ben, horrified to discover that he’s surrounded himself with brownshirts.
@benshapiro
Why not? Assault seems a bit OTT. Just aggressively moved.
You gotta treat the media like DOGS— Jason (@EnemyWithinn) March 10, 2016
File under “not very subtle.”
@benshapiro @jjobe79 the Jew is looking simply get in bed with Murdoch. Shapiro-another typical Jew bag. Have a star pic.twitter.com/Z6dooxc5Vi
— Steven Guiterrez (@moneytreeshades) March 10, 2016
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Given Shapiro’s war against PC one would think he would welcome such expressions of unbridled free speech.
Not saying it’s a complete nothingburger, but nothing impressive either.
re: #73 Nyet
Halfway through that, and while Bernie is a bit too praiseful of the Sandinistas - which, considering the context of the times, e.g. the US support of the Contras, is forgivable IMHO - I can’t work up any outrage about what he is saying.
The Cuban American community in Florida is reportedly not at all amused however. I don’t know how many of them will vote in the closed Dem primary there, but I doubt this is going to help him much. He should probably be grateful it didn’t get very much play before absentee ballots started coming in.
re: #78 goddamnedfrank
I have read as much. Albeit I suppose the Cuban community is not that much into Dems in general.
I’d feel kind of bad for Ben Shapiro right now if he wasn’t such a taint goblin.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
File under “not very subtle.”
Not surprisingly, Guiterrez is a big fan of Der Drumpf.
re: #79 Nyet
I have read as much. Albeit I suppose the Cuban comunity is not that much into Dems in general.
True, the ones that are probably trend younger as well, care less about Castro and would be more likely to support Bernie in any case.
re: #81 De Kolta Chair
Not surprisingly, Guiterrez is a big fan of Der Drumpf.
I’d lay $1000 bucks on Guiterrez not being his name. The spelling is odd.
re: #79 Nyet
I have read as much. Albeit I suppose the Cuban community is not that much into Dems in general.
The older generation isn’t, but their kids and grand kids are much more progressive.
Assimilation has its good points.
re: #83 MsJ
I’d lay $1000 bucks on Guiterrez not being his name. The spelling is odd.
Agreed. I ain’t buying it either, not that anyone gives a flying feck about that loser. ;-)
re: #83 MsJ
I’d lay $1000 bucks on Guiterrez not being his name. The spelling is odd.
Should be Gutierrez. Lo siento, es Gutiérrez
re: #87 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Should be Gutierrez.
I thought Bullshit that a Guiterrez would be for Trump. Then I noticed the spelling.
re: #88 MsJ
I thought Bullshit that a Guiterrez would be for Trump. Then I noticed the spelling.
I goofed in my spelling. Gutiérrez — it needs the accent mark.
I’m watching a presidential debate in the United States tonight, being conducted in Spanish. Adios, America!
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 10, 2016
re: #89 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I goofed in my spelling. Gutiérrez — it needs the accent mark.
Guy may very well be portraying himself as something he is not, but Google seems to support Guiterrez as an actual name.
re: #87 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Should be
Gutierrez. Lo siento, es Gutiérrez
Ray Stevens wrote a song about him years ago. Guitarzan, right?
re: #77 Nyet
Not saying it’s a complete nothingburger, but nothing impressive either.
I suspect there are dozens of interviews of Sanders like this out there. This is the Bernie Sanders I’ve always known; it’s surprising it hasn’t come up before now, and I’m still very surprised Sanders has done so well in this primary. I think his comments seemed much more radical at the time because everything was framed by an existential Soviet threat.
People who are old enough to remember this will have already made up their mind about Bernie one way or another. People who are too young to remember won’t care.
re: #73 Nyet
Halfway through that, and while Bernie is a bit too praiseful of the Sandinistas - which, considering the context of the times, e.g. the US support of the Contras, is forgivable IMHO - I can’t work up any outrage about what he is saying.
It’s not about us being “outraged”, it’s about Jane and John Q Generalelectionvoter.
re: #93 KingKenrod
I’m aware of other interviews in which e.g. he defended the Sandinistas clamping down on freedom of speech. Now that is serious. What he said in this particular interview, not so much.
I don’t know. This isn’t that bad, I’m sure war stress isn’t good for old militant freedom fighters, but I’m starting to wonder how much more of this shit is out there. Like are we going to find out he was there with Kucinich watching the UFO in Shirley MaClaine’s back yard? At least he stayed away from Hugo Chavez, right? Right?
I don’t even know where to begin with this… https://t.co/BYmZv6vKuC pic.twitter.com/1Vo7qwO8jX
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) March 10, 2016
re: #97 goddamnedfrank
I read this article just a few days ago and thought it was a bit too red-baity, though it also made good points.
re: #93 KingKenrod
This is the Bernie Sanders I’ve always known; it’s surprising it hasn’t come up before now…
Not to me. The Republicans are saving it for the general, and Hillary’s to smart to engage in such artless red-baiting when she needs Bernie’s supporters to vote for her.
Example, this is presented as a crazy thesis in the article:
Do you think the Reagan administration was engaged in the funding and commissioning of terrorism?
re: #95 Nyet
I’m aware of other interviews in which e.g. he defended the Sandinistas clamping down on freedom of speech. Now that is serious. What he said in this particular interview, not so much.
I never could get too excited as from the Nicaraguans I knew, I’d rather have lived under the Sandinistas than the Samosa regime. Certainly they were better than the Contras that Ronnie propped up illegally.
My econ 101 prof was a good supply sider that had to flee Managua ahead of a death squad for being to leftist for the Samosa government. Later he left Nicaragua again because he was too conservative to get work for the Sandinistas. I don’t think he had his life threatened the second time but it’s been 34 years since that class so there could be selective memory issues.
re: #103 William Lewis
Yup. Exactly this context is missing from the latest attack. One can’t look at Sandinistas in isolation.
re: #103 William Lewis
I never could get too excited as from the Nicaraguans I knew, I’d rather have lived under the Sandinistas than the Samosa regime.
Since when is “the other guys are worse” a good argument for anything? Isn’t that basically Trump’s argument for waterboarding?
re: #105 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Since when is “the other guys are worse” a good argument for anything?
Since WWII?
half-/
re: #100 Nyet
I read this article just a few days ago and thought it was a bit too red-baity, though it also made good points.
It’s a risky prospect for US politicians outside the executive branch to weigh in too heavily on foreign policy, especially if they’re not hawks. That’s why it’s hard to think of staunchly liberal counter examples to dudes like Scoop Jackson and Charlie Wilson.
re: #105 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Since when is “the other guys are worse” a good argument for anything? Isn’t that basically Trump’s argument for waterboarding?
When one will kill you vs one that won’t, I’d say that the context, as noted above, is quite critical to understanding the argument.
re: #107 goddamnedfrank
Good point.
And, to reiterate, I don’t trust today’s Bernie on the FP either.
re: #21 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
So did Jewel, before she hit the big time.
I can’t find the story now, because I’ve forgotten the details, but a woman working in IT for some big firm got real media attention recently when she blogged about living out of her car, despite having a well-paying job at a famous company.
I hope someone here remembers the details. I want to say the CEO wanted to fire her, but I could be making that part up.
According to his biographer, Charles Cross, Kurt Cobain lived in a 70’s model Dodge Dart after Nirvana’s first hit record Nevermind came out. It’s been a few years since I read the book, Heavier Than Heaven, but there was a long lag time in the payment of royalties from the sales of the album to the band, so that even though they had the #1 record in the country, and had been touring in support of it, they were living like bohemians for several months after it was released.
re: #104 Nyet
Yup. Exactly this context is missing from the latest attack. One can’t look at Sandinistas in isolation.
The US just sucks in general at prescriptively confronting right wing excesses, wherever they occur. We do a decent job of being horrified after the fact by things like the atrocities of Pinochet’s regime, or our own torture program, but we tend to at best turn a blind eye if not actively enable them while they’re ongoing.
“The Somoza regime was worse, hence the Sandinistas are an improvement” - this works.
“The Somoza regime was worse, hence the Sandinistas’ anti-free speech moves should be forgiven” - this doesn’t.
re: #110 thecommodore
According to his biographer, Charles Cross, Kurt Cobain lived in a 70’s model Dodge Dart after Nirvana’s first hit record Nevermind came out. It’s been a few years since I read the book, Heavier Than Heaven, but there was a long lag time in the payment of royalties from the sales of the album to the band, so that even though they had the #1 record in the country, and had been touring in support of it, they were living like bohemians for several months after it was released.
I once had a ’70s model Dodge Dart. You could sleep on the backseat if you were not very tall. Not a very comfortable abode, though.
re: #112 Nyet
Good way to put it. I’d not give the Sandinstas a free pass but compared to the Fellows the USMC put into power?
Donald Trump is horrifying. Ted Cruz may be worse.
@teleskiguy @FrankConniff #TedCruzCampaignSlogans pic.twitter.com/7AMShXUqWe
— Dave Woods (@mytweethurts) March 23, 2015
re: #116 teleskiguy
Donald Trump is horrifying. Ted Cruz may be worse.
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??? He makes my skin crawl.
I did not just see a mosquito in my bedroom. In a Chicago suburb. During March.
— The Vagina Demagogue (@eclecticbrotha) March 9, 2016
Things I do not miss living in the Bay Area.
(That list is not as long as the things I miss list, but. That’s a big one.)
Updating myself on the Shaun/Deray spat, and this is what Shaun sent to Milo:
Racial symbolism is present throughout the world, be it in depicting Jesus as an effeminate European, a firearm, the game of pool, etc.
An interesting choice of words.
re: #119 Nyet
Updating myself on the Shaun/Deray spat, and this is what Shaun sent to Milo:
An interesting choice of words.
I …missed the part where being female was a separate race?
re: #121 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Those small figures are cute :)
I love when Lizards posts the results of their creativity. Seen some very nice things throughout the years.
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re: #122 Nyet
Those small figures are cute :)
I love them for plane travel, because they are small and I don’t have to bring hoops/snaps and everything is in that kit. I just have to supply the scissors and if I am picky, the pincushion.
I have a tropical Santa picked out for the upcoming cruise.
re: #128 teleskiguy
Fun thing, I am a) working on it right now and b) had the designer interact with me in the comments of that shot (although it is mostly related to linen quirks). I cannot wait to see how the rest of the design turns out.
re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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I did good on dis here Instagram a whiles back.
14 Steamboat
I’m always reminded of Dr. Seuss cartoons when the trees get loaded up with snow like this. The skiing is fun as fuck too.
re: #130 Nyet
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re: #131 teleskiguy
I have fond memories of one trip to Steamboat.
Well, before the part with the backboard.
re: #133 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Okay, actually, the backboard was my freshman year of high school.
My junior year, we went back. (I think I skipped sophomore year and stayed with friends.) I refused to ski after the backboard, so instead my aunt supplied a cross stitch kit and I got back into it.
So this conversation ties together in multiple ways that matters very little to anyone else but since we’re all being quiet I can ramble anyway.
re: #133 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Steamboat, that fuckin’ place. I lived there for seven years. I don’t live there now, but I still live there yet.
re: #135 teleskiguy
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re: #137 Nyet
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The colors are shit, but here’s tonight’s sentiment. pic.twitter.com/eRNH1IRe4l
— sylk (@sylk) March 10, 2016
The color balance really is complete and utter shit but you can at least see the progress I’ve made so far tonight.
re: #136 klys (maker of Silmarils)
How so you know when a ski instructor is at a party?
Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.
re: #140 teleskiguy
I never did meet him, so I can’t attest to the validity of that statement…
re: #139 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Ironically, the name of the blue color I am using is “Ocean Breeze.”
re: #6 MsJ
I’m watching a show called Homme Less about a guy in NYC who presents an affluent lifestyle but is homeless.
He’s a small time actor, prior model, and photographer he gets small royalty checks, wears suits, $200 shoes but he lives on the roof of a building.
He maintains a gym membership where he showers and shaves. He goes to high class parties.
This is sad, fascinating, scary…I’m kinda blown away.
That sounds more like “homeless by choice”. I lived that way for a while when I was younger, camping out in the back of my truck and showering at friends’ houses, campgrounds and public pools.
Breitbart management has apparently been trying to silence their reporter who was assaulted by a Trump campaign staffer.
Fields—who sources say was instructed by Breitbart’s PR consultant, Kurt Bardella, not to speak to other journalists about the incident, though Bardella claims otherwise—declined to comment for this story.
“Why the hell isn’t Breitbart standing up strongly for their reporter?” demanded a journalist covering the Trump campaign, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to antagonize Trump operatives and hamper the reporting process. “Why the hell did they need somebody else’s name? Why do they say ‘if it happened’? And why aren’t they allowing her to talk about it at all?”
…
Nursing her bruises, Fields quickly recounted the incident over the phone to her longtime boyfriend, Daily Caller journalist Jamie Weinstein, who promptly tweeted:
“Trump always surrounds himself w thugs. Tonight thug Corey Lewandowski tried to pull my gf @MichelleFields to ground when she asked tough q.”
Weinstein followed up with a second tweet: “Say what you will abt Bush or even Obama. They would never tolerate this type of thuggery toward women.”
Fields soon received an aggrieved phone call from Bardella, telling her that Weinstein’s tweets were “juvenile,” and “immature,” according to sources, and advising her “to get your boyfriend under control.”
re: #42 freetoken
So, what are the chances that this will come up in tomorrow’s “debate”?
Trump: ‘I think Islam hates us.’
So, when is the RNC going to stop the Trump dog and pony show?
He has summarized the very view that the GOP has been extolling ever since GW Bush left office.
Whatever else you can say about Dubya, he had at least some understanding that we are not at war with an entire religion and with one-sixth of the world’s population.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Breitbart management has apparently been trying to silence their reporter who was assaulted by a Trump campaign staffer.
Yet these same people squawk “Oppression!!” whenever a conservative voice is admonished online, or when their Twitter checkmark is removed.
Fuckers. They disgrace the word “journalism” every single day. A publisher is supposed to support his/her reporters in the course of doing their jobs. And the job of a reporter is to ask questions, and keeping asking until she gets a response.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
He has summarized the very view that the GOP has been extolling ever since GW Bush left office.
Whatever else you can say about Dubya, he had at least some understanding that we are not at war with an entire religion and with one-sixth of the world’s population.
W, as far as I can tell, was not a hardliner about anything, which probably made him vulnerable to Cabinet members (and Vice President) who were.
re: #71 De Kolta Chair
Thanks very much for the tip, freetoken. As far as I’m concerned, the purpose of evolution was to give us Louis Armstrong. I mean that in all seriousness, and I’m always on the look out for hitherto unheard recordings of the maestro.
And the purpose of Louis Armstrong was to give us Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
“Why the hell isn’t Breitbart standing up strongly for their reporter?” demanded a journalist covering the Trump campaign, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to antagonize Trump operatives and hamper the reporting process.
Indeed, it is a mystery.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Breitbart management has apparently been trying to silence their reporter who was assaulted by a Trump campaign staffer.
This is only going to encourage Trump to commit that murder he has threatened…just to prove what he can get away with.
/ (half)
Someone is going to write an exposé of the Trump campaign sometime, and it’s going to be a doozy, I’m sure. They may have to wait until The Donald has left this mortal plain, though, unless they write one of those anonymous tell-all books.
TV channel says obtains details of 22,000 Islamic State supporters
Thousands of documents identifying 22,000 supporters of Islamic State in over 50 countries were handed over to Sky News by a disillusioned former member of the group, the British television channel reported on Thursday.
It said it had informed the authorities about the documents, which were on a memory stick stolen from the head of Islamic State’s internal security force by a man who had been part of the Free Syrian Army rebel group before joining Islamic State.
The man, who called himself Abu Hamed, handed over the memory stick during a meeting at an undisclosed location in Turkey, according to the Sky News report.
The documents looked like enrolment forms with 23 questions and contained names of Islamic State supporters and of their relatives, telephone numbers and other details such as the subjects’ areas of expertise and who had recommended them.
[…]
BOMB THE RELATIVES!
This one goes out to all those not-self-aware reporters for wingnut not-quite-news sites who bravely suffer abuse at the hands of campaign managers of candidates whose asses are being kissed by said reporter’s bosses:
From downstairs:
I’m a NYer and Clinton supporter, but I haven’t seen her “in action.”
I recall some incidents of HRC in action.
The recent Benghazi hearing was a good example.
I liked her Super Tuesday speech, if that counts.
I think the interaction that she had in the coffee shop with the Somali-American student was fine. HRC detractors say the interchange was bad. I didn’t see it that way. I think HRC did fine, plus she was having immediate exchange with humans and having effective dialogue. I wonder if they got contact information and did any follow-up.
I am seeking some advice here from the tech gurus about VPS providers. I’m wondering if I can use a VPS in place of a VPN, since China lately has been clamping down on VPN access. In other words, would using the VPS to access Facebook, Google, etc., be cost-effective wrt paying for a VPN service?
One of my younger cousins suggested one VPS provider that offers a basic plan for $10 a month, but I’ve seen cheaper ones.
Any recommendations?
re: #152 freetoken
TV channel says obtains details of 22,000 Islamic State supporters
BOMB THE RELATIVES!
How do you say “The Den of Snow” in Arabic?
Veteran Who Pushed Woman: “I Am Not A Racist… No Excuse For My Actions”
One of the people who did the shoving at the Trump rally tries to explain his side.
“Unfortunately my state of mind after being knocked down and hurt myself, and being caught between a group of white supremacists and Black Lives Matter protesters contributed to my behavior however, there is no excuse for my actions,” Bamberger says.
I feel sorry for him. There he was, minding his own business and holding onto his jacket, when he was brutally jostled somehow. He was disoriented and stuck between white supremacists and that student. So, naturally he shoves the student. Repeatedly. Who wouldn’t? He isn’t a racist.
re: #158 Ming5000
Coulda happened to anyone. /////
re: #159 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I know, right? Emotions got the best of him.
Also, from the comments: If he is 75 then he was born in 1941. The Korean War was from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. Isn’t he too young to be a Korean vet?
About that old man that pushed the student.
I wonder if he will have any true introspection. Almost every racist I know doesn’t know they are a racist. There is a “wall of denial” similar to the one flat-earthers or any political extremist builds to avoid facing facts.
And if the term “racist” is too charged, or maybe even incorrect, what about the simple act of shoving that student? Look at her! She is the cutest thing.
He says he regrets what he did. Hopefully he can make up for it in acts.
re: #160 Ming5000
I know, right? Emotions got the best of him.
Also, from the comments: If he is 75 then he was born in 1941. The Korean War was from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. Isn’t he too young to be a Korean vet?
Probably a Vietnam vet, then. We would have been in his 20s then.
But now that I read the article, it says he’s a member of the Korean War Veterans group. So maybe his father served?
Far more likely IME is that the reporting screwed up his age and he was born around 1931. Prime age for a Korean War vet who came of age on WWII propaganda.
re: #158 Ming5000
Veteran Who Pushed Woman: “I Am Not A Racist… No Excuse For My Actions”
One of the people who did the shoving at the Trump rally tries to explain his side.I feel sorry for him. There he was, minding his own business and holding onto his jacket, when he was brutally jostled somehow. He was disoriented and stuck between white supremacists and that student. So, naturally he shoves the student. Repeatedly. Who wouldn’t? He isn’t a racist.
To me a true and proud Vet would try and stand up for the protesters first amendment rights not try to help shove the protester out of a rally. jmo
#NextLevelTrump is taking off right now, some good stuff in there.
Islam gave us Jar Jar Binks. #NextLevelTrump
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
Islam convinced Sean Connery to do Zardoz. #NextLevelTrump pic.twitter.com/WE6CA3fVpE
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
Islam is why Forrest Gump was nothing like the book. #NextLevelTrump pic.twitter.com/AExI137OYF
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
re: #9 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
It’ll be that way soon here in Toronto.
Or the market will implode. One or the other. In either case there will be a lot of homeless.
Nice silhouette of the plane that hit it.
HMS Sussex after an attack by a kamikaze. pic.twitter.com/nvKCUGbJLL
— Chad Haase (@ChadHaase) January 8, 2016
re: #167 Tigger2
HMS Sussex after an attack by a kamikaze.
Kamikazes turned out to be rather ineffective. Rather than piercing the hull or superstructure as a smaller bomb would, they tended to disperse their impact energy and splatter like a bug on a windshield.
I was flipping through the dial while driving last night and caught a woman saying “it’s all great to teach peace and citizenship all, but they’re training their kids to kill my kids, so I say ‘take em all out while they’re young’; kill them all. I know it sounds extreme, but I’m sick of liberals who don’t want to protect our kids.” She was talking about Muslims (or ISIS, I guess) on the Mark Levin show. I turned it off before I had to hear his voice.
Then this morning on FB I somehow get a comment thread on Obama not going to NR’s funeral because a friend posted in it. Dominated by comments like, “I wish it was him [Obama] instead of her [Reagan].”
Just depressing as hell.
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Kamikazes turned out to be rather ineffective. Rather than piercing the hull or superstructure as a smaller bomb would, they tended to disperse their impact energy and splatter like a bug on a windshield.
But that one sure left a good silhouette of the plane on the ship.
re: #170 Tigger2
But that one sure left a good silhouette of the plane on the ship.
Like a bug on a windshield…
re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Like a bug on a windshield…
Maybe on your windshield it’s a silhouette but on mine it’s just a big gooey blob. lol
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Kamikazes turned out to be rather ineffective. Rather than piercing the hull or superstructure as a smaller bomb would, they tended to disperse their impact energy and splatter like a bug on a windshield.
The “official” kamikazes (Special Attack Forces) carried bombs and did in fact sink and seriously damage a number of Allied ships. Their effectiveness as a method of attacking the Allies is debatable but the Japanese were desperate and they lacked experienced pilots who could attack ships conventionally with free-fall bombs and torpedoes. The kamikazes tended to be younger less-experienced pilots escorted to their targets by more-experienced pilots who knew how to navigate over open water. Those older pilots were expressly forbidden from taking part in the attacks themselves, being ordered to observe and report back to lead another attack in the future. Some of them did in fact attack ships after their juniors had done so against orders even though their planes didn’t carry any bombs.
The Japanese combat reports of kamikaze attacks were vastly overblown — somewhere I have a copy of “The Divine Wind” which was written by two officers of the Special Attack Forces and translated by Captain Pineau USN. There are tables in the back listing the Japanese kamikaze attack reports aligned with the Allied reports of attacks and damage inflicted. The Japanese sometimes claimed carriers and cruisers were struck and sunk on dates when the Allied only reported destroyers and minelayers being hit.
Islam ate that random watermelon from Buckaroo Banzai, which is why the sequel never got made. #NextLevelTrump pic.twitter.com/aTGXepKhRd
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
Islam never really understood the appeal of Big Trouble in Little China. #NextLevelTrump pic.twitter.com/A4Lu4NWk4w
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
Islam told you that getting super high and watching Eraserhead was a good idea. #NextLevelTrump pic.twitter.com/kBiLAvQTy3
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 10, 2016
New @ABC News/WaPo poll: 63% of Americans favor hearings and a vote on Scalia replacement: https://t.co/HIzunPbaYA pic.twitter.com/SeLPTyd7WU
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 10, 2016
re: #175 Tigger2
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Wow, that is pretty good percentage in favor. Only 37% of the intractable RWNJs favor not honoring the Constitution.
re: #175 Tigger2
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That number is actually appallingly low, proof that our education system has pretty much abandoned teaching Civics.
re: #163 William Lewis
Far more likely IME is that the reporting screwed up his age and he was born around 1931. Prime age for a Korean War vet who came of age on WWII propaganda.
If he was born in 1931 he is looking remarkably well for his age, 84 or 85?
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
That number is actually appallingly low, proof that our education system has pretty much abandoned teaching Civics.
I see it like Ming does divided along party lines of the left and center against the hard right. But like you I wish it was higher. And I never had to take civics when I was in school graduated H.S in “70”
re: #178 Usually refered to as anyways
If he was born in 1931 he is looking remarkably well for his age, 84 or 85?
Supposed to be 75.
I think he is just glomming onto the Korea War vibe. The idea in the comments section was that he probably served in the military and probably served in Korea at some point. Who knows. The whole idea of wearing your military cred to a political rally is questionable to me.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
It was a woman reporter. Totally disposable to them.
re: #177 goddamnedfrank
That number is actually appallingly low, proof that our education system has pretty much abandoned teaching Civics.
Appalling to me too, but not surprising.
Few issues seems to get a huge percentage when the general public is queried.
The 11 dumbest things that Americans believe, example:
1) That gay people can choose to become straight.
Although public opinion on matters of homosexuality has grown steadily more progressive, the pace remains a bit glacial. In 2012, a Pew poll found that 35 percent of respondents considered sexual orientation a lifestyle choice.
re: #144 goddamnedfrank
Someone mentioned “tickling the dragon’s tail” on an earlier thread yesterday. Hopefully the RWNJ side of the house will realize that the behavior that they gleefully embrace when directed at the Others is actually horrible and dangerous to everyone.
re: #52 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I haven’t seen it either, but it would suggest that many people around the USA may have co-workers or acquaintances who are in fact homeless, but don’t look like it. As this guy says, if you’re clean, well-dressed and can afford a cup of coffee and a piece of pie at a cafe, no one would suspect you’re homeless.
For Jack Reacher, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. But he’s a fictional character (& Tom Cruise sucked at paying a 6’5” guy)
Governor Scott of Flori-duh was just kicked off MSNBC because he wouldn’t answer the question on whether he thought Muslims hated America. He was asked several times and refused to answer.
re: #43 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Found the details finally. Bing is a lousy search engine for these sort of things. Google’s much better.
The woman was a Yelp worker who wrote a lengthy piece for Medium about how hard it was to live on her salary in SF. Then she got fired.
Talia Jane is the YELP employee who complained how hard it was for her to live on essentially, minimum wage and have enough money to pay rent and eat. So she was living in an apartment she could barely afford. She wasn’t earning $70K or anywhere near it.
re: #185 The Vicious Babushka
For Jack Reacher, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. But he’s a fictional character (& Tom Cruise sucked at paying a 6’5” guy)
Recently got to the Lee Childs Jack Reacher books. Enjoy them.
I wonder WTH they did the Tom Cruise Jack Reacher movie. Did not match the character or the books at all.
Would love a more direct adaptation!
re: #128 teleskiguy
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Lovely! Send some of that white stuff down to this side of the Divide, please.
More evidence for Young Earth Creationists to deny.
Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a pine tree.
The charred pine twigs date back 140 million years to a time when fires raged across large tracts of land.
Pine trees now dominate the forests of the Northern Hemisphere.
The research suggests the tree’s evolution was shaped in the fiery landscape of the Cretaceous, where oxygen levels were much higher than today, fuelling intense and frequent wildfires.
The pine tree fossil from Nova Scotia was embedded in a rock sample, and was only discovered after the rock was treated with acid.
IIRC, those higher oxygen levels also enabled some dinosaurs to reach such enormous sizes.
re: #158 Ming5000
Veteran Who Pushed Woman: “I Am Not A Racist… No Excuse For My Actions”
One of the people who did the shoving at the Trump rally tries to explain his side.I feel sorry for him. There he was, minding his own business and holding onto his jacket, when he was brutally jostled somehow. He was disoriented and stuck between white supremacists and that student. So, naturally he shoves the student. Repeatedly. Who wouldn’t? He isn’t a racist.
He got away with assaulting her so why is he whining?
re: #190 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
More evidence for Young Earth Creationists to deny.
The pine tree fossil from Nova Scotia was embedded in a rock sample, and was only discovered after the rock was treated with acid.
IIRC, those higher oxygen levels also enabled some dinosaurs to reach such enormous sizes.
Well, you have to date it, and they deny the dating methods, so no evidence. //
Just a drive-by, I gotta be up soonish. I tend to avoid the kind of commentary that depicts the national character by its dangerous fauna. Yes, my last residential state (Queensland) has the most venomous snake to humans and whatever, and I might otherwise not post this particular peculiarity because the Australian character tends to exaggerate the threat posed by our wildlife and the rest of the world tends to indulge us.
So to Varek Raith, and anyone who might be interested, here’s a little speel.
I have a deathly fear of spiders. The bigger they are, the more they terrify me. The smaller spiders tend to be more venomous: the redback (our black widow) is one notable example. Huntsmen scare the absolute shit out of me because they’re big and fast even though their bite isn’t dangerous. The Funnel Web (located in central NSW) has fangs that can penetrate a toenail (so another arachniphobe tells me) but I don’t have to worry about that until Global Warming increases its range further south.
Everyone down here in Victoria has a terrible preoccupation with the White-tailed spider. They have a largely unearned reputation for bites resulting in serious lesions, ulcerations and (gasp) necrosis. I’ll include a link down the bottom for those who are curious.
Just ran across one in the bathroom. It was the largest specimen I’ve seen since I moved down here (legs outspanned a dime by a few mm*).
Anyway, they don’t scare me as much as larger ‘hobo’ spiders (thanks RWC) and this provincial gets a kick out of the fear displayed by my own countrymen for this maligned creature.
(I still gassed it because it was still a spider and I’m a monster)
*I used a dime for ease of reference but for accuracy, the metric system, look it up ;)
Bathroom beastiere: #191 Patricia Kayden
He got away with assaulting her so why is he whining?
He’s trying to explain away pushing around a college student who probably had no idea WTF he was yelling about. But he’s just digging himself a bigger hole by saying the white supremacists could also have been pushing him.
He should have just manned up, admitted his guilt and apologized to the student.
re: #192 Nyet
Well, you have to date it, and they deny the dating methods, so no evidence. //
Science is so much easier when you start with the answers and work your way back.
re: #192 Nyet
Well, you have to date it, and they deny the dating methods, so no evidence. //
Oh, of course. They claim radioactive decay rates have changed over time, and also the speed of light and a bunch of other constants that everyone considers, you know, constant.
re: #194 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
He’s trying to explain away pushing around a college student who probably had no idea WTF he was yelling about. But he’s just digging himself a bigger hole by saying the white supremacists could also have been pushing him.
He should have just manned up, admitted his guilt and apologized to the student.
I’m curious as to why he feels he needs to explain himself in the first place since there have been no negative consequences for his behavior. Law enforcement probably won’t charge him with anything and Trump supporters are fine with that kind of behavior towards darkies and undesirables. He has no reason to say anything about the incident. It’s par for the course at Trump rallies.
re: #193 Alyosha
An Aussie dime? Is that the same size as an American dime? If so, I’m not impressed. Sorry. I had a spider in my living room that was larger than a Kennedy dollar (legs included). I left him alone, so he (or she — I didn’t ask) eat the stink bugs that appear out nowhere.
Now, if you find a page of the KJV Bible embedded in rock that says “I’m, like, really 140 million years old”, that’s a start.
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re: #175 Tigger2
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That’s a pretty high majority who simply wants Republican Senators to do their freaking job.
re: #199 Nyet
Now, if you find a page of the KJV Bible embedded in rock that says “I’m, like, really 140 million years old”, that’s a start.
//
Nope. Then they’ll say Satan planted that page there to trick us.
Honestly, if God himself came down and said, “Uh, yeah, I’m omnipotent and immortal and shit, and really, the earth is 4.6 billion years old. I was there, OK?” the creationists would still not believe it.
They put their (selective) literal interpretation of the Bible above all other authority.
re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
An Aussie dime? Is that the same size as an American dime? If so, I’m not impressed. Sorry. I had a spider in my living room that was larger than a Kennedy dollar (legs included). I left him alone, so he (or she — I didn’t ask) eat the stink bugs that appear out nowhere.
Hahaha that’s why it didn’t terrify me as such. And why I thought it a curiosity. The other night there was a huntsman on the window outside that would easily have covered my palm. I was ready to burn the house down. I killed it coz they wander and often show up in bedsheets.
re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I imagine China has some nice land crabs :)
re: #202 Alyosha
Hahaha that’s why it didn’t terrify me as such. And why I thought it a curiosity. The other night there was a huntsman on the window outside that would easily have covered my palm. I was ready to burn the house down. I killed it coz they wander and often show up in bedsheets.
I don’t welcome spiders in bed with me, either. But a huge spider outside a window is OK with me, as long as it stays outside.
I should travel to Japan and get bitten by a radioactive spider…
WTF?! — > Fox anchor leaves co-hosts dumbstruck: ‘We can all relate’ to surviving concentration camps https://t.co/IWXxzfXToH
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) March 10, 2016
Ugh.
re: #207 Dr. Matt
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Ugh.
She wasn’t even thinking about what she was saying, she was just making random “interview noise”
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
She wasn’t even thinking about what she was saying, she was just making random “interview noise”
“Yes, I’m sure we can all relate to being a convicted mass murderer. Now, getting back to your book, Mr. Smith …”
Things that can’t be unseen:
@joshuafoust pic.twitter.com/2PGVmNBC9B
— Will Davis (@Willdavis101) March 10, 2016
re: #210 lawhawk
Things that can’t be unseen:
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An even creepier version of Jerec from Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II?
re: #208 The Vicious Babushka
She wasn’t even thinking about what she was saying, she was just making random “interview noise”
That’s what they get for hiring people for two purposes — bash democrats and spread propaganda — our expectations shouldn’t be too high.
re: #211 Timothy Watson
An even creepier version of Jerec from Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II?
Pale Man.
So, another mass shooting with 5 killed, 3 injured, and the shooter(s) on the loose.
It gets next to no coverage. That’s not surprising. They happen so frequently that it’s background noise unless it involves Muslim terrorists or there are 10+ killed.
Mass killings and mass shootings are background noise unless it involves Muslim terrorists or 10+ killed. Those are the rules @EricBoehlert
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 10, 2016
That’s where we are as a society. We accept these homicides as a cost of doing business. So far, in 2016, we’re seeing 2,325 deaths from firearms (all causes). That’s 33 deaths a day. Every day.
And the media doesn’t seem to pick up these reports unless the death toll is particularly horrific.
re: #215 lawhawk
So, another mass shooting with 5 killed, 3 injured, and the shooter(s) on the loose.
It gets next to no coverage. That’s not surprising. They happen so frequently that it’s background noise unless it involves Muslim terrorists or there are 10+ killed.
That’s where we are as a society. We accept these homicides as a cost of doing business. So far, in 2016, we’re seeing 2,325 deaths from firearms (all causes). That’s 33 deaths a day. Every day.
And the media doesn’t seem to pick up these reports unless the death toll is particularly horrific.
People have become so inured to these reports, that they just shrug their shoulders and think, well that’s too bad. It only matters if someone they know gets shot.
Meanwhile, Trump’s rallies are increasingly dangerous to minorities as both security and white trash thugs in the stands are busy assaulting minorities:
Unbelievable. Trump supporter sucker punches Black man at NC rally. Cops arrested him instead. pic.twitter.com/OYbmj18EWU
— ¡Gabe! Ortíz (@TUSK81) March 10, 2016
So, Ted Nugent… pic.twitter.com/c5AwWxoPlg
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) March 10, 2016
Here is a piece of good news; President Obama’s job approval rating in the RCP average has gone positive for the first time since 2013. That bodes well for Hillary in the Fall with the GOP in chaos.
re: #217 lawhawk
Frankly, I can’t understand why any minority would attend a Trump rally, unless it’s part of a protest group.
In fact, I wonder why anyone with a gram of intelligence would attend a Trump rally, unless it was part of their job.
Uh. They aren’t good at the maths either.
“We are very proud to welcome the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister in nearly 20 years. It’s about time, eh?” —@POTUS
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 10, 2016
re: #221 GlutenFreeJesus
Every time I look at my paycheck, I think “I could be a millionaire in under 15 years if I didn’t have to spend any money.”
re: #217 lawhawk
Meanwhile, Trump’s rallies are increasingly dangerous to minorities as both security and white trash thugs in the stands are busy assaulting minorities:
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One of those scuffles is going to go big. Trump is throwing down the gauntlet as often as he can. Someone may answer the call. And we will again be reminded of why anger rallies are a horrible idea. Angry rally, riot, serious violence. A, B, C.
re: #221 GlutenFreeJesus
Uh. They aren’t good at the maths either.
That ain’t the numbers I’m seein’.
realclearpolitics.com
HRC 1223
BS 574
re: #225 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
That ain’t the numbers I’m seein’.
realclearpolitics.comHRC 1223
BS 574
They’re ignoring the superdelegates.
re: #207 Dr. Matt
Watched the episode:
and thankfully they show the original documents that they found.
The contemporary newspaper article (at 35:09) which talks about Liba Hoffman actually says that she got a suspended (uslovno/условно) sentence of 5 years of concentration camp. Something that they translate as “5 years with probation”. However a suspended sentence means she likely never set her foot in a concentration camp.
re: #226 Belafon
They’re ignoring the superdelegates.
Yeah, I figured. Looks better that way for Bernie
re: #225 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
You’re just not seeing the REAL Delegate count.
re: #224 Great White Snark
Going to be more carnage than at a GWAR concert.
re: #229 GlutenFreeJesus
You’re just not seeing the REAL Delegate count.
Not sure we have seen much of the real Bernie either. I mean that in policy detail not personality.
re: #225 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
That ain’t the numbers I’m seein’.
realclearpolitics.comHRC 1223
BS 574
The 1223 and 574 includes superdelegates. The count in the graphic above is accurate as far as it goes - it doesn’t include the superdelegates.
Bernie’s ability to stay in the race is dependent on people thinking he’s got more of a chance than he does. Even his big MI win was more than offset by a blowout loss in MS, which resulted in a net loss to Hillary on the day.
Pyrrhic victories.
BernieBots are coming into my mentions dropping BENGHAZI!!!!11! EMAIL!!11!! GOLDMAN SACHS!!11!!! WHITEWATER!!11!! ROSE LAW FIRM!!11!! memes that originated at InfoWars & WorldNutDrooly
- day 12 , they still think I’m a husky pic.twitter.com/ijxaWBgRTX
— Köksal Akın (@Koksalakn) March 10, 2016
re: #227 Nyet
Still, I found this episode of FYR to be very moving for several reasons.
re: #232 lawhawk
“Now that the South is out of the way, watch the Bern steamroll Hillary!!!!”.
re: #235 freetoken
I’m not saying it wasn’t moving, but they should have been more careful.
re: #232 lawhawk
The 1223 and 574 includes superdelegates. The count in the graphic above is accurate as far as it goes - it doesn’t include the superdelegates.
Bernie’s ability to stay in the race is dependent on people thinking he’s got more of a chance than he does. Even his big MI win was more than offset by a blowout loss in MS, which resulted in a net loss to Hillary on the day.
Pyrrhic victories.
Tuesday’s results will be interesting to watch.
re: #236 GlutenFreeJesus
“Now that the South is out of the way, watch the Bern steamroll Hillary!!!!”.
I think he’s going to have a tough time in Florida and Illinois, but I don’t know about Ohio. I haven’t paid much attention to the polls.
So I looked. They’re giving Hillary the advantage in Florida, Ohio and Illinois.
Have I mentioned before that Salon, and Paglia, make my ass tired?
[…]
Nevertheless, Trump’s fearless candor and brash energy feel like a great gust of fresh air, sweeping the tedious clichés and constant guilt-tripping of political correctness out to sea. Unlike Hillary Clinton, whose every word and policy statement on the campaign trail are spoon-fed to her by a giant paid staff and army of shadowy advisors, Trump is his own man, with a steely “damn the torpedoes” attitude. He has a swaggering retro machismo that will give hives to the Steinem cabal. He lives large, with the urban flash and bling of a Frank Sinatra. But Trump is a workaholic who doesn’t drink and who has an interesting penchant for sophisticated, strong-willed European women. As for a debasement of the presidency by Trump’s slanging matches about penis size, that sorry process was initiated by a Democrat, Bill Clinton, who chatted about his underwear on TV, let Hollywood pals jump up and down on the bed in the Lincoln Bedroom, and played lewd cigar games with an intern in the White House offices.
Primary voters nationwide are clearly responding to Trump’s brand of classic can-do American moxie. There has been a sense of weary paralysis in our increasingly Byzantine and monstrously wasteful government bureaucracies. Putting a bottom-line businessman with executive experience into the White House has probably been long overdue. If Mitt Romney had boldly talked business more (and chosen a woman VP), he would have won the last election. Although the rampant Hitler and Mussolini analogies to Trump are wildly exaggerated-he has no organized fascist brigades at his beck and call—there is reason for worry about his impatient authoritarian tendencies. We have had more than enough of Obama’s constitutionally questionable executive orders. It remains to be seen whether Trump’s mastery of a hyper-personalized art of the deal will work in the sluggish, murky, incestuously intertwined power realms of Washington.
[…]
re: #240 freetoken
Ignore the racism, look at how spunky the man is!
re: #240 freetoken
Have I mentioned before that Salon, and Paglia, make my ass tired?
“Damn the torpedoes!” is a great slogan until you get hit by a torpedo.
“Come and take them!” is a great slogan until they come and take them.
re: #240 freetoken
Camille Paglia is one of those intellectuals you just want to hit with a salami on the back of the head. They see just what they want to see, and ignore all the stuff they don’t.
Also, too, she’s white, not an immigrant and not a Muslim.
re: #243 The Vicious Babushka
“Damn the torpedoes!” is a great slogan until you get hit by a torpedo.
“Come and take them!” is a great slogan until they come and take them.
Also one of these “Who needs feminism! I have a bunch of money!”
re: #232 lawhawk
The 1223 and 574 includes superdelegates. The count in the graphic above is accurate as far as it goes - it doesn’t include the superdelegates.
Bernie’s ability to stay in the race is dependent on people thinking he’s got more of a chance than he does. Even his big MI win was more than offset by a blowout loss in MS, which resulted in a net loss to Hillary on the day.
Pyrrhic victories.
But because Bernie will win a series of landslide victories over Hillary in one primary after another, the superdelegates will decide they do want a 74 year old socialist as their nominee after all!/
Cartoon: What Donald Trump finds out when he researches the KKK #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/TblNZVc8OZ pic.twitter.com/rB27frFoYD
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 10, 2016
re: #215 lawhawk
So, another mass shooting with 5 killed, 3 injured, and the shooter(s) on the loose.
It gets next to no coverage. That’s not surprising. They happen so frequently that it’s background noise unless it involves Muslim terrorists or there are 10+ killed.
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That’s where we are as a society. We accept these homicides as a cost of doing business. So far, in 2016, we’re seeing 2,325 deaths from firearms (all causes). That’s 33 deaths a day. Every day.
And the media doesn’t seem to pick up these reports unless the death toll is particularly horrific.
I agree with the person that tweeted this and I think this should be tweeted and retweeted all over the net congratulating the NRA and the GOP for the latest mass shooting every time a new one takes place.
Congratulations to NRA and GOP! 5 dead, 3 wounded in a mass shooting in #Wilkinsburg! #2A #gunsense pic.twitter.com/9Jk4RVyCbW
— imfabulous (@imfabulous13) March 10, 2016
I don’t mind if we ignore the superdelegates. But any argument made as to why Clinton will lose has to also show that Obama would win the nomination in 2008 even though the delegate count was closer then.
re: #113 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I once had a ’70s model Dodge Dart. You could sleep on the backseat if you were not very tall. Not a very comfortable abode, though.
I had a ‘68 Chrysler Newport. The back seat was like a hotel room.
re: #240 freetoken
I note that she manages to blame Bill Clinton for Trump’s penis size statements, and slam Obama for his executive orders, implying he’s more autocratic than Trump ever will be.
She really needs to stick with literature, arts and culture, and shut up about politics. She’s clueless.
re: #250 Eventual Carrion
I had a ‘68 Chrysler Newport. The back seat was like a hotel room.
“I got me a car, it’s as big as a whale.”
re: #147 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
W, as far as I can tell, was not a hardliner about anything, which probably made him vulnerable to Cabinet members (and Vice President) who were.
Which is why I refer(ed) to him as a meat puppet.
A BernieBot just tweeted HURR HURR ISRAEL DOES TEH GENOCIDES!!!1!! complete with link to Mondoweiss.
Ugh. Blocked.
What in the utter fuck is SMOTI shrieking about? His site is firewalled here (for good reason)
BREAKING: Trump Supporters Brutally Assaulted – Body Slammed and Hit in Stomach in Florida https://t.co/HPQ7vlxGe4 via @gatewaypundit
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) March 10, 2016
What is wrong with people beating up on Trump supporters? It just shows that they are passionate in their political views!!!
What’s good for the goose, etc…
/
re: #257 The Vicious Babushka
but one of his friends was able to take a picture of the license plate
This might imply there were other witnesses.
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Um, you might think again and delete this comment.
re: #253 Eventual Carrion
Which is why I refer(ed) to him as a meat puppet.
Affable fellow, not too bright for a Yalie, though. And he got elected — twice.
re: #260 Nyet
Um, you might think again and delete this comment.
note the sarc tag
I do not encourage violence except in the most extreme situations of self-defense
the point is that Trump has done nothing to distance himself from or discourage violent outbursts at his rallies.
Time for bed here in the UTC+8 zone. See you all later.
re: #262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
note the sarc tag
Who, outside of a couple of dozens of LGF members, knows what a “sarc tag” is?
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
That sounds more like “homeless by choice”. I lived that way for a while when I was younger, camping out in the back of my truck and showering at friends’ houses, campgrounds and public pools.
I kinda got the impression that it was maybe yes, maybe not. He mentioned the stress of “other people” always being worried about being able to pay rent. He stuck me as being on the margins. He maybe could have afforded something - perhaps if he went far outside of NYC but he didn’t have (and likely couldn’t afford) a car.
I am honestly curious about his situation. Like I said, it was a combination of fascinating, tragic, scary. It was, at least for me, pretty emotional.
re: #185 The Vicious Babushka
For Jack Reacher, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. But he’s a fictional character (& Tom Cruise sucked at paying a 6’5” guy)
I think that’s different as Jack Reacher, if my memory serves, never was homeless as in sleeping under a tarp for years at a time. Didn’t he live in motels and such as he was traveling from one book location to the next? :-)
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Governor Scott of Flori-duh was just kicked off MSNBC because he wouldn’t answer the question on whether he thought Muslims hated America. He was asked several times and refused to answer.
Seriously? Governor Who Gives A Shit About Scott? Too bad they don’t do that to Trump. The guy who’s running for the highest office in the land.
On Hannity, Trump said he doesn’t expect Mexico to write a check for the wall. “Politically, that’s not feasible.” pic.twitter.com/ywJ7taPtPk
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) March 10, 2016
As a reminder, @realDonaldTrump explictly stated we wouldn’t need wall for all 2k miles - https://t.co/Y2xyNSIoxr @SopanDeb @BuzzFeedAndrew
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 10, 2016
Let that all sink in. Trump knows he’s not going to build a wall on all 2,000 miles of the border. He admits that there’s natural barriers like deserts and mountains, but his supporters ignore all that in favor of WALL!
So, if 1,000 miles wont need a wall, then what of the other ~1,000 miles? Well, there’s about 700 miles of barriers and fencing already in place as required and funded by Congress under prior law.
The rabbit hole of Trump strikes again.
re: #186 Dr. Matt
Governor Scott of Flori-duh was just kicked off MSNBC because he wouldn’t answer the question on whether he thought Muslims hated America. He was asked several times and refused to answer.
Anyone have a video link for this?
re: #187 The Vicious Babushka
Talia Jane is the YELP employee who complained how hard it was for her to live on essentially, minimum wage and have enough money to pay rent and eat. So she was living in an apartment she could barely afford. She wasn’t earning $70K or anywhere near it.
This is the $70k story I referenced above. I know Yelp isn’t paying their people shit. She was taking home just over $8 an hour.
I think Yelp is a horrible company which extorts other companies (as they did to my vet…pay up or poor ratings show on the first page. My vet is tech savvy and was pissed as hell.)
re: #191 Patricia Kayden
He got away with assaulting her so why is he whining?
Because people are being mean to him?
I wonder if he could see the irony. Nah.
re: #269 MsJ
Same crap that the Better Business Bureau does which I was alluding to the other day.
re: #215 lawhawk
I googled that this morning and there is almost nothing about five people being shot dead and three or four more being in critical condition, not even locally.
re: #265 MsJ
I think that’s different as Jack Reacher, if my memory serves, never was homeless as in sleeping under a tarp for years at a time. Didn’t he live in motels and such as he was traveling from one book location to the next? :-)
According to the books, he has quite a bit of money stashed away that he robbed from various bad guys. In addition to his toothbrush and the clothes on his back, he has an ATM card and a passport, but not a driver’s license.
But, he is a fictional character.
re: #271 freetoken
Rick Scott makes my skin crawl. Listening to him hedge his bets on which candidate he would support is just ridiculous.
Just answer the damn question! It’s not even that hard!
MSNBC cuts off Florida governor’s mic after he refuses to denounce Islamophobia https://t.co/JvfJIonblF pic.twitter.com/VVt1I1XehK
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 10, 2016
re: #265 MsJ
I kinda got the impression that it was maybe yes, maybe not. He mentioned the stress of “other people” always being worried about being able to pay rent. He stuck me as being on the margins. He maybe could have afforded something - perhaps if he went far outside of NYC but he didn’t have (and likely couldn’t afford) a car.
I imagine that it is also based on economics and practicality. And as long as you are single and flexible, there is no need for a fixed residence.
re: #277 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I imagine that it is also based on economics and practicality. And as long as you are single and flexible, there is no need for a fixed residence.
I would really hate it if media decided to promote this as a “lifestyle choice”
re: #267 lawhawk
The rabbit hole of Trump strikes again.
Trump has mastered the tweet and the sound byte. Taken separately and individually, some of these things might even sound feasible, plausible or even reasonable, but we seem to have lost the ability to step back and look on his utterances as a whole and not just a series of outbursts and responses.
re: #276 Lidane
“cuts off mic” leaves the impression that the mic was just muted cold, but that is not what happened.
Mika just ended the interview in frustration, thanked the governor, then went to commercial.
re: #276 Lidane
MSNBC cuts off Florida governor’s mic after he refuses to denounce Islamophobi
More proof of liberal press censorship and PC run amok?
Awaiting Trump’s response.
(sarcastically)
re: #278 The Vicious Babushka
I would really hate it if media decided to promote this as a “lifestyle choice”
If it is a “lifestyle choice”, it is one suited only for healthy young white men. For anyone with children, for example, or for women or even minorities, it is not any sort of reasonable long-term option.
re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
If it is a “lifestyle choice”, it is one suited only for healthy young white men. For anyone with children, for example, or for women or even minorities, it is not any sort of reasonable long-term option.
When that girl was fired from YELP, a bunch of wingnuts blamed her “extravagant lifestyle” for example, living in San Francisco (where her job was located!) and not sharing her one-bedroom apartment with 26 roommates.
re: #283 The Vicious Babushka
When that girl was fired from YELP, a bunch of wingnuts blamed her “extravagant lifestyle” for example, living in San Francisco (where her job was located!) and not sharing her one-bedroom apartment with 26 roommates.
It’s what they do in China! How are we supposed to compete with them if we keep coddling our workers this way?
/
re: #264 Nyet
Who, outside of a couple of dozens of LGF members, knows what a “sarc tag” is?
I knew what it was before coming here. But I always used /sarcasm and not just /
re: #272 Timothy Watson
Same crap that the Better Business Bureau does which I was alluding to the other day.
Really? Seriously? I didn’t catch that the other day.
Well, that’s a lot bigger then Yelp. That’s terrible.
Morning!
I was just catching up a bit on the overnight chatter and seeing Lidane’s #276 brought to mind what I heard in my first 20 minutes of Morning Joke this morning.
Joke actually praised the Democratic debates for being about real political issues, policy and direction…even if he is a disagreeable Republican.
He also went on to ask why and how did the Republicans who control 60% of Governors and the largest majorities in Congress in over 50 years manage to become incapable of running anyone for national office that is not a clown?
Heh. He called it a clown show and said that included the last few elections. I guess that means McCain, Romney and TRUMP! He may have said the last four…so that would include Bush, but I doubt he meant Bush. Or did he? Hmmm.
He wondered how the GOP debates have turned to talking about hands and other body parts and wondered what is going on.
Joke must have had some strong coffee. I figure in a few days he will be back to his usual foolish self. Of course, seeing the video of Rick Scott (I haven’t watched yet) and not watching the rest of the show…he may have reverted back to himself after I turned to local news.
I wonder if Trump called in to bitch…or has Trump sent out nasty Tweets about Joke and Mika?
Back to catching up.
re: #278 The Vicious Babushka
I would really hate it if media decided to promote this as a “lifestyle choice”
Hey, why not? A refrigerator and microwave are both luxuries to the media class.
re: #285 Stanley Sea
Trudeau & Obama on the TV.
Fact
Trudeau/Obama/Peńa Nieto surely constitute the handsomest troika of NAFTA country leaders ever.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 10, 2016
re: #276 Lidane
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Looks like Republicans have decided to go down with the Trump ship. Interesting that only a few Politicians (such as Lindsay Graham) are openly opposed to him. Great minority outreach they’ve got going for them.
re: #289 MsJ
Hey, why not? A refrigerator and microwave are both luxuries to the media class.
and a cellphone
re: #288 ObserverArt
You’re correct that you probably caught him after he had a strong cup of coffee to wake him up a little. But I bet Scarborough will vigorously support Trump or Cruz if either is the Republican nominee in November. A few lucid moments where he blurts out the truth make no difference in the long fun.
re: #289 MsJ
Hey, why not? A refrigerator and microwave are both luxuries to the media class.
AND TEH INTERNETS!!!!!!
re: #291 Patricia Kayden
Looks like Republicans have decided to go down with the Trump ship. Interesting that only a few Politicians (such as Lindsay Graham) are openly opposed to him. Great minority outreach they’ve got going for them.
Tonight’s debate should be very interesting. For the first time in this campaign, the primary obstacle to Trump clinching the nomination is John Kasich, who is in a tight battle with Trump in Ohio. I don’t think I have heard Trump say anything about Kasich yet in this campaign; so what attacks might Trump launch?
re: #271 freetoken
I would weep for Voldemort, but I’m stuck with the bald terror until someone hopefully less him takes over. Hell, bring back Crist, he was cool.
I have not tried to link tweets here before, so hope it works! We were all disgusted by Ann Coulter’s nasty tweet last night, but John Dingell handled her very nicely!
I’m watching a presidential debate in the United States tonight, being conducted in Spanish. Adios, America!
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 10, 2016
You’re finally leaving? Bye. https://t.co/IJi1QP4HZA
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) March 10, 2016
re: #197 Patricia Kayden
I’m curious as to why he feels he needs to explain himself in the first place since there have been no negative consequences for his behavior. Law enforcement probably won’t charge him with anything and Trump supporters are fine with that kind of behavior towards darkies and undesirables. He has no reason to say anything about the incident. It’s par for the course at Trump rallies.
He and his family members may have gotten some personal “push-back” from people that know them. So he may have thought he could clear his name by addressing this publicly. I hope he did encounter disapproval of his behavior from people he knows.
re: #292 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
and a cellphone
Not just any cell phone, an Obamaphone!
Is Trump the American Hitler or the American Netanyahu? https://t.co/BnXLfudRkP
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 10, 2016
re: #202 Alyosha
Hahaha that’s why it didn’t terrify me as such. And why I thought it a curiosity. The other night there was a huntsman on the window outside that would easily have covered my palm. I was ready to burn the house down. I killed it coz they wander and often show up in bedsheets.
I once wiped my face with a hand towel only to look up at the mirror and see a black “jumpy” spider on my cheek. It was about the size of a quarter with its legs and all. I froze, terrified. I was really scared that if I tried to sweep it away, if I was too slow it might try to seek cover in my ear or a nostril. Fortunately I was able to flick it away quickly enough.
When I told my husband about my scare earlier that day he said, “If it had gone in your nostril, you could have just done this,” as he squeezed his nostrils tightly and made a sound of a bug getting squished. I blanched. That man sure knows how to push my buttons.
I love him unreservedly anyway. 8D
LOL
Justin Trudeau missed an opportunity to say “If Trump is elected, Canada is going to build a wall and the Americans will pay for it.”
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 10, 2016
re: #301 KerFuFFler
I once wiped my face with a hand towel only to look up the mirror and see a black “jumpy” spider on my cheek. It was about the size of a quarter with its legs and all. I froze, terrified. I was really scared that if I tried to sweep it away, if I was too slow it might try to seek cover in my ear or a nostril. Fortunately I was able to flick it away quickly enough.
When I told my husband about my scare earlier that day he said, “If it had gone in your nostril, you could have just done this,” as he squeezed his nostrils tightly and made a sound of a bug getting squished. I blanched. That man sure knows how to push my buttons.
I love him unreservedly anyway. 8D
OMG put that thing in spoiler quotes.
re: #297 retired cynic
I have not tried to link tweets here before, so hope it works! We were all disgusted by Ann Coulter’s nasty tweet last night, but John Dingell handled her very nicely!
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She won’t be missed at all.
OK, northwest Louisiana is in a major flood emergency. Yesterday I moved my 93-year-old mom, her two cats, and a few possessions out of her house, which is under several feet of water today. It was a desperate slog through rising water and driving rain. We went to a little rental camp that I keep precisely because it’s on considerably higher ground. Now the lake is within three vertical feet of coming in here too. My satellite dish for the internet is on a six-foot pole seated several feet above lake level and the dish is now just inches clear of the water. Roads closed everywhere, plus it’s still raining.
The hell of it is, when I woke up this morning, the first and most depressing thought that hit me was that Trump could actually be elected.
The Washington Post used my tweet about Benghazi in their article on the debate. Guess I’m going to have to work harder at being irrelevant…
@JohnDingell You Sir, Win the Internet today!! Thank you for your service.
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 10, 2016
re: #297 retired cynic
I have not tried to link tweets here before, so hope it works! We were all disgusted by Ann Coulter’s nasty tweet last night, but John Dingell handled her very nicely!
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Californians need to remind Ann that there’s been Spanish-speaking towns here, permanent settlements, since before the Mayflower pulled up to Plymouth Rock. When California first became a State, there were more Spanish-speakers than English-speakers. It’s not a “weird coincidence” or “marketing affectation” that the cities have names like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, etc. The first permanent road constructed in North America was the thousand-mile long Camino Real, paid for by the King of Spain.
(also, Los Angeles is an abbreviation. The real full name is Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Maria, Reina de Los Angeles).
Although there’s a Florida town, also Spanish-founded, that predates any of the California settlements.
re: #309 Charles Johnson
The Washington Post used my tweet about Benghazi in their article on the debate. Guess I’m going to have to work harder at being irrelevant…
Moar LGF failure! Sad!
/
re: #311 sagehen
Californians need to remind Ann that there’s been Spanish-speaking towns here, permanent settlements, since before the Mayflower pulled up to Plymouth Rock.
Yeah, but we son it fair and square in a war, so they should learn English or leave!
/ (this is a sarc tag, indicating that my statement is ironic)
re: #311 sagehen
Californians need to remind Ann that there’s been Spanish-speaking towns here, permanent settlements, since before the Mayflower pulled up to Plymouth Rock. When California first became a State, there were more Spanish-speakers than English-speakers. It’s not a “weird coincidence” or “marketing affectation” that the cities have names like Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, etc. The first permanent road constructed in North America was the thousand-mile long Camino Real, paid for by the King of Spain.
(also, Los Angeles is an abbreviation. The real full name is Ciudad de Nuestra Señora Maria, Reina de Los Angeles).
Although there’s a Florida town, also Spanish-founded, that predates any of the California settlements.
St Augustine I believe is the Florida town.
re: #306 whitebeach
Holy cow! Stay safe. Hope you and your mom are ok!
re: #291 Patricia Kayden
Looks like Republicans have decided to go down with the Trump ship. Interesting that only a few Politicians (such as Lindsay Graham) are openly opposed to him. Great minority outreach they’ve got going for them.
Well, there’s that Nebraska Senator, Sasse? Romney, the various anti-Trump Super PACs, Son of Erick, others.
re: #306 whitebeach
OK, northwest Louisiana is in a major flood emergency. Yesterday I moved my 93-year-old mom, her two cats, and a few possessions out of her house, which is under several feet of water today.
I just can’t even imagine. Glad you got your mom and the kittehs out.
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
Tonight’s debate should be very interesting. For the first time in this campaign, the primary obstacle to Trump clinching the nomination is John Kasich, who is in a tight battle with Trump in Ohio. I don’t think I have heard Trump say anything about Kasich yet in this campaign; so what attacks might Trump launch?
It will be interesting. Kasich’s Last Stand.
In a way Trump is a bit blocked in from getting too mean with Kasich since Kasich has taken the high road and many times pointed out the crazy gets people nowhere in the earlier debates. And he won’t directly attack himself. He might blunt Trump by saying stuff like let’s stick to actually policy and approaches and ask Trump what he is actually going to do and how. Ask for the nuts and bolts that no one in the GOP asks about or seems to care. And that will stick because Kasich has a much larger political portfolio than any of the other bozos Trump could dump on before.
(I can’t believe I just typed that…but all along I’ve tried to point out that Kasich is a slick politician that keeps getting voted into office here in Ohio. Ugh. Hey, I was right in that he is one of the last dudes still standing and might make it to the last three. When all this started not many here at LGF gave him notice)
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
Yesterday Trump called Kasich an “absentee governor”.
re: #300 Nyet
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Is Ann Coulter America’s nincompoop or is she America’s Female Ugly American?
re: #320 ObserverArt
Is Ann Coulter America’s nincompoop or is she America’s Female Ugly American?
Both Katie.
re: #319 freetoken
Yesterday Trump called Kasich an “absentee governor”.
Must be confusing Kasich with his pet, Gov. Christie.
I only post here because of this site.s irrelevancy.
And oh yeah…is Rick Scott now a lock to be TRUMPS VP running mate?
re: #319 freetoken
Yesterday Trump called Kasich an “absentee governor”.
Ohio Johnny answered that weeks ago when he did his interview with Chuckless Todd. He said they have these things called smart phones and tablets that he can catch up on business on his bus.
Trump is an absentee human!
Trump’s modeling agency broke immigration laws, attorneys say
Donald Trump’s modeling agency has profited from the very same visa program that the presidential candidate himself has slammed — and appears to have violated federal law in the process, a CNNMoney investigation has found.
So has Scott officially backed Trump or not?
re: #295 Big Beautiful Door
Tonight’s debate should be very interesting. For the first time in this campaign, the primary obstacle to Trump clinching the nomination is John Kasich, who is in a tight battle with Trump in Ohio. I don’t think I have heard Trump say anything about Kasich yet in this campaign; so what attacks might Trump launch?
Trump will probably go the “low energy” route. Kasich is “moderate” given how extremist the other candidates are but is kind of boring.
re: #326 HappyWarrior
So has Scott officially backed Trump or not?
I think that video of him this morning on Morning Joke is your answer.
Well, as far as any answer that snake is capable of giving.
re: #326 HappyWarrior
So has Scott officially backed Trump or not?
Only thing he’s backed so far is Islamophobia.
re: #255 The Vicious Babushka
Trump Supporter Punches Protester In Face At North Carolina Rally
@viciousbabushka Because it’s been ‘an issue’ for a while. Also missed Justice Scalia’s and General Greens #Respect pic.twitter.com/O756rxB4Ha
— Mike Himsworth (@MikeHimsworth) March 10, 2016
It’s not an “issue” except for people who hate Obama NOT MATTER WHAT he does or doesn’t do#tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/S59g26xMie
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 10, 2016
re: #330 Skip Intro
Trump Supporter Punches Protester In Face At North Carolina Rally
And they somehow managed to arrest the guy that got punched.
re: #330 Skip Intro
Trump Supporter Punches Protester In Face At North Carolina Rally
pre-emptive strike?
Why I don’t fly anymore, reason #2003.
Complaint over loud ‘boom box’ music leads to 5-woman brawl on Spirit Airlines flight
re: #331 The Vicious Babushka
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Did they ever think that maybe the general’s family wanted the funeral to be a private affair?
re: #331 The Vicious Babushka
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Obama’s too busy hanging out with that squishy Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau to recognize a real true American.
/ mega
re: #336 HappyWarrior
Did they ever think that maybe the general’s family wanted the funeral to be a private affair?
This could hurt Obama’s re-election prospects.
re: #335 Skip Intro
Why I don’t fly anymore, reason #2003.
Complaint over loud ‘boom box’ music leads to 5-woman brawl on Spirit Airlines flight
Who the heck has a boom box in 2016? On a plane no less?
re: #267 lawhawk
Trump knows he’s lying about everything he says. His followers have not, and never will, catch on.
All these people so outraged about why Obama didn’t do this and that need to look at what Republican presidents have done.
re: #341 Skip Intro
Trump knows he’s lying about everything he says. His followers have not, and never will, catch on.
It doesn’t matter. They love him because he is so strong and successful.
Swoon.
Honestly if you think Obama doesn’t respect veterans and you’re a member of the party and support an ideology that rejects expanded benefits for veterans because some of them may have been illegal aliens then you lose all credibility..
re: #341 Skip Intro
Trump knows he’s lying about everything he says. His followers have not, and never will, catch on.
Well, as much as it is unusual for Jonah Goldberg to actually be insightful, he wrote this week that Trump’s supporters have already “priced” Trump’s untruthfulness, and still support him.
Or, as other writers have put it, Trump’s supporters are out to punish the hierarchy of the establishment, “the man”, the elite, those who, you know, actually know what they are doing.
Trump’s voters are now simply out to destroy. Which is why they are so easily roused to violence at Trump’s gatherings.
Trump’s base kind of reminds me of Nixon’s in a way. That’s who Trump reminds me of in some ways.
I have to admit, with the current state of affairs in the GOP that reading the Redstate site is a delicious pleasure.
The greatest heroic story in the history of the world is the story of Jesus Christ. …
What made Jesus the hero whose story changed the world is that Jesus could have been a conquering hero, but chose instead to lay down his life for the greater good.
… As long as these three are all holding on to the stubborn belief in their right to be the conqueror, Trump will walk away the victor. What the party needs right now is two real heroes. People who are willing to let their personal dreams of conquest die that the greater good might be served. …
Don’t forget to read the comments! That is the chewy nougat center.
Also, Redtstaters normally like Morning Joe but are pissed at Joe because Trump. And now additionally despise Joe because “all GOP candidates were clowns”.
Huckabee’s comments on the election are getting increasingly sort of deranged https://t.co/a1AE3wJWpB pic.twitter.com/mAEtINx7CG
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) March 10, 2016
Man I feel tempted. A wingnut friend just posetd a story about how Michael Reagan slammed President Obama for not attending Nancy’s funeral. I feel like pointing out A) Nancy isn’t Michael’s mother (Jane Wyman was) and B) Mike’s own father was attending a political fundraiser the day of Bess Truman’s funeral.
re: #347 Ming5000
I have to admit, with the current state of affairs in the GOP that reading the Redstate site is a delicious pleasure.
Don’t forget to read the comments! That is the chewy nougat center.
Also, Redtstaters normally like Morning Joe but are pissed at Joe because Trump. And now additionally despise Joe because “all GOP candidates were clowns”.
Are the Red-Staters generally anti-Trump?
And now we come to the crux of the butthurt==>
@Right_All_Wrong @viciousbabushka @POTUS And yet he attended Mandela’s. My dismay, and that of others is appropriate pic.twitter.com/bixDHGHd1X
— Mike Himsworth (@MikeHimsworth) March 10, 2016
Have I mentioned how much I hate UPS SurePost recently? I would like to go pick up my package today from the UPS sorting facility instead of having to make special arrangements tomorrow when it goes to my post office which is only opened four hours a day.
re: #351 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Are the Red-Staters generally anti-Trump?
Yes, generally. Some Trumpters pop off but get shouted down.
re: #352 The Vicious Babushka
And now we come to the crux of the butthurt==>
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Coming from someone who probably called Mandela a dangerous communist when Mandela was actually fighting the Apartheid regime that Mrs. Reagan’s husband the president supported, their concern is duly noted.
That was not even Mandela’s funeral.
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
That was not even Mandela’s funeral.
I was going to say. I remembered hearing it wasn’t.
re: #352 The Vicious Babushka
And now we come to the crux of the butthurt==>
Troubled Hearts, troubled, dismayed.
Why not just come out and say it. You’re upset that President Obama is still president and that reality pisses you off so much that every little thing he does and doesn’t do sends you into a flying rage.
re: #356 The Vicious Babushka
Oh look, guess who else attended Mandela’s memorial service. Ted Cruz!
re: #345 freetoken
Well, as much as it is unusual for Jonah Goldberg to actually be insightful, he wrote this week that Trump’s supporters have already “priced” Trump’s untruthfulness, and still support him.
Or, as other writers have put it, Trump’s supporters are out to punish the hierarchy of the establishment, “the man”, the elite, those who, you know, actually know what they are doing.
Trump’s voters are now simply out to destroy. Which is why they are so easily roused to violence at Trump’s gatherings.
They are very much like those scenes in old movies where the crowd gathers outside the Town Hall with pitchforks, torches and some rope calling for the Mayor and Sheriff to release the guy they are holding so they can administer some good ol’ fashion country justice because the Big Business Man of the City said he robbed the bank of the people’s money and stole all their horses.
Chucky’s business partner.
When a reporter claims to have been assaulted for no reason, I assume that’s a lie because there’s always a reason to assault a reporter.
— Pax Dickinson (@paxdickinson) March 10, 2016
re: #291 Patricia Kayden
If the tribe dies, they die with it. Despite their vaunted individualism the authoritarian revolutionaries claiming the mantle of conservative are practically a hive mind.
re: #363 Charles Johnson
Chucky’s business partner.
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The intersection of conservatism and fascism strikes again. Shit, no love for Breitbart at all but that reporter did not deserve that. Really shows the authoritarian mindset these fuckwits have that they think certain people deserve to be assaulted. No shock though given that Chucky has no problem with rape as well.
Mental health break from the new Civil War trailer:
hold me pic.twitter.com/8SToXFeD8Y
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) March 10, 2016
re: #346 HappyWarrior
Trump’s base kind of reminds me of Nixon’s in a way. That’s who Trump reminds me of in some ways.
Ouch! I have admitted I voted for Tricky Dicky in 1972. I just turned 18 and I didn’t know what I wanted* I learned though.
Nixon was a real politician…and he did some decent things to get real political support. Trump is a bozo blowhard and no one knows what he stands for and what he will do outside of strut around like an orange rooster and call himself The Greatest.
*Eighteen - Song by Alice Cooper
re: #367 ObserverArt
Ouch! I have admitted I voted for Tricky Dicky in 1972. I just turned 18 and I didn’t know what I wanted* I learned though.
Nixon was a real politician…and he did some decent things to get real political support. Trump is a bozo blowhard and no one knows what he stands for and what he will do outside of strut around like an orange rooster and call himself The Greatest.
*Eighteen - Song by Alice Cooper
There are differences I concede. You are 100% correct. Nixon was a real politician but the deep insecurities really remind me of him. And hell you can be forgiven for having voted for Nixon. Lots of people made that mistake.
re: #367 ObserverArt
Ouch! I have admitted I voted for Tricky Dicky in 1972. I just turned 18 and I didn’t know what I wanted* I learned though.
Nixon was a real politician…and he did some decent things to get real political support. Trump is a bozo blowhard and no one knows what he stands for and what he will do outside of strut around like an orange rooster and call himself The Greatest.
*Eighteen - Song by Alice Cooper
Don’t run for office. That 1972 vote will end your chance as a Democrat before it gets started. At least according to some.
re: #332 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Well, that poor white guy probably broke a knuckle when he punched the protestor. How dare a black radical interfere with a white man’s freedom of movement?
re: #318 ObserverArt
It will be interesting. Kasich’s Last Stand.
In a way Trump is a bit blocked in from getting too mean with Kasich since Kasich has taken the high road and many times pointed out the crazy gets people nowhere in the earlier debates. And he won’t directly attack himself. He might blunt Trump by saying stuff like let’s stick to actually policy and approaches and ask Trump what he is actually going to do and how. Ask for the nuts and bolts that no one in the GOP asks about or seems to care. And that will stick because Kasich has a much larger political portfolio than any of the other bozos Trump could dump on before.
(I can’t believe I just typed that…but all along I’ve tried to point out that Kasich is a slick politician that keeps getting voted into office here in Ohio. Ugh. Hey, I was right in that he is one of the last dudes still standing and might make it to the last three. When all this started not many here at LGF gave him notice)
Yes, I wasn’t sure he could make it all the way to March 15 and the Ohio primary, but there he is, not a single victory to his credit so far, and yet the one candidate standing who can block Trump from sweeping up enough delegates to virtually clinch the nomination next Tuesday.
Guy who bills himself as a conservative Christian getting all giddy over prospect of a French Revolution in U.S. https://t.co/lnKaWfNpKU
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 10, 2016
Of course, Huckabee thinks he’s going to be the one picking and choosing who wins.
Trump-backing KKK leader refuses to believe Jesus was Jewish: ‘He was an Israelite!’ https://t.co/fplZ78iDgW
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 10, 2016
Drive-by (though I’m pretty sure Charles is gonna post a new thread any second now): The the other day (last week?) there was a story about an Egyptian guy that was being deported over a social media comment he made threatening Trump, which spawned a discussion here about what constitutional rights non-citizens do or don’t have. I was going through my research stuff and came across the following, which might be of some interest for those of you who were discussing it.
I haven’t read the whole article (which is 13 years old), but the author, David Cole, teaches constitutional law, national security, and criminal justice at Georgetown University Law Center, so I assume he knows what he’s talking about and isn’t just another partisan pundit. You can download the full PDF at the link:
Are Foreign Nationals Entitled to the Same Constitutional Rights As Citizens?
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Document Type
ArticlePublication Date
2003Abstract
Are foreign nationals entitled only to reduced rights and freedoms? The difficulty of the question is reflected in the deeply ambivalent approach of the Supreme Court, an ambivalence matched only by the alternately xenophobic and xenophilic attitude of the American public toward immigrants. On the one hand, the Court has insisted for more than a century that foreign nationals living among us are “persons” within the meaning of the Constitution, and are protected by those rights that the Constitution does not expressly reserve to citizens. Because the Constitution expressly limits to citizens only the rights to vote and to run for federal elective office, equality between non-nationals and citizens would appear to be the constitutional rule. […]
Gotta run. BBL
re: #353 Timothy Watson
Last week they were supposed to deliver a sheet set I ordered for my wife. It was never delivered. “Incorrect address” apparently. Didn’t even try to double check. Just returned to where I ordered it from.
I suspect the person doing the deliver had decided he’d done enough work for the day.
re: #369 Belafon
Don’t run for office. That 1972 vote will end your chance as a Democrat before it gets started. At least according to some.
60% of voters chose Nixon in 1972. That was one of four elections since 1900 where the president got 60% of the vote (LBJ in ‘64, FDR in ‘36, and Harding in ‘20). Those that would hold that vote against anyone alive and eligible to vote at the time is an idjit.
And honestly, I think if it isn’t for Watergate (and sure, that’s a big “if”) and more particularly the cover up, our entire perception of Nixon is different. And it likely drastically alters the course of history.
re: #373 The Vicious Babushka
Doesn’t seem too clear on what “Israelite” meant, does he?
re: #377 Nyet
Anglo-Israelism?
“Khazarism” very popular with anti-Semites, but not backed up by science.
re: #118 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Things I do not miss living in the Bay Area.
(That list is not as long as the things I miss list, but. That’s a big one.)
You don’t live near enough to a creek, then. We get ‘skeeters every spring. Not Minnesota levels of ‘skeeters, but enough to keep us from eating out on the patio at dusk.
re: #377 Nyet
Anglo-Israelism?
Moses looked like Charlton Heston, Genghis Khan looked like John Wayne, so sure, it all makes perfect sense…
re: #379 The Vicious Babushka
“Khazarism” very popular with anti-Semites, but not backed up by science.
From the article:
Although the Bible traces Jewish roots back to the time of Abraham some 4000 years ago, most historians have concluded that the actual Jewish identity dates to only a little over 2000 years ago.
That’s interesting. I had always assumed that Judaism was much older than Christianity, historically speaking.
re: #374 CuriousLurker
about what constitutional rights non-citizens do or don’t have
I’m pretty sure everybody agreed that they have all the constitutional rights except for those reserved only for the citizens. The consequences of using those rights, however, can be different.
2nd Florida poll in 1 day shows Trump leading Rubio by single digits: https://t.co/jaKZRoO4zU pic.twitter.com/pQ5F66MGUg
— The Hill (@thehill) March 10, 2016
Good news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.
Bad news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.
Trump wins FL, he gets all delegates, and Rubio’s officially toast. Rubio wins? That’s a whole new ball of crazy for the GOP as they tear themselves a new one.
Bad for the GOP, good for the rest of us.
re: #382 KGxvi
From the article:
That’s interesting. I had always assumed that Judaism was much older than Christianity, historically speaking.
Judaism existed for millennia before Christianity so yeah that’s kinda weird. But they also quote Shlomo Sand who is a complete crackpot.
re: #383 Nyet
Ah, okay. I didn’t stick around for the whole conversation because of work, so I wasn’t aware that a consensus had been reached. Anyway, I figure it’s good to have professional reference material that might come in handy for people when debating.
re: #382 KGxvi
From the article:
That’s interesting. I had always assumed that Judaism was much older than Christianity, historically speaking.
Well, he is not saying that Judaism is 2000 years old. Only the particular identity. Although the rabbinic Judaism is about that old. It should be distinguished from the Second Temple Judaism, which is the “mother” religion of both Christianity and the rabbinic Judaism.
re: #342 HappyWarrior
All these people so outraged about why Obama didn’t do this and that need to look at what Republican presidents have done.
Doesn’t matter; they are perpetually outraged that Obama is Presidentin’ while black regardless of what he does or doesn’t do.
The whole point of tracing Joseph’s lineage back to King David was to show that Jesus was Jewish.
re: #385 The Vicious Babushka
Judaism existed for millennia before Christianity so yeah that’s kinda weird. But they also quote Shlomo Sand who is a complete crackpot.
Well it does say “Jewish identity” so maybe there’s a historical difference between the religious custom/identity and the, for lack of a better term, ethnic identity?
re: #385 The Vicious Babushka
Judaism existed for millennia before Christianity so yeah that’s kinda weird. But they also quote Shlomo Sand who is a complete crackpot.
Not trying to pick a fight… but doesn’t this really depend upon what one means by “Judaism”?
Anyway, what is typical of American white supremacists who are anti-Semites is that they latch onto some form of historical revisionism or supersessionism.
re: #387 Nyet
Well, he is not saying that Judaism is 2000 years old. Only the particular identity. Although the rabbinic Judaism is about that old. It should be distinguished from the Second Temple Judaism, which is the “mother” religion of both Christianity and the rabbinic Judaism.
Rabbinic Judaism evolved from Pharisaic Judaism, while the Sadducean sect, which was much more Temple-oriented, basically died out after the Roman destruction.
re: #389 Belafon
The whole point of tracing Joseph’s lineage back to King David was to show that Jesus was Jewish.
Even though Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father.
re: #384 lawhawk
I want Rubio to win Florida so much. If that happens, Kasich will win Ohio, and a brokered convention goes from being very unlikely to “huh, how about that”.
Of course, then I’d have to start rooting for Cruz to win about half the remaining states, and I’m not sure I could do that without throwing up in my mouth.
CNN: “Dog reluctantly takes Trump pledge”https://t.co/Uh0nRBUwz2 pic.twitter.com/uxQtfbV7uN
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 10, 2016
re: #389 Belafon
The whole point of tracing Joseph’s lineage back to King David was to show that Jesus was Jewish.
Actually it was to show that he fulfilled one of the criteria for being the Jewish Messiah. (As a by-product of which it follows that the Gospel Jesus was Jewish.)
re: #348 Lidane
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Actually, I kind of agree with Huck on that one. The GOP elite really is completely out-of-touch with ordinary people, including their own voters.
re: #375 Romantic Heretic
Last week they were supposed to deliver a sheet set I ordered for my wife. It was never delivered. “Incorrect address” apparently. Didn’t even try to double check. Just returned to where I ordered it from.
I suspect the person doing the deliver had decided he’d done enough work for the day.
Ya’ll made me check on my delivery. Not expected till next week, but my new yoga ball desk chair is supposed to arrive today! wheee!
re: #393 Skip Intro
Even though Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father.
Look, we can either tell a “cool” story here or we can have internal consistency, you get one or the other.
re: #393 Skip Intro
Even though Joseph wasn’t Jesus’ father.
I thought about that too. But, if you’re the son of God, I’m pretty sure you get to be whatever you want to be.
re: #392 The Vicious Babushka
Rabbinic Judaism evolved from Pharisaic Judaism, while the Sadducean sect, which was much more Temple-oriented, basically died out after the Roman destruction.
Yes, Pharisaic Judaism was one of the streams of the Second Temple Judaism.
re: #384 lawhawk
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Good news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.
Bad news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.Trump wins FL, he gets all delegates, and Rubio’s officially toast. Rubio wins? That’s a whole new ball of crazy for the GOP as they tear themselves a new one.
Bad for the GOP, good for the rest of us.
I’m waiting for the US Virgin Islands caucus tonight.
It’s only 9 delegates, winner-tale-all, but a Rubio win could help him with Florida on Tuesday.
re: #394 Ubiq
I want Rubio to win Florida so much. If that happens, Kasich will win Ohio, and a brokered convention goes from being very unlikely to “huh, how about that”.
Of course, then I’d have to start rooting for Cruz to win about half the remaining states, and I’m not sure I could do that without throwing up in my mouth.
If Rubio and Kasich win their respective home states, and neither Trump nor Cruz gets to the magic number, expect the very first fight at the GOP convention to be over “Rule 40” which says that you have to win at least 8 nominating contests to be nominated on the floor at the convention.
re: #361 lawhawk
Oh look, guess who else attended Mandela’s memorial service. Ted Cruz!
Now that is surprising. What was Ted Cruz doing there?
re: #402 FormerDirtDart
I’m waiting for the US Virgin Islands caucus tonight.
It’s only 9 delegates, winner-tale-all, but a Rubio win could help him with Florida on Tuesday.
Is it a “caucus” or is it a “convention”?
re: #399 KGxvi
About 20 years ago, some radio station which ran a dating advice show did a Christmas skit where a guy called up with a problem with his girlfriend.
“Hi, my name is Joe. My girlfriend got pregnant and when I asked her who the father was, she told me it was God. What should I do?”
Christian ‘prophet’ loses his ass to a hungry lion while trying to prove God would save him https://t.co/1A9xWmH8u4 pic.twitter.com/th0ZpgQPQe
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 10, 2016
re: #306 whitebeach
OK, northwest Louisiana is in a major flood emergency. Yesterday I moved my 93-year-old mom, her two cats, and a few possessions out of her house, which is under several feet of water today. It was a desperate slog through rising water and driving rain. We went to a little rental camp that I keep precisely because it’s on considerably higher ground. Now the lake is within three vertical feet of coming in here too. My satellite dish for the internet is on a six-foot pole seated several feet above lake level and the dish is now just inches clear of the water. Roads closed everywhere, plus it’s still raining.
The hell of it is, when I woke up this morning, the first and most depressing thought that hit me was that Trump could actually be elected.
Watch out for the wigglers.
re: #400 Belafon
I thought about that too. But, if you’re the son of God, I’m pretty sure you get to be whatever you want to be.
I know, but the bible goes to a lot of trouble to show that the guy who wasn’t Jesus’s father was Jewish.
I really don’t see the point.
Given that we know jackshit about the actual historical Jesus though [except that if he existed and was not a figment of imagination like Moroni and Gabriel, he was probably an apocalyptic prophet (kinda like the guys that stand on corners yelling about the end times coming)] this can be discussed for an eternity and nobody will be convinced in the end.
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
One way I read Jesus saying “Don’t tempt the Lord your God” is “It’s time to grow up. I’m not going to save your ass every time you do something stupid.”
re: #384 lawhawk
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Good news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.
Bad news? Rubio’s within single digits of Trump.Trump wins FL, he gets all delegates, and Rubio’s officially toast. Rubio wins? That’s a whole new ball of crazy for the GOP as they tear themselves a new one.
Bad for the GOP, good for the rest of us.
I wonder if Kaisch tries to pull the “I appreciate those Florida voters who are supporting me in the primary, but given recent polling, I would urge all of you to vote for Marco Rubio on March 15.” I mean, that would be fairly unprecedented in contemporary American politics, but if they really are in ABT mode, it’s the smartest play, right?
UPDATE: since 10 pm last night, @CNN has mentioned mass murder in Pittsburgh 3 times, “Trump,” 229 times.
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 10, 2016
re: #232 lawhawk
The 1223 and 574 includes superdelegates. The count in the graphic above is accurate as far as it goes - it doesn’t include the superdelegates.
Bernie’s ability to stay in the race is dependent on people thinking he’s got more of a chance than he does. Even his big MI win was more than offset by a blowout loss in MS, which resulted in a net loss to Hillary on the day.
Pyrrhic victories.
I cleaned up my math before. At the start of Tuesday, Bernie Sanders needed to win 7% more delegates than Hillary Clinton in every state the rest of the way on average to be able to get to half of the pledged delegates (and force the superdelegates to reexamine their choices). After his historic, astonishing and in fact pretty impressive win in Michigan, he now needs to win… only 8% more delegates. Which is to say, the math got worse for him substantially, thanks largely to Mississippi.
Bernie’s best shot is to have a solid net positive night on Tuesday, and translate that into momentum. He’s behind about 220 delegates. To make that up with ramping momentum, he might be viable if he wins by +40 on Tuesday, +80 for the primaries running through the end of April, and +120 for the May/June primaries (which would pretty much translate into blowout wins in California and New Jersey). April & May are way more favorable to Bernie than March has been, but if he doesn’t start turning the momentum around next Tuesday, any possible path forward for him looks increasingly like Wonderland.
And Bernie needs for all of the midwest’s polling to be as wrong as Michigan’s was. Current polling for the 15th: OH (-17), IL (-26), FL (-32), NC (-14). Missouri may be his best state (it would share a lot of characteristics of both Michigan and Kansas), but is oddly enough effectively unpolled, especially weird for such a populous state.
BTW, I did read Shlomo Sand’s notorious book (which was a bestseller in Israel) and while he raises some interesting points along the way, when he tries to discuss the genetic data he can’t but go all conspiracy theory. That’s like one of the weakest discussions ever. Basically because the genetic data refutes his main thesis.
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
[Christian ‘prophet’ loses his ass to a hungry lion while trying to prove God would save him ]
‘I sent you a herd of antelope, I sent a ranger with a gun! What did you want Me to do?’
re: #411 Belafon
One way I read Jesus saying “Don’t tempt the Lord your God” is “It’s time to grow up. I’m not going to save your ass every time you do something stupid.”
Same advice, but in an Islamic context via a Hadith, typically paraphrased as “Trust in God, but tie your camel.”
One day Allah’s Messenger (s.a.w.s.) noticed a bedouin leaving his camel without tying it. He asked the bedouin, “Why don’t you tie down your camel?” The bedouin answered, “I placed my trust in Allah.” At that, the Prophet (s.a.w.s.) said, “Tie your camel and place your trust in Allah”
—Tirmidhi
re: #417 CuriousLurker
“Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry.”
— Oliver Cromwell
re: #412 KGxvi
I wonder if Kaisch tries to pull the “I appreciate those Florida voters who are supporting me in the primary, but given recent polling, I would urge all of you to vote for Marco Rubio on March 15.” I mean, that would be fairly unprecedented in contemporary American politics, but if they really are in ABT mode, it’s the smartest play, right?
None of them are going to do that; a candidate trying to win a nomination just can’t ask the voters to vote for someone else.
re: #416 wrenchwench
‘I sent you a herd of antelope, I sent a ranger with a gun! What did you want me to do?’
THIS. Heh, there an old Iranian parable with a similar point. I don’t remember all the details, but the outline is: The angel of death shows up. Guys says he’s not ready to go, bargains with the angel to let him live longer because he still has much to do, but extracts a promise form the angle that he’ll warn him before coming next time. Years later the angel shows up again.
The guy is taken aback, “What are you doing here?? You promised that you’d warn me before coming back!” The angel of death replies, “Didn’t your friend Reza die X years ago? And what about your cousin Ali? Then there was…” Point made, heh.
re: #414 Ubiq
I cleaned up my math before. At the start of Tuesday, Bernie Sanders needed to win 7% more delegates than Hillary Clinton in every state the rest of the way on average to be able to get to half of the pledged delegates (and force the superdelegates to reexamine their choices). After his historic, astonishing and in fact pretty impressive win in Michigan, he now needs to win… only 8% more delegates. Which is to say, the math got worse for him substantially, thanks largely to Mississippi.
Bernie’s best shot is to have a solid net positive night on Tuesday, and translate that into momentum. He’s behind about 220 delegates. To make that up with ramping momentum, he might be viable if he wins by +40 on Tuesday, +80 for the primaries running through the end of April, and +120 for the May/June primaries (which would pretty much translate into blowout wins in California and New Jersey). April & May are way more favorable to Bernie than March has been, but if he doesn’t start turning the momentum around next Tuesday, any possible path forward for him looks increasingly like Wonderland.
And Bernie needs for all of the midwest’s polling to be as wrong as Michigan’s was. Current polling for the 15th: OH (-17), IL (-26), FL (-32), NC (-14). Missouri may be his best state (it would share a lot of characteristics of both Michigan and Kansas), but is oddly enough effectively unpolled, especially weird for such a populous state.
Here is a detailed analysis of the implausible path forward to the nomination for Sanders.
vox.com
What Bernie really needs is for Hillary to be indicted, the rightwing fantasy that isn’t going to happen.
re: #420 Big Beautiful Door
None of them are going to do that; a candidate trying to win a nomination just can’t ask the voters to vote for someone else.
Good point. Interestingly, looking at the poll:
Florida is a state that allows early voting, which takes place from March 5-12, 2016. Among those who have already voted, Trump led Rubio 39 percent to 27 percent, with Cruz receiving 16 percent and Kasich 14 percent.
Among voters who said they were very likely to cast a ballot on March 15, Trump gets 35 percent, Rubio 27 percent, Cruz 20 percent, Kasich 9 percent and 8 percent remain undecided.
(snip)
Although no longer a candidate, nearly 29 percent said that they would vote for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush if he were still in the race - a number that would be competitive with the frontrunners.
So it turns out that Jeb could have been the GOP’s savoir after all. Rubio is going to have to pick up almost all of the undecideds and then peel some more support from the other candidates to have a chance.
BREAKING: A man who sucker-punched a protester at a Donald Trump rally has been charged with assault.https://t.co/M8MBOF4QgJ
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 10, 2016
Rakeem Jones, the protester who was hit, told The Washington Post that he didn’t see the punch coming and blamed security officers who were present for not protecting the group or detaining the man who hit him.
“It’s happening at all these rallies now and they’re letting it ride,” Jones told the newspaper. “The police jumped on me like I was the one swinging.”
Jones added, “My eye still hurts. It’s just shocking. The shock of it all is starting to set in. It’s like this dude really hit me and they let him get away with it. I was basically in police custody and got hit.”
#NextLevelTrump Trump announces his plan to annex the Sudetenland
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2016
re: #306 whitebeach
My wife lives in Monroe. From what I can find there doesn’t seem to be bad flooding so far.
But I haven’t heard from her since last night. Worried.
Update: She called three minutes after I posted this. She’s okay.
re: #422 Big Beautiful Door
Here is a detailed analysis of the implausible path forward to the nomination for Sanders.
vox.comWhat Bernie really needs is for Hillary to be indicted, the rightwing fantasy that isn’t going to happen.
Speaking of ‘indicted’ I’m astonished that the lawsuits about Trump University aren’t getting more play. Just the story of the lead plaintiff in one of the suits, who wants to withdraw because Trump’s lawyers are grinding her down with discovery and depositions and shit like that. This is a guy that apparently working class people see as on their side, and here he is, using his lawyers to intimidate a dissatisfied customer. In an earlier era, he’d have just sent goons to threaten her.
re: #428 CuriousLurker
I’d call the chances slim and none.
re: #425 Kragar
#NextLevelTrump Trump announces his foreign policy team is called Team Anschluss @Kragar_LGF
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 10, 2016
Trump has still avoided identifying who his foreign policy team includes. It’s been months since he said he’d make that announcement.
Fighting Muslim Stereotypes With Humor on the NYC Subway https://t.co/a2Eyjozphq @CriticalDragon1
— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) March 10, 2016
re: #411 Belafon
One way I read Jesus saying “Don’t tempt the Lord your God” is “It’s time to grow up. I’m not going to save your ass every time you do something stupid.”
Humans are undoubtedly the most conceited species in the universe. Who else believes God has nothing better to do but sit around and help them out of tight spots. - 17th Psalm of Indifferent Contentment, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes
re: #368 HappyWarrior
There are differences I concede. You are 100% correct. Nixon was a real politician but the deep insecurities really remind me of him. And hell you can be forgiven for having voted for Nixon. Lots of people made that mistake.
I’ll still defend Nixon. Sure the crimes were a big deal, and the ethics issues, and the Southern Strategy, but as counterweight when we we’re ranking presidential accomplishments he’s also EPA, OSHA, Title IX, Title X…
re: #423 KGxvi
Good point. Interestingly, looking at the poll:
So it turns out that Jeb could have been the GOP’s savoir after all. Rubio is going to have to pick up almost all of the undecideds and then peel some more support from the other candidates to have a chance.
Unless the polls are Michigan wrong, Trump will win Florida, which means John Kasich is the GOP’s only hope to prevent Trump from virtually clinching the nomination on Tuesday.
re: #430 lawhawk
#NextlevelTrump Trump unveils “Kinder, Küche, Kirche” domestic policy plan
@lawhawk— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 10, 2016
re: #430 lawhawk
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Trump has still avoided identifying who his foreign policy team includes. It’s been months since he said he’d make that announcement.
No-one with any credibility wants to be identified as being on Trump’s team, I’m sure.
re: #433 sagehen
I’ll still defend Nixon. Sure the crimes were a big deal, and the ethics issues, and the Southern Strategy, but as counterweight when we we’re ranking presidential accomplishments he’s also EPA, OSHA, Title IX, Title X…
Nixon’s domestic policy would be considered far left today. But then there’s the illegal wars, the overthrow of democratic governments, and various other crimes.
re: #433 sagehen
I’ll still defend Nixon. Sure the crimes were a big deal, and the ethics issues, and the Southern Strategy, but as counterweight when we we’re ranking presidential accomplishments he’s also EPA, OSHA, Title IX, Title X…
True. I guess I meant personality wise he reminds me of Nixon. A lot of insecurity there.
re: #437 Big Beautiful Door
Nixon’s domestic policy would be considered far left today. But then there’s the illegal wars, the overthrow of democratic governments, and various other crimes.
Nixon is a complicated figure. We’ll be fascinated by him and his presidency 100 years from now I predict.
“Fields stumbled. Finger-shaped bruises formed on her arm.” https://t.co/ijQ1KMQcNH
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) March 10, 2016
“Bruises formed” mysteriously.
LOLWHUT
@sncarney18 @actblue But isn’t Daily Kos biased toward She Who Screeches?
— Damned Liberal (@DamnedLiberal) March 10, 2016
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
He has seen the future and it is eating his rump.
re: #443 Belafon
Markos may favor Clinton, but most of the diarists don’t.
I thought DK was a Berniehole.
re: #330 Skip Intro
Trump Supporter Punches Protester In Face At North Carolina Rally
Trump supporter charged with assault for sucker-punching black man in face at NC rally
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump who was seen on video sucker-punching a black man in the face at a rally in North Carolina on Wednesday has been charged.
Cell phone video posted online showed a white man in a cowboy hat punching an unsuspecting black man during Trump’s rallying in Fayetteville. The victim, later identified as Rakeem Jones, also said that he was targeted with racial slurs.
re: #440 jaunte
Trump Camp Responds To Breitbart Reporter Allegations: ‘Entirely False’ @TPM https://t.co/bt9J9bgGlu
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2016
re: #440 jaunte
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“Bruises formed” mysteriously.
Next they’ll be saying either 1.) she purposely fell against someone’s fingers, or 2.) the bruises were from the guy catching her so she wouldn’t fall after she tripped. //
re: #446 lawhawk
Of course Trump says that. I’m not even gonna click on that and read his lies.
re: #446 lawhawk
Looks like their response is “prove it.”
re: #444 The Vicious Babushka
I thought DK was a Berniehole.
Markos, early on, made it kind of clear that he favored Clinton. He’s written quite a few positive posts about Bernie, though. There are some diarists that put up pro-Clinton posts. But, passion shows up at Daily Kos as in other places. There are a lot of passionate pro-Bernie people there who write the diaries. The commenters though, are a lot closer to being split between the two candidates than the diaries would lead you to believe. Both pro-Sanders and pro-Clinton diaries tend to have way more comments than recs, meaning some serious fights are going on in the comments.
re: #449 jaunte
Looks like their response is “prove it.”
Wasn’t it caught on video? And even if it wasn’t, is that really the best defensive approach for a presidential campaign?
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ...
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
2 days ago
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
3 weeks ago
Views: 499 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
Joe Bacon ✅
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
William Lewis
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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