Yes, It’s Another Deliberately Dumb Video Clip From a Far Right PAC

Keeping the low info voters enraged with idiocy
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Here we go again with one of these 15-second video clips circulated by a far right PAC to whip up the Republican base into a frenzy over a stupid non-issue based on a deliberate distortion. In this case, they’re playing to the abysmally low information section of the GOP base, the people who have no freaking idea what the word “existential” actually means.

“OMG OBAMA SAID ISIS IS NOT AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT!”

And he’s exactly right. An “existential threat” is a threat to one’s very existence. This isn’t difficult to grasp; it’s right there in the word itself. ISIS is not going to destroy the United States. Bombing a train station or an airport is a horrific act of terrorism, but anyone who thinks this kind of terrorism poses a threat to the existence of the US is absolutely delusional.

And that, by the way, includes the Republican National Committee, who tweeted this moronic hatchet job today.

Does the RNC actually believe ISIS is going to wipe America off the map? Of course not; they’re cynically pandering to the knuckle-draggers, to get them frothing at the mouth. And it worked, naturally.

This video clip is also being pushed out there by hack propagandist Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard, as usual.

Meanwhile, just for the record, here’s the rest of what Obama said today in Argentina. He specifically called out Ted Cruz for his bigoted un-Constitutional call for police to “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods.”

If America does face an existential threat, it’s coming from people like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump who would turn the US into a police state controlled by fear and xenophobia.

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517 comments
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:00:02pm

The GOP approach is based on seeing Islam (of which ISIS is considered merely the spearhead) as an existential threat to Christian Civilization.

That is the only way they can ratchet up the level of fear necessary to gain support for their boneheaded policies.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:01:33pm

So if the GOP believes ISIS is an existential thread, where is their proposal to send American troops into battle against it?

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Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:02:33pm

The existential threat is precisely the other way around. ISIS/ daesh faces an existential threat. From us and our allies.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:05:40pm

I have had to have patient, teeth-gritting conversations with relative who have gotten lost in the Wingnutosphere. I had a cousin insist to me that ISIS had tanks massed on the Mexican border, and was just waiting for the signal to come in and kill us all.

That cousin, BTW, lives in Wisconsin. So I had to walk them through how, in their minds, this kind of ISIS invasion would work. That we’d miss 1 million ISIS soldiers in Mexico. How MEXICO would miss 1,000,000 armed men with tanks.

And then how those soldiers would have to fight their way through Texas … Oklahoma … Kansas … MIssouri … Illinois …

To wind up in North Bumfuck, WI, to be waiting outside the post office to shoot him when he came out with his social security check.

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:08:06pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

I have had to have patient, teeth-gritting conversations with relative who have gotten lost in the Wingnutosphere. I had a cousin insist to me that ISIS had tanks massed on the Mexican border, and was just waiting for the signal to come in and kill us all.

That cousin, BTW, lives in Wisconsin. So I had to walk them through how, in their minds, this kind of ISIS invasion would work. That we’d miss 1 million ISIS soldiers in Mexico. How MEXICO would miss 1,000,000 armed men with tanks.

And then how those soldiers would have to fight their way through Texas … Oklahoma … Kansas … MIssouri … Illinois …

To wind up in North Bumfuck, WI, to be waiting outside the post office to shoot him when he came out with his social security check.

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

It’s the same losing battle I’ve had with brainwashed relatives which is why I gave up.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:11:00pm

To be fair, everything is an existential threat to the wingnuts who see themselves under attack every minute of the day, as Lidane posted downstairs:


poor thangs, their days on earth are numbered…

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:13:00pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

To be fair, everything is an existential threat to the wingnuts who see themselves under attack every minute of the day, as Lidane posted downstairs:

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poor thangs, their days on earth are numbered…

They see the plea for people to ‘co-exist’ as an existential threat. Because it has ‘exist’ in it and comes from SJWs.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:13:01pm

The Soviet Union was an existential threat. Having enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world countless times over does make it an existential threat.

A planet killer asteroid is an existential threat.

Climate change is an existential threat - especially to those living in coastal areas or living in places where weather/climate is most affected (droughts, floods, etc.)

Tsunamis and earthquakes can be existential.

ISIL isn’t an existential threat to the US. AQ wasn’t either, and we survived the 9/11 attacks at terrible cost.

That’s not to say that these terror groups can’t have serious effects on US national security interests here or abroad, or that we need to take steps to neutralize these groups. We do, and we are.

The same people who say we need to do more have no idea what that actually entails. Ted Cruz, for one, says carpet bomb, even though there’s no actual place where we can or should (and let’s set aside the fact that he’s advocating war crimes since carpet bombing necessarily means targeting civilians). Trump says build walls, even though there’s no evidence anyone came into the US illegally to carry out the Brussels attack. (Oh, and no evidence so far that any of the attackers entered Belgium illegally either, or France before that in the Paris attacks).

So, the next tactic the GOP proposes is bans on Muslims entering the US, which again only serves to help Daesh since those most likely to flee from the Daesh tyranny and Syrian civil war are Muslims who are deemed insufficiently Muslim.

Muslims are targeted by Islamic terror groups more than any other group out there. They are the targets of convenience, and they’re the ones directly in the line of fire.

And they’re caught in the middle when the West attempts to go after Daesh.

At the end of the day, even the GOP isn’t all that willing to send ground troops, though their supporters seem more interested in sending other folks into combat to fight overseas in places they can’t find on a map against an enemy they simply don’t understand but lump together as all Muslims (to wit the insane #StopIslam hashtag).

Stop Islamic terror. Stop terror. Stop hate. Those are all applicable. Stopping an entire religion as though it’s a monolithic belief system? That shows right there just how people like Walid Phares and Frank Gaffney and Robert Spencer have hijacked the discussion and Islamophobia is a key tenet of the GOP platform - a far cry from even GWB’s days when he was trying to separate the terrorists from the adherents to the religion (even he knew math better than the current GOP).

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:13:03pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

I have had to have patient, teeth-gritting conversations with relative who have gotten lost in the Wingnutosphere. I had a cousin insist to me that ISIS had tanks massed on the Mexican border, and was just waiting for the signal to come in and kill us all.

That cousin, BTW, lives in Wisconsin. So I had to walk them through how, in their minds, this kind of ISIS invasion would work. That we’d miss 1 million ISIS soldiers in Mexico. How MEXICO would miss 1,000,000 armed men with tanks.

And then how those soldiers would have to fight their way through Texas … Oklahoma … Kansas … MIssouri … Illinois …

To wind up in North Bumfuck, WI, to be waiting outside the post office to shoot him when he came out with his social security check.

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

Is “Sharia Law” a weapon you wave around and people magically comply?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:13:20pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:15:10pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

I have had to have patient, teeth-gritting conversations with relative who have gotten lost in the Wingnutosphere. I had a cousin insist to me that ISIS had tanks massed on the Mexican border, and was just waiting for the signal to come in and kill us all.

I remember hearing a similar thing in from my friend’s dad 1979, but it involved Soviet tanks poised on the Nicaraguan border, ready to come up through Mexico and Red Dawn us all.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:15:15pm

Cancer is an existential threat affecting 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women in the U.S. The threat from ISIS ranks below shark attacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:16:02pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

To be fair, everything is an existential threat to the wingnuts who see themselves under attack every minute of the day, as Lidane posted downstairs:

poor thangs, their days on earth of being privileged are numbered…

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:16:52pm

“…Muslim Brotherhooders, Black Lives Matterers, Occupy Anarchists, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.”

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:17:41pm

re: #12 Dr. Matt

And lightning strikes.

And car accidents.

And firearms accidents.

Where are risks higher for terrorism? I’d argue at any Port Authority of NY facility, given that they’ve been the targets of successful attacks twice, and have been targets of several foiled plots.

But if you’re living in the middle of nowhere, the odds of you being attacked by terrorists ranks pretty low.

People have very little understanding of risks and statistics, so the GOP takes advantage of that at every chance.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:18:00pm

re: #14 jaunte

“and Methodists.”

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:18:30pm

Every time I think of the GOP (and even some Dems) nowadays I hear John Fogerty’s Mr. Greed playing in a loop in my head. You can only listen to it on YouTube due to copyright restrictions, so here’s a link for anyone not familiar with the song.

Mr. Greed, why you got to own everything that you see?
Mr. Greed, why you put a chain on everybody livin’ free?
You’re hungerin’ for his house, you’re hungerin’ for his wife
And your appetite will never be denied
You’re a devil of consumption, I hope you choke, Mr. Greed

How do you get away with robbin’?
Did your mother teach you how?
I hear you got away with murder
Did you do your Mama proud?

Mr. Greed, why you got to take more than you can ever use?
Bring ‘em to their knees, isn’t it enough just to win while they lose?
You bring no honor to the game, you feast upon the blood and pain
But the bones you hoard can only bring you shame
There’s corruption in your path, be that your epitaph, Mr. Greed

How do you get away with robbin’?
Did your mother teach you how?
I hear you got away with murder
Did you do your Mama proud?

Gotta get some work done. BBL

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:20:57pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

It sounds like it didn’t become obvious to him, with Republican cult programming in place.
The big threats in WI are hunting accidents, drunk drivers, and heart-disease.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:22:41pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

I have had to have patient, teeth-gritting conversations with relative who have gotten lost in the Wingnutosphere. I had a cousin insist to me that ISIS had tanks massed on the Mexican border, and was just waiting for the signal to come in and kill us all.

That cousin, BTW, lives in Wisconsin. So I had to walk them through how, in their minds, this kind of ISIS invasion would work. That we’d miss 1 million ISIS soldiers in Mexico. How MEXICO would miss 1,000,000 armed men with tanks.

And then how those soldiers would have to fight their way through Texas … Oklahoma … Kansas … MIssouri … Illinois …

To wind up in North Bumfuck, WI, to be waiting outside the post office to shoot him when he came out with his social security check.

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

*headdesk, headdesk, headdesk—turning into a human metronome…*

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:25:03pm

re: #14 jaunte

What about The New Black Panther Party?

And ACORN?!?

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:25:34pm
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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:26:35pm
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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:27:04pm

It has come to my attention that I live in a happy little liberal bubble (mentally and geographically.) My first thought on Cruz wanting to increase patrols in Muslim neighborhoods was: “He’s worried about the residents’ safety? How unusual for….ooohhhh…”

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:28:19pm

re: #14 jaunte

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:30:04pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones brags of private Trump talks, “he listens to what we say” t.co pic.twitter.com
— Media Matters

I can’t wait for the Alex Jones speech at the GOP Convention in Cleveland.

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:32:24pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:33:31pm

re: #22 Kragar

It might not work. Check your timeline.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:36:20pm

re: #26 gocart mozart

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:38:16pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:40:00pm

re: #14 jaunte

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I’ll bet Sarah Palin wishes she had stayed in the Cruz camp. This is world-class salad logic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:41:37pm
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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:42:24pm

8 children died in the horrific terrorist attacks of 9/11.

26 children have been killed in accidental firearm deaths in the first 83 days of 2016.

Tell me which is the existential threat?

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:42:49pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:43:37pm

re: #32 Franklin

Neither. One’s Conservative hyperbole, the other is Liberal hyperbole.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:44:38pm

Transcript of Zubik v Burwell oral arguments (108 pages, PDF)

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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:44:57pm

re: #34 No Country For Old Haters

Neither. One’s Conservative hyperbole, the other is Liberal hyperbole.

You know what? Point taken. No need to deal in hyperbole to fight hyperbole!

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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:46:13pm

Did this make an appearance on LGF yesterday? Apologies for repost if it did…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:47:18pm
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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:50:07pm

re: #36 Franklin

You know what? Point taken. No need to deal in hyperbole to fight hyperbole!

Exactly. One of those is quintessentially American.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:51:36pm

re: #33 Kragar

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The question is: can a Mormon boss prohibit an employee from using their wages to buy alcohol. Because that’s what we are talking about here.

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:51:38pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:51:54pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Two decades of brainwashing where crazy is slowly made to seem reasonable.

Thanks AM radio and Internet!

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Nature'sMasterpiece  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:53:02pm

Although I do agree that this is playing right to “low information” voters and that ISIS does not pose a threat to end the existence of the US, I will say that it was not very wise judgement by the President to downplay the threat of ISIS in anyway the day after the attack. I understand that the GOP needs the threat to be very severe so they can talk about dropping more bombs but if President Obama wants to temper those folks he should at least point out that we are already dropping bombs at a rate that the Air Force struggles to replenish at the same rate and yet we estimate the size of ISIS army to be same as it was 15 months ago when we started the bombing. So I get that the outrage over this is idiotic but once again we are more worried about the dumb things that are said by those on the right then the fact that our current policies are not working and in fact could be argued are helping ISIS recruit.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:54:26pm

re: #40 Mike Lamb

The question is: can a Mormon boss prohibit an employee from using their wages to buy alcohol. Because that’s what we are talking about here.

Can a Mormon boss prohibit an employee from bringing caffeinated products into the workplace…..

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:55:02pm

These people.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:56:04pm

re: #43 Nature’sMasterpiece

yet we estimate the size of ISIS army to be same as it was 15 months ago

Where have you heard this?

I have seen reports that ISIS has been losing areas of control.

Just because attacks are occurring does not mean that they’re anywhere close to winning. Sometimes it’s just the opposite, like the kamikaze attacks by the Japanese. Those were acts of desperation.

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gwangung  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:57:03pm

re: #33 Kragar

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Y’all should note that the insurance company WANTS to provide contraception (because it’s cheaper for them). It’s the employer that’s getting in the way.

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:58:10pm

re: #45 No Country For Old Haters

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 12:59:41pm

re: #43 Nature’sMasterpiece

Although I do agree that this is playing right to “low information” voters and that ISIS does not pose a threat to end the existence of the US, I will say that it was not very wise judgement by the President to downplay the threat of ISIS in anyway the day after the attack. I understand that the GOP needs the threat to be very severe so they can talk about dropping more bombs but if President Obama wants to temper those folks he should at least point out that we are already dropping bombs at a rate that the Air Force struggles to replenish at the same rate and yet we estimate the size of ISIS army to be same as it was 15 months ago when we started the bombing. So I get that the outrage over this is idiotic but once again we are more worried about the dumb things that are said by those on the right then the fact that our current policies are not working and in fact could be argued are helping ISIS recruit.

Nothing Obama can say or do will “temper these folks”, so he should just do his job to the best of his ability. It is completely pointless to take any action in response to the wingnut howler monkey chorus.

Pointing out that Islamist terrorism is not an existential threat to the US is part of that job, IMO.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:01:03pm

re: #48 Kragar

I love how the spawn of Satan SJWs love to argue abortion until they lose and then they have to mute/block you.

I thought they were pro-spawning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:01:48pm

re: #49 EPR-radar

Pointing out that Islamist terrorism is not an existential threat to the US is part of that job, IMO.

The dogwhistle here is that Islam itself is an existential threat to Christian civilization and nothing short of carpet bombing everything from Oran to Tehran will end it.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:05:25pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

To be fair, everything is an existential threat to the wingnuts who see themselves under attack every minute of the day, as Lidane posted downstairs:

[Embedded content]

poor thangs, their days on earth are numbered…

Losing privilege feels like oppression to those with privilege.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:06:47pm

BOOM!

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:08:04pm

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The dogwhistle here is that Islam itself is an existential threat to Christian civilization and nothing short of carpet bombing everything from Oran to Tehran will end it.

Most wingnuts don’t know what “existential threat” means. I think they see it as “a threat that exists” instead of a “threat to your existence”.

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jaunte  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:09:55pm

re: #54 Jack Burton

“Existential” = “complicated SAT word for really bad”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:11:25pm

re: #43 Nature’sMasterpiece

…we are already dropping bombs at a rate that the Air Force struggles to replenish at the same rate and yet we estimate the size of ISIS army to be same as it was 15 months ago when we started the bombing.

Sorry, you’re way wrong on this.

The Islamic State has lost more than a fifth of its territory, says report.

The Islamic State has lost about 22 percent of its territory in Iraq and Syria in the past 15 months, according to a new study. In 2014, the extremist group exploited the power vacuums racking the region, surging into major cities on both sides of the Iraqi-Syrian desert border. Since then, its brutal massacres and myriad acts of destruction have sparked global outrage and prompted more than a year of airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition.

Now, according to a report from IHS Jane’s 360, the tide is decisively turning against the extremist organization. Despite a territorial advance last summer in parts of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State has suffered significant setbacks — as the regions marked in red in the map above show. IHS estimated that the Islamic State lost about 14 percent of the territory under its control in 2015 and a further 8 percent in the first three months of this year.

The monitoring group attributes these defeats to a changing strategic landscape. The loss of the pivotal Syrian border crossing of Tal Abyad took out one of the Islamic State’s chief access points for smuggling in weapons, materiel and new fighters. Tighter Turkish border controls also have thinned out cash flows, as well as the numbers of foreign recruits seeking to join the group.

Airstrikes by the U.S.-led campaign and an ongoing Russian mission in Syria have pinned the Islamic State back. With that support, Syrian Kurdish factions allied with a number of Arab outfits have pushed against the militants in Syria’s northeast; the Iraqi military, backed by Iranian-sponsored Shiite militias, has reclaimed key cities in the heart of Iraq; and government troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are approaching the central city of Palmyra, home to an ancient heritage site the Islamic State seized and started ransacking last year.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:12:31pm

re: #55 jaunte

“Existential” = “complicated SAT word for really bad”

Trump wins because he’s keeping it simple for the stupid. He knows his supporters can’t do nuance. They can’t do shades of gray. They need black and white. And Trump and the GOP are more than willing to give it to them.

ISIS is bad. Must bomb. Must build walls.

The how, why, where, or who isn’t even a part of the conversation.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:16:23pm

re: #25 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I can’t wait for the Alex Jones speech at the GOP Convention in Cleveland.

It’ll probably look something like this.

annihilate! kill! kill!

Complete with uniform. I’m sure Trump will give Jones a commission the the new Armed Special Squadrons.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:16:27pm

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Nature'sMasterpiece  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:16:50pm

re: #46 Belafon

From a Pentagon re: #46 Belafon

Free Beacon had a story in January that quoted a Military spokesman after giving a briefing to the Pentagon that it is estimated “there’s between 20,000 and 30,000 members of [ISIS] operating inside both Iraq and Syria.” Which is what the CIA estimated their forces to be in September in 2014. It was also pointed out that we estimate that the numbers of fighters killed during that time to be 10,000, USA today had the number as high as 20,000 fighters. So even though we are killing a lot of people we are still dealing with same size of force. I think that needs to be stated more than what some idiots on the right are blathering about.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:17:52pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

Your source is “Free Beacon?” Seriously?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:18:33pm

Free Beacon…LOLOLOLOL

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:19:11pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:19:18pm

re: #54 Jack Burton

Most wingnuts don’t know what “existential threat” means. I think they see it as “a threat that exists” instead of a “threat to your existence”.

You mean they literally don’t know what it means? Epic, man…

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Nyet  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:19:25pm

The GOP is an existential threat to the US. ISIS? Amateurs.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:21:39pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:22:04pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wonkette ‎@Wonkette

House Speaker Paul Ryan Has Epiphany: White People Get Food Stamps Too! wonkette.com …

2:07 PM - 23 Mar 2016

Yeah…every manly man works out in front of blue seamless photo backdrop with strategically placed lighting.

Arrogant ass. And turn that hat around…you look like a middle aged fool trying to be cool You’re Paul Ryan…cool doesn’t work for you.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:24:16pm
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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:24:56pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

“Free Beacon had a story…”

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:25:29pm
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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:26:16pm

re: #61 Charles Johnson

Your source is “Free Beacon?” Seriously?

Yeah, but the Free Beacon story thoroughly cited WND and the Washington Times, so it’s all legit like.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:26:20pm

re: #67 ObserverArt

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:27:01pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

Rob Zombie - I’m Your BoogieMan

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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:27:57pm

re: #70 Kragar

Did “Cole Vice” bring an abortion talking point to a birth control fight?

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451_Montag  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:28:17pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

From a Pentagon

Free Beacon had a story in January that quoted a Military spokesman after giving a briefing to the Pentagon that it is estimated “there’s between 20,000 and 30,000 members of [ISIS] operating inside both Iraq and Syria.” Which is what the CIA estimated their forces to be in September in 2014. It was also pointed out that we estimate that the numbers of fighters killed during that time to be 10,000, USA today had the number as high as 20,000 fighters. So even though we are killing a lot of people we are still dealing with same size of force. I think that needs to be stated more than what some idiots on the right are blathering about.

Dude… I’m fairly new at posting here and… No… Just no… Don’t do it.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:29:40pm

re: #74 Franklin

Family planning is trumped by ancient superstitious beliefs? Well, in some circles, yup. They want to go there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:29:55pm

Power is out in Toronto. This storm is causing problems all over.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:30:16pm

re: #25 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I can’t wait for the Alex Jones speech at the GOP Convention in Cleveland.

Just imagining the convention debate with Ales Jones on the Trump side and Glenn Beck on the Cruz side. Popcorn sales will hit an all time high!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:31:06pm

re: #76 lawhawk

Family planning is trumped by ancient superstitious beliefs? Well, in some circles, yup. They want to go there.

Iron-age patriarchy. Women and daughters are considered property of the dominant male of the family, and if they are having sex without permission of their owner and master, their value is diminished.

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:33:13pm

Just had this sent to me, and as a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Music at Champaign-Urbana, I am so proud of these young people!

“Til It Happens To You” Sing for Survivors - University of Illinois

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Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:33:52pm

Every time someone speaks of an existential threat, I imagine a cancer death from unfiltered Gauloises.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:34:38pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

Every time someone speaks of an existential threat, I imagine a cancer death from unfiltered Gauloises.

But what does zis mattair in ze end?

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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:35:16pm

Just landed in my inbox, for anyone wishing to support @Deray for Mayor of Baltimore you can do so here.

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Lidane  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:36:04pm

OUTRAGE!

“Disney and Marvel are inclusive companies, and although we have had great experiences filming in Georgia, we will plan to take our business elsewhere should any legislation allowing discriminatory practices be signed into state law,” a Disney spokesman said on Wednesday.

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:37:07pm
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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:37:55pm

re: #85 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Oooohhhh!!! Perhaps AMC Studios/Walking Dead could follow suit.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:38:09pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

But the music that is required to be listened to while smoking said Gauloises is perfect for entry to Paradise.

Edith Piaf - La Vie En Rose

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Lidane  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:39:41pm

re: #87 Franklin

Oooohhhh!!! Perhaps AMC Studios/Walking Dead could follow suit.

They’re already calling for the Governor to reject the bill, but because of their production schedule they haven’t announced a boycott:

AMC, which produces the hit series The Walking Dead, which is set to begin filming its seventh season in Georgia in May, did not commit itself to joining a boycott, but it has come out against the proposed law, issuing a statement that said, “As a company, AMC Networks believes that discrimination of any kind is reprehensible. We applaud Governor Deal’s leadership in resisting a previous version of this divisive legislation and urge him to reject the current version as well.”

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:39:46pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

From a Pentagon

Free Beacon had a story in January that quoted a Military spokesman after giving a briefing to the Pentagon that it is estimated “there’s between 20,000 and 30,000 members of [ISIS] operating inside both Iraq and Syria.” Which is what the CIA estimated their forces to be in September in 2014. It was also pointed out that we estimate that the numbers of fighters killed during that time to be 10,000, USA today had the number as high as 20,000 fighters. So even though we are killing a lot of people we are still dealing with same size of force. I think that needs to be stated more than what some idiots on the right are blathering about.

I don’t know whether to downding you for using such a partisan hack site for a source or upding you for having the chutzpah for doing so. Around these parts, free bacon isn’t considered a reliable source. They fall into the same category as the Daily M(f)ail and Russia Times.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:40:58pm

re: #88 Romantic Heretic

But the music that is required to be listened to while smoking said Gaullists is perfect for entry to Paradise.

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Do you hate Andre Malraux or is that an autocorrect?

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Franklin  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:41:04pm

re: #89 Lidane

They’re already calling for the Governor to reject the bill, but because of their production schedule they haven’t announced a boycott:

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Thanks for that, I wasn’t aware.

I just hope they didn’t send their plea to this Governor:

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:41:39pm

re: #43 Nature’sMasterpiece

Although I do agree that this is playing right to “low information” voters and that ISIS does not pose a threat to end the existence of the US, I will say that it was not very wise judgement by the President to downplay the threat of ISIS in anyway the day after the attack. I understand that the GOP needs the threat to be very severe so they can talk about dropping more bombs but if President Obama wants to temper those folks he should at least point out that we are already dropping bombs at a rate that the Air Force struggles to replenish at the same rate and yet we estimate the size of ISIS army to be same as it was 15 months ago when we started the bombing. So I get that the outrage over this is idiotic but once again we are more worried about the dumb things that are said by those on the right then the fact that our current policies are not working and in fact could be argued are helping ISIS recruit.

You can’t temper the people you are talking about. They do not listen and they are fed BS by politicians on the right that tell them nothing is being done.

Second as far as ISIS, would the government come out and say how big they are. I think they might want to keep feeding them some stuff to puff their chests out and have them get a bit complacent and think they are doing okay.

If they were a true army it would be easy to see where they get organized and train, etc. Bases in other words. I think if something like that shows up, it is taken care of as quickly as possible.

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CleverToad  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:42:23pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

Power is out in Toronto. This storm is causing problems all over.

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Looking at about 15 inches of snow piled up on my back deck railing* (south Denver suburbs). The kid is celebrating an unexpected day off from school. I’m watching the limbs sag on the still-unleafed tree branches and hoping they all survive. Hoping the power stays on, and thanking heavens for the big emergency oxygen tank we have for my mom. The Weather Channel is predicting a high of 51 degrees tomorrow, to be followed by snow on Saturday and 50 degrees on Easter.

Springtime in the Rockies! We’ve seen worse.

* Note: This translates to about 6 inches on the neighbor’s roof, due to blowing and drifting. But it makes the deck photos very impressive.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:44:51pm

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:45:58pm

re: #85 Lidane

First Salesforce and now Disney. Will republicans in GA shoot themselves in the head (long past foot shooting here, this is real economic pain vs ideology)?

I can’t wait to see how much their twisted ideology means to them.

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Nature'sMasterpiece  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:46:47pm

re: #61 Charles Johnson

Look I understand what Free Beacon is just like I understand where all information I get is coming from. That doesn’t mean I can just disregard a statement giving by a spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, for the military operation against ISIS just because I don’t like the publication.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:47:02pm

re: #43 Nature’sMasterpiece

Although I do agree that this is playing right to “low information” voters and that ISIS does not pose a threat to end the existence of the US, I will say that it was not very wise judgement by the President to downplay the threat of ISIS in anyway the day after the attack.

He is not giving into fear and panic, which is highly Presidential. A lot of people are just too fucking stupid to understand the meaning of “ISIS is not an existential threat” and their little pea brains process the message as “ISIS is not a threat at all”.

And people who know better but whose job it is to manipulate the pea brains jump on a statement like that and make a big screaming deal out of it.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:47:05pm

re: #95 bratwurst

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

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Thou shalt not make the Lord thy God a dick.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:47:06pm

re: #95 bratwurst

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

Maybe He sent them to show the Republicans that they should not obstruct the AUMF.
Maybe He sent them to make people think about how bad choosing Trump would be.
Maybe He sent them to tell me to buy that new tablet I want.

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:47:54pm

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I’ve been a Christian for almost 60 years, and I’ve never viewed Islam or Muslims as a being a personal threat to me. What I do view as a threat to myself, the U.S., and my fellow citizens are the Christian extremists living among us, especially those who are serving in political positions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:48:17pm

re: #95 bratwurst

Michele Bachmann Says God Sent Brussels Attacks to Humiliate Obama

So this is one hell of a false flag operation, then…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:48:25pm

re: #97 Nature’sMasterpiece

Look I understand what Free Beacon is just like I understand where all information I get is coming from. That doesn’t mean I can just disregard a statement giving by a spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, for the military operation against ISIS just because I don’t like the publication.

You mean this Col. Steve Warren?

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Kragar  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:48:53pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:52:00pm

re: #11 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Garry Trudeau made a lot of hay from this meme in “Doonesbury”. Harlingen, TX was said to be under the gun from the Sandinistas.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:52:20pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:52:47pm

re: #80 retired cynic

Just had this sent to me, and as a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Music at Champaign-Urbana, I am so proud of these young people!

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Video

Nice! Damn fine singing…very powerful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:53:51pm

re: #101 majii

I’ve been a Christian for almost 60 years, and I’ve never viewed Islam or Muslims as a being a personal threat to me. What I do view as a threat to myself, the U.S., and my fellow citizens are the Christian extremists living among us, especially those who are serving in political positions.

Modern fundamentalists have to see an existential threat everywhere to justify their own excesses.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:53:54pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

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What the hell is an ‘entanpanuer’?

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:53:55pm

re: #101 majii

I’ve been a Christian for almost 60 years, and I’ve never viewed Islam or Muslims as a being a personal threat to me. What I do view as a threat to myself, the U.S., and my fellow citizens are the Christian extremists living among us, especially those who are serving in political positions.

Precisely. A big part of the GOP is fostering irrational fears in its base, the better to get them to vote mindlessly for the GOP.

Since the base is now taking over the party, we now have the prospect of the single most powerful nation on earth having a foreign policy of irrational fear if the GOP seizes power.

This is only one of dozens of total show stopper arguments to refute the asinine idea that the GOP should be in power anywhere in any office.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:54:12pm

re: #104 Kragar

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So Trump has a secret fantasy of fondling a giant Odorono stick while he pours Heinz Baked Beans on Heidi Trump…

We already know that The GOP Sold Out!
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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:55:29pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

From a Pentagon

Free Beacon had a story in January that quoted a Military spokesman after giving a briefing to the Pentagon that it is estimated “there’s between 20,000 and 30,000 members of [ISIS] operating inside both Iraq and Syria.” t.

Reuters had a story in January: ISIS Lost 40 Percent of Territory in Iraq, 20 Percent in Syria: Coalition Spokesman

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:55:58pm

These people are the weak ones. They live in constant fear. They’re constantly looking for an excuse to buy a weapon.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:56:10pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

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hahaha

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:56:49pm

re: #52 Romantic Heretic

I really, really don’t understand why some in the GOP/TP feel that I’ve “taken” something from them. Way back in 1971, I decided to attend college and get a job while being black. I had a very successful teaching career that lasted 33 years. It was my personal decision at the age of 18 [with some strong prompting from my parents ] to attend college and to be able to provide for myself. The GOP/TPers who are whining and complaining today had the same opportunity I had to continue their educational pursuits and work to have a better life for themselves and their families, but they rejected it. I don’t feel at all responsible for their missed opportunities and poor decision-making.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:57:20pm
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Sherlock Hound  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:57:47pm

re: #82 Dr. Matt

Posted without comment:

Trump Supporter Howie Carr: Those Killed “In Brussels Yesterday Were Permanently Cured Of Their ‘Islamophobia’”

That’s our Howie! //

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:58:04pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

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Sheesh that’s third grade stuff.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 1:59:32pm

re: #115 majii

I really, really don’t understand why some in the GOP/TP feel that I’ve “taken” something from them. Way back in 1971, I decided to attend college and get a job while being black. I had a very successful teaching career that lasted 33 years. It was my personal decision at the age of 18 [with some strong prompting from my parents ] to attend college and to be able to provide for myself. The GOP/TPers who are whining and complaining today had the same opportunity I had to continue their educational pursuits and work to have a better life for themselves and their families, but they rejected it. I don’t feel at all responsible for their missed opportunities and poor decision-making.

They have that usual white conservative sense of entitlement that stuff should be given to them because they’re white and conservative and if you’re African-American and successful, it must be because you took that job from a hard working white conservative..

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Dr. Matt  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:00:17pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:00:50pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:01:26pm

re: #95 bratwurst

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

Mediaite ‎@Mediaite

Michele Bachmann Says God Sent Brussels Attacks to Humiliate Obama bit.ly

4:32 PM - 23 Mar 2016

What the hell kind of god does that nut believe in?

It’s freaking sad the GOP cannot shut up some of their nuttier members. Oh wait…this is the GOP and Reince Priebus we are talking about. They can’t even control their fine candidates.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:01:38pm
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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:01:46pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:01:48pm

re: #121 wrenchwench

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I would agree Irin’s cousin on this.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:01:55pm

re: #111 Joe Bacon

For some reason I now have the bass line from “My Generation” bouncing around in my head.

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Nature'sMasterpiece  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:02:00pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished. My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:02:32pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:02:45pm

re: #95 bratwurst

Michele Bachmann Says God Sent Brussels Attacks to Humiliate Obama t.co pic.twitter.com
— Mediaite

LOLwhut?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:02:49pm

re: #126 Jebediah, RBG

For some reason I now have the bass line from “My Generation” bouncing around in my head.

Not on that album, you would want the solo from “I Can See for Miles”…

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:03:18pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished. My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

When ISIS has lost 40% of their territory, I’d call that “being effective.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:03:21pm

re: #4 Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday’s Child)

As the narrative went on and on, the utter implausibility of it all became painfully obvious to us both. And yet … his parting words were “You just wait! You’ll see! You’ll be sorry when ISIS is marching down your street with tanks and Sharia Law!”

We have much more to fear from the gun-fuckers who believe this insane scenario, who could very well rampage on a pogrom through Dearborn.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:03:51pm

re: #122 ObserverArt

What the hell kind of god does that nut believe in?

It’s freaking sad the GOP cannot shut up some of their nuttier members. Oh wait…this is the GOP and Reince Priebus we are talking about. They can’t even control their fine candidates.

Her God sounds like a terrible being. And honestly Michele let’s use your logic. If your God wanted to humiliate Obama with a terrorist attack, he’d do it in Obama’s backyard like uh what happened with Bush but I guess that was different. As I said, I’m tired of these right wing assholes acting like terrorism when it happens in Obama’s presidency being the worst thing ever for the President but if it happened under Bush, time to rally under the President, America united blah blah. Fuck Bachmann man. I don’t want to believe in God if God’s nature is like she describes it. Bachmann’s religious mindset is really no different from ISIL’s.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:03:52pm

re: #82 Dr. Matt

Posted without comment:

Trump Supporter Howie Carr: Those Killed “In Brussels Yesterday Were Permanently Cured Of Their ‘Islamophobia’”

What the whut?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:04:19pm

re: #126 Jebediah, RBG

For some reason I now have the bass line from “My Generation” bouncing around in my head.

Nothing would give me more pleasure than to see the GOP just f-f-f-f-f-f-f-ade away…

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:04:49pm

re: #80 retired cynic

Just had this sent to me, and as a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Music at Champaign-Urbana, I am so proud of these young people!

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That’s great. (The U of I school of music provided many of the fine musicians and a few choir members to the church I grew up in in Champaign.)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:05:02pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

I bet her Trump jacket was made in CHYNA.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:06:39pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

We can do both. Check the archives and see for yourself.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:06:42pm

re: #115 majii

It has little to do with you or any person of color, per se. They lose a job, they need someone to blame. They’re from a small town where one company provided all jobs - and it leaves or closes, they need someone to blame.

It’s these changes that they have no control over that makes them need to blame. And that blame turns to hate.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:06:56pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished. My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

Judging an army based on its size is kind of a weak argument. They may have lots of cannon fodder, but you really can’t judge their effectiveness that way.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:07:09pm

re: #137 GlutenFreeJesus

I bet her Trump jacket was made in CHYNA.

…along with her bullet necklace!!!!

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:08:28pm

Trump is a child, exhibit # 42547134979579.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:08:33pm

re: #139 MsJ

It has little to do with you or any person of color, per se. They lose a job, they need someone to blame. They’re from a small town where one company provided all jobs - and it leaves or closes, they need someone to blame.

It’s these changes that they have no control over that makes them need to blame. And that blame turns to hate.

For all the conservative talk about personal responsibility, they never take any for themselves. They bitch about Obama’s “high taxes” and never think “Gee maybe I shouldn’t gun hoard.” But they’re happy to tell impoverished people to take personal responsibility.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:09:17pm

re: #142 gocart mozart

Trump is a child, exhibit # 42547134979579.

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I just hope he goes away forever after this summer or November. I’ve always found him obnoxious even before he started giving his opinion on political matters.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:10:05pm

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

No, I meant what I said.
I know the song is from a different album. I just really like that bass part, so I guess I have sort of a hair-trigger as far as getting it ear-wormified. It’ll probably be there all day.
Also, the first time I saw that album cover, I got really squicked out at the thought of sitting in a tub of baked beans. I really like baked beans, but I not quite that much.

ETA: When I get home, I will have to listen to both back-to-back and see which one wins the ear-worm contest!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:10:55pm

re: #142 gocart mozart

Lyin’ Ted Cruz steals foreign policy from me, and lines from Michael Douglas— just another dishonest politician.
— Donald J. Trump

Trump has foreign policy?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:11:32pm

re: #146 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump has foreign policy?

How else could he have gotten his wives?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:11:42pm

re: #146 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump has foreign policy?

Yeah he bangs foreign chicks. //

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:12:00pm

re: #145 Jebediah, RBG

No, I meant what I said.
I know the song is from a different album. I just really like that bass part, so I guess I have sort of a hair-trigger as far as getting it ear-wormified. It’ll probably be there all day.
Also, the first time I saw that album cover, I got really squicked out at the thought of sitting in a tub of baked beans. I really like baked beans, but I not quite that much.

I read that Roger Daltrey got stuck with the baked beans because he showed up last for the photo shoot.

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:12:51pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:13:29pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished. My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

It sort of seems like all you want to do is excuse the idiots on the right. What does what they say have to do with our policies? Nothing other than getting in the way and being negative about the current administration. Other than it seems to bother you.

What is the phrase about “(the lady) doth protest too much methinks?”

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:13:31pm

re: #143 HappyWarrior

For all the conservative talk about personal responsibility, they never take any for themselves. They bitch about Obama’s “high taxes” and never think “Gee maybe I shouldn’t gun hoard.” But they’re happy to tell impoverished people to take personal responsibility.

Worse. When those people take personal responsibility, the fucking republicans bitch because it’s not the action republicans want them to take, so it’s wrong.

You can’t win for losing with republicans.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:14:20pm

re: #152 MsJ

Worse. When those people take personal responsibility, the fucking republicans bitch because it’s not the action republicans want them to take, so it’s wrong.

You can’t win for losing with republicans.

You’re right. The Republicans idea of people taking personal responsibility is for them to suffer.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:14:22pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon

Because they refuse to dig what we all say!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:14:35pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

You mean this Col. Steve Warren?

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Free Beacon just unskewed what the colonel said…

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:18:03pm

re: #104 Kragar

Ann Margret - beans and chocolate

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:18:12pm

re: #149 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That explains that look on his face!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:19:55pm

re: #142 gocart mozart

Trump is a child, exhibit # 42547134979579.

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Cruz did steal that line.
Pretty stupid move on his part.
He needs to be more original with his dozens comebacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:21:55pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cruz did steal that line.
Pretty stupid move on his part.
He needs to be more original with his dozens comebacks.

I still recall Melvin’s ultimate zinger to Patrick on the corner of Hamlin Street in Gary, Indiana:

You mama look like Superman and you father look like Rin-Tin-Tin!!!

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Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:22:35pm

re: #146 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Trump has foreign policy?

Insures his tan with Floyd’s of London.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:24:17pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:24:50pm

re: #60 Nature’sMasterpiece

From a Pentagon

Free Beacon had a story

For fuck’s sake. Free Beacon? Get the fuck out of here.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:25:53pm

There’s an intriguing theory in one of the articles over at SCOTUS blog. I’ll just include the first and (part of) the last paragraph as they sum things up pretty well:

Opinion analysis: A rebuke of the Ninth Circuit, and nothing more

In Sturgeon v. Frost, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the lower courts misinterpreted a federal law governing National Park Service authority over lands in Alaska. But, the Court stopped there. It did not offer its own view of the statute, other than to say that the Ninth Circuit (like the district court before it) misread the statute. There are several possible reasons why the Court stopped where it did, but before considering them, it is worth a short recap. […]

As the argument preview and oral argument review made clear, the stakes in this case are potentially huge, and the issues of federal power of land in the West cleave pretty clearly along ideological lines. It would not be surprising if the four more conservative Justices prefer to read the statute to limit federal power over the lands in question in this case, or, at least, do not feel the need to defer to the interpretation of the NPS over the reach of its authority. And, it would not be surprising if the four more liberal Justices read the statute to permit just this. If this is the case, then the narrowness of the Court’s opinion is not explained by the lack of a proper record or by judicial modesty, but rather by a deadlock that the Court preferred not to air at this time. Better, perhaps, to decide what it could easily (and unanimously decide) - that the Ninth Circuit was wrong - and leave for another day the tough questions about federal power over lands in Alaska and perhaps elsewhere throughout the West.

scotusblog.com

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:25:53pm

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I arrived home and signed in just at the perfect time. Ugh. Michele, mah belle, you’re a dumbass, and your 15 minutes are long since expired, to boot. Go away and let the wild north country recover its good standing among the several states, please.

Evening Lizardim from the once-again-snow-covered wild north country.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:25:57pm

re: #95 bratwurst

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

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wondering if this is the same god she was talking about:

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:26:50pm

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

wondering if this is the same god she was talking about:

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Because there’s no cognitive dissonance at all between saying God blew some people up, and wanting God to comfort the people that got blown up. None whatsoever.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:28:13pm

re: #166 thedopefishlives

Because there’s no cognitive dissonance at all between saying God blew some people up, and wanting God to comfort the people that got blown up. None whatsoever.

What kind of god would God be if He didn’t sacrifice a few people every now and then to make a point?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:28:30pm

re: #166 thedopefishlives

Because there’s no cognitive dissonance at all between saying God blew some people up, and wanting God to comfort the people that got blown up. None whatsoever.

Interesting that she calls on “the God of Israel”; how perfectly End Times of her.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:29:22pm

re: #166 thedopefishlives

Because there’s no cognitive dissonance at all between saying God blew some people up, and wanting God to comfort the people that got blown up. None whatsoever.

Of course not. She wants the people mourning those killed to be comforted. She says nothing about the actual people blown up.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:29:49pm

re: #167 Belafon

What kind of god would God be if He didn’t sacrifice a few people every now and then to make a point?

I think that says it all.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:30:30pm
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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:31:04pm

Damn today

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:31:08pm

re: #136 Barefoot Grin

That’s great. (The U of I school of music provided many of the fine musicians and a few choir members to the church I grew up in in Champaign.)

You did? When? So did I! Graduated HS in 1966.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:31:43pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Interesting that she calls on “the God of Israel”; how perfectly End Times of her.

Which coincides perfectly with her worldview, wherein Armageddon is lurking just around the corner. Any day now…

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:32:29pm

re: #169 calochortus

Of course not. She wants the people mourning those killed to be comforted. She says nothing about the actual people blown up.

Point taken, but still, it gets a little wibbly when you think about it too much. Which, I suppose, makes perfect sense, considering that Bachmann (R-Mars) doesn’t think at all.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:32:30pm

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They’re actually going after the people who did this you idiot instead of bitching about political correctness on Twitter so no Michele yet another fail like your entire political career.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:33:11pm
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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:33:28pm

re: #175 thedopefishlives

Point taken, but still, it gets a little wibbly when you think about it too much. Which, I suppose, makes perfect sense, considering that Bachmann (R-Mars) doesn’t think at all.

I recommend not thinking too much about Bachmann and/or her thoughts.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:33:43pm

re: #179 calochortus

I recommend not thinking too much about Bachmann and/or her thoughts.

I don’t. It’s how I sleep better at night.

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:33:48pm

re: #163 CuriousLurker

“If this is the case, then the narrowness of the Court’s opinion is not explained by the lack of a proper record or by judicial modesty, but rather by a deadlock that the Court preferred not to air at this time.”

IOWs, the conservatives on the court miss Scalia.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:33:48pm

re: #85 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:35:40pm

re: #74 Franklin

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Did “Cole Vice” bring an abortion talking point to a birth control fight?

I don’t think they know the difference.

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Lidane  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:35:41pm

Meanwhile, Dave Grohl continues to rule:

Love him and love the Foos. Seriously the best band going right now.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:36:17pm

An interesting thing for Ms. Bachmann, former Representative of the Great State of Minnesota, to consider: Peter once asked Jesus if he wanted fire called down from heaven to destroy a pack of doubters. Jesus essentially called him a dumbass. Giving God credit for smiting people you think are stupid or evil isn’t the Christian thing to do, it’s something an Islamist would say. Oops, I guess that makes you just like the people you fear most.

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:36:21pm
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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:37:06pm

An interesting essay by Brian Mackey from our local NPR station, comparing Gov. Bruce Rauner with Donald Trump, now that Rauner has brought our state government to an absolute stall, blast him.

wuis.org

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:37:48pm

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Trump’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:39:28pm

Ugh. Threw dish under the bus for an Amazon Prime account and a Roku 4. Now have to climb up on the roof because they not only want the receiver and remote back, but the F*&%&$ LNB as well. Back in a bit.

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Nature'sMasterpiece  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:39:53pm

re: #140 Belafon

My argument is that our bombing campaign doesn’t seem to be having any effect of dwindling their numbers. We kill over 10,000 fighters and they keep recruiting replacements just as fast as we are getting rid of them. Its like we are the little boy plugging his fingers in holes of the dam just to cause another one. re: #151 ObserverArt

In no way am I trying to excuse the idiots on the right. I know exactly what their reaction is going to be, and that is bomb, bomb, and more bombs. Instead of getting all riled up because the GOP says stupid shit, it needs to screamed over and over again that we are already bombing the hell out of the middle east and it could be argued that it is getting nowhere or at the very least somewhere really slow.

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:40:00pm

re: #189 Bubblehead II

Be careful. Roofs make me nervous!

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gocart mozart  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:40:15pm

re: #178 Charles Johnson

The Yale University Art Gallery website is excellent. It’s searchable and you can download prints for free from their entire collection. artgallery.yale.edu

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:40:31pm

re: #189 Bubblehead II

Ugh. Threw dish under the bus for an Amazon Prime account and a Roku 4. Now have to climb up on the roof because they not only want the receiver and remote back, but the F*&%&$ LNB as well. Back in a bit.

Yeah, I had to deal with that too. Thankfully, my dish was located in a relatively convenient spot, where I could reach the LNB from the ground. Please be safe! I can’t stand to walk on roofs; they make me nervous, doubly so when we had a contractor nearly fall off of one some years back.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:40:52pm

re: #95 bratwurst

This is one of the lowest quality human beings on earth:

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She used to be good looking, and looks will get you far, even with a tiny mind full of bad ideas.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:41:17pm

re: #188 freetoken

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Trump’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

Probably goes with the secret handshake and the clubhouse made from the carton a large appliance came in.

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:41:54pm

re: #193 thedopefishlives

Yeah, I had to deal with that too. Thankfully, my dish was located in a relatively convenient spot, where I could reach the LNB from the ground. Please be safe! I can’t stand to walk on roofs; they make me nervous, doubly so when we had a contractor nearly fall off of one some years back.

We had a young man fall to his death when patching a roof in our small town a few decades back. I’m afraid of heights anyway, and that just confirmed it.

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:42:22pm

re: #191 retired cynic

Be careful. Roofs make me nervous!

Semi-curved. Just don’t like heights.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:42:36pm

i wanna be pythonic

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:42:42pm

In honor of Puppy Day:

Princess Juno luxuriating

Technically, I am cheating, since she isn’t a puppy. (But she is puppy-sized.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:42:55pm

re: #188 freetoken

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Trump’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

Upon a closer inspection, Mödersheim pointed out the color scheme. “Split colors… are common in heraldry, sometimes signifying the union of two lines or families. As to the choice of colors, my guess would be that they tried to allude to the Trump gold logos and some vague association with wealth and royalty in the purple,” she said.

But she also thinks it could just be an homage to more recent iconography. “Vaughn and McCullum’s U.N.C.L.E. badges were way cooler. Even the Star Trek Ensign badge. I’m wondering, could there be some collective memory at work, perhaps unconsciously,” she said. “It just looks like a bad piece of ’80s geometric junk jewelry.”

I vote for the bolded part.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:43:13pm

re: #189 Bubblehead II

Ugh. Threw dish under the bus for an Amazon Prime account and a Roku 4. Now have to climb up on the roof because they not only want the receiver and remote back, but the F*&%&$ LNB as well. Back in a bit.

When we discontinued our DirecTV the wouldn’t take the box or the dish back. I had to figure out how to dispose of them properly.

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:43:16pm

re: #182 No Country For Old Haters

Since I live in GA and have watched GOP/TPers operate, I think one or the otherof the following scenarios will happen: If Deal vetoes the bill, the members of the state legislature will definitely override his veto, OR after much delay and waffling, Deal will sign the bill to appease the theocrats. He said about two weeks ago that he’s against the bill, and even if he really feels this way, he tends to cave to the “Christian” religionists. The right-wing theocrats, who have the majority in the state legislature, mean to have their way on this. They know there are more important issues they need to address, but they also know that this is a way to ensure they keep their seats in the legislature.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:43:19pm

re: #196 retired cynic

We had a young man fall to his death when patching a roof in our small town a few decades back. I’m afraid of heights anyway, and that just confirmed it.

This guy probably would’ve fallen to his death had he not roped himself to the roof. As it was, he still wrenched himself around but good and busted something on the house in the process. Heights aren’t my thing either, but I’m getting a bit more accustomed to it… except for walking on roofs. Not enough NOPE in the world for that.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:44:05pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

Every time someone speaks of an existential threat, I imagine a cancer death from unfiltered Gauloises.

Gotta admit when I smoked, I preferred unfiltered Camels to Gauloises. The Gauloises just reeked and no one bummed the Camels from me more than once… ;)

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:44:38pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:44:44pm

re: #188 freetoken

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Trump’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

Symbol of the new Reich?

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:45:46pm

Sharon Rose haz a sad that I made fun of her meme.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:46:15pm

re: #188 freetoken

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Trump’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

all fascist movements need emblems

usually tho not glitzy ones

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:46:55pm

re: #206 No Country For Old Haters

Symbol of the new Reich?

Ding Ding Ding! (only half kidding)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:46:56pm
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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:47:30pm

re: #207 The Vicious Babushka

Now, VB, you know it’s not nice to use your superior intelligence on someone whose intellectual elevator is stuck in the basement. Shame on you. /s/

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:47:48pm

re: #199 Jebediah, RBG

In honor of Puppy Day:

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Technically,I am cheating, since she isn’t a puppy. (But she is puppy-sized.)

They’re puppies from day one until they leave this earthly plane.

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TedStriker  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:47:57pm

re: #92 Franklin

Thanks for that, I wasn’t aware.

I just hope they didn’t send their plea to this Governor:

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Well, duh, because he’s dead!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:48:24pm

so unfair!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:48:57pm

re: #212 MsJ

Agreed!

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:50:11pm

re: #202 majii

Since I live in GA and have watched GOP/TPers operate, I think one or the otherof the following scenarios will happen: If Deal vetoes the bill, the members of the state legislature will definitely override his veto, OR after much delay and waffling, Deal will sign the bill to appease the theocrats. He said about two weeks ago that he’s against the bill, and even if he really feels this way, he tends to cave to the “Christian” religionists. The right-wing theocrats, who have the majority in the state legislature, mean to have their way on this. They know there are more important issues they need to address, but they also know that this is a way to ensure they keep their seats in the legislature.

That’s bad news for Georgia. No one is trying to persecute the religious right, but if they’re dead-set on persecuting gay people, civilized people will respond with boycotts. GA is beautiful, but most of us can do without it if bigotry is law there.

Demanding that everyone treat each other decently moving forward should not be too much to ask, but they seem to regard it as an outrage.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:50:17pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

Holy crap, he is really a petulant toddler!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:50:46pm
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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:52:06pm

re: #212 MsJ

They’re puppies from day one until they leave this earthly plane.

Maxwell

My old fellow Max is sure not a puppy, but he wakes up when he hears ‘Puppy Treat!’ (Edited to remove second image.)

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:52:50pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

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so unfair!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!

IT IS SO UNFAIR THAT ALL THE OTHER CANDIDATES DID NOT DROP OUT IMMEDIATELY THE SAME MINUTE THAT I DECLARED I WAS RUNNING!!!!1111!!!!

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:52:59pm

re: #219 retired cynic

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My old fellow Max is sure not a puppy, but he wakes up when he hears ‘Puppy Treat!’

He’s a beauty!!!

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scottslemmons  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:53:03pm

Bachmann is just on the leading edge of the wingnut zeitgeist. I’ve long suspected that the GOP would eventually adopt Fred Phelps’s beliefs and tactics as their own.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:53:14pm

He mad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:53:27pm

Soooo cute.

I bet it rips off your face in a heartbeat…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:53:28pm

re: #189 Bubblehead II

Ugh. Threw dish under the bus for an Amazon Prime account and a Roku 4. Now have to climb up on the roof because they not only want the receiver and remote back, but the F*&%&$ LNB as well. Back in a bit.

It’s part of their plan to exact revenge on those who cancel their service, knowing a certain percentage will fall off and be injured or worse….
//

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:54:25pm

re: #221 MsJ

He’s a beauty!!!

Well, he’s a stinky old gent, who farts under my desk all day. <grin>

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:55:44pm

re: #223 goddamnedfrank

He mad.

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Not a smart or good person.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:56:17pm

re: #171 Charles Johnson

A friend posted on FB a picture of a happy dog with the caption “Share if you’re the kind of person who says ‘Hi’ to dogs.”

I responded, “Who says ‘Hi’ to dogs?

I myself say, “Lookat de puppy!! Whosa gooboy? Whosagooboy?”

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:57:09pm

re: #228 Blind Frog Belly White

A friend posted on FB a picture of a happy dog with the caption “Share if you’re the kind of person who says ‘Hi’ to dogs.”

I responded, “Who says ‘Hi’ to dogs?

I myself say, “Lookat de puppy!! Whosa gooboy? Whosagooboy?”

Good day to you, my canine friend.

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whitebeach  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:58:07pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished.

Consider that if you confine the same number of enemy fighters to less and less territory, eventually what you call the territory remaining to them is “Prisoner of War Camp.”

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:58:09pm

re: #226 retired cynic

Well, he’s a stinky old gent, who farts under my desk all day. <grin>

He should meet my Roma. She has deadly gas sometimes. It’s so bad she gets up and leaves, and we sit there with tears in our eyes.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:58:46pm

re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s part of their plan to exact revenge on those who cancel their service, knowing a certain percentage will fall off and be injured or worse….
//

Apparently it’s good we dropped DirecTV almost 3 years ago then. Back then they made no attempt to keep us as customers, much less attempt to kill us.
Our signal was beginning to be blocked by a tree that was there when their installers put the dish in-I called to see about getting the dish moved and they wanted to charge us $50 to do that. I said no, we thought about it for a few days and dropped them. They pretty much said “whatever…”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 2:59:38pm

re: #232 calochortus

Apparently it’s good we dropped DirecTV almost 3 years ago then. Back then they made no attempt to keep us as customers, much less attempt to kill us.
Our signal was beginning to be blocked by a tree that was there when their installers put the dish in-I called to see about getting the dish moved and they wanted to charge us $50 to do that. I said no, we thought about it for a few days and dropped them. They pretty much said “whatever…”

That’s customer service!!!
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:00:51pm
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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:01:34pm

re: #233 Blind Frog Belly White

That’s customer service!!!
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At least they didn’t annoy us with pleas to stay with them, because by then we decided we didn’t need much beyond the plethora of PBS stations we get over the air.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:01:36pm

re: #228 Blind Frog Belly White

I usually go straight to “Hey there, gorgeous!” I do make sure to be obvious who I am making eye contact with, so the human does not think he or she is being hit on.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:01:52pm

re: #227 No Country For Old Haters

He claims to be “consistent” but his last tweet is screaming about closing the borders. This is from a guy claiming to be an anarchist libertarian. So *who* exactly is supposed to be closing these borders that his crowd claims shouldn’t exist in the first place?

Oh no, I’ve gone cross-eyed

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:02:22pm

re: #234 Backwoods_Sleuth

Bawson
Noun
(plural bawsons)

(obsolete) A badger.
(obsolete) A large, unwieldy person.

Read more at yourdictionary.com

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:04:21pm

re: #237 Jack Burton

He claims to be “consistent” but his last tweet is screaming about closing the borders. This is from a guy claiming to be an anarchist libertarian. So *who* exactly is supposed to be closing these borders that his crowd claims shouldn’t exist in the first place?

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He identifies with the right, and probably went mad with them. A lot of people who were just selfish Libertarians have gotten really racist and talk about violence these days. Scary times.

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:05:41pm

re: #239 No Country For Old Haters

He identifies with the right, and probably went mad with them. A lot of people who were just selfish Libertarians have gotten really racist and talk about violence these days. Scary times.

I dealt with enough Rothbardians in college to know that right under their surface is a whole lot of racism.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:06:12pm

Baby Whiplash has a meme of himself getting beaten up by OH NOES TEH PC POLICES!!!!!! like a common Black Lives Matter

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Joe Bacon  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:07:30pm

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash has a meme of himself getting beaten up by OH NOES TEH PC POLICES!!!!!! like a common Black Lives Matter

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Brings back memories of YAFers in college who endlessly recited The Sharon Statement…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:07:46pm

re: #238 No Country For Old Haters

HaggardHawks Words are local dialect and archaic definitions.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:10:08pm

re: #217 Jebediah, RBG

Holy crap, he is really a petulant toddler!

The Greatest Petulant Toddler ever! With big powerful petulant toddler hands. Believe me. The Greatest Toddler. Ever. This I can tell you.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:11:59pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:12:20pm

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash has a meme of himself getting beaten up by OH NOES TEH PC POLICES!!!!!! like a common Black Lives Matter

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I know YAF is as nuts as Ben.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:13:17pm

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

HaggardHawks Words are local dialect and archaic definitions.

I’m large, unwieldy, and object.
/about the objecting part.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:13:20pm

BBIAB

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:14:18pm

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

So this is Young American Fascists in action? Unimpressive.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:14:35pm

re: #246 No Country For Old Haters

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I know YAF is as nuts as Ben.

I thought ‘Yaf’ was the past tense of ‘Yif.’
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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:15:16pm

re: #190 Nature’sMasterpiece

1.) Since no one else has pointed it out yet, I will: Why haven’t you provided a link to the story you claim to have read in January so we can see the whole thing?

2.) If this was a legitimate story and you “understand what Free Beacon is”—as you claim in your #97—then why didn’t you look for a better source for this (alleged) information? If it was legit, the Free Beacon wouldn’t be the only source—they had to have gotten the numbers from somewhere. Where? If, as you claim, they came from Col. Steve Warren, then surely other more reliable outlets have published them. Why didn’t you look for them? Too difficult? No time? Not good excuses.

3.) Your insistence is starting to sound like concern trolling, especially when you’ve only made 18 comments in nearly nine months and five of them—approximately 25%—have been in this thread.

My spidey sense is tingling.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:15:56pm

re: #249 EPR-radar

So this is Young American Fascists in action? Unimpressive.

Young American Fatheads? Young Angry Flatulents? Youthful, Argumentative Fools?

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:18:19pm

Our puppy day started out in a very not positive way. Last night Billy Jack was on and I just had to watch it. Following it was the Trial of Billy Jack. Had to watch that too. Being late night and an antenna channel they stretched two movies into 6.5 hours (3 minutes of movie, 5 minutes of commercials - mute button got a workout). Finally over at 3:30am and I so looked forward to finally snuggling into bed.

Got there to find Buddy vigorously licking the sheet and thought oh, no tell me you didn’t arp in the bed. He didn’t. Seems the little shit was pissed about me staying up so late that he peed on the sheets and my pillow. I know he carries a grudge but this was first class passive aggression. Guess he realized his serious error after the fact by trying to lick up the evidence. He got the Mom Finger of Doom shook in his little face along with raging expletives, then I yelled him off the sofa I had to sleep on multiple times before finally allowing him to join me for nighties. Today I got to launder all the bedding including the mattress pad and enzyme treat the mattress where it had soaked through.

He’s still on my shit list.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:18:21pm

re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah, we got just the barest dusting, but I heard from a friend in the Burnsville area who said it was the snowpocalypse out there. I’m looking around out there like, wtf are you talking about?

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:18:59pm

re: #251 CuriousLurker

This business of ignoring the stupidity on the right is also suspicious. Progress in the US is pretty much entirely dependent on getting the message out that the GOP is total garbage, and that its candidates are qualified for nothing more taxing than playing with brightly colored blocks and bits of string where they can’t harm anyone by trying to govern according to their toxic and deeply stupid ideas.

Edited to add: Since the mainstream media treats the GOP as a viable option, this message hasn’t gotten out yet.

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bratwurst  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:19:06pm

re: #127 Nature’sMasterpiece

Yes the same one. I am not arguing that that ISIS is not losing territory or that we are losing the fight. We estimate we have killed over 10,000 ISIS fighters, USA Today has the number as high as 20,000, that tells me the bombing is in fact doing a lot of damage. But the fact that we estimate the size of the force at being the same as it was before we started the bombing what exactly is being accomplished. My point has always been that instead of concentrating on the idiotic things the folks on the right say, we should be looking harder at our current policies and if they are being effective enough.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:20:31pm

re: #252 Blind Frog Belly White

Young American Fatheads? Young Angry Flatulents? Youthful, Argumentative Fools?

This is fun. Yahoos Abetting Fascism. Young Asinine Fucktards.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:22:15pm

re: #257 EPR-radar

This is fun. Yahoos Abetting Fascism. Young Asinine Fucktards.

You’re Angry, Friend! Young And Feckless.

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Jay C  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:23:20pm

re: #258 Blind Frog Belly White

You Are F*cked.

You’re AMAZINGLY F*cked!

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:23:59pm

re: #253 allegro

Oy!
I am really glad Chucky doesn’t pull that - she is Queen Bladder. I have never seen a dog her size (70+ lbs) pee in the quantities she does. She would probably destroy the mattress!

ETA: That’s Chucky in my avatar-thingy

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Kilroy01  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:24:54pm

In honor of puppy day.

Way more interested in each other than me or the wife..

Lucy and Tai
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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:27:18pm

re: #259 Jay C

Yuuuuuge-Ass Foolishness

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:27:25pm

re: #191 retired cynic

Be careful. Roofs make me nervous!

re: #193 thedopefishlives

Yeah, I had to deal with that too. Thankfully, my dish was located in a relatively convenient spot, where I could reach the LNB from the ground. Please be safe! I can’t stand to walk on roofs; they make me nervous, doubly so when we had a contractor nearly fall off of one some years back.

Back. Everything packaged up and ready to ship back. Goodbye Dish. You will not be missed.

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darthstar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:27:47pm

Fuck yeah I signed.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:29:47pm

re: #264 darthstar

Fuck yeah I signed.

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You devil you!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:31:23pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:31:47pm
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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:32:27pm

re: #263 Bubblehead II

Back. Everything packaged up and ready to ship back. Goodbye Dish. You will not be missed.

Yup. After receiving notification of their next annual rate hike, I decided to cut the cord. I started with Netflix and Hulu; I am probably adding Amazon Prime (shhh, don’t tell Mrs. Fish, she doesn’t think I’m getting it) as well.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:32:33pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

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Not primary you?

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:33:05pm

re: #201 calochortus

When we discontinued our DirecTV the wouldn’t take the box or the dish back. I had to figure out how to dispose of them properly.

Well the receiver and LNB are their high end units (HD/High speed) so I can see why they would want them back. Though I was highly tempted to give them both a dose of 120 vac on a low voltage input. (Evil Grin).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:34:07pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

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jeebus

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Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:35:12pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

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What a useless asshole.

Maybe the Democrats need to make presidential contenders sign loyalty pledges like the GOP.

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:36:52pm

re: #253 allegro

I’m glad to hear that I don’t have the only doggie who is passive-aggressive. If I don’t let Winston get on my bed with me, he begins to chew up anything he can get his little paws on. I know he does it because he’s pissed when he doesn’t get his way. He only begins to chew things up to indicate how upset he is with me not giving into to his demands. He’s pretty smart, so when he does something he shouldn’t, I make sure to admonish him and say it enough times that he knows exactly what offense I’m talking about. I always know when he “gets” it because he’ll avoid looking directly at me. Overall, he’s a good doggie kid, so he usually gets to do whatever he wants to do, within house rules.

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Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:37:17pm

re: #253 allegro

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:37:45pm

re: #264 darthstar

Signed!

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:38:37pm

re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s part of their plan to exact revenge on those who cancel their service, knowing a certain percentage will fall off and be injured or worse….
//

Well then they missed with me. Hoist beer in celebration.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:39:44pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

It would take an idiot not to realize that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats vs. Trump or Cruz and the Republicans really is an instance of civilization vs. barbarians.

This remains true even if the most cynical credible views of Clinton and the Democratic establishment are assumed to be correct.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:40:40pm

re: #260 Jebediah, RBG

Oy!
I am really glad Chucky doesn’t pull that - she is Queen Bladder. I have never seen a dog her size (70+ lbs) pee in the quantities she does. She would probably destroy the mattress!

ETA: That’s Chucky in my avatar-thingy

He’s never done anything like that before so I’m relegating it to the Brain Fart file. After the mother of all scoldings he got I doubt we’ll see a repeat. Better not or the little fucker will find himself homeless again. (Not really. He’s my Precious, but don’t tell him that.)

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Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:40:41pm

re: #269 Blind Frog Belly White

Not primary you?

I hope the Clintons show up in Vermont in January 2018 to throw their arms around a Democratic candidate for Senate.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:42:22pm

I used the link in this tweet:

Some of the claims in the lawsuit include:

• Loughner is innocent and was hand-picked to be an assassin.

• Giffords was never shot. He claims it was all an act she learned by watching Ronald Reagan movies.

• Loughner is being waterboarded every day by agents from the NSA, CIA and ATF.

• Microchips have been placed in his head and he is the victim of a worldwide conspiracy.

• Giffords is part of the Illuminati, a supposed secret organization of the most powerful people in the world.

• Loughner is being targeted with chemtrails, which have made him sick and delusional.

• Giffords help set up rancher Cliven Bundy.

• Mark Kelly, Giffords’ husband and a former American astronaut, planted illegal spy equipment in the skies to spy on Americans.

• Loughner’s attorney was ineffective and was also a global spy agent, who forced him to plead guilty.

I guess it’s tough to keep busy when you’re serving seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:42:36pm

re: #277 EPR-radar

It would take an idiot not to realize that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats vs. Trump or Cruz and the Republicans really is an instance of civilization vs. barbarians.

This remains true even if the most cynical credible views of Clinton and the Democratic establishment are assumed to be correct.

I read that Trump and Cruz are within 3 points of each other nationally, in a new poll. I have long held the GOP electorate in low esteem, but they’ve really worked hard and gone well below where I thought they could reach.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:43:05pm

re: #279 Timothy Watson

I hope the Clintons show up in Vermont in January 2018 to throw their arms around a Democratic candidate for Senate.

Let’s see what Sanders actually does or does not do to promote unity before calling for a primary challenge.

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:43:31pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

If true, this pisses me off. Any politician who is at the top of a ticket, or is an important person a political party, shouldn’t ask what’s in it for him/her if s/he campaigns for other political candidates in the party. It should be considered an honor to be asked. Selfishness is a huge turnoff for me.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:43:45pm

re: #278 allegro

He’s never done anything like that before so I’m relegating it to the Brain Fart file. After the mother of all scoldings he got I doubt we’ll see a repeat. Better not or the little fucker will find himself homeless again. (Not really. He’s my Precious, but don’t tell him that.)

Keep an eye on him. That could indicate urinary tract infection or other health issue. Especially if this is odd behavior.

Or he’s pissed at you. :-)

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:44:12pm

re: #253 allegro

He’s still on my shit list.

Shouldn’t he be on your piss list?

/

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Skip Intro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:44:47pm

re: #280 wrenchwench

He’s got a great future as a writer for Alex Jones.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:44:48pm

re: #285 wrenchwench

Shouldn’t he be on your piss list?

/

Yeah. I was thinking that might be seen as massive retaliation.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:45:29pm

re: #281 Blind Frog Belly White

I read that Trump and Cruz are within 3 points of each other nationally, in a new poll. I have long held the GOP electorate in low esteem, but they’ve really worked hard and gone well below where I thought they could reach.

Rest assured, if the Democrats win in this cycle the 2020 GOP candidates will make the 2016 GOP confederacy of dunces look like statesmen in comparison.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:45:49pm

re: #274 Great White Snark

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:46:09pm

re: #286 Skip Intro

He’s got a great future as a writer for Alex Jones.

So, did he file pro se, or did he actually find a lawyer whom he convinced to file this?

Or is it a hoax, like the handwritten lawsuit from whoever the hell that was last week?

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majii  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:46:42pm

re: #280 wrenchwench

This has me wondering if Alex Jones’s show is being piped directly into his cell since his suit contains so many half-baked conspiracy theories. His claim that Gabby Giffords was never shot reminds me of the Sand Hook Truthers claim that SH was a government operation. This is some crazy sh*t.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:46:56pm

re: #290 Blind Frog Belly White

So, did he file pro se, or did he actually find a lawyer whom he convinced to file this?

Or is it a hoax, like the handwritten lawsuit from whoever the hell that was last week?

Its pro se; she has nothing to worry about except the hassle of getting it dismissed.

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Skip Intro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:47:45pm

re: #290 Blind Frog Belly White

So, did he file pro se, or did he actually find a lawyer whom he convinced to file this?

Or is it a hoax, like the handwritten lawsuit from whoever the hell that was last week?

Even the great Orly Taitz wouldn’t be dumb enough to file something like that.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:48:25pm

re: #292 Big Beautiful Door

Its pro se; she has nothing to worry about except the hassle of getting it dismissed.

This had better be a minimal hassle. The whole thing is obviously frivolous.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:48:29pm

re: #280 wrenchwench

It’s that “consecutive” thing that really gets you…

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:49:52pm

re: #255 EPR-radar

I dislike being suspicious of lurkers or new members, but I’ve seen the right-wingers pull one too many fast ones (deceptively edited sound/video clips, out of context quotations to change the meaning of what was said, etc.).

Recent example: the 24-second clip of a Bill Clinton speech earlier this week—not only was it deceptively edited, every RWNJ blog & news outlet (and even a few mainstream outlets) ran with some version of Bill Clinton knocks/slams/trashes “awful legacy” of the last eight years.

Even some liberal outlets (like TPM) used the same headline, then explained in the body of the article (presumably for the clickbait). It’s annoying in the extreme.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:49:54pm

re: #295 Jebediah, RBG

It’s that “consecutive” thing that really gets you…

So the perp is cultivating a rich inner life in prison, imaginative and full of fantasy.

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:51:33pm

Happy Puppy Day!

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:51:43pm

re: #296 CuriousLurker

I dislike being suspicious of lurkers or new members, but I’ve seen the right-wingers pull one too many fast ones (deceptively edited sound/video clips, out of context quotations to change the meaning of what was said, etc.).

Recent example: the 24-second clip of a Bill Clinton speech earlier this week—not only was it deceptively edited, every RWNJ blog & news outlet (and even a few mainstream outlets) ran with some version of Bill Clinton knocks/slams/trashes “awful legacy” of the last eight years.

Even some liberal outlets (like TPM) used the same headline, then explained in the body of the article (presumably for the clickbait). It’s annoying in the extreme.

The most irritating thing about that set of RWNJ lies is the traction it got from some Sanders supporters.

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Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:51:46pm

re: #282 EPR-radar

Let’s see what Sanders actually does or does not do to promote unity before calling for a primary challenge.

I don’t consider it a primary challenge, he’s never ran as a Democratic candidate before this presidential election.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:51:50pm

re: #284 MsJ

Keep an eye on him. That could indicate urinary tract infection or other health issue. Especially if this is odd behavior.

Or he’s pissed at you. :-)

No, he’s fine physically. He didn’t do that cuz he had to pee - he had every opportunity to go out. He was pissed cuz I wouldn’t go to bed with him when he wanted. Hmmm, sounds like my late husband…

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:51:59pm

re: #297 EPR-radar

The pisser is that you can do that without doing shit that lands you in prison. You should hear the band I’m in, in my inner fantasy world!

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:52:47pm

re: #40 Mike Lamb

The question is: can a Mormon boss prohibit an employee from using their wages to buy alcohol. Because that’s what we are talking about here.

Excellent analogy. That is exactly the question that the Supreme Court should consider. Or even better, can a Muslim boss prohibit an employee from using his/her wages to buy pork? Another fitting question.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:52:56pm

BernieBros are butthurt that they weren’t allowed to vote in a CLOSED primary. Duh.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:54:30pm

re: #294 EPR-radar

This had better be a minimal hassle. The whole thing is obviously frivolous.

It is harassment.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:54:52pm

Instagram

Right from the start — when Honolulu officials began talking about building a 20-mile elevated train line near the southern coast of Oahu — there were concerns. How much would it cost? What would it do to the character of a state that has long celebrated its natural beauty and isolation? But 8 years after voters in #Hawaii approved a referendum clearing the way for construction of the rail line, many of the concerns voiced during the 40-year debate over the project have turned out to have merit. The train, which will take passengers from this city in western Oahu to the edge of Waikiki, is at least 2 years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Meanwhile, the project is a discomfiting reminder of how at least 1 part of this once-tranquil island is changing. The photographer @kentnish captured this embossed column that tells the story of one community found along the 20-mile elevated rail line.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:56:43pm

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

BernieBros are butthurt that they weren’t allowed to vote in a CLOSED primary. Duh.

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Exhibit #345354 That most BernieBros/Bots are new to this whole thing and totally clueless as to how this all works, or think that the way it’s been done for decades shouldn’t apply to them.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:57:02pm

re: #305 Stanley Sea

It is harassment.

There’s a Scribd at the second tweet’s link that has a stamp on it saying it’s not in proper form. May be as far as it gets.

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Bubblehead II  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:57:56pm

re: #268 thedopefishlives

Yup. After receiving notification of their next annual rate hike, I decided to cut the cord. I started with Netflix and Hulu; I am probably adding Amazon Prime (shhh, don’t tell Mrs. Fish, she doesn’t think I’m getting it) as well.

The Mate has been doing Hulu and Netflix on her PC & laptop for a while now. One of the main reasons for cutting the cord. Why pay $90.00/month for a service that we aren’t using when she can get the same content for free or at a drastically reduced cost? That’s also one of the reasons I got the Roku 4 and Amazon Prime. It receives all three of those plus others for a hell of a lot less. Myself? If I want to watch something I’ll either buy the DVD or stream it. Local news? Generally live streamed from one source or another at no cost. With the latest upgrade to our DSL (50.111 Mbps down) streaming is no longer a problem.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:57:58pm

re: #267 goddamnedfrank

Jordan ✔ ‎@JordanChariton

.@BernieSanders on if he loses & Dems ask him to rally voters 4 @HillaryClinton: “What’s the Dem establishment going to do for us?” #tytlive

6:20 PM - 23 Mar 2016

How about what they’ve done for you this election cycle Bernie. You are an independent running as a Democrat for the media attention and the fact it legitimizes your campaign.

You are blowing this Bernie. And in some ways you are going to piss off some voters before this is all over. Are you good with that?

Hmmm. Maybe he thinks this kind of talk gets him points with the independent and young voters that want to take on the establishment.

Dangerous move.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:58:13pm

re: #300 Timothy Watson

I don’t consider it a primary challenge, he’s never ran as a Democratic candidate before this presidential election.

True. My language in 282 was sloppy. The Democrats haven’t run anyone vs. Sanders for that Senate seat for some time now, but that is not the same as not making a primary challenge.

In any case, I’m not about to get into the business of taking tweets to be authoritative. Sanders has promised to support Clinton if she wins the (D) nomination. If Sanders breaks that promise, then I think it would be perfectly reasonable for the Democrats to run someone more useful for VT Senate.

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Timothy Watson  Mar 23, 2016 • 3:58:36pm

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

BernieBros are butthurt that they weren’t allowed to vote in a CLOSED primary. Duh.

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I’m really starting to wonder how much of Bernie support is GOP ratfucking.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:00:47pm

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

Mark my words, #jesuisBernie is going to become a thing.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:00:52pm

re: #264 darthstar

Fuck yeah I signed.

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Signed. Consistency demands it.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:02:27pm

OK, if you all will indulge me, one more for Puppy Day before I head home:

Juno guarding Otto

Juno with her beloved, much-missed big brother Otto. He went temporarily deaf, and she guarded him like this until his hearing came back. She’s only small on the outside!

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:02:54pm

re: #315 Jebediah, RBG

OK, if you all will indulge me, one more for Puppy Day before I head home:

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Juno with her beloved, much-missed big brother Otto. He went temporarily deaf, and she guarded him like this until his hearing came back. She’s only small on the outside!

MORE! MORE! MORE!

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Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:04:17pm

re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good idea. Stanley Sea? You in at the moment? Maybe gonna do that with our group should all that come together for Trump California. De-escalation, how to duck and evade. Passive physical defense.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:04:57pm

re: #311 EPR-radar

True. My language in 282 was sloppy. The Democrats haven’t run anyone vs. Sanders for that Senate seat for some time now, but that is not the same as not making a primary challenge.

In any case, I’m not about to get into the business of taking tweets to be authoritative. Sanders has promised to support Clinton if she wins the (D) nomination. If Sanders breaks that promise, then I think it would be perfectly reasonable for the Democrats to run someone more useful for VT Senate.

The quote in the tweet posted is from an interview Bernie is doing with Cenk and the Young Turks.

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Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:05:09pm

re: #280 wrenchwench

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I guess it’s tough to keep busy when you’re serving seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.

Lemme guess, he got the same lawyer as Chuck Johnson?

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:05:23pm

I know some people here and many people everywhere view Donald Trump and what he stand for as a joke, a twisted hiccup in the American democratic system, a minor storm that will soon pass. I’m not so sure and I’m starting to feel more and more uneasy as this election season unfolds.

I simply don’t see a way his campaign ends without violence. There is no ‘non-violent’ out that I can reasonable foresee.

If Trump is denied the nomination at the RNConvention, violence and bloodshed are a given. Trump himself has already primed the pump and given tacit approval for that. The only question is if that violence with be localized to Cleveland or if his supporters across the country will take it as license to run wild.

If he wins the nomination, but loses the general election, his supporters will not accept that outcome. It will be electoral fraud, manipulation by the establishment, or some other conspiracy that subverted the ‘true will’ of the people and they will not accept any proof, no matter how definitive, to the contrary. Trump’s whole campaign, his how personality, (which his supporters adore him for) is confrontation, his aggressiveness, his constant attacks. Faced with the iron-clad and unshakeable belief that their great leader is being denied his place, they cannot simply step aside or lie down passively. They will rise, they will attack, there will be violence.

If he wins both the nomination and the general election, all bets are off. Violence is a certainty. People will be targeted for violence based on their religion and the color of their skin. Those targets are a given. Political opponents will of course be fair game as well. But, like in other places at other times, those are not the only targets. Any population considered small, considered weak, and, in a nationalist movement like Trump’s, considered a drain or detriment to the country and it’s economy become easy pickings. I fear that violence against the homeless, the disabled, the mentally ill, those who depend on the assistance of the state to survive, who have no strong vocal defenders, and are too weak or disorganized to defend themselves will be commonplace.

This was posted a few days ago (I’m sure it made it here but I’ve been hit or miss lately on catching up with older threads so I don’t know for sure):
How The Trump Campaign Could Evolve Into Organized Violence, In 6 Steps. Coming this late in the game I wouldn’t exactly call the article prescient, but it does paint a pretty clear picture of how the arc toward becoming a movement of violence completes.

I know that, as someone who has some some anxiety issues, I could just be feeling the vapors. But the more time passes, with each Trump rally, each new act of violence in his name, those vapors before more and more substantial.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:05:29pm

re: #314 Decatur Deb

Signed. Consistency demands it.

It’s an act of kindness. RWNJs should not be obliged to attend their cult devotions at the GOP convention without their religious fetishes (i.e., guns) in hand.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:06:38pm

Worst tweet ever. Do not open.

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Told you…

/first try of the new button

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:09:30pm

re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth

The quote in the tweet posted is from an interview Bernie is doing with Cenk and the Young Turks.

Ah. I misunderstood. So Sanders himself is talking about breaking his promise. If he does end up breaking it, to hell with him.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:10:43pm

re: #316 MsJ

OK, I can do another:

Juno and Otto snuggling

She (and we) really did adore that big fella. He came to live with us after his first owner, my baby brother, passed away. They were together long enough for Brian’s transcendent personality to imprint on him a bit, I think.

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:11:12pm

Happy Puppy Day 2, Awake!

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darthstar  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:11:59pm

re: #322 wrenchwench

Worst tweet ever. Do not open.

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Told you…

/first try of the new button

That post had a bug.

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wrenchwench  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:12:36pm

re: #326 darthstar

That post had a bug.

It was a feature!

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:14:01pm

re: #280 wrenchwench

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I guess it’s tough to keep busy when you’re serving seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years.

I think he’s hoping to be transferred to a mental facility. Where he’s hoping life will be kinder and offer more chances for escape.

He doesn’t realize that an institution for the criminally insane will be even worse.

Not that I care. They could drag Loughner over broken glass followed by an iodine bath daily and I would just shrug.

Yeah, I’m evil.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:14:07pm

re: #294 EPR-radar

This had better be a minimal hassle. The whole thing is obviously frivolous.

They use to pre-screen inmate crap like this before issuing summons, but then the appellate courts decided it violated the inmates rights.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:15:12pm

Alrighty then. I was just looking for a veterinarian in the area because I think something’s wrong with my elder cat. I saw one in East Orange that has mostly 5-star reviews except for this one:

They treat my puppy bad because when my puppy was really sick we brought them here and my puppy got better and they tell me she died. This is not even true . They maybe killed her or kept her and didn’t tell me.

Wut?

How does s/he know the puppy got better if they told her/him it died? Maybe they kept it and now it’s living on a nice farm with lots of other animals to play with? //

Okay, maybe I shouldn’t mock… maybe this person just can’t cope with the death of the puppy, but damn… that’s pure Alex Jones territory.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:15:57pm

re: #320 Whack-A-Mole

I see these concerns as reasonable. I also see Trump as being just a few years ahead of the rest of the GOP on this project of normalizing political violence in the US.

Trump has done well enough with his nonsense that imitation in future election cycles by other GOPers is certain. The GOP base is a miasma of fear, resentment and loathing, and the GOP establishment is dominated by cynics who will do anything to win. There is nothing within the GOP that can stop the party’s descent into open fascism.

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darthstar  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:16:01pm

Oops.

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:17:46pm

re: #320 Whack-A-Mole

I don’t know how many Drumpfmenschen there really are, what fraction of them are prone to violence, and how many of them will remain if Drumpfskind is defeated (at Cleveland, or in the general election.)

It all seems like 1972 redux to me, George Wallace and all that.

While I have been free with using the adjective fascistic to describe Drumpfskind and his movement, I also believe we (the US) today are significantly different than the Italy or Germany of the 1930s. Perhaps we are more like Brazil and their own rather weird form of fascism of that era.

The blowback against Drumpfskind is just beginning. Up until early March he was seen as a form of entertainment, in the field of SportPolitics. As we creep towards November the mood will change, and I am not sure if the GOP apparatus can really deal with the blowback, first within the party, then from without the party.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:18:55pm

re: #324 Jebediah, RBG

OK, I can do another:

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She (and we) really did adore that big fella. He came to live with us after his first owner, my baby brother, passed away. They were together long enough for Brian’s transcendent personality to imprint on him a bit, I think.

They’re adorable. Biggie and Smalls. :-D I’m so sorry you lost him. It’s the worst thing about dogs; they just don’t live long enough.

Our dogs are like children to us. They mean the world to us.

I do the “dog tour” whenever I am in public. I have to acknowledge and pet every dog I encounter.

Thanks for sharing.

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451_Montag  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:20:13pm

re: #283 majii

If true, this pisses me off. Any politician who is at the top of a ticket, or is an important person a political party, shouldn’t ask what’s in it for him/her if s/he campaigns for other political candidates in the party. It should be considered an honor to be asked. Selfishness is a huge turnoff for me.

re: #284 MsJ

Keep an eye on him. That could indicate urinary tract infection or other health issue. Especially if this is odd behavior.

Or he’s pissed at you. :-)

I’m reading this on a tablet and had a funny scroll. Could not for the life of me figure out why Bernie Sanders might have a UT infection!!!!

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:20:26pm

I don’t want to leave Chucky out of the Puppy Day festivities:

Trying to prevent me from getting up.

Sorry about the saucy view of my leg. This was Chucky trying to convince me to sleep in one morning.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:20:31pm

re: #315 Jebediah, RBG

OK, if you all will indulge me, one more for Puppy Day before I head home:

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Juno with her beloved, much-missed big brother Otto. He went temporarily deaf, and she guarded him like this until his hearing came back. She’s only small on the outside!

Juno reminds me of a little Terrier mix some friends were allowed to have in their house, Dinah.

She was a tough little neighborhood (Ohio State Campus Area) rejection that found them. They invited her in. She stayed. She was protective as hell of the family. She would give me hell every time I visited and then after awhile be on my lap for tummy rubs. Next time I visited she would give me hell again…then tummy rubs. She never stopped giving me hell on entrance…or wanting tummy rubs later after she was all barked out.

One thing I do remember most about her was she would get up on her hind legs and walk around like a little person. She could go quite the distance and stay up there. She followed the mailman from one side of the house to the front door to the last window she could see him at…up on those little hind legs.

They also had a little Wirehair Terrier that was just freaking nuts. That little crazy haired dog was an athletic dart. He would run from their kitchen and then fly up over your head and land on the upper back of couch and them nuzzle you ear. That dog never stayed still. He wore people out watching him. And from a four legged stand he could hop a bit and then jump straight up almost to your head. They made a hell of a team.

Terriers are a trip. My buddy the dog trainer has a book on breeds that is very cleverly written. The author has fun descriptions of all the breeds. They always reminded the reader their was a reason they were called Terriers. And they would also state they are small, but don’t even tell them that. They will rule the pack.

I’m not a dog owner, but I love ‘em just the same. And I’ve learned they are way smarter than a lot of people give them credit for being.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:20:57pm

re: #336 Jebediah, RBG

I don’t want to leave Chucky out of the Puppy Day festivities:

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Sorry about the saucy view of my leg. This was Chucky trying to convince me to sleep in one morning.

SCANDALOUS! YOU HUSSY!!!1!1

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:21:38pm

re: #317 Great White Snark

Good idea. Stanley Sea? You in at the moment? Maybe gonna do that with our group should all that come together for Trump California. De-escalation, how to duck and evade. Passive physical defense.

Sure! I vacillate from outrageous bravery to wtf am I thinking. So any prep is good.

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calochortus  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:22:02pm

re: #332 darthstar

Oops.

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At least he has almost 2/3 of his back taxes available in cash!

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:23:36pm

re: #334 MsJ

Thank you! Yeah, the short life span thing really sucks. And I do the dog tour thing too - I am the worst for people trying to train their dogs not to jump up on people - all they get from me is ear scritches and told how awesome they are.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:23:44pm
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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:24:02pm

re: #335 451_Montag

At his age I’m thinking more prostate than UT. :-D

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:26:53pm

re: #320 Whack-A-Mole

I think enough voters see things the way you do and will make sure that Trump loses in November. Trump has given millions of people ample reasons to vote against him. I’m sure Secretary Clinton has hundreds of attack ads ready to go against him and is preparing to tear him down in debates if Republicans can’t keep him from getting enough delegates during their convention.

Not saying that Trump cannot win in November. Just thinking that it is highly improbable. His negatives are huuuge!

conservativereview.com

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:28:27pm

My idea of heaven…

Doggie play date at casa allegro

Little guy is Buddy the Bad. The other is a visiting bad boy.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:28:32pm

re: #337 ObserverArt
Sounds like your friends have an awesome pair of pups!
Juno is pretty good at the hind leg thing, too, but doesn’t have anywhere near that kind of leaping ability. She is, however, an expert at being doted on.
And yeah, the more years I spend with dogs, the higher my estimation of their intelligence goes.

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Unabogie  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:30:31pm

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

BernieBros are butthurt that they weren’t allowed to vote in a CLOSED primary. Duh.

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Today has been seriously depressing. Watching otherwise sane people going on about “voter suppression by the DNC!!!!” is far more depressing than Jade Helm nonsense. I expect this from the wingnuts. My side is supposed to be reality based.

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The Engineer Lobuno  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:33:40pm

re: #344 Patricia Kayden

I think enough voters see things the way you do and will make sure that Trump loses in November. Trump has given millions of people ample reasons to vote against him. I’m sure Secretary Clinton has hundreds of attack ads ready to go against him and is preparing to tear him down in debates if Republicans can’t keep him from getting enough delegates during their convention.

Not saying that Trump cannot win in November. Just thinking that it is highly improbable. His negatives are huuuge!

conservativereview.com

His negatives hasn’t stopped him to driving Jeb, Rubio and many other, more likable candidates out of the race. It might cost him in the general, though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:34:51pm

re: #347 Unabogie

Today has been seriously depressing. Watching otherwise sane people going on about “voter suppression by the DNC!!!!” is far more depressing than Jade Helm nonsense. I expect this from the wingnuts. My side is supposed to be reality based.

And in AZ, it was totally the local and state GOP behind all of the nonsense. Every bit of it.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:35:06pm

re: #347 Unabogie

Today has been seriously depressing. Watching otherwise sane people going on about “voter suppression by the DNC!!!!” is far more depressing than Jade Helm nonsense. I expect this from the wingnuts. My side is supposed to be reality based.

These aren’t the “adults” in the party. Every single person I know that is loudly supporting Bernie fits into one of these categories:

Just turned 18 in the past couple of years.
Former Ron Paul supporter.
Someone who rarely or never votes, never really has paid attention to politics before.
Switches back and forth between far left and far right out in Kookland.

The left’s version of “low information voters” basically.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:36:59pm

re: #336 Jebediah, RBG

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Olivia at around 12 weeks.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:37:14pm

re: #333 freetoken

re: #344 Patricia Kayden

The problem is , there will be no “defeat” of Donald Trump, at least not to his supporters. He might be blocked from the nomination by establishment machinations, or be cheated out of the presidency by electoral fraud and other Clintonian shenanigans, but TRUMP CAN’T LOSE. To a large percentage of his supporters, his is their Messiah (sorry for the possible sacrilege), there to lead them back to the days of American Greatness (and not-so-coincidentally) whiteness.

Today, we still have flat-eathers, moon-landing hoaxers, anti-vaxxers. People believe what they want to believe and a significant percentage of Trump supporters want to believe that their man is the winner, any mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Unlike those other issues those, Trump has framed his candidacy as an solution to imminent and existential threats to our country and our way of life , the kinds of threats that can, do, and will inspire people to violent action.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:38:19pm

re: #348 The Engineer Lobuno

His negatives hasn’t stopped him to driving Jeb, Rubio and many other, more likable candidates out of the race. It might cost him in the general, though.

In a head to head matchup with Clinton, Trump’s RCP average is currently below 39%. Barring something catastrophic happening, she will win in a landslide.
realclearpolitics.com

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:39:06pm

re: #351 MsJ

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Olivia at around 12 weeks.

That second pic should be captioned “Jiles, peel me a grape.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:40:02pm

re: #352 Whack-A-Mole

And there will be no “defeat” of Bernie Sanders in the primary because if he loses it will be because it was stolen from him as a result of voter suppression and fraud and cheating by Hillary and DWS and whatever else the extreme berners can come up with.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:41:45pm

re: #188 freetoken

Inquiring minds want to know:

Why Does Donald Drumpf’s Staff Wear This Mysterious Pin?

Mind control device?

Remember when we were discussing what kind of pin the supposed Secret Service agent who choke-slammed the Time photographer was wearing?

Might have been one of those.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:41:53pm

re: #349 Backwoods_Sleuth

And in AZ, it was totally the local and state GOP behind all of the nonsense. Every bit of it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:42:11pm

re: #309 Bubblehead II

There is also Crackle, which is free, but the movies have commercials. Mostly B type movies, but both Heavy Metals are on it, and some others that are good that the other services don’t have. :)

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:42:12pm

re: #354 allegro

That second pic should be captioned “Jiles, peel me a grape.”

You have no idea. That 12 pound fluff ball has my husband so firmly wrapped around her little paw if grapes weren’t bad for dogs, he’d do it every single day. He loves me but he REALLY REALLY LOVES that pooch.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:42:39pm

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

No doubt, but I don’t see many of his supporters resorting to violence thankfully.

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Unabogie  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:42:53pm

re: #350 Jack Burton

These aren’t the “adults” in the party. Every single person I know that is loudly supporting Bernie fits into one of these categories:

Just turned 18 in the past couple of years.
Former Ron Paul supporter.
Someone who rarely or never votes, never really has paid attention to politics before.
Switches back and forth between far left and far right out in Kookland.

The left’s version of “low information voters” basically.

I disagree. I see a large contingent of cynical people pay attention to politics, but get their news from unreliable sources and never question their information. The Daily Berners are seriously expecting the DNC to vacate the results in Arizona. They call Hillary an “ultra-conservative”. A smart guy I know just accused the RNC and the DNC to be both conspiring to elect Hillary. People have lost their minds and the only currency seems to be cynicism. If you are above the two party “sham” then you’re smart and “in the know”. It doesn’t matter what the reality is. Stupidity like this will be the death of the Union if it results in a fascist like Trump to take over. If Trump does win, where are the smart, reality based citizens going to emerge from who will form an opposition?

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:43:43pm

re: #346 Jebediah, RBG

Sounds like your friends have an awesome pair of pups!
Juno is pretty good at the hind leg thing, too, but doesn’t have anywhere near that kind of leaping ability. She is, however, an expert at being doted on.
And yeah, the more years I spend with dogs, the higher my estimation of their intelligence goes.

Not just those two. They also had a cute but very mellow Miniature Dachshund. He just snuggled next to you and kept you and him warm. And for a time there was also a Chow/Hound mix. Yeah. Chowhound. He was a big lovable klutz. Fuzzy like a chow, slow like a hound. But he could bark a mean bark…the burglar alarm. He was the grand old man of the house until he passed away leaving the little gang.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:44:41pm

All I can say is, in 4 more years, the DNC better have some new, younger blood to run as President or we will be even more screwed than we’d be with a Trump presidency.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:44:54pm

re: #361 Unabogie

That which you described generally fall into the 2nd & 4th groups I listed.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:45:07pm

re: #352 Whack-A-Mole

The problem is , there will be no “defeat” of Donald Trump, at least not to his supporters. He might be blocked from the nomination by establishment machinations, or be cheated out of the presidency by electoral fraud and other Clintonian shenanigans, but TRUMP CAN’T LOSE. To a large percentage of his supporters, his is their Messiah (sorry for the possible sacrilege), there to lead them back to the days of American Greatness (and not-so-coincidentally) whiteness.

Today, we still have flat-eathers, moon-landing hoaxers, anti-vaxxers. People believe what they want to believe and a significant percentage of Trump supporters want to believe that their man is the winner, any mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Unlike those other issues those, Trump has framed his candidacy as an solution to imminent and existential threats to our country and our way of life , the kinds of threats that can, do, and will inspire people to violent action.

I don’t think he is healthy at all. Going to be interesting to see how he’s feeling in November.

Although - he still has nothing on the calendar. And haven’t all the recent media appearances been phone ins?

donaldjtrump.com

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:45:36pm

We’re rescuing this terrified little girl next week.

Meet Jenny.

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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:45:52pm

re: #312 Timothy Watson

I’m really starting to wonder how much of Bernie support is GOP ratfucking.

The biggest Berniebot of my facebook friends is my age (early 60’s) and as liberal as they come, but he’s starting to sound like a FOX addict with his posts about teh ebil Hillary. He’s posting a bunch of butthurt about how Bernie was cheated by Hillarybots in Arizona, while also posting stuff about the BIG wins in Utah and Colorado. Bernie can’t lose!! I want to block him until the election is over.

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:46:20pm

re: #363 GlutenFreeJesus

All I can say is, in 4 more years, the DNC better have some new, younger blood to run as President or we will be even more screwed than we’d be with a Trump presidency.

It’s not inevitable that we will have a major economic downturn during the next four years, but it is also not out of the question.

That will make the 2020 election especially difficult for the incumbent.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:47:12pm

In other news, my part of Wisconsin is under an actual blizzard warning, so in honor of my snowbound isolation:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:48:20pm

re: #361 Unabogie

I disagree. I see a large contingent of cynical people pay attention to politics, but get their news from unreliable sources and never question their information. The Daily Berners are seriously expecting the DNC to vacate the results in Arizona. They call Hillary an “ultra-conservative”. A smart guy I know just accused the RNC and the DNC to be both conspiring to elect Hillary. People have lost their minds and the only currency seems to be cynicism. If you are above the two party “sham” then you’re smart and “in the know”. It doesn’t matter what the reality is. Stupidity like this will be the death of the Union if it results in a fascist like Trump to take over. If Trump does win, where are the smart, reality based citizens going to emerge from who will form an opposition?

OK, the Trump and Bernie supporters are loud, but they are a minority. Trump supporters are less than half of Republicans, and Bernie supporters are a smaller percentage of Democrats. The really loud Bernie supporters on the internet vowing not to vote for Hillary are an even smaller minority. You may not remember, but there were loud Clinton supporters vowing not to vote for Obama in 2008 who were supposedly going to swing the election to McCain. Don’t worry, Trump is not going to be elected President.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:48:54pm

re: #369 Whack-A-Mole

In other news, my part of Wisconsin is under an actual blizzard warning, so in honor of my snowbound isolation:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Yeah, you’re getting hit with the storm that just left here. Parts of southern MN got blitzed.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:49:26pm

re: #367 stpaulbear

The biggest Berniebot of my facebook friends is my age (early 60’s) and as liberal as they come, but he’s starting to sound like a FOX addict with his posts about teh ebil Hillary. He’s posting a bunch of butthurt about how Bernie was cheated by Hillarybots in Arizona, while also posting stuff about the bid wins in Utah and Colorado. Bernie can’t lose!! I want to block him until the election is over.

I’m unfollowing a lot of people on Twitter. The whole election season is pissing me off. Lies, assholes, supposed news people, gah. I find myself watching dog videos more and more.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:50:16pm

re: #369 Whack-A-Mole

In other news, my part of Wisconsin is under an actual blizzard warning, so in honor of my snowbound isolation:

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Uh, you don’t have any axes around do you?

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:50:58pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:51:25pm

re: #254 thedopefishlives

Yeah, we got just the barest dusting, but I heard from a friend in the Burnsville area who said it was the snowpocalypse out there. I’m looking around out there like, wtf are you talking about?

St Paul got hit with a quick Snowpocalypse right at rush hour and then stopped as soon as I got home. We got about 2-3” downtown over the course of the day.

This is the time of year when I refuse to shovel. It should just melt, dammit! Sick of snow.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:51:30pm

re: #371 thedopefishlives

Yeah, you’re getting hit with the storm that just left here. Parts of southern MN got blitzed.

Toronto lost power due to the storm.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:52:29pm

re: #359 MsJ

You have no idea. That 12 pound fluff ball has my husband so firmly wrapped around her little paw if grapes weren’t bad for dogs, he’d do it every single day. He loves me but he REALLY REALLY LOVES that pooch.

Sounds like my late husband (former Vikings offensive lineman - yeah, mountain of a guy) and our teeny 4 pound peekapoo fluff bundle. What a pair they were. He got up about 5am and took her for sausage kolaches and a road trip, her favorite thing ever, every weekend morning. Always had a couple of her favorite cookies in his pocket for her alone, the other kids were SOL. She could, and would, pounce on his face while he was sleeping and he’d giggle like a schoolgirl. Anyone else would be bloodied.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:52:39pm

re: #373 ObserverArt

Uh, you don’t have any axes around do you?

No. Was thinking about picking up a nice roque set this summer, but alas I didn’t.

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Mike Lamb  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:52:40pm

re: #223 goddamnedfrank

He mad.

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There is no true atheist that would argue pre-marital sex is immoral.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:53:08pm

re: #352 Whack-A-Mole

But Trump’s supporters aren’t what matters. If they’ve decided to make Trump into their White Savior, that’s their problem. He has not made himself attractive to enough Americans to win in the general. His supporters are a relatively small group of angry White Americans who are just not enough to put him into the White House.

I’m optimistic that the same Americans who didn’t fall for McCain/Palin will not fall for Trump/whoever in November.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:53:35pm

re: #360 Whack-A-Mole

No doubt, but I don’t see many of his supporters resorting to violence thankfully.

Too cowardly to risk an actual scratch, I reckon. Bullies usually are.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:53:49pm

re: #366 MsJ

We’re rescuing this terrified little girl next week.

Meet Jenny.

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Awww. She’s a sweetie!!

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:53:59pm

re: #377 allegro

Sounds like my late husband (former Vikings offensive lineman - yeah, mountain of a guy) and our teeny 4 pound peekapoo fluff bundle. What a pair they were. He got up about 5am and took her for sausage kolaches and a road trip, her favorite thing ever, every weekend morning. Always had a couple of her favorite cookies in his pocket for her alone, the other kids were SOL. She could, and would, pounce on his face while he was sleeping and he’d giggle like a schoolgirl. Anyone else would be bloodied.

LOL!! That’s so awesome!

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:54:15pm

re: #375 stpaulbear

St Paul got hit with a quick Snowpocalypse right at rush hour and then stopped as soon as I got home. We got about 2-3” downtown over the course of the day.

This is the time of year when I refuse to shovel. It should just melt, dammit! Sick of snow.

I left work early to beat the rush, and as soon as I got north of 694… no snow.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:55:17pm

re: #370 Big Beautiful Door

I’m going to vote/canvas/work the phones/whatever to make sure that doesn’t happen. No more complacency. That’s what got us in this mess to begin with.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:55:57pm

re: #380 Patricia Kayden

But Trump’s supporters aren’t what matters. If they’ve decided to make Trump into their White Savior, that’s their problem. He has not made himself attractive to enough Americans to win in the general. His supporters are a relatively small group of angry White Americans who are just not enough to put him into the White House.

I’m optimistic that the same Americans who didn’t fall for McCain/Palin will not fall for Trump/whoever in November.

Likewise there are very few dems who are Bernie or bust! It’s a small, yet loud minority, just like Trump supporters.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:56:18pm

re: #385 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m going to vote/canvas/work the phones/whatever to make sure that doesn’t happen. No more complacency. That’s what got us in this mess to begin with.

I agree we absolutely can’t be complacent. With hard work, maybe the Democrats can even win control of Congress.

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:56:25pm

re: #375 stpaulbear

St Paul got hit with a quick Snowpocalypse right at rush hour and then stopped as soon as I got home. We got about 2-3” downtown over the course of the day.

This is the time of year when I refuse to shovel. It should just melt, dammit! Sick of snow.

I’m damn glad I don’t have to commute all the way out to St. Paul and back anymore. Although, I would’ve been sure to be home before Snowpocalypse started.

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:57:13pm

re: #377 allegro

Sounds like my late husband (former Vikings offensive lineman - yeah, mountain of a guy)

I have to ask who — and obviously feel free to say his name was Nunya Bidness.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:58:01pm

re: #367 stpaulbear

I’m getting really tired of BernieBros using right wing anti-Hillary talking points too. I don’t like Hillary (I’ll vote for her before any of the GOP any day though) but I don’t think she’s the monster/criminal mastermind the right has made her out to be, and the left needs to stop rewarding the right for 20 years of character assassination.

When I see a post on social media claiming the Hillary is going to end up in jail because of “insert bullshit here”… last year it was 100% RWNJs, now it’s 70/30 BernieBros to RWNJs.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:58:31pm

re: #386 MsJ

Likewise there are very few dems who are Bernie or bust! It’s a small, yet loud minority, just like Trump supporters.

And as has been discusses around here, Bernie and Trump are getting some major play in the media horse races.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 4:59:13pm

re: #382 Patricia Kayden

Awww. She’s a sweetie!!

They wanted to kill her yesterday because she’s scared shitless and “doesn’t show well”. I got a rescue to pull her. They’re spaying and shoting her now and she’ll be in a foster home until their next scheduled transport date next week.

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:00:37pm

re: #390 Jack Burton

I’m getting really tired of BernieBros using right wing anti-Hillary talking points too. I don’t like Hillary (I’ll vote for her before any of the GOP any day though) but I don’t think she’s the monster/criminal mastermind the right has made her out to be, and the left needs to stop rewarding the right for 20 years of character assassination.

When I see a post on social media claiming the Hillary is going to end up in jail because of “insert bullshit here”… last year it was 100% RWNJs, now it’s 70/30 BernieBros to RWNJs.

I have a reasonably intelligent Berniebro “friend” on Facebook (friend in quotes because I haven’t seen him in over 20 years, he moved away in junior high) that gave a litany of reasons that he would like to not settle for Hillary — some of them grounded in fact, but many of them based on feels, and yeah, the worst of them echoed RWNJ talking points exactly. It’s infuriating.

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:02:17pm

re: #380 Patricia Kayden

But Trump’s supporters aren’t what matters. If they’ve decided to make Trump into their White Savior, that’s their problem. He has not made himself attractive to enough Americans to win in the general. His supporters are a relatively small group of angry White Americans who are just not enough to put him into the White House.

I’m optimistic that the same Americans who didn’t fall for McCain/Palin will not fall for Trump/whoever in November.

That small relatively small group of followers of his isn’t really all that small: current polling #’s seems to be about 40% of the half of the country that identifies GOP, so about 20% of the country. He doesn’t need to win or even come close for whatever fraction of that 20% who remain convinced that he was cheated out of the nomination/election to cause major problems and violence.

I’m really not worried about his winning office; I’m really don’t believe that’s going to happen. But I worry about what his followers do afterwards as they go on their local crusade to do what they wanted their leader to do on a national scale. I worry about something akin to a modern incarnation of the KKK, small groups moving through the community terrorizing vulnerable people.

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:03:13pm
Jasmine’s first snow

Are we still doing pupper pics? This is our Jasmine when she was a puppy, enjoying her first snowfall.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:06:32pm

re: #173 retired cynic

You did? When? So did I! Graduated HS in 1966.

Sorry, just getting back. I graduated in ‘82. I went to First Presby in Champaign. Robert Gray, from the school of music, was our choir director. So, were you a Maroon?

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:07:32pm

A week doesn’t go by in which I don’t think about this nut job.

Pain in the Grass

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:07:45pm

re: #390 Jack Burton

I’m getting really tired of BernieBros using right wing anti-Hillary talking points too. I don’t like Hillary (I’ll vote for her before any of the GOP any day though) but I don’t think she’s the monster/criminal mastermind the right has made her out to be, and the left needs to stop rewarding the right for 20 years of character assassination.

When I see a post on social media claiming the Hillary is going to end up in jail because of “insert bullshit here”… last year it was 100% RWNJs, now it’s 70/30 BernieBros to RWNJs.

That’s my biggest problem with the (D) primary. Lefties should know better than to use RWNJ attacks vs. Hillary Clinton. If she is so conservative, then there should be plenty of issue-based ways to attack her from the left that are grounded in reality instead of RWNJ fever dreams.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:08:37pm

re: #392 MsJ

They wanted to kill her yesterday because she’s scared shitless and “doesn’t show well”. I got a rescue to pull her. They’re spaying and shoting her now and she’ll be in a foster home until their next scheduled transport date next week.

Good of you for caring for her.

I thought the first image made her looked timid. Hair up on her back a bit, legs close together and tail tucked.

My friends dog Molly was like that when he first got her. She hated people and it took a long time for her to get close. Now she is as lovable as any dog. He figured she was not so much abused as just neglected and allowed to be surly and distant. Almost like she thought no one cared.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:09:33pm

re: #395 withak

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Are we still doing pupper pics?

Always!!

This is our Jasmine when she was a puppy, enjoying her first snowfall.

She’s adorable!! What a sweet little face!!

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Whack-A-Mole  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:10:15pm

I guess if I had to sum up my trepidation of Trump supporters and why I really fear coming violence from them, it’s this:

These people are the GOP, the deep bottom-dwelling base of the GOP that have been dog-whistled to and played for fools for decades. But they’ve suddenly found a way to the levers of power and they have absolutely no intention of going back into the deep, dark, powerless reaches again. They’re a people who fetishize guns and who believe, really, truly believe, power comes from the barrel of a gun.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:10:34pm

When I posted that article about the deceptive Bill Clinton video a couple of days ago, I got deluged on Twitter by Bernie Sanders fans, and a lot of them were extremely nasty. There’s a bad vibe going on in that campaign; a lot of Bernie’s supporters remind me of Ron Paulians the way they just reject all criticisms and attack the messenger. Not healthy. Not all of them but way too many for comfort.

I’m actually sorta positive toward a lot of Sanders’ positions, but the fanatical attitude of his followers is a real turn-off.

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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:10:36pm

re: #388 thedopefishlives

I’m damn glad I don’t have to commute all the way out to St. Paul and back anymore. Although, I would’ve been sure to be home before Snowpocalypse started.

My commute is only three miles but I live on the west side of downtown StP and work on the east side of downtown. I’m a block from 7th Street on each end. 21 stoplights on the three mile route.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:11:51pm

So the other night I decided to hatch a cunning plan.

Tuesday was my ex-wifes birthday and normally on that day of the week I call John for his one a day phone call. So I emailed his case manager Monday and said, “Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if instead he calls Mom and wishes her a happy birthday?” She though that was good and we set it all up. But remember I said this was a “cunning” plan? Like one of Baldrick’s?

She had a CPR recert class Tuesday night and had her phone off so she didn’t get the call… < bangs head >

Tonight I got given a gift card for the grocery store and thought - “Hey, Easter basket action. He may be 14, but candy is still candy!” But instead of just making Yet Another Cunning Plan, I asked Mom first :D So were both on board with me taking him a small Easter basket of chocolate bunny, peeps & jellybeans.

Hopefully this plan will be a wee bit more successful < LOL >

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:12:25pm

re: #403 stpaulbear

My commute is only three miles but I live on the west side of downtown StP and work on the east side of downtown. I’m a block from 7th Street on each end. 21 stoplights on the three mile route.

I used to work in the center of downtown St. Paul, and I live in the western suburbs. As in, the western Twin Cities suburbs in general. My commute used to be 37 miles one way. I would drive in at 5:00 in the morning and leave at 3:00 in the afternoon. I still do, I just don’t have to drive nearly as far or through nearly as ridiculous of traffic.

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Unabogie  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:13:23pm

re: #390 Jack Burton

I’m getting really tired of BernieBros using right wing anti-Hillary talking points too. I don’t like Hillary (I’ll vote for her before any of the GOP any day though) but I don’t think she’s the monster/criminal mastermind the right has made her out to be, and the left needs to stop rewarding the right for 20 years of character assassination.

When I see a post on social media claiming the Hillary is going to end up in jail because of “insert bullshit here”… last year it was 100% RWNJs, now it’s 70/30 BernieBros to RWNJs.

I have a friend who posted something positive about Hillary, and this is one response. I shit you not.

S*** has no experience to be a president been fired from committees help kill people in Benghazi holy s*** this is a piece of s*** should not even be in the running FBI investigating or what the heck’s wrong with people

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:13:47pm

re: #401 Whack-A-Mole

I guess if I had to sum up my trepidation of Trump supporters and why I really fear coming violence from them, it’s this:

These people are the GOP, the deep bottom-dwelling base of the GOP that have been dog-whistled to and played for fools for decades. But they’ve suddenly found a way to the levers of power and they have absolutely no intention of going back into the deep, dark, powerless reaches again. They’re a people who fetishize guns and who believe, really, truly believe, power comes from the barrel of a gun.

These people have also been so heavily propagandized that they see the US as being in the same boat as post WWI Germany.

Mass delusion and mass gun ownership is a particularly volatile and unpleasant combination.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:13:52pm

My good girl

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:14:04pm

re: #400 MsJ

Always!!

She’s adorable!! What a sweet little face!!

Yup, she’s just as cute — and just as much a puppy — five years later.

She got into some Advil left on the counter on Sunday (400 mg) and we were worried that it would cause lasting damage, but I just got a call from the vet saying her bloodwork was all good. Phew.

Pet owners! Keep your ibuprofen and other meds out of reach — in dogs, it can cause severe kidney problems even at small-for-humans doses — and dogs love it due to the sugar coating. Also, keep some hydrogen peroxide on hand so you can induce vomiting.

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Jack Burton  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:14:10pm

re: #402 Charles Johnson

I’m actually sorta positive toward a lot of Sanders’ positions, but the fanatical attitude of his followers is a real turn-off.

I’m positive to many of his ideas too, but it’s not just his crazy followers that are a turn off, it’s his “Underpants Gnomes” plan to make his agenda happen that is a HUGE turn off for me.

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:15:18pm

re: #405 thedopefishlives

I used to work in the center of downtown St. Paul, and I live in the western suburbs. As in, the western Twin Cities suburbs in general. My commute used to be 37 miles one way. I would drive in at 5:00 in the morning and leave at 3:00 in the afternoon. I still do, I just don’t have to drive nearly as far or through nearly as ridiculous of traffic.

I work in Maplewood, and we have a new contractor who commutes from Hopkins.

She stayed home today due to the potential weather issues. No one blamed her…

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:15:50pm

/me goes back through the thread and updings ALL THE DOGS

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thedopefishlives  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:16:15pm

re: #411 withak

I work in Maplewood, and we have a new contractor who commutes from Hopkins.

She stayed home today due to the potential weather issues. No one blamed her…

Yeah, it got to the point, if there was a snowstorm forecast, I just called a WFH day. Then the company started cracking down on WFH time because others (not me) were abusing it, so I said, okay, fine, I’ll just take those days off entirely like I’m told. You want to lose my productivity for a day over a few bad apples, that’s your problem.

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:16:41pm

If only I were Yogi Berra, I could predict the future with more accuracy…

But I will try my best:

The US is an increasingly diverse modern nation-state, measure by many different means.

So this lack homogeneity will affect us is many ways, some not predictable, but in the field of politics I think it is safe to say that national political parties can no longer be so monolithic as we imagine they have been the past century and half (i.e., since the Civil War.)

A nation as large as ours really calls out for a multi-party political hierarchy, but our tradition keeps trying to enforce a two-party solution.

Personally I am more concerned, given my age, with Social Security, retirement funds, Medicare, and the like. Maybe if a political party only concentrated on those issues some broad majority could be formed across our society. The Democratic Party sort of, kind of, does that today but it is easy to see the Democratic Party split on foreign policy issues and on crime issues.

That Drumpfskind has succeeded in making this year’s election about how anti-free-trade a candidate can be foretells a future where protectionism could be the #1 issue, should another Great Recession occur.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:17:31pm

re: #397 Mattand

A week doesn’t go by in which I don’t think about this nut job.

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Video

LOLOLOL

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:18:07pm
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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:19:01pm

re: #389 withak

I have to ask who — and obviously feel free to say his name was Nunya Bidness.

You wouldn’t know him if I did unless you’re really old. He played from (I think) 1962 - 65 when his knee got blown and he started his real career as a ChemE.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:20:22pm

re: #399 ObserverArt

Good of you for caring for her.

I thought the first image made her looked timid. Hair up on her back a bit, legs close together and tail tucked.

My friends dog Molly was like that when he first got her. She hated people and it took a long time for her to get close. Now she is as lovable as any dog. He figured she was not so much abused as just neglected and allowed to be surly and distant. Almost like she thought no one cared.

It really angers me. She’s going to be just fine. Like my other kids (except Olivia, whom we got as a baby), she just needs a loving home and food safety.

My friend runs a 501c3 and I get emails every day from all around the Midwest. Hundreds of dogs every week that need a home. Black doge die most often. Some areas prefer certain types of dogs (rural GA can place pitties but not labs). It kills me. I want to save them all.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:20:27pm

re: #415 CuriousLurker

LOLOLOL

Mattand’s video reminded me a bit of the little tantrum boy…in reverse.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:21:41pm

re: #415 CuriousLurker

LOLOLOL

He wasn’t a typical boxer, in that he was really mellow and laid back. A lot of that was due to us exercising him at every chance. But he never lost that boxer knack for comedy.

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lawhawk  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:22:10pm

re: #402 Charles Johnson

When I posted that article about the deceptive Bill Clinton video a couple of days ago, I got deluged on Twitter by Bernie Sanders fans, and a lot of them were extremely nasty. There’s a bad vibe going on in that campaign; a lot of Bernie’s supporters remind me of Ron Paulians the way they just reject all criticisms and attack the messenger. Not healthy. Not all of them but way too many for comfort.

I’m actually sorta positive toward a lot of Sanders’ positions, but the fanatical attitude of his followers is a real turn-off.

Bernie’s acceptable, but his supporters are off the rails bugnuts.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:23:42pm

re: #408 Big Beautiful Door

My good girl

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Oh man. Stop it! That’s so sweet I think I got diabetes. It made me squeeee!

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:23:51pm

Wingnuts seethe… but POTUS keeps on cruisin’:

Facebook Post

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:23:53pm
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CuriousLurker  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:23:56pm

re: #416 Charles Johnson

@RealAlexJones is a tru…

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:24:01pm

re: #417 allegro

You wouldn’t know him if I did unless you’re really old. He played from (I think) 1962 - 65 when his knee got blown and he started his real career as a ChemE.

Fair enough — and no, I’m not that old. I started following the Vikings in the 90s.

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stpaulbear  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:24:05pm

re: #411 withak

I work in Maplewood, and we have a new contractor who commutes from Hopkins.

She stayed home today due to the potential weather issues. No one blamed her…

Hopkins to Maplewood. That is one ugly daily commute. Every route sucks.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:24:14pm

re: #421 lawhawk

Bernie’s acceptable, but his supporters are off the rails bugnuts.

I got into it with a B-Bro at Gawker or Kotaku, forget which. Full on “If I don’t get what I want, I’ll do everything I can to fuck over Clinton and the Dems”; and then got angry when I called him an entitled nihlist.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:26:24pm

re: #414 freetoken

If only I were Yogi Berra, I could predict the future with more accuracy…

But I will try my best:

The US is an increasingly diverse modern nation-state, measure by many different means.

So this lack homogeneity will affect us is many ways, some not predictable, but in the field of politics I think it is safe to say that national political parties can no longer be so monolithic as we imagine they have been the past century and half (i.e., since the Civil War.)

A nation as large as ours really calls out for a multi-party political hierarchy, but our tradition keeps trying to enforce a two-party solution.

Personally I am more concerned, given my age, with Social Security, retirement funds, Medicare, and the like. Maybe if a political party only concentrated on those issues some broad majority could be formed across our society. The Democratic Party sort of, kind of, does that today but it is easy to see the Democratic Party split on foreign policy issues and on crime issues.

That Drumpfskind has succeeded in making this year’s election about how anti-free-trade a candidate can be foretells a future where protectionism could be the #1 issue, should another Great Recession occur.

I am convinced the single biggest electoral reform we need is to introduce proportional representation to Congressional elections to break the two party monopoly on power, end the gridlock in Washington and get people to believe in democratic government again. I paged it a couple of weeks ago.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:27:02pm

re: #410 Jack Burton

I’m positive to many of his ideas too, but it’s not just his crazy followers that are a turn off, it’s his “Underpants Gnomes” plan to make his agenda happen that is a HUGE turn off for me.

Exactly. I know politicians lie and exaggerate. But, please, give me enough reality to believe your bullshit is somewhat, even a smidgen, possible. Lay in the bullshit too thick and all you get from me is eye rolls.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:28:28pm

re: #428 Mattand

I got into it with a B-Bro at Gawker or Kotaku, forget which. Full on “If I don’t get what I want, I’ll do everything I can to fuck over Clinton and the Dems”; and then got angry when I called him an entitled nihlist.

You might have been too kind. I would likely have called this idiot a Republican.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:28:54pm

Puppy Day, you say? Allow my goofy boy to get into the act, then.

Happy Puppy Day from Scout!
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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:30:25pm

re: #415 CuriousLurker

LOLOLOL

Inorite?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:31:28pm
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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:32:57pm

Far more people have been killed in Yemen than in Belgium, but American media and demagogues don’t seem so concerned about Arabs and Muslims dying.

I wonder why?

UN Envoy Announces Cease-Fire in Yemen on April 10

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:33:19pm

re: #429 Big Beautiful Door

I am convinced the single biggest electoral reform we need is to introduce proportional representation to Congressional elections to break the two party monopoly on power, end the gridlock in Washington and get people to believe in democratic government again. I paged it a couple of weeks ago.

littlegreenfootballs.com

I was talking to a coworker about the fact that we are a two party system, and how we’re different than other countries, even those with winner-take-all systems. And I just thought of why we’re that way: Fixed election schedules for different offices that overlap. Since the president, senators, and representatives are elected on different schedules, you really can’t have a third party in power at any one level without some support at other levels. And that’s hard to do with office holders not changing at the same time.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:33:59pm

I am disappointed to see from the reviews it looks like Batman v. Superman blows, though I was kind of guessing that from the trailers. Hope the same isn’t true of Captain America. Though the next comic book movie I’m really looking forward to is Suicide Squad.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:34:08pm
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Unabogie  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:34:26pm

re: #430 MsJ

Exactly. I know politicians lie and exaggerate. But, please, give me enough reality to believe your bullshit is somewhat, even a smidgen, possible. Lay in the bullshit too thick and all you get from me is eye rolls.

I agree with the concept of a single payer system, but a realistic plan to get there would be one in which the new system was phased in over several years if not decades. It would start with opening Medicare to younger enrollees, one year for every year younger. It wouldn’t seek to put millions of health insurance workers out of work, and it should be voluntary so that people who currently have great plans won’t turn into losers and undercut the program.

It should be the kind of program that has economists all nodding their heads and saying “Yep, this is thought through. These numbers add up.” For an example of this, look at the ACA. Positive CBO scores were a feature not a bug, and it shows the difference between a serious policy proposal and a pipe dream.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:35:14pm

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:35:38pm

And I wasn’t very tolerant of morons to start with.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:36:03pm

re: #440 Charles Johnson

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

You’re not the only one, I assure you.

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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:37:06pm

Read this with Ted Cruz’s fantasies of carpet bombing in mind:

Airstrike destroys 2.5 million-egg hatchery in Yemen amid fears of famine

A bombed chicken farm, destroying a 2.5-million egg hatchery, has led to alarming warnings of an impending famine in Yemen as food supplies are increasingly a target.

Coastal fishing boats have also been destroyed, crippling the fishing industry, as the conflict in the Middle East nation spills into a second year and shows few signs of abating.

[…]

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:37:07pm

re: #440 Charles Johnson

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

It’s really not a bad trait to develop.

I’ve been there for a while now, cranky old man that I am

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:37:15pm

re: #441 Charles Johnson

And I wasn’t very tolerant of morons to start with.

They are so much harder to ignore now thanks to social media.

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:37:40pm

re: #418 MsJ

It really angers me. She’s going to be just fine. Like my other kids (except Olivia, whom we got as a baby), she just needs a loving home and food safety.

My friend runs a 501c3 and I get emails every day from all around the Midwest. Hundreds of dogs every week that need a home. Black doge die most often. Some areas prefer certain types of dogs (rural GA can place pitties but not labs). It kills me. I want to save them all.

I damn near adopted a little guy a fried is fostering last week. Like your new girl, he’s terribly shy and spooky, though he was accepting scritches from me before I left. He keeps getting left behind at adoption days because of it. I know he’ll be a wonderful, loving kid in a love filled forever home. Killed me to not bring him home but I can’t do that now will an elderly, blind and senile spaniel - I swear that old boy is gonna outlive all of us.

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:38:01pm

re: #437 Big Beautiful Door

I am disappointed to see from the reviews it looks like Batman v. Superman blows, though I was kind of guessing that from the trailers. Hope the same isn’t true of Captain America. Though the next comic book movie I’m really looking forward to is Suicide Squad.

I suspect Batman/Superman suffers because they tried to put two story lines together that I didn’t think would mesh, in part because the comics never fleshed it out properly.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:38:48pm

Instagram

i’ve been weaseling treats out of the humans with my good looks since the beginning #nationalpuppyday #cutedog #maymo

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:39:02pm

re: #440 Charles Johnson

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

Hasn’t been much of a change for me over the years. Low tolerance then, low tolerance now, although I think I’m a bit better at distinguishing miscommunications vs. willful stupidity.

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Jason Munro  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:40:10pm

re: #246 No Country For Old Haters

I don’t social media, heck I can barely bring myself to post a comment on a blog, but I’m _so_ glad you do. As someone who gets a filtered version of twitter from the LGF comment section, more often than not your direct (yet thoughtful!) responses to inanity are spot on. Thank you!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:40:17pm

re: #432 makeitstop

Puppy Day, you say? Allow my goofy boy to get into the act, then.

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Opportunity for me to bring back Scout’s actual puppy picture!!!

Scout
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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:40:56pm

re: #351 MsJ

Thanks - and what a cutie patootie!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:41:29pm

This was a pic of Chewie the rescue had up on their page. In 2002 he was 18ish months old when this was taken. And only 65 lbs. He really wasn’t adjusting to life in a kennel. I’m glad I found him when I did. He had a good run with me for 12 years. It’ll be coming up on 3 years in a few months since I had to put him down. I still come home some days expecting to see him in his spot. Miss that big lug!

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:41:52pm

re: #437 Big Beautiful Door

I am disappointed to see from the reviews it looks like Batman v. Superman blows, though I was kind of guessing that from the trailers. Hope the same isn’t true of Captain America. Though the next comic book movie I’m really looking forward to is Suicide Squad.

It’s probably my Marvel/DC bias showing, but there is no way that Civil War is going to suck anywhere as much as Batman v Superman appears to.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:42:20pm

re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth

Opportunity for me to bring back Scout’s actual puppy picture!!!

Image: Scout

My wife and I are thrilled that you posted that pic.

Scout’s sleeping, so he’s like all meh.

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:42:41pm

re: #440 Charles Johnson

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

Word.

I’m starting to have that problem when the subject of the modern GOP comes up. When it comes to who people vote for, I’ve lately been using the statement

“If you’re going to support the GOP, you may as well support ISIS. Both want to fuck over the US to get what they want, but at least ISIS is up front about it.”

I just don’t give a fuck anymore. I’m so sick of people pretending there isn’t a serious fucking problem with one of our two dominant political parties; retreating into that asinine “They’re both just as bad” shit.

In my mind, not supporting the party that’s attracting white supremacists should be a no-brainer. But I’m weird like that.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:42:51pm

re: #447 Belafon

I suspect Batman/Superman suffers because they tried to put two story lines together that I didn’t think would mesh, in part because the comics never fleshed it out properly.

Marvel seems to be so much better at making movies out of their franchises than DC is that it isn’t even funny.

Plus Batman vs. Superman is one of the most difficult stories to write in all of comics, if you want it to be any good.

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Unabogie  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:42:51pm

And while we’re talking puppies…

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:42:54pm

re: #440 Charles Johnson

I notice that I’m getting much less tolerant of morons as I get older.

You can lead an ass to water, but you can’t make them drink!

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:43:37pm

re: #444 makeitstop

It’s really not a bad trait to develop.

I’ve been there for a while now, cranky old man that I am

Cranky old men crank it up!

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Mattand  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:43:43pm

re: #447 Belafon

I suspect Batman/Superman suffers because they tried to put two story lines together that I didn’t think would mesh, in part because the comics never fleshed it out properly.

It also suffers from Zack Snyder completely not understanding the concept of Superman, and turning him into an emo demigod.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:43:50pm

Did somebody say puppies?

Hey, nice headrest!
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freetoken  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:45:32pm

Google, which is making an art out of messing with peoples’ habits, strikes again:

Google Ditching Chrome App Launcher

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Belafon  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:45:50pm

re: #457 EPR-radar

Marvel seems to be so much better at making movies out of their franchises than DC is that it isn’t even funny.

Plus Batman vs. Superman is one of the most difficult stories to write in all of comics, if you want it to be any good.

Agree. But the thing is, DC has a template: The Justice League cartoon from the early 2000s. They could update a few things, but go off of that. It was a really good series.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:46:00pm

re: #462 Blind Frog Belly White

Rescued greyhounds?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:46:10pm

This was his spot in the kitchen bay window. :)))

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:46:39pm

re: #462 Blind Frog Belly White

Greyhounds? And you only have 2?!?!

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:47:14pm

re: #466 GlutenFreeJesus

What a sweet baby.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:47:17pm

re: #366 MsJ

I might have just fallen in love with her.

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plansbandc  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:47:46pm

re: #408 Big Beautiful Door

Aww. What a sweet wiener!

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:47:58pm

re: #460 ObserverArt

Cranky old men crank it up!

Hey, speaking of which…

I picked this up in a trade a couple of weeks ago. I had to buy most of the electronics and wire it up, but it cranks pretty good.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:48:35pm

re: #465 MsJ

Rescued greyhounds?

Yup. Got each one at 3 years old. The older one (white mask) washed out of racing school - just not competitive enough. They younger one won ONE race out of a number of starts - an undistinguished career.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:48:35pm

re: #462 Blind Frog Belly White

Did somebody say puppies?

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Hey…it’s the nose doggies.

We need b-sharp to drop by with a new image of his buddy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:49:05pm

re: #467 GlutenFreeJesus

Greyhounds? And you only have 2?!?!

Mrs. FBW insists the next dog MUST be a Golden Retriever.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:49:43pm

re: #456 Mattand

Driftglass recently nailed both-siderism brilliantly in response to an especially offensive David Brooks column.driftglass.blogspot.com

A sample

In their Left hand, they bore a strange Shield inscribed with the most potent Beltway magic conjure words of all: “Both Sides…”. It was thin and frail-looking, but had been so cunningly fitted together by the wealthiest artisans of the Beltway out of bits of “The extremes on the Right and the Left” and “If only Barack Obama would lead” that it easily deflected any payload of reality or reason no matter how powerful or sturdily constructed. With it they flicked away all criticism , appeals to reason, and general dumbfoundedness at the bullshit they believed, just as they had been taught to do by David and the Other David and the Other Other David and the Other Other Other David and Ron and Good Ol’ Joe and the Other Joe and Cokie and Mark and Tom and Pickled Peggy and Ramesh and Kathleen and Chuck and Hugh and Ross and Newt! and Every Single Fucking Mealworm Employed By The No Labels Scam and on and on and on and on and on.

“The Kenyan Usurper is the Divider in Chief and Libruls are the real racists!” they roared, and on they came.

Precisely as predicted here in the more rustic precincts of the despised and rebuked Left, Trump rose from the filthy, fertile breeding ground the Republican party has spend the last 20 years composting with fear and loathing and money.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:50:44pm

re: #472 Blind Frog Belly White

Yup. Got each one at 3 years old. The older one (white mask) washed out of racing school - just not competitive enough. They younger one won ONE race out of a number of starts - an undistinguished career.

Are they as laid back and lazy as I’ve been told? I hate racing, especially when I found out what they do to them once they no longer can race.

I hate people sometimes.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:51:31pm

re: #476 MsJ

They will sleep/lounge around for 18 hours a day if you let them. And they won’t complain. :)

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:52:12pm

re: #450 Jason Munro

Thank you. You’re very kind.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:53:15pm

re: #475 EPR-radar

Driftglass recently nailed both-siderism brilliantly in response to an especially offensive David Brooks column.driftglass.blogspot.com

A sample

As good as Drifty always is (he’s my only other daily read besides LGF), that post was one of his absolute best.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:54:40pm

re: #476 MsJ

Are they as laid back and lazy as I’ve been told? I hate racing, especially when I found out what they do to them once they no longer can race.

I hate people sometimes.

Lazy, yes. Give ‘em one 20-40 minute walk a day and they’re good. Rango (the younger one) is very active for a Greyhound. I call him the “World’s Laziest Border Collie, On Quaaludes”.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:54:56pm

re: #392 MsJ

That’s awesome -she’s a lucky girl! And she will know you saved her, too.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:55:31pm

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:56:30pm

re: #454 withak

It’s probably my Marvel/DC bias showing, but there is no way that Civil War is going to suck anywhere as much as Batman v Superman appears to.

I have The Dark Knight Returns which is a great graphic novel that they appear to have borrowed from heavily for the fight between Batman and Superman but I guess the resemblance ends there. It looks like an animated film based on the novel is available I think on HBO, so I may check that out.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:57:37pm

re: #477 GlutenFreeJesus

They will sleep/lounge around for 18 hours a day if you let them. And they won’t complain. :)

I’d take that!

As I get older I find I can’t pick up the big dogs as I used to be able to. I’m worried if something happens and I need to race off to the vet I won’t be able to get the pooch into the car. Now, 45 lbs is my max. Most of my kids are under 25.

Roma is 85 lbs. She’s my old girl. We had to take her to the vet last Easter Sunday and hubby had a hard time picking her up. Poor thing was in agony. I wouldn’t have been able to do it myself. I used to be able to pick her up but I can’t any longer. That’s my biggest fear, not being able to care for them properly.

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EPR-radar  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:58:01pm

re: #482 Eric The Fruit Bat

That kitty looks like he’s plotting something —- most likely your messy demise.

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BeachDem  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:58:46pm

re: #355 Backwoods_Sleuth

And there will be no “defeat” of Bernie Sanders in the primary because if he loses it will be because it was stolen from him as a result of voter suppression and fraud and cheating by Hillary and DWS and whatever else the extreme berners can come up with.

And because southern states got to vote, and because early voters didn’t know enough about him to feel the bern, and because if you lose by a few points it’s really a tie but if you win by a few points it’s a game-changer, and because he went 24 hours one time without access to the DEMOCRATIC party database (because his side cheated) and because Hillary people infiltrated his campaign in North and South Carolina—I just heard that one the other day, and I know for a fact, that it did not happen here. In fact, there was one Hillary field director who got let go, and who didn’t turn over all of his contact info/paperwork and went to work for the Bernie campaign 2 days later.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 5:59:20pm

re: #471 makeitstop

Hey, speaking of which…

I picked this up in a trade a couple of weeks ago. I had to buy most of the electronics and wire it up, but it cranks pretty good.

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Ohhh…that’s the Paul Reed Smith you put back together. Nice. What make is that bridge pickup? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like that before. Is that a PRS original to the guitar or some kind of a DiMarzio???

Looks like the body and neck are nice, and anything can be fixed up from there.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:00:25pm

re: #397 Mattand

I love goofball dogs, even though they can be frustrating sometimes. I’m sure he was thinking “OK OK I got up already! I’m not going to STAY up!”

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:00:33pm

re: #454 withak

Until Ms. Marvel and Doctor Who, I was never into comics.

But, Marvel, their CEO not withstanding, seems to be more competent than DC. Especially because Marvel is avoiding the Grimdark that DC seems to love.

Which is why Batman v. Superman will like suck.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:01:14pm

re: #483 Big Beautiful Door

I have The Dark Knight Returns which is a great graphic novel that they appear to have borrowed from heavily for the fight between Batman and Superman but I guess the resemblance ends there.

I’ve learned from Kevin Smith’s podcasts that once you write a story for DC (or Marvel, or any other entertainment franchise), they can use whatever you wrote, however they see fit, because you’ve used their characters, which they own.

So, if they want to take 50% of Frank Miller’s story, and add in scenes from something written by Scott Snyder, and pull shots from Jim Lee or Greg Capullo, they’re free to mix and match any way they want. Nothing is sacred. Once it’s on paper, it’s just moving parts.

This probably isn’t news, and it’s not really surprising if you think about it, but it’s still odd to think they could rework Frank Miller so hard that you’d never know it was his story in the first place.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:01:33pm

re: #482 Eric The Fruit Bat

Good luck.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:02:27pm

re: #485 EPR-radar

That kitty looks like he’s plotting something —- most likely your messy demise.

He’s Stewie!

Stewie was the reason I never had kids. My parents cursed me (I hope your kids are just like you!), so tempting fate was not a good idea. I just knew if I had kids they’d be plotting to kill me. Just like Lois.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:03:32pm

re: #484 MsJ

That was an issue I had with Chewie when his hips started failing. 105 lbs of fur and squirm. I ended up getting him a sling and it helped a lot. But ultimately, when the time came, the mobile vet was the answer.

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:03:44pm

re: #408 Big Beautiful Door

Not everyone can pull off a pink cowboy hat!

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:05:52pm

re: #489 Ziggy_TARDIS

Until Ms. Marvel and Doctor Who, I was never into comics.

But, Marvel, their CEO not withstanding, seems to be more competent than DC. Especially because Marvel is avoiding the Grimdark that DC seems to love.

Which is why Batman v. Superman will like suck.

Perlmutter is a dick, to be sure, but I can’t get too excited about that, given how diverse and liberal-minded the books themselves seem to be nowadays. Hell, they brought in Ta-Nehisi Coates to write on Black Panther.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:06:34pm

re: #471 makeitstop

Hey, speaking of which…

I picked this up in a trade a couple of weeks ago. I had to buy most of the electronics and wire it up, but it cranks pretty good.

Embedded Image

Nice. PRS?

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:08:47pm

re: #432 makeitstop

One flopped ear and side-tongue! It’s always charming!

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allegro  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:09:56pm

re: #426 withak

Fair enough — and no, I’m not that old. I started following the Vikings in the 90s.

Betcha know Fran Tarkenton though, hubby’s QB whose ass he tried to keep off the ground. Got to meet him a couple of times at reunion things. Great guy.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:10:08pm

re: #487 ObserverArt

Ohhh…that’s the Paul Reed Smith you put back together. Nice. What make is that bridge pickup? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like that before. Is that a PRS original to the guitar or some kind of a DiMarzio???

Looks like the body and neck are nice, and anything can be fixed up from there.

It’s a Railhammer Anvil. I’d heard about them for a while, and it (along with a volume control) was the only electronics in the guitar. It’s like a humbucker, but it’s super-responsive and articulate and cleans up very nicely.

The neck pickup is a humbucker-sized P-90 from a company called Guitar Fetish. Between the two, the guitar covers a lot of ground tone-wise.

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retired cynic  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:11:07pm

re: #392 MsJ

They wanted to kill her yesterday because she’s scared shitless and “doesn’t show well”. I got a rescue to pull her. They’re spaying and shoting her now and she’ll be in a foster home until their next scheduled transport date next week.

We had a dumped male (bigger, but otherwise looked almost the same), and he was aggressive. However, he became my husband’s devoted companion, and a great protective farm dog until he died on the road. Long story.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:11:43pm

re: #496 William Lewis

Nice. PRS?

Yeah, a Clint Lowery signature model (he’s in Sevendust). Nice guitar, and it only cost me a Mexican Strat. :)

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:12:09pm

re: #498 allegro

Betcha know Fran Tarkenton though, hubby’s QB whose ass he tried to keep off the ground. Got to meet him a couple of times at reunion things. Great guy.

Of course! Love Fran. Don’t always agree with him, but certainly respect his opinions.

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MsJ  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:13:01pm

re: #493 GlutenFreeJesus

That was an issue I had with Chewie when his hips started failing. 105 lbs of fur and squirm. I ended up getting him a sling and it helped a lot. But ultimately, when the time came, the mobile vet was the answer.

A sling is a really good idea. I’m going to get something. If I had some leverage I might still be able to handle her. Thank you!

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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:13:35pm

re: #448 Charles Johnson

I started following Maymo after the first one you posted.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:14:33pm

re: #501 makeitstop

Looks like you got a good one there. Those GFS P90’s are supposed to be quite good and I’ve been tempted by Railhammer in the past. I’m trying to sell my Epiphone G400 right now but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Might just have to get a pair of those P90’s and see if that’s more my style :)

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:15:56pm

re: #505 William Lewis

Looks like you got a good one there. Those GFS P90’s are supposed to be quite good and I’ve been tempted by Railhammer in the past. I’m trying to sell my Epiphone G400 right now but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Might just have to get a pair of those P90’s and see if that’s more my style :)

They sound, to borrow a buzzword, yoooge. I use the Dream 90s, but they make a hotter version called the Mean 90 that supposedly really bark.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:16:52pm

re: #499 makeitstop

It’s a Railhammer Anvil. I’d heard about them for a while, and it (along with a volume control) was the only electronics in the guitar. It’s like a humbucker, but it’s super-responsive and articulate and cleans up very nicely.

The neck pickup is a humbucker-sized P-90 from a company called Guitar Fetish. Between the two, the guitar covers a lot of ground tone-wise.

Never heard of a Railhammer. Thanks for the link and info.

Some of those Guitar Fetish pickups look good too. I’m checking out their site. Good prices on some of their Tele models. I have two of the Heritage Tele models. The rosewood neck with tortoise shell pickguard model needs a change from the originals. If I can ever find the bucks, I might have to buy a couple.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:18:06pm

re: #505 William Lewis

And P-90s in an SG change the whole sound of the guitar. Think Live At Leeds or the first Santana album.

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makeitstop  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:19:34pm

re: #507 ObserverArt

Never heard of a Railhammer. Thanks for the link and info.

Some of those Guitar Fetish pickups look good too. I’m checking out their site. Good prices on some of their Tele models. I have two of the Heritage Tele models. The rosewood neck with tortoise shell pickguard model needs a change from the originals. If I can ever find the bucks, I might have to buy a couple.

I’ve got GFS pickups in a couple of my Teles. Their Vintage 50s set sounds real good. And you can’t argue with the price.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:19:52pm

re: #495 withak

I have sort of the same thing with Perlmutter.

DC is just so dark and depressing, who the hell wants to read or see that? It’s why I am holding off on the Game of Thrones series (TV and Books) until I have an idea what the resolution is.

It’s doesn’t need a happy ending, Doctor Who hasn’t had many, and the Final Fantasy endings can be best described as Pyrrhic Victories, but there has to be some sense of hope at the end.

And Game of Thrones seems to be going down the road of Everyone’s dead.

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ObserverArt  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:22:41pm

re: #509 makeitstop

I’ve got GFS pickups in a couple of my Teles. Their Vintage 50s set sounds real good. And you can’t argue with the price.

I think I need to go play mine a bit right now. Maybe a bit of tapping on the drums for a quick workout too.

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William Lewis  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:22:58pm

re: #508 makeitstop

And P-90s in an SG change the whole sound of the guitar. Think Live At Leeds or the first Santana album.

Yep, “Live” is part of it. I’m also getting really hip on the P90 sound from my Casino Coupe.

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withak  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:23:30pm

re: #510 Ziggy_TARDIS

I have sort of the same thing with Perlmutter.

DC is just so dark and depressing, who the hell wants to read or see that? It’s why I am holding off on the Game of Thrones series (TV and Books) until I have an idea what the resolution is.

It’s doesn’t need a happy ending, Doctor Who hasn’t had many, and the Final Fantasy endings can be best described as Pyrrhic Victories, but there has to be some sense of hope at the end.

And Game of Thrones seems to be going down the road of Everyone’s dead.

I have enjoyed the Game of Thrones books, but yeah, the Everyone You Like Dies approach is depressing. I haven’t watched much of the show for the same reason, but now that the show is getting ahead of the books, plot-wise, I may not have much of a choice.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:33:43pm

re: #513 withak

And, again, it isn’t like I am asking for Happy Endings, just hope.

Let’s go through 4 Examples Above:

Final Fantasy 7: I can go into the compilation later (opinion towards the side games has gotten much better recently), but the main game ends with Sephiroth Dead, Meteor Destroyed, and the deaths of most of the Sinra Execs. But on the flip side, Midgar was destroyed, Junon suffered many deaths in the Weapon attack, and Aerith is Dead.

Final Fantasy 8: Ultimecia is deafeated, and but Galbadia is left without a head of Government, with one restive territory within the nation, and Dollet pissed at its borders. Esthar is struggling with a monster infestation, and Trabia Garden is destroyed. And because of the Destiny Trap, Ultimecia will come to power, no matter what.

Final Fantasy 10: Its sequel is for another time, but Sin dies. Unfortunately, Kilika is destroyed, along with the crusaders. Part of Bevelle was flattened by Sin, the Al Bhed’s home is destroyed in an act of genocide, and many Ronso are killed. Also, Auron passes on, and Tidus fades from existence.

Doctor Who: So many companion left and lost, and so many dead, it doesn’t need to be stated to much, though the end of the Doctor-Clara era was heartbreaking in so many ways.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 23, 2016 • 6:59:29pm

re: #492 MsJ

Actually, his name is Ozzie-he was a rescue I picked up when the local rescue organization stopped by our corporate headquarters one day. He was declawed and 3 years old-his breeder was in Iowa-I actually sent the breeder a picture of him last year letting him know of how I came to be his servant. The breeder was somewhat surprised but happy he has a nice forever home.

Every now and then he’ll flop himself on the second-highest spot of the 7-foot cat tree I have in the corner of the living room. I’ll see if I can snap a pix of him doing that.

Don’t know how many more years I’ll have with the old boy, this is usually the age where kidney problems start to kick in with Persians and Himalayans-Minuet, my Himalayan Seal Point who I had to put down before I moved in 2008 lived to 16. So knock on wood….

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Great White Snark  Mar 23, 2016 • 7:21:41pm

re: #498 allegro

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 23, 2016 • 9:13:24pm

re: #201 calochortus

When we discontinued our DirecTV the wouldn’t take the box or the dish back. I had to figure out how to dispose of them properly.

Often they can be re-purposed by some clever sat TV hacker. (aka signal pirate)


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