New From Keith Olbermann: The Crisis of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories
These fantastical lies are more than delusional, they’re dangerous
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Made it back from town.
The cat loves the LIttle Green Footballs brand diabetic cat food, so I guess we’ll be purchasing more of it. /s
My Parks Canada and Canadian insurance cards both arrived in the mail today, so we’re ready to roll.
We also supported the local Mexican restaurant (since we didn’t get our taco trucks, darn it).
Tossed a bunch of money at the butcher shop, and a little less at the pharmacist.
Now back to your regularly scheduled political blog.
GOP Sen. who’s blocking Rx drug monitoring in Missouri: When people OD, ‘it just removes them from the gene pool’ https://t.co/TrV27zilDs pic.twitter.com/Q1virfYY5H
— Stephanie Simon (@StephanieSimon_) March 7, 2017
re: #2 MsJ
These guys really are out to kill us, aren’t they?
Well, I went to vote when I finished work. My polling station in Los Angeles handles four precincts. After I cast my ballot, I asked the clerks how many people voted as of 515 PM in my precinct…
The reply…
14…
Depressing…
re: #2 MsJ
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As someone who studied the 1933-1945 era in Germany, all too familiar…
Bill O’Reilly: Congress must investigate Obama for subversion https://t.co/t0Ph7WLrWb
— Media Matters (@mmfa) March 8, 2017
Mostly failed author trying his schtick one more time….
Reviews of The #BenedictOption coming in. Good (not uncritical) stuff from @PatrickDeneen and @russellafox9 here: https://t.co/mPVWFzdZ3I
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) March 8, 2017
re: #4 Skip Intro
Another wingnut doctor.
Almost seems as if this guy is running his own pill mill and he doesn’t want too close scrutiny - it would be irresponsible not to speculate.
re: #9 Scottish Dragon
Holy shit. Now it is beginning.
Bring it on! Obama is the perfect enemy for Trump, and quite capable — not mention motivated — of eating him for lunch and spitting the bones all over Pence, McConnell & Ryan. If there is one single stupid move I’d like to see Fox & the Trumps make, it’s to bring Obama out of retirement.
@mmfa Trump has launched a huge right wing fake outrage meme, and now O’Reilly is co-signing. .@voicefeed
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 8, 2017
FOX News Channel tried to draw a collusion link between the fake idea that Barack Obama ordered some secret wiretap on Donald Trump and passed that information along to Hillary Clinton during her campaign (Bill O is not the only guy wanting to jail the opposition, and not just Mr. Obama).
The source for the “story?” Gateway Pundit, AKA Jim Hoft, AKA the Stupidest Man on the Internet.
FOX and Friends was interviewing Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook and tried to back him into a corner claiming Hillary Clinton knew about a secret wiretap during the campaign.
Wonkette writes it up in their usual NSFW snarky style.
re: #13 petesh
Bring it on! Obama is the perfect enemy for Trump, and quite capable — not mention motivated — of eating him for lunch and spitting the bones all over Pence, McConnell & Ryan. If there is one single stupid move I’d like to see Fox & the Trumps make, it’s to bring Obama out of retirement.
I like your attitude here…but Obama is not a street fighter. He never has been.
What concerns me is that with a major wingnut cable talking head now calling for this, it is going to spread and we will see democrats of all sorts from the Obama admin brought into the new McCarthy hearings and also attempts to jail dissidents. This is where the actual witch trials start.
Trump already accused Obama of being behind the protests. Watch and see if AG Sessions goes after protests, BLM and others in criminal investigations and use RICO to bankrupt anybody associated.
re: #17 Scottish Dragon
Trump already accused Obama of being behind the protests. Watch and see if AG Sessions goes after protests, BLM and others in criminal investigations and use RICO to bankrupt anybody associated.
Hence my Parks Canada pass. I have a place to live.
BREAKING NEWS: Comey announces that Vince Foster’s ashes have been discovered in Hillary Clinton’s private email server.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 29, 2016
re: #16 Scottish Dragon
I like your attitude here…but Obama is not a street fighter. He never has been.
What concerns me is that with a major wingnut cable talking head now calling for this, it is going to spread and we will see democrats of all sorts from the Obama admin brought into the new McCarthy hearings and also attempts to jail dissidents. This is where the actual witch trials start.
Hang on now. They also said they were going to investigate Hillary - again - for her email server… Which has not come to pass. They are all bullshit talk and bluster.
Don’t sweat it yet.
re: #7 Teukka
As someone who studied the 1933-1945 era in Germany, all too familiar…
Eugenics, it’s always their base position.
Whats sad: if GOP succeeds in plunging us back into pre-ACA insurance market, they will blame the nightmares on ACA. And fools will believe.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 7, 2017
I’m sorry he didn’t hit a moose instead.
Feel bad about the deer who dashed in front of my truck. The Ford F-150 won.
— Jason Chaffetz (@jasoninthehouse) April 14, 2010
Jason Chaffetz is the kind of guy who hits a deer with his car and feels tough. Toxic masculinity is a hell of a drug https://t.co/VETrhMBpsL
— Erika Heidewald 🗽 (@erikaheidewald) March 8, 2017
Ah, rural life.
Calves have a tendency to chase our car (I guess it is so small they figure they can take it in a fight). Usually they are in a fenced pasture when they do it.
Coming home from town a half-dozen calves came stampeding out of a driveway (which did not have a cattle guard because Bill Clinton fired them all) into the road in front of us. Good thing Smart cars have good brakes.
Drove a 360 in the road and then into the driveway, and all the calves followed our car up to the rancher’s house.
Didn’t get a wrangling reward. Perhaps this could be a business model though.
re: #22 Sherlock Hound
A few years ago my dad hit a doe with his Grand Marquis. There was very little damage to the car. Ford vehicles are tougher than they look.
re: #13 petesh
Bring it on! Obama is the perfect enemy for Trump, and quite capable — not mention motivated — of eating him for lunch and spitting the bones all over Pence, McConnell & Ryan. If there is one single stupid move I’d like to see Fox & the Trumps make, it’s to bring Obama out of retirement.
Damn straight.
Imagine the legal team he could bring in and lead. The greatest liberal legal minds in the country would probably sign on for the chance to go after both Trump and the modern Republican party.
Obama in a courtroom would be way worse than Trump’s worst nightmare. Hopefully no one will be able to talk him out of it.
re: #24 PhillyPretzel
A few years ago my dad hit a doe with his Grand Marquis. There was very little damage to the car. Ford vehicles are tougher than they look.
Two years ago we hit a buck with our Smart at sixty miles per hour. No damage to the Smart but the deer was totalled. (We took the car to the dealer for a stem-to-stern inspection, they could find no damage at all.)
Ruh roh: “Trump campaign approved adviser’s trip to Moscow” https://t.co/MnVdqXGaTF
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) March 7, 2017
Dad always had a knack of killing a deer with his car. While his pals would be on their annual Western Pennsylvania Deer Hunt, Dad drives through Raccoon Creek State Park and nails the deer with his car while none of his pals bagged one when they hunted. They always goofed on Dad and his magic touch…
re: #20 FormerDirtDart
Eugenics, it’s always their base position.
The health plan is coming in three phases, remember?
Phase 1: thin the herd
Phase 2: thin it some more
Phase 3: reward the survivors
re: #24 PhillyPretzel
I few years ago my dad hit a doe with his Grand Marquis. There was very little damage to the car. Ford vehicles are tougher than they look.
When I was a kid, my uncle hit a buck with a ‘53 Cadillac. The whole family got venison, the Caddy got a busted headlight. Those cars were tough.
Q from @HallieJackson: Why would Trump ask Congress to investigate for info he *already* claims to have—about Obama ordering him wiretapped? pic.twitter.com/mwbfeZ2ykg
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) March 7, 2017
Moment of the day —> https://t.co/ESagcnftto
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) March 8, 2017
Obama, aside to the press, while out kite-surf-golfing with George Clooney or whatever:
“I’m not President anymore. It’s kind of funny that I’m still living inside Donald’s head. Isn’t a nice day out?”
Jason Chaffetz doesn’t know:
•What healthcare costs
•What an iPhone costs
•Anything
Oh, wait I forgot to make this a poll.— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 7, 2017
Obamacare vs Trumpcare pic.twitter.com/7Anuzja732
— Frankly My Dear … (@goddamnedfrank) March 8, 2017
From a fake Donald Trump Twitter account, but the meme is good.
From the “convert your iPhones to health insurance” party:
Thank you Middle Class for #MAGA by offsetting costs thru sacrificing your cellphones so you can almost pay for a month or so of #Trumpcare! pic.twitter.com/PV78shWk1l
— Donald J. Trump (@FantasticPOTUS) March 7, 2017
re: #29 Joe Bacon
Dad always had a knack of killing a deer with his car. While his pals would be on their annual Western Pennsylvania Deer Hunt, Dad drives through Raccoon Creek State Park and nails the deer with his car while none of his pals bagged one when they hunted. They always goofed on Dad and his magic touch…
When we were looking for a place to live in Nebraska, we were sitting in a restaurant in Valentine early in the morning getting breakfast.
A table of hunters next to us were in a discussion about their morning hunt (turned up nada), and one of the hunters noted a few days before his daughter had just purchased a $75 beater car, and totalled it hitting a deer the same day.
(My guess would be buying a beater is cheaper than all that hunting gear and guns.)
re: #36 Anymouse
I rather keep my cell phone.
re: #38 PhillyPretzel
I rather keep my cell phone.
I don’t have one of those. Do I get health insurance? /s
(Actually I have it due to military service, but the GOP is working on whacking away at that by raising co-pays to the point where it isn’t insurance at all.)
For your entertainment and necessary escapist pleasure… Just finished watching The Night Manager on Prime. From a John Le Carre novel, with Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie. Is REAL good.
Tom Hiddleston (Loki in Thor and the Avengers) has approached Benedict Cumberbatch for me as one of the most talented and to-watch-for actors, as in whatever he does now, I wanna see it and know I will not be disappointed. He was phenomenal as Henry V in The Hollow Crown with the most natural delivery of Shakespearean dialogue I have ever heard.
Mexican Press group supporting the US press:
Incredible letter to the US press from Mexican writers and journalists. https://t.co/ZoLxNRpd9o pic.twitter.com/HwFDpqxOHe
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) March 7, 2017
To fund border wall, Trump administration weighs cuts to Coast Guard and airport security https://t.co/klPoDEnJPu
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) March 7, 2017
Trump is going to cut airport security to pay for the damn wall. Are you freaking kidding me? https://t.co/0ceF24g8s6
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) March 8, 2017
This is how bad it’s getting. The US is in the hands of delusional crackpots. @aravosis https://t.co/EeaydWTSRP
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 8, 2017
The GOP way: take apart what is working to replace it with chewed up gum balls.
Actual conversation on another site when a conservative announced she was disappointed that the healthcare bill didn’t include buying policies across state lines:
Me: So you favor the erosion of a state’s right regulate insurance appropriate to their residents?
Her: I favor competition in the marketplace. States can regulate their own insurance. Then they can compete with the state next door who gets to do the same thing.
Me: But that’s what happens now. Blue Cross or whomever offers a plan in Nebraska that meets Nebraska’s requirements, and one in Texas that meets Texas requirements and so on.
I await her reply. Which could be a while as people come and go, so many discussions aren’t real-time.
re: #10 Scottish Dragon
Had to do a web search for him as he sounded familiar. Wikipedia filled me in on Mr. Dreher and the ‘Benedict Option’.
If those nuts want to separate themselves from the rest of society I say, “Godspeed.”
has this ever happened before? https://t.co/Em1msXBhzB pic.twitter.com/H5BTCD3JeU
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) March 8, 2017
I think I heard that the soldiers at the Alamo had a little trouble getting Mexican sugar for a while. Maybe then.
Normal governmental functions are shutting down because there’s no one there.
re: #48 allegro
I think I heard that the soldiers at the Alamo had a little trouble getting Mexican sugar for a while. Maybe then.
Stand by for the price of anything with sugar in it to increase.
Then Trump or the GOP blame the Democrats for not confirming the candidates for the Commerce Department that President Bannon hasn’t nominated yet.
Then FOX News blames the Democrats (without mentioning President Bannon didn’t nominate anyone), and folk that only have FOX for television and conservative newspapers then all blame Democrats.
@LShrug @RobertHolzer @commiegirl1 Let’s u be a slave 4 a year, then have medical care for a year, then let us know which you really prefer
— Riggsveda (@Riggsveda) March 7, 2017
House conservatives emerge from meeting suggesting GOP health care bill has serious problems, willl need D support - not theirs - to pass
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 8, 2017
probably not Easy D https://t.co/kuSwJ1FODS
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) March 8, 2017
House conservatives emerge from meeting suggesting GOP health care bill has serious problems, willl need D support - not theirs - to pass
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 8, 2017
That gasping sound you hear is Nancy Pelosi trying to catch her breath and not die from laughter. https://t.co/yYqbMDfvUz
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) March 8, 2017
re: #46 Romantic Heretic
Had to do a web search for him as he sounded familiar. Wikipedia filled me in on Mr. Dreher and the ‘Benedict Option’.
If those nuts want to separate themselves from the rest of society I say, “Godspeed.”
If Dreher really took the Benedict Option, he’d get off Twitter and the Internet altogether, and we wouldn’t have to listen to his drivel.
So, here’s where this is going: Two Russian websites & Milo Yiannopoulos have begun pushing the theory that CIA hacked the Dems. pic.twitter.com/EwaNXn1qmA
— Dell Cameron (@dellcam) March 7, 2017
Statue of girl facing down Wall St bull appears day before #IWD2017 to highlight lack of women on corporate boards. https://t.co/AZRxoskTt8 pic.twitter.com/m35uFEJjRG
— Greg Hogben (@MyDaughtersArmy) March 8, 2017
Do you know who doesn’t have “skin in the game?” Anyone who would rather have the rich get a $600B tax cut than 20M people get insurance.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) March 8, 2017
Price dances around question about provision of contraception and “matters of conscience” pic.twitter.com/1TFHyySfKW
— Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) March 7, 2017
I just don’t get how the medication I use to regulate my period is a matter of conscience for anyone. https://t.co/Wn2EdxBgWo
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) March 7, 2017
.@jasoninthehouse This is my 80 year-old mom Lois, with her iPhone and her oxygen. She has a message for you. pic.twitter.com/PJCRiOT20w
— Adam Carl (@AdamWho) March 7, 2017
re: #58 Anymouse
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“God said women should go to a shed. He didn’t say anything about taking pills.”
re: #61 worldknot
Overlong.
Underproduced.
Don’t miss it.
I don’t get this whole “alt-left” phrase. It sounds more like rodent copulation by the right, to say something to the effect of “see both sides are the same.”
Something I’ve held forth on for a while now:
.@SenTomCotton: “There is no job in America that Americans will not do.” #oreillyfactor pic.twitter.com/AYqBospC5e
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 8, 2017
I can think of one: Mrs. Trump. https://t.co/N4ClJiVEz5
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) March 8, 2017
re: #30 wheat-dogg
The health plan is coming in three phases, remember?
Phase 1: thin the herd
Phase 2: thin it some more
Phase 3: reward the survivors
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
Kaili Joy Gray is having fun with all the Republicans coming out saying they need “Democrat” support to get their “health care” bill passed:
“As things stand now, the speaker’s going to need a lot of Democrat votes to pass” the HC bill. -Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), via @mikedebonis
— Robert Costa (@costareports) March 8, 2017
Aw, man. Now I’m gonna have to stay up all night laughing at every single one of these. And I’m trying to get over a cold! https://t.co/uECOkJgFyR
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) March 8, 2017
re: #13 petesh
And why should President Obama have to defend himself against these ridiculous allegations? Naw. Let Democrats in office handle this. President Obama is not a punching bag. He deserves to enjoy the end of his presidency like all the White presidents. I’m sick of him being dragged through the mud post-presidency. He shouldn’t have to fight with Republicans out of office.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
OH MY GOD IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!! The CIA hacked the DNC and Podesta to hurt Clinton, but made it look like the Russians did it to hurt…Trump.
wait wat
re: #64 Anymouse
Kaili Joy Gray is having fun with all the Republicans coming out saying they need “Democrat” support to get their “health care” bill passed:
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Hell naw.
re: #64 Anymouse
Kaili Joy Gray is having fun with all the Republicans coming out saying they need “Democrat” support to get their “health care” bill passed:
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How much milk can a Dem Congresscritter spew out of their nose when hearing this?
YouTube at 11:00…
re: #55 Charles Johnson
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This makes total sense. CIA was trying to get Trump elected so that they could destroy his presidency. Or something.
re: #37 Anymouse
When we were looking for a place to live in Nebraska, we were sitting in a restaurant in Valentine early in the morning getting breakfast.
A table of hunters next to us were in a discussion about their morning hunt (turned up nada), and one of the hunters noted a few days before his daughter had just purchased a $75 beater car, and totalled it hitting a deer the same day.
(My guess would be buying a beater is cheaper than all that hunting gear and guns.)
If you hit a deer and total the vehicle, odds are the venison is useless because the bones splinter throughout the meat.
Lose-lose situation.
13 shots fired at LGBTQ center in Tulsa: https://t.co/zl4gPMS0Vw pic.twitter.com/abrRPOy6mK
— The Daily Dot (@dailydot) March 8, 2017
@VFW_Vet He’s been on a roll lately calling out trump. He has had enough of the fool.
— Liz Burleson (@igorb4662) March 8, 2017
re: #31 makeitstop
When I was a kid, my uncle hit a buck with a ‘53 Cadillac. The whole family got venison, the Caddy got a busted headlight. Those cars were tough.
Yeah. So tough they often killed the poor individuals inside by either kissing the steering wheel with their chest or putting a head through the front windshield after busting the hard glass. But the car might only have a dented fender.
I’ll never forget and accident that happened on my street when I was around 6 or so. A guy was drunk, ran off the road and hit a telephone pole with the right front fender.
It didn’t appear the accident was even at that high a rate of speed. The driver died from chest trauma from what we heard. The ambulance driver knew my parents and he was also a funereal home director/mortician.
I’ll take today’s car thank you.
re: #53 Anymouse
Before he and a few of his buddies wrote this bill, Ryan already knew he’d have problems getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to vote for it. Now, he needs Dem votes to pass it? The bill is in trouble? This soon? He just released it yesterday! I don’t think he and his buddies, who wrote the bill without input from most members of the House, were prepared for being hit from all sides about the craptastic piece of legislation they wrote as a “replacement” for the PPACA.
re: #71 Interesting Times
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re: #65 Patricia Kayden
And why should President Obama have to defend himself against these ridiculous allegations? Naw. Let Democrats in office handle this. President Obama is not a punching bag. He deserves to enjoy the end of his presidency like all the White presidents. I’m sick of him being dragged through the mud post-presidency. He shouldn’t have to fight with Republicans out of office.
I don’t know. He might actually like kicking Drumpf in the balls in the court of public opinion and make him look ridiculous(er). It would also be an excellent epilogue for his Presidential memoir.
“I thought I was done with Washington, but then the new President sucked me back into the maelstrom with a series of insane accusations.”
re: #71 Interesting Times
Apparently the local FOX station is calling it a BB gun.
Not good nevertheless, you can hurt someone with a BB gun as well.
A pet peeve about the way Daily Dot sometimes writes articles:
A pickup truck shot 13 times at the windows and entrance of the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, frightening the local LGBTQ community, Gayly reports.
Unless Oklahoma is arming pickup trucks now, I’m pretty sure they cannot shoot anything.
@FoxNews @SenTomCotton Obviously Tommy didn’t talk to those farmers in Alabama and Georgia with the rotted crops in their fields
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) March 8, 2017
The local FOX station in Tulsa is calling the shooting “vandalism.”
fox23.com
(more at FOX23 Tulsa):
Police are investigating after someone reportedly vandalized Tulsa’s own Dennis R. Neill Equality center Monday morning.
Toby Jenkins, executive director at the center, says he arrived around 8 a.m. Monday to find a window and door riddled with holes.
Between Snowden, Wikileaks, the willing collaborationists in the Trump group, and opportunistic idiots like O’Reilly, our intelligence community is likely being severely weakened, which is the last thing we need in a new world where cyber crimes and cyber war are taking the place of bombs. I hope there are ways that they can persist and hold out against this increasingly treasonous regime.
re: #71 Interesting Times
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A BB gun? A fully automatic self-loading BB gun? Where can I get one of those? I can put the fear of Dog into the bird-seed eating squirrels denying food- the very stuff of life!- from my avian friends.
re: #62 Anymouse
“”There is no job in America that Americans will not do.”“
Cotton should have become a victim of self-immolation/ instantaneous combustion as soon as he uttered these words. When my state, Georgia, passed a very punitive immigration law a few years ago with the intended purpose of driving all undocumented immigrants from the state, right-wingers cheered the law, that is, until it was time for farmers’ crops to be picked. Farmers lost millions because most migrant workers left the state for fear of being arrested and deported. Deal, who is also a right-winger, got the brilliant idea of replacing migrant workers with probationers. That didn’t work out well at all. Most of the probationers found the work too difficult and either quit the same day or a few days after signing up for the job. Cotton has no idea what he’s talking about and simply says things he hopes will support his positions on issues. Offer many Americans a job on a sanitation truck collecting garbage, and they will likely turn it down because they see that working at that particular job as an insult.
re: #77 Anymouse
Apparently the local FOX station is calling it a BB gun.
Not good nevertheless, you can hurt someone with a BB gun as well.
A pet peeve about the way Daily Dot sometimes writes articles:
Unless Oklahoma is arming pickup trucks now, I’m pretty sure they cannot shoot anything.
Surprise! Armor-piercing ammo is indeed available for BB guns.
BB guns aren’t toys anymore.
Miss y’all 😢 pic.twitter.com/4vukQgOWyF
— Nam Vet™ Resist💩 (@VFW_Vet) March 7, 2017
re: #73 ObserverArt
Yeah. So tough they often killed the poor individuals inside by either kissing the steering wheel with their chest or putting a head through the front windshield after busting the hard glass. But the car might only have a dented fender.
I’ll never forget and accident that happened on my street when I was around 6 or so. A guy was drunk, ran off the road and hit a telephone pole with the right front fender.
It didn’t appear the accident was even at that high a rate of speed. The driver died from chest trauma from what we heard. The ambulance driver knew my parents and he was also a funereal home director/mortician.
I’ll take today’s car thank you.
re: #67 Patricia Kayden
Hell to the naw. These b*st*rds want some Dem votes on this sh*tty piece of legislation. They seem to have forgotten that not one GOPer voted for the PPACA. This is a turd they shat in the middle of the floor, and it’s up to them to clean up their own mess.
I witnessed a pretty devastating car/deer crash on the interstate. I was in a small group of cyclists; we spooked a deer when we rode past a meadow adjacent to the interstate as we were about to cross the overpass. The deer ran onto the interstate in front of a large American sedan and messed up the front end and windshield. The car was in the right lane and could veer off the road, but it was a mess.
re: #86 majii
Hell to the naw. These b*st*rds want some Dem votes on this sh*tty piece of legislation. They seem to have forgotten that not one GOPer voted for the PPACA. This is a turd they shat in the middle of the floor, and it’s up to them to clean up their own mess.
And what Baghdad Spicer is claiming the greatest benefit of the bill? The stack of paper is smaller.
Oh My God you guys.
This is NOT, I repeat, NOT an SNL skit. But I honestly can’t stop laughing. Lol 😂 #Trumpcare pic.twitter.com/JaMGU2JVSc— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@MuslimIQ) 7 March 2017
Today I called the offices of my senators, Cruz and Cornyn. I wrote the following script for myself:
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re: #85 TedStriker
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I’ve seen that video. It is a great illustration of vehicle safety advancement.
No doubt that old ‘59 would have little damage hitting an animal, as some modern cars the front end damage from a deer hit can be thousands. But there is a trade-off in more severe crashes for having that crushability.
CNN reporting the Statue of Liberty went dark. No word yet on if it’s a power outage or the death of the American dream.
— Lianna Carrera (@LiannaC) March 8, 2017
In the immortal words of Ringo…”Oh, my my…”
Life comes at you fast. #Chaffetz #iPhones #Trumpcare pic.twitter.com/JOQ6zcm4ZT
— Truthiest (@tmtweetz) March 7, 2017
re: #45 calochortus
Actual conversation on another site when a conservative announced she was disappointed that the healthcare bill didn’t include buying policies across state lines:
I await her reply. Which could be a while as people come and go, so many discussions aren’t real-time.
And the conversation continues:
Her: Take Blue Cross. It has to have a different plan for Nebraska than for Texas. IF one can buy across state lines, which, btw, is something both Republicans and Democrats in Congress support, then Blue Cross might not have to write so many different plans. The ability for those living close to state lines to buy across state lines creates competition, which can have the effect of bringing down costs.
Me: And that means that states can’t regulate health care insurance in their own states. Besides, how many people live on state borders near towns in the next state with a good assortment of doctors and hospitals so they can cross the border for all their medical needs?
I don’t think that is what is meant by selling across state lines. They mean that insurance companies can headquarter themselves in one or two states and write policies they can sell to anyone in any state. Just like what happened with credit cards. That worked out really well for consumers.
We’re getting into willful ignorance territory. I’ve linked to a couple sources that say selling across state lines isn’t going to save anyone money. But I’m sure she won’t believe it. The sources, be it a well respected policy group or Forbes, or whatever suddenly become a bunch of biased, raving liberals to so many conservatives whose views are challenged.
re: #73 ObserverArt
Yeah. So tough they often killed the poor individuals inside by either kissing the steering wheel with their chest or putting a head through the front windshield after busting the hard glass. But the car might only have a dented fender.
I’ll never forget and accident that happened on my street when I was around 6 or so. A guy was drunk, ran off the road and hit a telephone pole with the right front fender.
It didn’t appear the accident was even at that high a rate of speed. The driver died from chest trauma from what we heard. The ambulance driver knew my parents and he was also a funereal home director/mortician.
I’ll take today’s car thank you.
I didn’t say they weren’t dangerous. But they sure could take a hit.
re: #74 majii
Before he and a few of his buddies wrote this bill, Ryan already knew he’d have problems getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to vote for it. Now, he needs Dem votes to pass it? The bill is in trouble? This soon? He just released it yesterday! I don’t think he and his buddies, who wrote the bill without input from most members of the House, were prepared for being hit from all sides about the craptastic piece of legislation they wrote as a “replacement” for the PPACA.
Five possibilities:
1) Ryan is an opportunistic hustler like Trump. This was nothing more than a con job to hoodwink the MAGAots.
2) Ryan got snookered in with the years of groupthink bullshit uttered by the usual suspects (everyone on Fox, almost everyone on talk radio) that told him people didn’t want the ACA and wanted it repealed.
3) Ryan knows, but purposefully wants to hurt people because he loves seeing people suffer.
4) Russia is paying him off.
5) All of the above.
re: #93 calochortus
And the conversation continues:
We’re getting into willful ignorance territory. I’ve linked to a couple sources that say selling across state lines isn’t going to save anyone money. But I’m sure she won’t believe it. The sources, be it a well respected policy group or Forbes, or whatever suddenly become a bunch of biased, raving liberals to so many conservatives whose views are challenged.
An insurance company selling me health care insurance from Delaware would not have doctors in its provider network in Nebraska.
Health insurance does not work the same as car insurance. While states regulate car insurance, they do not have provider pools of mechanics and dealerships (and you can usually wait while you shop around for a mechanic, while medical issues don’t really work that way).
re: #92 Joe Bacon
In the immortal words of Ringo…”Oh, my my…”
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I love seeing assholes unwittingly self-immolate.
The Guardian: President Donald Trump is the most powerful cornered animal in the world
Trump lashes out by creating a chaos of conflicting claims to distract attention away from real allegations. It is all too effective
For all his inconstancy of character, Donald Trump is a master manipulator. He rose to political prominence by slandering Barack Obama. He rode the birther myth as far as it would go - before brazenly jettisoning it with the insistence that it was all the handiwork of Hillary Clinton.
Now once again, he seeks to buoy his political fortunes by attacking Obama. Perhaps what is so striking about the tweets is not their desperation, but their cynicism. In exclaiming “This is McCarthyism!”, Trump said something deeply revealing - only about himself. McCarthyism was never in the first instance about wiretapping. It was about defaming public officials with charges of treason without a shred of evidence. Sounds familiar, no?
Trump’s wiretap ‘smear’ prompts spirited reaction from across political divide
Equally revealing was Trump’s tweet: “I’d bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!” As Trump well knows, a good lawyer can make a case out of anything.In the 1970s, after the justice department accused the Trump Corporation of racially discriminatory rental policies, Trump hired Roy Cohn. This was a man who, as a young lawyer, had assisted Joseph McCarthy’s red-baiting. On Trump’s behalf, Cohn countersued the government for $100m, a tactic Trump absorbed and has practiced throughout his career: when on the defensive, attack.
Concerned about congressional investigations into contact between his campaign and the Russians? Make a groundless charge of wiretapping against Obama and insist that the allegations be included in the investigations.
Cohn’s countersuit did not prevail, nor will Trump’s charges against Obama stick. But that is not the point. The point is to distract attention away from real allegations by creating a chaos of conflicting claims. And in this regard the strategy is all too effective. If there is something extraordinary about Trump it is how low he is willing to go.
The more I see what the Trump White House is doing, it reminds me of the part of Breakfast of Champions where Vonnegut describes an alien race that communicates by tap dancing and farting…
re: #96 Anymouse
No kidding. Also if “across state lines” only applies to those who are actually going to cross state lines for their care, it won’t reduce the number of different policies companies write. Someone in Ft. Collins might be willing to drive up to Cheyenne for medical care if it saved a bunch of money, but someone Pueblo would not find it worth their while to do so and would need a CO policy.
re: #95 Myron Falwell
I really believe that Ryan thinks there’s a higher concept that people need to meet or they should be swept away. What that concept is only he and his fever dream of Ayn Rand know.
That, plus he’s a mean clueless asshole.
re: #88 Anymouse
If they did this as an SNL bit, you’d think the satire was too broad.
If they did this as an SNL bit, you’d think the satire was too broad. https://t.co/bILXCrZ8mkpic.twitter.com/zs19o4nOYk
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 8, 2017
Oh myyy. pic.twitter.com/iknYxDfn6r
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) March 8, 2017
re: #100 Joe Bacon
The more I see what the Trump White House is doing, it reminds me of the part of Breakfast of Champions where Vonnegut describes an alien race that communicates by tap dancing and farting…
Someone needs to pass Trump the apology from God…
re: #101 calochortus
No kidding. Also if “across state lines” only applies to those who are actually going to cross state lines for their care, it won’t reduce the number of different policies companies write. Someone in Ft. Collins might be willing to drive up to Cheyenne for medical care if it saved a bunch of money, but someone Pueblo would not find it worth their while to do so and would need a CO policy.
And someone from Cheyenne might drive to our hospital in Scottsbluff, and another person drives from Scottsbluff, net savings zero (but a lot of miles travelled).
Trump Administration WITHDRAWS APPEAL of restraining order pic.twitter.com/U6ivBIiDOW
— WA Attorney General (@AGOWA) March 8, 2017
re: #100 Joe Bacon
The more I see what the Trump White House is doing, it reminds me of the part of Breakfast of Champions where Vonnegut describes an alien race that communicates by tap dancing and farting…
Wait… weren’t they here to help the humans? But were squashed because of the whole farting and tap dancing hiccup? I gotta read that again.,
re: #104 jaunte
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! I’m enjoying every second of seeing the Right implode over this asinine bill!
The Statue of Liberty has gone dark. Russian hacking? Travel ban protest? Regardless of the real reason, this is highly unusual. #Breaking pic.twitter.com/hQMMAvAGxL
— New York Media Boat (@NYmediaBoat) March 8, 2017
Fairly certain it’s for #ADayWithoutAWoman https://t.co/OOQPEWiLvU
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) March 8, 2017
re: #107 Anymouse
And someone from Cheyenne might drive to our hospital in Scottsbluff, and another person drives from Scottsbluff, net savings zero (but a lot of miles travelled).
I think the theory is that if Wyoming offers a great plan, Colorado and Nebraska will have to match it because everyone will flock to Wyoming for healthcare. Yeah. I mean Wyoming is a nice state and all, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
re: #104 jaunte
Of course it likely escapes Mr. Cooke completely that he works for the magazine that directly led to creating willfully ignorant fools like “Carol Bannon.”
re: #115 Myron Falwell
Of course it likely escapes Mr. Cooke completely that he works for the magazine that directly led to creating willfully ignorant fools like “Carol Bannon.”
Her answer should be, “What’s that?”
re: #113 calochortus
I think the theory is that if Wyoming offers a great plan, Colorado and Nebraska will have to match it because everyone will flock to Wyoming for healthcare. Yeah. I mean Wyoming is a nice state and all, but I don’t think that’s going to happen.
Yup, that’s the argument.
The reality is capitalism: All the insurance companies go to places with the least regulations and the highest profit margins.
Or, they just go to places with lots of people (why offer an insurance plan for a state seven hundred miles from corner to corner with three million people - mine - when you can do the same in California with thirty-five million people).
re: #115 Myron Falwell
Of course it likely escapes Mr. Cooke completely that he works for the magazine that directly led to creating willfully ignorant fools like “Carol Bannon.”
I wonder if that’s Steve’s mom.
re: #102 stpaulbear
I really believe that Ryan thinks there’s a higher concept that people need to meet or they should be swept away. What that concept is only he and his fever dream of Ayn Rand know.
That, plus he’s a mean clueless asshole.
Mean and clueless are the basic characteristics of anyone who is a true Ayn Rand acolyte. I am pessimistic about the House Republicans — they will stand together and pass this legislation because they don’t have an alternative, and Herr Trump gave it his approval. Anything to destroy Obama’s legacy.
Ryan does not care if his proposal will lead to the premature deaths of untold thousands of people. After all, his idol Ayn Rand in her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged had no problems in killing millions of innocent people because they didn’t meet her standards.
re: #117 Anymouse
I wonder how many of these free market folks live in areas that needed the rural electrification program and benefited from various federal projects to support that?
re: #102 stpaulbear
I really believe that Ryan thinks there’s a higher concept that people need to meet or they should be swept away. What that concept is only he and his fever dream of Ayn Rand know.
That, plus he’s a mean clueless asshole.
If Jefferson Beauregard Asshole willingly met with Russians to throw the election, that means everyone who is impeding any credible investigation is either guilty of complicity, or they are Russian agents themselves.
That includes Ryan.
re: #119 Hecuba’s daughter
Mean and clueless are the basic characteristics of anyone who is a true Ayn Rand acolyte. I am pessimistic about the House Republicans — they will stand together and pass this legislation because they don’t have an alternative, and Herr Trump gave it his approval. Anything to destroy Obama’s legacy.
Basically the People’s Temple reincarnate.
re: #120 calochortus
I wonder how many of these free market folks live in areas that needed the rural electrification program and benefited from various federal projects to support that?
There are people in my town that benefited from that who are still alive today. (My house is one of those, and later benefited from Public Health Service pushing to install indoor plumbing.)
As for hospitals and insurance, not all hospitals are equal anyway. Denver has several hospitals, some of which specialise in particular needs so they can provide expert medical care in the area they service.
My own community hospital in Bridgeport serves a county of 3,000, so they focus on issues that are the most common needs for the area (agricultural and hunting injuries, &c). If you need care for something uncommon here (malaria, genetic disorders, &c), they will send you to a specialist (probably in Denver or Cheyenne).
Even the VA does this (the hospital that serves my county, Hot Springs, SD does not have a neurology unit - I am treated in Cheyenne).
re: #104 jaunte
This is a perfect example of many right-wingers’ propensity to endorse anything one of their politicians proposes and seem to find it unlikely that one of their own would have anything negative to say about it. Carol Bannon didn’t realize she was talking to another GOPer. What the H*ll does she mean by “open up your mind” when she’s the premier example of someone who doesn’t consider others points of view, even others in his own political party? You cannot make this stuff up!
re: #118 jaunte
I wonder if that’s Steve’s mom.
She probably is. Steve’s what, 40? No idea (he looks like he’s 80)
re: #123 Anymouse
My kids were born in Englewood, CO and Denver respectively. That whole area is littered with hospitals, many of which started out treating TB. They had to put the maternity units in hospitals that hadn’t been used for TB patients, so, more hospitals. I think by the time my kids were born (in the ’80s) that requirement was gone, but there was a plethora of hospitals.
re: #124 majii
If this was 1790s France, Mr. Cooke would have been IDed as an enemy of the state by the likes of Ms. Bannon, and beheaded by the Jacobins (with Steve Bannon as a stand-in for Maximilian de Robspierre).
re: #126 calochortus
My kids were born in Englewood, CO and Denver respectively. That whole area is littered with hospitals, many of which started out treating TB. They had to put the maternity units in hospitals that hadn’t been used for TB patients, so, more hospitals. I think by the time my kids were born (in the ’80s) that requirement was gone, but there was a plethora of hospitals.
My son was born at home in Virginia Beach.
In Hampton Roads there aren’t very many hospitals, despite the large population. Obstetrics care is extremely expensive. My (ex-)wife and I used a midwife instead (CHAMPUS will pay for certified midwives).
re: #125 Myron Falwell
She probably is. Steve’s what, 40? No idea (he looks like he’s 80)
But the portrait in his attic looks amaaazing.
re: #128 Anymouse
My son was born at home in Virginia Beach.
In Hampton Roads there aren’t very many hospitals, despite the large population. Obstetrics care is extremely expensive. My (ex-)wife and I used a midwife instead (CHAMPUS will pay for certified midwives).
I guess it went OK? The trouble with childbirth (aside from the obvious downside of labor) is that things can go south fast.
Support for #MuslimBan has dropped in every major religious group—except white evangelicals. They’ve become more supportive. pic.twitter.com/bGLOqVYeqM
— Joanna Piacenza (@jpiacenza) March 6, 2017
Because one of the chief lessons of the Gospel is that Christians should live their lives free of fear … EXCEPT FOR FEAR OF THE MOOSLIMS. https://t.co/b4b3t9pYK6
— Andrew Exum (@ExumAM) March 8, 2017
re: #130 calochortus
I guess it went OK? The trouble with childbirth (aside from the obvious downside of labor) is that things can go south fast.
We lived right across the street from a rescue squad … there were no problems though.
Vanity Fair has an article about how it might feel now in the Kremlin watching what’s going on with Mr. Trump and his associates.
The last paragraph of the article:
Now, one suspects, the Kremlin is starting to detect what anti-Trump conservatives detected in the fall of 2015. That was when the looming catastrophe came into focus. It was a catastrophe not because of the election, not because of anything political. That was the least of it. It was a catastrophe because it simultaneously illuminated and kindled a darkness, a rot, deep in the American psyche. The Kremlin and its media puppets may not grasp the etiology of this curdling, but they must be aware, by this late date, that something bad is happening in America, and it will spill over, across the oceans and continents, and it will upset, upend, discombobulate everything everywhere. An infant is now the most powerful person on Earth, and he is loved and worshipped by millions, and they think he will save them, that he is He, that the end is near, and so is the beginning. Until a few minutes ago, the Kremlin higher-ups were laughing. Now, like everyone else who hasn’t been swindled, they wait.
re: #129 Grunthos the Flatulent
But the portrait in his attic looks amaaazing.
Ottawa urged to act on Canadian citizens being denied entry to U.S.
Public security minister has raised issue with his U.S. counterpart but unable to offer access guarantees
The Liberal government is being pressed to defend Canadian passport holders as cases multiply of Quebecers being turned away from the U.S. border for mysterious reasons.
But so far, Ottawa has little to reassure travellers nervous about being profiled based on their religion or ethnicity.
On Sunday, Montreal resident Manpreet Kooner was denied entry to the U.S. when she tried to cross into Vermont from Stanstead, Que. She was told she needed a visa, but border agents refused to give her details about what kind.
(more at the CBC)
Is the U.S. Border Patrol arbitrarily turning away Canadians with brown skin? Isn’t that illegal? https://t.co/J0EL7vghi4
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) March 7, 2017
You’re worried about mass, indiscriminate, undetectable invasion of privacy? Your work has paid off, and you have the proof.
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 7, 2017
Except for the people murdered by the other percent because the CIA couldn’t listen, of course. 😧
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 7, 2017
Security isn’t an impossible goal reserved for some elite with $2000 phones.it’s choices. It’s education. It’s designing for people.
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 7, 2017
Who analyzed #Vault7? Who wrote the summary, whose insinuative talking points you see repeated verbatim on the news in a publicity blitz?
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 7, 2017
@wikileaks Can you point us to the source doc that confirms this? Have been unable to find any docs that mention Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp
— Open Whisper Systems (@whispersystems) March 7, 2017
Every headline about the CIA hacking Signal/WhatsApp was written by Wikileaks in their summary, based on nothing.https://t.co/lh1yOhMQHX
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 8, 2017
Basically the breathless Wikileaks CIA assertions are almost entirely bullshit. Because end to end encryption works they need physical access to the device they want to hack. That should’ve been the story, that subverting a smart device requires the same high risk on site intrusion by a tech surveillance team that planting any other traditional bug would necessitate. Instead what Wikileaks is selling, the idea that someone at Langley can type a command into their desk terminal and eavesdrop on you through your Samsung TV, has absolutely zero basis in fact.
Everything you’ve read or seen about #Vault7 today has been a lie. Based on a press release, based on nothing. https://t.co/UVhFrmEzTJ pic.twitter.com/H1CfBubeuU
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 8, 2017
I’m out for the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards.
My wife wants me to come watch an uplifting film about a zombie apocalypse (Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse).
She says it’s an important documentary we never know when we might need its information. Zombie cattle, zombie chickens, perhaps it might even save us from zombie Republicans. Catch y’all later …
re: #135 goddamnedfrank
TY for this. I didn’t want to step into the WL swamp, because I figured it was bullshit. And I was right.
re: #124 majii
Carol Bannon didn’t realize she was talking to another GOPer. What the H*ll does she mean by “open up your mind” when she’s the premier example of someone who doesn’t consider others points of view, even others in his own political party?
“Open your mind” means to accept Fox talking points and regurgitate them without understanding opposing view points. Her mind is likely closed to any other perspective except if she personally is affected. Most conservatives seem to lack empathy for others, unless they themselves have experienced the identical condition.
re: #123 Anymouse
The local hospital here, aside from institutional incompetence, also suffers from a lack of specialists. For example, they have no orthopedic surgeon. Hence when my ex recently fell on ice breaking her leg in four places they had to take her to a different hospital an hour further away by ambulance. This, to me, is an even bigger problem with rural health care than even insurance issues.
re: #136 goddamnedfrank
The Wikileaks fear-mongering re: electronic intrusion builds on the many fantastical scenes in TV shows where CSI computer geek taps wildly on her keyboard for a few seconds and voila! Now we can what the perp is doing by hacking his laptop’s webcam or the traffic camera out on the street!
It just don’t work that way.
While I liked watching Person of Interest, the idea that every single camera was connected to the ‘Net and every single phone could be ‘jacked required a huge suspension of disbelief. (Plus there was the creep factor of two rather strange guys watching someone in his or her house through a camera for hours on end.)
Vault 7 requires the same suspension of disbelief.
re: #139 mmmirele
TY for this. I didn’t want to step into the WL swamp, because I figured it was bullshit. And I was right.
I dl’d the data dump last night and was suitably unimpressed. For security and IT geeks, the contents might be illuminating, but there is no “smoking gun” pointing to specific targets for such electronic intrusions. It’s like WL opened up some chef’s drawer of high-end kitchen knives, discussed the uses for each knife, and implied that any of them could be used to kill someone.
Mostly, it’s a distraction from the #Trumprussia scandal, a distraction which worked for a few hours at best.
Nice comeback here
@FINALLEVEL thanks for playing yourself…. oh and thanks for reading! Not from Russia, we’re from right next door!
— Don’t Trust Media (@ColorBlndBastrd) March 8, 2017
In that case…. Come get your Mother.. She’s done washing my car… https://t.co/cEpzNoaS8i
— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) March 8, 2017
re: #125 Myron Falwell
She probably is. Steve’s what, 40? No idea (he looks like he’s 80)
I’m not so sure Steve has a Mom.
re: #145 JordanRules
I’m not so sure Steve has a Mom.
Me, either. I was expecting perhaps a snake egg.
United Airlines video about two of their female pilots. One is African-American, the other an immigrant from India.
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Surprise! Armor-piercing ammo is indeed available for BB guns.
BB guns aren’t toys anymore.
On reading this I went, “Wait! What?”
Sadly, you’re right. One of the reviewers even commented on the lethality of the pellets.
Sigh.
re: #89 Flying Squirrel Girl
I’m thinking the grammar and spelling are too good for a wingnut. ;)
re: #149 Romantic Heretic
I’m thinking the grammar and spelling are too good for a wingnut. ;)
Except this was a phone call! So they wouldn’t notice the spelling. The only flaw is that it doesn’t use Democrat as an adjective. Otherwise, it sounds exactly like an argument that my RWNJ Texas brother would use, but with more emphasis on the debt.
re: #141 William Lewis
The local hospital here, aside from institutional incompetence, also suffers from a lack of specialists. For example, they have no orthopedic surgeon. Hence when my ex recently fell on ice breaking her leg in four places they had to take her to a different hospital an hour further away by ambulance. This, to me, is an even bigger problem with rural health care than even insurance issues.
Intermission in the zombie movie (about as bad a movie as you’d expect with that title: a pair of scouts and a stripper take on a town of zombies)
Our hospital has no orthopaedic surgeon either. When my wife’s doctor sent her to see the dermatologist over suspected melanoma, she had to wait on a circuit-rider dermatologist that travels all over western Nebraska and eastern Wyoming. (Fortunately the wait was short, and the diagnosis was not cancer.)
At one time our village had a physician, but he died in 1948. (That was when the town had more like three hundred people.)
It is really tough to get doctors to go to rural areas, because the costs for a medical degree are astronomical. A physician can charge a whole lot more in a city, plus there are more people to draw on for a practice.
With teachers the problem is similar, but our state attracts them with various bonuses and benefits (and in extremely rural areas, with free housing).
re: #95 Myron Falwell
Five possibilities:
1) Ryan is an opportunistic hustler like Trump. This was nothing more than a con job to hoodwink the MAGAots.
2) Ryan got snookered in with the years of groupthink bullshit uttered by the usual suspects (everyone on Fox, almost everyone on talk radio) that told him people didn’t want the ACA and wanted it repealed.
3) Ryan knows, but purposefully wants to hurt people because he loves seeing people suffer.
4) Russia is paying him off.
5) All of the above.
I’ll go for Door #2, Myron.
When your groupthink was based on saying NO!! for eight years, your realthink is just a fucking shit show. Welcome to governing, Paul Ryan, you Randian lightweight. Actual governing is hard!
You little fucking Opus Dei Barbie doll.
re: #152 austin_blue
I’ll go for Door #2, Myron.
When your groupthink was based on saying NO!! for eight years, your realthink is just a fucking shit show. Welcome to governing, Paul Ryan, you Randian lightweight. Actual governing is hard!
You little fucking Opus Dei Barbie doll.
Opus Dei Barbie Doll? LOL.
re: #155 austin_blue
Where the hell did you find that?
Hilarious.
Sorry, my Internet service was interrupted.
“Barbie Girl” by Aqua is their biggest selling hit in the USA.
The backstory is that the song didn’t do very well, however Mattel sued them for trademark infringement. That caused the Streisand Effect in such a big way, catapulting the song around the world to the top of the pop charts.
en.wikipedia.org (song)
en.wikipedia.org. (lawsuit)
re: #155 austin_blue
Where the hell did you find that?
Hilarious.
Aqua never made it big in the USA, but boy were they ever on the airwaves internationally. When I was in South Africa in 2000, that song was always on the radio. Drove me half batty.
Mattel was not pleased, and took them to court over the song. According to Wikipedia, the judge told the parties “to chill.” LOL
re: #17 Scottish Dragon
Trump already accused Obama of being behind the protests. Watch and see if AG Sessions goes after protests, BLM and others in criminal investigations and use RICO to bankrupt anybody associated.
AZ Senate tried to do just that: pass a bill making protest organizers liable for any damages that result from a protest turning violent. It was shot down by the courts.
re: #157 wheat-dogg
And anymouse got there ahead of me.
re: #156 Anymouse
Sorry, my Internet service was interrupted.
“Barbie Girl” by Aqua is their biggest selling hit in the USA.
The backstory is that the song didn’t do very well, however Mattel sued them for trademark infringement. That caused the Streisand Effect in such a big way, catapulting the song around the world to the top of the pop charts.
en.wikipedia.org (song)
en.wikipedia.org. (lawsuit)
That may have been true in the States, but the song charted in the top 10 in Europe, the UK and Asia even before the soreheads at Mattel sued them for impugning the morals of Barbie.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #88 Anymouse
And what Baghdad Spicer is claiming the greatest benefit of the bill? The stack of paper is smaller.
They are appealing to the Idiocrats.
re: #135 goddamnedfrank
Basically the breathless Wikileaks CIA assertions are almost entirely bullshit.
It is not about the content: it is about the timing and it serves as “evidence” to back up DT’s claims that Obama had him tapped.
Which are already taken as undisputed facts in the RWNJ blogosphere.
re: #156 Anymouse
Sorry, my Internet service was interrupted.
“Barbie Girl” by Aqua is their biggest selling hit in the USA.
The backstory is that the song didn’t do very well, however Mattel sued them for trademark infringement. That caused the Streisand Effect in such a big way, catapulting the song around the world to the top of the pop charts.
en.wikipedia.org (song)
en.wikipedia.org. (lawsuit)
We had a damn blackbird out near our garden allotment that used to sing the melody to “I’m a Barbie Girl” over and over again…
(until I shot it with a BB gun)
/
re: #159 wheat-dogg
And anymouse got there ahead of me.
You have to be quick to catch the rolling tumbleweed.
re: #166 Anymouse
You have to be quick to catch the rolling tumbleweed.
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That was one singularly bad zombie movie (that’s saying a lot, since all zombie movies are bad).
As for pioneers, that reminds me of the great calve chase we went through this afternoon:
re: #161 wheat-dogg
Aaaa … that song polluted the airwaves for so long …
It appears on a large number of “bad song” lists on YouTube.
re: #170 austin_blue
Well, that’s just awful as real music and just perfect as pop.
It was effective as an earworm. My daughter (then 14) and her best friend played it all the freaking time. Thus it is stuck in my memory.
Something more classic from South Africa: Miriam Makeba.
re: #172 wheat-dogg
It was effective as an earworm. My daughter (then 14) and her best friend played it all the freaking time. Thus it is stuck in my memory.
Something more classic from South Africa: Miriam Makeba.
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Is that Pata Pata? I bought the 45 single in 1967.
re: #179 Single-handed sailor
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Is that Pata Pata? I bought the 45 single in 1967.
The Click Song, the Xhosa wedding song
Here’s suitable song for the current situation in the USA.
Lyrics from a YT comment:
Hela Chileshe (hey Chileshe)
Ungaba yeki baku bizi ikirimani (do not let them call you a foreigner)
Nawe ngumuntu (you are also a person)
Uzo hula nini (when will you grow up)
Welele Ngobese (hey Ngobese)
Yeka ukhubiza abanye abantu izilwani-(stop calling other people animals)
Nabo abantu (they are also people)
Uzo funda nini- ( ”when will you white people-or boers- learn”)
Helele mabhulu (you boers)
Yekani ukhubiza abanye abantu amakhafula (Stop calling other people ”spittle”)
Nabo ngabantu (they are people also)
Nizo xaula nini (When are you going to shake hands)
Hela tsotsi (Hey thief)
Yeka ukugwaza abanye abantu nge mimese (Stop stabbing other people with your knives)
Nabo abantu (They too are people)
Uzo khula nini (When are you going to grow up)
Nge nkululeko yethu (this freedom of ours)
Mina kangiboni ( I do not see it)
Ngiboni igazi lethu eliqithwa nge zandla zethu (All I see is our blood being spilled by our hands)
Bambanani hlakanani yekelani uku monalana (Get together, hold hands stop being jealous of each other)
iZizo ziya zihleka (Nations are laughing at us)
Lalelani zino thando (Listen they have love)
People leaving Uber from the tyre-fire of sexual harassment claims against the company are finding it hard to find other employment.
At job interviews, the employee said, recruiters seem wary of Uber’s “hustle-oriented” workplace. “They have to defend themselves and say: ‘Oh, I’m not an asshole.’”
The “asshole” reputation stems from Uber’s corporate values, former employees and others in the tech industry said. For many, company “values” are the kind of corporate speak that rarely interferes with one’s day-to-day work environment. But at Uber, the emphasis on hustling, toe-stepping and meritocracy took on a more sinister aspect in the workplace.
“Everyone used those values to excuse their bad behavior,” said the former Uber employee.
The employee described the workplace as a “Hobbesian jungle” where “you can never get ahead unless someone else dies”.
re: #183 Anymouse
People leaving Uber from the tyre-fire of sexual harassment claims against the company are finding it hard to find other employment.
Sounds a lot like the current administration.
re: #182 wheat-dogg
Here’s suitable song for the current situation in the USA.
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Lyrics from a YT comment:
Hela Chileshe (hey Chileshe)
Ungaba yeki baku bizi ikirimani (do not let them call you a foreigner)
Nawe ngumuntu (you are also a person)
Uzo hula nini (when will you grow up)
Welele Ngobese (hey Ngobese)
Yeka ukhubiza abanye abantu izilwani-(stop calling other people animals)
Nabo abantu (they are also people)
Uzo funda nini- ( ”when will you white people-or boers- learn”)
Helele mabhulu (you boers)
Yekani ukhubiza abanye abantu amakhafula (Stop calling other people ”spittle”)
Nabo ngabantu (they are people also)
Nizo xaula nini (When are you going to shake hands)Hela tsotsi (Hey thief)
Yeka ukugwaza abanye abantu nge mimese (Stop stabbing other people with your knives)
Nabo abantu (They too are people)
Uzo khula nini (When are you going to grow up)Nge nkululeko yethu (this freedom of ours)
Mina kangiboni ( I do not see it)
Ngiboni igazi lethu eliqithwa nge zandla zethu (All I see is our blood being spilled by our hands)
Bambanani hlakanani yekelani uku monalana (Get together, hold hands stop being jealous of each other)
iZizo ziya zihleka (Nations are laughing at us)
Lalelani zino thando (Listen they have love)
Well, after listening to that and reading that translation I’m going to walk outside and have a smoke…
OK, back now.
Here’s a question for the Lizards who will read the late night posts.
How can we call our country today a functional Democracy when there is so much hate driving our policy?
Where did we go so wrong?
re: #188 austin_blue
Well, after listening to that and reading that translation I’m going to walk outside and have a smoke…
OK, back now.
Here’s a question for the Lizards who will read the late night posts.
How can we call our country today a functional Democracy when there is so much hate driving our policy?
Where did we go so wrong?
Well, The Economist has downgraded us to a “flawed democracy.”
economist.com
Their scale goes from 9-10 (full democracy) to 0-4 (fully authoritarian). They put the USA now at 7-8, just ahead of Mexico.
The chart is a map of the world with their colour-code for each nation.
Back to Jo’burg, for some more kwaito. This guy was a top star in SA, but he developed nasopharyngeal cancer and died aged 38 last September. The tumor had caused him to go blind. On the day he died, he had waited three hours for an ambulance to come to his home in Soweto, and finally his manager came to bring him to hospital. Mandoza died on the way. (timeslive.co.za)
Zulu and English lyrics: southafricanlyrics.wordpress.com
re: #190 austin_blue
Oh, Dog it’s a Rickroll!
Hehehe. I’ve never done that to anyone before. (Cross another thing off my bucket list of puerile things to do.)
re: #192 Kragar
Amazing how well those two songs fit together. Hooray for basic chord progressions!
re: #192 Kragar
Okay a Nirvana/Rick Astley mashup is different… .
Alan Turing was just about to stop the Germans until Wikileaks published all the raw information about the Enigma machine for the Germans. pic.twitter.com/N09EJzjjUj
— TAPSTRI CYBER-MEDIA (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) March 8, 2017
re: #189 Anymouse
Well, The Economist has downgraded us to a “flawed democracy.”
economist.comTheir scale goes from 9-10 (full democracy) to 0-4 (fully authoritarian). They put the USA now at 7-8, just ahead of Mexico.
The chart is a map of the world with their colour-code for each nation.
Yay! We’re Botswana, France, and Bangladesh! So much for American primacy, eh?
Slackpropagation reports on February Album Writing Month (FAWM)
Thirteen years ago, I started a project called FAWM (February Album Writing Month) with a few friends. It was a way to motivate ourselves to make more music. The goal is to write 14 songs in the 28 days of February, much in the same way NaNoWriMo challenges you to write a whole novel in a month. Maybe it’s crappy, maybe it’s not. Don’t overthink it, just do it!
The project has really taken off since he started it. More about it at the link.
BAM: House Intel Committee sets first Russia hearings on March 20. https://t.co/3h8oECdmhu
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 7, 2017
On the Russia allegations and the media, GOP, and trolls all navel-gazing (thread):
The #Russia allegations have been so extensively documented that the media is now gas-lighting themselves. Maybe they were *just* meetings?!
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) March 7, 2017
And more gaslighting:
House intel chief Nunes chastises press about reporting on Trump tweets:”A lot of things he says you guys take literally.”
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) March 7, 2017
We’re NOT supposed to listen to the press because “fake news,” we ARE supposed to listen to Trump
But not take him literally
Dafuq? https://t.co/93eU3pMMIf— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 7, 2017
And yet more gaslighting:
HHS Sec Tom Price: “Medicaid is a program that by and large has decreased people’s access to care.”
This is insane.— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) March 7, 2017
re: #188 austin_blue
Well, after listening to that and reading that translation I’m going to walk outside and have a smoke…
OK, back now.
Here’s a question for the Lizards who will read the late night posts.
How can we call our country today a functional Democracy when there is so much hate driving our policy?
Where did we go so wrong?
I was in South Africa several years after majority rule began, and just after Mandela stepped down and Thabo Mbeki took over. Mbeki was a major step down from Madiba, much as Trump is from Obama, and the patience of the people for progress wore very thin pretty quick. But that’s a different issue.
I knew quite a bit about the apartheid days from following the news, and reading books like Biko, so the atmosphere post-apartheid was really quite a surprise. Mostly everyone was trying very hard to set aside the racial tensions and just get along. My school, and my kids’ schools, were mixed-race and AFAIK there was no problems on campus among whites, blacks and coloreds (that is, Asians and mixed-race people). There seemed to be more tension between English descendants and Afrikaners, to be honest, than between the other ethnic groups. It seemed everyone was following the lead of Mandela, who was the driving force behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which avoided harsh sentences for crimes done during apartheid but still held the perpetrators accountable.
It’s been 16 years since I’ve lived there, so I’m not sure how harmonious things are now. I know people were frustrated by the sluggish economy — especially folks in the rural areas — and the broken education system. Petty crimes, like thefts and burglaries, are still a problem, and there are still rare assaults and murders involving the Afrikaner white supremacists and blacks, but nowhere approaching the “white genocide” the alt-right talks about here in the States.
It takes leadership to provide the people a model for their behavior. Mandela was revered by almost everyone, and his forgiving nature inspired South Africans to end the hatred of the past. In the States, however, the national leader has fomented hatred and xenophobia, which has inspired a thankfully small portion of society to commit hate crimes on a variety of people. In response, we have seen Muslims helping fix Jewish cemeteries, Jews offering their synagogues to Muslims, and churches offering sanctuary to Mexicans. There is a lot of love and compassion among Americans, and Trump and his troglodytes will not win, anymore than the Afrikaner apartheid system won. But it will take constant, unrelenting resistance to fight back against him. Start locally and offer help to state and national groups as possible.
We will win.
Instead of gaslighting, this is flat-out lying (or delusion):
Rick Wiles: A Satanic Child-Murdering Cabal Is Leading a Coup Against President Trump (goes to Right Wing Watch, more at the link):
End Times radio broadcaster and unhinged conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles dedicated his radio program yesterday to warning that a secretive pedophile ring is working to destroy President Trump before he can expose their murderous global network.
Wiles said that Trump is “besieged by a slithering cabal of seditious snakes” who are attempting to carry out a coup against against him at the behest of the “perpetual war and pedophilia party that has ruled America since they assassinated John F. Kennedy in 1963.”
Mozilla released a security update for Firefox:
us-cert.gov
Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
Mozilla itself rates the exploit as “critical”:
mozilla.org
re: #188 austin_blue
How can we call our country today a functional Democracy when there is so much hate driving our policy?
Where did we go so wrong?
We cannot have a functional democracy until we can agree on objective facts and reality.
I recall this skit from a comic back in the 80’s when a state legislator introduced a bill trying to make it illegal to force students to learn anything that conflicted with their religious beliefs (a veiled attempt to limit teaching of Evolution)
Teacher: Jimmy, what is two times two?
Jimmy: Five!
T: No, Jimmy, it is four.
J: But my dad says two times two is five and the law says you cannot teach me otherwise!
T: But Jimmy, this is not a matter of belief, it is a matter of objective reality!
J: But my dad does not believe in objective reality!!!
And I am afraid that Jimmy has now grown up to become a state legislator himself…
re: #205 wheat-dogg
I was in South Africa several years after majority rule began, and just after Mandela stepped down and Thabo Mbeki took over. Mbeki was a major step down from Madiba, much as Trump is from Obama, and the patience of the people for progress wore very thin pretty quick. But that’s a different issue.
I knew quite a bit about the apartheid days from following the news, and reading books like Biko, so the atmosphere post-apartheid was really quite a surprise. Mostly everyone was trying very hard to set aside the racial tensions and just get along. My school, and my kids’ schools, were mixed-race and AFAIK there was no problems on campus among whites, blacks and coloreds (that is, Asians and mixed-race people). There seemed to be more tension between English descendants and Afrikaners, to be honest, than between the other ethnic groups. It seemed everyone was following the lead of Mandela, who was the driving force behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which avoided harsh sentences for crimes done during apartheid but still held the perpetrators accountable.
It’s been 16 years since I’ve lived there, so I’m not sure how harmonious things are now. I know people were frustrated by the sluggish economy — especially folks in the rural areas — and the broken education system. Petty crimes, like thefts and burglaries, are still a problem, and there are still rare assaults and murders involving the Afrikaner white supremacists and blacks, but nowhere approaching the “white genocide” the alt-right talks about here in the States.
It takes leadership to provide the people a model for their behavior. Mandela was revered by almost everyone, and his forgiving nature inspired South Africans to end the hatred of the past. In the States, however, the national leader has fomented hatred and xenophobia, which has inspired a thankfully small portion of society to commit hate crimes on a variety of people. In response, we have seen Muslims helping fix Jewish cemeteries, Jews offering their synagogues to Muslims, and churches offering sanctuary to Mexicans. There is a lot of love and compassion among Americans, and Trump and his troglodytes will not win, anymore than the Afrikaner apartheid system won. But it will take constant, unrelenting resistance to fight back against him. Start locally and offer help to state and national groups as possible.
We will win.
Well here’s a paean to Biko:
Trump’s inability to understand complex issues like foreign policy has me very worried, given my current location.
Case in point:
The United States and North Korea are racing towards a catastrophic “head-on collision”, China’s foreign minister has warned, amid Chinese fury at America’s deployment of a controversial anti-missile system.
Speaking in Beijing on Wednesday, Wang Yi said a “looming crisis” was brewing on the Korean peninsula.
Wang scolded Pyongyang for ignoring international opposition to its nuclear and missile programs but also accused the US of stoking regional tensions by holding “military exercises of enormous scale” with South Korea.
“The two sides are like two accelerating trains coming towards each other with neither side willing to give way. The question is: are the two sides really ready for a head-on collision?” Wang told reporters, painting China as a signalman attempting avert the disaster.
re: #188 austin_blue
How can we call our country today a functional Democracy when there is so much hate driving our policy?
Where did we go so wrong?
If one asked that in, say, 1861, the people listening to you would probably have a funny look on their faces.
What we call a “functional Democracy” today is a fairly recent invention. Indeed, in this country it wasn’t until the 1960’s that we got really serious in making sure everyone was vested in the elections.
We’re still struggling to throw off the shackles of patriarchy and slavery.
“Across state lines” is a phrase used by american dummies that have no thinking skills. It doesn’t pay to attempt to understand it, there is nothing to understand. It is something a moron says to other morons and then they all bobble their heads up and down and blame liberals. Quite pathetic really.
Another one is “tort reform”. I have told many, many wingnuts that Wisconsin already has tort reform. They don’t care what is true or not, they are all masters of the universe in their own minds.
re: #212 Amory Blaine
“Across state lines” is a phrase used by american dummies that have no thinking skills. It doesn’t pay to attempt to understand it, there is nothing to understand. It is something a moron says to other morons and then they all bobble their heads up and down and blame liberals. Quite pathetic really.
See also:
Deep state
neo-liberal
re: #213 Amory Blaine
Another one is “tort reform”. I have told many, many wingnuts that Wisconsin already has tort reform. They don’t care what is true or not, they are all masters of the universe in their own minds.
Tort reform: the freedom to be shut out from a just payment for damages, or
the freedom to enter into binding arbitration with a multi-national corporation to ensure the same, or
the freedom to be prohibited from entering into a class-action suit with like plaintiffs.
re: #212 Amory Blaine
“Across state lines”
We must remember that the wingnuts are living in an 18th century fantasy, and to them there is magic in each colony state.
If you are such a shitty doctor you are getting sued a lot, maybe you should pick strawberries instead.
re: #216 freetoken
We must remember that the wingnuts are living in an 18th century fantasy, and to them there is magic in each
colonystate.
“Meth labs of democracy.”
“School choice” is another one, though rural people generally oppose that when explained to them.
That is the choice to have our schools gutted so private religious or commercial schools in cities can get money that would go to our students.
re: #211 freetoken
If one asked that in, say, 1861, the people listening to you would probably have a funny look on their faces.
What we call a “functional Democracy” today is a fairly recent invention. Indeed, in this country it wasn’t until the 1960’s that we got really serious in making sure everyone was vested in the elections.
We’re still struggling to throw off the shackles of patriarchy and slavery.
Well, Dog dammit, that is a cogent point and absolutely germane. Given that it is obviously true, the next question is: What are the forces that are trying to reverse 50 years of anti-rasicsm?
“Personal Freedom”
The right for individuals and families with limited incomes and assets to negotiate one-to-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.
The first stop for a rising capitalist, besides stepping on the necks of the people that actually make him the money is to buy himself a castle, because american patriots love them some monarchy.
re: #219 austin_blue
Well, Dog dammit, that is a cogent point and absolutely germane. Given that it is obviously true, the next question is: What are the forces that are trying to reverse 50 years of anti-rasicsm?
The same ones who have been at it for the past 50 years. They now see this is their last great chance. Their strategy paid off: motivate the base, suppress non-base voters and roll back as much of the New Deal and the Civil Rights Act as they can get away with.
re: #219 austin_blue
Cultural viscosity.
That’s the phrase that comes to mind.
Perhaps I’ve mixed apples and oranges, or sociology and physics, but there is much to the resilience to change that any culture embodies.
The mediator of this resilience in American culture is much to do with religion, and perhaps a bit less to do with money.
I’m afraid to say, as I’m now entering my “golden years”, that as we age we don’t want to change.
As I noted last night and Trump winning Florida, there is a very strong correlation between Trump support and age.
And that is true on my Facebook timeline as well.
re: #224 austin_blue
Oh, here’s another Gabriel tune:
my heart is going boom boom boom
another is going to follow
keep ‘em coming…I used to love Genesis when he was still with them.
re: #224 austin_blue
Oh yeah. Been a while since I heard that one. Related for the aspiring guitar lizards, I’ve been using this Asturias (by Isaac Albéniz) tab to work on triplets and 16th notes. This will kick your ass!!
Right Wing Watch has been busy recently:
rightwingwatch.org
The Rise of the Traditionalist International: How the American Right Learned to Love Moscow in the Era of Trump.
The tl:dr version - the combination of Christians (especially Evangelicals but not limited to them), Ku Klux Klansmen, and outright Nazis would naturally gravitate to a murderous ex-KGB agent now in charge of Russia - because he explicitly set up his country to appeal to them.
Everything from weakening Russia’s separation of Church and State and harassing the LGBT (appealing to a wide array of Christian groups, not all of them Dominionists) to presenting his country as the “Last Great White Hope” (attracting the racists), to projection of power in such things as annexing Crimea and parts of Georgia (attracting the Nazis), means it was inevitable these groups would gravitate toward Putin, and because these groups make up a large portion of the Republican base, a large number of Republican politicians are following right along,
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Personal Freedom”
The right for individuals and families with limited incomes and assets to negotiate one-to-one with multi-billion-dollar international corporations for terms of employment, insurance coverage or financial services.
“Socialism” - about anything the wingnut wants it to mean except actual socialism.
There are some conservatives that still understand the correct meaning of the term though (which is one reason I maintain my seat on my village board).
re: #229 Anymouse
“Socialism” - about anything the wingnut wants it to mean except actual socialism.
There are some conservatives that still understand the correct meaning of the term though (which is one reason I maintain my seat on my village board).
Funny that when investors pool their resources into a corporation to optimize their investments, that is lauded as the very heart and soul of capitalism, but when employees or consumers pool their bargaining rights into a union to optimize wages and benefits, that is somehow frowned upon…
re: #228 Anymouse
The Rise of the Traditionalist International: How the American Right Learned to Love Moscow in the Era of Trump.
The tl:dr version - the combination of Christians (especially Evangelicals but not limited to them), Ku Klux Klansmen, and outright Nazis would naturally gravitate to a murderous ex-KGB agent now in charge of Russia - because he explicitly set up his country to appeal to them.
Basically, it will come down to the notion that lying about Russia is not perjury just like getting a blow job from a bimbo is not cheating on your wife…
re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Basically, it will come down to the notion that lying about Russia is not perjury just like getting a blow job from a bimbo is not cheating on your wife…
TMI - My wife just asked “what if the bimbo is me?”
re: #230 austin_blue
Bringing Kate Bush into the conversation…
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How about a Peter and Sinead collaboration, with a side of Daniel Lanois?
Every mark for the likes of Benny Hinn, Joel Osteen, and so on are easy pickin’s for Trump.
And America is full of them.
This was rather obvious and quickly noted:
But it remains true today.
That so much of America is full of such marks go back to our past.
America’s past is full of religious fanaticism. Something perhaps the contemporary youth are not taught.
re: #238 freetoken
That so much of America is full of such marks go back to our past.
America’s past is full of religious fanaticism. Something perhaps the contemporary youth are not taught.
Because we are still taught that the Pilgrims came here to practice religious freedom. They came here to escape religious tolerance in Europe and be free to practice religious oppression.
re: #239 austin_blue
No, I think I’ll post this one for Anymouse:
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That is one of my two favorites from Kate, the other being this profoundly sad one:
re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because we are still taught that the Pilgrims came here to practice religious freedom. They came here to escape religious tolerance in Europe and be free to practice religious oppression.
Yup. Even to the point when there was a smallpox outbreak in Boston and the provincial governor tried to impose mandatory inoculation (the only known method of immunisation against the disease at the time), the Congregational Church (Puritans) opposed it on the grounds of “God’s Will.”
Fun Fact: Cotton Mather, famed witch trial leader, also experimented in the field which would eventually become genetics, by studying blue and yellow corn. He essentially described blue corn as a genetic recessive (though he didn’t use that term), after planting corn plots upwind of each other so they would cross-pollinate, then observed the results.
re: #223 freetoken
Cultural viscosity.
That’s the phrase that comes to mind.
Perhaps I’ve mixed apples and oranges, or sociology and physics, but there is much to the resilience to change that any culture embodies.
The mediator of this resilience in American culture is much to do with religion, and perhaps a bit less to do with money.
I’m afraid to say, as I’m now entering my “golden years”, that as we age we don’t want to change.
As I noted last night and Trump winning Florida, there is a very strong correlation between Trump support and age.
And that is true on my Facebook timeline as well.
Greater minds than I have struggled with Americans’ “viscosity of culture,” but I’d list the following causes:
1. Latent anti-intellectualism
2. The rise of Biblical literalism as a feature of Christianity (a subset of #1)
3. Slavery, which took a war to abolish
4. The 19th century belief (shared by the British Empire and others) that white people were the shiznit, and their duty was to “civilize” everyone else
5. The belief that capitalism was the answer to all ills, and socialism was the cause of all ills
6. The relative homogeneity of the US population, aside from city folk
These are no special order, but the first two enable the others to take hold of people’s minds, especially if some charismatic character tells them the right things to believe.
We really have not changed much as a nation since Dickens and de Tocqueville visited the USA in the 1800s. It’s the same mix of optimism and obstinacy those two writers found in their journeys.
re: #243 wheat-dogg
On latent anti-intellectualism, I would argue it was never latent. It has always been overt.
re: #243 wheat-dogg
Greater minds than I have struggled with Americans’ “viscosity of culture,” but I’d list the following causes:
1. Latent anti-intellectualism
2. The rise of Biblical literalism as a feature of Christianity (a subset of #1)
“It’s not cool not to know what you are talking about”
-Barack Obama
re: #245 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“It’s not cool not to know what you are talking about”
-Barack Obama
“Hold my beer.” - Donald Trump
re: #246 Anymouse
“Hold my beer.” - Donald Trump
“I know what I am talking about. Nobody knows what he is talking about better than me. I have the best talking. Believe me.”
and they did…or at least enough of them in enough key states to guarantee an EC majority…
re: #240 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because we are still taught that the Pilgrims came here to practice religious freedom. They came here to escape religious tolerance in Europe and be free to practice religious oppression.
I didn’t learn about that aspect of the Pilgrims and the Massachusetts Bay Colony until I studied colonial history beginning in high school. They kicked out Roger Williams (Baptists) and killed several Quakers who kept coming back to witness to the Congregationalists.
Two of the motivations for the freedom of religion clause in the First Amendment were the awful experiences of religious conflict and oppression in Europe, and the diversity of religions in the Colonies. The USA has no state religion largely because it never had one during the colonial period. Massachusetts was Congregationalist, Rhode Island Baptist, NY Dutch Reformed and Presbyterian, NJ and Pennsylvania Quaker, Maryland Catholic, and so on. The modern wingnuts who call the USA a Christian Nation gloss over the sectarian nature of the colonial period. Maryland would not have ratified a Constitution that made Anglicanism the State Religion any more than Massachusetts would have agreed to Catholicism.
Plus, many of the founders were Deists or perhaps even agnostic in their beliefs. They were for sure not going to establish a State Religion that would have excluded them.
re: #246 Anymouse
“Hold my beer.” - Donald Trump
Trump is a shining example of my #1. He’s just like the people who voted for him: obstinately ignorant and dead sure that his brain provides all the right answers.
re: #244 Anymouse
On latent anti-intellectualism, I would argue it was never latent. It has always been overt.
Some of it must stem from a sense of cultural and technical inferiority with regard to Europe…we felt that our intellectual backwardness was an outward sign of our our moral superiority over those effete, decadent Euroweenies.
We started to shake that off when we got into the arms and space race with the USSR in the 50’s and 60’s but seem to have fallen back into the notion that education only counts as vocational training.
re: #248 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“I know what I am talking about. Nobody knows what he is talking about better than me. I have the best talking. Believe me.”
and they did…or at least enough of them in enough states to guarantee an EC majority…
It actually hurts me to see how many of the people in my state swallowed the swill Mr. Trump was serving up during his campaign about “bringing jobs back” and “making America great again.” (At least in this area, there was little or no coverage of his overtly racist remarks or violent rallies.) Thirty years of Republican attacks against the Clinton family were dug up again and spread around the local press - despite the claims being false.
I firmly believe electing a guinea pig would have been a better choice (and likely had better hair). A lonely leftist in the middle of nowhere could not prevail against the mountain of bullshit our local media was pumping out.
Not going to link, but this is showing up in Memeorandum:
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan’s Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals Obamacare
What does this even mean? Is Breitbart slamming Spicer for telling a lie, or is he being slammed for saying the ACA is repealed? I thought the R base wanted repeal, so why highlight that this is not a repeal?
Breitbart is also pinning the AHCA on Ryan. Bannon must want some distance between Trump and the AHCA.
re: #253 Ming5000
Not going to link, but this is showing up in Memeorandum:
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan’s Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals ObamacareWhat does this even mean? Is Breitbart slamming Spicer for telling a lie, or is he being slammed for saying the ACA is repealed? I thought the R base wanted repeal, so why highlight that this is not a repeal?
Breitbart is also pinning the AHCA on Ryan. Bannon must want some distance between Trump and the AHCA.
They want to be in a position to put the blame on somebody else…
re: #253 Ming5000
Not going to link, but this is showing up in Memeorandum:
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Sean Spicer Inaccurately Claims Paul Ryan’s Health Care Bill ‘Fully’ Repeals ObamacareWhat does this even mean? Is Breitbart slamming Spicer for telling a lie, or is he being slammed for saying the ACA is repealed? I thought the R base wanted repeal, so why highlight that this is not a repeal?
Breitbart is also pinning the AHCA on Ryan. Bannon must want some distance between Trump and the AHCA.
See also their top article: FreedomWorks Opposes Speaker Ryan’s Obamacare 2.0 Plan. (Also not linking to Deadbart’s top article at the moment.)
Deadbart simply wants repeal and no replace. They are trying to separate Trump from Ryan and the other House Republicans (which as “the establishment” Deadbart and President Bannon oppose).
re: #255 austin_blue
Okay, one last Kate Bush song, her most terrifying. A fetus has to deal with a nuclear attack:
Kate Bush channelling Miss Cleo?
re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Some of it must stem from a sense of cultural and technical inferiority with regard to Europe…we felt that our intellectual backwardness was an outward sign of our our moral superiority over those effete, decadent Euroweenies.
We started to shake that off when we got into the arms and space race with the USSR in the 50’s and 60’s but seem to have fallen back into the notion that education only counts as vocational training.
I’ve noticed that many Chinese have the same notion. A university degree is solely for the purpose of obtaining a good job, so serious study for the sake of intellectual improvement is not rewarded or highly regarded. In addition, the top-down nature of education in China (from the Party) actively discourages divergent thinking and critical thinking. As a college teacher, I find in endlessly frustrating to have a majority of students who only see their classes as a boring stepping stone toward a Job After Graduation, and not as a useful intellectual exercise in and of themselves.
In their defense, most of their classes ARE boring, because there is little incentive for teachers to be creative in educating their students.
re: #12 Pawn of the Oppressor
Um, Bill, “subversion” isn’t a crime, except in China…
Good point. If subversion were a crime, who better to be charged than Trump, Fox News, the GOP……
sub*ver*sion
səbˈvərZH(ə)n,səbˈvərSH(ə)n/
noun
the undermining of the power and authority of an established system or institution.
“the ruthless subversion of democracy”
re: #258 wheat-dogg
It’s that economic-function primacy of “education” why I dislike so many of the “STEM” pushes.
re: #258 wheat-dogg
I’ve noticed that many Chinese have the same notion. A university degree is solely for the purpose of obtaining a good job, so serious study for the sake of intellectual improvement is not rewarded or highly regarded. In addition, the top-down nature of education in China (from the Party) actively discourages divergent thinking and critical thinking. As a college teacher, I find in endlessly frustrating to have a majority of students who only see their classes as a boring stepping stone toward a Job After Graduation, and not as a useful intellectual exercise in and of themselves.
In their defense, most of their classes ARE boring, because there is little incentive for teachers to be creative in educating their students.
Note the Texas GOP trying to put a plank in their party platform opposing teaching critical thinking to students - allegedly it undermines parental authority (but conveniently allows a person to think about conservative positions).
The paths might be different (Republican conservatives, Chinese communists), but authoritarianism really doesn’t give a hoot what “ideology” it uses to arise to/maintain power. Power is the goal, not the ideology.
re: #259 Ming5000
Good point. If subversion were a crime, who better to be charged than Trump, Fox News, the GOP……
In a narrow sense subversion is a crime (sedition).
@realDonaldTrump @Morning_Joe is listing your #Trumplies. Have a great day. #Asshole
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) March 8, 2017
re: #262 Anymouse
Huh… interesting….
se*di*tion
səˈdiSH(ə)n/
noun
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
synonyms: rabble-rousing, incitement to rebel, subversion, troublemaking, provocation;
Rick Saccone announced his bid to run against Democratic Senator Bob Casey (Penna.) next year.
Amongst other things, he claimed “God wants Christians to rule over us.”
(Waiting to see which Christian churches stand up to that statement. I’m betting none.)
re: #260 freetoken
It’s that economic-function primacy of “education” why I dislike so many of the “STEM” pushes.
I’m conflicted by the push for STEM initiatives, because I was a science teacher for two decades. There is a real need for adequate science and math instruction in the public schools, but targeting those areas at the expense of subjects like art, music and drama is wrong. Every kids should be exposed to a variety of subjects, but expecting specially funded STEM programs to create a large cohort of future science, tech and math geniuses is wishful thinking.
There was a similar push in education following Sputnik, and I was probably one of the beneficiaries of that earlier STEM initiative. My science and math classes in junior and senior high were mostly very good*. We had ample equipment and trained teachers who knew how to use it. My physics teacher taught us BASIC so we could do data analysis on our labs with the school’s PDP-8, and a math teacher taught us formal logic (p —> q, for example).
* My high school chem experience, however, was a bust. Though it was an honors class, our teacher had read Teaching as a Subversive Activity over the summer, and he decided the best way for us to learn chemistry was to teach it to ourselves, with him as a guide. Holy crapola! Many of us were freaking out, because we wanted good marks on the NY Regents exams, so we appealed to another chem teacher to help us out. She was very understanding.
Off-topic: I accidentally saved an “upvote” button from here as a shortcut to my desktop.
Not sure how I did that, and it is entirely unhelpful - off to the trash bin with that. (It will probably take my whole operating system with it or something.)
re: #267 Anymouse
Off-topic: I accidentally saved an “upvote” button from here as a shortcut to my desktop.
Not sure how I did that, and it is entirely unhelpful - off to the trash bin with that. (It will probably take my whole operating system with it or something.)
I think that’s mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 data dump. IIRC it would shut down most of the electrical grid in Manitoba.
/
We are living on Mars and LGF is a tiny biodome.
WTF is THIS? I read this commentary from Amber Phillips, Washington Post:
The sorry state of political discourse right now, in five Bernie Sanders tweets
A prominent U.S. senator just described the president of the United States as a frequent and “shameless” liar, a claim that for reasons I’ll explain is difficult to prove. What’s more, what Sanders said about President Trump is one of a bazillion hefty criticisms that Democrats have lobbed and will lob at the president this week alone.
I could not pick up from a quick google that Phillips was a right winger nut job. If one were to feel that discourse were taking a downturn, how could you possibly focus on the Democrats?
Democrats are blocking Trump in historic ways, like stalling committee hearings for key Cabinet posts or threatening to filibuster his Supreme Court nominee.
The Democrat messaging machine still is not working. Unless you are plugged into this stuff like LGFers there is little chance to get a balanced message.
re: #269 Ming5000
Democrats are blocking Trump in historic ways, like stalling committee hearings for key Cabinet posts or threatening to filibuster his Supreme Court nominee.
Ohmigod, what sort of party would do such a thing?
re: #269 Ming5000
It’s an obvious political piece by a political hack.
WaPo is in the business of making money, and they do that by getting eyes on product, and wingnut eyes are still eyes as far as internet metrics are concerned.
I do agree that the Democratic messaging machine needs to be more on-target, for specific groups of Americans.
Installing Oracle VM Virtual Box, so if I get bumped off-line you’ll know where I went (computer hell).
Photo gallery: Woman at work around the world
The French soldier looks bad-ass. I wouldn’t want to piss her off.
re: #266 wheat-dogg
One reason I dislike “STEM” is the very acronym.
S and M are different than E and M.
Science and Math ought to be with the Humanities. They are humanities, in the sense historically and culturally the goal within their own undertaking is to expand human knowledge.
Engineering and Technology (though I think that is redundant) is about applications of knowledge for human activity (which we might as well call economic activity.)
We’ve commented on Amber Phillips here before… but I can’t recall exactly what the topic was.
There is a lot of “Give Trump a chance” sentiment out there. The clueless people who voted for Trump despite all the evidence available about his character, plans, acumen, etc., are the same ones who feel the ‘establishment’ is piling on unfairly.
Like many have said on LGF, what is it going to take to wake people up?
re: #278 Ming5000
There is a lot of “Give Trump a chance” sentiment out there. The clueless people who voted for Trump despite all the evidence available about his character, plans, acumen, etc., are the same ones who feel the ‘establishment’ is piling on unfairly.
Like many have said on LGF, what is it going to take to wake people up?
A major catastrophe that even the rest of his party cannot cover up or shrug off.
re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
A major catastrophe that even the rest of his party cannot cover up or shrug off.
Or as I put it, until “something breaks”.
Well did Drago Museveni describe Trump:
“The soul of the Nietzschean is this:
We are arrogant. We are vain.
We are manipulative. We are selfish.
And we love our children.”
re: #280 freetoken
Or as I put it, until “something breaks”.
Lots of possibilities there: Ukraine, North Korea, some famous person getting stopped at the border by idiot CBP officers.
re: #278 Ming5000
There is a lot of “Give Trump a chance” sentiment out there. The clueless people who voted for Trump despite all the evidence available about his character, plans, acumen, etc., are the same ones who feel the ‘establishment’ is piling on unfairly.
Like many have said on LGF, what is it going to take to wake people up?
That, and a lot of those that voted for him (at least in this area) are just like the folk in Germany when Hitler ran for office. They don’t “really believe” he meant what he said about (immigrants, refugees, Gold Star Families, Mexicans, &c) - he just said what he needed to get elected.
That’s why when I put to my village attorney at the last board meeting “what happens to me if Sen. Mike Lee’s and Rep. Steve King’s bills to strip birthright citizenship go through” his answer was “they won’t be able to succeed with that.”
Never mind the GOP has been copulating that chicken all my life, and he is in the GOP.
Uh, fellow lizards, the claim that the hacking of the DNC actually was a false flag opration carried out by the CIA to make the World think that the Russians interfered with the US election is now on Breitbart Link
That means that Trump will probably start tweeting about it in a day or two.
If you choose to follow the link do not read the comments unless you are wearing a hazmat suit. Yikes! I only read the first few of them, and now I need to decontaminate.
re: #284 Fineday
Uh, fellow lizards, the claim that the hacking of the DNC actually was a false flag opration carried out by the CIA to make the World think that the Russians interfered with the US election is now on Breitbart Link
That means that Trump will probably start tweeting about it in a day or two.
If you choose to follow the link do not read the comments unless you are wearing a hazmat suit. Yikes! I only read the first few of them, and now I need to decontaminate.
Your link is structured incorrectly (you left the colon out).
The article is bad enough. The comments don’t show up in my browser (probably for the best).
Wingnuts used to despise Wikileaks (particularly when they published the Collateral Murder video showing the Army killing Iraqi civilians and Reuters news journalists).
Funny how fast they forget where they stood only a couple years ago.
Comment on Wonkette:
Satan must be quite embarrassed the he lost the primary election to that Trump douchebag.
re: #285 Anymouse
Wingnuts have the ability to forget where they stood only a couple of minutes ago.
I have tremendous respect for women and the many roles they serve that are vital to the fabric of our society and our economy.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 8, 2017
When you’re not grabbing their pussies, that is. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/SqeYis0o9s
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 8, 2017
re: #288 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wingnuts have the ability to forget where they stood only a couple of
minutesTweets ago.
re: #286 Timothy Watson
Hey, an Andromeda fan!
It had its moments. Kevin Sorbo was a bit too much, though (and in his after life as a wingnut, even more unbearable.)
re: #289 Charles Johnson
I see Mr. Trump is up … probably time for me to get to bed soon.
re: #291 freetoken
It had its moments. Kevin Sorbo was a bit too much, though (and in his after life as a wingnut, even more unbearable.)
Yeah, first two seasons were alright, even season three had a couple good episodes, I couldn’t even hate-watch the fourth.
I’ve compared tea party supporters to the Nietzscheans before but I think most people didn’t get the reference. :)
re: #294 Timothy Watson
Yeah, first two seasons were alright, even season three had a couple good episodes, I couldn’t even hate-watch the fourth.
I’ve compared tea party supporters to the Nietzscheans before but I think most people didn’t get the reference. :)
I’ve been following @LexaDoig on Twitter. She is not a wingnut.
re: #294 Timothy Watson
Yeah, first two seasons were alright, even season three had a couple good episodes, I couldn’t even hate-watch the fourth.
I’ve compared tea party supporters to the Nietzscheans before but I think most people didn’t get the reference. :)
Imagine the day some GOP leader looks at his grandkids & says, “I did great things in my time. I threw 22 million ppl off their insurance.”
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 7, 2017
The best part of this new healthcare plan is that here at arbys, we were all ready to die anyway.
Eat arbys— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) March 8, 2017
re: #296 Anymouse
Imagine the day some GOP leader looks at his grandkids & says, “I did great things in my time. I threw 22 million ppl off their insurance.”
I gave them Freedom of Choice!
re: #295 wheat-dogg
I’ve been following @LexaDoig on Twitter. She is not a wingnut.
Neither is her husband, @MichaelShanks, who she first met when he guess starred on a couple episodes. I can see why they got together, they had great chemistry on the show.
Surreal exchange here re: Trump’s claim Obama wiretapped him: pic.twitter.com/w3aiIa7nOk
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) March 7, 2017
“So President Trump’s Twitter statement shouldn’t be taken at face value?”
“Sure it should. Of course it should. No.” https://t.co/dbKKdsBpwS— David Frum (@davidfrum) March 7, 2017
re: #298 Timothy Watson
Neither is her husband, @MichaelShanks, who she first met when he guess starred on a couple episodes. I can see why they got together, they had great chemistry on the show.
Shanks went on to do Stargate SG-1. I bet their kids are gorgeous.
re: #299 Anymouse
“So President Trump’s Twitter statement shouldn’t be taken at face value?”
“Sure it should. Of course it should. No.”
The President reserves the right to retroactively alter or correct any statement that he makes.
re: #299 Anymouse
I don’t understand why Spicer remains at his post. Trying to explain to rational people the rantings of his boss is going to drive him crazy, too. It’d be best he get out now, before the ship sinks.
re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The President reserves the right to retroactively alter or correct any statement that he makes.
The President is infallible.
Next question?
re: #303 wheat-dogg
The President is infallible.
Next question?
Don’t listen to or read his words, learn to see what is in his heart.
Remember that famous Kellyanne dodge?
re: #302 wheat-dogg
I don’t understand why Spicer remains at his post. Trying to explain to rational people the rantings of his boss is going to drive him crazy, too. It’d be best he get out now, before the ship sinks.
I’m guessing because Baghdad Sean doesn’t think it’s going to sink (much like Baghdad Bob).
And considering the GOP in the House and Senate, he might be reasonably assured of his position.
@TeaPainUSA @anesam98 I want to know what guaranteed coverage plan only costs as much as a phone.
— Zombie Chef (@zombiesands) March 7, 2017
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t listen to or read his words, learn to see what is in his heart.
Remember that famous Kellyanne dodge?
Yeah. Like we’re supposed to able to see into the heart of a pathological liar.
In fact, the best way to deal with Trump’s accusations is to assume whatever he accuses someone else of doing he has done himself, and for all other statements assume he means the direct opposite of what he has just said.
re: #307 wheat-dogg
Yeah. Like we’re supposed to able to see into the heart of a pathological liar.
In fact, the best way to deal with Trump’s accusations is to assume whatever he accuses someone else of doing he has done himself, and for all other statements assume he means the direct opposite of what he has just said.
I haven’t seen very many Republicans where you can’t apply the DARVO principle.
The Guardian has lots of great stories like this one, about female motorcyclists in India.
I might just have to send the news agency some money.
re: #308 Anymouse
I haven’t seen very many Republicans where you can’t apply the DARVO principle.
Has anyone ever done a comparison by political party of scandals, whether they be sexual, political, or financial? Off the top of my head, I think the Republicans/conservatives would outnumber the Democrats/liberals, at least in the last 50-60 years.
re: #310 wheat-dogg
Has anyone ever done a comparison by political party of scandals, whether they be sexual, political, or financial? Off the top of my head, I think the Republicans/conservatives would outnumber the Democrats/liberals, at least in the last 50-60 years.
“scandal” is a subjective notion at best…it is whatever can be sold as a “scandal”…
and Trump rewrote the rules on that during his campaign.
re: #311 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“scandal” is a subjective notion at best…it is whatever can be sold as a “scandal”…
and Trump rewrote the rules on that during his campaign.
OK, scandals leading toward criminal charges and convictions. or resignations.
With Trump, it seems no scandal can be serious enough to remove him from office. He’s more Teflon than Saint Ronnie.
re: #310 wheat-dogg
Has anyone ever done a comparison by political party of scandals, whether they be sexual, political, or financial? Off the top of my head, I think the Republicans/conservatives would outnumber the Democrats/liberals, at least in the last 50-60 years.
Well, let’s see:
I was born at the tail end of the Eisenhower Administration. As far as I am aware, there are no major scandals associated with him.
Kennedy: Claims of infidelity with Marilyn Monroe - Bay of Pigs
Johnson: Gulf of Tonkin incident to escalate the Vietnam War
Nixon: Need we go on here?
Ford: Really wasn’t in office long enough - pardoned Nixon
Carter: Failure of Iran hostage mission
Reagan: Most administration members ever indicted/jailed
George HW Bush: No scandals per se / Panama invasion
Bill Clinton: Made up crap about Whitewater / Monica Lewinsky
George W Bush: Iraq WMDs / Katrina
Barack Obama: None I can think of other than made up GOP crap (took all our guns, &c)
Donald Trump: Probably more than every president since John Adams already / Russian agent
Your forgot Reagan and Bush Sr. with their involvement in Iran-Contra
My local paper today in its Nation/World section:
Nothing on Trump except the call to “honour women.”
Wikileaks document dump: Is it safe? (A whole lot of description about what it allegedly contains and not much else).
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Your forgot Reagan and Bush Sr. with their involvement in Iran-Contra
I did. Sorry. I also left out 9/11 on Bush Jr.
re: #12 Pawn of the Oppressor
Um, Bill, “subversion” isn’t a crime, except in China…
Isn’t Subversion one type of software?
//
re: #316 Anymouse
My local paper today in its Nation/World section:
Nothing on Trump except the call to “honour women.”
Wikileaks document dump: Is it safe? (A whole lot of description about what it allegedly contains and not much else).
“honour”? Do you have a stray Brit writing for your paper?
re: #317 Anymouse
I did. Sorry. I also left out 9/11 on Bush Jr.
What about Congress-critters? Quite a few there.
Quick question looking for a quick answer. If you can answer off the top of your head.
In taxes and subsidies, how much does average shmoe who’s family earns $150K actually pay into ACA? I guess over and above “normal” medicare/Medicaid deduction?
I got another page looking…..
So I’m just catching up and catching my breath. The GOP leadership introduced Ryancare with the intent of voting on it 48 hours after introduction…and they made no effort to ensure that they had the votes to actually pass it? They’re going to be begging Democrats to support it?
Good God, Paul may have a shorter stint with the gavel than John of Orange did.
re: #320 Timothy Watson
“honour”? Do you have a stray Brit writing for your paper?
No that’s my computer set for Canadian English, as the firm I do book editing for is located in British Columbia.
It auto-corrects to Canadian English and I don’t bother to correct it.
Perhaps if my computer is searched in Canada for something they’ll think I belong there and let me stay. /s
There is no ” you” in honor!
re: #321 wheat-dogg
What about Congress-critters? Quite a few there.
Fellow travellers.
Consider Bill Clinton’s impeachment, with those dragging up salacious arguments against Bill Clinton being guilty of the same thing or worse.
Bashing on the Clintons’s marriage. (Funny, I thought the social conservatives were in favour of preserving marriages where possible. It seems like they’ve been trying to drive a wedge in theirs for thirty years now.)
re: #327 Anymouse
Fellow travellers.
Consider Bill Clinton’s impeachment, with those dragging up salacious arguments against Bill Clinton being guilty of the same thing or worse.
Bashing on the Clintons’s marriage. (Funny, I thought the social conservatives were in favour of preserving marriages where possible. It seems like they’ve been trying to drive a wedge in theirs for thirty years now.)
Newt Gingrich approaching his wife with a divorce settlement on her hospital bed?
re: #321 wheat-dogg
What about Congress-critters? Quite a few there.
Slagging on Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton when they were children in the White House. Whinging incessantly about slagging on Uday, Qusay, and Lolita even though they are adults and ignoring nepotism laws.
List of states where anti-protest bills have been introduced (along with the bill numbers and what they do), because conservatives love them some freedom (if it fits their definition of the II Amendment).
aclu.org
re: #330 Anymouse
List of states where anti-protest bills have been introduced (along with the bill numbers and what they do), because conservatives love them some freedom (if it fits their definition of the II Amendment).
aclu.org
Now GOP SOP: invent some “crisis”, (paid protesters turning violent, immigrant crime wave, creeping Sharia, transgender restroom predators, massive voter fraud, etc.) and then propose “solutions” that do nothing but deprive certain groups of their civil rights.
re: #331 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Now GOP SOP: invent some “crisis”, (paid protesters turning violent, immigrant crime wave, creeping Sharia, transgender restroom predators, massive voter fraud, etc.) and then propose “solutions” that do nothing but deprive certain groups of people of their civil rights.
Check out how draconian South Dakota’s and Oklahoma’s proposed laws are.
re: #332 Anymouse
Check out how draconian South Dakota’s and Oklahoma’s proposed laws are.
They have to keep those Soros activists at bay!
re: #333 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have to keep those Soros activists at bay!
South Dakota would grant emergency powers to the state governor, allow him to commandeer local government resources, allow unlimited spending, and seize private property without a warrant.
All of that is unconstitutional, of course. However, there is no amount of money fiscal conservatives will spend to defend their ideology, and no amount of social programmes they won’t strip money from to achieve said-same ideology.
Has Mike Huckabee been hitting the sauce before he hits Twitter? What does this even mean?
Next time I have long flight like today from Norway I am going to FedEx myself home in a box. Home by 10am and avoid running brown gates.
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) March 7, 2017
LARGE graffito on an I-75 pitstop, Georgetown, KY:
“President Obama did OK. Trump is a war dog”
College town.
re: #335 Anymouse
Has Mike Huckabee been hitting the sauce before he hits Twitter? What does this even mean?
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I don’t even care. Though most people shipped in boxes are, like, dead, so I wonder what he’s really saying here.
re: #22 Sherlock Hound
Glad no one was hurt. Because it might have cost more than an iPhone to get ER care. @jasoninthehouse
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 8, 2017
You put the Ooh Mow Mow
Back into my smile pic.twitter.com/HlIXjOFPI8— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) March 8, 2017
A $2.5 trillion asset manager just put a statue of a defiant girl in front of the Wall Street bull
State Street installed the statue in collaboration with city officials and expects the statue to stay for up to a month, a company spokesman said.
Why only a month? Why can’t this be permanent? It’s awesome!
re: #230 austin_blue
Bringing Kate Bush into the conversation…
Sigh. A goddess who continues to expand her musical horizons with every album. She was 19 when The Kick Inside was released and her voice was brilliant then and it continues to amaze.
re: #340 weave
A $2.5 trillion asset manager just put a statue of a defiant girl in front of the Wall Street bull
Why only a month? Why can’t this be permanent? It’s awesome!
I heard New Yorkers are already lobbying for it to be a permanent installation.
re: #340 weave
A $2.5 trillion asset manager just put a statue of a defiant girl in front of the Wall Street bull
State Street installed the statue in collaboration with city officials and expects the statue to stay for up to a month, a company spokesman said.
Why only a month? Why can’t this be permanent? It’s awesome!
Because equal time provisions require a statue of a young boy standing up to a bear
Congratulations Los Angeles re elected Mayor Garcetti. Best mayor in my lifetime. LA will thrive.
re: #323 Targetpractice
So I’m just catching up and catching my breath. The GOP leadership introduced Ryancare with the intent of voting on it 48 hours after introduction…and they made no effort to ensure that they had the votes to actually pass it? They’re going to be begging Democrats to support it?
Good God, Paul may have a shorter stint with the gavel than John of Orange did.
I guess he’s counting on unanimous—or near unanimous—GOP support in the House. In the Senate? Tougher climb.
But their bill is less paper than the ACA so it’s all good.
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Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump tweeted about International Women’s Day, and that went as predictably as 60+ GOP attempts to repeal Obamacare.
The scoring of the #GOPDontCare plan continues by various stakeholders, like insurance companies, credit rating agencies, and the JCT, with the CBO still to weigh in.
And all of them are bad. Not just bad, but beyond awful. This plan, which the GOP had 8 years to craft - is a shit show of epic proportions. It wont do any of the things that the GOP claims it would - it wont bring affordable care, it wont solve a non-existent death spiral (but will create its own), and it blows up the debt by $600 billion, not counting the bit that the CBO will address when its own scoring is released.
#GOPDontCare. GOP just wants Obamacare repealed; replacement covering less, costing more, are sacrifices on altar of tax cuts @charles_gaba
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 8, 2017
If the CBO scores show that it isn’t revenue neutral, then Ryan’s entire plan to avoid scrutiny on the bill and fast track via reconciliation falls apart.
That’s because parliamentary rules state a reconciliation bill cannot institute permanent budget changes unless it is revenue neutral.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) March 8, 2017
re: #348 lawhawk
That’s because parliamentary rules state a reconciliation bill cannot institute permanent budget changes unless it is revenue neutral.
— Matthew Chapman
Rules are for other people.
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re: #345 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because equal time provisions require a statue of a young boy standing up to a bear
No bears there. So, that would mean two more statues. It’s gonna get crowded pretty quick!
re: #335 Anymouse
Cop Killer Huck once again boldly proclaims to the whole world that he is a total asshole
Current mood: Google Chrome pic.twitter.com/4OHOLPCynY
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 8, 2017
re: #237 Anymouse
David Gilmour (of Pink Flood) discovered Kate and Wuthering Heights and promoted her to EMI. That’s Ian Bairnson on guitar in that song. Yet another confluence of brilliance in music.
@Heritage_Action Admit it you whores. You want the poor, elderly and infirm to die in the name of Ayn Rand!
— josephebacon (@josephebacon) March 8, 2017
re: #175 Anymouse
Well if we’re going for bad pop song, “Friday” by Rebecca Black certainly weigh in, with over 2,500,000 downvotes on YouTube (the most of any song):
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I still prefer the Bad Lip Reading version…
re: #242 Anymouse
Fun Fact: Cotton Mather, famed witch trial leader, also experimented in the field which would eventually become genetics, by studying blue and yellow corn. He essentially described blue corn as a genetic recessive (though he didn’t use that term), after planting corn plots upwind of each other so they would cross-pollinate, then observed the results.
I think that Medel would have issues with that assessment.
Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits. He recognized the mathematical patterns of inheritance from one generation to the next. Mendel’s Laws of Heredity are usually stated as:
re: #348 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Trump tweeted about International Women’s Day, and that went as predictably as 60+ GOP attempts to repeal Obamacare.
The scoring of the #GOPDontCare plan continues by various stakeholders, like insurance companies, credit rating agencies, and the JCT, with the CBO still to weigh in.
And all of them are bad. Not just bad, but beyond awful. This plan, which the GOP had 8 years to craft - is a shit show of epic proportions. It wont do any of the things that the GOP claims it would - it wont bring affordable care, it wont solve a non-existent death spiral (but will create its own), and it blows up the debt by $600 billion, not counting the bit that the CBO will address when its own scoring is released.
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The revenue neutral part is the driving force behind how monumentally shitty this bill is. The need to be neutral means they had to find ways to pay for their tax cuts, hence the astronomically deep cuts they’re advancing in the bill. But that’s not something they want to admit out loud, that their “tax cuts pay for themselves” dogma is total bullshit.
Forget all about those “walked two miles in snow to get to school” stories.
re: #358 Targetpractice
The biggest cuts in spending are in the Medicaid block grant section, where for the first two years, they’re pushing $15 billion in block grants, but thereafter it’s $10 billion. That’s a 30% cut (not counting the cut over what the current amounts are).
30% cut in Medicaid. That’s either 30% fewer people serviced, or 100% of people covered get 30% less coverage. Either way that’s a huge hit - more than the cost of an iPhone.
re: #260 freetoken
It’s that economic-function primacy of “education” why I dislike so many of the “STEM” pushes.
There are many RWNJs out there that are promoting the idea that the only useful university education is one that is STEM focused. While many of the same morons also think that a return to the 17th century life would make all good again. When education focus was much more focused on the humanities and a broad-based education. I would say ‘oh, the irony’ but they are not intellectually capable to understand where their logic takes a radical (heh) left turn from reality.
re: #361 lawhawk
The biggest cuts in spending are in the Medicaid block grant section, where for the first two years, they’re pushing $15 billion in block grants, but thereafter it’s $10 billion. That’s a 30% cut (not counting the cut over what the current amounts are).
30% cut in Medicaid. That’s either 30% fewer people serviced, or 100% of people covered get 30% less coverage. Either way that’s a huge hit - more than the cost of an iPhone.
Hence all their “cutting costs” BS, because the costs they’re focusing on cutting are ones for their donors. And their donors view giving us healthcare as a cost, much as they see creating jobs as a form of altruism.
re: #364 Targetpractice
Hence all their “cutting costs” BS, because the costs they’re focusing on cutting are ones for their donors. And their donors view giving us healthcare as a cost, much as they see creating jobs as a form of altruism.
and having to pay taxes as a form of theft.
re: #336 Decatur Deb
LARGE graffito on an I-75 pitstop, Georgetown, KY:
“President Obama did OK. Trump is a war dog”
College town.
Home of extremely large Toyota/Lexus plant, too.
re: #357 Dave In Austin
“Waitress, just coffee this morning. Hold the eggs.”
re: #320 Timothy Watson
“honour”? Do you have a stray Brit writing for your paper?
Piers Morgan could not be reached for comment.
Did anyone know that the debt ceiling comes due next week? No? Perhaps its because, unlike the last 8 years, the GOP isn’t out there talking about how America could default on her debts and come out the other side better for it? And the media’s not entertaining assholes from Bumfuck, Iowa talking about how we need to keep the ceiling where it is so we can “get our house in order”?
Amazing what happens when a white guy is in office.
Something uplifting
“We want our future to be better. So that we can make our dreams come true.” Meet the TIGER girls of Zaatari refugee camp .
Get inspired to change the lives of refugee girls on this #WomensDay.
UNHCR
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#girl #Jordan #Syrianrefugees #refugees #hope #instahope #realpeople #UNHCR #WomensDay
re: #370 Targetpractice
Did anyone know that the debt ceiling comes due next week? No? Perhaps its because, unlike the last 8 years, the GOP isn’t out there talking about how America could default on her debts and come out the other side better for it? And the media’s not entertaining assholes from Bumfuck, Iowa talking about how we need to keep the ceiling where it is so we can “get our house in order”?
Amazing what happens when a white guy is in office.
Democrats aren’t going to shut down the government over it.
Hospitals, nursing homes, physicians, patient advocates all releasing statements that AHCA is unworkable.
AMA’s letter is below. pic.twitter.com/lhnbVrc87g— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 8, 2017
The GOPDontCare plan doesn’t care that it’s unworkable, or will cost stakeholders (patients, insureds, hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, and staff at medical facilities dearly). All they want is their fucking tax cuts.
They want their petty tax breaks for insurance company CEOs and they want their massive tax cuts for the rich that come with rationing care and limiting Medicaid block grants that will leave your grandparents wanting for nursing home or hospital care in their waning years because the block grants get the old slash and burn treatment because the GOP wants to gut programs that work.
Medicaid costs for health care have gone up far more slowly than the costs for corporate insurance coverage. That means that one of the brakes on rising health care costs will disappear because the purchasing power of Medicaid will be further diluted, and the transparency efforts under Obamacare will also disappear (that’s one of the reasons the ACA was so large - it dealt with issues of health cost transparency).
Something inspiring.
Had to get my sister Isra to write a little something for this day. “Happy International Women’s Day to all of my sisters out there! We are living in a time where our communities are being torn apart by Agent Orange in the White House or online trolls trying to divide an already targeted and vulnerable community. There are more openly-identified Islamophobes today then there has ever been. There are more hate crimes against Muslims than there has ever been. And yet, we have women in our communities wearing a hijab with their head held high. Women whom are unapologetically Muslim and could potentially be risking their lives for their faith. It is not easy being a hijabi in today’s world. I have been called a “terrorist”, “ISIS”, told to “go back to my country” (even though I was born and raised in the US), more times in the past few months than the past 10 years. I do feel afraid walking alone. I do get anxious every time I’m on the metro escalator and platform so I always stand sideways constantly looking around me to make sure no one is trying to shove me in front of a train. I do worry about my mama and sisters all day- wanting to always check in and make sure no one experienced any type of hate. I do bite my tongue when I get called a name because I don’t know if any response from me would trigger a violent or fatal altercation. I choose to wear the hijab, and I don’t have any regrets or doubt in my choice but, I understand the struggle for Muslim women in today’s society. I empathize with women whom are struggling right now. We need to be there for each other- lift one another up- have each other’s back. We cannot afford to be divided. To all my brothers out there- use today as time to reflect on how you can be a better ally for your sisters. Instead of passing judgement on how they wear their hijab or how tight their jeans are in pictures- focus on their courage and bravery in choosing to wear a hijab in our current climate. Stand by them, not against them. We are stronger together. To all my sisters, I am grateful for your strength, and inspired by your persistence. Nevertheless, WE Persisted. ❤” - @israspeaks #muslimsoftheworld1
re: #370 Targetpractice
Did anyone know that the debt ceiling comes due next week? No? Perhaps its because, unlike the last 8 years, the GOP isn’t out there talking about how America could default on her debts and come out the other side better for it? And the media’s not entertaining assholes from Bumfuck, Iowa talking about how we need to keep the ceiling where it is so we can “get our house in order”?
Amazing what happens when a white guy is in office.
Raising the debt ceiling has gone from being an impeachable offense worthy of national revolt to overthrow a dually elected government to being something that must receive 100% universal support immediately or be expelled from congress.
Hasta la vista, everyone. It’s approaching the sleep hour for the Dogg.
re: #293 Anymouse
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I would love to see these quotes on billboards. As you’re driving out of the DC airport.
Wait. I beg your pardon? https://t.co/ZI6OhUlfqR pic.twitter.com/XLYzQsCOXG
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) March 8, 2017
Shot and chaser are included in same tweet….
Watched Perks of Being a Wallflower last night. Absolutely beautiful movie. So many story lines all woven together perfectly. Wasn’t sure what to expect but it was fantastic.
re: #378 lawhawk
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Shot and chaser are included in same tweet….
Totally classy escort services for businessmen. All good Christian women.
I see Sarah ain’t with the bullshit today. pic.twitter.com/Ub6Jbj1VUv
— Nappy Valley (@ParisBurned) March 7, 2017
re: #380 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Totally classy escort services for businessmen. All good Christian women.
Chosen by Je$u$.
So, on the way back from a lesson, there was a sign in front of a little corner grocery store advertising venison sausages. It’s an unassuming little store; so I bought a couple, and damn, are they good! It’s often in the little places that you find great things.
re: #378 lawhawk
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Shot and chaser are included in same tweet….
Now there obviously must be some mistake in the translation, because we know that Der Trumpenfuhrer would never be associated with such things. It’s clear that the Chinese are trying to slander his good name.
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re: #272 freetoken
WaPo is in the business of making money, and they do that by getting eyes on product, and wingnut eyes are still eyes as far as internet metrics are concerned.
The late, great author, re: #272 freetoken
WaPo is in the business of making money, and they do that by getting eyes on product, and wingnut eyes are still eyes as far as internet metrics are concerned.
The late, great author, Terry Pratchett, wrote about the newspaper business in The Truth. Turning lead into gold by publishing all sides of any story.
re: #383 Dr Lizardo
So, on the way back from a lesson, there was a sign in front of a little corner grocery store advertising venison sausages. It’s an unassuming little store; so I bought a couple, and damn, are they good! It’s often in the little places that you find great things.
We had a butcher here who sold wild boar bratwurst. Must look for them again.
I want to buy a coffee for the person(s) responsible for leaving little white signs around Cambridge MA with simple messages like “Resist” and “This is not normal”.
This is better than benign “Follow Friday” tweets. Hopefully I will find some great people to follow today:
I wouldn’t have the career I have without these women: @maddow @MHarrisPerry @JoyAnnReid @mikafrak @HollyAnderson @JulianneRoss #IWD2017
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 8, 2017
re: #387 Franklin
I want to buy a coffee for the person(s) responsible for leaving little white signs around Cambridge MA with simple messages like “Resist” and “This is not normal”.
Not sure if intentional, but the signs are all hung on street/traffic signs by coat hangers. Perhaps a subtle sign of what’s at stake for women’s reproductive rights.
Shocked, shocked I say…
BREAKING: Congress fast-tracks resolution to allow internet providers to sell consumer data without permission https://t.co/2wVpcY9ggZ
— ACLU National (@ACLU) March 7, 2017
re: #393 FormerDirtDart
Shocked, shocked I say…
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“It’s outrageous that the NSA would look at my emails or call history! That’s stuff that could be sold to a third-party for a profit!!!”
Reading some reviews on Perks of Being a Wallflower, ran across this from the late/great Roger Ebert:
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
Furious Obama might even be better than No Fucks to Give Obama.
Former President Barack Obama is said to be “furious” about President Donald Trump’s unproven claim that Obama ordered a surveillance operation on phones at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.
People close to Obama told The Wall Street Journal in a story published Tuesday night that Obama was “livid” about Trump’s unfounded accusations, which came in a series of tweets early Saturday morning.
Obama said before he left office that he would not respond to every controversial thing Trump tweeted, but during his last press conference as commander in chief Obama said he would “examine it when it comes” if there were issues that “go to core questions about our values and our ideals.”
Trump’s explosive accusations — which he made without providing any evidence — appeared to do just that, according to The Journal’s Carol E. Lee and Peter Nicholas, who cited people familiar with Obama’s thinking who said Trump’s tweets about wiretapping undermined “the integrity of the office of the president and Mr. Obama himself.”
re: #396 makeitstop
Furious Obama might even be better than No Fucks to Give Obama.
Next up: Libel lawsuit.
re: #395 Franklin
Reading some reviews on Perks of Being a Wallflower, ran across this from the late/great Roger Ebert:
Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.
I despised my junior year HS English teacher (and she me) but she drilled a ton of vocabulary into us, for which I am still grateful and taught us how to read and appreciate modern literature (GB Shaw, Hemmingway, Steinbeck) for which I am also grateful
Morning Lizards:
I ORDERED A PIZZA WITH PINEAPPLE AND pic.twitter.com/VkmdaHYBwe
— ali (@Try2ShootUsDown) March 5, 2017
re: #335 Anymouse
Has Mike Huckabee been hitting the sauce before he hits Twitter? What does this even mean?
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I’ll take “autocorrect turned ‘between’ into ‘brown’ after a close connection for $50. (Doesn’t mean he isn’t still a jerk, just a jerk who had a bad experience in an airport)
re: #401 BadgerB
I’ll take “autocorrect turned ‘between’ into ‘brown’ after a close connection for $50. (Doesn’t mean he isn’t still a jerk, just a jerk who had a bad experience in an airport)
Thanks to DT, airport experiences are only getting more and more dire.
re: #281 freetoken
My favourite bit from Andromeda was about AI.
Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn’t Care.
re: #400 Ubiq
I feel dirty updinging anyhting associated with that horror. But, he turned it around quite well.
re: #403 Romantic Heretic
Worlds governed by artificial intelligence often learned a hard lesson: Logic Doesn’t Care.
Logic is a tool, not an end in itself…
It’s on like Donkey Kong! @jonfavs @TVietor08 @danpfeiffer @jonlovett @PodSaveAmerica pic.twitter.com/VJuEBgY139
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 8, 2017
@independent …and then the man selected a VP who mishandled his emails.
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 8, 2017
This, from @PrivateEyeNews pic.twitter.com/JoAb8Rwseo
— Peter Bradshaw (@PeterBradshaw1) March 8, 2017
Kremlin bots instantly pounced on WikiLeaks dump, pushing false narrative that CIA framed Russia for hacking the DNC https://t.co/Y25LDpHJYp pic.twitter.com/fQcmsQyrZ1
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) March 8, 2017
Wait for Trump, his bots and right wing conspiracy sites like Infowars and Gateway Pundit to push this BS narrative into mainstream: https://t.co/W5yOFp2tDC
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 8, 2017
re: #409 lawhawk
That all that malware is already out there, and a bunch of it is Russian in origin shows that Russian and other countries are involved in these same kinds of efforts to spy on their rivals and enemies. But wikileaks cares not for what Russia does and has fixated on undermining US national security time and time again.
Not for nothing, the Russia bots are busy trying to spin this as the CIA trying to frame Russia for what the CIA does - feeding the conspiracy theory nuts who circle around Trump (and Trump himself).
re: #410 lawhawk
The main purpose of the wikileaks dump was to offer enough “circumstantial evidence” that Obama was wiretapping Trump.
SOS was tearing down practically all of Wikileaks claims last night.
I’ve literally seen more cutting insults from Katy Perry fans than these Wikileaks fanbois upset about my 140 character text messages.
— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) March 8, 2017
Real Estate deals are a red flag —at least it seems that many big investigations and prosecutions are the result of them.
who is a real estate mogul?
re: #409 lawhawk
Kremlin bots instantly pounced on WikiLeaks dump, pushing false narrative that CIA framed Russia for hacking the DNC
What a great idea by the CIA to hack DNC emails on behalf of a…Democratic administration. Yeah makes total sense.
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REMINDER: Statue of a defiant girl now stands in front of the Wall Street’s raging bull. #ADayWithoutAWoman #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/mIY52o76JK
— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) March 8, 2017
re: #411 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The main purpose of the wikileaks dump w
as to offer enough “circumstantial evidence” that Obama was wiretapping Trump.
put the Wanker back in the spotlight.
:)
re: #414 Sir John Barron
What a great idea by the CIA to hack DNC emails on behalf of a…Democratic administration. Yeah makes total sense.
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HRC: So let me see if I have this straight…you want to hack my party’s email records to get the Bernie Bros all riled up so we can blame Russia for the hack?
CIA:
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For no particular reason:
I’m so glad I found LGF all those years ago and that it has continued to evolve into what it is today, an island of sanity and reason in an increasingly depraved, ignorant, and irrational world.
I go to other sites, allegedly good ones at that, and see commenters do asinine things like cite their unknown and unnamed relatives as sources, or post outlandishly obvious strawmen about statements just a few lines away. And I think, wow, the Lizards would skin that fool and serve up his gamey buttocks in record time.
This truly is the best commenting community on the internet. Thanks, gang, for being here and thank you, Charles, for making it possible and persevering through all the struggle.
.@realDonaldTrump Fixed this, hun. #InterationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/If7BGQRnIC
— Katherine Ryan (@Kathbum) March 8, 2017
This picture always gets me…it’s from a question about bullying in general, but the visual is uplifting for girls worldwide:
re: #419 Shiplord Kirel
Some *ahem* of us are trying to remain sane and reasonable.
re: #419 Shiplord Kirel
And the commenting platform is easily the most user-friendly anywhere. Kind of surprised there aren’t other sites that try to set it up the same way. But it’s easy to follow the comments of others.
Dear @HillaryClinton, We messed up. You deserved better. https://t.co/577ANBeATY #InternationalWomensDay
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 8, 2017
“Russia is not America’s friend. And it’s stunning to hear that while they were attacking our democracy, one of the largest organizations supporting Trump was cozying up with a sanctioned Russian in Moscow,” said Rep. Eric Swalwell, who is the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee panel that oversees the CIA.
Here’s a story filling in some background on the murder of KKK Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona in Missouri. Apparently his wife was a cat hoarder and not exactly a nice person. Not that a Klan leader is a nice person either, but it doesn’t look like his Klan stuff got him murdered.
OK, hump day just collapsed into a great open pit…
i mean, what the actual fuck pic.twitter.com/QwXwEfKlam
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 8, 2017
re: #427 mmmirele
Here’s a story filling in some background on the murder of KKK Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona in Missouri. Apparently his wife was a cat hoarder and not exactly a nice person. Not that a Klan leader is a nice person either, but it doesn’t look like his Klan stuff got him murdered.
In other words, people with serious social issues and personality disorders, all perfectly at home in a movement that is based on some of the worst aspects of human nature.
re: #428 FormerDirtDart
Yes. it’s real…
@HeerJeet oh ayuh https://t.co/HYz9vSmPQ2
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) March 8, 2017
I’ll tell you exactly how the Wikileaks story will be spun: Obama ordered the CIA to hack the DNC in order to sabotage Hillary’s run, because he secretly supported Bernie’s candidacy and still bears a grudge against the Clintons for ‘08.
Yes, this is how fucking crazy wingnuts are, that they’d totally believe this story to make the pieces fit together.
re: #431 Targetpractice
I’ll tell you exactly how the Wikileaks story will be spun: Obama ordered the CIA to hack the DNC in order to sabotage Hillary’s run, because he secretly supported Bernie’s candidacy and still bears a grudge against the Clintons for ‘08.
Yes, this is how fucking crazy wingnuts are, that they’d totally believe this story to make the pieces fit together.
Just add some aliens and a pedophile pizza parlor and you got a winner here…
re: #428 FormerDirtDart
That’s courtesy of now AG Sessions. He of the testimony given under oath that was was a lie - perjury.
These sanctimonious assholes think that eliminating health care coverage for millions of people makes it great.
If you’re participating in #ADayWithoutAWoman please take the rest of the week off too. You whiny liberal feminists won’t be missed. Thanks!
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) March 8, 2017
nich, huh?
And this just came across my face…
Adolf Hitler showing symptoms of amphetamine use
I like how the misogynists think women who show support today will lose their jobs, because OBVIOUSLY the boss is a man #ADayWithoutAWoman
— Alt Fed Employee (@Alt_FedEmployee) March 8, 2017
re: #428 FormerDirtDart
OK, hump day just collapsed into a great open pit…
I can’t see the picture, but is this in it:
(a) Short title.—This Act may be cited as the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017”.
Wishing all women in USA gain the same success as the women in Iceland #ADayWithoutAWoman #womensmarch #Equality pic.twitter.com/LJzGvJUWSq
— Winter_Thur (@winterthur) March 8, 2017
We’re closed Saturday, sorry. RT @KySportsRadio: Hearing Donald Trump coming to Kentucky on Saturday
— Charles J. Moore (@charles270) March 8, 2017
re: #435 Teukka
And this just came across my face…
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Tweaking his fascist ass off.
re: #435 Teukka
And this just came across my face…
Adolf Hitler showing symptoms of amphetamine use
There is a lot of evidence that came out on how seriously Hitler was addicted to the drugs in the various injections he was getting from his personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell.
And it is thought that his outbursts in the Bunker at the end of the war were the result of withdrawal, as the factory supplying his synthetic opiates was bombed out.
re: #434 Birth Control Works
You mad, bro?
re: #440 makeitstop
Tweaking his fascist ass off.
*nods*
re: #441 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is a lot of evidence that came out on how seriously Hitler was addicted to the drugs in the various injections he was getting from his house doctor, Theodor Morell.
And it is thought that his outbursts in the Bunker at the end of the war were the result of withdrawal, as the factory supplying his synthetic opiates was bombed out.
*nods again*
re: #429 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In other words, people with serious social issues and personality disorders, all perfectly at home in a movement that is based on some of the worst aspects of human nature.
I see that the Malissa’s son and alleged accomplice, Paul Jinkerson Jr., has a record for meth possession. Imagine my surprise.
.@CNN hires former Trump spokesman @JasonMillerinDC https://t.co/hQ1R9rd5zf pic.twitter.com/b5P60bgfo6
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 8, 2017
re: #444 Shiplord Kirel
I see that the Malissa’s son and alleged accomplice, Paul Jinkerson Jr., has a record for meth possession. Imagine my surprise.
all the worst aspects of human nature, yes…
#Readthebill and you’ll see #Trumpcare allows insurers to charge older Americans much more for their healthcare #AgeTax pic.twitter.com/yIYO8ZjxSS
— Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (@SenatorShaheen) March 8, 2017
Putting more of your money into the hands of health insurance companies. This is #SwampCare. This is the Republican plan. https://t.co/c0niMGTkpF
— Jason Karsh (@jkarsh) March 8, 2017
re: #427 mmmirele
Here’s a story filling in some background on the murder of KKK Imperial Wizard Frank Ancona in Missouri. Apparently his wife was a cat hoarder and not exactly a nice person. Not that a Klan leader is a nice person either, but it doesn’t look like his Klan stuff got him murdered.
That’s a thing I’ve noticed, people with those sort of opinions are not that often nice people to begin with…
re: #429 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In other words, people with serious social issues and personality disorders, all perfectly at home in a movement that is based on some of the worst aspects of human nature.
You know, there is a theory about group narcissism, i.e. narcissism where the focal point of the malignant “love” is not the self but the group one belongs to, otherwise the plain old disorder being the same.
Only when the focal point is one race is when people recognize the pathology, otherwise, it gets easily explained away as devotion, patriotism or party loyalty.
re: #437 Belafon
I can’t see the picture, but is this in it:
(a) Short title.—This Act may be cited as the “World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017”.
Yes
Woman mistaken for transgender harassed in bathroom https://t.co/7bwJH1BF0E
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) March 8, 2017
These laws are mostly about freeing harassers to harass, so here ya go.
President Donald Trump is making a stop in Louisville this weekend https://t.co/8bzV4TpWHO
CJ confirms Trump is flying into Louisville airport Saturday https://t.co/IzDcMaMWT4
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 8, 2017
President Donald Trump is coming to Louisville on Saturday, a spokeswoman with the Louisville International Airport confirmed.
On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration warned pilots to expect flight restrictions of about 35 miles and an even stricter restriction of about 11 nautical miles. Those restrictions for “VIP Movement” have been a previous characteristic of a presidential visit. A more-detailed “Notice to Airmen” has not yet been issued.
A similar notice was issued last weekend for Orlando prior to Trump spending time at Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.
Stephanie Smith, public relations manager for the Louisville Regional Airport Authority, told the Courier-Journal that they were notified Wednesday that he’s coming this weekend. She said that they haven’t received any other details.
Representatives from the U.S. Secret Service and Senator Mitch McConnell’s office declined to comment, forwarding all requests to the White House. The White House did not respond to a USA TODAY request for comment.
re: #450 FormerDirtDart
Yes
What’s hilarious, is Sessions refers to the act as the “Worlds Greatest Healthcare Act” all throughout the document.
And the icing on the cake:
Aimee Toms has a short haircut because she recently donated hair - for the third time - to a program that makes wigs for child cancer patients.
re: #435 Teukka
And this just came across my face…
Adolf Hitler showing symptoms of amphetamine use
The author of Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich was on Fresh Air yesterday. Only heard part of it, but very interesting about the documented use of opiates and methamphetamine by Hitler and the army
re: #456 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Ha! That is a fantastic title.
re: #454 Birth Control Works
no, just showing the level of hate out there.
I meant the dude who tweeted out the complaint about Women’s Day.
“Without NOAA we would just be looking out the window to see what the weather is doing,” https://t.co/6kxdRbOlqX
— Lisa Song (@lisalsong) March 8, 2017
“FW: ! Senators Graham and Whitehouse Request Warrant Application and Court Orders Related to Wiretapping !”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 8, 2017
This seems like kind of a big deal
Over 30 dead as gunmen dressed as doctors raid Kabul hospital https://t.co/rCzddTL1Wz pic.twitter.com/2UY2LBTb5i
— AFP news agency (@AFP) March 8, 2017
re: #462 Backwoods_Sleuth
And no outrage is shown from the rest of the world, as usual.
@HallieJackson w/ great question on wiretap allegations: “Why would he want congress to investigate something he already has?”
.@HallieJackson w/ great question on wiretap allegations: “Why would he want congress to investigate something he already has?”@PressSec: pic.twitter.com/O5iWo8DVkS
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) March 7, 2017
What he really meant:
“Obviously, we want a political sideshow, that FOX News can broadcast live, and distract the American people…”
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from my fb:
Sad day for public education in the United States. The U.S. House of Representatives has introduced Bill 610. This bill will effectively start the school voucher system to be used by children ages 5 to 17, and starts the de-funding process of public schools.
The bill will eliminate the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESSA) of 1965 which is the nation’s educational law and provides equal opportunity in education. It is a comprehensive program that covers programs for struggling learners, AP classes, ESL classes, classes for minorities such as Native Americans, Rural Education, Education for the Homeless, School Safety (Gun-Free schools), Monitoring and Compliance and Federal Accountability Programs.
The bill also abolishes the Nutritional Act of 2012 (No Hungry Kids Act) which provides nutritional standards in school breakfast and lunch. For our most vulnerable, this may be the ONLY nutritious food they have in a day.
The bill has no wording whatsoever protecting special needs kids, no mention of IDEA and FAPE.Some things the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESSA) of 1965 does for Children with Disabilities:
-ensures access to the general education curriculum
-ensures access to accommodations on assessments
-ensures concepts of Universal Design for Learning
-includes provisions that require local education agencies to provide evidence-based interventions in schools with consistently underperforming subgroups
-requires states in Title I plans to address how they will improve conditions for learning including reducing incidents of bullying and harassment in schools, overuse of discipline practices and reduce the use of aversive behavioral interventions (such as restraints and seclusion).Please call your representative and ask him/her to vote NO on House Bill 610 (HR 610) introduced by three Republican reps.
Please consider copying and pasting this post (rather than hitting “share” so it isn’t limited to the friends we have in common). Thanks for advocating on behalf of our nation’s youth and their families.
re: #461 A wild WITHAK appeared!
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This seems like kind of a big deal
DOJ: “Oh…er…can’t show you that.”
“Why not?”
DOJ: “Because it’s confidential material!”
“We have the clearance level to read that.”
DOJ: “It pertains to an ongoing investigation!”
“What investigation?”
DOJ: “We can’t show them to you, but we assure you they exist. Now go away!”
Men try to read the most disturbing comments women get online back to them. #MoreThanMean https://t.co/DWisPVCv4e
— ggt (@geegeetee) March 8, 2017
You get a $100! Everyone gets $100! Follow us and tweet a women’s cause you care about with #FundHerCause for $100 towards that cause. pic.twitter.com/BbpzLKS67S
— Tinder (@Tinder) March 8, 2017
#FundHerCause - https://t.co/zokWNz4pOa @GirlsWhoCode @tinder
— Franklin (@franklinftw) March 8, 2017
re: #5 Joe Bacon
Well, I went to vote when I finished work. My polling station in Los Angeles handles four precincts. After I cast my ballot, I asked the clerks how many people voted as of 515 PM in my precinct…
The reply…
14…
Depressing…
There was an election here for two city council seats yesterday. Including absentee votes, turnout was 1.6%. Don’t miss that decimal in there. Not 16%, one point six percent. It’s working the way somebody wants it to.
#BREAKING Bomb threat called into Louisville Jewish Community Center https://t.co/RWxf9BfcCg
.@repblumenauer has an amendment to AHCA that is some high quality trolling pic.twitter.com/BRlHKjEOf6
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 8, 2017
911 dispatcher, boyfriend charged after hundreds of pounds of pot found in Silverton basement. Police discuss LIVE: https://t.co/pjsDCS5R7R pic.twitter.com/eTVAizG3S7
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 8, 2017
Butler Co Sheriff’s Office-400 lbs of marijuana found in semi. 200 lbs allegedly in possession of dispatcher and boyfriend @Local12 pic.twitter.com/RPFiP8cjvn
— Larry Davis (@LarryDavisWKRC) March 8, 2017
Sheriff says one of the suspects has been deported twice before. Says drugs came from Mexico @Local12 pic.twitter.com/KxgCII2pNX
— Larry Davis (@LarryDavisWKRC) March 8, 2017
DEA agent Tim Reagan says they have been following these suspects for the past month. @Local12
— Larry Davis (@LarryDavisWKRC) March 8, 2017
I wouldn’t have made it to Mars without women. #ADayWithoutWomen is a day without Curiosity. pic.twitter.com/yLTJCGAaqj
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) March 8, 2017
The group OUTVETS was denied a spot in the South Boston parade after being able to march the last two years.
Mayor Walsh won’t march in St. Patrick’s Day parade without gay veterans - https://t.co/VUkrnFQVPY
— Matt Karolian ☕️&🗞 (@mkarolian) March 8, 2017
Here they are from a pic I took last year, got some nice support from where I was sitting:
In addition to the Mayor:
Congressman Seth Moulton encouraged a boycott of the parade, calling the event organizers’ decision to reject the group’s participation “outrageous and disgraceful.”
“Let’s just be clear, these are men and women who courageously put their lives on the line for our country,” Moulton said in a statement. “They deserve our respect just as much as anyone, and if this decision is not reversed immediately, I would encourage anybody who supports freedom, equality, and the service of our veterans no matter who they are, to boycott this parade.”
I won’t be attending this year.
‘You’re stuck with me:’ FBI Director James Comey says he plans to serve his entire 10-year term. https://t.co/bHqJYZzP4E
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 8, 2017
it was Deep State liberal feminazis in the National Parks Service. Seditious treasonous radical leftist terrorists …
🗽 What caused the Statue of Liberty to go dark last night? Human error, @NatlParkService says. Story: apne.ws
🗽 What caused the Statue of Liberty to go dark last night? Human error, @NatlParkService says. Story: https://t.co/NGuIH1NSxf pic.twitter.com/FjzSiqpvrr
— AP Eastern U.S. (@APEastRegion) March 8, 2017
tor.com is running a cool flash-fiction event called “Nevertheless, She Persisted” to commemorate International Women’s Day, with stories by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Carrie Vaughn, and more.
I wouldn’t have made it to Mars without women. #ADayWithoutWomen is a day without Curiosity. pic.twitter.com/yLTJCGAaqj
— SarcasticRover (@SarcasticRover) March 8, 2017
TrumpCare rollout going smoothly… pic.twitter.com/Axa7TRoxyW
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) March 7, 2017
Standing up for women is the cause of my life. We must change our culture to end violence against women #IWD2017https://t.co/0t5nS9eGEW
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 8, 2017
re: #477 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love Sarcastic Rover.
Have I mentioned how awesome @edroso is, you guys? https://t.co/N85TLRP0UO pic.twitter.com/27RMdXEGSQ
— Zandarogue Natl Park (@ZandarVTS) March 8, 2017
re: #486 gocart mozart
“….the political equivalent of locking yourself in the studio for years working on your double-album masterpiece, and emerging with a boombox tape of bathtub farts….”
Fucking brilliant.
House Bill 610 has been introduced. Abolishes school lunches and starts the voucher system. #No610 #SaveOurSchools #NoVouchers
— JMC (@sancusbook) March 8, 2017
No!!! @RepNewhouse https://t.co/DbVwEmdaXS
— Dan Miller (@DMiller_357) March 8, 2017
THIS IS INSANE U BASTARDS TAKING FOOD FROM POOR CHILDREN !!!!!!!! https://t.co/408nEJ6bWM
— ROSIE (@Rosie) March 8, 2017
First lady Melania Trump is speaking at a #WomensDay luncheon at the White House https://t.co/NwIZYSpjR6 https://t.co/skr5z0Z2Hm
— CNN (@CNN) March 8, 2017
WH brings in pool cameras to see Melania walk into a room to applause, but escorts press out as soon as she begins to speak at the podium https://t.co/TFTJA687mp
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 8, 2017
First lady Melania Trump is speaking at a #WomensDay luncheon at the White House https://t.co/NwIZYSpjR6 https://t.co/skr5z0Z2Hm
— CNN (@CNN) March 8, 2017
WH brings in pool cameras to see Melania walk into a room to applause, but escorts press out as soon as she begins to speak at the podium https://t.co/TFTJA687mp
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) March 8, 2017
re: #488 jaunte
This is a congressional bill?
If you read this word salad answer from OMB Director Mulvaney more than twice, your brain will break. pic.twitter.com/kSGpC6tne9
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) March 8, 2017
Meanwhile, Roger Stone gives an interview to notorious Kremlin bullhorn RT, complains of Trump Tower “break-ins,” says Comey should be fired pic.twitter.com/Nq8LpaLvur
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 8, 2017
Now @repsandylevin introducing an amendment to ensure a week window between the CBO score and the final vote pic.twitter.com/8xTJdfgJTY
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 8, 2017
Seen at DailyKos, the perfect tag for the GOP healthcare mess:
DonTCare
re: #491 Sir John Barron
This is a congressional bill?
“…The bill, introduced by Representative Steve King of Iowa, seeks to repeal a portion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that pertains to nutritional standards in schools and would create a voucher program to distribute federal funds to expand “school choice” for students”
romper.com
re: #493 A wild WITHAK appeared!
@JuliaDavisNews Wingnuts always try to invert reality. This tells us that he understands that the Trump scandals are bigger then Watergate.
— (((Jeff Furling))) (@FurlingtonJeff) March 8, 2017
re: #486 gocart mozart
The NRO dude says:
[the House bill is] a desire to address the difficulty of transitioning out of the bind created by Obamacare’s entrenchment over the past four years.
So, you see, it’s all Obama’s fault for giving people healthcare.
re: #495 jaunte
Now @repsandylevin introducing an amendment to ensure a week window between the CBO score and the final vote pic.twitter.com
— Ben Jacobs
Can’t allow that, that would be tyranny.
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Girls stole our plans, helped destroy 2 Death Stars and beat up Kylo Ren. Rebels, PLEASE stop fighting like a girl. #internationalwomensday
— Death Star PR (@DeathStarPR) March 8, 2017
This woman is running against Jason Chaffetz. You know what to do.https://t.co/imHvhBxVuQ
— Jon Spaihts (@jonspaihts) March 7, 2017
Jo was passionate, beautiful, fearless, compassionate& strong.A role model for her daughter (and son) on International Women’s day #IWD2017 pic.twitter.com/hQIdLSuhYM
— Brendan Cox (@MrBrendanCox) March 7, 2017
Here are just a few ideas for every woman (& man) to roll up their sleeves & get busy, bold & strong this #IWD17 https://t.co/6RxTlCEOTw pic.twitter.com/G5RdwSV8Jy
— Jo Cox Foundation (@JoCoxFoundation) March 8, 2017
re: #488 jaunte
I don’t think it actually abolishes school lunches:
The bill proposed by King also tacks on another issue, in addition to school vouchers: it wants to cut a provision of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, which requires that school lunches meet certain nutritional standards, including a basic caloric requirement and a requirement to increase the availability of fruits and vegetables while reducing sodium and high trans-fat food options.
Not that this would be a good change, either, but I don’t think it abolishes them.
Still, I expect King and other GOPers to now start saying that “The school lunch program basically takes away food from kids….”
“World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017”
It’s like a bunch of kids formed a club in their tree fort and decided to play congress— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) March 8, 2017
re: #502 jaunte
People might talk!
You are trying to sabotage our dually elected government and that’s treason!!!!
re: #487 Dr Lizardo
“….the political equivalent of locking yourself in the studio for years working on your double-album masterpiece, and emerging with a boombox tape of bathtub farts….”
Fucking brilliant.
Lawd almighty.
*roflcopters*
Our mom was the 1st female police officer in West Orange, NJ. She taught us the value of goals, a plan & hard work. #InternationalWomensDay pic.twitter.com/n5dtdTEMzR
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) March 8, 2017
@daveweigel How often did she speak, at length, on policy, only to get bumped by coverage of Trump or Trump’s empty podium?
— AntiCitizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 8, 2017
@daveweigel Only way she could get TV time after a certain point was either the BS email stuff or talk about Trump. No coverage otherwise
— AntiCitizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 8, 2017
Particularly considering how much she talked policy & got ignored for Trump’s paternal “ONLY I CAN FIX EVERYTHING” bullshit. #ImStillWithHer
— AntiCitizen K (@Citizen_Kryptik) March 8, 2017
Like…seriously. Are people really not going to be satisfied until someone literally crucifies Hillary Clinton for her ‘crimes’? Because this is getting fucking old, and fucking annoying.
The Trump WH is so feminist, EVERY day is Day Without a Woman. pic.twitter.com/rYZeYo04kn
— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) March 8, 2017
I l
When you’re pretty sure Pence is going down too. pic.twitter.com/4cHndT85qZ
— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 8, 2017
Well just blocked D.F. for retweeting this crap.
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
re: #513 Bubblehead II
Well just blocked D.F. for retweeting this crap.
Wasn’t following, but I just blocked anyway.
re: #510 Citizen K
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Like…seriously. Are people really not going to be satisfied until someone literally crucifies Hillary Clinton for her ‘crimes’? Because this is getting fucking old, and fucking annoying.
They wont be satisfied until the entire Clinton Family is lynched.
re: #453 Belafon
What’s hilarious, is Sessions refers to the act as the “Worlds Greatest Healthcare Act” all throughout the document.
Sort of like when Enron’s slogan was “World’s Greatest Company”.
re: #497 jaunte
“…The bill, introduced by Representative Steve King of Iowa, seeks to repeal a portion of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that pertains to nutritional standards in schools and would create a voucher program to distribute federal funds to expand “school choice” for students”
romper.com
Near both my elementary and high schools, the only places that sold food were fried food, hot dogs and sandwiches. All delicious, but none healthy. I wouldn’t mind my children eating from them once in a while, but not every day.
In other worlds, this is an idiotic bill. 😔
GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data
re: #486 gocart mozart
I was following him before it was cool.
re: #520 Skip Intro
GOP senators’ new bill would let ISPs sell your Web browsing data
Hello full time VPN.
Replacing Obamacare with something better isn’t “hard.” Republicans just don’t want to do it. That sets up the hard problem of pretending.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 8, 2017
Rep. Tom Burch reacts to Trump visiting his hometown of Louisville on Saturday: “I want to throw up.” pic.twitter.com/hvlLEVMgJc
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 8, 2017
re: #510 Citizen K
What’s this in reference to?
re: #482 Franklin
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@SarcasticRover so, what your saying is, Mars needs women? XD
— EasyBreakOven (@EasyBreakOven) March 8, 2017
re: #505 Sir John Barron
I don’t think it actually abolishes school lunches:
Not that this would be a good change, either, but I don’t think it abolishes them.
Still, I expect King and other GOPers to now start saying that “The school lunch program basically takes away food from kids….”
Here’s an airplane sized bag of pretzels. Now go away kid, you bother me.
re: #527 MsJ
Here’s an airplane sized bag of pretzels. Now go away kid, you bother me.
and a giant sized Super Big Gulp.
re: #523 jaunte
They don’t have to replace it at all, of course.
Kind of funny, though, that “replace” suddenly became the word of the day after 8 years of REPEAL REPEAL REPEAL!!!
HB 35, the “fetal remains bill,” is getting a hearing in State Affairs right now. Watch it here: https://t.co/HhuQBsktRJ #txlege
— Jessica Farrar (@JFarrarDist148) March 8, 2017
Texas, where the maternal mortality rate has doubled since 2009, and conservatives are still focused on punishing women.
re: #525 Sir John Barron
What’s this in reference to?
This article on Vox, apparently.
Which some people noted used charts and infographics that don’t necessarily support the claim the author is trying to make.
re: #529 Skip Intro
They’re all idiots.
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NRO is a sell-out, part of the establishment, part of the swamp DT promises to drain, when he isn’t on the gold course or at his Florida white house.
It’s becoming obvious that the President of the United States has no idea what replacing Ocare really entails:https://t.co/M7QQ7y3av8 pic.twitter.com/LWg2qGvs6k
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 8, 2017
Donald Trump couldn’t get through a two minute interview with a real journalist on what’s in his health care bill. https://t.co/UDnfTGByQh
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 8, 2017
re: #534 Citizen K
This article on Vox, apparently.
Which some people noted used charts and infographics that don’t necessarily support the claim the author is trying to make.
I’ll admit the ads I saw from her were not very policy focused, although most campaign ads aren’t. Policy is too complicated.
re: #537 Backwoods_Sleuth
Donald Trump couldn’t get through a two minute interview with a real journalist on what’s in his health care bill.
It’s not my bill. I never said that.
You tweeted it yesterday, you said it was “our bill”.
FAKE NEWS!
West Virginia Senate votes against rapist parental rights https://t.co/cOrIYn5nqQ pic.twitter.com/mGE3xE0OoI
— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) March 8, 2017
Nothing to see here. Just turkeys circling a dead cat.
These turkeys trying to give this cat its 10th life pic.twitter.com/VBM7t4MZYr
— J… (@TheReal_JDavis) March 2, 2017
The GOP and White House seem to be pimping a replacement plan that doesn’t exist. Or (more likely) they’re gaslighting the absolute fuck out of the nation by selling us the exact opposite of what is on the table.
re: #538 Sir John Barron
I’ll admit the ads I saw from her were not very policy focused, although most campaign ads aren’t. Policy is too complicated.
And as I keep noting, every time she talked Policy, media responded with dead silence and instead moved, with bated breath, to Trump Coverage. The only TV time she got that wasn’t dedicated to her ‘scandals’ was when she talked Trump. That was the only way she was allowed to get oxygen, period. That’s the calculus she had to work with.
Amazon has removed some prominent Holocaust denial titles.
Spicer: How many people are going be covered — that’s not the question that should be asked
What kind of care they get is what matters— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) March 8, 2017
“We’re going to have insurance for everybody.”
Donald J. Trump, January, 2017 https://t.co/T0hSkXff3P https://t.co/swDJ8tgNiS— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 8, 2017
Spicer calling the AARP a special interest group that Trump refuses to pay off
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) March 8, 2017
re: #543 Citizen K
Yup! Being wonky is one thing and bores most Americans, but being a wonky woman adds another dynamic that is unfair and unfortunate.
“There’s no contrast between what we did and what they did.” — Spicer comparing GOP & Dem healthcare process.
— David Catanese (@davecatanese) March 8, 2017
re: #544 Nyet
Interesting. How’d you find out?
re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth
What kind of care they get is what matters
Nobody gets this great, terrific care. But if they did, then it would be really Wonderful.
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“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place” — @PressSec, working the refs ahead of score of AHCA
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) March 8, 2017
re: #519 while(1) worries++;
Near both my elementary and high schools, the only places that sold food were fried food, hot dogs and sandwiches. All delicious, but none healthy. I wouldn’t mind my children eating from them once in a while, but not every day.
In other worlds, this is an idiotic bill. 😔
Well. one has to remember that bills like this are probably aimed at that portion of the electorate (not excluding parents of schoolage children) who view even the most logical notions of “healthy eating” as a slap-in-the-face from sneery elitist “libruls” with snotty know-it-all attitudes about telling Reel ‘Murkans how to raise their kids.
Beats me why eating (and feeding your children) cheap*, processed, over-sugared and fat-laden junk food should be considered some sort of patriotic gesture, but that’s today’s Right….
*The RW media would probably prod its audience to subsist on a 100% junk-food diet even if it were ruinously expensive; just to piss off “libruls”.
re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth
Spicer: How many people are going be covered — that’s not the question that should be asked
I ordered up that meteor a while ago. Disappointed it’s taking so long.
re: #548 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Aside from allowing the CBO to score the bill, after weeks of debate, and then waiting 30 days after the bill was revealed to schedule a vote on it. But you know, other than that, things are going exactly the same.
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re: #551 Backwoods_Sleuth
“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place” — @PressSec, working the refs ahead of score of AHCA
— Mike Memoli
Does Spicer know that the Republican Congress controls the appointment of the CBO director and that CBO exists to provide objective, empirical….
oh forget it.
Spicy’s really getting into his job. I’m scratching him off the list of the next to go.
Spicer (and all Republicans) are framing healthcare as a problem of not enough choices, when what people have is not enough money.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 8, 2017
Anyone know what Melanoma is selling at her show and tell today?
re: #551 Backwoods_Sleuth
“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place” — @PressSec, working the refs ahead of score of AHCA
— Mike Memoli
re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth
Spicer: How many people are going be covered — that’s not the question that should be asked
What kind of care they get is what matters
— Mark Murray
I fear a world, a nation, in which this kind of crap is not punished.
re: #551 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They are working the refs, but the aim isn’t to bullshit the public so much as it is to get past their own rules. They know there’s no way in hell this bill will be revenue neutral, which is what is required to pass it via reconciliation. So they’re trying to argue that there’s no need to wait for the CBO scoring and just push forward with the vote. They’re in a race with the clock, one which they’re losing every moment they have to give us another lie about how they can’t wait.
re: #558 jaunte
Well, choices is a problem, too, but the problem is one of not having the choice to get insurance if one has pre-existing conditions (which I know they’re promising to keep, but with this gang they shouldn’t be trusted).
Asked why every major doctors group opposes new TrumpCare bill, @PressSec counters that “several doctors” in Congress support it. Really.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) March 8, 2017
More people paying penalty? More than what, @PressSec? Now you’re just making up numbers and scenarios. And babbling. And making 0 sense.
— JackiSchechner (@JackiSchechner) March 8, 2017
re: #435 Teukka
And this just came across my face…
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I heard a good interview with the author of the new book Blitzed yesterday. He has been criticized for focusing to heavily on the drugs as the reason for Hitler’s irrationality in the 1940s, but I think he made a good case. The dude was basically doing speedballs every other day.
.@PressSec says #AHCA will drive costs down. And all economists agree. No one thinks this. No one.
— JackiSchechner (@JackiSchechner) March 8, 2017
re: #565 Barefoot Grin
I heard a good interview with the author of the new book Blitzed yesterday. He has been criticized for focusing to heavily on the drugs as the reason for Hitler’s irrationality in the 1940s, but I think he made a good case. The dude was basically doing speedballs every other day.
Not just Der Führer. IIRC, the German government and military made a big deal of mass-producing and distributing large quantities of speed to all and sundry during the War. Kept their Pharma industry profitable as well…
re: #569 Jay C
Not just Der Führer. IIRC, the German government and military made a big deal of mass-producing and distributing large quantities of speed to all and sundry during the War. Kept their Pharma industry profitable as well…
Yes, he said it was supplied officially for the first time before the invasion of France—allowed them to move through the Ardennes without sleeping.
By contrast, the French soldiers got about 3/4 liter of red wine each day—drowzy time!
re: #506 Backwoods_Sleuth
Stonekettle @Stonekettle
“World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan of 2017”It’s like a bunch of kids formed a club in their tree fort and decided to play congress
1:25 PM - 8 Mar 2017
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Nah, kids would be much more caring and open to universal healthcare. Actually I would take an all-kid congress right about now. They would be a huge improvement over the current GOP congress.
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ...
Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
4 days ago
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
4 weeks ago
Views: 520 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
Joe Bacon ✅
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
William Lewis
2 days ago
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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