Alabamians dealt a blow to Republicans by narrowly deciding child molestation was a bridge too far.
I imagine Don Jr can’t imagine his Dad appointing somebody of color.
I would pay good money to see all those people complaining about Obama’s FCC chairman voting to repeal #NetNeutality actually explain it in detail. I’d also bet most hadn’t heard of it before this week. #outrage
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) December 15, 2017
He’s….not Obama’s FCC chairman. Your father made him chair. https://t.co/VqV4NnNoXB
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 15, 2017
The right wing has been using this guy to agitate against Robert Mueller, but it’s becoming clear that the agent is just a bad-tempered asshole who didn’t like anyone.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2017
re: #1 Blind Frog Belly White
I imagine Don Jr can’t imagine his Dad appointing somebody of color.
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Wanted to repost this from downstairs.
I know people won’t march in the streets or storm the Congress with pitchforks, but this seems like an interesting way to protest.
Has anybody heard of how people are talking about protesting the tax scam, by withholding their monthly tax deductions?
Basically you put your withholdings in a savings account, then just pay in April.
If enough people did this could cause big problems for the government.
Heard it on a show on SiriusXM today.
BBL. I’m with all the nerds watching the new Star Wars movie.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
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re: #1 Blind Frog Belly White
I imagine Don Jr can’t imagine his Dad appointing somebody of color.
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I can’t imagine him spelling the hashtag correctly. ‘Neutality?’
Someone on that FCC thread said that Russian trolls were spelling it that way
Kind of how I feel after years on Twitter.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2017
re: #3 HappyWarrior
He’s even dumber than his dad. He’s definitely dumber than Barron. Barron learned Slovene. Can’t see Dumbo Je learning orvwantyijh to lesrn Czech.
Proof? Kid isn’t even on the Christmas card.
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Sham fam
& nice typos
Associate Deputy AG in Texas resigns 4 hours after the Dallas Morning News reports on his Facebook post: “Aren’t you also tired of all the pathetic ‘me too’ victim claims?” https://t.co/SLQXHIZSIN pic.twitter.com/C1edhOz4po
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) December 15, 2017
re: #10 Anymouse 🌹
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Oh The Feferalist. A bunch of right wing losers who don’t understand women let alone men at all.
re: #11 HappyWarrior
I just couldn’t even you know. My brain shut off
re: #10 Anymouse 🌹
What the what? So women secretly like getting harassed, abused, and raped?
re: #14 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What the what? So women secretly like getting harassed, abused, and raped?
Apparently.
re: #14 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What the what? So women secretly like getting harassed, abused, and raped?
I swear, they will never ever get the concept of consent. They prove it over and over again.
re: #15 HappyWarrior
Yeah..the modern day JFK ensuring that the people I work with will not receive any benefits at all.
Ugh what an idiot.
re: #18 nowherenorth2
Yeah..the modern day JFK ensuring that the people I work with will not receive any benefits at all.
Ugh what an idiot.
Not to mention the Moore’s of JFK’s time hated him.
re: #14 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
What the what? So women secretly like getting harassed, abused, and raped?
I confess I do not understand the mind of a conservative. You got me.
re: #17 allegro
I swear, they will never ever get the concept of consent. They prove it over and over again.
Exactly. Call me “weird” but I like it when my partner likes being with me.
re: #17 allegro
I swear, they will never ever get the concept of consent. They prove it over and over again.
I just … ugh. The subtle problem with that headline/snippet is that part of it is true - most women do want to feel attractive, and many do enjoy sexually oriented interactions. But that has zero connection to the idea that women might enjoy unwanted attentions or interactions.
re: #22 Anymouse 🌹
Who is that fool Stephen Moore? I couldn’t get past about the third paragraph, because there was so much propaganda and so few facts in the article.
Former chairman of the Club for Growth and a former Trump economic adviser who currently is a CNN guy.
re: #17 allegro
I swear, they will never ever get the concept of consent. They prove it over and over again.
I think they also will never get that women don’t consider themselves to be nothing more than their looks.
re: #24 HappyWarrior
The fact that this moron is on any news network just boggles my mind.
re: #23 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I just … ugh. The subtle problem with that headline/snippet is that part of it is true - most women do want to feel attractive, and many do enjoy sexually oriented interactions. But that has zero connection to the idea that women might enjoy unwanted attentions or interactions.
Exactly how fucking hard is that? I want to ask these guys if an older woman coworker they had no attraction to kept on telling them they were hot and they should fuck but that’d involve empathy.
Maddow is going through the WaPo reporting on Trump, Tillerson and the Putin-enabling complaisance in this White House. Disgusting.
Traitors, all of them.
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹
I confess I do not understand the mind of a conservative. You got me.
Whereas I do. My question was mostly rhetorical - in wingnut-land, a woman is property, a trophy to be showcased. The idea of consent never enters into their head; the woman does what the man wants, when he wants it. It’s ingrained in their twisted Biblical interpretation of, “Wives, submit to your husbands,” that has been taken so far out of context that part of me wants to (sacrilege!) rip that page out of the Bible and burn it. In that line of thinking, a woman who says “no” clearly means, “Yes, but only if you force me, because I like it when you exercise your Biblical authority over me,” rather than meaning, “Seriously, no, fuck off, you creep.” Because there’s no way a proper conservative woman would ever dare to actually mean “no” when she says it to a man… he’s the head of the household.
First-Degree Murder Charge Against Man Who Drove Into Charlottesville Demonstrators https://t.co/SnWGtV77qA
— NPR (@NPR) December 15, 2017
re: #23 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I just … ugh. The subtle problem with that headline/snippet is that part of it is true - most women do want to feel attractive, and many do enjoy sexually oriented interactions. But that has zero connection to the idea that women might enjoy unwanted attentions or interactions.
There’s also a much bigger cultural issue here. Women’s value is centered on our appearance. We’re taught this from birth. It’s reinforced every single day of our lives. Sure, we want to to feel attractive to those we want to attract. So do men. But we also want to survive and have a shot of living our best lives. Playing the beauty game isn’t really a choice for women. We get punished either way but the punishment for ugly is WAY worse.
Nobody has heard of “NET NEUTALITY” before, because it’s not a thing. You are a family of idiots.
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) December 15, 2017
re: #32 GlutenFreeJesus
“Nobody knew health care was so complicated.”
“Nobody heard of net neutrality before this week.”
Exclusive: How Trump’s skepticism of U.S. intelligence on Russia has left an election threat unchecked https://t.co/8wVX9pzvYv
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 14, 2017
“The president’s daily brief … is often structured to avoid upsetting him.”
Please tell me they are not referring to our commander in chief, the man that is supposed to be leader of the free world. https://t.co/IaGXH5cbOU— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 14, 2017
Whew! Thank god he’s not a FEMALE, we are WAY too emotional. Jesus fucking christ I’m tired of this crap. I’ll try to be in a better mood tomorrow 🤦🏼♀️ @StephMillerShow https://t.co/4UF46NnuS4
— suzanne westenhoefer (@szwest1) December 15, 2017
LOL
The Pearlfish will seek food and shelter in the anus of a Sea Cucumber pic.twitter.com/fUwTDb3GPh
— Nature is Scary (@TheScaryNature) December 15, 2017
Hannity and Trump. 👇🏻 https://t.co/CvWhuNfDXF
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) December 15, 2017
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Whereas I do. My question was mostly rhetorical - in wingnut-land, a woman is property, a trophy to be showcased. The idea of consent never enters into their head; the woman does what the man wants, when he wants it. It’s ingrained in their twisted Biblical interpretation of, “Wives, submit to your husbands,” that has been taken so far out of context that part of me wants to (sacrilege!) rip that page out of the Bible and burn it. In that line of thinking, a woman who says “no” clearly means, “Yes, but only if you force me, because I like it when you exercise your Biblical authority over me,” rather than meaning, “Seriously, no, fuck off, you creep.” Because there’s no way a proper conservative woman would ever dare to actually mean “no” when she says it to a man… he’s the head of the household.
Part of this same story is the horrible idea that rape of a woman is not a crime of violence against the woman — it is a property crime and the real victim is the woman’s male owner. RWNJ blather about purity, rape etc. often shows traces of this vile view.
re: #38 EPR-radar
Part of this same story is the horrible idea that rape of a woman is not a crime of violence against the woman — it is a property crime and the real victim is the woman’s male owner. RWNJ blather about purity, rape etc. often shows traces of this vile view.
Yup. And you can see all this also in the MRA/Red Pill garbage - often reinforced by the Hollywood tropes of “the good guy always gets the girl in the end” - that they feel they are owed respect and sexual desire by the objects of their affection. (Phrasing deliberately chosen.)
re: #37 makeitstop
— yozna (@Yaznaa) December 15, 2017
See below: He will get rid of redundancy AND duplication.
I fully expect him to now set up the Department of Redundancy Department.
Sorry if this is redundant, repetitive or redundant. pic.twitter.com/nBtWR8bjLW— PresidentialTrump (@MatureTrumpTwts) December 15, 2017
“One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them, the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them, as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.” pic.twitter.com/OtPBVAOJwc
— SimpsonsQOTD (@SimpsonsQOTD) December 14, 2017
Sandy Hook memory on CNN.
I’m bawling.
We are so fucked up
re: #4 VegasGolfer
Wanted to repost this from downstairs.
I know people won’t march in the streets or storm the Congress with pitchforks, but this seems like an interesting way to protest.Has anybody heard of how people are talking about protesting the tax scam, by withholding their monthly tax deductions?
Basically you put your withholdings in a savings account, then just pay in April.
If enough people did this could cause big problems for the government.
Heard it on a show on SiriusXM today.BBL. I’m with all the nerds watching the new Star Wars movie.
As a self-employed person, that’s what I’ve always done—I’m supposed to pay quarterly estimates but almost never do. The penalties aren’t a whole lot for just paying it in April (at least on what I make—which is not nothing, but not 6 figures.)
Do employed people have access to their withholding to even do that?
Rosenstein is getting eaten by the Trump-phage:https://t.co/TFSgxrzmQK pic.twitter.com/gKaGauva4Y
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) December 15, 2017
DOJ is shifting goalposts re: release of Strzok texts to press.
Per spox: “As we understand now, some members of the media had already received copies of the texts before” key lawmakers were briefed — “but those disclosures were not authorized” by DOJ. https://t.co/kXKkn6xF4r— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 15, 2017
re: #45 BeachDem
As a self-employed person, that’s what I’ve always done—I’m supposed to pay quarterly estimates but almost never do. The penalties aren’t a whole lot for just paying it in April (at least on what I make—which is not nothing, but not 6 figures.)
Do employed people have access to their withholding to even do that?
NO.
re: #45 BeachDem
As a self-employed person, that’s what I’ve always done—I’m supposed to pay quarterly estimates but almost never do. The penalties aren’t a whole lot for just paying it in April (at least on what I make—which is not nothing, but not 6 figures.)
Do employed people have access to their withholding to even do that?
You could declare a whole lot of exemptions to get the maximum paycheck possible.
re: #49 Belafon
You could declare a whole lot of exemptions to get the maximum paycheck possible.
True. Used to do payroll, recall a woman who was single with no kids who claimed 7 deductions.
Well, it would appear my ISP didn’t waste any time removing their pledge to honour NN should the FCC remove it.
They also divided up further the speeds at which they will provide service (for additional money of course). There are now five tiers in Mbps: 1,000, 100, 40, 20, 12
re: #50 Stanley Sea
True. Used to do payroll, recall a woman who was single with no kids who claimed 7 deductions.
I do believe she got audited. Blamed the CPA etc.
Loooong time ago.
re: #51 Anymouse 🌹
Do you have a link or anything online?
re: #44 Stanley Sea
Sandy Hook memory on CNN.
I’m bawling.
We are so fucked up
Still breaks my heart too. My niece will be in Kindergarten in a couple years.
MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy asks one of @realDonaldTrump’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy. pic.twitter.com/fphQx2o1rc
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 15, 2017
Maybe a bunch of people could do the opposite: Pay a bunch in taxes and then have the government have to give you a big refund.
re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— I’m Sorry Aunt Lydia (@TinaMcGugan) December 15, 2017
California issues its first batch of business licenses for recreational marijuana setting the stage for sales to begin in January. https://t.co/URWjvtL8SL
— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) December 15, 2017
I bet if Verizon got an uber liberal CEO who decided he was gonna block all online gun sales we’d have #NetNeutrality regulations restored by Monday.
— Isaac Saul (@Ike_Saul) December 14, 2017
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
If I remember correctly, AT&T had more than one data rate plan you could choose from.
When it’s really going to stink is if you have to pay extra to watch Netflix or access Amazon, or LGF.
re: #46 jaunte
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It’s Rosenstein who has behaved unethically, not Mueller
Rosenstein threw them under the bus, disclosing their private texts to Congress and the media. It’s rare to see such an aggressive act of betrayal by a political appointee on members of his own department, for the sole reason (apparently) to curry favor with the party of the president who appointed him.
re: #62 Belafon
If I remember correctly, AT&T had more than one data rate plan you could choose from.
When it’s really going to stink is if you have to pay extra to watch Netflix or access Amazon, or LGF.
I have Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) there’s always tier pricing for speed.
I pay max, my company reimburses partial.
Seems like nothing new with tiered pricing. Are you sure this is new Anymouse?
Just saw this Daily Beast piece linking together Harvey Weinstein’s and Donald Trump’s behavior towards Salma Hayek: How Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump Retaliated Against Salma Hayek In particular, the following section shows that Trump might find himself in trouble on another front:
In October 2016, Hayek… shared a story of her personal interactions with Donald Trump. During a radio interview, the actress recalled, …”When I told him [Trump] I wouldn’t go out with him even if I didn’t have a boyfriend… he called—well, he wouldn’t say he called, but someone told the National Enquirer—I’m not going to say who, because you know that whatever he wants to come out comes out in the National Enquirer [emphasis added]. It said that he wouldn’t go out with me because I was too short.”
this is significant, because the National Enquirer is also implicated in the Weinstein affair:
As The Washington Post noted, “The National Enquirer provided to Democrat Harvey Weinstein the same reputation-management services that it furnished to Republican Donald Trump.” The New Yorker reported: “A December 2016, email exchange between Weinstein and Dylan Howard, the chief content officer of American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, shows that Howard shared with Weinstein material obtained by one of his reporters, as part of an effort to help Weinstein disprove [Rose] McGowan’s allegation of rape.
and this hasn’t escaped the notice of Weinstein’s accusers, who have include the National Enquirer in their class action lawsuit:
The lawsuit accuses Weinstein and associates of engaging in a pattern of harassment of victims. Weinstein’s staff, board members, hired operatives, attorneys, National Enquirer writers[emphasis added], and others allegedly formed what the lawsuit calls the “Weinstein Sexual Enterprise” that violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
It’s not hard to see how an investigation into the National Enquirer’s complicity with Weinstein would also shed light on the aforementioned activities of Trump.
Share if you can peeps!
🚨Hi Followers! Urgent: Are any of you in/near Phoenix? Senator Jeff Flake is currently on AA flight 640 landing @ Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport at 8:42pm! PLEASE go to the airport to join the rally on the #GOPTaxScam! Bill is being released tomorrow! Please amplify! #flakesonaplane
— Eliza Orlins (@eorlins) December 15, 2017
Three rich men fuck all Americans. Coming soon to Pornhub. #NetNeutrality
— Pornhub ARIA (@Pornhub) December 14, 2017
re: #64 Stanley Sea
We’ve definitely always had tiers with CL in Phoenix. My Pops has worked for CL forever, back when they were one of the baby Bells.
This is just unreal. One of Trump’s federal district court judge nominees COMPLETELY UNABLE to answer basic legal questions.
MUST WATCH: Republican @SenJohnKennedy asks one of @realDonaldTrump’s US District Judge nominees basic questions of law & he can’t answer a single one. Hoo-boy. pic.twitter.com/fphQx2o1rc
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) December 15, 2017
re: #62 Belafon
If I remember correctly, AT&T had more than one data rate plan you could choose from.
When it’s really going to stink is if you have to pay extra to watch Netflix or access Amazon, or LGF.
CenturyLink had three. Now it’s five. And the prices are higher. I suspect a rate hike on my next telephone bill.
“As long as I’m secretary of state of Alabama,” John Merrill proclaimed in 2016, “you’re going to have to show some initiative to become a registered voter in this state.” https://t.co/q6Yysppg3I
— Margaret Thomas (@thatmags) December 15, 2017
re: #71 Anymouse 🌹
Republicans never miss a chance to screw up economic opportunities while imagining they’re doing the opposite.
LOL!
🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/vjeGvBPMeH
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 15, 2017
‘We are losing the battle. Those before us stood a chance, and could say, “we didn’t know.” And it was true. But we’ve known now for 20 years.’ - French President Macros says the world is losing against climate change at summit Trump wasn’t invited to. pic.twitter.com/JBB9ea9Ddh
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 14, 2017
re: #70 Charles Johnson
This is just unreal. One of Trump’s federal district court judge nominees COMPLETELY UNABLE to answer basic legal questions.
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Refreshing to see a Republican do that.
Trump plans to visit the FBI Academy in Quantico on Friday, less than two weeks after he said the agency’s reputation was “in Tatters.”https://t.co/ocFEYz1zdm
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) December 15, 2017
Yeah I’m not sure this is going to go well. https://t.co/BWoWH4DuR7
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 15, 2017
re: #69 JordanRules
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re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
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My sympathies to all agents on duty that day. It’d be really tempting to shout obscenities but they’ll have to be professional.
Here’s an infuriating story: After finding that Corinthian College engaged in widespread fraud, @USEdGov continues to seize the tax refunds and withhold the wages of its victims.
With @MassAGO and @ILAttyGeneral, I’m suing. pic.twitter.com/p3hzPJJedr— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) December 15, 2017
re: #74 JordanRules
Elected Republicans are just as bad as any poorly-educated lout that derps on Twitter. The party has been pandering to idiots so long that it’s now made up of fools from top to bottom. We have to sweep them all from office.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
Small group of activists here who want to address @JeffFlake in Sky Harbor airport as he comes back to AZ from D.C. Most tell me they want him to vote NO on tax reform bill #abc15 pic.twitter.com/Y4VyNE50df
— Kim Tobin (@KimABC15) December 15, 2017
I’ll believe George Will has really had a change of heart when he publicly takes back all the deceptive anti-science bullshit he’s written about climate change, for year after year.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 15, 2017
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re: #78 HappyWarrior
Cruz still knows nothing about NN.
My guess is he’s paid very well not to know.
Well, I’m depressed beyond belief about everything falling to pieces in this country. And all the sites I’d usually rely on for happy or nerdy news are… focusing on the tax bill and net neutrality disasters.
As tax victory nears, Speaker Paul Ryan has eyes on retirement, Politico reports pic.twitter.com/SkS4cNtAMP
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 14, 2017
So if you’re an ambitious House Republican in a vulnerable district, and Ala-frickin-bama just went for a progressive Dem, and your own Speaker is dropping hints he’s going out in a blaze of glory, what on earth kind of political calculus would lead you to vote for the tax scam? https://t.co/2BdOwfnd7S
— Ezra trumptaxscam.org Levin (@ezralevin) December 15, 2017
re: #88 scottslemmons
This is Pebbles. She’s a pupfessional yarn battler. Undefeated to this day. 12/10 would h*ckin cherish pic.twitter.com/dVCEhcPVtM
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) December 15, 2017
BREAKING ALERT: In an unfortunate 3-2 vote, the FCC votes to repeal #NetNeutrality, enraging millions of internet users. #RIPInternet pic.twitter.com/BtN3ehiaWH
— The Anon Journal (@TheAnonJournal) December 14, 2017
OMG every tweet is now costing me $3.99 and Facebook just forced me to hand over my firstborn child https://t.co/wlh0MXXRLv
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 14, 2017
That would be best for the child https://t.co/3JBHQs0Dpu
— Jake from state farm (@my2bits4u) December 15, 2017
Something pathetic about a sitting Senator calling concerned citizens “Snowflakes.” I hope O’Rourke pounces on that.
Colonel Sanders’s summit with Alice Cooper: pic.twitter.com/cHRA3Adgow
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 15, 2017
re: #92 jaunte
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Hey Ben do you ever shut the fuck up? Maybe you’ll sing a different tune when an ISP who doesn’t like your pathetic shit starts to charge you more and then you’ll get why we supported NN. We’ve had NN since you were a pre-teen, the Obama rules merely strengthened those protections. Maybe if you did something other than jerking yourself off all day, you’d know that.
So sad we are slowly losing these heroes. Navajo Code Talker Teddy Draper Sr., 96, passed away this morning in Prescott. His passing leaves only 10 Navajo Code Talkers still remaining pic.twitter.com/71JyfggdzW
— Kim Tobin (@KimABC15) December 15, 2017
The thing that right wing hacks not talking about politicians like Cruz and Pai don’t want to tell you is this, we’ve always had some form of NN. Obama didn’t create NN out of thin air. He merely strengthened the bipartisan consensus on internet access that has gone on since the early 90’s when most Americans connected to the web for the first time. As I said, gonna be funny as hell when these conservative shit talkers see that an ISP is slowing down their access to their blogs and Twitters because they don’t like their views. So to Shapiro, Jones, Cernovich, and all those guys, don’t cry to the liberals when your service sucks because the ISP charges you extra because you suck and you get less readers of your inane crap.
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’ll be a sad day when the last one goes. Someone here on LGF or maybe it was on the SPLC’s website told me but other tribes used their languages too and the Gaelic speakers of Scotland and Ireland did a similiar service for the Brits. All I can say, if there ever was an argument for encouraging multiple languages, that’s certainly one of them. And it’s too bad the Nick Cage movie on this was only so-so because it’s an excellent subject.
I don’t think any of these so called “ultra capitalists” get that this decision is really going to radically change how we access the internet in this country. Shapiro can mock all he wants but that little prick’s going to be singing a different tune when all the poor bastards that give him his clicks that he needs can’t afford access.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
I think greed has overtaken even basic business sense. That and their idiotic and destructive Masters of the Universe bullshit.
Paul Ryan: Americans oppose tax scam because they’re too stupid to understand it https://t.co/Y1yGlWwYco pic.twitter.com/QTdO77N9US
— Shareblue Media (@Shareblue) December 14, 2017
Wrong, Paul Ryan. Americans get it alright — they’re watching as you plot to raise their taxes and obliterate their health care. And trust us, they’re not liking what they’re seeing. https://t.co/wEXcWq7g4Z
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) December 15, 2017
Tax cut
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re: #99 HappyWarrior
Completely of a piece with their failure to understand the overall economy is much better off when poorer people have more money to spend than when rich people have more money to gamble in the market.
Anecdote from my wife, a HS teacher: Students are listening to their phones today right before a test. She tells them to put them away. To a person, they beg her to keep listening—to C-SPAN, because they are listening to the #NetNeutrality debate.
Careful, FCC. Near voting age.— Derrick Crowe (@electcrowe) December 14, 2017
Hey, @AjitPaiFCC, today my mom would have turned 71. But she didn’t. Because she died in March of 2016. Can you please take the time to explain to me how she made three separate comments in support of ending #NetNeutrality more than a year after she died?
cc: @SeanAstin pic.twitter.com/VtdLaB0eGp— Mackenzie Astin (@MackenzieAstin) December 15, 2017
jeebus
Handcuffed and jailed at 93 years old, in Florida, for not paying the rent at her independent living facility and refusing to leave once evicted https://t.co/9hw4bsEUdB pic.twitter.com/rbLGAs8epR
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 14, 2017
93 year old is out on her own recognizance and won’t be spending her birthday in jail afterall - will be spending it with a friend who came to get her. #gettingresults @news6wkmg Here is what she had to say about being released pic.twitter.com/ZkTPWUqKXm
— Adrianna Iwasinski (@AIwasinski) December 14, 2017
Juanita Fitzgerald has been released on her own recognizance https://t.co/YRw1Pdt3ZG
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) December 14, 2017
Here is the lay of the land on tax:
-GOP conference bill aim to vote Tues-Wed, not much wiggle room
-Jamming compromise language
-Not yet at 50 votes despite public posture
Also
-CHIP/Medicare cuts tied to the budget
-No real work done on budget
-Running out of time 2/— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) December 15, 2017
BREAKING: Rubio a ‘no’ on GOP tax bill unless tax credit for working poor is expanded - The Washington Post https://t.co/Y7PQZ4PUuM
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) December 14, 2017
Start with Rubio. He claims he will vote against the bill if it doesn’t expand the child tax credit to working poor families.👇
Rubio is well-known for toothless threats. Chances of a no vote are slim. He wants to show he can influence the outcome. 3/https://t.co/aaZYBL0UoV— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) December 15, 2017
re: #97 HappyWarrior
The thing that right wing hacks not talking about politicians like Cruz and Pai don’t want to tell you is this, we’ve always had some form of NN. Obama didn’t create NN out of thin air. He merely strengthened the bipartisan consensus on internet access that has gone on since the early 90’s when most Americans connected to the web for the first time. As I said, gonna be funny as hell when these conservative shit talkers see that an ISP is slowing down their access to their blogs and Twitters because they don’t like their views. So to Shapiro, Jones, Cernovich, and all those guys, don’t cry to the liberals when your service sucks because the ISP charges you extra because you suck and you get less readers of your inane crap.
Well, it looks like I might need to go back to my BBS that indirectly interfaced with FidoNet back in the Eighties. I’m sure I can dig up my C-64 BBS software somewhere… .
.@PressSec on preventing U.S. attacks: “If you could name a single thing that would have prevented both of these, I would like to hear it because I don’t know what that would look like. But we’re looking every single day at how you can protect American lives.” pic.twitter.com/IjfLljX8S6
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 14, 2017
Here’s a start: universal background checks (Columbine); ban assault weapons (Newtown etc); fix NICS (Sutherland Springs); ban bump stocks (Las Vegas).
I’ve got more. https://t.co/1X9VUPUZPP— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 14, 2017
Will the dreamers get a Christmas Present? #WelcomeHomeFlake #FlakesOnAPlane pic.twitter.com/xVVokAutiE
— Paulette, PhD (@runwithrainbows) December 15, 2017
THIS.
Arizonans tried to meet flake at Phoenix Airport when he landed to talk about GOP tax plan.
Flake got escorted directly off plane on tarmac to avoid them. https://t.co/MfFld9Cqex— Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson) December 15, 2017
Merriam-Webster announced it’s word of the year, based on percentage increase on the number of lookups.
This year’s word increased 70% over last year: Feminism.
huffingtonpost.com (video)
There’s something quite peaceful about watching these snowcats move so much snow around to make a nice piste.
Fwiw
UPDATE: There’s enormous chatter flyin’ all over the beltway tonight about a big event tomorrow, but Tea Pain can’t lock it down 100% to precisely what it is. No predictions. No guarantees. But Tea’s never seen this amount of buzz before. Whatever it is, we’ll find out soon!
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) December 15, 2017
So instead of just winning and taking power, hillary lost and then obama went to his underground bunker to activate the deep state network/antifa in colleges AND the fbi AND the state department and stole elections in VA/AL.
Obviously.— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 15, 2017
VoteVets just filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to uncover the truth surrounding the deaths of service members in #Yemen and #Niger. Our suit seeks records surrounding the Administration’s unclear and contradictory public response to the failed military operations. pic.twitter.com/acR2vLTJUS
— VoteVets (@votevets) December 14, 2017
Kittens will save Net Neutrality… .
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Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a public good rather than for profit.
re: #12 HappyWarrior
Oh The Feferalist. A bunch of right wing losers who don’t understand women let alone men at all.
What else do you expect from “Box Turtle Ben” Domensch ?
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a pubic good rather than for profit.
*Ahem* I think you meant to say public good. :p
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a pubic good rather than for profit.
Cue cries of socialism …
You know, socialism probably wouldn’t exist as an economic model if capitalism didn’t work so hard to collect all the economic cookies for a few powerful people.
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a pubic [sic] good rather than for profit.
At least where there is only one possible to-every-door provider, I’d agree that the distribution service ought to be treated as a monopoly.
Whether it can be privately owned or publicly owned, I don’t really think it makes a difference if it is regulated as a monopoly.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
*Ahem* I think you meant to say public good. :p
Whoops. Of course that would fit with the meme that the internet is for porn./
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a pubic good rather than for profit.
That’s what PornHub does.
re: #114 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Fwiw
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I noticed others on Twitter (Rick Wilson and Counterchkist) alluding to something earlier this evening. More indictments, maybe?
re: #29 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
It’s ingrained in their twisted Biblical interpretation of, “Wives, submit to your husbands,” that has been taken so far out of context that part of me wants to (sacrilege!) rip that page out of the Bible and burn it.
And it’s these same eejets who forget how woman was created by God himself: From the rib of Adam - Not from the top, not from the bottom of Adam: but from THE SIDE OF ADAM.
Christ on a pony - these fuckers don’t even understand Genesis for damn’s sake.
Cuidado, politikids.
Tons of Russian bots are pumping links to a story about Jared Kushner. Notice the honeypot profile pics. Smells like a malware trap. Avoid. pic.twitter.com/lFIHMBgyyM— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 15, 2017
re: #129 The Major
And it’s these same eejets who forget how woman was created by God himself: From the rib of Adam - Not from the top, not from the bottom of Adam: but from THE SIDE OF ADAM.
Christ on a pony - these fuckers don’t even understand Genesis for damn’s sake.
Well, to be fair, Genesis has two different, mutually-exclusive creation stories. (Gen 1 and Gen 2).
re: #128 makeitstop
I noticed others on Twitter (Rick Wilson and Counterchkist) alluding to something earlier this evening. More indictments, maybe?
That seems to be the rumor that’s flying around.
re: #122 Dr Lizardo
*Ahem* I think you meant to say public good. :p
Depends on what kind of sites you frequent.
re: #130 jaunte
And Twitter won’t ban those accounts, because profit.
“The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.”
― Vladimir Lenin
re: #50 Stanley Sea
True. Used to do payroll, recall a woman who was single with no kids who claimed 7 deductions.
I had a brother in law who boasted at a family gathering that he was going to stiff the IRS. He got audited and nailed for tax evasion—end result—he went crying to then-Senator Prick Santorum who got him off the hook.
When ol’Prick ran for Senator in 1994, he made the fatal mistake of knocking on my parent’s door. Mom opened the door and she told him to go fuck himself and she slammed the door on him.
Mom told me that made her feel sooooooooooooooo gooooooooooooooooood!
re: #36 jaunte
Here’s the Leader of The Free World - and @realDonaldTrump, our so-called @POTUS: pic.twitter.com/k4BagUvjzm
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #132 Dr Lizardo
That seems to be the rumor that’s flying around.
I really hope it’s a First Family member. Let’s make that punk in the White House really sweat.
re: #72 JordanRules
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re: #138 Joe Bacon 🌹
Fuck the Republicans! It’s time to blow the dust off of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment and strip Alabama of one GOP representative as punishment for voter suppression!
The second article of the XIV Amendment has to be imposed by Congress. Good luck with that.
re: #137 makeitstop
I really hope it’s a First Family member. Let’s make that punk in the White House really sweat.
Rumor going ‘round is
Jared Kushner
But that’s just the rumor mill. We’ll see what happens.
By the way has Ginger Snapped or his Partner In Grime Mikeyboy posted anything since their little scam got exposed????????
re: #140 Dr Lizardo
Rumor going ‘round is
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But that’s just the rumor mill. We’ll see what happens.
That would work for me.
re: #82 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Understand that @tedcruz has an over-inflated ego whose beliefs are still stuck in the days of the Pharisees - He also forgets that a metric ton of snowflakes causes these very destructive forces called “Avalanches”. But hey - stupid is as stupid does. The @GOP … pic.twitter.com/ZkOEyMh1iO
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #142 Joe Bacon 🌹
By the way has Ginger Snapped or his Partner In Grime Mikeyboy posted anything since their little scam got exposed????????
Mr. Cernovich is going along on Twitter, though not necessarily about their scam. Still pushing racist bs though.
A beautiful song about Hawaiian self-determination. Will Europeans similarly weep when they realize their lands have been stolen?https://t.co/cf7uMSUbQ4
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) December 15, 2017
Yikes.
Paul Ryan: “To fund Social Security and Medicare, American women need to have more babies, and the Republican party is here to help— our male legislators are standing by, ready to impregnate. Call now. No waiting.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) December 14, 2017
re: #92 jaunte
Just you wait, Benjy when your costs go sky-high and you have a monopoly on your hands - you obviously weren’t alive when Justice Greene broke up @ATT into the 7 baby Bells, only now to see the beast slowly re-forming into something even worse, you schmuck…..
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #149 The Major
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Just wait for Benjyboy to melt down when he can’t access Info Wars…
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹
Yikes.
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Paul sounds just like those Soviet Commissars who handed out Mother of Russia medals to women who gave birth to 10 children. He’s letting his inner Bolshevik run wild…
My wife says she’s glad I have an Ontario accent (though I’m originally from Michigan not Ontario, I just lived very close to the border) because we might be able to use it to claim I was kidnapped from Canada as a child to gain permanent entry.
re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth
Dear @FBI: Are you going to launch an investigation into the fake comments - or are you too busy dealing with Damage Control from our out-of-control @POTUS and political appointees making your lives a living hell right now ?
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #120 Big Beautiful Door
Internet service should be a public utility, provided as a public good rather than for profit.
Apparently, there are quite a few of these municipal broadband networks. It sounds like this is something local jurisdictions could do, besides the lawsuits.
re: #155 garzooma
Apparently, there are quite a few of these municipal broadband networks. It sounds like this is something local jurisdictions could do, besides the lawsuits.
When we lived in Oklahoma, the city we lived in installed massive new capacity for its computer network, and put wireless antennas on every lamppost in town (so emergency services could access that computer network).
The city then opened up the network for free use for the city’s residents (except in times where the city might need the full capacity for governmental work, that never happened while we lived there).
The cable company (Cable One) sued the city … they lost.
While large or medium municipalities might be able to provide Internet service (if their state hasn’t banned that now), small municipalities like mine cannot afford it.
re: #151 Joe Bacon 🌹
Just wait for Benjyboy to melt down when he can’t access Info Wars…
I can’t wait to see these Bros flip their shit when they have to pay the increased fees. It’s frust to me though how many people simply don’t understand this and think this is simply returning to pre Obama era rules. Stupid idiots.
I’m sympathetic to treating the Internet like a utility too. We rely it so much. I haven’t had a job I’ve applied to post graduation where I haven’t needed internet access.
re: #156 Anymouse 🌹
When we lived in Oklahoma, the city we lived in installed massive new capacity for its computer network, and put wireless antennas on every lamppost in town (so emergency services could access that computer network).
Up here at The Major’s base of operation, the city put up a municipal WiFi Network for its downtown area. It’s useful, but due to the high frequencies of WiFi (2.4 GHz) building penetration is not the best - and many shops runs their own WiFi networks for their customers.
Earlier this year T-Mobile won the nationwide auction for the prized 600 MHz band being vacated by the last remaining UHF channels, which will perform way better than the current low/high-end 700 MHz service all but Sprint is using (T-Mobile is Band 12, Verizon is Band 13, AT&T is all over the board with segments of Bands 12/17/14/29).
re: #158 HappyWarrior
I’m sympathetic to treating the Internet like a utility too. We rely it so much. I haven’t had a job I’ve applied to post graduation where I haven’t needed internet access.
Only the last (paying) job I had (Romance editor) required me to make an Internet application.
Since the overwhelming majority of my area has no Internet service at all, no one here will see this as anything that affects them in any way.
For example, on my regional newspaper’s Website, there is nothing at all about the FCC decision (as of now). The newspaper relies on regular good-old-fashioned print circulation to make money - it doesn’t get much from its Website because so few people even have service outside the three “large” cities (Scottsbluff, Alliance, and Chadron).
re: #160 Anymouse 🌹
Only the last (paying) job I had (Romance editor) required me to make an Internet application.
Since the overwhelming majority of my area has no Internet service at all, no one here will see this as anything that affects them in any way.
For example, on my regional newspaper’s Website, there is nothing at all about the FCC decision (as of now). The newspaper relies on regular good-old-fashioned print circulation to make money - it doesn’t get much from its Website because so few people even have service outside the three “large” cities (Scottsbluff, Alliance, and Chadron).
Unfortunately that’s not the case here. Conservatives seem to be viewing the internet as akin to a game console or tv when it’s more close to a utility especially in more urban areas.
*shudder*
Mother of woman killed in Charlottesville: I’ve had to hide her grave to keep it safe from white supremacists https://t.co/Dns0Su2Ape pic.twitter.com/0ffCpjHL7N
— The Hill (@thehill) December 14, 2017
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Unfortunately that’s not the case here. Conservatives seem to be viewing the internet as akin to a game console or tv when it’s more close to a utility especially in more urban areas.
Not just urban. I work online, and have to have a pretty highly priced satellite internet service in order to do so.
re: #162 teleskiguy
*shudder*
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That just makes me so sad. She lost her daughter. That’s bad enough but to have to hide her grave? Yeah Donald “fine people.”
My newspaper has an article up about Jane Raybould (D), who is running to replace Senator Deb Fischer (R).
They go into her “kitchen table” campaign, though the newspaper doesn’t note she’s a Democrat until about seven paragraphs in.
starherald.com (more)
SCOTTSBLUFF — The kitchen table is often the center for family discussion and decision-making.
It’s under this premise Jane Raybould of Lincoln, has aptly named her multi-city listening tour as a challenger to incumbent Republican Deb Fischer for her U.S. Senate seat.
“Families come together, they work out problems and discuss issues — they balance budgets — around the kitchen table,” Raybould said. “They try to work together, and celebrate a lot of things in their lives around those kitchen tables.”
Raybould said it’s those discussions she hopes to gain insight into, in order to learn how she might better serve the people of the state if elected.
From healthcare, trade, and tax reform proposals, to the worries of farmers, ranchers and main street business owners, Raybould said she wants to be a Senator who actively listens to the average Nebraskan.
re: #163 retired cynic
Not just urban. I work online, and have to have a pretty highly priced satellite internet service in order to do so.
Oh no doubt. And yeah when I telecommute I need to be online too.
Getting rid of NN will impact a lot of things that none of these free market purists ever considered. There’s a reason why I like their focus on theory to expense of reality to Marxists.
re: #166 HappyWarrior
Oh no doubt. And yeah when I telecommute I need to be online too.
Is telecommuting like regular commuting around here (sand and gravel roads)? /s
re: #166 HappyWarrior
Oh no doubt. And yeah when I telecommute I need to be online too.
I meant to add that I am a l-o-n-g way out in the country. The coyotes are singing quite loudly all around the house tonight. The cats and I are firmly inside, warm and listening to the music.
re: #162 teleskiguy
Dear @GOP - you own this. You stood behind this and went all the way. FIX IT NOW before the voters fix it for you…. pic.twitter.com/JaIRdzWR14
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
That’s nice …
When I punch Jane Raybould’s name into a search engine, the top entry is a paid advert for Deb Fischer’s reëlection Website.
re: #169 retired cynic
I meant to add that I am a l-o-n-g way out in the country. The coyotes are singing quite loudly all around the house tonight. The cats and I are firmly inside, warm and listening to the music.
Sounds comfy.
re: #169 retired cynic
I meant to add that I am a l-o-n-g way out in the country. The coyotes are singing quite loudly all around the house tonight. The cats and I are firmly inside, warm and listening to the music.
“The country” for me is two blocks away. Of course you can’t get more than three blocks from the country here… .
Just got back from seeing the Last Jedi.
While still better than the prequels, I found this one somewhat derivative in many aspects and underwhelming compared to Force Awakens. Some characters were severely lacking backstory and there were really no major twists. Some nice set pieces and fun action sequences though.
I’d say more but I don’t want to spoil anything.
re: #64 Stanley Sea
I have Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) there’s always tier pricing for speed.
I pay max, my company reimburses partial.
Seems like nothing new with tiered pricing. Are you sure this is new Anymouse?
Your tiers are you pay $x/MB, no matter the content.
Without NN, they can make content they approve of move faster than content they don’t approve of. Maybe Netflix pays them to throttle Hulu, Spotify pays them to throttle Pandora, Fox pays them to throttle dKos and MediaMatters…
Interesting …
speedtest.net will not load here anymore.
The site just returns “an error occurred while loading. Please try again and let us know if it happens again.”
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹
Ookla has a downloadable app that is now the preferred method.
At least for my Mac.
Well, using a different browser, I get a download speed of 8.57 Mbps, and an upload speed of 720 kbps.
CenturyLink calls this “high speed Internet.”
Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why tech firms like Google or Facebook actually won’t do much to fight this: primarily because they can afford to pay off companies to provide them with good service. They have no incentive to pay for future competition by start up firms.
This cat has a cat on it 😹 pic.twitter.com/xagRMpZvWl
— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) December 12, 2017
re: #178 Anymouse 🌹
Just tried my standalone Speedtest app (it really is better than the online version): 33.8Mbs down, 5.78Mbs up. I pay Cox $80/mo for this.
re: #177 freetoken
Just tested my satellite connection: 11.07Mbps down, .8Mbps up. Thanks for the ookla reference!
re: #180 freetoken
People in Europe mock us for this.
re: #180 freetoken
Just tried my standalone Speedtest app (it really is better than the online version): 33.8Mbs down, 5.78Mbs up. I pay Cox $80/mo for this.
I pay a lot more than that for my satellite connection! A lot.
re: #180 freetoken
Just tried my standalone Speedtest app (it really is better than the online version): 33.8Mbs down, 5.78Mbs up. I pay Cox $80/mo for this.
Well, part of my problem is my ISP is actually in Jefferson City, Missouri (at least, that’s how I show up every time I go to a Website with a little widget for “local weather” or time, or when I do the speed test).
Jefferson city is six hundred miles from here.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
People in Europe mock us for this.
Higher density populations can amortize cable costs per house better.
In Japan 11 years ago I got high speed internet for like $11/month. Put simply, every address in a city has multiple cables running to it.
It’s hard to convince Americans that we are not the best at everything.
re: #129 The Major
And it’s these same eejets who forget how woman was created by God himself: From the rib of Adam - Not from the top, not from the bottom of Adam: but from THE SIDE OF ADAM.
Christ on a pony - these fuckers don’t even understand Genesis for damn’s sake.
That’s one of the versions in Genesis.
In the other, man and woman were BOTH sculpted in mud, then life breathed into both of them simultaneously.
re: #186 sagehen
That’s one of the versions in Genesis.
In the other, man and woman were BOTH sculpted in mud, then life breathed into both of them simultaneously.
Was that Lilith? Who when told she was supposed to submit to Adam was all fuck that shit?
We can hope that the GOP loses the midterms big, Trump crashes and goes away (maybe to prison???)
Then perhaps some laws with teeth can be enacted, ensuring basic things like competition and even playing fields in digital services.
Likely states are going to act first, but a Trump/Pence administration will side with the big corporations in lawsuits to throw out any laws.
re: #187 allegro
Was that Lilith? Who when told she was supposed to submit to Adam was all fuck that shit?
No, the story in Gen. 2 is the alternate story of the creation of Eve.
re: #186 sagehen
That’s one of the versions in Genesis.
In the other, man and woman were BOTH sculpted in mud, then life breathed into both of them simultaneously.
I bet they don’t show that one at the Answers in Genesis theme park!
The backstory here: The White House / Don McGahn surprised Kennedy with the pick (which was for a traditionally Louisiana seat on the 5th Circuit) and told him how to vote.
Given that Kennedy represents Louisiana, big breach of protocol for how nominees are normally picked.— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) December 15, 2017
Lilith is in the Midrash.
As far as the Bible is concerned:
Lilith is referred to only once in the Old Testament. In the Darby translation of Isaiah 34:14 the original Hebrew word is rendered as “lilith”; according to Isaiah, when God’s vengeance has turned the land into a wilderness, “there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.” The same word is translated elsewhere, however, as “screech owl, “night creatures,” “night monsters,” and “night hag.”
Eve and the Identity of Women Chapter 7: Eve and Lilith
The whole Website is a fascinating read on the Bible being used as justification for making women subservient. (I keep these little anti-apologetics Websites available in my stable of bookmarks)
re: #192 Anymouse 🌹
Lilith is in the Midrash.
As far as the Bible is concerned:
Eve and the Identity of Women Chapter 7: Eve and Lilith
The whole Website is a fascinating read on the Bible being used as justification for making women subservient. (I keep these little anti-apologetics Websites available in my stable of bookmarks)
My biblical studies were aborted when at age 10 I was uninvited to Methodist confirmation class. The contradictions made mah li’l budding brainz ache so I apparently asked too many questions to try to ease the cognitive dissonance. On the way out of the church where my parents had The Meeting with the minister, my dad patted me on the back and said “Good girl, I’m proud of you”. Took me a few years to realize he didn’t just say that to make me feel better.
President Obama with the siblings of some of the children killed at Sandy Hook five years ago today.
May their sisters and brothers grow up in a world with less gun violence, and may the rest of us keep working to make it happen. pic.twitter.com/0b1DyyBvKR— ObamaPlusKids (@ObamaPlusKids) December 14, 2017
re: #195 allegro
My biblical studies were aborted when at age 10 I was uninvited to Methodist confirmation class. The contradictions made mah li’l budding brainz ache so I apparently asked too many questions to try to ease the cognitive dissonance. On the way out of the church where my parents had The Meeting with the minister, my dad patted me on the back and said “Good girl, I’m proud of you”. Took me a few years to realize he didn’t just say that to make me feel better.
When I was living with my grandparents, they required me to attend the United Methodist Church in my village as long as I was living with them.
I was banned from the Sunday School classes for asking the wrong questions. (My atheism was already in play by the time we moved in when I was seven or so.)
re: #186 sagehen
That’s one of the versions in Genesis.
In the other, man and woman were BOTH sculpted in mud, then life breathed into both of them simultaneously.
Ok, now ya got me curious - which version of Genesis is the latter in ?
re: #198 The Major
Ok, now ya got me curious - which version of Genesis is the latter in ?
Genesis 1:26-28.
Genesis 1 has men and women created at the same time, and presumably equal.
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
(NIV)
Genesis 2-3 has the longer “Eve came from Adam’s rib” story (also, Eve was only named after the so-called “fall”).
Mediæval art, literature, and church officials stressed the second story (Genesis 2-3) and largely ignores the first story (Genesis 1).
(fixed above comment for correct version of the unchanging Bible… .)
Skeptic’s Annotated Bible On-Line details all the problems of Genesis 1 with the alternative story in Genesis 2-3 in its commentary section on the right hand side of the page. SAB is a King James Version of the Bible.
skepticsannotatedbible.com (SAB, Genesis 1)
If you’re a comedy consumer, this is a great podcast to digest.
Juanita Jean’s:
Blake Farenthold Calling It Quits.
In all honesty, I know he was just trying to avoid an investigation, but you have to hand him this - it’s the first decent thing he’s ever done in his life.
I have a friend, La Lisa Hernandez, in Corpus, Blake’s district, who replied to a Facebook comment of mine …
I’m seriously considering a conversion to Judaism!! First day of Hanukkah… Moore loses!! Second day… Omarosa gets dragged from the White House!! Third day… Blake’s OUT!!!
She makes a good point.
I hate working with character data when writing software.
Always have.
And people input such strange characters in data fields. They get the crazy idea that inserting single or double quotes, braces, or some wacky ISO character is useful in identifying their object of interest.
Hey @AjitPaiFCC, if I could do it I would light a paper bag full of dog shit on fire at your front door every hour on the hour, you miserable shitgibbon
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) December 15, 2017
“We can’t ski because it snowed” is a thing.
Due to heavy snowfall overnight and this morning, today’s downhill training run has been canceled in @valdisere. 🤞🏼for tomorrow! #worldcupvaldisere pic.twitter.com/ImMDUlvdOR
— U.S. Ski & Snowboard Team (@usskiteam) December 15, 2017
Turns out Blake Farenthold cannot withdraw from the next election due to deadlines in Texas.
Amid allegations of sexual harassment, payoffs, and rude behavior, U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi announced today that he is withdrawing from his campaign for re-election. The problem is that the Republican congressman can’t.
I asked Sam Taylor with the Texas Secretary of State’s Office if Farenthold could withdraw since the candidate filing deadline passed on Monday. “No,” Taylor replied. “Barring a successful challenge to the candidate’s application before the mail-in ballots go out in late January, his name will still be on the ballot for the March 6 primary.”
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re: #197 Anymouse 🌹
“When I was living with my grandparents, they required me to attend the United Methodist Church in my village as long as I was living with them. I was banned from the Sunday School classes for asking the wrong questions. (My atheism was already in play by the time we moved in when I was seven or so.”)
Something tells me you’ve always been a mess, Anymouse. This is not a diss, it’s a compliment for having had an inquiring mind from an early age. I wish some of the students I taught had had the same critical thinking skills you possess. I really tried to teach them critical thinking skills. Some learned them, some rejected them because as teens at the age of 16, they’d been fully indoctrinated by their parents, ministers, community leaders, local media, and RW radio and TV [Fox is on nearly every channel in every home, public facility and business place in Middle GA, from doctors’ offices and hospital waiting rooms to car repair shops.
I remember teaching a lesson on the separation, balance of powers, and checks and balances in the three branches of government, thoroughly covering each branch. After I completed the lesson after a week, one of my students approached me and said that although the textbook said one thing, he and his dad were dedicated Limbaugh consumers, so he believed Limbaugh’s rantings more than I who was certified to teach the material.
This is the kind of thing we’re up against, and it’s being passed down from one generation to another, and here in GA, it’s strongly tied to religion. Never mind that it’s easy for some of us to notice the hypocrisy, and although we speak against it, it persists. It’s like a kind of major, widespread brain-washing has taken place. I’ve also noticed that generally accepted false memes and beliefs have a strong hold over the minds of way too many Georgians, and Americans. They’re being bilked by politicians, radio personalities, RW blogs, and Fox, and don’t seem to be the least bit concerned about the damage they’re doing to themselves, their families, and our democracy. I was reared to think for myself, not follow the crowd, and to reach my own conclusions on all issues. I can’t describe the frustration and pain I feel quite often when I hear some others here parrot RW talking points that will not improve their lives one iota and then realize that they really believe them.
I have concluded that pineapple is the enemy of all good palates everywhere. It just doesn’t play nice with other foods.
Not only is pineapple not for pizza, it’s not for anything.
re: #209 majii
On the inquiring mind part, I do have my mother to thank for that.
As for the rest, all I can say is propaganda is a helluva drug. It is difficult to fix, which is why it is such a seductive tool to use when you want to control a populace. Thirty years or more of it creates a generation of people who will not think critically.
The culmination of that seems to be Donald Trump saying in a speech that you should only listen to him.
If we don’t get the damn “both sides are evil” and “voting for the lesser of two evils” people to get off that position in the next election, we will have a much worse problem than we have now.
re: #210 freetoken
I have concluded that pineapple is the enemy of all good palates everywhere. It just doesn’t play nice with other foods.
Not only is pineapple not for pizza, it’s not for anything.
[sharpens knives]
I like pineapple, even on pizza. Anchovies I can do without (apparently they are a libertarian thing, since my wife loves those little %£@@!!!#! fish)
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹
Genesis 1 has men and women created at the same time, and presumably equal.
(NIV)
Genesis 2-3 has the longer “Eve came from Adam’s rib” story (also, Eve was only named after the so-called “fall”).
Mediæval art, literature, and church officials stressed the second story (Genesis 2-3) and largely ignores the first story (Genesis 1).
Yes, those verses gave me difficulty. Then, I changed my thinking and decided it made sense provided I attributed ch 1 to Man’s creation before Adam and Eve. This allowed me to justify Cain’s wife as coming from this earlier creation.
There was more to the Ch 2 creation as this was God’s man. It is the man God breathed life into and became a living soul. Now the remaining dilemma is: Was the Garden of Eden also a place of protection from animals and/or possibly from this earlier creation of man.
re: #201 Anymouse 🌹
(fixed above comment for correct version of the unchanging Bible… .)
Remember that if you insist on a literal interpretation of the Bible, you not only have to reject science and history, you have to reject logic and reason, as the Bible contradicts itself in numerous places.
And we all know what the sleep of reason produces…
“Not only is pineapple not for pizza, it’s not for anything.”
Pineapple upside-down cake is delicious, though, but because of my diabetes, I can’t eat it anymore. My mom and grandmother could bake some of the best upside down cakes! Yummy! I’ve never had pineapple on pizza, and like you, I don’t think I’d like it. I usually put sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, green peppers, onions, and mushrooms on the homemade pizzas I make. I’ve recently begun trying my hand at deep dish pizza. The one I prepared a couple weeks ago was delicious. I found a recipe for pizza sauce and made it from scratch in my cast iron frying pan. It made all the difference in the way the pie tasted, so I will no longer be buying prepared pizza sauce.
re: #203 teleskiguy
If you’re a comedy consumer, this is a great podcast to digest.
I must admit that I cannot find Trump jokes funny anymore.
re: #215 majii
“Not only is pineapple not for pizza, it’s not for anything.”
Pineapple upside-down cake is delicious, though, but because of my diabetes, I can’t eat it anymore. My mom and grandmother could bake some of the best upside down cakes! Yummy! I’ve never had pineapple on pizza, and like you, I don’t think I’d like it. I usually put sausage, ground beef, pepperoni, green peppers, onions, and mushrooms on the homemade pizzas I make. I’ve recently begun trying my hand at deep dish pizza. The one I prepared a couple weeks ago was delicious. I found a recipe for pizza sauce and made it from scratch in my cast iron frying pan. It made all the difference in the way the pie tasted, so I will no longer be buying prepared pizza sauce.
The upside-down is my all time favorite.
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I must admit that I cannot find Trump jokes funny anymore.
You need to watch more Vic Berger videos!
.@realDonaldTrump is making Christmas great again (by @VicBergerIV) pic.twitter.com/WRHloUkGRt
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) December 14, 2017
re: #218 teleskiguy
I’ve been looking at them for a while now, and with your recommendation, I will buy one soon.
re: #213 Semper Fi
Yes, those verses gave me difficulty. Then, I changed my thinking and decided it made sense provided I attributed ch 1 to Man’s creation before Adam and Eve. This allowed me to justify Cain’s wife as coming from this earlier creation.
There was more to the Ch 2 creation as this was God’s man. It is the man God breathed life into and became a living soul. Now the remaining dilemma is: Was the Garden of Eden also a place of protection from animals and/or possibly from this earlier creation of man.
That’s a way to think about the story I haven’t heard before.
That leaves a few questions though: Where did those two people go? Why would people need protection from animals if God is omnipotent? The Bible doesn’t say where Cain’s wife came from (therefore one can only apply apologetics to the problem, aside from the issues of the origins of the Bible itself). There was no one around to observe either version of the creation story, and we do not know who wrote the stories down (and who edited them afterwards), &c.
Moreover, Genesis 1 has the problems of light being created before light producing objects (stars) were created (and at the end of that day as an afterthought creates about 600 sextillion stars), &c.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (KJV) - pretty bad advice since there are a great many plants that are poisonous.
The whole story has insurmountable problems that can only be solved by people explaining what is supposedly God’s word. An omniscient god would not need people to explain his words.
re: #220 majii
I’ve had a number of dinner parties where I make a big glob of dough and a bowl of sauce and a big bag of mozzarella cheese and all the fixins and I just make little pizzas for the guests, whatever they want, and they bake *real good* on the pizza stone.
re: #222 teleskiguy
I checked out the Amazon link. The reviews, in general, are good. I always read the reviews before purchasing items. I like the idea that some reviewers said they use the stone to cook other items, too. I’ll use Charles’ link when I buy it.
re: #223 majii
Nice thing about clicking the link I provided, it goes right to the LGF Amazon link. Anytime an Amazon link is posted in the comments it’ll go right to the LGF Amazon thingy. Charles is a code wizard like that.
Pineapple is the enemy of mankind.
It may not be high on that list (like tuberculosis, or Donald Trump), but it’s on the list.
re: #225 freetoken
Someone’s deploying heavy artillery.
re: #225 freetoken
Pineapple is the enemy of mankind.
It may not be high on that list (like tuberculosis, or Donald Trump), but it’s on the list.
I have latent tuberculosis. It is far less a danger than Donald Trump.
And pineapple is ambrosia in Hawaiian form.
My favorite kind of pizza is the ‘Hawaiian’ variety. I do Canadian bacon, jalapeños, and [GAH] pineapple. That’s a good fuckin’ pizza.
re: #221 Anymouse 🌹
That’s a way to think about the story I haven’t heard before.
That leaves a few questions though: Where did those two people go? Why would people need protection from animals if God is omnipotent? The Bible doesn’t say where Cain’s wife came from (therefore one can only apply apologetics to the problem, aside from the issues of the origins of the Bible itself). There was no one around to observe either version of the creation story, and we do not know who wrote the stories down (and who edited them afterwards), &c.
Moreover, Genesis 1 has the problems of light being created before light producing objects (stars) were created (and at the end of that day as an afterthought creates about 600 sextillion stars), &c.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (KJV) - pretty bad advice since there are a great many plants that are poisonous.
The whole story has insurmountable problems that can only be solved by people explaining what is supposedly God’s word. An omniscient god would not need people to explain his words.
The two just multiplied in that (G of E) location.
Animals? You’re right. I only remember there was a snake.
Cain’s wife came from someplace so I’ll say people already existed. They may have liked climbing trees a lot but Cain was a guy.
Light created ‘before’ a light source was created is, to me, indicative of the an author’s inaccuracy due to inexperience. Genesis was his first book.
re: #223 majii
I checked out the Amazon link. The reviews, in general, are good. I always read the reviews before purchasing items. I like the idea that some reviewers said they use the stone to cook other items, too. I’ll use Charles’ link when I buy it.
Don’t forget to get a pizza peel along with the pizza stone. Makes taking the pizza in and out of the oven much easier.
re: #221 Anymouse 🌹
That’s a way to think about the story I haven’t heard before.
That leaves a few questions though: Where did those two people go? Why would people need protection from animals if God is omnipotent? The Bible doesn’t say where Cain’s wife came from (therefore one can only apply apologetics to the problem, aside from the issues of the origins of the Bible itself). There was no one around to observe either version of the creation story, and we do not know who wrote the stories down (and who edited them afterwards), &c.
Moreover, Genesis 1 has the problems of light being created before light producing objects (stars) were created (and at the end of that day as an afterthought creates about 600 sextillion stars), &c.
1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (KJV) - pretty bad advice since there are a great many plants that are poisonous.
The whole story has insurmountable problems that can only be solved by people explaining what is supposedly God’s word. An omniscient god would not need people to explain his words.
Teh God would have just implanted all the knowledge stuff in our brains at birth, so there would be no room for debate.
re: #229 Semper Fi
The two just multiplied in that (G of E) location.
Animals? You’re right. I only remember there was a snake.
Cain’s wife came from someplace so I’ll say people already existed. They may have liked climbing trees a lot but Cain was a guy.
Light created ‘before’ a light source was created is, to me, indicative of the an author’s inaccuracy due to inexperience. Genesis was his first book.
From what I remember from a Bible as Literature class I took ages ago, the current version of Genesis is an amalgam of different oral source material plus some extra stuff added later to stitch it all into some kind of narrative. So, we have two versions of the creation of Adam and Eve, because there were a least that many oral traditions floating around. IIRC the Torah was codified during the Babylonian Exile (8th Century BC?) while the various creation stories were around much longer.
As for Cain’s wife, one interpretation is that Genesis is only about the creation of the Hebrews and Cain’s wife was from another population group. Another (more far fetched, but popular among fundies) is that the angels or the nephilim came down to make whoopee with teh humanz, thus giving the early humanz really long life spans.
It’s also important to remember there were other religions around during that time, and the early Hebrews were trying to establish themselves as a people and rebuild as a nation. A lot of the OT can be read as public relations material (or propaganda) to tell the Hebrews how to be Jewish (aka Yahweh worshipers, as opposed to El, Baal or Asherah worshipers).
re: #231 wheat-dogg
Teh God would have just implanted all the knowledge stuff in our brains at birth, so there would be no room for debate.
Maybe G-d just wanted to see what man would do. What choices do we make.
re: #233 Semper Fi
Maybe G-d just wanted to see what man would do. What choices do we make.
Like a VR game, but with real people instead of sims.
re: #228 teleskiguy
My favorite kind of pizza is the ‘Hawaiian’ variety. I do Canadian bacon, jalapeños, and [GAH] pineapple. That’s a good fuckin’ pizza.
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re: #232 wheat-dogg
From what I remember from a Bible as Literature class I took ages ago, the current version of Genesis is an amalgam of different oral source material plus some extra stuff added later to stitch it all into some kind of narrative. So, we have two versions of the creation of Adam and Eve, because there were a least that many oral traditions floating around. IIRC the Torah was codified during the Babylonian Exile (8th Century BC?) while the various creation stories were around much longer.
As for Cain’s wife, one interpretation is that Genesis is only about the creation of the Hebrews and Cain’s wife was from another population group. Another (more far fetched, but popular among fundies) is that the angels or the nephilim came down to make whoopee with teh humanz, thus giving the early humanz really long life spans.
It’s also important to remember there were other religions around during that time, and the early Hebrews were trying to establish themselves as a people and rebuild as a nation. A lot of the OT can be read as public relations material (or propaganda) to tell the Hebrews how to be Jewish (aka Yahweh worshipers, as opposed to El, Baal or Asherah worshipers).
Thanks for the reminder. I truly enjoyed that “Bible as Literature” class may decades ago. Also, there was another I was particularly fond of: “Art as History.” But that’s OT.
Genesis 1 & 2 have always puzzled me.
re: #231 wheat-dogg
Teh God would have just implanted all the knowledge stuff in our brains at birth, so there would be no room for debate.
That would take away Christianity’s “free will” argument (you freely choose to send yourself to Hell - by the way not described in the Bible).
Of course that little bit of apologetics fails on cursory examination as well.
For example, killing (or in some apologetics arguments trying to explain the X Commandments, murder) is a sin.
It’s not God’s will that you might commit a murder (funny how rape isn’t in the X Commandments, but I digress), and therefore through your own free will you send yourself to hell with such a sin (never mind the ten picked out are arbitrary, and there are about 523 commandments, Hail Eris).
Presumably, the victim of such a murder exercised his or her free will to be murdered.
Moreover, if you sincerely and honestly accept (based on the various ten thousand sects of Christianity “accept”) the teachings of Jesus, you go to Heaven.
If the victim of said murder was a good, moral Muslim, Jew, Hindu, atheist, Shinto, whatever, that person is bound for Hell, even if that person never heard of the Bible.
Interestingly, a good chunk of the Old Testament (referred to as propaganda for Yahweh above) is devoted to the Hebrews (or at least Hebrew women) constantly backsliding into worship of Ashtoreth (or Astarte), the Queen of Heaven and protector of women.
Those old Hebrew patriarchs couldn’t have women (or female gods) as equals, so the Old Testament constantly shows them stomping out worship of Astarte every time she comes up.
Genesis 1 & 2 have plagued me for some time…just makes no sense (for me). Thus, I do my own ‘stitching’ as Wheat-Dogg said of the current version.
Gonna say g’nite now.
My only Instagram post of the Jackson Hole ski area. I still want to jump into this fucking thing and ski away with the biggest shit-eating grin.
Bottom of Corbet’s Couloir. Alas, I couldn’t ski it, patrol wouldn’t let me. :(
I’m off to bed y’all. A week before winter, and it will be 51F tomorrow.
Plumber will be here (again, he was here today and earlier in the week) to replace the iron sewer line in my house installed when the house was first plumbed for a bathroom in the Fifties. (One end of the line was not supported, and over sixty years gravity has caused it to sag, causing wastewater in my bathroom not to go down correctly.)
Pity my poor checking account. (Ch-ching! another thousand dollars… .) At least they aren’t charging to come sixty miles out to my house (with a project like this… .)
My wife is ragging on me for mixing Port wine with lime Kool-Aid … she says it looks like a kindergartener mixing watercolours.
G’night y’all … Do Teleskiguys dream of electric snow?
Pineapple is proof that god does not exist.
Regex, on the other hand, does prove there is a devil.
Here’s one very real and possible way that Net Neutrality will bite those in the ass who most supported it.
c. 2021 - Comcast introduces new advertiser standards https://t.co/9q1nw1p0v4 #Net #Neutrality,prediction pic.twitter.com/u4xHjvRSOt
— Weave (@diaper) December 15, 2017
Nothing…… I mean NOTHING starts off my day better than a good slime mold.
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) December 15, 2017
re: #129 The Major
Eve was the first trans-gendered person. A rib from a male converted to female. Talk about a narrow genetic base.
This article contains an epic takedown of Bill Mitchell’s racist conspiracy theory that George Soros paid to send hundreds of bus loads of Mississippi African-Americans to vote in Tuesday’s election.
I need to invent a better windshield wiper.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Unfortunately that’s not the case here. Conservatives seem to be viewing the internet as akin to a game console or tv when it’s more close to a utility especially in more urban areas.
It’s tubes, a bunch of tubes
re: #168 Anymouse 🌹
Is telecommuting like regular commuting around here (sand and gravel roads)? /s
May turn out to be in the long run.
A Secret Service guy came over to my friend, and says, ‘When you speak to the president, be positive. Audience warmup for the president, that’s what the Secret Service is doing now,” https://t.co/IbRt3u2o37
— I hope & pray the Nazis/alt-right get dick cancer (@DrMatthew) December 15, 2017
THANKS OBAMA! pic.twitter.com/TBP4L3oyDg
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) December 15, 2017
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
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They’re not even hiding anymore that they’re propaganda.
Economy was doing well under Obama. FNC says nothing while Trump claims the country is in the shitter.
re: #258 HappyWarrior
Economy was doing well under Obama. FNC says nothing while Trump claims the country is in the shitter.
And now we have basically the same economy, and they claim its booming thanks to Trump.
Go check out Bill Mitchell’s feed. That’s the stupid pasture where the dumb animals graze all day long.
— Patrick, the Red-Nosed Craindeer 🎅🏻❄️🎄☃️ (@patrickcrain73) December 15, 2017
re: #259 Big Beautiful Door
And now we have basically the same economy, and they claim its booming thanks to Trump.
Exactly.
re: #208 Anymouse 🌹
Turns out Blake Farenthold cannot withdraw from the next election due to deadlines in Texas.
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So an empty gesture that he knew couldn’t happen.
re: #236 Semper Fi
Thanks for the reminder. I truly enjoyed that “Bible as Literature” class may decades ago. Also, there was another I was particularly fond of: “Art as History.” But that’s OT.
Genesis 1 & 2 have always puzzled me.
Why? 2 completely different myths that were part of two separate traditions that were put together to help bind the people of those two traditions together. Both make reasonable pre-scientific understandings of the creation. It’s only later when you get ignorant fundamentalists pushing literal interpretation of the bible that it becomes an issue.
Accepting the creation as myth does not imply anything about the belief in God any more than accepting the very divergent descriptions of Christ’s birth in the beginnings of Luke & Matthew. Love the way different genealogies, for example, since one needs him to descend from Moses while the other needs him to descend from King David. I understand this without losing my belief in an itinerant, somewhat apocalyptic, healer & possibly divinely inspired rabbi in central Palestine some two thousand years ago.
Alabama’s “inactive” voter scheme is illegal, but there’s no chance in Hell that Sessions DOJ will investigate it.
Seems appropriate.
Outside One Commerce Plaza in #Albany this morning. What’s wrong with this picture? Mistake or political statement? #UpsideDownUSflag @WNYT pic.twitter.com/TH7g2ZSA0g
— John Craig (@JohnCraigWNYT) December 15, 2017
James Alex Fields white nationalist is now being charged with first degree murder. He could, and imo should get life in prison.
bbc.com
re: #266 Unshaken Defiance
James Alex Fields white nationalist is now being charged with first degree murder. He could, and imo should get life in prison.
bbc.com
I believe that the charge increase was determined by the judge &, IIUC, must be confirmed by a new indictment by a grand jury before the charge is actually changed. At least that was the understanding I got from NPR.
A slow, painful #Rexit: Trump allies say Tillerson has ‘not learned his lesson’ and cannot continue in job for long https://t.co/Jh7LIBCQMd
— Phillip Carter (@Carter_PE) December 15, 2017
I’m sure it’s been posted multiple times (I’ve fallen behind), but it’s worth remembering again and again:
After we published a list of Trump’s lies this summer, some of his supporters asked us to compare Trump to other presidents. We’ve done so and just published the results: https://t.co/ivdTB7a7rN pic.twitter.com/SA0STVoXgv
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) December 14, 2017
I don’t know if this was posted overnight, but if you’re looking for news on an imminent indictment, be careful where you click.
Cuidado, politikids.
Tons of Russian bots are pumping links to a story about Jared Kushner. Notice the honeypot profile pics. Smells like a malware trap. Avoid. pic.twitter.com/lFIHMBgyyM— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 15, 2017
re: #270 Barefoot Grin
I’m sure it’s been posted multiple times (I’ve fallen behind), but it’s worth remembering again and again:
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The bigger challenge would be Trump telling the truth.
re: #111 teleskiguy
I love this picture, it has many of my favorite people in it.
re: #267 William Lewis
It would be quite surprising if the new charge did not hold up for trial.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Cue cries of socialism …
You know, socialism probably wouldn’t exist as an economic model if capitalism didn’t work so hard to collect all the economic cookies for a few powerful people.
Socialism exists because we decided capitalism was a goal rather than a tool.
re: #275 Belafon
Socialism exists because we decided capitalism was a goal rather than a tool.
Exactly.
Here he goes again. Moments ago, before leaving for Quantico, says that “it’s been proven there was no collusion…. It’s a scam costing millions of dollars….and when you look at the other side, Hillary, you’ll be amazed at what’s been found.”
‘Call with Vladimir Putin? It was great he said some very nice things about what I’m doing for this country and some not so nice things about other things.’
re: #277 Barefoot Grin
Here he goes again. Moments ago, before leaving for Quantico, says that “it’s been proven there was no collusion…. It’s a scam costing millions of dollars….and when you look at the other side, Hillary, you’ll be amazed at what’s been found.”
This fucking guy. I really want him in jail.
He lives in an alternative reality.
.@POTUS: “There is absolutely no collusion. I didn’t make a phone call to Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia. Everybody knows it. That was a Democrat hoax. It was an excuse for losing the election.” pic.twitter.com/n9OkBZkVa2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 15, 2017
.@POTUS: “Even the Democrats admit there’s no collusion… They’ve found tremendous things on the other side - when you look at the @HillaryClinton investigation… that was a rigged system.” pic.twitter.com/Lb1iTeM3eT
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 15, 2017
He’s a disgrace and still obstructing the investigation and still obsessed with Hillary.
re: #274 Unshaken Defiance
It would be quite surprising if the new charge did not hold up for trial.
That is probably true. That said, until the Grand Jury speaks, the charges remain the same.
The call to Putin was supposedly about North Korea, but some saying it was actually to say “thank you” for comments Putin made about “spy mania” in America during his annual kiss-ass press conference in Moscow.
re: #281 The Vicious Babushka
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Hair Furor’s act is wearing thin.
Throw his son in jail, then his son-in-law, then him.
Enough.
.@POTUS: “I don’t want to talk about pardons for @GenFlynn yet. We’ll see what happens.” pic.twitter.com/uixCTBvV8A
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 15, 2017
WATCH: FCC chair dances with Pizzagate conspiracy theorist in video promoting net neutrality repeal https://t.co/RT9cxWNZxn pic.twitter.com/An3Dl9tKLg
— The Hill (@thehill) December 14, 2017
Though known for its large inventory of words, I’m not sure the English language has one that adequately communicates the magnitude of the disgrace visited upon the FCC by Ajit Pai’s dancing with a person associated with Pizzagate in a video funded by an extremist propaganda blog https://t.co/rioT4bEL2c
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 14, 2017
re: #129 The Major
And it’s these same eejets who forget how woman was created by God himself: From the rib of Adam - Not from the top, not from the bottom of Adam: but from THE SIDE OF ADAM.
Christ on a pony - these fuckers don’t even understand Genesis for damn’s sake.
There’s a character in Good Omens called Shadwell, the ranking officer of the Witchfinder Army, who tries to live and judge by the Bible. Or rather, by the only versicle he actually read and remembers.
These eejets must be related to Shadwell.
President Trump isn’t welcome in Greenwich, London. https://t.co/mNM2rpUyaQ
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 15, 2017
He isn’t welcome in the United States. https://t.co/8X1s0BLLME
— Tom Wellborn 👓 (@TomWellborn) December 15, 2017
Trump is speaking FBI National Academy graduation, not the FBI Agent graduation. Big difference- national academy attendees are high level, strong performing state & local law enforcement officers from around the country - I.e. Trump’s base
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) December 15, 2017
re: #271 makeitstop
I don’t know if this was posted overnight, but if you’re looking for news on an imminent indictment, be careful where you click.
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Those links seem to head to IFTTT, which is an web automator site…
Glad to see they are laser focused on the important issues:
.@newtgingrich on possible @HillaryClinton and @FBI investigations: “The Attorney General has to step up to the plate and do his job. He has no excuse, as somebody who I know believes in the law….He has to set up a Clinton investigation [and] an FBI/Justice Dept investigation.” pic.twitter.com/w0Gwmai6Zo
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 15, 2017
A true demagogue in full action. And a man who once advised the GOP to get ahead by calling Democrats “traitors.” https://t.co/O7amTA421u
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 15, 2017
this is fine…
Exclusive: EPA has inked a $120,000 contract with a Republican oppo research firm to track and shape press coverage
https://t.co/KTwrvY9Bb5— Rebecca Leber (@rebleber) December 15, 2017
LIVE NOW: Coverage from the countdown to liftoff of @SpaceX’s #Dragon cargo spacecraft at 10:36am ET. Watch: https://t.co/ZuxLDtzW9c pic.twitter.com/0eJTyhH4U6
— NASA (@NASA) December 15, 2017
re: #293 Barefoot Grin
He’s going to do it.
And I’d bet that Mueller and AG Schneiderman already have a counter-move ready to go.
Trump telegraphs his punches. Almost too obvious.
re: #286 The Vicious Babushka
It’s going to be a hoot when he discovers he can’t pardon Flynn for charges by New York.
Heh.
Omarosa: I was “very lonely” in Trump White House due to lack of diversity https://t.co/QVmi64ryhF pic.twitter.com/mn9HbEQsDc
— The Hill (@thehill) December 14, 2017
“Listen, I’m a hyena and they’re all jackals. It was just so hard to be the only vile scavenging carrion eater of my kind there.” https://t.co/1ADp41C8CH
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 15, 2017
I see the newest tack over at Daily Kos from those intent on helping Trump and Russia (whether they are bots or idiots makes no difference) after the defeat of “Can’t win without the white working class” is “you can’t be mean to them.” Seeing it in a few diaries and responses. Most people aren’t having it.
Eminem is a fucking Grade A patriot. This collab with Alicia Keys is astounding.
Lyrics:
Yeah
Shout to everybody
Who’s been on this trip with me
You don’t have to agree
But if you feel like me[Verse 1: Eminem]
Someone get this aryan a sheet
Time to bury him, so tell him to prepare to get impeached
Everybody on your feet
This is where is where terrorism and heroism meets, square up in the streets
This chump barely even sleeps
All he does is watch Fox News like a parrot and repeats
While he looks like a canary with a beak
Why you think banned transgenders from the military with a tweet?
He’s trying to divide us, this sh*t’s like a cult
But like Johnny, he’ll only unite us
‘Cuz nothing drives us inside like this fight does
Similar to when two cars collide ‘cause our spirits are crushed
This spot’s a tight one
But here the jaws of life come to pull us from the wreckage
That’s what we get pride from
When we can’t wear stars and stripes ‘cause this type of pickle we’re in is hard to deal
But there’s always tomorrow still
If we start from the scratch like a scab for scars to heal
And band together for Charolettesville
And for heaven’s fallen heroes
Fill his wall with murals, Nevada get up
Hit the damn resetter, let’s start from zero
This is our renewal, spray tan get ride of
Get a brand new, better, America
And here’s to where we’re from[Chorus: Alicia Keys & Eminem]
This is where it all began, all began (stand up)
Here’s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up)
Here’s to the land that raised me
There’s home for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
There’s no place like home[Verse 2: Eminem]
Didn’t wanna piss your base off, did ya?
Can’t denounce the klan, ‘cause they play golf with ya
You stay on Twitter, made to get your hate off, Nazi
I do not see a way y’all differ, at all
You got a race card with a swastika with your name carved in it
Then it should be your trademark, all you did is play off
You played off, so I guess it pays to feed off of chaos
So basically, you Adolf Hitler
But you ain’t ruining our country, punk
You won’t take our pride from us
You won’t define us
‘Cause like a dictionary, things are looking up
So much, got a sprained neck
Knew we would rise up
Against this train wreck and take a stand
Even if it mean sitting when they raise the flag
This ain’t the Star Spangled Banner
This man praised a statue of General Lee, ‘cause
He generally hates the black people, degrades hispanics
Take it back to the Shady national convention
Wish I would have spit on him before I went to shake his hand at the event
Or maybe had the wherewithal to know that he was gonna try to
Thought he was gonna tear apart a sacred land
We cherish and stand for, so
Hands in the air, let’s hear it for
The start of a brand new America
Without him, we can be proud of where we’re from
And here’s to where we’re from[Chorus: Alicia Keys & Eminem]
This is where it all began, all began (stand up)
Here’s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up)
Here’s to the land that raised me
There’s home for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
There’s no place like home[Bridge: Alicia Keys]
I won’t give up
I won’t give up on my home, that so many died for
You already know that I won’t give up
I won’t give up on my home, that so many died for
You already know there’s no place like home, no place like home
Wherever I go, no place like home
No place like home, no place like home
Wherever I go[Chorus: Alicia Keys & Eminem]
This is where it all began, all began (stand up)
Here’s to the land that made me
And made me who I am, who I am (hands up)
Here’s to the land that raised me
There’s home for the only place that really knows me
From the cracks in the road that drove me
There’s no place like home
SpaceX is targeting launch of the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force station in Florida no earlier than Friday, Dec. 15th at 7:36 a.m. PST, or 15:36 UTC.
This mission marks the first time SpaceX is flying both a flight-proven Falcon 9 and a flight-proven Dragon spacecraft. Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported the CRS-11 mission in June 2017 and the Dragon spacecraft previously supported the CRS-6 mission in April 2015.
re: #302 makeitstop
Eminem is a fucking Grade A patriot. This collab with Alicia Keys is astounding.
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Lyrics:
Can’t wait to listen when I get home tonight.
re: #305 HappyWarrior
Can’t wait to listen when I get home tonight.
It’s amazing. Inspiring.
That kid who once threatened Western Civilization is doing his best to help save it.
And Alicia’s chorus is perfect. Perfect.
re: #306 makeitstop
It’s amazing. Inspiring.
That kid who once threatened Western Civilization is doing his best to help save it.
And Alicia’s chorus is perfect. Perfect.
Love “like Johnny he’ll only unite us.” Yeah, I’m old.
the new gop website to push their tax scam makes $2,000 sound like you hit a $20,000,000 lotto. pic.twitter.com/YW5aAZaKpy
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 15, 2017
I’m gonna invest in my alternator so I can get to work! Woot!
re: #307 Barefoot Grin
Love “like Johnny he’ll only unite us.” Yeah, I’m old.
That slipped by me until I listened the second time.
His mind works on a way different level than mere mortals.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
On another forum I hang at someone claimed you could get around ISP blocking by using your cell phone or WiFi.
Their name was “What” which was appropriate because every time I read a post of theirs I said, “What?!”
re: #310 Romantic Heretic
On another forum I hang at someone claimed you could get around ISP blocking by using your cell phone or WiFi.
Their name was “What” which was appropriate because every time I read a post of theirs I said, “What?!”
What? :)
re: #310 Romantic Heretic
I think someone said something to the effect of “blockchain will solve it”…no really.
I wish I was ///
re: #308 JordanRules
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I’m gonna invest in my alternator so I can get to work! Woot!
So out of touch.
re: #312 I cannot.
I think someone said something to the effect of “blockchain will solve it”…no really.
I wish I was ///
I expect some ISP to accept bitcoin.
re: #314 Belafon
Oh, I’m sure they will.
But no, this was blockchain will somehow prevent throttling or blocking traffic…there was no explanation as to HOW that was supposed to work.
Trump at FBI National Academy graduation ceremony: “The president of the United States has your back 100%”
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) December 15, 2017
Yea cause that’s where the knife goes https://t.co/iOcJhOgz56
— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) December 15, 2017
re: #316 JordanRules
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Which is why my allies on FNC liken you to the KGB. I know a guy who was in the KGB. He’s great. Not many people know that Vladimir Putin was in the KGB.
re: #315 I cannot.
Oh, I’m sure they will.
But no, this was blockchain will somehow prevent throttling or blocking traffic…there was no explanation as to HOW that was supposed to work.
I know. I really couldn’t decide on whether to include // or not.
re: #316 JordanRules
Maybe he forgot that he lied about the FBI, and insulted them, to try to undermine their prosecution of people who betrayed us to Russia. He seems to live in the moment due to the dementia.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
As you all know, we have a fascism problem.
Can Doug Jones be arrested, tried, and convicted before taking his seat in the Senate? (Quora)
re: #323 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
As you all know, we have a fascism problem.
Can Doug Jones be arrested, tried, and convicted before taking his seat in the Senate? (Quora)
May I ask, what they think they can arrest him on? I don’t want to click the link at work.
re: #323 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
As you all know, we have a fascism problem.
Can Doug Jones be arrested, tried, and convicted before taking his seat in the Senate? (Quora)
We charge you with beating our creepy pedo in a state that should be impossible for a Republican to lose, how do you plead?
I’m sure everyone in MS-13 is intently listening right now *snerk*
“To any member of MS-13 listening, I have a message for you: We will find you. We will arrest you. We will jail you. We will throw you the hell out of the country,” President Trump says https://t.co/qsToK7G7gT pic.twitter.com/BrsYklvE7r
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 15, 2017
re: #281 The Vicious Babushka
You should mention that he’s lying when you repeat Trump’s lies. You’re aiding a lawless, would-be autocrat, who’s working to destroy America.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #326 The Vicious Babushka
I’m sure everyone in MS-13 is intently listening right now *snerk*
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Scotland gave us your mother so they clearly weren’t giving us their best.
I found out recently my mom’s uncle could be called a so called anchor baby. Moms grandparents were from Melania’s country so I guess it was “okay.” Not knocking my family just pointing out that slur is only used on children of color.
Oops. That wasn’t ready yet!
Morning…I’m composing a contact message for Jeff Falke. The computer I am using has no spell check so I was using the tools here to check.
Back in a bit. I’m feeling ornery
re: #316 JordanRules
Ferengi Rule of Acqusition #48: “The bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.” @ShimermanArmin
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #324 Belafon
May I ask, what they think they can arrest him on? I don’t want to click the link at work.
They don’t say, and all the answers tell them they’re nuts.
Quora gets a lot of weird questions from the far-right, but they never get the answers they hoped for.
re: #302 makeitstop
Fuckers won’t let me watch that Eminem video up here. Note even with my VPN.
re: #116 Anymouse 🌹
Good. We as Americans should want to know what happened in those operations. How many inquiries did we get in regard to Benghazi but Congress seems so ho hum about these failed military exercises.
“Harlem Shake” creators threaten to sue over use in FCC chairman’s anti-net neutrality video: https://t.co/0OSRRQvvgP pic.twitter.com/9vrtJt0DUc
— The Hill (@thehill) December 15, 2017
To the surprise of absolutely no one, @AjitPaiFCC might have violated trademark law in his propaganda video mocking #NetNeutrality activists. Which he made with a Pizzagate conspiracy theorist. https://t.co/9w4YTjm8TA
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) December 15, 2017
You know the Republicans are really proud of their tax bill because they are releasing it at 4:30PM on a Friday
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 15, 2017
Okay…I’m in a screw with Republicans mood. So I just sent this message to Jeff Flake after reading a tweet about him up thread from last evening. Hey, I have relatives in Arizona, that covers me for being from Ohio. A lot of people in Arizona are from Ohio.
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re: #333 MsJ
Fuckers won’t let me watch that Eminem video up here. Note even with my VPN.
Boo! It’s so good. Em in peak form, and Alicia keys with an uplifting chorus very similar to the one in Jay Z’s ‘New York.’
re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth
In a basement, with no stairs, with a tiger.
Robert Mueller is reportedly examining the 18-day period before Michael Flynn left the White House. @fordm compiled a timeline of what happened over those days: https://t.co/9DkiazNUK3 pic.twitter.com/foC7G3rD9F
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) December 15, 2017
re: #338 makeitstop
Boo! It’s so good. Em in peak form, and Alicia keys with an uplifting chorus very similar to the one in Jay Z’s ‘New York.’
I love them both. Eminem has a way with lyrics that blow you away. His assonance warms my often semi-illiterate heart.
“They give us their worst people, put them in a bin… they’re picking the worst of the worst, congratulations you’re going to the US.” pic.twitter.com/FdT9VDblBL
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) December 15, 2017
What? As I was saying… Maniac. https://t.co/jeFlOOrUSl
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) December 15, 2017
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
Is he talking about his two foreign-born wives? I’m confused.
my thought for the day:
i was over at politicalwire.com this morning. some folks were discussing the two party system etc. yes, it’s baked in for us, and yes, we need two robust parties.
my thinking is this:
principled opponents are welcome when politics is a clash of value systems, each of which is in some way valid; a competition between basically well-intentioned people who see the world differently.
when it becomes, not even a conflict of interests, but instead an “our team no matter what”, degenerative, brutal struggle for office in which one side with righteous indignation believes *only* the other is and can be capable of behaving despicably while they themselves in fact run roughshod over it all, well then eff em without mercy
elections of late have been contentious and close. no one may claim a runaway mandate. yet senate republicans are behaving like they have a 70 member chamber. they cant get anything done because (1) they dont have 70, and (2) wont recognize there’s another party with virtually half the seats. the fcc vote ignored the huge public position against rescinding neutrality.
further, in both chambers, the r’s are doing everything they can to defame, delegitimized, and make irrelevant the other party (AND by extension the more than half the population they represent) by parliamentary tricks (cf merrick garland, and now doug jones, scheduling, regular order, etc.), biased rule changes, and shutting the door on dems from even participating in crafting legislation.
i am not a pollyanna.
each party at the very least must recognize the other’s right to exist and to be included in the legislative process. of course the minority shouldnt get everything. neither should they get nothing.
at a minimum we need a *functioning* two party system.
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
And yet, somehow, a lot of former British colonies turned out ok anyway.
re: #288 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
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The word is Republican.
— Jill (@jillco) December 14, 2017
re: #347 BeachDem
One, two, three, four. Ajit Pai’s a corporate whore.
Five, six, seven, eight. That asshole fucked our data rate.— Jurassic National Park (@JurassicNPS) December 14, 2017
Hopeful comment about net neutrality in the best of reddit subreddit:
I take some comfort in knowing that this horrible decision will be stuck in the courts for some time, where its opponents will have a very strong argument against implementation.
The test for whether a proposed rule or regulation by a Federal Agency is permissible is whether the Agency instituted that new regulation in an “arbitrary or capricious” way. That’s why the notice and public comment period is so important in administrative law. A reviewing court needs to make sure that any new Agency rules are not simply created on the whim of those Agencies’ boards, but rather are the result of careful research. This arbitrary and capricious standard applies to decisions by Agencies to enact new regulations as well as decisions to rescind existing regulations (Motor Vehicles Manufacturers Association v. State Farm, 463 U.S. 29 (1983)).
The court that reviews decisions by major agencies like the FCC is almost always the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Presently, of the 11 current (non-senior) justices on the DC Circuit, 7 were appointed either by Obama or Clinton. It is not a conservative court.
Since the notice and public comment period in Agency procedure is so important for the reasons above, it’s very likely that the liberal DC Circuit (Chief Justice Merrick Garland, remember him?) would find that the rampant use of bots and fraudulent commenting in that period provide substantial evidence that the actions of the FCC in rescinding Net Neutrality rules were arbitrary and capricious. This isn’t over.
NEW WH: “Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin today. Trump thanked Putin for acknowledging America’s strong economic performance in his annual press conference.”
Seriously? That was the point of the call? To “thank Putin for acknowledging” we have a strong economy?— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) December 15, 2017
US president savors pat on the head from his Russian daddy while continuing to soil his own bed. https://t.co/y8P2BW34im
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) December 15, 2017
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Lying Lubbock GOPers celebate the end of net neutrality:
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They think Net Neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine, bless their hearts.
So on a day of reckoning for the GOP tax plan, as the bill remains imperiled by some dissension in the Republican ranks, President Trump goes on TV to trash the FBI and talk Flynn pardon—generating red chyron coverage. Coincidence? 🤔
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) December 15, 2017
re: #352 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Continue to file this under:
If a Democratic President would have done it they would have been investigated and impeached (at the very least 24/hour nonstop media outrage).
re: #351 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Lying Lubbock GOPers celebate the end of net neutrality:
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Ten to one they’re thinking that “net neutrality” is the same thing as the old Fairness Doctrine.
Wingnuts really are a special kind of stupid.
re: #300 makeitstop
Omarosa was “lonely” but she was okay with collecting $180,000 per year to work for a racist. She would be still there if he hadn’t tired of her and kicked her out.
re: #357 Patricia Kayden
Omarosa was “lonely” but she was okay with collecting $180,000 per year to work for a racist. She would be still there if he hadn’t tired of her and kicked her out.
Yep. To borrow a phrase, ‘She knew what she signed up for.’
re: #357 Patricia Kayden
Omarosa was “lonely” but she was okay with collecting $180,000 per year to work for a racist. She would be still there if he hadn’t tired of her and kicked her out.
That segment from Seth Meyers’ writer Amber had the lines:
Trump: You were supposed to deliver me the black woman vote.
Omarosa: But I don’t know any!
That whole segment cracked my son and me up:
A Brennan Center report found that PA was home to one of the worst gerrymandering in the US — now, PA GOP members are fighting to keep the state’s redistricting information from being released. https://t.co/OVK1pZ12Er
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) December 15, 2017
re: #353 Belafon
They think Net Neutrality is the Fairness Doctrine, bless their hearts.
its now gonna cost them more to remain that “uninformed”
re: #355 CongoJack
Continue to file this under:
If a Democratic President would have done it they would have been investigated and impeached (at the very least 24/hour nonstop media outrage).
…the next day
Trump to FBI National Academy graduates: “So you understand, you are great people. I hope your families agree. Probably 90 percent agree. The other 10 percent… that’s not working out so well.”
WUT— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) December 15, 2017
Breaking news: 10% of FBI National Academy grads are hated by their immediate families.
Source: A guy with no close friends. https://t.co/Vh5rLV2oEw— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) December 15, 2017
At FBI academy, Trump is returning to campaign theme of rising crime in cities, citing Chicago and Baltimore.
— James Oliphant (@jamesoliphant) December 15, 2017
Hey guess what, Donald Trump - the FBI agrees federal law requiring background checks on private gun sales would help prevent Indiana crime guns from moving into Chicago. https://t.co/LiLnNAWYmC
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 15, 2017
Conservatives: “The Internet Is Free Again”
Comcast: You will need to pay $29.99 more a month for any news content other than MSNBC.
Conservatives: pic.twitter.com/ohlNNxe8uL— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 15, 2017
re: #344 dangerman
at a minimum we need a *functioning* two party system.
Oh, we’ll get one soon enough: I imagine a newfound sense of respect for the rights of the legislative minority will become a fundamental principle of governance in Washington - as soon as the Democrats take control of either/both Houses of Congress.
“Mr. Trump, can we ask you a question about the accusations of child rape and sexual assault that nearly 20 women have made against you? Mr. Trump? President Trump?”pic.twitter.com/yNOfUYnkTu
— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) December 15, 2017
re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) December 15, 2017
It’s a literal war on christmas and trump started it. You can’t make this stuff up.
Nazareth cancels Christmas celebration over Trump Jerusalem move https://t.co/iNnyTXoBce— Imani Gandy Canes (@AngryBlackLady) December 15, 2017
Grandchild: How was 2017.
Me: The birthplace of Jesus canceled Christmas. https://t.co/qPaa1uIjVR— 🎃shitpost_bot🏳️🌈 (@KardOnIce) December 15, 2017
heh
A water fountain at the EPA backed up and started spewing sewage into the hallway https://t.co/ct1LtxAO2M pic.twitter.com/WdZVVlNt5O
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 15, 2017
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand pages of eliminated regulations. https://t.co/YV9hxcgU8J
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) December 15, 2017
Trump claims Democrats have done nothing for children. pic.twitter.com/6y1eocW4X8
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) December 15, 2017
Kevin Swanson, who said that the wombs of women who use birth control are “embedded with dead babies” and that gay marriage would lead to Boy Scout merit badge for cannibalism, has now applied his special insight to the Alabama election:
In 19th century Britain, TRIMMINGS were secret drinks parties held by women.
(Passing English, 1909) pic.twitter.com/mIIjlPB2wW— Haggard Hawks (@HaggardHawks) December 15, 2017
Well ladies……Christmas is about all the trimmings…..🥂🥂🥂 https://t.co/8Dct7BtlUW
— 🎄🏃🏼♀️🎄Ali🎄🏃🏼♀️🎄 (@AlisonJBurge) December 15, 2017
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
Democrats have done nothing for children like the GOP which has let CHIP lapse, tried to repeal the ACA, is in the process of trying to legalize a huge wealth grab for the mega rich, etc., etc. We know, Donny. We know.
Yesterday was the 5 year mark of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook School, which went unacknowledged by the President. On the same day, he hosted a White House Christmas party to which he invited @NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre. Here he is at the party with @DanPatrick. pic.twitter.com/mUbKCIWGxB
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) December 15, 2017
re: #375 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Isn’t Swanson the nut who said that the Burning Man festival was trying to bring back human sacrifice or some such BS?
What a raving loon.
re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Democrats have done nothing TO children.
See: Moore, Hastert
lol
We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
Matt Damon thinks we need to “correct” the “culture of outrage” over sexual harassment https://t.co/E3HTbswUwa pic.twitter.com/AQlLcDJIqZ
— SPIN (@SPIN) December 15, 2017
I think Matt Damon needs to fuck off. https://t.co/3iAe3aiWnW
— Imani Gandy Canes (@AngryBlackLady) December 15, 2017
I second that.
Call your senator! [no phone numbers allowed] is Capitol switchboard https://t.co/smaNi31scc
— ANNE LAMOTT (@ANNELAMOTT) November 14, 2017
2017 is like the episodes of LOST in which people had to keep entering the same numbers into a machine to prevent disaster https://t.co/GvmKKhmSBF
— Daniel Lin (@danwlin) November 15, 2017
re: #357 Patricia Kayden
Omarosa was “lonely” but she was okay with collecting $180,000 per year to work for a racist. She would be still there if he hadn’t tired of her and kicked her out.
“He” being off course his keeper John Kelly. If it were up to Trump she’d still be collecting checks and saying stupid stuff for Trump.
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
she understands nothing about the moral logic of common sacrifice
I’m quite happy as a single person and surrounded by friends.
You live an empty life? That is nobodies fault but yours.— jay (@random__name) December 15, 2017
re: #384 sagehen
BREAKING: the Senate GOP is planning to rip health care from 13 million people, drive up premiums AND cut Medicare to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. They just can’t keep their hands off our health care. If you fought Trumpcare, we need you in this fight now!
compare this, happening right now, by the R’s, with #374’s idiodic comment
re: #387 plansbandc
Zero empathy will do that.
yup she basically said the tax law should be about nothing that doesnt affect her personally
re: #386 dangerman
she understands nothing about the moral logic of common sacrifice
When she calls 911 because she can’t get up in the future, I would not be opposed to the paramedic sitting in her chair saying “You didn’t see any need in helping me prepare for this possibility.”
ICE officers showed up in Harris County 174th District Criminal Court & put an American citizen in shackles. The Judge (Hazel Jones) stepped in & told the ICE officers to produce a warrant & proof he isn’t a citizen. ICE could not prove it and left. @abc13houston @JoshChapinKHOU
— Mana Yegani (@Law_Mana) December 15, 2017
re: #388 I cannot.
Coulter: We don’t need immigrants! Americans should just have more babies
Also Coulter: I don’t want to pay for childcare. Americans should stop having so many babies!— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 15, 2017
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
I also wouldn’t have been opposed to the judge having them arrested.
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I second that.
Did Matt Damon just torpedo his film career…especially with women?
Why yes, I think he just did some major damage.
Matt is obviously not very bright.
re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Uh no warrant and they did that. Were they even ICE or were they assholes/supremacists playing ICE. Something stinks.
SpaceX racks up another first, launching a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on a NASA grocery run. https://t.co/fDSuCDea7s
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) December 15, 2017
re: #396 CongoJack
Uh no warrant and they did that. Were they even ICE or were they assholes/supremacists playing ICE. Something stinks.
This isn’t the first time ICE has done this type of thing, and it’s not the first time it’s been caught on video. They tried something similar in, I believe, Portland. It is ICE. And I do think they’re going to need to be arrested by local law enforcement to stop it.
The Weinstein brothers orchestrated a smear campaign that led Peter Jackson to blacklist @AshleyJudd and @MiraSorvino, the Hobbit director tells @NZStuff https://t.co/uPQot04D88
— Rebecca Falconer (@RT_Falconer) December 14, 2017
Just seeing this after I awoke, I burst out crying. There it is, confirmation that Harvey Weinstein derailed my career, something I suspected but was unsure. Thank you Peter Jackson for being honest. I’m just heartsick https://t.co/ljK9NqICbm
— Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) December 15, 2017
re: #398 Belafon
This isn’t the first time ICE has done this type of thing, and it’s not the first time it’s been caught on video. They tried something similar in, I believe, Portland. It is ICE. And I do think they’re going to need to be arrested by local law enforcement to stop it.
But will local law enforcement do anything? They might just give ICE an “attaboy” and go back for some doughnuts, or get their head shaved and polished.
re: #388 I cannot.
We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
it’s ok ann one day you’ll find another person that’s a knockoff leather handbag full of scorpions and copies of mein kampf
— 🎄 Goth Ms. Krampus 👹 (@spookperson) December 15, 2017
re: #400 ObserverArt
But will local law enforcement do anything? They might just give ICE and “attaboy” and go back for some doughnuts, or get their head shaved and polished.
It will depend on the city. That was Houston. It will take a city with some serious guts to do it.
re: #380 Dr Lizardo
Isn’t Swanson the nut who said that the Burning Man festival was trying to bring back human sacrifice or some such BS?
What a raving loon.
The very one:
Kevin Swanson: Burning Man Wants To Bring Back Human Sacrifice
Yooooo I’m crying #NetNeturality pic.twitter.com/ilLnz7qtsH
— Victoria Lekocaj (@vickydarealist) December 15, 2017
We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
This is inadvertently profound. Ann is tacitly admitting that her primary motivation is to fill the perceived interpersonal void in her life with greed & resentment.
P.S. Eat at @nihilist_arbys https://t.co/AXx2qhNvoZ— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 15, 2017
re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth
A water fountain at the EPA backed up and started spewing sewage into the hallway eenews.net …
I NEED A SIGN FROM GOD…oh.
re: #405 goddamnedfrank
I couldn’t believe it either. She gave up a lot of the game on this one.
re: #405 goddamnedfrank
I see the nicotine from all of the cigarettes she has smoked have finally reached her grey cells.
I’m single. I have no problem helping out families especially poorer ones.
re: #409 HappyWarrior
Same here. But please allow me to feed myself first. /half
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Again I’ll ask Matt what I’ve been asking others. If a female supervisor you simply wanted a professional relationship with did these things to you. Sigh I like Matt Damon’s work but he’s coming off like an idiot here.
re: #395 ObserverArt
Did Matt Damon just torpedo his film career…especially with women?
Why yes, I think he just did some major damage.
Matt is obviously not very bright.
Why not? He did so with POC previously (during the last Project Greenlight, that also produced that dreadfully awful The Leisure Class film and it’s equally awful “director”.
re: #375 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Kevin Swanson, who said that the wombs of women who use birth control are “embedded with dead babies” and that gay marriage would lead to Boy Scout merit badge for cannibalism, has now applied his special insight to the Alabama election:
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re: #412 HappyWarrior
Again I’ll ask Matt what I’ve been asking others. If a female supervisor
you simply wanted a professional relationship withthat looked like your mother did these things to you. Sigh I like Matt Damon’s work but he’s coming off like an idiot here.
Appeal to something more basic.
re: #398 Belafon
This isn’t the first time ICE has done this type of thing, and it’s not the first time it’s been caught on video. They tried something similar in, I believe, Portland. It is ICE. And I do think they’re going to need to be arrested by local law enforcement to stop it.
ICE is Trump’s Gestapo. No Ifs, ands or buts.
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I second that.
I think I won’t be going to see his new movie.
re: #413 MsJ
Why not? He did so with POC previously (during the last Project Greenlight, that also produced that dreadfully awful The Leisure Class film and it’s equally awful “director”.
I missed this.
re: #418 HappyWarrior
No I want to know how they’d feel if a supervisor they had no attraction to suggested they’d fuck.
That was the idea. Give them someone they’d actually (hopefully) be repulsed by advances from.
Matt Damon needs to learn that not saying anything is always a viable option. Take the road less traveled Matt, shut the fuck up.
— Frankincensed (@goddamnedfrank) December 15, 2017
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you replace “you’re going to the US” with “you’re hired” he could be describing what he’s doing to the executive branch.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #421 Belafon
That was the idea. Give them someone they’d actually (hopefully) be repulsed by advances from.
Yeah I saw what you meant now. Sorry.
re: #405 goddamnedfrank
She was probably hacked.
re: #427 John Carter
She was probably hacked.
That’s what I thought at first. But the hate is there, she’s just being honest about what a miserable person she is.
Frank was right. It really is profound.
re: #364 makeitstop
The toothless old-man has gone soft in the head.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #428 MsJ
That’s what I thought at first. But the hate is there, she’s just being honest about what a miserable person she is.
Frank was right. It really is profound.
If she is being honest, then a bigger man than me might pity her.
Ann Coulter is trending because leftists are laughing at her ‘empty life of quiet desperation’ tweet.
These are the same people who write laborious articles about how much they hate themselves & scream bloody murder if you so much as suggest anti-depressants are overprescribed. pic.twitter.com/UYmhAVmJJu— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) December 15, 2017
Go to her, Paul.
(PM Dawn’s “Die Without You” swells on soundtrack)
Go to her. https://t.co/LCMPOqiXyR— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) December 15, 2017
re: #432 JordanRules
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Ever consider that she’s done a lot more than just mock people Paul? Fuck off snowflake.
I’ve never suggested antidepressants are over prescribed but I trust actual psychiatrists than whacks like you.
re: #432 JordanRules
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re: #365 Backwoods_Sleuth
Senile, toothless, old-man Trump doesn’t care what the FBI wants. He just wants to be cheered on by idiots.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
Looks like Karma has been serving up one lovely appetizer after another to you. Gee, I wonder why ? Maybe because you are un-lovable ? You really need to watch this, but I’m afraid your Commanding Self won’t let you… https://t.co/Obvu11UVJc
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) December 15, 2017
re: #422 goddamnedfrank
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“I think we’re in this watershed moment. I think it’s great. I think it’s wonderful that women are feeling empowered to tell their stories, and it’s totally necessary,” Damon said. “I do believe that there’s a spectrum of behavior, right? And we’re going to have to figure—you know, there’s a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?”
Damon pointed to Al Franken, the Minnesota senator who recently resigned after several women claimed he groped and kissed them without their permission. The We Bought A Zoo star said he would’ve preferred a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into the allegations, and expressed concern that people are “so energized” for “retribution” that they’re conflating different types of harassment.
“We live in this culture of outrage and injury,” Damon said. “You know, that we’re going to have to correct enough to kind of go, ‘Wait a minute. None of us came here perfect.’”
Is he really saying anything that lizards here haven’t already said in recent weeks?
re: #375 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
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re: #440 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #438 Targetpractice
Perhaps it might have helped had someone quoted the words in full context, like so:
Is he really saying anything that lizards here haven’t already said in recent weeks?
I was waiting to read that until I got home. Glad someone else did for me. That’s exactly what a lot of us have said. (Note, I decided not to touch this topic until I read it.)
re: #382 Backwoods_Sleuth
lol
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You live an empty life because your heart is filled with hate. I’m single, my life is pretty good, and I’m OK with our government being a force for good.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
Did she get hacked?
I bet the Ann/Paul ritualistic mating dance of dominance would be interesting in a “KILL IT WITH FIRE” kind of way.
— Philosopher Penguin (@penguinphilsofr) December 15, 2017
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Someone save this because you know it’s not going to happen.
It’ll be like the waiver applications. They’ll sit on sometimes desk until it’s too late. https://t.co/97cwPjCnvP— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) December 15, 2017
re: #401 goddamnedfrank
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hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
re: #438 Targetpractice
Perhaps it might have helped had someone quoted the words in full context, like so:
Is he really saying anything that lizards here haven’t already said in recent weeks?
I’m honestly not a big fan of the conflation argument with regards to Franken. There has to be a bar below legally actionable assault or discrimination for elected officials and the things Franken admitted to doing showed, I think, absolutely abysmal judgement to a degree that no full ethics investigation could ever exonerate. I also don’t think Democrats would be doing ourselves any favors by allowing the dearth of standards & integrity shown by Republicans to determine how we govern ourselves. This should be about how we exemplify our own ideals and not comparative optics.
re: #421 Belafon
That was the idea. Give them someone they’d actually (hopefully) be repulsed by advances from.
…who could tank their job/ career
Hmm. Never saw Obama referred to as Ovomit before. Thanks facebook.
re: #448 goddamnedfrank
I am kind of fond of due process. The question becomes how far do we allow political choices to modify that.
re: #451 Belafon
It remains true that he was not denied a version of “due process” at his job.
Our tax dollars, spent to propagandize ourselves.
The EPA just hired a major Republican opposition research firm to “track and shape press coverage.”
The firm promises “war-room” style media monitoring.
Welcome to 1984.https://t.co/3vRR9llUWj via @MotherJones— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) December 15, 2017
On 538, Trump’s approval rating is now more than 20 points underwater, which is close to a new low for him.
Sen. Rubio a yes on tax bill, per two sources.
— Ylan Q. Mui (@ylanmui) December 15, 2017
re: #451 Belafon
I am kind of fond of due process. The question becomes how far do we allow political choices to modify that.
They weren’t modified. Franken was given due process, he just decided to cut it short rather than go through a lengthy public hearing process. The fact that his colleagues called on him to resign didn’t deprive him of his rights, he exercised full agency and made a choice. I think it’s a distortion of reality to cast “due process” as a specific set of official events that must occur in a set order.
re: #454 Big Beautiful Door
On 538, Trump’s approval rating is now more than 20 points underwater, which is a new low for him.
Maybe Trump will tweet about how he’s setting records.
re: #456 goddamnedfrank
Sorry. He wasn’t given due process. He was forced out by his peers.
re: #453 jaunte
Our tax dollars, spent to propagandize ourselves.
Deserts are forests.
Oil is water.
Cancer is healthy.
re: #453 jaunte
Our tax dollars, spent to propagandize ourselves.
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— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth
Shocking no one, he is a moron. The US is the one who performs the lottery, not the emigrant countries.
For the record, the only person I know who got a green card via the lottery is a German coworker, who is as white and privileged as possible (but otherwise a nice guy) and is now living in SF making shit-tons of money in the tech industry. I gather that:
—white
—rich
—northern European
—tech genius
now qualifies as “worst of the worst” to Trump and his idiots. Huh.
“It’s been almost four years since Phil died, and the kids and I are still in a place where that fact is there every day,” writes Mimi O’Donnell. https://t.co/CN3gv4urYn
— Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) December 15, 2017
A beautiful, heartbreaking remembrance. https://t.co/hiuUUjSnka
— Jamie Doesn’t Like Tall People. (@thewayoftheid) December 15, 2017
re: #462 Belafon
Deserts are forests.
Oil is water.
Cancer is healthy.
This is great news for people who have cancer! Thank you Donald Trump!
re: #463 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Incoming EPA Adviser Thinks Air Is Too Clean
newsweek.com
re: #461 MsJ
Always. Rubio continues to exhibit profiles in cowardice.
Yep. Not a strong bone in his body.
re: #460 MsJ
Sorry. He wasn’t given due process. He was forced out by his peers.
He was told they wanted him out. He chose to go. He didn’t have to, he chose it, in part to save himself, his family and the Democratic Party further embarrassment. He’s far more a victim of his own horrid past judgement than he is of anyone or anything else.
“[T]he citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor … who serves the law and not factional purposes” Robert H. Jackson (former Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice, chief Nuremberg prosecutor)
— James Comey (@Comey) December 15, 2017
re: #454 Big Beautiful Door
On 538, Trump’s approval rating is now more than 20 points underwater, which is close to a new low for him.
i check rcp now and again - as an average it tempers when reuters had him -28 and monmouth -26
in any event he was -20 average on 8/14/17, and is today at -20.6
It is remarkable that even as Franken leaves in disgrace he retains far more dignity and honor than the vast majority of Republican lawmakers who remain. But that just condemns them, it doesn’t exculpate him.
re: #466 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
This is great news for people who have cancer! Thank you Donald Trump!
john mccain?
(too soon?)
re: #463 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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re: #467 jaunte
Incoming EPA Adviser Thinks Air Is Too Clean
newsweek.com
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Arbeit Machts Frei
Fuckers. Thread.
I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation at the end of the month.
Here’s why:— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 15, 2017
re: #439 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I would have made Eagle, but I couldn’t complete the cannibalism badge.
Not me!
It’s pretty much like chicken, anyway.
re: #469 goddamnedfrank
He was told they wanted him out. He chose to go. He didn’t have to, he chose it, in part to save himself, his family and the Democratic Party further embarrassment. He’s far more a victim of his own horrid past judgement than he is of anyone or anything else.
If a sizable portion of your coworkers come to you together and say “We want you out because we don’t feel you’re fit to work here anymore,” sure you can tell them to kiss your ass and continue working. But would you feel comfortable doing so anymore, knowing that most of the people you previously viewed as friends now hate your guts and want you gone in the worst way? Sure, they can’t take legal or even administrative action outright, but the work environment is now so hostile that you cease to have any ability to get work done.
re: #477 Jebediah, RBG
I think they also will never get that women don’t consider themselves to be nothing more than their looks.
Not me!
It’s pretty much like chicken, anyway.
Pork, long pork.
Never Trumpers disgusted with the modern GOP need to go about creating a new party.https://t.co/X2UqNkx4Ax
— Washington Monthly (@washmonthly) December 15, 2017
re: #448 goddamnedfrank
I’m honestly not a big fan of the conflation argument with regards to Franken. There has to be a bar below legally actionable assault or discrimination for elected officials and the things Franken admitted to doing showed, I think, absolutely abysmal judgement to a degree that no full ethics investigation could ever exonerate. I also don’t think Democrats would be doing ourselves any favors by allowing the dearth of standards & integrity shown by Republicans to determine how we govern ourselves. This should be about how we exemplify our own ideals and not comparative optics.
He admitted to take a picture that as a comedian he felt was humorous but admitted later was in poor taste. That is the sum total of the confessions he has made. Every other accusation against him was met with “I don’t remember it like that” or “that never happened.” That is the issue here, that a moment of bad judgment is now being viewed as grounds for resignation.
Just to be clear about where it appears we ended up after this big fight over the Child Tax Credit — that $75 for the minimum-wage worker at the top of the chart didn’t go up a penny pic.twitter.com/9NZI76mHsV
— Jacob Leibenluft (@jleibenluft) December 15, 2017
Look, people who make over half a million a year are hurting! https://t.co/F3LRpax4Dn
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) December 15, 2017
He thought he was going to fall. 😂 pic.twitter.com/Yv8r34Rrh8
— Only In Asia (@Crazyinnasia) December 11, 2017
Trump: Steve, bacause of you we lost Alabama
Bannon: No, no. The problem was you weren’t racist ENOUGH. Go out there and insult LEGAL immigrants!
Trump: https://t.co/vZp32IaXZ1— aceoaces (@aceoaces) December 15, 2017
Homelessness demands the attention of everybody— not just at this time of year, but every day of the year https://t.co/fqhwOer9z0
— Ben Carson (@SecretaryCarson) December 15, 2017
You jackass! What the hell are you doing about it? You run the department in charge of housing, for Christ’s sake. https://t.co/8SVmBpMyx3
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) December 15, 2017
re: #485 jaunte
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re: #480 MsJ
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We singles live empty lives of quiet desperation and will die alone. Now Rubio is demanding that we also fund happy families with children who fill their days with joy.
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 15, 2017
JFC. I hate Ann Coulter too, but this? A knockoff leather handbag filled with scorpions and Mein Kampf? Is that libel? (checks legal books)
it’s ok ann one day you’ll find another person that’s a knockoff leather handbag full of scorpions and copies of mein kampf
— 🎄 Goth Ms. Krampus 👹 (@spookperson) December 15, 2017
Nope. “Truth is an absolute defense for libel.”
Also: is the howling loneliness and pain starting to penetrate the thick Maginot Line-level thick layer of hatefulness and sadism that she has erected as a psychic deflector shield?
Last week’s New Mexico school shooter was a regular on The Daily Stormer forums and 4chan, and was mocked on a site he moderated for posting so many “shitty Facebook commentary” pro-Trump memes.https://t.co/gi4xolisPh
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) December 15, 2017
Rescued Baby Otter Sucks His Thumb As He Sleeps pic.twitter.com/mCwIGyybAV
— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) December 15, 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Photo of the 500-page tax bill that Republicans are keeping secret until 5;30pm tonight so that people have less time to see what’s in it. pic.twitter.com/OR9PoS8hu9
— Seth Hanlon (@SethHanlon) December 15, 2017
.@marcorubio #TaxReform as drafted by GOP Leadership fails the 3.4m US citizens of Puerto Rico and it’s promise (PROMESA) for economic development and recovery after Maria. Please vote NO.
— Ricardo Rossello (@ricardorossello) December 15, 2017
Puerto Rico’s governor trying to up pressure on Rubio to vote no on tax bill. Puerto Rico would fall under corporate penalties that could cause manufacturers to leave. https://t.co/fSNR1gjffi
— Colin Wilhelm (@colinwilhelm) December 15, 2017
re: #482 jaunte
Just to be clear about where it appears we ended up after this big fight over the Child Tax Credit — that $75 for the minimum-wage worker at the top of the chart didn’t go up a penny
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Jen Rubin (again, the world’s turned upside down and I’m quoting Jennifer Rubin)
The real question now is whether Rubio sticks to his position or takes a crumb, declares victory and falls in line behind leadership. He seemed to already be negotiating against himself when he tweeted: “Adding at least a few hundred $’s in refundable cuts for working families who seem to always be forgotten isn’t hard to do.” (“At least a few”? Don’t let this guy negotiate the purchase of your next car.)
Answer—he took a fraction of a crumb and declared victory. Rubio, a man in search of a clue.
re: #17 allegro
I swear, they will never ever get the concept of consent. They prove it over and over again.
Rod Dreher says this ‘Me Too’ thing has gone too far…
He cites a bizarre essay from Clair Berlinski as his evidence:
But speak I must. It now takes only one accusation to destroy a man’s life. Just one for him to be tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion, overnight costing him his livelihood and social respectability. We are on a frenzied extrajudicial warlock hunt that does not pause to parse the difference between rape and stupidity. The punishment for sexual harassment is so grave that clearly this crime—like any other serious crime—requires an unambiguous definition. We have nothing of the sort.
Berlinski said that yes, she has often been the recipient of untoward attention from lusty males, including a drunken Oxford don who grabbed her rear end and made a lewd remark at a Christmas party:
But here is the thing. I did not freeze, nor was I terrified. I was amused and flattered and thought little of it. I knew full well he’d been dying to do that. Our tutorials—which took place one-on-one, with no chaperones—were livelier intellectually for that sublimated undercurrent. He was an Oxford don and so had power over me, sensu strictu. I was a 20-year-old undergraduate. But I also had power over him—power sufficient to cause a venerable don to make a perfect fool of himself at a Christmas party. Unsurprisingly, I loved having that power. But now I have too much power
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See, women? Getting your butt grabbed by an aging professor is real power. /////
re: #492 BeachDem
Jen Rubin (again, the world’s turned upside down and I’m quoting Jennifer Rubin)
The real question now is whether Rubio sticks to his position or takes a crumb, declares victory and falls in line behind leadership. He seemed to already be negotiating against himself when he tweeted: “Adding at least a few hundred $’s in refundable cuts for working families who seem to always be forgotten isn’t hard to do.” (“At least a few”? Don’t let this guy negotiate the purchase of your next car.)
Answer—he took a fraction of a crumb and declared victory. Rubio, a man in search of a clue.
More a man in search of a fig leaf, as like Murkowski, Flake, and Collins he needed to extract some minuscule “win” to tell folks back home that he “fought” for them.
re: #489 MsJ
New Mexico School Shooter Had Secret Life on Pro-Trump White-Supremacy Sites
He was upset that America isn’t fascist. Plenty of people knew that he was a monster, but no one stopped this sick, racist, murderer. How many more of these monsters are on the streets?
re: #479 TedStriker
Pork, long pork.
I stopped eating pork a long time ago, so don’t usually call it “long pig” even if it a closer comparison.
re: #493 Scottish Dragon
Rod Dreher says this ‘Me Too’ thing has gone too far…
He cites a bizarre essay from Clair Berlinski as his evidence:
See, women? Getting your butt grabbed by an aging professor is real power. /////
*sigh*
It’s shit like this that makes arguing for an measure of moderation become a minefield.
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re: #497 Jebediah, RBG
I stopped eating pork a long time ago, so don’t usually call it “long pig” even if it a closer comparison.
You don’t even eat bacon? How do you go on with a bacon-less life? it must be like being a ghost.
re: #496 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
He was upset that America isn’t fascist. Plenty of people knew that he was a monster, but no one stopped this sick, racist, murderer. How many more of these monsters are on the streets?
Far too many. And all are emboldened by trump.
re: #493 Scottish Dragon
Rod Dreher says this ‘Me Too’ thing has gone too far…
He cites a bizarre essay from Clair Berlinski as his evidence:
See, women? Getting your butt grabbed by an aging professor is real power. /////
Rod really is a miserable bastard.
re: #502 MsJ
Far too many. And all are emboldened by trump.
That’s the worst thing of all he’s done. He’s given these people a voice and ally in the WH.
re: #499 William Lewis
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re: #162 teleskiguy
Yeah, I saw that story about Heather’s mom having to hide her grave. It made me blink.
To recap:
—American girl goes to counter-protest violent Nazis in America
—Nazis then murder American girl in the street
—Mother of girl is distraught, speaks of pain Nazis cause
—Nazis then threaten to kill/rape/torture mother of girl
—Mother of girl has to hide grave from Nazi desecration
—America says, “Welp. That’s the way things are now.”
re: #500 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
You don’t even eat bacon? How do you go on with a bacon-less life? it must be like being a ghost.
Nothing made out of pigs. And it is pretty damn difficult at times. I used to eat wheelbarrows full of bacon.
re: #507 Jebediah, RBG
Nothing made out of pigs. And it is pretty damn difficult at times. I used to eat wheelbarrows full of bacon.
For health reasons, or because they’re intelligent?
Piles of bacon were the highlight of my trip to Vegas years ago.
Eight years ago this month pic.twitter.com/UbfL4Kbe2P
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) December 15, 2017
A water fountain at the EPA backed up and started spewing sewage into the hallway https://t.co/ct1LtxAO2M pic.twitter.com/WdZVVlNt5O
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) December 15, 2017
Here’s your new EPA in action.#vf! https://t.co/weTw6vPthN
— cgerrish (@cgerrish) December 15, 2017
re: #509 FormerDirtDart
Major difference. Obamacare gets more popular the longer it lasts. This turkey is probably going to get a little more popular initially when some people get tax cuts, but get a lot less so once the cuts for the middle class expire.
Shocked, shocked I say
Rubio a ‘yes’ on GOP tax bill in major boost https://t.co/weQRewch3T
— McClatchyDC (@McClatchyDC) December 15, 2017
re: #508 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
For health reasons, or because they’re intelligent?
Piles of bacon were the highlight of my trip to Vegas years ago.
Vegas long ago was one of the places where I ate an embarrassing quantity of bacon!
And yes it is because of their intelligence. When I found that out it just skeeved me to eat them. As we find out more about the intelligence and emotional lives of other species I keep having to restrict what I will eat. No more elephant (I have had elephant biltong, South African jerky, amazing but tough) and no more octopus.
re: #510 FormerDirtDart
Save that tweet in the event they say that incident did not happen.
re: #511 Weaselone
Major difference. Obamacare gets more popular the longer it lasts. This turkey is probably going to get a little more popular initially when some people get tax cuts, but get a lot less so once the cuts for the middle class expire.
Other major MAJOR difference…ACA wasn’t “rushed through”.
re: #513 Jebediah, RBG
So we just need pigs to be stupider to solve your conundrum. What if the feed lots forced the pigs to watch Fox News? The pigs would be dumber than their droppings in no time. One more morale dilemma solved, another created.
re: #516 Weaselone
So we just need pigs to be stupider to solve your conundrum. What if the feed lots forced the pigs to watch Fox News? The pigs would be dumber than their droppings in no time. One more morale dilemma solved, another created.
I suspect that violates many laws against cruelty to animals.
re: #516 Weaselone
So we just need pigs to be stupider to solve your conundrum. What if the feed lots forced the pigs to watch Fox News? The pigs would be dumber than their droppings in no time. One more morale dilemma solved, another created.
Another created, exactly - I don’t think I could stand the cruelty of forced Fox. I’m pretty sure that is classified as a crime against humanity. Definitely a crime against sanity.
re: #513 Jebediah, RBG
Vegas long ago was one of the places where I ate an embarrassing quantity of bacon!
And yes it is because of their intelligence. When I found that out it just skeeved me to eat them. As we find out more about the intelligence and emotional lives of other species I keep having to restrict what I will eat. No more elephant (I have had elephant biltong, South African jerky, amazing but tough) and no more octopus.
My mom spends a huge amount on biltong, but not elephant. (She’s from SA)
I love octi the species, and octi grilled.
I’m bad.
re: #519 Stanley Sea
No. You just appreciate the finer things in life.
re: #513 Jebediah, RBG
Vegas long ago was one of the places where I ate an embarrassing quantity of bacon!
And yes it is because of their intelligence. When I found that out it just skeeved me to eat them. As we find out more about the intelligence and emotional lives of other species I keep having to restrict what I will eat. No more elephant (I have had elephant biltong, South African jerky, amazing but tough) and no more octopus.
Elephants and cephalopods are safe from me, but I’ve accepted being a monster to be able to eat pork.
I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House Intelligence Committee investigation at the end of the month.
Here’s why:— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 15, 2017
Maybe all that chatter from Trump admin about the investigations wrapping at year’s end was a warning, not a misjudgment https://t.co/i3hBUNnpWJ
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) December 15, 2017
re: #516 Weaselone
So we just need pigs to be stupider to solve your conundrum. What if the feed lots forced the pigs to watch Fox News? The pigs would be dumber than their droppings in no time. One more morale dilemma solved, another created.
Forcing them to watch Fox News is clearly inhumane.
No birthday party for Jesus back home. Sad. https://t.co/ca7wZgdErH
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 15, 2017
re: #525 Big Beautiful Door
And that’s 2017 in a nutshell. Thanks Trump!
And they’d already sent out the invites.
re: #519 Stanley Sea
My mom spends a huge amount on biltong, but not elephant. (She’s from SA)
I love octi the species, and octi grilled.I’m bad.
Biltong is pretty great. Elephant is black and takes a lot of chewing and is pretty gamey.
I guess I am bad, too, because there are meats I keep thinking I shouldn’t eat but still do. My wife and I are pretty clearly drifting into vegetarianism.
And the sex harassers of the day are ESPN On-Air Talent!
Ha! https://t.co/D1HhIgZbfg via @BrokeAssStuart
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 15, 2017
All the usual Trump obsessing Tweeters have been saying something big was going to come down today from Mueller…the rage tweets of the President were proof something was about to break.
I haven’t seen shit. Was this just wishful thinking?
re: #527 Jebediah, RBG
Biltong is pretty great. Elephant is black and takes a lot of chewing and is pretty gamey.
I guess I am bad, too, because there are meats I keep thinking I shouldn’t eat but still do. My wife and I are pretty clearly drifting into vegetarianism.
My bottom line on meats is whether the animal in question had a good life and a reasonably stress-free death. Do I sometimes eat questionable stuff? Sure. I’m not perfect, but I can afford the humanely raised stuff and try to buy it when I can.
Saw that Carlos Santana was trending. Thought the worst, but it turns out he’s be signed by the Philadelphia Phillies. Not sure why they would sign a 70 year-old legendary guitar player to their baseball team, but I will absolutely be watching some games to find out.
— Jake Fogelnest (@jakefogelnest) December 15, 2017
re: #530 darthstar
All the usual Trump obsessing Tweeters have been saying something big was going to come down today from Mueller…the rage tweets of the President were proof something was about to break.
I haven’t seen shit. Was this just wishful thinking?
We won’t now until it drops. If it does.
There was a lot of chatter last night, though. Mueller does not operate on your schedule, or mine.
And with beautiful results, too. You and @Waves_SF should be proud. Ross’ Cove, near Mavericks, this morning. pic.twitter.com/rjFcUdQhFj
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 15, 2017
re: #533 makeitstop
I heard that the Kush was going to be indicted. But I really know nothing on the item and wait with bated breath.
re: #530 darthstar
All the usual Trump obsessing Tweeters have been saying something big was going to come down today from Mueller…the rage tweets of the President were proof something was about to break.
I haven’t seen shit. Was this just wishful thinking?
A senile narcissist flipping out is a terrible way to predict future events. Something slightly negative in his briefing could do it, or maybe Fox and Friends didn’t kiss his ass enough.
re: #535 CongoJack
I heard that the Kush was going to be indicted. But I really know nothing on the item and wait with bated breath.
From what I heard, that was being produced by Russian bots and people were warned to be very wary of opening anything related to it.
re: #536 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A senile narcissist flipping out is a terrible way to predict future events. Something slightly negative in his briefing could do it, or maybe Fox and Friends didn’t kiss his ass enough.
Or his ice cream could be a little too melty. Or one scoop is smaller than the other.
re: #531 calochortus
My bottom line on meats is whether the animal in question had a good life and a reasonably stress-free death. Do I sometimes eat questionable stuff? Sure. I’m not perfect, but I can afford the humanely raised stuff and try to buy it when I can.
For quite a while now, that has been pretty much our approach too. For whatever reason, though, it is starting to not work so well for me.
Here’s where the suspect slammed into another car on Monroe @cbsbaltimore pic.twitter.com/BQgI9IQfBP
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2017
Suspect drove on sidewalk on Fulton in W Baltimore @cbsbaltimore pic.twitter.com/u44M5jYOq2
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2017
You can see where the suspect almost hit a pedestrian on Fulton @cbsbaltimore pic.twitter.com/G1XENKKkYd
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2017
Here’s the dramatic end—where police caught the suspected shooter near Mondawmin Mall #Baltimore #police pic.twitter.com/ioGqhN3hHw
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) December 15, 2017
Just confirmed: the person who yanks the gunman out of the car at the conclusion of the chase is not a police officer - police say it was the man’s girlfriend! https://t.co/ugYGbTSnOU
— Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) December 15, 2017
Carter Page is a strange dude.
Carter Page just sent a 15-page letter to @SenFeinstein that includes this remarkable line. pic.twitter.com/dCdvSHAEwb
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 15, 2017
He told me the same thing, verbatim, when I asked about the letter Feinstein sent him late last month. I thought he didn’t want that on record so I paraphrased. Then he actually got annoyed that I didn’t quote him in full. https://t.co/TvPqTwoXla
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) December 15, 2017
re: #512 FormerDirtDart
Shocked, shocked I say
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And look who he thanks for their support:
The progress made on the Child Tax Credit would not have been possible without the support of @SenMikeLee, @SenatorTimScott, and @IvankaTrump.
ugh.
The stock market is rocketing up today, probably in anticipation of tax reform passing, as it seems increasingly likely to.
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re: #481 Targetpractice
He admitted to take a picture that as a comedian he felt was humorous but admitted later was in poor taste.
She was asleep, she was vulnerable, she couldn’t give consent to have herself and her likeness used that way and as an adult he thought exploiting the situation for a laugh was a good idea.
re: #541 JordanRules
Lol, he told me that too.
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) December 15, 2017
re: #300 makeitstop
“Omarosa: I was “very lonely” in Trump White House due to lack of diversity”
I don’t want to hear this sh*t from Omorosa, and if she thinks she can come crawling back into the arms of Black Americans like myself for comfort, she’s not only delusional, she’s stupid. She chose to align herself with a lying, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamophobic, arrogant, stupid jack*ss like Trump and went so far as to tell anyone who didn’t vote for him that we’d have to “bow” to him. She bowed to him, sold any values she may have ever had to gain access to his inner circle, and now that she’s been booted out of the WH for being incompetent, she’s admitting she was “very lonely” in the Trump WH due to lack of diversity?” When she was in the Talking Yam’s good graces on the campaign trail, she didn’t do anything to ensure that there would be more diversity in the WH. Her main focus was on promoting her career, drawing attention to herself, and getting paid handsomely for doing as little work as she could. She got exactly what she wanted, so why is she complaining now? Omarosa earned the derision she’s now receiving. Every bit of it. Wrong is wrong, and she knew what she was doing was morally wrong when she was doing it. Maybe she can call Huckabee Sanders, Conway, Hicks, and Katrina Pierson and share her grievances with them. I don’t want to hear them because I’m a member of the “Bye, Felicia” coalition.
“A network of secret slush funds inside a corrupt Cyprus bank has exposed Kremlin connections to frontmen for Syria’s chemical weapons programme and the terrorist group ISIS.” https://t.co/IkMTcfiyy7
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) December 15, 2017
re: #544 goddamnedfrank
She was asleep, she was vulnerable, she couldn’t give consent to have herself and likeness used that way and as an adult he thought exploiting the situation for a laugh was a good idea.
Most comics are arrested-development cases. They’re fun on-stage, but you wouldn’t want them in your life.
Ann was desperately hoping that the tax credit for cat litter, Marlboro Reds, indifferent box-wine Chardonnay and the gnawing loneliness consuming her soul would make it into the tax bill. pic.twitter.com/VsEK9MSS4E
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 15, 2017
Anyone post this? We have a winner.
This response to Ann Coulter wins the Internet today. pic.twitter.com/cpolSku73N
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) December 15, 2017
And Corker capitulates. Sigh.
BOB CORKER (!) is a YES on the tax bill.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 15, 2017
What a…corker.
re: #551 BeachDem
And Corker capitulates. Sigh.
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I’m not surprised. The GOP is going to need vast amounts of money from the donor base to try to snow their voting base into keeping them in office.
My memory of the geography of Jerusalem would suggest that this position is going to be highly problematic
NEW: Trump administration believes Western Wall should be part of Israel, senior administration officials say ahead of Vice Pres. Mike Pence’s upcoming trip to Israel. -@JordynPhelps
— ABC News (@ABC) December 15, 2017
re: #552 Big Beautiful Door
I’m not surprised. The GOP is going to need vast amounts of money from the donor base to try to snow their voting base into keeping them in office.
Corker is resigning though but he’s probably got a nice lobbying gig coming up that will give him a pretty penny.
Corker announces support for tax bill. In statement: ““This bill is far from perfect, and left to my own accord, we would have reached bipartisan consensus on legislation that avoided any chance of adding to the deficit …”
— Billy House (@HouseInSession) December 15, 2017
Shorter Corker: This bill is total shit, but it gives Billionaires a huge payout and we can always rape Social Security and Medicare to pay for it. So yes. https://t.co/TF6SSPtj8f
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 15, 2017
One piece of good news. The Parliamentarian blocked GOP efforts to turn churches into SuperPacs.
Bob Corker endorses the Republican tax bill, abandoning his deficit concerns. pic.twitter.com/eVVqag2e0q
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) December 15, 2017
re: #507 Jebediah, RBG
Nothing made out of pigs. And it is pretty damn difficult at times. I used to eat wheelbarrows full of bacon.
beats a basket of deplorables any day
re: #558 Backwoods_Sleuth
They pretty much only believe Medicare and Social Security add to the deficit.
re: #511 Weaselone
Major difference. Obamacare gets more popular the longer it lasts. This turkey is probably going to get a little more popular initially when some people get tax cuts, but get a lot less so once the cuts for the middle class expire.
another major difference:
Carter Page just sent a 15-page letter to @SenFeinstein that includes this remarkable line. pic.twitter.com/dCdvSHAEwb
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 15, 2017
He is the Kato Kaelin of this crime story.
— Ken Fitzgerald (@loudlong) December 15, 2017
re: #525 Big Beautiful Door
And that’s 2017 in a nutshell. Thanks Trump!
yup. cant pin this one on, you know, anyone else (before)
re: #551 BeachDem
And Corker capitulates. Sigh.
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We just have to accept that Republicans are really kinky people who get their jollies by fucking America in any way possible.
— Jeff Furlington rejects fascism (@FurlingtonJeff) December 15, 2017
re: #496 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
“He was upset that America isn’t fascist. Plenty of people knew that he was a monster, but no one stopped this sick, racist, murderer. How many more of these monsters are on the streets?”
He also seemed to be upset that his life wasn’t going the way he expected. He quit high school in 10th Grade, returned and dropped out again. I read quite a bit about him on The Daily Beast site. He was complaining about living in a small town that he considered backwards. He could have changed his life, and the first step would have included earning a high school diploma. He described his dad as a fat loser and his mom as an alcoholic from Florida. The child had serious problems, but he wasn’t intellectually-challenged because he had a 3.5 GPA when he dropped out of high school. He could have joined the military or gone to college to improve his life, but he chose not to and decided he’d frequent white supremacist websites to b*tch about how sorry his life was and how tired he was of seeing minorities doing better than he was doing. He made the wrong choices, didn’t try to do anything with his life, became bitter, lashed out, and ended up killing two innocent students and himself. He never seemed to understand that a large part of how one’s life turns out are the decisions one makes.
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 ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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