Bob Schneider performs the song “The Stars Over Your House” on eTown’s solar-powered stage, for a taping of eTown’s nationally syndicated radio broadcast and podcast.
CLed downstairs but something funny about Trumpers calling McCain petty and bitter on so many levels.
re: #1 HappyWarrior
CLed downstairs but something funny about Trumpers calling McCain petty and bitter on so many levels.
I also have to laugh at how blatantly they’re all parroting the same damn talking point. It’s obvious not a one of them can think for themselves.
re: #2 AQuoth the raven, Covfefe.
I also have to laugh at how blatantly they’re all parroting the same damn talking point. It’s obvious not a one of them can think for themselves.
I actually think it’s a credit to McCain that he’s having Bush and Obama speak at his service considering both are whom prevented him from obtaining office. I don’t like McCain but I sincerely do hope his last days are peaceful surrounded by loved ones.
Wait for it. pic.twitter.com/oDwNWjhhsk
— Amy Argetsinger (@AmyArgetsinger) May 5, 2018
OT but watching day become night outside on a cold, rainy Spring evening with a bit of a high listening to Celtic music is wonderful.
re: #4 Barefoot Grin
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re: #3 HappyWarrior
I actually think it’s a credit to McCain that he’s having Bush and Obama speak at his service considering both are whom prevented him from obtaining office. I don’t like McCain but I sincerely do hope his last days are peaceful surrounded by loved ones.
I likely won’t mourn him for a second once he’s gone. But it’s weird there’s a chance that, once Congress starts the usual memorial resolutions for him, there could be more votes to honor him on the Democratic side of the aisle than on the Republican one…
re: #4 Barefoot Grin
Some things you just don’t Fulking see coming.
re: #7 scottslemmons
I likely won’t mourn him for a second once he’s gone. But it’s weird there’s a chance that, once Congress starts the usual memorial resolutions for him, there could be more votes to honor him on the Democratic side of the aisle than on the Republican one…
I was glad to see Biden visited. It was my understanding their relationship was strained a little. I don’t see myself mourning him either but I certainly will express my condolences to his family. He’s a far better man than Trump could dream to be.
re: #9 HappyWarrior
I was glad to see Biden visited. It was my understanding their relationship was strained a little. I don’t see myself mourning him either but I certainly will express my condolences to his family. He’s a far better man than Trump could dream to be.
I wish him a peaceful end, but I do not look forward to the canonizing that will likely take place. I think much of his political “persona” as a maverick and a straight talker was manufactured by the media, and they will perpetuate it after he’s gone.
re: #4 Barefoot Grin
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— emma lord (@dilemmalord) May 6, 2018
aw man, i have a cousin named Savile Collins de Montenay Fitzalan de DINON Lord
SO CLOSE but no cigar— emma lord (@dilemmalord) May 6, 2018
Even tho this came from Seth Abrabamson….
COHEN received from TRUMP or acquired himself $1.24 million during the last 90 days of the 2016 election—only $130,000 of which went to DANIELS.
The STEELE dossier says (1) COHEN was running TRUMP-Russia coordination, and (2) the operation COHEN was running paid off the hackers. pic.twitter.com/f7Abo9swHa— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) May 5, 2018
re: #10 BeachDem
I wish him a peaceful end, but I do not look forward to the canonizing that will likely take place. I think much of his political “persona” as a maverick and a straight talker was manufactured by the media, and they will perpetuate it after he’s gone.
You know my philosophy. Offer respects but don’t be afraid to point out the flaws if it’s a public figure. You’re right about what will happen and I agree about his political persona completely.
John McCain (who is still alive) just banned @realDonaldTrump from his funeral. But he wants Obama there.https://t.co/IUBR7T3fFA
— John Aravosis (@aravosis) May 5, 2018
History will be extremely kind to McCain for shutting down the crowd member at his rally who tried to paint Obama as a secret Muslim. He could’ve done more to combat Trump, but that will supersede everything years from now. https://t.co/JXweZiuC7l
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) May 6, 2018
It’s telling that the bar for “elder statesman of the GOP” in the 21st century has been lowered to “possesses enough human dignity to correct someone who is referring to my opponent as a terrorist”, and 95% of the party *still doesn’t meet that bar today*. https://t.co/1fZQlzxvb2
— Zandar Wakandar (@ZandarVTS) May 6, 2018
#BREAKING This is video just into our newsroom. It was shot 5 acres in on Makamae St. on the Kalapana side. #Kilauea pic.twitter.com/BbXK15eCG0
— Allyson Blair (@AllysonBlairTV) May 5, 2018
re: #14 jaunte
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I wish he had talked to his running mate about that. But I still appreciate he did what he did. Better than ignoring or worse going with it.
In college I had roommates who attended Manhattan debutante balls over winter break because they were part of the “society.” Turns out they were decent people and I like them both by the end of our time together. Both are dead now. They did shitloads of blow and never really shook their addictions (both were clean for awhile later).
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
Yikes. I know exactly where that is, I lived nearby once upon a time.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Yikes. I know exactly where that is, I lived nearby once upon a time.
It’s just so surreal
more video:
#BREAKING #LeilaniEstatesEruption: At least one other eruption & fissure has opened within the #LeilaniEstates evacuation zone & this flow is moving with more intensity & speed than prior breakouts; all access blocked https://t.co/CZxHp8BRlZ (Video: Ikaika Marzo) @HawaiiNewsNow pic.twitter.com/ldfPS7P6xv
— Mileka Lincoln (@MilekaLincoln) May 5, 2018
re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth
Okay, look, we always debate hurricanes vs. tornadoes vs. earthquakes, but I think we can all agree that we draw the line at volcanoes. Fire and superheated poisonous gases coming out of the ground at random? Yeah, um, NOPE.
California Senate candidate who admires Hitler kicked out of state’s GOP convention while dragging Israeli flag https://t.co/CBF5cgFcjZ pic.twitter.com/UWCUNsX2NR
— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2018
re: #23 HappyWarrior
Jeezus. Nice find Republicans.
Well, they did throw him out, as soon as he showed up.
But, on the other hand:
“… Despite his extremist views, Little is polling higher against other Republican candidates for incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) seat. …”
Waffle House shooting hero says he still hasn’t heard from Trump after White House said it reached out to him https://t.co/DQQA824IGJ pic.twitter.com/Be73b5rDDf
— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2018
Frank has mastered the difficult skill of low-altitude flying. pic.twitter.com/SJT4faqVfL
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 6, 2018
re: #14 jaunte
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She didn’t call him a “secret Muslim,” she called him an Arab. And McCain could have said something to the effect that he’s not, but what if he were—instead, he said, “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man” as if the two are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, it was better (much better) than anything most of his Republican cohorts have said about Obama, but that “history will be extremely kind to him” for that little conversation just makes me shake my head at how very low the bar is.
re: #3 HappyWarrior
McCain (and Lindsay Graham) was pretty hostile and nasty towards President Obama and was certainly not a gracious loser in many ways. Kind of surprised he’d want President Obama to speak at his funeral. Oh well.
re: #28 Patricia Kayden
McCain (and Lindsay Graham) was pretty hostile and nasty towards President Obama and was certainly not a gracious loser in many ways. Kind of surprised he’d want President Obama to speak at his funeral. Oh well.
Couldn’t find any Christians among the Republicans.
re: #28 Patricia Kayden
McCain (and Lindsay Graham) was pretty hostile and nasty towards President Obama and was certainly not a gracious loser in many ways.
On a BBC World Service HARDTalk, Steven Sacker had on Lindsey Graham, who said that Obama divided the country.
Uh, Ms. Lindsey, try taking a look at your current standard-bearer….
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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He’s still polling the highest among Republicans running for Feinstein’s seat. Wow.
2. Judge Jeanine just called Attorney General Sessions so many names that I couldn’t keep up..chief among them: spineless
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 6, 2018
4. Giuliani is avoiding criticizing Mueller directly…he is talking about the abuses of people working for him but specifically says he’s not talking about Mueller.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 6, 2018
Giuliani on Fox News just now: “The facts, I am still learning…I am not an expert on the facts.” Then adds, “In no way is this [130k payment to Daniels] a violation of campaign finance in any way.”
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) May 6, 2018
re: #34 jaunte
How long ago was Pirro’s last judgeship?
Guys, I need y’all to call me Landscaper Hoarse from now on.
I mean, if Judge Jeanine can have people call her by the job she briefly had 25 years ago, so can I…— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 6, 2018
re: #34 jaunte
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How long ago was Pirro’s last judgeship?
Westchester County Court judge: 1991-1993.
ADD: Her only judgeship: she quit in 1993 to run for DA.
re: #28 Patricia Kayden
McCain (and Lindsay Graham) was pretty hostile and nasty towards President Obama and was certainly not a gracious loser in many ways. Kind of surprised he’d want President Obama to speak at his funeral. Oh well.
I’m thinking he wants to be eulogized by The President. Illegitimate WH occupier need not appear.
Teen stabbed with scissors after pulling student’s dress up at Memphis school, police say https://t.co/mSWk7UtsrP pic.twitter.com/7ivp4kd24O
— FOX13 Memphis (@FOX13Memphis) May 3, 2018
Girl defends herself from sexual assault, stabs attacker.
Fixed your headline for you. https://t.co/XXNNRhwjzC— Angela James (@angelajames) May 5, 2018
They don’t teach this kind of legal analysis in law school pic.twitter.com/Y00aUTtQmf
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) May 6, 2018
Did I hear a “Hitlery” from Giuliani?
re: #42 jaunte
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Did I hear a “Hitlery” from Giuliani?
They don’t teach this kind of legal analysis in law school pic.twitter.com/Y00aUTtQmf
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) May 6, 2018
Why are these two Assholes STILL talking about Sec.Clinton TWO YEARS after the election?#whataboutism https://t.co/FcOMaJ7hbO
Instead of watching Judge Pirro I’m watching rerun of “Parts Unknown” from last week. Anthony gives a very understandable portrait of West Virginia miner communities. Included is the reality that West Virginia is probably more ethnically diverse than my (relatively) new home of New Hampshire. You can understand why they voted against Hillary. Then he asks if they want their children to mine: “nope, there’s no future in it.” To be fair, I’ll bet a room of professors would say the same thing.
On Fox, Giuliani says the case in the Southern District of New York should be dismissed as to Trump. This makes no sense since there’s no indicted case yet & no indication Trump is a target of the investigation. Did Giuliani just reveal something or is he rambling?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) May 6, 2018
Um …
I think Rudy just said that maybe Cohen paid off other women for DJT? @TheRickWilson!?
— ana marie cox (@anamariecox) May 6, 2018
re: #4 Barefoot Grin
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Had to look up the SPAM Museum. Sure’nuff it is a real place in Austin Minnesota and apparently quite a popular local attraction.
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Had to look up the SPAM Museum. Sure’nuff it is a real place in Austin Minnesota and apparently quite a popular local attraction.
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Well, hell, man, I coulda told you that.
Why am I arguing with a bottle of cologne
— Meghan Cardwell (@OceansOfBliss) May 6, 2018
Tens of People Show Up at Christian Group’s Anti-LGBTQ “Freedom March” https://t.co/5CGWTkvzlc pic.twitter.com/CbubSYn42V
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 6, 2018
Is he the press secretary now? Giuliani says ‘good chance’ North Korea will release Americans in ‘next several days’
https://t.co/NFKNlwSpna pic.twitter.com/2ffLM8INIp— Resistance News (@LadyLiberty411) May 5, 2018
re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth
“The Mueller investigation will be finished by Thanksgiving.” (2017)
Why…why…every year, do I think I can manage a julep?
MomAnon may find this interesting:
Two Native American metalheads kicked off college tour after a jittery mom called the cops on them 😡😡https://t.co/4DWVTnt2Cp pic.twitter.com/GpbATOiWzF
— Jon Christian (@Jon_Christian) May 5, 2018
As a metalhead, it’s especially crushing to see how racism and ignorance combined with mainstream society’s pervasive cultural fear of heavy metal to put these two young men’s lives in abject danger. https://t.co/pgTJimsIA3
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) May 5, 2018
Honestly sounds like a case for @MetalBCgiftclub #MetalBandcampGiftClub
— Kim Kelly (@GrimKim) May 5, 2018
Snot Goblin is a great name for a metal band
Just checking in. Read that Obama is requested as a speaker at John McCain’s planned funeral.
That is grace.
This is Bosco. On April 22nd he was hit by a car. The car sped away, and Bosco was left with a fractured hip. He underwent a 3 hour surgery and was finally able to come home earlier this week. You can help him with his rehab by clicking below. 13/10https://t.co/zntzccNSVn pic.twitter.com/idFb9smjDm
— WeRateDogs™ (@dog_rates) May 4, 2018
where is the car. i would like a word with it https://t.co/ZC3wj0zAR8
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) May 4, 2018
For a judge presiding over this case, it’s amazing how ignorant Judge Ellis is of basic facts that regular readers of U.S. newspapers know—e.g., that Rod Rosenstein isn’t recused & instead oversees the investigation, that this is a special counsel not an independent counsel, etc pic.twitter.com/mgflgZMCEo
— Deepak Gupta (@deepakguptalaw) May 5, 2018
Another example: Ellis opens the hearing by distinguishing between “the government” and “the special counsel”—suggesting that somehow the special counsel is not part of the government. That’s, among other things, why Dreeben feels compelled to point out that they are within DOJ. pic.twitter.com/MjqjVD1N4j
— Deepak Gupta (@deepakguptalaw) May 5, 2018
re: #62 The Ghost of a Flea
Ain’t no shade like a post-mortem shade, cuz a post-mortem shade don’t stop.
re: #64 Ace Rothstein
Ain’t no shade like a post-mortem shade, cuz a post-mortem shade don’t stop.
“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!”
re: #65 jaunte
Still possibly one of the greatest death lines of any character.
The Revcontent ads that get served up at the top of each LGF page lately seem to have become fixated on a sick stew of transphobia (“You won’t believe which Hollywood actress used to be a man!”) and Malia Obama hatred (“You’ll laugh when you see her IQ!”)
I assume they bring in some decent revenue for the site… but, Charles, you really good with THIS?!?
re: #67 ipsos
The Revcontent ads that get served up at the top of each LGF page lately seem to have become fixated on a sick stew of transphobia (“You won’t believe which Hollywood actress used to be a man!”) and Malia Obama hatred (“You’ll laugh when you see her IQ!”)
I assume they bring in some decent revenue for the site… but, Charles, you really good with THIS?!?
Charles probably doesn’t know; he doesn’t directly control the ad content. Alert him, and he can alert the upstream provider.
Heh
Rudy Giuliani is two decks short of a card. #trump #trumpregrets
— Trumpy Trumpy (@outofcontroljb) May 6, 2018
Attn @AnnualMeetings attendees. Steer clear of Ellen’s in downtown Dallas! Why go there when there are so many other great choices. 🤔#sorrynotsorry #StandAndFight #DefendTheSecond pic.twitter.com/joX7pPoPm4
— NRA (@NRA) May 5, 2018
Hey @NRA I thought you were anti-boycott 🤔 https://t.co/268TAVqQnW
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 6, 2018
My mother’s funeral instructions specifically barred my ex-wife.
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LOL not only do we pretty much self police this place we even have the ads watched for content. That’s defense in depth by real people. What the oh so smart Zuck could not figure out.
re: #70 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Grits or ideological purity? What a choice for an NRA conventioneer.
re: #72 Unshaken Defiance
LOL not only do we pretty much self police this place we even have the ads watched for content. That’s defense in depth by real people. What the oh so smart Zuck could not figure out.
Zuck is one of those guys who thinks code can replace all things human, which may explain why he acts like an android at times.
re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Charles probably doesn’t know; he doesn’t directly control the ad content. Alert him, and he can alert the upstream provider.
Alternatively, subscribe and stop getting served ads at all. Charles puts a lot of time and effort into building and maintaining the site. Time spent tracking down shitty ads is time that can be spent hunting bugs and coding new features.
re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Charles probably doesn’t know; he doesn’t directly control the ad content. Alert him, and he can alert the upstream provider.
These are the ones that appear as “promoted content” at the top of the page - not the ad blocks on the side that are served up by other ad networks.
I know, I know, I need to subscribe. Times have been tight, but still.
re: #76 ipsos
These are the ones that appear as “promoted content” at the top of the page - not the ad blocks on the side that are served up by other ad networks.
I know, I know, I need to subscribe. Times have been tight, but still.
Yeah, that’s still just an ad space. “Promoted Content” is marketspeak for, “We’re putting this on our ad to make you think the person hosting it actually likes us.”
Mehmet Oz, whom Trump is appointing as a health adviser, says that he yearns for the days “when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.” https://t.co/OYpYe0BeRJ #TNYarchive pic.twitter.com/0BEncUftlr
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 4, 2018
I, too, yearn for the days where a person could die a few days after sustaining a minor cut in the skin https://t.co/LadSPxtA4F
— Daniel Summers (@WFKARS) May 5, 2018
re: #78 jaunte
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re: #79 calochortus
Mehmet Oz, whom Trump is appointing as a health adviser,
Bullshit artists flock together.
re: #79 calochortus
So, can’t he find a nice spot in a poor country that doesn’t have enough doctors and move there to enjoy the lack of amenities he so yearns for?
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute there. You thought he meant HIMSELF? Oh, bless your heart.
re: #81 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To follow up: It’s clear that Oz wishes for “the simpler times” so that he can set himself up as a god among men, someone whose knowledge is immensely superior to those around him, and he can enjoy a life of ease without having to lift a finger.
re: #60 meteor
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re: #81 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute there. You thought he meant HIMSELF? Oh, bless your heart.
LOL
re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth
From what I could gather via Google Map:
It’s about 30 miles from the volcano to that fissure.
re: #86 Belafon
That’s a pretty good letter.
It’s a really good letter.
But I still want to hear from the woman who made the phone call in the first place. She has some explaining to do to those kids…and maybe some learning from them.
re: #87 Belafon
There should be some nite shots start coming in that will be impressive.
re: #88 ipsos
It’s a really good letter.
But I still want to hear from the woman who made the phone call in the first place. She has some explaining to do to those kids…and maybe some learning from them.
You think she could learn anything? Oh, bless your heart.
(I’m on a roll!)
re: #88 ipsos
It’s a really good letter.
But I still want to hear from the woman who made the phone call in the first place. She has some explaining to do to those kids…and maybe some learning from them.
The part I’m not getting is why a woman in a whole group of people was particularly concerned about a couple kids who didn’t appear to fit in. What were they going to do?
Going through life being paranoid must be unpleasant.
re: #88 ipsos
It’s a really good letter.
But I still want to hear from the woman who made the phone call in the first place. She has some explaining to do to those kids…and maybe some learning from them.
I don’t want to hear from her. I don’t want her voice heard ever again.
I have no doubt that she’d refuse to learn anything from the experience, and her explanations would be a load of Trumper bullshit.
re: #87 Belafon
If you look at the Puna forest:
google.com
you can see where previous fissures and ridging have left their mark, and what is left of small crater-like openings.
The whole island is a volcano just bubbling and boiling.
re: #92 scottslemmons
Is it wrong to start publicizing the identity of people who call the police to sic them on minorities for no good reason? It feels as if they’re doing this on purpose for malicious reasons.
#GPS data show up to 0.5 m of motion due to Friday’s M6.9 #earthquake at #Kilauea. A computer simulation indicates up to 2.5 m of motion on the #fault beneath Kilauea, 7-9 km beneath the volcano’s south flank. pic.twitter.com/hhZHif6ysS
— USGS Volcanoes🌋 (@USGSVolcanoes) May 5, 2018
re: #95 Patricia Kayden
Is it wrong to start publicizing the identity of people who call the police to sic them on minorities for no good reason? It feels as if they’re doing this on purpose for malicious reasons.
People who call the police in an attempt to get innocent people arrested or killed need to go to jail themselves.
re: #95 Patricia Kayden
Is it wrong to start publicizing the identity of people who call the police to sic them on minorities for no good reason? It feels as if they’re doing this on purpose for malicious reasons.
Listening to the call, it doesn’t sound as much outright malicious as just reflexively afraid of the world, and maybe even vaguely aware that she’s doing the wrong thing. That’s why I want to hear this woman’s story, and why I’m open to the possibility that she could learn something from this experience.
Am I being naive? Maybe. But there are certain levels of cynicism to which I just can’t bring myself to sink, even on a Saturday night.
6. “Even if it was a campaign donation, the President reimbursed it fully with the $35,000 a month.”
Yes, that deals with one possible crime. But doesn’t explain not listing it on his FEC disclosures..— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 6, 2018
Rudy tonight, raising specter the Stormy payoff may have been a campaign donation. https://t.co/KsmnbacTPA
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) May 6, 2018
These guys simply cannot help themselves.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Alternatively, subscribe and stop getting served ads at all. Charles puts a lot of time and effort into building and maintaining the site. Time spent tracking down shitty ads is time that can be spent hunting bugs and coding new features.
An annual subscription at $60 works out to 16¢ a day. A pittance.
Mandy Manning, this year’s National Teacher of the Year, read a speech on CNN Saturday that she said President Trump wouldn’t let her give during her award ceremony at the White House.
re: #100 teleskiguy
An annual subscription at $60 works out to 16¢ a day. A pittance.
For some people, it would be easier to pay 16 cents a day rather than paying $60 all at once.
re: #101 BeachDem
“Most of my students come to the U.S. seeking safety, but they don’t always feel safe here,” she wrote in her application. “I must help them understand current events, know their rights, and provide a safe and welcoming environment.”
I see what he’s worried about.
re: #102 Belafon
For some people, it would be easier to pay 16 cents a day rather than paying $60 all at once.
Money has always been tight for me. Being a worker bee in the ski resorts my whole working life, it always is. Charles made something really cool here, something I consider valuable. I’ve budgeted for ad-free access for almost a half decade.
re: #78 jaunte
Orac doesn’t mince words about Dr. Oz….
Why does he do it, one might ask, and I suspect a lot is revealed in his manifesto, a chilling combo of various postmodernist relativist bullshit: “Medicine is a very religious experience. I have my religion and you have yours. It becomes difficult for us to agree on what we think works, since so much of it is in the eye of the beholder. Data is rarely clean. You find the arguments that support your data, and it’s my fact versus your fact.” No, it isn’t - but the sentiment explains quite a bit about how woomeisters think.
…
Diagnosis: One of the most dangerous cranks alive. No less.
re: #98 ipsos
Sometimes things get blown up beyond what anyone intended. There was a piece on This American Life this afternoon on an incident involving an Oakland, CA high school back in the 90s. A group of about 70 mostly black and Hispanic kids were taken to see Schindler’s List at a theater-with no real preparation or understanding of what it was about. At one point some of the students laughed at what they considered overacting when a women was shot in the film. There were at least some family members of Holocaust survivors in the audience, and things went downhill from there with the students accused of anti-semitism, etc.
The point being that this woman who called the police on the students on the tour may be evil, but she may just have been overreacting and things spiraled out of control.
I’m starting a candy company & it’s going to be amazing
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 5, 2018
Will the candy give me superpowers? https://t.co/C1tBy4e1SW
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 6, 2018
re: #107 teleskiguy
Elon Musk is preparing for his Masters of Trolling exam.
First time I ever visited LGF was 2004 or so, at Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, CO. The comments section was why I kept coming back. And boy! The comments section has gone through some shit over the years!
re: #109 teleskiguy
First time I ever visited LGF was 2004 or so, at Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, CO. The comments section was why I kept coming back. And boy! The comments section has gone through some shit over the years!
Yeah, it’s been a pretty crazy ride. I started reading sometime in late ‘05 or early ‘06, though I joined on 9/11/06. Round about then was when LGF seemed to be reaching peak wingnut. Of course, in 2008 Charles made public his break with the right, and then a bunch of the right-wing trolls got banned in short order in the Great Right-Wing Purge. It’s been a different place ever since.
re: #110 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, it’s been a pretty crazy ride. I started reading sometime in late ‘05 or early ‘06, though I joined on 9/11/06. Round about then was when LGF seemed to be reaching peak wingnut. Of course, in 2008 Charles made public his break with the right, and then a bunch of the right-wing trolls got banned in short order in the Great Right-Wing Purge. It’s been a different place ever since.
The fissure that really got the wingnuts flouncing around here was Charles’s complete and utter disavowal of creationism. That brought out the crazies like you wouldn’t believe.
re: #111 teleskiguy
The fissure that really got the wingnuts flouncing around here was Charles’s complete and utter disavowal of creationism. That brought out the crazies like you wouldn’t believe.
I was gone for large parts of the sweep of the banhammer, but knowing the crowd that was around when I joined, I’m not at all surprised.
re: #112 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I was gone for large parts of the sweep of the banhammer, but knowing the crowd that was around when I joined, I’m not at all surprised.
It was fun to watch!
re: #113 teleskiguy
It was fun to watch!
I seem to have the misfortune to always be offline whenever the fun is happening. Trolls in the dungeon, banhammer falling, I’m always elsewhere. I’m only here in the evenings and on weekend days when I’m too tired to be doing housework or carwork.
YOU’RE GOING TO HELL, CHARLES!!!
-comment from any thread in 2008 where Charles refutes creationism.
re: #115 teleskiguy
YOU’RE GOING TO HELL, CHARLES!!!
-comment from any thread in 2008 where Charles refutes creationism.
It’s where all the fun people will be…
re: #117 calochortus
It’s where all the fun people will be…
Fuckin’ aye. Black Sabbath, George Carlin, Jimi Hendrix, Gore Vidal…
the world doesn’t deserve this kid pic.twitter.com/2KPi843yA6
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 5, 2018
They served chicken enchiladas on Air Force One today to celebrate Cinco De Mayo.
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) May 6, 2018
Fresh out of taco bowls.
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The real @StormyDaniels on SNL - “I know you don’t believe in climate change Donald, but a storm is coming.” pic.twitter.com/P1lTdA2cuR
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 6, 2018
Ben Stiller, Martin Short, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johansson, and Stormy Daniels….all in one sketch
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) May 6, 2018
re: #123 jaunte
Was shocked to see Stormy but loved that she told Donald that she wanted him to resign. We all do.
— Phil Hendrie (@realphilhendrie) May 6, 2018
This weed store doesn’t hold a candle to Daddy Fat Sacks in Denver. Their phone number is 303-KIND-BUD. I am not joking. https://t.co/aefB9KQI2X
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 6, 2018
HISTORY MADE: The president’s pornstar mistress just demanded he resign on Saturday Night Live.
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) May 6, 2018
a brave new world
re: #119 Belafon
Awww. Such a heartlifting story.
That SNL skit is one player short of a helluva Texas Hold-em hand…
Sunday, May 6, cover: First-quarter transactions continue to climb, volume solidly above 2017 numbers. pic.twitter.com/Z2eGj3urpy
— Vail Daily (@VailDaily) May 6, 2018
Wealthy people taking advantage of their tax cut, driving up real estate prices even more and driving the middle and working class out of the valley. Pretty soon all the ski patrol will be H-2B visas. https://t.co/BTA59jOf9r
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 6, 2018
re: #132 teleskiguy
The fact that I tweeted this out at all breaks my heart.
Some winger, tomorrow: Having a porn star on Saturday Night Live, just goes to show you how crude and ungodly they are.
Us: Most of us wouldn’t know her if it weren’t for the guy you support.
Winger: Well, we forgave him.
Us: I doubt you speak for God.
re: #136 jaunte
4-D question marks aren’t allowed here.
re: #123 jaunte
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The biggest crossover event ever! Infinity War 2018!
Is Stormy Daniels our Captain Marvel?
The entire subtext here — I’m waiting to see its basis — is that Trump Org has since the aughts been playing with a lot of cash it shouldn’t have, in ways uncommon to conventional real estate investing but common to money laundering operations
— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) May 6, 2018
re: #142 teleskiguy
Sturgill comes from Kentucky, y’all. He also served in the Navy.
Dershowitz wants a job with Trump so bad, and he figures being the biggest asshole he can be is the way to do it. Tribe calls him out on it.
I know both @AlanDersh and Richard Painter. Alan was totally out of line in attacking @RWPUSA on MSNBC as “unAmerican.” His denunciation of Mueller shocked me. Sorry to have to say it, but this unhinged assault on Painter leaves me aghast. https://t.co/rhcK44tLxW via rawstory
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 6, 2018
re: #144 makeitstop
Dershowitz wants a job with Trump so bad, and he figures being the biggest asshole he can be is the way to do it. Tribe calls him out on it.
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Dershowitz, Giuliani, Trump, Sanders — 2018 is the year of septagenarians yelling at clouds
re: #59 Stanley Sea
Just checking in. Read that Obama is requested as a speaker at John McCain’s planned funeral.
That is grace.
It’s grace if Obama accepts.
re: #146 Weaselone
It’s grace if Obama accepts.
You call Obama to speak at your funeral if you want someine to go high. I think the country needs McCain to receive the “Speaker for the Dead” treatment.
Talked to my security guard friend yesterday. He shared an interesting observation: There are no black dumpster divers. He has worked at the biggest strip strip mall in the city for a couple of years. He encounters dumpster divers practically every night. Literally not a single one of them was black. What does this tell us about the experience of being black in the south? Others think nothing of a late night encounter with authority, usually a rather casual and friendly encounter at that, but not a single black person is prepared to risk it.
re: #149 Belafon
Six months until general election day.
My birthday is on Monday.
And vote for Democratic candidates straight down the ballot, for fuck’s sake.
New Trump nickname: Metamucillini.
Hmm. Too long? obscure?
re: #22 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
California Senate candidate who admires Hitler kicked out of state’s GOP convention while dragging Israeli flag
Remember, a lot of conservative support for Israel has little to do with concern for Israel or Jewish people: they need it to fulfill their Fundamentalist End-Times prophecies. Cannot have Nazis interfering with their plans for precipitating The Rapture and Armageddon.
Another good guy with a gun exercising his 2nd Amendment right.
A sniper who shot at cars on a Georgia highway, injuring 2, got ‘courage and confidence’ from the Parkland shooting suspect, sheriff says https://t.co/hhkcwzmSK7
— Business Insider (@businessinsider) May 6, 2018
re: #27 BeachDem
She didn’t call him a “secret Muslim,” she called him an Arab. And McCain could have said something to the effect that he’s not, but what if he were—instead, he said, “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man” as if the two are mutually exclusive.
Yeah, it was better (much better) than anything most of his Republican cohorts have said about Obama, but that “history will be extremely kind to him” for that little conversation just makes me shake my head at how very low the bar is.
And when other Republicans did not call people out or take them to task for such utterances, it resulted in an attention-grabbing race to the bottom. And we still have not hit bottom as recent events have shown.
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Had to look up the SPAM Museum. Sure’nuff it is a real place in Austin Minnesota and apparently quite a popular local attraction.
I bet that it gets visited by thousands of Nigerian Princes, Ci@lis salesmen and Hot Russian Women every day…
re: #64 Ace Rothstein
Ain’t no shade like a post-mortem shade, cuz a post-mortem shade don’t stop.
He has been waiting all his life to finally get DT back for his “I like people who weren’t captured” quote.
re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I bet that it gets visited by thousands of Nigerian Princes, Ci@lis salesmen and Hot Russian Women every day…
I only go to look at the discoveries that the pharmaceutical companies don’t want me to know about.
re: #74 wheat-dogg
Zuck is one of those guys who thinks code can replace all things human, which may explain why he acts like an android at times.
Humans are messy and require things like vacation, family leave and pensions. Code works 24/7 and does not complain. That is simply the standard motivation behind modern business practices.
re: #78 jaunte
Mehmet Oz, whom Trump is appointing as a health adviser, says that he yearns for the days “when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.”
Yes, and you brought them a chicken.
re: #97 scottslemmons
People who call the police in an attempt to get innocent people arrested or killed need to go to jail themselves.
we can’t dump this all on the lady. granted, she was acting in a paranoid and probably racially motivated manner, but let us not forget the role of the police in dealing with it and how the University tour guide managed to miss what was happening and move on without them.
I am amused by the comment from the University Prez that they have been trying to contact the two fellows and offer them a VIP tour but have been unable to…
why the fuck would they even want to go back there just to help the University guys restore its image?
re: #109 teleskiguy
First time I ever visited LGF was 2004 or so, at Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs, CO. The comments section was why I kept coming back. And boy! The comments section has gone through some shit over the years!
I joined up in 2007, mostly because it was a good place to have an argument. The posters were a lot more conservative but generally civil and posted reasonable, measured cases for their views.
Nowadays we are just a bunch of mutually congratulatory old liberal elitists who run off anyone who disagrees with us.
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re: #111 teleskiguy
The fissure that really got the wingnuts flouncing around here was Charles’s complete and utter disavowal of creationism. That brought out the crazies like you wouldn’t believe.
That is one of the reasons I stuck around here. That and the fact that it rarely got ad hominem even when there were major disagreements.
I really did go check out the stalker site and it is amazing, like the spurned boyfriend who continues to obsess about everything his ex does.
re: #138 Belafon
Woohoo! 100,000 karma.
I am pushing 90K, so now my goal is not to break 100K but to to catch up with you…
re: #141 jaunte
The entire subtext here — I’m waiting to see its basis — is that Trump Org has since the aughts been playing with a lot of cash it shouldn’t have, in ways uncommon to conventional real estate investing but common to money laundering operations
Trump’s real fear, when all is said and done, is that Mueller’s investigation will uncover the Trump Org’s (at least decade-long) money laundering activities and at that point, he stands to lose it all; all his money, all his assets, the whole enchilada, all gone if he were to be found guilty of money laundering.
re: #153 DodgerFan1988
Another good guy with a gun exercising his 2nd Amendment right.
A sniper who shot at cars on a Georgia highway, injuring 2, got ‘courage and confidence’ from the Parkland shooting suspect, sheriff says
“Georgia Shooting Highlights Lack of Good Guys With Guns to Stop More Mass Shootings”
re: #157 Eventual Carrion
I only go to look at the discoveries that the pharmaceutical companies don’t want me to know about.
and people that doctors hate!
Friday, the university’s police released the audio of the 911 call in which the parent reports 19-year-old Thomas Kanewakeron Gray and 17-year-old Lloyd Skanahwati Gray. She says their behavior is odd and that they’re wearing “black clothing.” The school also released footage of officers pulling the teens out of the group to question them.
Honestly why the hell are people calling 911 at all for non emergencies and why are the cops humoring that fuckery in the first place. I’ve literally only called 911 a couple of times that I can recall, once here when my Dad fell and suffered an interochanteric hip fracture and once in Seattle when I witnessed an aggravated domestic assault in the parking lot below my apartment’s kitchen window. 911 doesn’t exist for people to voice their vague suspicions, it’s there for real shit.
re: #167 goddamnedfrank
Honestly why the hell are people calling 911 at all for non emergencies and why are the cops humoring that fuckery in the first place. I’ve literally only called 911 a couple of times that I can recall, once here when my Dad fell and suffered an interochanteric hip fracture and once in Seattle when I witnessed a aggravated domestic assault in the parking lot below my apartment’s kitchen window. 911 doesn’t exist for people to voice their vague suspicions, it’s there for real shit.
Like I said, we can’t put it entirely on the paranoid old lady. Did they not ask for her to cite specific examples of what she found to justify an emergency call?
I feel like white people need a refresher course so I made a flow chart. pic.twitter.com/MTtI0ZDB5y
— 🏴☠️ Swamp Boatswain Peyote Frank 🏴☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) May 6, 2018
Trayvon Martin was officially honored with posthumous aviation degree from Florida Memorial University. Beautiful gesture, he is missed… pic.twitter.com/sdRGCyfClt
— Kim WhyNot (@kimblackproud) May 4, 2018
Here’s a link to what’s going on with magma at Kilauea’s East Rift Zone — but more importantly, in apparent sarcasm, nature opened this portal to hell with a happy face? https://t.co/xERomFGpjk #volcano #Kilauea #Hawaii #geology pic.twitter.com/7tJRBDU6Lm
— Devin Finn (@FinnDevin) May 6, 2018
it never ends…https://t.co/rQHNXF9N1q
— fooler initiative (@metroadlib) May 6, 2018
re: #163 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am pushing 90K, so now my goal is not to break 100K but to to catch up with you…
Now it’s 100,031.
re: #174 Anymouse 🌹
Now it’s 100,031.
I know, so I have to start posting overtime. I am going to hire an agency in Rostov-on-Don to take care of that for me…
re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I know, so I have to start posting overtime. I am going to hire an agency in Rostov-on-Don to take care of that for me…
I’m behind at 98,130. Will I surpass 100,000 by my birthday at the end of the month, or get kicked off? Stay tuned.
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹
I’m behind at 98,130. Will I surpass 100,000 by my birthday at the end of the month, or get kicked off? Stay tuned.
Curses, now I have to work even harder to keep you from catching up with me!!!
Argentine central bank raises interest rate to 40%.
Argentina’s central bank has raised interest rates for the third time in eight days as the country’s currency, the peso, continues to fall sharply.
On Friday, the bank hiked rates to 40% from 33.25%, a day after they were raised from 30.25%. A week ago, they were raised from 27.25%.
The rises are aimed at supporting the peso, which has lost a quarter of its value over the past year.
Analysts say the crisis is escalating and looks set to continue.
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WATCH: A mother hippo gets a kiss from her daughter pic.twitter.com/p5T7DTFE1e
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 6, 2018
France outraged after Donald Trump says at the NRA convention that the attacks in France could have been stopped with more guns.
He mimicked gunmen summoning and shooting victims one by one, saying “Boom! Come over here!” and using his hand to imitate a gun being fired.
In reality, the attackers sprayed many of their 130 victims with semi-automatic fire and set off bomb belts.
The French foreign ministry called for the victims’ memory to be respected.
“France expresses its firm disapproval of the comments by President Trump about the attacks of 13 November 2015 in Paris and asks for the memory of the victims to be respected,” the foreign ministry said.
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re: #178 Anymouse 🌹
Argentine central bank raises interest rate to 40%.
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As in Venezuela, Argentinians are flocking to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to try to preserve their capital. I’ve seen reports that the Argentine government will allow 4,000 Bitcoin ATMs to be installed in the country, but so far I haven’t found any local media confirming those reports.
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
France outraged after Donald Trump says at the NRA convention that the attacks in France could have been stopped with more guns.
I think they are more outraged at his delivery (pointing a finger and saying “boom!”) than his assertion, but that headline makes a good spin point for Trump supporters…
re: #181 wheat-dogg
As in Venezuela, Argentinians are flocking to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to try to preserve their capital. I’ve seen reports that the Argentine government will allow 4,000 Bitcoin ATMs to be installed in the country, but so far I haven’t found any local media confirming those reports.
I see a lot of Bitcoin-promoting Websites saying that, but a search for Spanish-language only sites also only yields Bitcoin-promoting sites (in Spanish).
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹
I see a lot of Bitcoin-promoting Websites saying that, but a search for Spanish-language only sites also only yields Bitcoin-promoting sites (in Spanish).
I got the same results. It would seem counter-productive for the government to make it easier for its citizens to move money out of the local economy.
Spring is here …
(That said, a couple years ago we got a blizzard on my birthday, so don’t tear up your tickets)
Franklin Graham: Trump’s Affair with Stormy Daniels is “Nobody’s Business” https://t.co/N4jThQsVLn pic.twitter.com/9g3UiHJeZD
— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) May 5, 2018
The fact that this guy was not immediately struck by lightening suggests that either there is no god, or if he’s up there he’s just so damned sick of the human race and guys like Franklin Graham that he just doesn’t give AF anymore. https://t.co/TL9CxgATNU
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 6, 2018
re: #185 Dr Lizardo
Holy shit.
Sounds like hyperinflation is on its way.
I’m going through national Argentine newspapers, and the only thing I can find about Bitcoin or any other “criptomonedas” is articles about their extreme volatility, and one opinion piece from today, speaking of an opportunity with the high inflation rate.
Que el Banco Central haya elevado las tasas de interés a un 40% y tomado medidas drásticas para defender el valor de peso frente a la presión externa no es sorpresa para ningún argentino. Lamentablemente, ya no es noticia ver nuestra moneda devaluarse constantemente ni tampoco que los gobiernos tomen medidas drásticas para intentar frenar la inflación, que a esta altura es un problema estructural de cualquier país latinoamericano y la prioridad número uno en la agenda de cada gobierno de turno (independientemente del modelo económico que propongan para el país).
A pesar de todo esto, esta serie de desventajas presentan una oportunidad. Así como estamos acostumbrados a leer pálidas en las redes sociales y en las tapas de los diarios, también estamos acostumbrados a buscar y explorar alternativas para proteger nuestras finanzas personales de los avatares de nuestras economías débiles. Hoy el argentino promedio encuentra en Bitcoin una oportunidad más atractiva de ahorro e inversión en mucho tiempo. Existe un traslado de la confianza original en las instituciones tradicionales hacia reservas de valor construidas sobre nuevas soluciones tecnológicas.
(more, in Spanish)
The German city of Trier unveiled a statue of Karl Marx to mark his 200th birthday.
rferl.org (Radio Free Europe)
So, I started reading. James Webb Telescope, it will be able to work in infrared light where the furthest objects light will be red-shifted due to expansion of the universe. Then I delve into maximum red shift and event horizon and wind up disappearing into radio waves as photons where my brain locked up. I hate Google and Wikipedia.
re: #190 Single-handed sailor
So, I started reading. James Webb Telescope, it will be able to work in infrared light where the furthest objects light will be red-shifted due to expansion of the universe. Then I delve into maximum red shift and event horizon and wind up disappearing into radio waves as photons where my brain locked up. I hate Google and Wikipedia.
The TV Tropes of knowledge. /s
So, got a “Subpoena to Testify at a Deposition in a Civil Action”…
Via email
Just open the attached document for all the details
Yeah, sure.
Screen capture of the image (if that ain’t a warning of something ‘phishy’) they slapped on the email. Whole farce & message source data already forwarded to the Feds
Ya think?
Iran’s Rohani Predicts Historic Remorse if US Abandons Nuclear Deal (Radio Free Europe):
Iran’s President Hassan Rohani says the United States would regret leaving the 2015 nuclear agreement and that his country has prepared plans to respond to any decision by U.S. President Donald Trump regarding the landmark accord.
“We have plans to resist any decision by Trump on the nuclear accord,” Rohani said in a May 6 speech in northwestern Iran that was carried live by state television.
“If America leaves the nuclear accord, you will see soon that this will entail historic remorse for it,” he added.
Rohani did not specify how Iran would react if the United States abandons the deal. But he said he had given “the necessary orders,” notably to Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, in anticipation of Trump’s decision.
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This ought to work well:
Boris Johnson in US for Talks to Save Iran Deal (BBC)
Boris Johnson is flying to Washington to urge the US not to scrap the international deal designed to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons.
The UK and its European allies have until 12 May to persuade President Donald Trump to stick with the deal.
Mr Trump has strongly criticised the agreement, which he calls “insane”.
In a call with Theresa May on Saturday, the president “underscored his commitment to ensure that Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon”.
re: #193 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Yeah, that doesn’t sound phishy.
I just get uninteresting junk E-mail on how to improve the search rankings of my non-existent Website.
re: #195 Anymouse 🌹
Yeah, that doesn’t sound phishy.
I just get uninteresting junk E-mail on how to improve the search rankings of my non-existent Website.
A key thing to always remember. In legal actions the US Government uses paper for initial contacts.
The GOP busy making the USA a laughing stock. Saturday Night Live is now international news… . And by the way, take a hike, Franklin Graham, you hypocrite.
Stormy Daniels warns Trump on SNL ‘storm’s a coming baby’ (BBC)
US porn star Stormy Daniels has made a surprise appearance on US TV show Saturday Night Live as her legal wrangle with President Trump over an alleged affair continues.
Playing herself in the latest in the show’s series of sketches lampooning the president, she mocked him, saying: “I know you don’t believe in climate change but a storm’s a coming baby.”
Ms Daniels was paid $130,000 by Mr Trump’s lawyer in 2016 to keep quiet.
Mr Trump denies the affair.
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re: #187 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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From the “BILL CLINTON IS A RAPIST!!!” branch of evangelism that long ago dropped any pretense of being anything but a bunch of hypocritical bastards.
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Reading an article about China in the Post ww-1 era. Woodrow Wilson was highly admired there, as was Western education and fahion.
So does this count as cultural appropriation?
(I am just being snarky about this, but could not help but think about it)
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I did a double take when I first saw that middle picture. The placement of that hat, especially the fur trim, creates… Well, an unintended secondary image, let’s put it that way.
re: #187 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Franklin Graham: Trump’s Affair with Stormy Daniels is “Nobody’s Business”
Yunno, in the most general sense, what consenting adults do for fun in private in their spare time should be nobody’s business.
The only reason this affair should be anybody’s business at all is that there seems to be a violation of campaign finance law involved.
On the other hand, Donald Trump is more than just another private businessman, he is a media personality and now a public servant, so that makes his private life more than fair game.
re: #201 Alephnaught
I did a double take when I first saw that middle picture. The placement of that hat, especially the fur trim, creates… Well, an unintended secondary image, let’s put it that way.
OMG, missed that, was too busy admiring the dresses…
Princess Anne travelled to the Isle of Islay (Scotland) to mark the deaths of over seven hundred men in two shipwrecks during WW1, including many Americans. The first was sunk by a German U-boat, the second was sunk in a storm where a RN vessel rammed a troop ship.
The islanders at the time in a town of 1,100 were overwhelmed by the two disasters.
Because the islanders wanted to bury the American men with dignity, and no American flag was available, women sewed an American flag at the time to mark their funerals when the islanders buried them.
The flag now resides at the Smithsonian Institute. The Institute is loaning the flag back to the Islay Museum later in the year for the 100th anniversary of the second sinking.
re: #190 Single-handed sailor
The James Webb telescope has been delayed, the launch is now planned for next year.
Yes, it will use infra-red, not visible light. As such, it needs an elaborate shield from the sun, and also active cooling.
Because it will be put in an orbit much farther from Earth than many other telescopes (like Hubble), there will be no fixing it once it is launched, so it has to be on spec at launch.
Primary mission is cosmology and exoplanets. Yes, it ought to be able to observe the first formation of galaxies (events which are now redshifted far outside human vision.)
The JWST will also be able to image protoplanetary disks around new stars, a neat thing.
And it will be able to do spectroscopy on planets transiting their stars, giving clues to the planetary atmospheres.
All neat stuff, but very expensive. It is the primary astronomical mission of the US now for several years, sucking up the big bucks.
We hopes the launch goes well and that it works.
re: #206 Anymouse 🌹
more personal overlap, I read the bbc news site regularly and it seems, even the same articles…
re: #208 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
more personal overlap, I read the bbc news site regularly and it seems, even the same articles…
Are you secretly my brother who my mother didn’t tell me about? /s
re: #167 goddamnedfrank
Honestly why the hell are people calling 911 at all for non emergencies and why are the cops humoring that fuckery in the first place. I’ve literally only called 911 a couple of times that I can recall, once here when my Dad fell and suffered an interochanteric hip fracture and once in Seattle when I witnessed an aggravated domestic assault in the parking lot below my apartment’s kitchen window. 911 doesn’t exist for people to voice their vague suspicions, it’s there for real shit.
I’m way late on this, and I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere, but it used to be you could call the police in your precinct and they would at a minimum know where you were and how to get there. For the last 35 years, at least in Seattle/King County, the cops have had an unlisted number, and the only way to communicate with them is 911.
You’re talking to a dispatcher somewhere to hell and gone in the South End, you can’t explain to them where you’re located, and if you’re not reporting a murder, they’ll either laugh in your face or threaten you with what the penalty is for making a frivolous 911 call. Or both.
re: #210 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’m way late on this, and I don’t know if it’s the same everywhere, but it used to be you could call the police in your precinct and they would at a minimum know where you were and how to get there. For the last 35 years, at least in Seattle/King County, the cops have had an unlisted number, and the only way to communicate with them is 911.
You’re talking to a dispatcher somewhere to hell and gone in the South End, you can’t explain to them where you’re located, and if you’re not reporting a murder, they’ll either laugh in your face or threaten you with what the penalty is for making a frivolous 911 call. Or both.
We only got 911 service here in 2012.
I’ve only called 911 twice in my life: Once I accidentally triggered my Commodore 64’s modem to dial it (and the Virginia Beach Police showed up to find out what was going on). the other was in Dallas on the freeway - a person left a car parked in a middle lane of the freeway with no lights at night.
re: #207 freetoken
The James Webb telescope has been delayed, the launch is now planned for next year.
May 2020, not next year.
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹
Are you secretly my brother who my mother didn’t tell me about? /s
I would not be surprised if a DNA test showed some degree of overlap.
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re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I would not be surprised if a DNA test showed some degree of overlap.
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re: #216 Anymouse 🌹
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Utah Outcasts tears apart the American Family Association for a video calling the Boy Scouts of America “satanic” for allowing girls into their organisation.
(They still don’t allow atheists, so I’m not sure what the problem is. I thought the AFA thought we were the Satanists. not girls. Girls are supposed to be property.)
9:33, caution for adult words which have magical power… .
American fundamentalism in practice. Paige Patterson flexes his power against a grad student:
Seminary Head Revokes Ph.D. Student’s Job and Tuition Money After Critical Tweet
[…]
[Montgomery], who recorded the meeting where he was fired, was told that his tweet did not exhibit loyalty to the seminary and that it did not reflect the institutional voice.
“Public disagreement does not align with Scripture,” a document outlining Montgomery’s termination states.
[…]
re: #219 freetoken
American fundamentalism in practice. Paige Patterson flexes his power against a grad student:
Seminary Head Revokes Ph.D. Student’s Job and Tuition Money After Critical Tweet
The tweet in question, citing an article from the evil secular humanist magazine Christianity Today:
I’ve had many friends asking me about this, because they know I am a current student at Southwestern. I believe it is my moral obligation to give a public response. This is the best article I have read, and I agree with it fully. https://t.co/TPfhk3lqzA via @edstetzer
— Nathan Montgomery (@montynem) May 1, 2018
Amid push to arm teachers, @AP review finds serious accidents involving adults who bring guns to school. By @rjfoley @larry_fenn. https://t.co/YywZt6VhG2
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) May 5, 2018
re: #221 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Amid push to arm teachers, @AP review finds serious accidents involving adults who bring guns to school
DT talked about “highly trained” teachers carrying guns in schools, and that is the very crux of the situation: unless you are highly trained and experienced, with steady nerves and good situational awareness, a gun in a public active-shooter scenario is often less than worthless.
Arming teachers is the easy part: turning them into an effective deterrent is quite another.
Kissin’s ‘do in that video is impressive but he’s had wilder hair.
There is a whole Facebook page dedicated to his hair:
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I might start to worry if astronomers start talking too much about “imminent impactors”…
Updated paper at the arxiv:
Monitoring near-Earth-object discoveries for imminent impactors
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The main societal benefit of monitoring for imminent impactors is that it allows for a warning to be sent out in case of an immiment [sic] impact which can no longer be prevented.
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Okay… but what are you going to do about an imminent impactor?
re: #225 freetoken
I might start to worry if astronomers start talking too much about “imminent impactors”…
Updated paper at the arxiv:
Monitoring near-Earth-object discoveries for imminent impactors
Okay… but what are you going to do about an imminent impactor?
Apparently they’re not going to prevent it. (I’m not sure how you could anyway: For example a nuclear blast’s damage is caused by the shock wave, which wouldn’t happen in space. Suggestions have been made about throwing repeated inert objects at one point on an asteroid to deflect it’s orbit, but that would take a lot of missiles and has never been tested.)
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹
Apparently they’re not going to prevent it. (I’m not sure how you could anyway: For example a nuclear blast’s damage is caused by the shock wave, which wouldn’t happen in space. Suggestions have been made about throwing repeated inert objects at one point on an asteroid to deflect it’s orbit, but that would take a lot of missiles and has never been tested.)
Easy. Send Bruce Willis with a big ass drill!
re: #226 Anymouse 🌹
Apparently they’re not going to prevent it. (I’m not sure how you could anyway: For example a nuclear blast’s damage is caused by the shock wave, which wouldn’t happen in space. Suggestions have been made about throwing repeated inert objects at one point on an asteroid to deflect it’s orbit, but that would take a lot of missiles and has never been tested.)
It depends on how much warning you have. The preferred method would be to rendezvous with a spacecraft whose gravitational effect would very gradually change the orbit of the object.
Blowing it to smithereens with a nuclear device, like the public seems to want, would be worse than useless, causing many catastrophic impacts instead of just one.
Detonating a nuclear device at just the right distance would cause a thin surface layer to vaporize, creating a thrust that would accelerate the object enough to deflect its orbit, given enough lead time. You’d have to know whether it was a consolidated object or just a loose pile of gravel for that to work.
We have no launch vehicles suitable for any of these missions, and despite a lot of talk, there’s been precisely zero action on developing any—unless the Big Fucking Rocket turns out to be a real thing….
According to this story, in May of last year, Team Trump asked an Israeli intel firm to dig up dirt on me as part of an effort to discredit the Iran deal.
Tonight, as my wife read this story, that date triggered a very creepy memory.https://t.co/QbY6XDXA4Y 1/10— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) May 6, 2018
I was initially skeptical of the underlying story. Surely the Trump folks wouldn’t go this far. Until I read this thread. https://t.co/g5qRBRZTUh
— Brian P. McKeon (@bpmckeon64) May 6, 2018
re: #193 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
So, got a “Subpoena to Testify at a Deposition in a Civil Action”…
Via email
Just open the attached document for all the details
Yeah, sure.
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Why are you getting Trump’s email?
re: #228 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
It depends on how much warning you have. The preferred method would be to rendezvous with a spacecraft whose gravitational effect would very gradually change the orbit of the object.
For a spacecraft to have a gravitational effect, it would need to be Death Star-sized. But you could use the thrust of the spacecraft to alter the trajectory of the asteroid enough to miss hitting the Earth.
That is, if we had that kind of spacecraft just sitting around doing nothing.
“Let’s go Gary, this shit ain’t worth it 🐾”pic.twitter.com/5xVzt4bAWD
— UnsilentMajority 🌹 (@The_UnSilent_) May 5, 2018
re: #233 wheat-dogg
For a spacecraft to have a gravitational effect, it would need to be Death Star-sized. But you could use the thrust of the spacecraft to alter the trajectory of the asteroid enough to miss hitting the Earth.
That is, if we had that kind of spacecraft just sitting around doing nothing.
Gravity Tractor. My skepticism is towards our knowing the orbit of a threatening object precisely enough to determine it would impact Earth that far in advance, or that any tiny change we could make would do more good than harm.
re: #235 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Gravity Tractor. My skepticism is towards our knowing the orbit of a threatening object precisely enough to determine it would impact Earth that far in advance, or that any tiny change we could make would do more good than harm.
Interesting idea, but for it to work, you’d need to intercept the asteroid quite a ways out, depending on its momentum. And by quite a ways, I mean like past the orbit of Mars at least. A small deflection there would translate to a larger deflection as it approached Earth’s orbit.
To be really effective, we’d need to have such ships already in space, to save time and fuel. That would require Earthlings to be able to plan ahead for a disaster that might never happen in the lifetimes of anyone alive now. Our track record for such long-range planning is, well, non-existent at this point.
re: #225 freetoken
I might start to worry if astronomers start talking too much about “imminent impactors”…
Updated paper at the arxiv:
Monitoring near-Earth-object discoveries for imminent impactors
Okay… but what are you going to do about an imminent impactor?
Give it the bird?
German High Schoolers Complain English Exam Was Too Hard (goes to the Scottsbluff, Nebr, Star-Herald):
BERLIN (AP) — High school students in Germany have been complaining in an online petition about their final exam in English, saying the test was much harder than in previous years.
As of Sunday, students in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg had gathered almost 36,000 signatures — even though only 33,500 took last month’s statewide exam.
Students complained that text excerpts from American author Henry Roth’s 1934 novel “Call it Sleep” were too difficult and obscure to analyze and asked for the grading to be more lenient.
The final high school exams in Germany — called Abitur — are a rite of passage that all students who want to enter university have to pass.
State governor Winfried Kretschmann had only limited compassion for the students, saying “there’s no right to a simple Abitur [qualification exam].”
Giuliani reverses his positions:#SundayMorning pic.twitter.com/uPJwn5cLFT
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) May 6, 2018
The next time somebody complains about Hillary Clinton getting paid for a speech, take a look at what $30m buys you.@NoRA4USA pic.twitter.com/QFjKUUwDx8
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) May 6, 2018
re: #225 freetoken
I might start to worry if astronomers start talking too much about “imminent impactors”…
Updated paper at the arxiv:
Monitoring near-Earth-object discoveries for imminent impactors
Okay… but what are you going to do about an imminent impactor?
Put your head between your knees, and kiss your ass goodbye.
re: #244 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Jeebus McCree! What do you suppose he had in mind?
I do not even want to imagine…
“The risk I took was calculated… but man am I bad at math” pic.twitter.com/aFY2Kg8dYb
— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) May 6, 2018
#recap This sign outside a Bristol pub is pretty on the nosehttps://t.co/HoFRpRgH6Q pic.twitter.com/sGnmKARDz5
— The Poke (@ThePoke) May 6, 2018
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
That was almost as good as the video of the cat trying to jump but before he does you see all of the calculations.
well…doh…
An ex-federal law enforcement official says Rosenstein and top FBI officials have come to suspect that some Republican lawmakers were using their oversight authority to gain intel about the Russia investigation so that it could be shared with the W.H. https://t.co/Wd4x1VXQ2D
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 6, 2018
McCain says he regrets picking Palin as his running mate https://t.co/TBsIzWnx6U pic.twitter.com/Y5IbWOThOg
— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2018
This fucking guy. https://t.co/5sfk6Pp4MM
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 6, 2018
There is no one more qualified to be the first woman to lead the CIA than 30+ year CIA veteran Gina Haspel. Any Democrat who claims to support women’s empowerment and our national security but opposes her nomination is a total hypocrite
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) May 5, 2018
So … supporting women means you have to support ANY woman for ANY position no matter her qualifications, experience, or political position on controversial subjects such as torture, simply BECAUSE she’s a woman?
Interesting.
Let’s talk about the last election… https://t.co/S8YMxG2T0N— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 6, 2018
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
well…doh…
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My surprised face, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Question is, if tRump is found to be guilty of treason, does that make them accomplices?
re: #238 Bubblehead II
Fissures 9 and 10 open in Leilani Estates; eruptions reported
Scary.
Leilani Estates is cooked.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Hey, wait a sec. Isn’t that the exact stance that conservatives complain about when they are strawmanning affirmative action? BUTBUTBUT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION MEANS YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE BLACK GUY OR THE WOMAN EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE LESS QUALIFIED!!!!
re: #252 PhillyPretzel
Stone Kettle is on a roll today. :)
he is indeed:
Yes. According to 2A fanatics, guns ARE indeed magical in this respect.
Unless you’re arguing that they AREN’T. In which case they should then be restricted and regulated same as cars, tools, pools, and cigarettes.
Can’t have it both ways.
Your move. pic.twitter.com/tQFpKlCEtm— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 6, 2018
Stormy Daniels’ attorney @MichaelAvenatti calls Giuliani’s interview with @GStephanopoulos, “an absolute, unmitigated disaster for Rudy Giuliani and the president… I think it is obvious to the American people that this is a cover-up; that they are making it up as they go along.” pic.twitter.com/cURpRlV3Ce
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
Pres. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani calls $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels “a nuisance payment”
“I never thought $130,000 was a real payment… people don’t go away for $130,000.” https://t.co/bKAHeA5LAy pic.twitter.com/jF3TwXNtmY— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
LOL…
Pres. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos “we don’t have to” comply with a potential subpoena from the special counsel, adding “He’s the President of the United States. We can assert the same privileges other presidents have.” https://t.co/R6JsMQN9yM pic.twitter.com/RX6MLYeQ2e
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
and…BOOM!
Did Michael Cohen make payments to other women on behalf of the president? Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos: “I have no knowledge of that, but I would think if it was necessary, yes.” https://t.co/R6JsMQN9yM pic.twitter.com/Ol0Hpb0Xp9
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rusty Rudy will be gone by Friday. This shit is just beyond comedy now.
re: #253 Teukka
My surprised face, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Question is, if tRump is found to be guilty of treason, does that make them accomplices?
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
One of the effects of constantly fighting wars without declaring them is that the United States has no enemies—hasn’t had since 1945.
As for the “levying war” part, if they couldn’t convict Aaron fucking Burr on that, it’s pretty much of a dead letter IMO.
re: #261 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
One of the effects of constantly fighting wars without declaring them is that the United States has no enemies—hasn’t had since 1945.
As for the “levying war” part, if they couldn’t convict Aaron fucking Burr on that, it’s pretty much of a dead letter IMO.
Yeah, treason is pretty much a non-starter in the modern era. If you’re going to convict somebody of anything, it’s going to be related to illicit dealings with a foreign power.
re: #263 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, treason is pretty much a non-starter in the modern era. If you’re going to convict somebody of anything, it’s going to be related to illicit dealings with a foreign power.
Now if we had hanged Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree, we might have a leg to stand on….
re: #263 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, treason is pretty much a non-starter in the modern era. If you’re going to convict somebody of anything, it’s going to be related to illicit dealings with a foreign power.
Espionage.
See: Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel.
re: #264 Dr Lizardo
It’s almost as if he’s doing it out of revenge for not getting a job in the White House in the beginning.
re: #267 Dr Lizardo
Espionage.
See: Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel.
Yeah, I thought about espionage, but forgot that we had actually convicted people of that. Shame on me, forgetting my history.
re: #269 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, I thought about espionage, but forgot that we had actually convicted people of that. Shame on me, forgetting my history.
And not just convicted, mind you.
Stormy Daniels’ attorney @MichaelAvenatti calls Giuliani’s interview with @GStephanopoulos, “an absolute, unmitigated disaster for Rudy Giuliani and the president… I think it is obvious to the American people that this is a cover-up; that they are making it up as they go along.” pic.twitter.com/cURpRlV3Ce
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
I would urge the public to watch Mr. Giuliani’s full interview on @ThisWeekABC. An unmitigated disaster. This is what happens when you can’t keep your lies straight. #basta https://t.co/kuWTjkLT5B
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) May 6, 2018
re: #268 Ace Rothstein
It’s almost as if he’s doing it out of revenge for not getting a job in the White House in the beginning.
I’d probably laugh myself to death if that turned out to be the case.
“This meeting doesn’t end today. This meeting will conclude on November 6, when we stake our flag on that hill of freedom, when we win this election, when we protect our #2A rights, and when we ensure that our Supreme Court is safe.” —@DLoesch #NRA pic.twitter.com/KESC5rsBFB
— NRATV (@NRATV) May 5, 2018
.@NRA lobbyist Dana Loesch said all of this from a gunfree zone… 😂😂😂 https://t.co/VXL3lv77lG
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 5, 2018
I was literally carrying a .380 on that stage, on my thigh @shannonrwatts . When will you apologize for your other lie about me —> https://t.co/txSHOJLeh3 ? https://t.co/q3F47YJc2f pic.twitter.com/luOfm6sdNi
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 6, 2018
So you were allowed to be armed during your speech but the audience wasn’t? Guns for me, but not for thee? https://t.co/fxDfRcXMyd
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) May 6, 2018
re: #269 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Yeah, I thought about espionage, but forgot that we had actually convicted people of that. Shame on me, forgetting my history.
I suppose I could look it up, but…nah: I always thought that was a miscarriage because the power they were spying for was an ally. That’s what saved Klaus Fuchs. Is American law different from British law in that respect?
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
On her thigh, lol. Fucking gross.
Watched a senior US Senator be asked repeatedly by @jaketapper, if it bothers him the President of the United States lies. Sen. Blunt couldn’t bring himself to say, “Yes.” Embarrassing servility. How the hell do u tell a child not to lie, if u can’t tell the President not to lie?
— Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) May 6, 2018
re: #274 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I suppose I could look it up, but…nah: I always thought that was a miscarriage because the power they were spying for was an ally. That’s what saved Klaus Fuchs. Is American law different from British law in that respect?
Was the Soviet Union an ally? I didn’t think so. In any event, they were definitely guilty as fuck (though that didn’t come out until after the fall of the Berlin Wall), but there is some debate on whether they deserved execution, and the trial itself was a bit of a legal clusterfuck.
Rudy on national TV: “My issue is getting up to speed on the facts here. I’m about half way there.” #SMH @ThisWeekABC
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) May 6, 2018
In his defense, he doesn’t have a lot of time to read up on this between all of his TV interviews https://t.co/i6uItFIUvR
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) May 6, 2018
re: #277 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh, I thought they were during the 1950’s. It was during WWII; in that case, yes, they were allies. Interesting.
The NRA didn’t allow guns but Dana Gunz says she had a 380 strapped to her thigh?
Dan Loesch is the Rudy Giuliani of Wayne LaPierres.
re: #261 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.”
One of the effects of constantly fighting wars without declaring them is that the United States has no enemies—hasn’t had since 1945.
As for the “levying war” part, if they couldn’t convict Aaron fucking Burr on that, it’s pretty much of a dead letter IMO.
I never bought into the idea that an enemy was not an enemy until Congress admits it is so via a formal declaration. If you help a strategic opponent, a criminal enterprise as President, or assist any kind of terror enterprise, such as white supremacy you are an enemy of this state.
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹
I’m behind at 98,130. Will I surpass 100,000 by my birthday at the end of the month, or get kicked off? Stay tuned.
You’ve been on about half as long as I have, but since you crank out the comments, you have slightly more comments than I do. You’re Amazonmouse, getting it done by volume (your ratio of karma to comment count is pretty close to mine).
re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #280 BigPapa
The NRA didn’t allow guns but Dana Gunz says she had a 380 strapped to her thigh?
Dan Loesch is the Rudy Giuliani of Wayne LaPierres.
Shouldn’t that get her in trouble with the Secret Service?
re: #284 HappyWarrior
Shouldn’t that get her in trouble with the Secret Service?
I think probably bullshit. She can say whatever, and often does to cater to that crowd.
re: #285 Unshaken Defiance
I think probably bullshit. She can say whatever, and often does to cater to that crowd.
Yeah I think so too.
Doing some reading, it appears that the Espionage Act of 1917 (which is the current US law governing espionage) does not specifically say the espionage has to occur on behalf of a non-allied power; it simply says that “to convey information with intent to interfere with the operation or success of the armed forces of the United States or to promote the success of its enemies”. There’s a lesser clause that deals with interfering with the intent to cause mutiny or interfering with recruitment, but it does not specifically state that it is dependent on the subject to whom the information is being conveyed, or their status with the United States.
Oh boy! Meet The Chuck has Avenatti and Dershowitz on this morning.
Let’s see how crazy Dershowitz gets.
Too bad they can’t address each other because I think Avenatti would love to chew on Dershowitz.
In the past DAY, we learned:
▪️Cohen routinely paid hush money for Trump.
▪️Trump hired spies to target Obama officials.
▪️Trump moved HUGE sums of cash around the world.
▪️Cohen ran what can only be described as a money-laundering operation.
This is all MAFIA shit.— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May 6, 2018
re: #233 wheat-dogg
For a spacecraft to have a gravitational effect, it would need to be Death Star-sized. But you could use the thrust of the spacecraft to alter the trajectory of the asteroid enough to miss hitting the Earth.
That is, if we had that kind of spacecraft just sitting around doing nothing.
We just need the Magic School Bus.
If?
A former Clinton press secretary says Sarah Sanders should quit if President Trump lies again https://t.co/bDASGWNJPK pic.twitter.com/yK3aCuGjck
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) May 6, 2018
re: #289 JordanRules
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Elephants take a long time to decompose… and the stench can be unbearable. @GOP pic.twitter.com/g9nUN5lh66
— Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) May 5, 2018
re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL…
Pres. Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani tells @GStephanopoulos “we don’t have to” comply with a potential subpoena from the special counsel, adding “He’s the President of the United States. We can assert the same privileges other presidents have.” abcnews.go.com pic.twitter.com
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) May 6, 2018
Yeah Noun, Verb, 9/11, how’d that work for Richard Nixon?
Le’t play Giuliani Scaramucci bingo. I’ll take the gone in 2 Scaramuccis square for $5.
re: #282 Belafon
You’ve been on about half as long as I have, but since you crank out the comments, you have slightly more comments than I do. You’re Amazonmouse, getting it done by volume (your ratio of karma to comment count is pretty close to mine).
LOL, I deliver comments for a lower price. Make my profit by volume. I can come up with an opinion on anything, sometimes opposing opinions on the same subject.
re: #295 BigPapa
Le’t play Giuliani Scaramucci bingo. I’ll take the gone in 2 Scaramuccis square for $5.
Under.
So the Royal Family released the “official baby photos” of Prince Louis. Meh.
Here are the Official Photos of the Real Royal Princess:
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re: #289 JordanRules
In the past DAY, we learned:
▪️Cohen routinely paid hush money for Trump.
▪️Trump hired spies to target Obama officials.
▪️Trump moved HUGE sums of cash around the world.
▪️Cohen ran what can only be described as a money-laundering operation.This is all MAFIA shit.
Indeed it is. This is straight-up organized crime.
Well, Dershowitz is giving up the new game plan on MTP.
He is pushing hard the judge that questioned the scope of the Mueller investigation on Friday.
That is going to be wiggle room. As Dershowitz said to the effect of “finally we have a judge that understands Mueller is out of bounds!”
That will be turned into shut the whole thing down, a judge just said it was a full on witch hunt.
Among the things Giuliani calls “the facts that we’re still working on” is finding out when Trump first knew about the payments to Stormy.
That seems like a pretty easy one to find out.
Ask the president— Sam Stein (@samstein) May 6, 2018
Has San Stein ever listened to Trump?
Michael Avenatti Mocks Giuliani’s ABC Interview: ‘I Can’t Believe That Actually Just Happened’#ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/VLV4zaSPGh
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) May 6, 2018
Roman Polanski Will Fight Against Academy Expulsion: ‘We Want Due Process’ https://t.co/4hHUrEqA4z pic.twitter.com/25rodTW4me
— IndieWire (@IndieWire) May 4, 2018
You literally pled guilty in a court of law the fuck you think due process is https://t.co/VaMynNkEVM
— A.B. (@AlannaBennett) May 4, 2018
Tactic two of the GOP revealed by Danielle Pletka…the America voter stance.
America doesn’t care about some porn star and all this lawyer crap!
They want leadership and The Don’s polling is up!
Move on Mueller. Leave Donny alone!
re: #231 jeffreyw
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If no one has asked, what is the small grey bird with the large eye ring?
Take our house back from the con man.
Giuliani doesn’t rule out that Trump could take Fifth Amendment in Mueller probe
cnn.com
If Rusty Rudy is still learning the facts, why is he opening his mouth?
In spite of mass murder and racism (which also kills)…
GOP candidate Don Blankenship is surging on eve of W. Virginia primary in spite of racist ads and criminal conviction related to deaths of 29 coal miners. https://t.co/nChhflrEuh pic.twitter.com/80DZFGFSn3
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) May 6, 2018
Come on America!!!!
Le sigh…
re: #298 The Vicious Babushka
So the Royal Family released the “official baby photos” of Prince Louis. Meh.
Here are the Official Photos of the Real Royal Princess:
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I’m watching This Week, and Rusty has clearly lost it.
re: #308 JordanRules
In spite of mass murder and racism (which also kills)…
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Come on America!!!!
Le sigh…
In spite implies that the racism and criminality aren’t virtues to GOP voters.
Devin Nunes says he will hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of Congress over Russia investigation https://t.co/deV3qC41TM
— Chris Sampson (@TAPSTRIMEDIA) May 6, 2018
I look forward to this guy going to jail for treason.
This is the scale that I will be using for everything from now on. pic.twitter.com/WPBxy0eDQl
— [title] ♥.(.Zannah.). [surname] (@zannah) May 3, 2018
re: #307 Ace Rothstein
If Rusty Rudy is still learning the facts, why is he opening his mouth?
Rhetorical q of course but I say he so loves the limelight he can’t stop himself.
Ditching the satnav: the lost secrets of natural navigation https://t.co/pxJnM8ITbZ
— Adrian Harewood (@CBCAdrianH) May 6, 2018
Old geography adage - You’re not lost; it’s an unplanned field trip. #slow https://t.co/ECoOSCn5I2
— James Boxall (@JamesGIS) May 6, 2018
I wish Rudy played in my poker game. When his eyes get all buggy, he’s lying.
re: #284 HappyWarrior
Shouldn’t that get her in trouble with the Secret Service?
Can’t Be Dana My Guns without the guns!
You want Dana speaking…you get her guns.
“He knows less of the facts of the case than I do.” LOLOLOLOLOL
“If I were the president’s lawyer…” YOU ARE HIS LAWYER, IDIOT.
re: #322 HappyWarrior
Brown people. Democrats. No.
Golden Girls reruns on in the background and the episode where Dorothy dreams about her Jeopardy appearance is on. She just called Merv Griffin the anti Trump.
There are pop culture references to that idiotic dude everywhere!
re: #284 HappyWarrior
Shouldn’t that get her in trouble with the Secret Service?
Actually if the location was posted no firearms and she was carrying, that is, IIRC, a felony under Texas law. Bye bye gun ownership Dana, of there was any real law enforcement against white folks there.
re: #321 BigPapa
Uh, not sure if true yet, but jeez…
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That Chyron has to be in error.
There is no such warning posted to Hawai’i Emergency Management.
I’m out for a while … water tests to do and such. I’ll leave you with this.
Facebook privacy: Survey suggests continuing US loyalty (BBC)
Most Facebook users in the US remain loyal, despite the recent data sharing scandal involving a political consultancy firm, a poll suggests.
Facebook admitted last month that the data of 87 million users had been improperly shared with the UK-based firm, Cambridge Analytica.
The Reuters/Ipsos survey found no clear loss or gain in use since then.
A quarter of Facebook users said they used it less or had left it but another quarter said they used it even more.
The remaining half said their use of the network had not changed.
However, the survey was limited to the US and analysts are waiting to see how the social media giant’s sales perform in the second quarter, when the scandal was at its height.
In the first quarter, its sales rose by nearly 50%, with profits reaching $4.9bn (£3.6bn) compared to $3bn last year.
Nikki Haley on CBS this morning:
Q: SHOULD THE PRESIDENT SHUT [THE MUELLER INVESTIGATION] DOWN?
NIKKI HALEY: NO, NOT AT ALL, I MEAN, ANYTHING THAT COMES LIKE THIS, IT SHOULD PLAY ITS PART…IT SHOULD GO THRU THE PROCESS.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 6, 2018
re: #324 JordanRules
Golden Girls reruns on in the background and the episode where Dorothy dreams about her Jeopardy appearance is on. She just called Merv Griffin the anti Trump.
There are pop culture references to that idiotic dude everywhere!
I watched the Little Rascals movie with my niece two years ago. Trump makes a cameo playing a snobby rich kid’s dad. His cameo in Home Alone 2 wasn’t too bad because he just gives Kevin directions. But agh
There’s no way in hell Rudy makes it to Friday.
re: #328 Ace Rothstein
“I think Comey is Judas.”
He seriously said that? Well he knows the Fundy crowd better than his 2008 presidential showing tells.
re: #324 JordanRules
Golden Girls reruns on in the background and the episode where Dorothy dreams about her Jeopardy appearance is on. She just called Merv Griffin the anti Trump.
There are pop culture references to that idiotic dude everywhere!
Since the late 70s Trump has been working the media to make himself bigger than he is.
This is the modern American story. TV rules with all of its editing and story telling. A complete asshole has wormed his way into the White House as the leader of this country.
We have big problems. Kellyanne Conway was right…there are alternate facts. TV facts.
And they seem to be more taken to heart than real facts.
re: #328 Ace Rothstein
“I think Comey is Judas.”
The President was in the midst of criticizing Democrats during a riff about border security when he slipped in the idea that people might “have to think about closing up the country.”
“They don’t want the wall, but we’re going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while,” Trump said. “We’re going to get the wall. We have no choice. We have absolutely no choice. And we’re going to get tremendous security in our country.
“
In that case, General Strike. Alll of us.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
I watched the Little Rascals movie with my niece two years ago. Trump makes a cameo playing a snobby rich kid’s dad. His cameo in Home Alone 2 wasn’t too bad because he just gives Kevin directions. But agh
I’d forgotten about the Home Alone 2 appearance and then that December after the election, during the Christmas season I was watching it. He popped up. I screamed. I was still trying to reckon with what had just happened.
Still am really.
re: #335 JordanRules
I’d forgotten about the Home Alone 2 appearance and then that December after the election, during the Christmas season I was watching it. He popped up. I screamed. I was still trying to reckon with what had just happened.
Still am really.
I still am too. I’ll brver get over that we elected him.
Roy Moore: I may run for governor of Alabama https://t.co/vVaL2OGPQX pic.twitter.com/52v8LpVa2c
— The Hill (@thehill) May 3, 2018
Just please stay away from anyone my age https://t.co/JQ6tplsmD3
— Cameron Kasky (@cameron_kasky) May 6, 2018
Democrats would much rather see Trump fail than America succeed
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) May 5, 2018
Its the same thing https://t.co/FfedVNgOx4
— Marcus H. Johnson (@marcushjohnson) May 6, 2018
It’s easier that way.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) May 6, 2018
It’s like the Choose Your Own Adventure books
— (Muttley) Matt (@1CynicalCyborg) May 6, 2018
re: #88 ipsos
It’s a really good letter.
But I still want to hear from the woman who made the phone call in the first place. She has some explaining to do to those kids…and maybe some learning from them.
Letter implies she’s the one who really doesn’t belong at the school
re: #339 JordanRules
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re: #336 HappyWarrior
Yep can’t let these guys turn us into East Germany.
The GOP has been at this for a long time. When Pat Roberson ran for President, one of his platform planks was to prohibit emigration in his quest to purify the nation for Christianity.
In 1988 I was quite prepared to seek political asylum in Mexico or Canada if he was elected.
re: #94 freetoken
There are 8 active lava fissures in Puna. Here’s where they are
That web site is Hawaii new snow
m.hawaiinewsnow.com
re: #343 Anymouse 🌹
The GOP has been at this for a long time. When Pat Roberson ran for President, one of his platform planks was to prohibit emigration in his quest to purify the nation for Christianity.
In 1988 I was quite prepared to seek political asylum in Mexico or Canada if he was elected.
I know.
re: #99 makeitstop
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“Every day, the hole that Donald Trump has dug for himself vis-a-vis porn star Stormy Daniels (nee Stephanie Clifford) just keeps getting deeper.”
re: #342 HappyWarrior
Wrong Charlie. I think you’re thinking of Charlie Sykes.
Increasingly looking like Russia, Israel, & the US are all currently governed by leaders linked with an organized crime syndicate rooted in the 1970’s/1980’s Soviet Union.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) May 6, 2018
Long before Trump was elected, I used to say that Putin and Netanyahu were the two most dangerous men on the planet. https://t.co/3XgX84bh7u
— Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) May 6, 2018
re: #247 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #349 Danack
Have an extra pint…or several on behalf of the Lizardim.
re: #308 JordanRules
In spite of mass murder and racism (which also kills)…
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Le sigh…
Blankenship getting the nomination greatly improves Manchin’s odds of reelection. Of course, I thought the same about Trump, so what do I know?
re: #324 JordanRules
Golden Girls reruns on in the background and the episode where Dorothy dreams about her Jeopardy appearance is on. She just called Merv Griffin the anti Trump.
There are pop culture references to that idiotic dude everywhere!
Veronica Mars (2006)
Keith Mars: [speaking of the upcoming trip to New York City] I can feel it already… the little town blues are melting away. You all packed?
Veronica: Vagabond shoes and all. And pepper spray, for if we run into that Trump character.
re: #164 Dr Lizardo
Trump’s real fear, when all is said and done, is that Mueller’s investigation will uncover the Trump Org’s (at least decade-long) money laundering activities and at that point, he stands to lose it all; all his money, all his assets, the whole enchilada, all gone if he were to be found guilty of money laundering.
He never shoulda run…it was stunningly dumb
re: #305 retired cynic
If no one has asked, what is the small grey bird with the large eye ring?
#UPDATE Pakistan’s interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in the arm in a suspected assassination attempt at a public meeting in Punjab province but will survive: aide https://t.co/VoqvilNuy3 pic.twitter.com/4zcMyRED6U
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 6, 2018
Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1st. Here is a list of the 2018 storm names. Four names were retired from the 2017 list - Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate. pic.twitter.com/hMCUKlkQ2L
— NWS Eastern Region (@NWSEastern) May 5, 2018
Benghazi - 4 years, Zero indictments
Hillary emails - 2 years, Zero indictments
TrumpRussia - 14 months, 23 indictments
Matthew Dowd - This Week— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) May 6, 2018
Thread (thirty-seven tweets)
This Day in Labor History: May 6, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued Executive Order 7034 creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Let’s talk about the government directly creating jobs, past and present!
— Erik Loomis (@ErikLoomis) May 6, 2018
Top performing memes of the last week here on PolitiPod… #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/gUfvjrEais
— PolitiPod (@PolitiPod) May 6, 2018
‘I would like him to stop lying’: CNN’s Tapper confronts manic Kellyanne Conway over Trump lies about Daniels payoff https://t.co/8HOAMyYNCg
— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) May 6, 2018
“Do you think his job includes lying to the American people because he continues to do so?” Tapper asked.
“He does many things,” Conway shot back. “You just want that to go viral and you want to say President Trump and lie in the same sentence.”
“No, I would like him to stop lying,” Tapper interrupted.
“He talked about the three American hostages [taken by North Korea] and how the Obama administration tried and failed to get them free,” Tapper then continued. “Two of the three were detained while Donald Trump was president so there is no way that Obama could have gotten them released because they were captured when Trump was president. That is just a lie and that tweet is still up there. That is just symbolic of the fact that this president gets in his own way all the time even when there is something good happening.”
I need to see this guy on Rachel’s big bye-bye board!
Some of the most damaging stories about SCOTT PRUITT have come from government documents that journalists & advocates have obtained using the Freedom of Information Act. Now, Pruitt’s aides are screening FOIA requests, slowing the release of information. https://t.co/E73nNNz0yg
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 6, 2018
Get him tf outta here!
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
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So you were allowed to be armed during your speech but the audience wasn’t? Guns for me, but not for thee
What if she wasn’t “allowed”?
.@JRUBINBLOGGER: There’s one of several explanations. One, #Giuliani is a plant from #Mueller. Two, he’s in a declining mental state. Three, he wants to get fired. Four, he wants #Trump to get fired, or five some combination thereof #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/ZknDfpyZww
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) May 6, 2018
re: #354 BeachDem
Veronica Mars (2006)
Keith Mars: [speaking of the upcoming trip to New York City] I can feel it already… the little town blues are melting away. You all packed?
Veronica: Vagabond shoes and all. And pepper spray, for if we run into that Trump character.
Oh wow!
Veronica knew what was up. Love her.
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
The word “lie” is finally going to start being used on a regular basis in regards to this administration. It took longer than I thought.
re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth
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It’s “Big Deal on Madonna Street” for our times…
The film ends with a newspaper article recounting a robbery by unknown persons who apparently broke into an apartment to ‘steal’ pasta with chickpeas.
WATCH: This fissure from the #Kilauea #Volcano eruption is spewing #lava and molten rock. The sound was unexpectedly thunderous. One of the most amazing things I’ve ever experienced. pic.twitter.com/G27LXE2Vvq
— Stephanie Elam (@StephanieElam) May 5, 2018
Videos like this are breathtaking. I keep expecting a T-Rex to walk through the frame. #Kilauea https://t.co/lAIAPf2Pqw
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) May 6, 2018
re: #374 JordanRules
Oh wow!
Veronica knew what was up. Love her.
Another Veronica/Trump quote (I love her too—one of my favorite all-time shows):
There’s also a jungle tribe that worships Donald Trump’s hair.
On @GMA, Rudy Giuliani won’t even acknowledge that Trump has met Stormy Daniels without hemming and hawing, despite being shown photo of the two together.
“I’m not really involved in the Daniels thing, so I don’t know. He denies that it happened.” pic.twitter.com/pUxbAzYdeC— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 6, 2018
Rudy Giuliani is really not good at this. https://t.co/4JPHdv985k
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) May 6, 2018
“Trump’s promised winnings in Korea are on the horizon” https://t.co/3W2cA29yjG pic.twitter.com/d2K6qWIV08
— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2018
NO they’re not. Trump has NOTHING to do with what’s happening in NK. It is ALL CHINA as everyone endowed with sense in the Western world knows. No serious media in EU is reporting anything about Trump having ANY merit here. https://t.co/L7p3iRPr8o
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) May 6, 2018
re: #316 JordanRules
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Old geography adage - You’re not lost; it’s an unplanned field trip
Older
I’m not lost. I know where I am. I’m right here.
What I need to know is where “here” is
If you just missed the Kentucky derby, don’t worry. You’ll be able find all these magnificent athletes in bottles of Elmer’s glue at your local Walgreens as early as next week
Eat Arby’s.— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) May 5, 2018
Mom???😳 pic.twitter.com/u9CiuZDV67
— Wina (@wawinaApr) May 6, 2018
re: #365 Anymouse 🌹
I responded to the wrong person; I meant to respond to Belafon.
That’s not what I meant
1988: Then-US Atty Giuliani had FBI agent Lombardi end a money laundering investigation of Trump & his deals w/a NYC mobster [even though a banker offered to wear a wire on Trump] – after Trump raised $2M for Giuliani mayoral campaign.
HT @_A__Dub #Maddow https://t.co/XRTGUn6my7 pic.twitter.com/bdQaHDtUlT— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) April 21, 2018
MSM needs to ask Giuliani about the FBI money laundering probe he killed in 1988 after Trump raised $2M for his mayoral campaign – a probe into Trump taking a bag of cash for 2 Trump Tower apartments from Lucchese crime family assoc Robert Hopkins. Mob.https://t.co/5x5ZXUIDpG
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) May 6, 2018
re: #375 Ace Rothstein
The word “lie” is finally going to start being used on a regular basis in regards to this administration. It took longer than I thought.
Thanks michelle
re: #360 jeffreyw
Ah, I didn’t see the tuft! I’m just really getting into birds, and keep coming up with small birds I can’t find in the bird book or on the web.
Also not a good camera person, so …
Thanks!
re: #376 BeachDem
It’s “Big Deal on Madonna Street” for our times…
The film ends with a newspaper article recounting a robbery by unknown persons who apparently broke into an apartment to ‘steal’ pasta with chickpeas.
pasta in chickpea sauce is a fave around here
I just saw the ridiculous commercial for this on TV Land. I thought it was a parody and had to make sure I hadn’t accidentally changed the channel.
If you want it, you can buy it:https://t.co/T7cYWKn3ma
re: #389 dangerman
pasta in chickpea sauce is a fave around here
chickpea sauce is ridiculously easy to make and one of those things you don’t tell people what it is.
re: #381 dangerman
Older
I’m not lost. I know where I am. I’m right here.
What I need to know is where “here” is
another:
once i was riding a back road.
stopped by a fence and yelled across to a farmer
“hey - can you tell me where i am?”
he said “you cant fool me - you’re right there on the other side of that fence”
(i’ll show myself out)
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
SO why should you ever be allowed at any venue ever again? You freely admit to carrying a firearm in a venue that said no firearms allowed - you could have killed @POTUS and @VP….
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) May 6, 2018
re: #393 The Major
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Dana really is the last person who should hsve a gun. She’s mentally ill.
I’m updating Windows on my studio machine, and it’s taking an eternity. I actually just tapped on the case and said ‘nice computer’ in hopes that will speed things up some.
re: #393 The Major
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I’m afraid that people challenging Dana about this are in the wrong. The restriction on firearms was the Secret Service, while Trump and Pence were there. I don’t think the venue itself restricts firearms. Best to check before misstating.
Not many people know that Pontius Pilate was about to let Jesus go free until Rudy Giuliani spoke in his defence.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) May 3, 2018
1. Sign that broke your heart?
— Queen Miyn✨ (@FuckYouMiyn) April 23, 2018
“Hot doughnuts now” … the were no hot doughnuts… they just forgot the sign was on… https://t.co/gmvRFUvklw
— Sebastian Kole (@SebastianKole) May 6, 2018
Dear Legal Scholars,
Please help me understand 👇
Rudy Giuliani: “I’m talking about the law and the conclusion. The facts, I’m still learning.”
How does one draw conclusions without knowing the facts?— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) May 6, 2018
re: #308 JordanRules
In spite of mass murder and racism (which also kills)…
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Come on America!!!!
Le sigh…
Nothing matters any more if you’re a Republican.
President Trump’s new attorney won’t rule out the possibility that the president would assert his Fifth Amendment right in the Russia investigation. https://t.co/SG1x1wGXXF
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 6, 2018
The Fifth Amendment protects defendants in a court of law. It doesn’t protect people in the court of public opinion. The fact that Rudy Giuliani stated @realDonaldTrump may take the Fifth Amendment suggests Trump has done bad things that he wants to hide from the American people. https://t.co/d05CL12Pj6
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) May 6, 2018
Twitter Reacts to Giuliani’s Stunning This Week Interview: ‘He’s Pulling a Nunberg’ https://t.co/ei5DaCPlcD pic.twitter.com/Ojfr2XARNg
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 6, 2018
“Pulling a Nunberg”
:D
That’s the shot. Here’s the chaser:
It’s not just him. It’s the Republican party. pic.twitter.com/4pKQKUt5nF— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 6, 2018
Stormy Daniels appears on Saturday Night Live. The audience applauds. Why?
— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) May 6, 2018
Because she’s not you. https://t.co/bTjztv9IR5
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) May 6, 2018
re: #403 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Rep. Lieu is right, of course: the big problem is that a significant segment of the electorate doesn’t care how guilty Trump is, or of what.
Or how it looks.
When the planet wants to change, you just gotta let it.
A new fissure emerged last night in Leilani Estates including #lava fountains as high as 230 feet #Kilauea https://t.co/vSN2Cv6V8n pic.twitter.com/kvYdhhC2Uw
— Star-Advertiser (@StarAdvertiser) May 6, 2018
re: #408 darthstar
When the planet wants to change, you just gotta let it.
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Okay, so someone mentioned this “QAnon” thingy (That sounds so much like Star Trek fan fiction doesn’t it?) in a previous thread, and, although I’m loath to entertain RWNJ conspiracies, I thought “It seems to be at least as big as Pizzagate, so I might as well get up to speed on this madness.” I didn’t realise quite how mad it was going to be. Thankfully, there were couple of articles written by sane people that summarised this madness.
Is it me, or does this “QAnon” fellow seem like a Poe? That post from November 2017, the “We’re going to have martial law for a bit, whilst all the liberals are getting arrested” one, seems to me like an obvious Poe Tell.
When President Obama came out of the White House for the last time, that was the last time I believed anything that came out of the White House. pic.twitter.com/xdJ04WNvSp
— Janice (@Janice_Resist) May 4, 2018
If this has helped you, then GREAT! but it looks like nonsense to me. Most arthritis products pages are about half nonsense. #sad pic.twitter.com/uMGVemty32
— ☢Page van der Linden (@plutoniumpage) May 6, 2018
Giving dudes vibrating gloves will only cause stiffness…albeit temporary.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 6, 2018
re: #406 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I guess folks are having a rough time accepting that Stormy is out making money…like all of the conservative talking heads do daily.
Rudy brought that up. I guess he forgets he is doing the same damn thing. He gets paid to be doing all these interviews.
Thread and the thread within the thread!
Last year, my wife was serving on the fundraising committee of my daughter’s public charter school in DC. One day, out of the blue, she received an email from someone claiming to represent a socially responsible private equity firm in the UK. 2/10
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) May 6, 2018
Thread. Sounds like MO used by Black Cube as documented in Ronan Farrow Weinstein expose https://t.co/kbWM3w1JrJ
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) May 6, 2018
This mafia stuff has to be fully reckoned with.
it was raining during our walk today. but that’s alright. the human brought an umbrella. and i hopped in a puddle
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) May 6, 2018
Didn’t CNN say at one time they would no longer have Kellyanne Conway on since all she does is deflect and lie?
I guess she falls under good television. Otherwise known as ratings.
And we wonder how we got here.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
Paused Sunday talk show at the most appropo moment pic.twitter.com/fsHuZ5mDhA
— Geoff Ziezulewicz (@JournoGeoffZ) May 6, 2018
re: #419 Ace Rothstein
While the daughter was watching.
And a multiple sexual harasser. But yes Bill lecture that SNL audience more.
In Bizarre Interview, Giuliani Says Some Of His Own Statements Are Just Rumors https://t.co/6V51Kbrf23 via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 6, 2018
North Korea: US isn’t responsible for our decision to denuclearize despite claims that it is https://t.co/Kcaax14Oi5 pic.twitter.com/kot8hVpPPL
— The Hill (@thehill) May 6, 2018
I think Rudy is a great spokesidiot for Trump. He’s as rambling and insane as the guy he is speaking for. He is Trump.
re: #308 JordanRules
In spite of mass murder and racism (which also kills)…
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Le sigh…
Forget it Jim, it’s West Virginia…
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) May 6, 2018
re: #292 HappyWarrior
It’s almost like Trump is everything they’ve said about the Clintons.
Even if it does not get him thrown out of office, the RICO case will wreck his business empire, something he did not bargain for when he took the job…
Isn’t that the less important part? the describing it? If the reporting is there, why do we also have to name it?
I’m not entirely opposed, by the way. I just want to understand the logic. And as a reporter, I want to be able to apply it equally to everyone.— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) May 6, 2018
Blunt, objective language when used right, makes it far easier to confront something. Putting forth evidence of a crime, but failing to call it a crime usually ends up with the crime going un-tried. Same with lies: failing to call it a lie allows for liars to obfuscate the truth
— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 6, 2018
How hard is this for folks to understand, especially folks who hold themselves up as the soothsayers and fact checkers? WORDS MEAN THINGS. That’s why word choice is important, and why euphemism and weasel words exist. People love to dance around calling something what it is, while vaguely alluding to the ‘it’ in question, because it gives that magical thing called ‘plausible deniability’. It’s why you could get away with saying ‘making love’ on TV back in the day, but couldn’t outright call something sex, or even the dreaded F-word ‘fucking’. Yeah, it implies it, but that vagueness allows for the dodge.
So why is it so fucking hard for people to understand that failing to call something a ‘lie’ gives the liars room to soften the accusation and make it palatable enough to get a pass? Calling a lie a ‘lie’ is important…and I know they’re not really adverse to the word because they used it toward Hillary all the goddamn motherfucking time.
re: #418 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
TFW Rudy realized his fart was a shart.
re: #425 Joe Bacon 🌹
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and Blankenship takes umbrage at Jr.:
I am sorry that you were misinformed and misled by McConnell’s cronies while you were at the RNC meeting yesterday in Miami.
I have never been convicted of a felony and never been convicted of a misdemeanor that I committed.
Just like your father…(1/2)— Don Blankenship (@DonBlankenship) May 4, 2018
., I am a victim of fake news and a corrupt Obama DOJ.
When I get to DC, your dad will have no better supporter in his efforts to drain the swamp. Looking forward to working together to Make America Great Again. You will like the real Don Blankenship, just like WV voters.
(2/2)— Don Blankenship (@DonBlankenship) May 4, 2018
re: #426 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Even if it does not get him thrown out of office, the RICO case will wreck his business empire, something he did not bargain for when he took the job…
Oh yeah he’s going to have the NY AG’s office waiting for him as soon as he leaves.
re: #397 makeitstop
I’m updating Windows on my studio machine, and it’s taking an eternity. I actually just tapped on the case and said ‘nice computer’ in hopes that will speed things up some.
I have a new Dell laptop and MS Update said you have the latest, big assed, 3GB update ready to go, you wanna do it now? I said OK and just let it grind along and it seems to be OK. I have several other machines but Update seems to give priority to the later models.
re: #429 Backwoods_Sleuth
and Blankenship takes umbrage at Jr.:
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Surprised Junior isn’t backing Blankenship. He’s a criminal and racist just like his Dad.
re: #429 Backwoods_Sleuth
and Blankenship takes umbrage at Jr.:
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What’s Blankenship saying?
I was convicted but I didn’t do it?
re: #429 Backwoods_Sleuth
“…never been convicted of a misdemeanor that I committed.”
weasel words…he was convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to a year in prison.
He claims that he did not commit that particular misdemeanor, of which HE WAS CONVICTED.
Apparently, he has asked DoJ to review the case so as to have the conviction overturned.
Asshole.
re: #436 Backwoods_Sleuth
weasel words…he was convicted of a misdemeanor and sentenced to a year in prison.
He claims that he did not commit that particular misdemeanor, of which HE WAS CONVICTED.
Apparently, he has asked DoJ to review the case so as to have the conviction overturned.Asshole.
Ah
Who keeps letting Rudy on TV? And word is he might be meeting with Trump right now. Uh oh. https://t.co/pYQPgZTR46 pic.twitter.com/1j8DhsCd1K
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 6, 2018
Re: Giuliani
I’m actually slightly worried that whatever is making Donald Trump talk like his brain is slowly congealing may actually be very contagous, because almost everyone he has come in contact with in the last year is slowly starting to talk the same way.— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) May 6, 2018
re: #434 Varek Raith
Oh FFS, Shear.
Reminder: NYT’s White House Correspondent.
Between this and Baquet’s refusal to consider left-wing criticism while kowtowing consistently to right-wing criticism is why we keep getting shit that lets Trump and friends off the hook, from the Times.
re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth
Remember when they lost Iraq?
re: #435 dangerman
What’s Blankenship saying?
I was convicted but I didn’t do it?
I interpreted it as him saying “someone else did it”
In any case, he ran a ship where profit (costs cut, volume mined) mattered and shortcuts of other kinds, safety work rules, ect were expected to be made to meet those goals. Making a charge that like stick in court is tough but the evidence was rock solid, safety was undermined as an explicit company policy, and he deserved a lot more than just one year in jail.
Hopefully, if he becomes the GOP candidate the votes remember all that.
re: #441 Citizen K
Reminder: NYT’s White House Correspondent.
Between this and Baquet’s refusal to consider left-wing criticism while kowtowing consistently to right-wing criticism is why we keep getting shit that lets Trump and friends off the hook, from the Times.
I’m going to move my leg in such a fashion as to intercept his nards. I mean assault.
Meh, words.
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America is a wonderfully forgiving country.
You can be the CEO of a coal company and cheap out on safety systems that caused the deaths of 29 miners. Then you can be tossed into jail and claim you are a political prisoner and that it was all a sham.
And, after all of that…you can run for the Senate seat in West Virginia only to be loved by the same sort of people you killed.
Ain’t America Great! Trump is Making American Great Again!
Excuse me while I go throw up. I’m not feeling all that great.
SCOOP SUNDAY: CIA nominee Gina Haspel planned to withdraw her nomination Friday amid questions about her role in torture, but top White House aides scrambled to get her to stay the course. W great teammates @shaneharris and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/F1IYhA8U8P
— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) May 6, 2018
re: #443 BadgerB
I interpreted it as him saying “someone else did it”
but I can see those lizards who are saying he meant “I didn’t do it and was unfairly convicted”. In any case, he ran a ship where profit (costs cut, volume mined) mattered and shortcuts of other kinds, safety work rules, ect were expected to be made to meet those goals. Making a charge that like stick in court is tough but the evidence was rock solid, safety was undermined as an explicit company policy, and he deserved a lot more than just one year in jail.
Hopefully, if he becomes the GOP candidate the votes remember all that.
Did he not claim it was the government agency in charge of mine safety that set new air quality standards which led to the explosion. That is why he claims to be a political prisoner. The U.S. Government…that Negro Person in the White House, did that to me!!!
re: #447 ObserverArt
Did he not claim it was the government agency in charge of mine safety that set new air quality standards which led to the explosion. That is why he claims to be a political prisoner. The U.S. Government…that Negro Person in the White House, did that to me!!!
he did, and that claim is complete and utter bullshit.
Michael Flynn cancels Montana campaign appearance
BILLINGS, Mont. — President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn has cancelled a campaign appearance in Montana for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Troy Downing.
In a video posted by Downing’s campaign, Flynn cited a family emergency for the cancellation of his scheduled Sunday appearance in Billings.
Trump fired Flynn in February 2017. White House officials said he misled them about his Russian contacts. The former general is one of 19 people charged in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Downing is one of four candidates seeking the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.
In Saturday’s video, Flynn said Downing’s experience as a combat veteran made him the best candidate.
re: #447 ObserverArt
Did he not claim it was the government agency in charge of mine safety that set new air quality standards which led to the explosion. That is why he claims to be a political prisoner. The U.S. Government…that Negro Person in the White House, did that to me!!!
as long as he says something that makes Obama sound bad, there are people who will accept it as gospel
Ticks can be the size of a poppy seed. Can you spot all 5 ticks in this photo? Learn how to prevent tick bites. https://t.co/ATtrY7YFoS pic.twitter.com/gBm4tw2qmf
— CDC (@CDCgov) May 4, 2018
Muffin: An individual cup-shaped quick bread baked in a pan containing a series of cuplike forms.
Also a muffin: Food we can no longer consume thanks to the @CDCgov. https://t.co/XaP2IpWls1 https://t.co/1xn9c3zf3L
Keep in mind, this wouldn’t work if ‘racist’ wasn’t worn like a badge of honor among conservative circles. It wouldn’t work if they didn’t treat ‘racism’ like simply ‘telling it like it is’ and turned accusations of racism into somehow something worse than actually being racist.
— Citizen K Calls BS (@Citizen_Kryptik) May 6, 2018
I’m not sure if Matt is being facetious here or not…but my opinion of the conservative electorate is low enough that I’m pretty damn sure he’s right. Whether by accident or not.
Running on racism, as we’ve seen, seems to have precious little drawbacks and only the highest of benefits lately.
re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just picked one off my son’s leg, about the size of one in the photo
re: #452 Citizen K
Keep in mind, this wouldn’t work if ‘racist’ wasn’t worn like a badge of honor among conservative circles. It wouldn’t work if they didn’t treat ‘racism’ like simply ‘telling it like it is’ and turned accusations of racism into somehow something worse than actually being racist.
they call it “racial realism” or “combating PC” or just “pissing off liberal snowflakes”
re: #452 Citizen K
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I’m not sure if Matt is being facetious here or not…but my opinion of the conservative electorate is low enough that I’m pretty damn sure he’s right. Whether by accident or not.
Running on racism, as we’ve seen, seems to have precious little drawbacks and only the highest of benefits lately.
I think he’s being tongue in cheek. But yes.
Trump lawyer Giuliani does not rule out payments to other women https://t.co/Z4JBbyKT5a
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) May 6, 2018
Rudy is doing a bang-up job as the president’s new adviser! https://t.co/IeZj8SANGj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 6, 2018
They make a strong argument. pic.twitter.com/AcCA5owHbR
— Just buy a Mac™ (@MrDanack) May 6, 2018
Turns out to be a different Colston Arms, though this one still has a board.
re: #453 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I just picked one off my son’s leg, about the size of one in the photo
Gahh. Those tiny deer ticks are the dangerous ones!
GIULIANI: “He was definitely reimbursed. There’s no doubt about it.”
FOX NEWS: Why did Cohen say he wasn’t?
GIULIANI: “Think he was trying to help the family. For that, the man is being treated like some kind of villain. And I think he was just being a good lawyer, a good man.” pic.twitter.com/msEseCLdjH— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) May 3, 2018
First you claim innocence.
When that doesn’t work, craft an emotional narrative about motives.
(caveat to people of color: this only works for white people) https://t.co/LKdRDa1vDR— Nancy LeTourneau (@Smartypants60) May 6, 2018
HIDE AND SEEK: Tasha loves playing outside, and has mastered how to avoid being called back in from a beautiful, sunny day. https://t.co/8XpAZrbVtJ pic.twitter.com/Cr1aWWx6d0
— ABC News (@ABC) May 6, 2018
After all is said and done, it looks like the tiniest part of Donald Trump is what’s going to bring him down.
And I’m not talking about his hands.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 6, 2018
re: #459 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Help the family? Yeah that’s Trump. A man whose sexual exploits he loves to brag about.
heh
Giuliani tries to fix disastrous interview tour, continues to make things worse https://t.co/ou7i9ItOKG pic.twitter.com/rn0t3bHVeg
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 6, 2018
re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who knew that the ascent of Rudy back on the national stage would presage the end of muffins?
I certainly didn’t pick that one in the lottery.
The bad machine doesn’t know he’s a bad machine.
re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ticks can be the size of a poppy seed. Can you spot all 5 ticks in this photo? Learn how to prevent tick bites.
i’ve not read ahead so, if it’s not already been said….can i guess the poppy seeds that are moving?
re: #455 HappyWarrior
I think he’s being tongue in cheek. But yes.
No, I don’t think so. He’s saying that it’s a plus for Blankenship if we call him a racist - which he clearly is - rather than criminally negligent in the deaths of 29 coal miners, which he also definitely is. Being CALLED racist makes West Virginia white folks rally round you, because they’re ‘tired of being called racist.’
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