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When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

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They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

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The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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  2. 2.

    cleek

    in the ten seconds it took me to read that, the US DoD spent $2220.

    in the 8 minutes from the time you posted this until i responded, the DoD spent $106,500.

  6. 6.

    Warren Terra

    Surely Balloon-Juice isn’t a powerful enough driver of traffic to Slashdot a server quite that fast?

    In any case, from the Google Cache:

    Rhoidian Slip
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    Marc Ambinder mistypes the truth:
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    In an op ed to be published in the Wall Street Journal, the heads of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the Foreign Policy Initiative warn that there will be “long-term prosperity” if the US military is “hollowed out” and can’t defend the country.
    __
    It would be awesome if the op-ed actually said that, since it’s the case. And it would be awesome if Ambinder never corrects his post. In respectable organs the truth can only appear by accident, but accidents will happen.

  7. 7.

    The Dangerman

    Whatever it was is as likely as me finding a Supermodel under my tree this Christmas (already “unwrapped”, of course), but I can always hope, too.

    What the hell was it?

  8. 8.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    My leg has started to hurt. For those who weren’t following late last night (early this morning) I managed to stab myself in the thigh with a miniature. It didn’t look that bad, but when it soaked through seven gauze pads, the last three in about two minutes, I figured it was time to head to the emergency room.

    I ended up with three stitches, but I’ve been saying all day that I was surprised at how little it hurt. Silly me. It took about 15 hours for the local anesthetic to wear off.

    FTFY

  9. 9.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @General Stuck: Timed out for me too. John must have killed it.

    Oh, and my apologies for whatever has upset your delicate sensibilities this time.

  12. 12.

    BombIranForChrist

    If we could all just come together and build a browser for the radical center. It will have a mustache and automatically forward you to David Broder columns and hand job porn.

  15. 15.

    General Stuck

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    LOL, “delicate sensibilities” yup, I’m over run with em. It’s the running trail of stupid you’ve been laying down lately, thread by thread, and just thought I’d pre flame you on this one. For a change of pace.

  16. 16.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @BombIranForChrist:

    If we could all just come together and build a browser for the radical center. It will have a mustache and automatically forward you to David Broder columns and hand job porn.

    Such an awesome task should easily be accomplished in six months.

  17. 17.

    jl

    You darn kids quit that fighting right now. Or get off my lawn and go squabble someplace else.

  18. 18.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @General Stuck:

    LOL, “delicate sensibilities” yup, I’m over run with em. It’s the running trail of stupid you’ve been laying down lately, thread by thread, and just thought I’d pre flame you on this one. For a change of pace.

    That doesn’t even make any sense. I’ve barely commented in the last twenty threads.

  20. 20.

    flavortext

    if the US military is “hollowed out” and can’t defend the country several dozen countries around the world simultaneously.

    That’s the real complaint. If the United States military was “hollowed out” so that it was merely strong enough to defend…the United States, few people would object to the amount we spend on defense.

  23. 23.

    General Stuck

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    I’ve barely commented in the last twenty threads.

    Neither have I, but the ones I do comment on, you usually show up. Velly interesting it is.

    Say, like this one. But whatever, I stand corrected. Your trail of stupid only applies to the threads you comment on.

  24. 24.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @General Stuck:

    Neither have I, but the ones I do comment on, you usually show up. Velly interesting it is.

    Yeah, it’s all about you, as usual. However, last I checked you were the first in to most threads and the last out. A mutual friend refers to it as “Stuck’s Front Row.”

  25. 25.

    dmsilev

    @bkny: Awesome. Perhaps the most awesome part is that Wikipedia maintains a list of Bozo the Clowns (or should that be Bozos the Clown?).

    Thank you, Internet.

    dms

  27. 27.

    Stillwater

    @dmsilev:

    Imagine an obit: The solemn gathering was attended by previous Bozos the Clown, as well as many current Bozos…

  29. 29.

    General Stuck

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Yeah, it’s all about you, as usual. However, last I checked you were the first in to most threads and the last out. A mutual friend refers to it as “Stuck’s Front Row.”

    “fuckhead’s trail of stupid” marches on

    Stuck’s Front Row — I like it

  31. 31.

    MikeJ

    @kdaug: Note that he claims he stabbed himself, leaving out the dark rituals which brought the miniatures to life. He was hoping for the chick in the fur and metal bikini, but instead animated the angry dwarf.

  33. 33.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @kdaug:

    Wow. ER by way of Ral Partha.

    Rackham, actually. It was one of their Confrontation figs, from before they went to pre-painted plastic. One of the Fianna Kelts. Be careful of those bitches; they’re dangerous.

    I was using a utility knife to cut off the flange that you insert into a base, so I could put it on a scenic base. I was being really careful with the knife, because I poked myself in the finger with the tip of the Exacto earlier in the evening. It wasn’t what bit me. As I made the last cut, somehow the knife and the released piece imparted enough velocity to the fig to take a chunk out of my thigh when it plummeted from the table. Pretty impressive, really, given the amount of effort I was putting into making sure I didn’t hurt myself with the knife.

    @PurpleGirl: Hey, the local anesthetic lasted 14 hours. That’s pretty impressive. It was damned effective, too. I watched him putting in the stoitches and didn’t feel a thing.

    I’m convinced that, somehow, this was Eddie’s revenge for my taking him to the hospital so much. Sure, he lives in the front of the house and I was working in the back, but cats are nefarious, so I don’t put anything past them.

  35. 35.

    kdaug

    @MikeJ: No, I mean seriously. How the hell do you do that?

    I painted little D&D figurines 30 years ago as kid, but I just put them in a display box on the wall.

    To stab yourself hard enough to require 3 stitches, he had to have them out playing with them.

    Further, although my experience was limited, I don’t recall any really pointy bits on the creatures I painted. I do, however, recall other figurines for sale of Civil War soldiers (not really my thing) that did have rather long, pointy bayonettes.

    So are we to assume this was a Civil War re-enactment with figurines that went horribly awry? Perhaps a bit too enthusiastic about the win (or loss)? Do tell.

  38. 38.

    Mark S.

    Ambinder:

    In the op-ed, the authors say that the cost of fighting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about 4.9 percent of gross domestic product and not the cause of soaring deficits.

    That’s actually really fucking high, and a ridiculous amount to spend during peacetime. Which is what these dipshits are advocating when we finally get out of Afghanistan and Iraq.

  39. 39.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @kdaug: Honestly, I have no clue how it happened. It was exactly like I described it. I cut off the piece of the fig, and then I picked her out of my thigh. (Not really; she was just lying there, not embedded in anything.) I even picked her up before it really started bleeding, so there’s no blood on her. Just on my floors, a couple of books, my sock, my shoe and my car.

    It took a moment to fill with blood, so I got a good look at it. When they took me for x-rays, I told them they were overreacting; there’s no way it justified that. What I found out when they probed it is that, due to the amount of blood, they assumed it was a lot deeper than it really was. In fact, it wasn’t even a quarter of an inch deep. I must have just found a vein.

  40. 40.

    kdaug

    @That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Holy crap – that’s actually more plausible than my theory.

    I’ve got no room to snark though. I managed to bring a ~60 pound branch down on my ass trimming trees last weekend. Followed by my ass hitting the pavement. Followed by bruised and swollen right wrist and big toe. (Compounding my stupidity, I was wearing sandals, shorts, and a t-shirt – my work gloves and boots were safely tucked away.)

  41. 41.

    Roger Moore

    @bkny:

    Mr. O’Donnell said. “I was the fill-in Bozo.”

    Unlike his daughter, who is doing her level best to be a full time bozo.

  42. 42.

    LT

    General Fuckhead and Just Some Stuckfuckhead – you two are acting like Raiders fans in a sports bar. I’m just here to watch the Bills, man.

  44. 44.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @LT: That is really an asinine thing to say considering he launched into me unprovoked and I politely extricated myself from the situation.

  45. 45.

    General Stuck

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    he launched into me

    A tad strong, don’t you think. More like a minor spitball launched from the balcony.

    and I politely extricated myself from the situation.

    You can extricate yourself any time you want, but you can never leave.

  47. 47.

    dirk

    In all my years of reading linked posts at highclearing, I thought the masthead was a finch, or perhaps a tit.

    Turns out it’s a dog.

  48. 48.

    LT

    Hey Stuck and Fuck, I lost track of which one of you was the sane one. I’m sorry. I just noticed that you were owning the thread on a related-to-nothing argument, and made a joke about Raiders fans. Cuz Raiders fans are dicks.

    Ash Can: I should have.

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