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“woke” is the new caravan.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

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

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

I was promised a recession.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Let there be snark.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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  3. 3.

    Origuy

    The Russian version of Facebook, VKontakte, is now under the control of two of Putin’s men.

    Pavel Durov, the 29-year-old founder of Vkontakte — Russia’s “Facebook” — was fired form the social media site, according to Buzzfeed. “Judging by the news, as a result of my public renunciation last week, today I was fired as general director of VKontakte,” Durov posted to the social media site. He also went onto say that after seven years of relative social media freedom, two of Putin’s right hand men are now in control of Vkontakte.

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    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @? Martin: Speaking of which, anyone heard from Bob since his heroes started kidnapping journalists? I suppose not, since this is an incident in which the guilty parties have bragged about it publicly rather than being the kind of impossible to verify event that he thinks are really important.

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    Betty Cracker

    @Origuy: I wish Obama would seize control of Facebook and direct the NSA to secretly install an app that delivers a moderate electrical shock to anyone who keys in certain words or phrases, including, but not limited to: Benghazi, IRS “scandal,” long form birth certificate, New Black Panthers, etc.

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    Debbie(aussie)

    Sorry this is a bit late, but you know what they say. My thoughts are with you, your circle of friends, Holly and her loved ones. I hope that the news that greets me when I visit here in the morning (my time) is all good.

    Is anyone else getting Subaru adds?

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    Poopyman

    FWIW, my cousin settled in for a nap one day and her daughter couldn’t wake her about an hour later – she’d had a brain aneurysm. Despite that poor start she’s fully recovered, save for a slight limp in her right foot. Holly’s younger and looks more fit than my cousin, so she’s got a better head start in a couple of respects.

    And given the advances in medicine since the late ’90s I’m going to say that although you’re right in being worried, the prognosis is pretty good, given that she’s now under medical care.

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    Soonergrunt

    @Origuy: Thank God Ed Snowden asked Vladimir Putin that tough question about state control and surveillance, because otherwise, people might think that Russia has an oppressive government.

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    MomSense

    Poor Sharyl Atkisson was just trying to get all the facts on Benghazi but CBS is just so darned librul and determined to protect any information that made the Obama admin look bad.

    /mornin’ joe

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    JPL

    @MomSense: Did they mention that she believes that vaccines cause autism cuz of the science. You know the science that everyone is hiding.

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    MomSense

    @JPL:

    hmmm, no I don’t think they brought that up but I do confess that I didn’t find their discussion riveting and may have missed it.

    Oh and McGrumpy parted company with the President on Syria. Was he keeping company with the President before that?

    And now one of the douchenozzles on the panel wants McCain to put himself in Obama’s head. Ah no. I prefer Obama’s brain to be 100% McCain free.

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    raven

    Interesting, the president of Korea says the ferry disaster is murder and a career Coast Guard ferry expert just said the #1 rule is that the ship is the best lifeboat.

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    Betty Cracker

    I’ve got the worst earworm ever: Rod Stewart’s horrid “Young Turks,” which I recognized as stupid and annoying even when I was in 8th grade or whatever when it came out. Why the fuck? I haven’t heard it in years, thank dog. I’ve tried to blast it out by listening to GOOD songs, but as soon as I turn the radio off, it’s back. Ugh, what a hideous affliction.

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    JPL

    In case this hasn’t been mentioned, Josh Marshall has been posting about the Fox effect and angry Americans and yesterday he posted about a documentary. link.

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    Betty Cracker

    @JPL: Wow, that’s an interesting clip. I have seen people succumb to the Fox Effect first hand as well. It’s a scourge upon the land.

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    MomSense

    @Betty Cracker:

    Now I am feeling your pain. That song must be incredibly suggestive because just reading your comment about it has me..

    Time is on your, time is on your side.

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    Mike E

    @Betty Cracker: Heh. That song from Hello, Dolly! which is WallE’s earworm too, that one was a killer. It took Evita to finally cleanse my brain of that virus, and that show didn’t linger, thankfully.

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    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    If it’s any consolation, I have some good news: I field-tested my new invention today (by seeing Rio 2 for the second time, because The Amazing Spiderman 2 will not actually be here till May Day). The results were very encouraging. They stayed on just fine; my regular glasses didn’t fog up; and best of all, I wasn’t wearing two pairs of glasses!

  32. 32.

    Elizabelle

    Did anyone else see documentary on Muscle Shoals last night? Had theatrical release; debuted on PBS last night.

    Clarence Carter, Wilson Pickett, Jagger and Richards, Candi Staton, lots and lots of good music and footage of the pastoral south.

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    Mnemosyne

    @JPL:

    I don’t know if I could stand to watch that. I lost my dad to Fox News back in 2000 and he was never the same. It really caused a lot of family tension since I was the only Democrat in the family.

    (I’m also more than half convinced that Fox News helped break up my brother’s first marriage, but there were other problems there, too.)

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    Betty Cracker

    @Mnemosyne: My dad is a born wingnut, but Fox definitely exacerbated his condition! I’ll start a thread on this later if I can find a moment — I’m curious about how many others have observed the Fox Effect.

    PS: I am still using that technique you turned me onto awhile back to deflect wingnut tirades, i.e., acting like I’ve never heard of the latest kooky conspiracy notion and making them repeat the stupid out loud instead of arguing about it right off the bat. It really is amazingly effective, so thanks again.

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