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by Tim F|  May 28, 201510:38 am| 31 Comments

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Looks like it’s my blog today. Enjoy a few highlights from today’s news.

Pastor caught having gay sex in van spent stolen church money on farmer dating website

Waffle-maker dispute results in 30 people kicked out of Mason County hotel

Chat about whatever rocks your casbah.

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  1. 1.

    Howard Beale IV

    May 28, 2015 at 10:41 am

    Pataki has announced he’s going into the Clown Car.

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    JPL

    May 28, 2015 at 10:44 am

    I’m not linking to the first story but the waffle fight story was pretty funny. A holiday season many, many years ago, I worked in the crystal department of a major chain, and two customers got into a dispute about proper sharing of counter space.

  3. 3.

    Richard mayhew

    May 28, 2015 at 10:46 am

    @Howard Beale IV: I am honestly puzzled as everyone else already or expected to be in the clown car I can see their angle. It might be a plausible path to victory, it might be a chance to introduce new issues into the debate, it might be a personal/ideological desire to murder suicide another candidate, it might be a chance to audition for Fox, it might be a pure grift…. Or some combination thereof… I just don’t see what Pataki’s angle(s)is?

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    Keith P.

    May 28, 2015 at 10:49 am

    Pastor caught having gay sex in van spent stolen church money on farmer dating website

    “You’re gonna make me get that song stuck in my head.”

  5. 5.

    benw

    May 28, 2015 at 10:50 am

    I’m probably going to eat a sandwich here in a few minutes.

  6. 6.

    Germy Shoemangler

    May 28, 2015 at 10:50 am

    Quote of the day:

    “GET YOUR FACTS FIRST, THEN YOU CAN DISTORT THEM AS YOU PLEASE.”
    – MARK TWAIN

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    scav

    May 28, 2015 at 10:52 am

    Motel Waffle Precedence is clearly more deeply entangled in the American Self-Worth psyche than I ever would have envisioned. 30+ people rose to the occasion. (my tribe is collapsed, hoping desparately the coffee is drinkable and within standard deviations of expected caffination.)

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    Germy Shoemangler

    May 28, 2015 at 10:53 am

    @Richard mayhew:

    it might be a personal/ideological desire to murder suicide another candidate, it might be a chance to audition for Fox, it might be a pure grift…. Or some combination thereof… I just don’t see what Pataki’s angle(s)is?

    I watch my local tv news. A Sinclair station. Their motto: “more subtle than fox news, but with the same basic viewpoint.”

    Their regular go-to commentator is Fred Dicker. He writes for the New York Post.

    They had him on to explain why Pataki is running. Fred said “Pataki knows he can’t possibly win. He just wants to raise his profile, which will benefit his law practice.”

    Short answer: $$$

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    benw

    May 28, 2015 at 10:54 am

    @Germy Shoemangler: Twain is the best. “It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt” is basically my motto at work.

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    Gin & Tonic

    May 28, 2015 at 10:54 am

    So Vladimir Putin has signed a decree which makes information about casualties suffered by military forces during “peacetime” a state secret, publication of which is punishable by up to seven years in prison. I’m sure last week’s blogging and Tweeting about Russian Special Ops forces KIA in Ukraine had nothing at all to do with this.

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    MattF

    May 28, 2015 at 10:59 am

    @Richard mayhew: Last gasp for old-fashioned social moderation. Northeastern Republicans used to be comfortable with the ‘just don’t do it out in the streets’ type of conservatism, but it’s a different party now.

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    Germy Shoemangler

    May 28, 2015 at 10:59 am

    @benw:

    This Twain quote fits more than a few fox news folks:

    “His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it …”

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    May 28, 2015 at 11:02 am

    @Howard Beale IV: We need to have the clown bus filled to capacity. Bring on Newt, Trump, Cain, Christie, and the rest of the vile pack. Fred Thompson, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

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    Roger Moore

    May 28, 2015 at 11:04 am

    @Richard mayhew:

    I just don’t see what Pataki’s angle(s)is?

    When in doubt, assume it’s the grift.

  15. 15.

    Amir Khalid

    May 28, 2015 at 11:08 am

    @Mike in NC:
    Fred Thompson is (or was) an actor; but everyone seems to remember his presidential candidacy as the most boring ever. He wouldn’t make much of a kontribution to the Klown Kar, I fear.

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    peach flavored shampoo

    May 28, 2015 at 11:11 am

    it might be a pure grift….

    DING DING DING DING!

  17. 17.

    J R in WV

    May 28, 2015 at 11:13 am

    I just noticed some good news on Google News:

    Rick Santorum and Bernie Sanders are both listed under the 10 Top Stories in the upper left corner of their summary of Top Stories page. That means people are – on their own – searching about Sanders more than most other candidates. So that’s interesting, epople are getting information about Sanders on their own hook, without the interface with an editorial writer, Funny how that works in the internet age!

    And you can bet that lots of people searching for Rick Santorum will get a slippery surprise right there in the search results!

  18. 18.

    Eric U.

    May 28, 2015 at 11:20 am

    @Mike in NC: I would love that, is Perry officially in? I can’t keep track. There’s gotta be 30 morons willing to sign up for this, part of my extended family in Iowa needs to make a payment on the corn dog concession trailer.

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    MomSense

    May 28, 2015 at 11:25 am

    My CSA share pick up starts next week. I honestly cannot wait for all the vegetables. They taste like vegetables are supposed to taste.

  20. 20.

    JustRuss

    May 28, 2015 at 11:29 am

    If only those waffle seekers had been properly armed, I’m sure things would have been settled more politely.

  21. 21.

    Stella B

    May 28, 2015 at 11:38 am

    There were 141 comments on the waffle story, so I clicked the “read comments” button and the first comment up was racist. I’m not reading any more comments for the rest of the week.

  22. 22.

    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    May 28, 2015 at 11:39 am

    Tripped over this while looking for something else:

    Texans are adopting dogs in droves to rescue them from flooded animal shelters

  23. 23.

    Richard mayhew

    May 28, 2015 at 11:41 am

    @Roger Moore: but as others indicated a non obvious grift… Although big law seems to need a different style of grift than trolling the Blaze’s audience

  24. 24.

    gogol's wife

    May 28, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    @JustRuss:

    There’s a good series of comments on that thread:

    We now know where the first Waffle Free Zone in Michigan will be.
    This incident is confirming evidence that we need stricter waffle control laws in this country. No one needs an assault waffle or assault waffle maker. No extra capacity waffle magazines or semi automatic waffle makers unless you’re in law enforcement or the military or are Hillary Clinton (and in dire need of the protection).

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    twirtzy 16 hours ago
    @tru2blu76 Your haste to make a political point made you overlook the fact that the waffle was not used as a weapon in this incident. That’s called a fail.

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    citizen1812 15 hours ago
    Good point, this also proves what happens if there are restrictions on the waffle makers in the hotel. Guests are not allowed to bring their own waffle makers and that needs to end. Everyone has the right to bring their own. A good guy with a waffle maker would have Leggod the Eggos of these bad guys hoarding the waffles and makers, and this wouldn’t have gotten so out of hand. Waffles don’t kill people, only bad guys with waffles and makers do.

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    BobS

    May 28, 2015 at 12:40 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Is it true you extend your right arm and hand before hitting “Submit Comment”?

  26. 26.

    Paul in KY

    May 28, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    @Keith P.: There’s a country song in there somewhere.

  27. 27.

    burnspbesq

    May 28, 2015 at 1:39 pm

    Marty Lederman finds a brilliant compendium of all of the compelling rebuttals to the crackpot arguments made by the plaintiffs in Evenwel. And the author of said compendium? Some buy named Roberts, who used to work in the Solicitor General’s office.

    http://balkin.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-curious-result-urged-by-appellants.html

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 28, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    Since this thread is pretty dead, I’ll post again the next time there’s an Open Thread — but for all you Notorious R.B.G. fans in and around NoVa, you might want to mark your calendars for July 11th:

    http://castletonfestival.force.com/ticket/#sections_a02G000000RigSZIAZ

    I am seriously tempted to drive up myself, just because why not?

  29. 29.

    K-Bobo

    May 28, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    I’d bet five bucks that at least half of the waffle fighters were traveling with a youth athletic team. Probably hockey.

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    May 28, 2015 at 7:32 pm

    @BobS: You gotta freshen up your material, Bob.

  31. 31.

    SteverinoCT

    May 28, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    I wish the websites of these local papers would prominently (or even not prominently) say where they are located. Enough of them get linked to these days that I, and I presume others, would like to know the locale, and even the publication.

    I just checked, and locally the Hartford Courant does in fact have its name prominently featured on its pages; the New London Day newspaper has “TheDay”, but no indication that it is in New London, or even Connecticut.

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