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Fuck Trump. Here’s a Video of Walter Going on a Walk With Ellie (and Debit, of course)

by John Cole|  August 31, 20169:43 pm| 80 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Pet Rescue, Walter

Debit passes along these updates:

1.

Quick Walter update before I head out to work: he’s doing great. He’s just a happy guy who likes to eat, sleep and get scritches. His mobility seems to be better and (fingers crossed) he’s scratching less at his ear, so hopefully the meds are working. This morning he barked at the back door to be let in from his potty break, a perfectly Walter-ish bark; deep and gruff, just like his namesake.

I’ll try to get some video of him moving so you can tell me if there’s an improvement.

2.

One more bit of news. I was checking out the U of M’s vet clinic physical therapy options and saw they had some clinical trials going on. Walter is scheduled for an evaluation appointment with this one: http://www.vetmed.umn.edu/centers-programs/clinical-investigation-center/current-clinical-trials/steps-study-effectiveness-and-safety-ia-injection-osteoarthritis-dogs on September 15th. If he’s not a good candidate for it, or if he does poorly off the Rimadyl, there is another trial coming up for stem cell injection that allows Rimadyl. Either way, he gets the full medical work up, xrays and evaluation that he would need before he would start the physical therapy anyway.

She sent me those this morning, and I called her around noonish and told her basically that she’s not going to get away with text only updates because I’ll have a damned riot on my hand and poor Anne Laurie and Betty Cracker clean up enough of my damned messes as it is. This showed up a little bit ago.

I can tell you he is walking about 300% better than he was when I got him, and better even than when he left here just the other day.

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Donald Trump Speech on Immigration Live Feed: Take 2!

by Adam L Silverman|  August 31, 20168:50 pm| 382 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Politics

Let’s try this again scheduled for the correct starting time!

Donald Trump Speech on Immigration Live Feed: Take 2!Post + Comments (382)

Miscellania Trump

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  August 31, 20168:48 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: Assholes

The lesser of two evils (Baud)

hovercraft says:
August 31, 2016 at 8:38 pm (Edit)

Francisco Goldman is reporting that the crime perpetrated against the nation of Mexico today is now being described in Mexico as the end of the PRI. The noose around their necks from which they will never recover from. To debase yourself and the nation by issuing the invitation in the first place and then standing next to said travesty offering no words of censure is contemptuous. The nation is not amused, and finds the Tweet cowardly. Nieto and the PRI are getting absolutely hammered in local media. Goldman pulled a Friedman and spoke of his cab driver’s rage on his way to the studio.

Miscellania TrumpPost + Comments (15)

LOOK! MORE GUILT BY ASSOCIATION! BOTH SIDES! POLITICS AS USUAL!

by John Cole|  August 31, 20168:33 pm| 37 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Post-racial America

Village media idiot Zeke Miller the other day after Clinton’s speech on the Alt-Right the unreconstructed racist fucks who don’t deserve a knew name:

This Clinton speech is basically one big guilt-by-association attack. AKA politics as usual

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 25, 2016

Well what do we have here:

Longtime Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway and Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of the far-right Breitbart News operation, were named on Aug. 17 as, respectively, the Trump campaign’s manager and its chief executive officer. The appointment of Bannon was by far the more controversial choice, given his role at a “news” outlet known for bashing immigrants, Muslims, women and others.

The CNP is an intensely secretive and shadowy group of what The New York Times once described as “the most powerful conservatives in the country.” It is so tight-lipped that it tells people not to admit their membership or even name the group. Revealing when or where the group meets, or what it discusses, is also forbidden. The organization, which can only be joined by invitation and at a cost of thousands of dollars, strives mightily to keep its membership rolls secret.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which publishes Hatewatch, obtained a copy this spring of the CNP’s 2014 membership directory, a closely held document. It shows that Conway was a member of the CNP’s executive committee that year, and that Bannon was a regular member. It is not known if they remain.

The CNP is not controversial so much for the conservatives who dominate it — activists of the religious right and the so-called “culture wars,” along with a smattering of wealthy financiers, Congressional operatives, right-wing consultants and Tea Party operatives — as for the many real extremists who are included.

They include people like Michael Peroutka, a neo-Confederate who for years was on the board of the white supremacist League of the South; Jerome Corsi, a strident Obama “birther” and the propagandist hit man responsible for the “Swift boating” of John Kerry; Joseph Farah, who runs the wildly conspiracist “news” operation known as WorldNetDaily; Mat Staver, the Liberty Counsel leader who has worked to re-criminalize gay sex; Philip Zodhaites, another anti-gay activist who is charged with helping a self-described former lesbian who kidnapped her daughter from her former partner and fled the country; and a large number of other similar characters.

The only way these motherfuckers have changed in 100 years is they know not to wear their fucking Klan robes in public anymore.

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NFT Open Thread

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  August 31, 20167:53 pm| 93 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Assholes

I can’t take it any more. I declare that the comments in this Open Thread shall contain no fucking Trump.

Thread commenters may talk about whatever they wish, with the exception of:

(a) all persons surnamed Trump;
(b) all companies, trusts, political organisations owned or operated by such persons; and
(c) their respective directors, employees, consultants, agents and representatives, present or former.

Any commenter posts containing references to such persons, whether direct or oblique, may be rewritten, gleefully, and at the entire discretion of me.

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Donald Trump Speech on Immigration Live Feed President Pena Nieto Post Meeting Press Conference

by Adam L Silverman|  August 31, 20165:30 pm| 184 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Immigration, Open Threads, Politics

Donald Trump is expected to give a speech clarifying his position and policy on immigration this evening. It is unclear what effect his visit with Mexican President Pena Nieto will have on his remarks. The live feed of the post Nieto-Trump meeting press conference is embedded below (the press conference begins around the 20 minute mark). Followed by a live feed embed for Trump’s speech on immigration in Phoenix this evening.

ETA: I’m not exactly sure when Trump’s Phoenix event will start. I first saw it reported for 6 PM EDT, but that’s clearly not the case if its 6 PM local time in Phoenix, Mountain Standard Time, than this thing won’t start till 9 PM EDT tonight. The immigration speech is scheduled for 9 EDT! I have a fresh thread ready to go for that.

 

 

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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: We’re Doomed

by Anne Laurie|  August 31, 20165:18 pm| 45 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Open Threads, Our Failed Media Experiment

So, it looks like the rest of this election could be a contest between our collective memory and the media's attention span.

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) August 31, 2016

Besides waiting for the barbarians, what’s on the agenda for the evening?

You always, always hear voters bitch that they want to hear about issues not attacks. But they don't click on articles about issues! 2/2

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 28, 2016

So if 28 minutes of a 30 minute presser are about policy, and the final 2 minutes are a gaffe, the policy As basically never happened.

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 28, 2016

@daveweigel Also, HRC's website is chock full of policies and issues. She speaks to them almost every day. But it's emails.

— Barb ¯\_(?)_/¯ (@barb_hill) August 28, 2016

Voters who can access that stuff on their phones, at any time, say they don't know what candidates stand for. https://t.co/LnOO8pHBBe

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 28, 2016

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