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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!

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Larry Wilmore: Debunking FAUX News’ mythical “War on Cops”.

Some kid’s bootleg South Park.

The 2016 Clown Show:

Matthew Filipowicz and Emily Atkin: Teabagger threat to Obamacare in Kentucky.

Mental Floss: 24 facts about musicals.

Larry Wilmore: County jerk’s office and Oath Keepers.

Liberal Viewer: Megyn Kelly wrong on law defending Kim Davis, anti-gay KY County Clerk.

Matt Binder: Jade Helm ends…without a hostile take-over.

Boy Builds Clock…Bigot’s Heads Explode:

Mental Floss: Misconceptions about disease.

Greenman: Lonnie and Koni, Senior glaciologists on climate change.

VSauce: The Zipf mystery.

Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very, Very Helobiously Ugly!

U.S. Closed for Business:

Sam Seder and Farron Cousins: It’s 2015 and the Wingdings are STILL talking about BENGHAAAAAZZZZZIIIIIII!!!1!!11!

White House: West Wing Week.

Congressional Hits and Misses of the Week.

Minute Physics: Why it’s impossible to tune a piano.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.

Comments

  1. 1

    I wonder how the conspiracy theorists will spin the end of Jade Helm with nothing happening?

  5. 5

    @ 1 ER

    They are already making the claim that the Government takeover of Texas was prevented by their publicity of it. They’re claiming victory.

  6. 6

    With regard to @4 – where were the employees of the establishment? They should be charged or fined as accomplices for not trying to break the fight up.

  7. 7

    Fuckabee wants to find a cure for heart attack, strokes, diabetes, etc. How is he proposing to address this? Build more prisons?

    Or is this knd of like global warming and too hard to deal with?

    This guy doesn’t look like an illegal immigrant. Was he living in a sanctuary city? Oh, then no problem, just another something that we just live with and ignore. Nothing to see, move on.

    Dad convicted of hurling child, 4, off cliff gets life term http://www.nydailynews.com/new.....-1.2365975

  8. 8

    Copied from somewhere else:

    They didn’t evacuate the school, like you do when there is a bomb.

    They didn’t call the bomb squad, like you do when there is a bomb.

    They didn’t get as far away as they could from him, like you do when there is a bomb.

    They put him in a room with the clock, like you don’t do when you think it’s a bomb, then they waited with him and the clock in that room for the police to arrive. They took pictures and immediately informed the press.

    They then put him and the clock in the same car, like you wouldn’t do with a bomb.

    So I answered:

    AT NO POINT did the school OR police believe this was an actual bomb, or even a hoax with the intent to scare people. Their entire intention was to intimidate and humiliate him in public, because he was an African Moslem. When his story never changed, when the engineering teacher backed him up, the school had to double down because otherwise would have been admitting that they were scared by nothing and had overreacted. To admit that they knew that the clock was not a bomb would be illustrating their own weakness to everyone.

    The principal, the police, and the mayor had to insist that everything was done out of prudent safety.

    They did what they did, to demonstrate how they are “protecting” people from terrorists and that they are correct in their promotion of the the idea that the Moslems are terrorists, and everything a Moslem does is an act of terrorism. That same idea that they had run on during their political campaigns for office.

    In other words, the school officials, the Mayors office and the Police did what they did to this boy entirely for political reasons. They saw an opportunity to use this incident to gain some political points to use in their next campaign.

    If he was a Christian, if he was white, this never would have happened.

  11. 11

    More copypasta from the same FB thread, from a hard-core TeaBagger:

    “Hitler actually solved his problem and made Germany heaven when he was in power. [Excessively copied text deleted]”

    Nice.

  13. 13

    Another Responsible Gun Owner (TM; pat. pend.)

    The suspect arrested yesterday for four of the shootings in the Phoenix highway sniper case has a Facebook page showing “a video of the suspect firing a rifle with a young boy at his side. The page also contains a series of pro-gun and anti-government posts.”

    Just your typical Republican.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/le.....gs-family/

  16. 16

    @15 Up early this morning, doc? You must have a lot of work at the office, filling out Medicare billing paperwork. Fyi, I wasn’t talking to you @12, I was replying to Willy Vomit @8; is your name Willy Vomit?
    I don’t need a rest, but you could use a personality transplant.

  17. 17

    Here’s how Ahmed will be paying for college:

    https://www.launchgood.com/project/istandwithahmed

    The tweet at the top of the page is from his account and suggests that you might want to donate if you’re looking to support him. That tweet is no longer on his Twitter feed so he may have deleted it if he thought it looked a bit too opportunisitic. Or maybe it’s there and I missed it. Pay for trolls isn’t what it used to be, and neither is my eyesight.

    Muslim card, played.

    Ahmed Mohamed ‏@IStandWithAhmed Sep 16
    Thank you for your support! I really didn’t think people would care about a muslim boy. #Thankyouforstandingwithme #IStandWithAhmed

    And his father’s no stranger to the limelight. In addition to being a candidate for president of Sudan, twice,

    http://northdallasgazette.com/.....-of-sudan/

    dad’s chilled with Terry Jones. Yep, that Terry Jones.

    http://www.dallasobserver.com/.....es-7130292

    Shades of Balloon Boy.

  18. 18

    More information is emerging about Bowe Bergdahl, the Army soldier accused of abandoning his post in Afghanistan, and then falling into Taliban hands:

    “When asked what in Bergdahl’s background might have caused his behavior in the military, [General] Dahl said that the combination of growing up in rural Idaho on the ‘edge of the grid … being home-schooled’ and the fact that he ‘internalized a lot of what he read’ resulted in him having ‘idealistic and unrealistic expectations of people.'”

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/.....index.html

    Yesterday, CNN reported Bergdahl is an admirer of Ayn Rand, and idealized himself as a kind of John Galt figure. Today, we learn he was home-schooled in off-the-grid rural Idaho. Sure sounds like he’s one of yours, righties.

  19. 19

    @17 Well then, he can use the settlement money to buy himself a nice investment portfolio, and get started early as a capitalist. And you can bet your ass there’s going to be a discrimination lawsuit against the school and police, followed by a six-figure settlement.

    P.S., sounds like his dad is a classic American bootstrapper. You know, immigrant boy goes to college, starts his own company, rises through politics and runs for president of his native country … that’s way more than most of us will ever accomplish. And unlike Carly Fiorina, the fake secretary, this guy really is self-made. (If you want to run for president on the GOP ticket, it helps if your dad is a powerful Republican federal appeals court judge who helped pick Kenny Starr to persecute Bill Clinton.)

  23. 23

    @ 22

    I wonder how many more Republicans plan to boycott the Pope’s speech to Congress? (This should go over big with Catholic voters.)

    I seem not to recall you expressing any curiosity about how Democrats boycotting Bibi’s speech to Congress would play to Jewish voters, RR.

  26. 26

    Closer, closer…..

    Joe Biden Edges Closer to Joining Presidential Race

    http://www.wsj.com/articles/jo.....1442617215

    That’s gotta create tremors within the Clinton Death Star.

    Second-biggest potential loser: Julian Castro. After all that First!Woman!President! crap implodes with HRH HRC, how does Biden not pick a chick?

  27. 27

    @25,
    “non-conforming” with what? Reality?
    If the kid’s teacher and police were being “reasonable” by suspecting this was a bomb, why then does their entire subsequent pattern of behavior tell another story? If Maher and you want to believe certain obvious lies, that’s up to you. But when you try to use those obvious lies to justify bigotry, the reality based community will turn away from you.

  28. 28

    @ 27

    He wasn’t arrested because they suspected it was a bomb. He was arrested because they suspected it was a bomb hoax.

    This location in Texas is 25 miles from where this

    http://www.dallasnews.com/news.....cility.ece

    took place only a few months ago. If a closed case with a cord sticking out of it is left in a public place in, say, Boston, the initial reaction might be different than if the same item was found in a public place in, say, Seattle.

    I’m not defending what was done at the school. I’m objecting to previous characterizations of the boy’s detainment and arrest as being because he had a bomb. It was because they thought he was involved in a bomb hoax.

    Both are still wrong but it takes less time to determine something isn’t a bomb than it does to determine something isn’t a bomb hoax.

  29. 29

    Here’s a movement for us lefties. Call it “You Are Ridiculous!”. At every RepubliKKKlan rally, speech, debate, people should show up with signs that say “You Are Ridiculous!”. Because if you want a ridiculous president, vote RepubliKKKlan.

  30. 30

    And please, can we stop referring to them as the “Grand Old Party”? There is absolutely nothing grand about it unless you think stupidity is “Grand”.

  31. 31

    @28,
    “It was because they thought he was involved in a bomb hoax.”

    Again, Bob, you seem to be grasping for lame excuses here. A “bomb hoax” is normally preceded by a “bomb scare”. A “bomb scare”, if you’ve never experienced it, will involve alarms, sirens, evacuations, and quite often the use of explosive ordinance disposal teams. NONE of that took place here. Obviously, if some xenophobic bunch of bigots loses their cool and overreacts in this manner, they are going to have to walk it back somehow. But when that particular somehow involves rather obvious lies we could just discretely shrug and shake our heads. Or, like Bob, we could double down like an asshole and rush in to rescue the liars. These are obvious lies. There was no credible bomb threat here. No part of the reaction to this clock resembles the reaction to a bomb threat – hoax or otherwise. So rather than own their bigotry, these trembling public employees have to cast about for some excuse, any excuse. A ready willingness to accept these excuses without examination is just simple confirmation bias. So Bob, you’re either a sucker, or a bigot. I know where I’m putting my money.

  32. 32

    Carly sold HP equipment to Iran:

    during Fiornia’s six-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard between 1999 and 2005, the company sold more than $100 million worth of computers and other high-tech equipment to Iranian customers, despite US export sanctions at the time. It’s a small detail she has neglected to mention while on the campaign trail.

    How did HP do it? The usual corporate schemes: the products were channeled through one of HP’s European subsidiaries, and sold through an IT distributor in Dubai, known as Reddington Gulf. The sales continued long after HP sacked Fiorina. By 2007, more than 40% of printers sold in Iran bore the HP trademark.

    http://ringoffireradio.com/201.....s-to-them/

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Always wrong wing flavor of the month leaves its usual bad taste.

  33. 33

    @ 31

    Don’t put your money where Roger Rabbit puts his, and you’ll be alright.

    Fourteen year-old boy walks into bank, pulls out a pink translucent squirt gun and demands money. Teller laughs and pushes the button.

    It obviously wasn’t a threat, and no one was scared. Do we let the boy walk home because it really didn’t seem like a realistic attempt to successfully rob a bank? ’cause there was no “scare”.

    I don’t dispute that some very wrong decisions were made. Were they made by school staff, by police, or both? If a policeman was bigoted for participating in the arrest was it the black cop in the background of the perp walk photo of the kid? Or is a cop required to follow policy when an event occurs at a school, and subject to discipline otherwise?

    Had a school administrator been under some sort of ‘no tolerance’ policy and felt he/she was forced to notify police, but refused, would that administrator have been subject to termination or discipline?

    If instead of a brown kid wearing a NASA shirt it was a skinny white kid with a bowl cut and a Confederate flag T-shirt peeking out from beneath a black trench coat, would it still be a bigoted decision if he was arrested for bringing in the same device?

  35. 35

    @ 34

    She’s not stupid. But her 15 minutes are up, have been for a while now, and she’s increasingly relying on shock value in an attempt to remain relevant.

    To Coulter any publicity is good publicity, and people like her can always rely on people like you to provide it for her, YLB.

  38. 38

    “Alex Jones brings FACTS”

    Funny! I’ve noticed that we’ve had some batshit insanity-free threads of late. But I’m sure he’ll be back after he and his cult sacrifice a few kittens tonight at their Saturday Sabbath rituals. That usually gets him lathered up pretty good. And with next weekend being the ‘apocalypse inviting’ full moon eclipse, things could get really batshit fucking insane around here.

  39. 39

    I read some rumblings among the always wrong wing opposing “legal immigration”..

    Yes, LEGAL IMMIGRATION.. WTF? Didn’t they always spew, “what about illegal don’t you understand”?

    Well now we know why:

    It’s a multifaceted effort that could potentially add millions of new people to the voter rolls before the 2016 presidential election. The outreach includes online citizenship practice tests, the ability to pay fees with a credit card, and public service announcements on Univision.

    President Obama announced the new initiative in a video Thursday.

    http://www.npr.org/sections/it.....ts-to-vote

    What a kick in the ass! Love it!

  40. 40

    Check out a photo of Coulter and then Sen. Tom Cotton. Heh. Ever notice how you never see them in the same room together? Hmm.

  41. 41

    That usually gets him lathered up pretty good.

    Heh. It comes here on Sat night to get “lathered up” for its duty in the salt mines. Been absent the last couple of Saturdays though.

    Salt mining buddy musta seen that it was caught with its hand on its you-know-what around here.

    Little less money for the cult now and a little more in Pfizer’s bank account. I’m sure salt mining buddy’s union negotiated health plan eased the pain.

    Sacrifices must be made. The fiend said “I don’t miss appointments”..

  42. 42

    @31,
    ever noticed how a classic indicator of rhetorical desperation is resorting to rhetorical questions? Like this one?

    Seriously, why do you feel it is important to debate hypothetical scenarios in this case? Do the facts elude you somehow?
    There was no bomb scare here. There was no scare period. Because nobody was scared. Not even the police. Get it? But they did what they did anyway. Point is, they did what they did for reasons other than those on offer. Those reasons (that they were scared) are lies. And that much is very obvious. Except to you.

  43. 43

    @ 42

    I don’t know exactly why they did what they did. Neither do you, for that matter.

    I don’t know why TSA bothers to screen older, frail people (this is less common of late). I don’t know why I had to remove flip-flops for X-ray screening last time I went through the line. They don’t look like bombs to me.

    What if they did it because they had to?

    Google “Reasonable School Discipline Act” (Maryland, 2013). There’s legislative text such as this:

    FOR the purpose of prohibiting a principal from suspending or expelling a student
    4 who brings to school or possesses on school property a picture of a gun, a
    5 computer image of a gun, a facsimile of a gun, or any other object that
    6 resembles a gun but serves another purpose; prohibiting a principal from
    7 suspending or expelling a student who makes a hand shape or gesture
    8 resembling a gun

    Shit like this is necessary because of what some school administrators think is necessary. Sad but real.

    Maybe something like this is needed in states other than Maryland.

  44. 44

    @43,
    okay, this shit is just plain dishonest now.

    School discipline codes? TSA screeners? What the fuck?
    For the last fucking time, this kid was not sent home with a note. He was not kept after school with the Breakfast Club. And this was not an airport. There was no scare. Nobody was scared. They did absolutely NONE of the things people do when they are scared. What they did was act like bullies. The reasons they give are obvious lies. Own it. Or excuse it. But that just makes you another liar.

    There was a teaching moment here. But it has nothing whatsoever to do with our fears about terrorism, reasonable or otherwise. Fuckers like you, Bob, are determined to see that we move off the real subject, which is racism, plain and simple. These people are flat out racists. I have no doubt they sincerely believe they are just wonderful people who love all their neighbors the same, blah, blah, blah. But there is a reason they did what they did. And it obviously has nothing to do with fears about terrorist bombs. They lie. You lie. They are racists. What about you?

  45. 45

    Shit, everyone’s “flat out” racist in one way or another, DR. Don’t get your panties in a knot over it.

  46. 46

    Donald Trump responded today to criticisms of his failure to correct a townhall participant who used a Q&A session to call President Obama “a Muslim” by saying he’s not “morally obligated” to defend the president against false claims. Maybe not, but it’s what a person of character would do.

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/19/.....index.html

  47. 47

    @45 Bullshit. That’s so patently false it doesn’t require a response. What you’re really trying to do is excuse racists by dragging everyone else down to their level. There are millions and millions of people in this country who don’t deserve that. Shame on you.

  48. 48

    @28 He didn’t have “a closed case with a cord sticking out of it,” jackass, so what’s your point? He showed it to his teacher and explained it was a clock. What basis was there for anyone to call this a “bomb hoax?”

    You make the point that it matters whether this takes place in Boston, Seattle, or Texas. You’re right about that. Muslims are treated very differently in Texas than in Boston or Seattle. I’m not saying that in praise of Texas; that’s all the more reason to sue those racist fucks. The federal anti-discrimination laws apply the same everywhere in this country, and it’s time to apply them to Texas.

  49. 49

    @30 Didn’t you get the memo explaining that “GOP” is the acronym for “Greedy Old Plutocrats”?

  50. 50

    @33 Show me the 14-year-old boy who walked into a bank, pulled out a pink transluscent squirt gun, and demanded money. I missed that news story. If that’s the clock boy you’re referring to, your lame attempt to construct a false equivalency is beyond sophomoric, it’s pathetic child-abuse.

    (Is Bob getting desperate for a peg to hang his hat on?)

  51. 51

    @45,
    exactly. So if that’s true, then what happens whenever we insist on pretending that we aren’t? When we insist on imputing our blatant racism with noble motives like Bob is doing here?
    How does that work out for the millions of kids like Ahmed who we never hear about? The ones who are handcuffed and arrested on bullshit? The ones who don’t get a media swat team to parachute in? The ones who get suspended for “scaring” the teacher? If you were one of those kids, you might have your panties in a bit of a knot too. Then assholes like Bob could moralize about how you “made bad choices”.

  52. 52

    @35 Coulter’s outrageous commentaries have always been about making money for Coulter, and the gullible lap dogs of the right lick it up like a Labrador going for a kid’s ice cream cone.

  53. 53

    @43 “I don’t know exactly why they did what they did. Neither do you, for that matter.”

    But there comes a time when reasonable people are entitled to draw reasonable inferences from plain facts for the simple reason that people with bad motives never admit to having bad motives.

  54. 54

    A Sanders opportunity?

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Three in four Americans (75%) last year perceived corruption as widespread in the country’s government. This figure is up from two in three in 2007 (67%) and 2009 (66%).

    http://www.gallup.com/poll/185.....ption.aspx

    It’s strange that we’re starting to see rumblings of even REPUBLICAN support for Bernie Sanders. Sanders is a outsider and considered by many a guy will fight for what he believes in to the bitter end, i.e. incorruptible.

    Who on the right fits that? Ben Carson? Don’t make me laugh. All the klowns on that stage the other night soiled themselves. All have histories of rank opportunism at best.

  55. 55

    @43 (continued) So now Bickle is quoting Maryland school code to prove Texas school officials had no discretion in what they did? Of course, the much bigger issue is his lack of outrage over how this innocent kid was treated by adults we expect to know better.

  56. 56

    @44 “They lie. You lie. They are racists. What about you?”

    Don’t expect him to admit it, but reasonable people are entitled to make reasonable inferences.

  57. 57

    @54 That poll probably reflects the fact it’s hard to find any ordinary American citizen who doesn’t feel the corporations and their lobbyists own the politicians, lock, stock, and barrel.

  59. 59

    @14 maybe Kim Davis likes jail better than that little shed she has for a house. You would think that with three alimony incomes she and her hillbilly husband would have a Mansion. Either that or she’s trying to get away from that hillbilly boy; maybe she found someone nice the last time in jail.

  60. 60

    Let’s not applaud all at once.

    But I’ve been noticing that I’ve been making a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes lately, more so than in the past (maybe). For the reasons that I’ve stated in the past- using iPhone mostly and I rush or type with emotion or the iPone corrects words for other words intended and I don’t proof read because the screen is only two inches square and i can to see up close with my contacts in….etc. etc, etc.

    So I’m considering to post less if I can’t take the time to proof what I write because I’m even starting to not understand what I wrote.

    Oh boy, do I hit the post comment button now (sweating)? What the hell, here goes.

  62. 62

    @23 I don’t think comparing the Pope to Bibi is an apples to apples comparison. Nice try though.

  63. 63

    “The Republicans are going the way of the Whigs unless they can shit can the bigots.”

    They’re fucked either way. Get rid of the bigots, they lose half their base and they’re fucked. Sucks to be a Republican.

  64. 64

    @26 “chick”? Isn’t that a bit chauvinistic? Why not just call them ugly face bitches!

  66. 66

    Bob it is great that you are so engrossed in the boy with the clock story, but did you hear that HP sold shit to Iran? I didn’t think so.

  71. 71

    @43. “What if they did it becuse they had to”

    Kim Davis didn’t do it even though she had to.

  72. 72

    @44 today I picked up my niece at the airport in a car. Normally, or they use to, State Police would sho all the cars parked in the terminal drive from standing and waiting. Today that didn’t happen – I guess they no longer care or they were on doughnut break.

  74. 74

    @55 Bob’s going to find some equivalent, there are plenty in his ass (oh shit, I should have learned from Trump not to say ass. I should have stuck with ugly face bleeding bitches).

  75. 75

    George Pataki on Kim Davis at the last klownservatic klownfab:

    “I would have fired her . . . There’s a place where religion supersedes the rule of law, it’s called Iran.”

    The guy’s full of shit most of the time. Once in a while some semblance of adulthood shines through.

    The batshit base has already sunk him. It’s why no one should glance twice at whoever they pick.

  76. 76

    @75 Teapublicans don’t like Sharia Law. Not because of the laws themselves, it’s because the Muslims authored them. They want Christiania Law, same thing as Shari Law. Watch your back – you won’t have much Freedom left if they get there way.

    Long Live Ireland – Home of The Free and The Brave.

  78. 78

    Heh! Fiorina dramatically dares Obama and Hillary to watch a video clip that doesn’t exist. Clever girl, she’s learning to lie like a Republican.

  79. 79

    “Teapublicans don’t like Sharia Law. Not because of the laws themselves, it’s because the Muslims…”

    I’d say American right-wing Christian extremist hatred of Muslims stems from jealousy. They figure that Muslims get to have theocracies and kill sinners and they want to do it too. The only difference between those who would impose Sharia law or Mosaic law is the means of execution they prefer, beheading or stoning. Poll the dead which they prefer and you won’t get a response.

  80. 80

    It won’t make Palin the Queen of England, but it does make her one stupid, vile woman.

    “Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history. Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....o-no-good/

  81. 81

    LMAO!!! Did our trolls know that Jeb! had a “choom gang”?

    PAUL: I think one of the great problems, and what American people don’t like about politics, is hypocrisy. People have one standard for others and not for them — for themselves.

    There is at least one prominent example on the stage of someone who says they smoked pot in high school, and yet the people going to — to jail for this are poor people, often African-Americans and often Hispanics, and yet the rich kids who use drugs aren’t…

    BUSH: So, 40 years ago, I smoked marijuana, and I admit it. I’m sure that other people might have done it and may not want to say it in front of 25 million people. My mom’s not happy that I just did.

    FIORINA: I agree with Senator Paul. I agree with states’ rights. But we are misleading young people when we tell them that marijuana is just like having a beer. It’s not. And the marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago.

    http://time.com/4037239/second.....cript-cnn/

    Awwww. Rand and Carly are picking on that old bully Jeb! for smoking dope. I’m sure our trolls will empathize just like they did for TWO TERM President Obama.

    Heh.

  83. 83

    @80 And if Republicans got their way, she’d be Vice President of the United States. Btw, what kind of woman picks on a kid to get her jollies? I think you’ve already answered that …

  84. 84

    @81 Well, Fiorina’s right about one thing, nothing’s as good as it used to be. You can’t even find a decent can opener today, thanks to corporations run by people like her.

  85. 85

    @84 I think Carly was trying to say that the dope today is much stronger than the dope that Jeb! toked back in the day.

    Ok Carly. Make it legal and have government regulate the THC concentration – just like they do with alcoholic beverages.

    Lost on an idiot like that. Damn there’s nothing more annoying than a power-hungry greedhead like Fiorina. Trump has the rare talent to entertain people while lusting for power..

    On the other hand – I don’t think Trump is at all serious. He’s probably just trolling to have the greed class PAY HIM to go away.

    They better act fast. Trump is doing a bang up job of motivating Latinos to vote.

  86. 86

    I guess all American Veterans aren’t the same or equal in the Land of where people think of American greatness.

    Unfortunately, that’s why I stopped donating to all American Veterans Groups….and I wrote them Letters indicating such, out of respect so that they didn’t waste their time, money and effort in sending me all sorts of goodies that I toss out in the trash.

    http://www.politico.com/story/.....ats-213835

    Long Live Ireland – Home of the Free and the Brave

  87. 87

    Interesting story about the proposed XpressWest privately financed High Speed Rail line between Palmdale, Victorville, and Las Vegas. Many questions, though. The fares might be too high to reduce traffic on I-15, and the only way it could get into Los Angeles, would be to Interline with the California High Speed Rail network. It’s a joint venture with a Chinese company. I believe that a Japanese railway and manufacturer is looking bidding in California, and Germany’s Siemens, which has supplied all but one of California’s light rail systems, has a plant outside of Sacramento. Although some of China’s High Speed Trains are based on the German and Japanese designs.
    http://www.latimes.com/local/l.....story.html

    Siemens presence in California dates back to when they provided the first Light Rail Vehicles to San Diego, and have also supplied lrv’ s to Sacramento, Los Angeles, and just landed a contract with San Francisco. There is also the Oceanside to Escondido diesel powered light commuter rail line.

  89. 89

    Well I think we know now why Repuplicans have let the Teabaggers bring them down. Without any conviction and real substance it’s easy to be pushed around and to be taken down the swirl of the toilet bowl.

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    To everyone thinking of moving to Russia. Just remember the sanctity of life – you have brothers and sisters and cousins and maybe friends that may have a gay child.

    Apparently there are some that can’t live in a world with having a gay relative, friend, or neighbor…..but they really must insist that every fetus be born. Truly a remarkable bunch of fuckwads.

    To accept what these people are saying is to no longer think of America as the Home of the Free. They are traitors similar to the uprising of ISIS. Watch your backs.

    Long Live Ireland – True Home of the Free and The Brave.

  96. 96

    Global Citizen’s Concert in Central Park this coming Saturday featuring Ed Sheeran, Pearl Jam, Beyonce, and Coldplay.

    I know Joe Biden was invited to attend, not sure if he accepted. And not that I think that this would be a place where he would make such an announcement, but maybe he will announce this Saturday, or right before, if he plans on attending, that he will be running for President. Run Joe, Run!

    If he attends and doesn’t announce then or before, I’d say he isn’t running.

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