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Jimmy Dore: Ron Paul sounds drunk & screams “free market, free market!”

WaPo: 10 distinguished activists you should know about.

Why are there twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs?

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Late Show: A PSA from Dogs about fireworks.

John Oliver: Warren G. Harding:

Young Turks: Congress’ sexy new dress code.

Chris Christie’s Whale of a Beach Story:

2018 candidate intro videos worth watching.

Farron Cousins: Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) admits that Republicans don’t know how to govern.

Good God! with with God & special guest President John Adams.

NPR Gets Super-Edgy:

Young Turks: A day in the life of a female Senator.

DOJ fines Hobby Lobby for smuggling Iraqi artifacts.

The “voter fraud” commission.

Republicans Get Set To Kill and Bankrupt Americans:

Mental Floss: 34 historical facts.

Sam Seder and Justin Miller: Gov. Sam Brownback’s (R-KS) trickle-down experiment is a complete failure.

David Hawkings and Kellie Mejdrich on The Capitol’s dress code explained.

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Comments

  1. 1

    So we are so polarized that reading the Declaration of Independence on Independence Day is called Propaganda? It was a call for revolution, 241 Years ago.

  3. 3

    @1. I’m not sure we should call it polarization anymore. Now it’s kind of gone from polarization to complete insanity and hell bent on destruction of democracy.

  4. 4

    @ 2

    I wonder if he would have been fired at all, were he not a troublesome employee one incident away from termination prior to the event in question.

    Reagan admits that he had a past incident on his record. He says he cursed at a fellow employee and was given a final notice. However, he does not think he should have been fired for what happened on May 12.

  5. 5

    Hey, speaking of employees getting in trouble for their kindly interactions with police:

    Katy cookie store reverses decision to suspend employee after he paid for police officer’s order

    A family who was in line behind the officer allegedly became upset because he would not pay for their order, too.
    …
    The next family walked up and said “are you going to buy mine too?”

    http://www.chron.com/neighborh.....fb-desktop

    I wonder if the YLB family was on vacation in Houston, asking someone else to pay for their stuff.

  6. 6

    Al-Shabab terrorists behead a dozen civilians in a small village in Kenya. So much for that “religion of peace” meme. My boy Muhammad surely started some religious insanity about 700 years ago.

  7. 7

    @5

    Most police departments, if not all, bar officers from accepting any kind of free merchandise. The espresso place I once co-owned when the local PD would come in were always offered and always refused.

    I’ll bet the suspension was more about how he treated the family (assholes) in line that was likely but understandably not polite and professional.

  8. 8

    1,
    historically speaking, our national politics have been more polarized in terms of actual issues many times throughout our past and we still managed to keep the government running in all its basic functions and make lots of progress.

    The term “polarization” is bandied about either out of habit, or as a lazy media crutch to prop up the dead and decaying idea of political equivalence. There are pretty huge differences in the motivations behind “Republican Obstructionism” and “Progressive Resistance”. The former, while pretending to be “populist” is fundamentally authoritarian in its motivations. The latter, while pretending to be “revolutionary” is Constitutionally conservative.

    Fuckface era “conservatives” bray about “The Constitution” while doing nearly everything imaginable to destroy it, particularly and most obviously by limiting access to the ballot. Fuckface era progressives are almost completely silent about the Constitution while being the only people standing between Fuckface’s mobs of racist, authoritarian meatheads and its total destruction.

  9. 9

    Voter fraud! Voter fraud! An actual case of voter fraud!

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vo.....ump-twice/

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: The question is, since this happened on Kris Kobach’s turf, how come all those GOP “election integrity” measures* didn’t stop her? (Answer below)

    * Because they’re designed to keep Democrats from voting once, not keep Republicans from voting twice.

    P.S., this shows how dumb some Trump voters are. This idiot committed a felony to help Trump win a state he carried by a 20% margin. Now she can’t vote at all.

  10. 10

    @6 Allah – You, Jesus, Moses, and all the other fucking religious monkeys need to get on your knees and blow each other.

  11. 11

    @4 Yeah, and all those soldiers who came home in coffins from Shrub’s wars, it’s their own damn fault they got shot. They should’ve ducked.

    In Dumbfuck World, bosses can do no wrong. Everything bad that happens is an underling’s fault.

  12. 12

    So a guy gets fired from his job for stopping a kidnapping, and what does Dumbfuck do? He trolls the internet to dig up dirt on the guy.

    You don’t need any character to be a radiologist, only a medical degree and a good pair of eyeglasses.

  15. 15

    @7 You have to remember this happened in Texas, which is full of Republicans, so of course the customers expect free cookies, and throw tantrums when they don’t get what they want.

  17. 17

    Seasoned professional? You mean a corrupt politician. The political class needs to be destroyed by term limits to throw them off of the government teat once and forever.

    No more professional politicians!

  18. 18

    16,
    Yet many of the appointees surrounding Fuckface, in particular those in global security and diplomacy, are seasoned professionals, even if many come from outside the government.
    It’s just that they are seasoned professionals who put personal profit driven by collusion ahead of U.S. national interests.

    In other words, they are traitors. And every single one of them is for sale.

    It shouldn’t be at all difficult to keep this basic animating principle of Team Fuckface and The Hillbilly Traitor Party in mind. They make no pretense about it, nor any effort to conceal it. Whether it’s Tillerson inking a deal with Rosneft hours before this meeting. Or Fuckface billing millions to the taxpayer to prop up his failing club and hotel branding scams. Or the Fuckface family openly selling government concessions to foreign billionaires. From the White House on down to the smallest local district offices, the entire “conservative movement” has been systematically converted into a giant machine to monetize elected and appointed office, all driven by a racist, hate-mob of readily re-programmable ignorant meatheads perfectly exemplified by our HA trolls.

  19. 19

    17,
    false equivalence bullshit. Plain and simple.
    Never before in our nation’s history has a single political party and it’s senior most leadership so openly employed elected and appointed office to engage in collusion-for-profit and influence peddling.
    Please don’t waste our time objecting. None of us are going to bother reading your pleadings. If any elected Democrat at any level had ever engaged in any of the kind of open and obvious influence peddling and office selling that Fuckface, his campaign, his appointees, his family, and his extended party operators have, we would never hear the end of it from “independents”. But in the last 169 days, nothing but crickets from the peanut gallery. Fuck you. Pick a side. Traitor? Or Not-Traitor? For most of us the choice is easy.

  20. 20

    @ 17

    No more professional politicians!

    Trump’s not a professional politician. How’s that working out for you so far?

    Better Still = Dumber Fucking Moron

  25. 25

    Now, it doesn’t state nor suggest their reasons for unregistering.

    Hundreds of voters un-register after Trump voter fraud panel demands info

    Hundreds of voters are responding to the possibility their information will be shared with President Trump’s election integrity panel by withdrawing their voter registration, according to a Friday report.

    In Colorado, one of the states that is complying with part of the commission request, two clerks have seen a significant increase in voters withdrawing their voter registration, Denver’s ABC affiliate reported.

    In Denver, one clerk has seen a 2,150 percent increase in people withdrawing as voters over the past since July 3 compared to the first non-holiday week before.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/st.....el-demands

    Remember, it’s not cheating if you don’t get caught.

  28. 28

    @17 Why not term limits for CEOs, football coaches, and police officers, too? And — doctors.

    Please explain why an arbitrary system of term limits will serve us better than basing hiring and tenure on competence.

  29. 29

    @18 It’s difficult to enforce laws against stupidity, gullibility, and cupidity. Moses tried to outlaw the worst impulses of human nature and look where it got him.

  30. 30

    @19 Well, Tammany Hall, the Daley Machine, and southern carpetbaggers, among others. But that’s in the past. Those guys are all dead and can’t hurt us anymore. Their modern-day proteges have co-opted the once-proud Party of Lincoln and turned it into a cesspool rivaling all of the above in perfidy and debasement. In the here and now, to be a Republican is to be a life form only slightly higher on the social scale than maggots and terrorists.

  31. 31

    @20 Geez, doc, have you suddenly undergone some sort of epiphany? This comment isn’t like you at all.

  32. 32

    @21 If Texas is “full of Democrats,” then it must be gerrymandered something fierce, because two-thirds of its congressmen and legislators are Republicans.

  33. 33

    @25 Maybe because they don’t want their personal information to fall into the hands of a known grifter?

  35. 35

    I read in today’s news that Trump asked Putin if Russia interfered in our election, Putin said no, and Trump’s response was something along the lines of “that’s good enough for me.”

  36. 36

    From a CNBC Op-Ed:

    “In January, Trump had promised that North Korea would not be permitted to obtain intercontinental missile capability: ‘Won’t happen,’ he tweeted. Did happen. What now?

    “The upside of having Donald Trump as commander in chief is that he is a coward, and the downside is that he is a fool.”

    http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/08.....olicy.html

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: These aren’t the ravings of a liberal pundit; the author of this screed is a commentator for National Review.

  37. 37

    @27

    And just as obviously Fuckface repays the favor by threatening to wreck the Bourbon industry.

    First and foremost, Jack Daniels (mentioned in your link) is not bourbon. Never, ever claim otherwise.

    Second, bourbon’s popularity has exploded and there is talk of shortages of American white oak to the point that bourbon barrels might not be manufactured in sufficient quantity to meet global demand.

    Ergo, any tariff or other disincentive to exportation of bourbon likely means more bourbon is available for domestic consumption.

    Your argument fails.

    Oh, I’m planning a trip to Portland next month, partly to make my bourbon purchase without WA taxation – shop in Kenton is well-stocked with the better bourbons. Can I pick up anything for anybody when I am there? They were out of Elmer T. Lee last time I was down.

  38. 38

    @32

    It is. The city of Austin has taxation without representation. There is not a single Texas district located completely or even primarily within Austin City Limits. There a six districts that push small parts of Austin into much more conservative rural and suburban areas. This is completely by design to ensure that reliably progressive, college town, creative Austin doesn’t have anyone representing their interests. They are represented by the suburbanites and, guffaw, family farmers.

    Same with Dallas though Dallas is too big to pull it off as completely as Austin.

  39. 39

    @37 Well, there goes what’s left of America’s white oak forests. There’s already a shortage of good white oak keel timber.

  41. 41

    Out of an abundance of caution, don’t click on #40 unless he identifies himself.

  42. 42

    It was I who called Drumpfy the Humpty Dumpty a Fake President….which Abigail tried to explain to me there is no such thing….shssss.

    I guess I’m not the only one who thinks that he is FAKE, FRAUD and PHONY – like many Americans.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....mg00000009

    LONG LIVE IRELAND – TRUE HOME OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE AND SMARTER PEOPLE.

  43. 43

    37,
    1st, not my argument Dumbfuck. It is the argument of the paid representatives of the Kentucky Distllers Association, also mentioned.
    2nd, first four words in the piece are “The Kentucky bourbon industry…” Not Tennessee. So why don’t you make better use of your abundant free time, now that you’ve surrendered your license, by pedantcally lecturing the editors at Fortune about the important differences between “sour mash” and bourbon. And that Tennessee is not located in Kentucky.
    3rd, you just asserted that a trade war threatening to supress over a billion dollars worth of export demand would have no effect on market price.

    Frankly, I suspect the story to be a plant by the industry hoping to spur on a surge of orders this summer by EU based distributors.

  44. 44

    This is the 8th thread in a row that has been 100% loon-free. It’s been nice having a break from the loon’s batshit insanity, although some poor, hapless goat somewhere has probably paid dearly for it.

  45. 45

    #CrookedHillary determined to remain relevant.

    “Everything will change if we win in 2018,” she said at the conference. “We have to flip 24 seats. I won 23 districts that have a Republican Congress member, seven of them are in California.

    “If we can flip those, if we can go deeper into where I did well, where we can get good candidates, I think flipping the House is certainly realistic. It’s a goal that we can set for ourselves,” she continued.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/ca.....n-midterms

    There’s a list of districts. One of them is Reichert’s.

  46. 46

    Fuck the French.

    Procyclingnews.eu‏ @Procyclingeu 42m42 minutes ago
    More
    #tdf2107 They where so happy for a French victory that they told Barguil that he had won. But no

  47. 47

    “What Vietnam did to hollow out our military, Tillerson is doing to State.”

    This is the real purpose of the Billionaire$ efforts to destroy the Republic. They don’t want government interference when it comes to making deals with their contemporaries in other countries. If they want to butcher a population of locals to gain control of a local resource like a mine or a forest, they can just do it at will. If they want to addict a population on something like opioid chemicals, they shouldn’t be interfered with. This now includes the American Citizenry. Thats what they’ve been calling for since the legalistic idea of Corporations was originally conceived and made enforceable under the Law. The history of such entities has always been forced robbery under color of Law. They stripmine whole sections of the world, not just for the money they can make, but for the political power that money can buy. They all want to be Kings who have nobody to tell them “No” about anything.

    That is the basic purpose of multinational Corporations like Exxon, BP or Bank of America. Their purpose is to take, by any means necessary. Even if it means enslaving people, murdering people or destroying a local resource. Maybe especially so. Their major philosophical framework comes out of Leopold II did in taking possession of the Congo, or what Britain did in North America, China and India.

    Blackwater and other private military corporations are always hiring for a reason and they do pay the big bucks even for low-level functionaries. Many of them have centered their corporate headquarters in Qatar and Saudi Arabia or Kuwait for a reason. There are no rules in those countries regarding mercenaries except in the case where they are required to tithe a certain percentage to the Kingdom. “Cross my palm with silver and you can do whatever you like, and we will protect you with everything we have”.

    There is and always has been a strong market for mass murderers who are ready, willing and eager to butcher whole populations for money. The United States hit Libya, Iraq, Egypt and wants to destroy Iran because those countries didn’t want to play nice with the oil conglomerates, and they wanted to sell their oil without the Petrodollar being part of that. They wanted Gold or some other currency that they could use for other purposes, like modernizing their domestic infrastructure. Private Military Corporations will work for anyone who is willing to pay.

    Rex Tillerson is a man who has spent his entire adult career as a man who sees the world as a place to be raped and pillaged for his own personal fortune and the resultant power it brings to him. Anyone else who would support him in that effort can be allied with as long as they don’t rock the boat or resist the Corporation. Fat Donny is just another tool in his box for that. Trumppp and Tillerson’s loyalties are to money and wealth for themselves, and they have no ethical problem whatsoever with selling the United States to Russia or anyone else who has the juice to make them even richer and more powerful. Tillerson’s adversaries aren’t people like Vladimir Putin, they’re lawmakers in the United States Congress, or Germany, Russia and Britain. People who are in a position to tell them “No”.

    Capital has no loyalty to a Nation. Tillerson, Trumppp and most of the Billionaire$ are proof of that, and they know damn well that they can just take their ball and go elsewhere if the heat gets to be too much. Hell, they’d move everything to North Korea or Pakistan if they could gain the level of protection for their fortunes and Baronies from it. They’d do to the United States what Leopold II did in The Congo if they knew that there wouldn’t be anyone to stop them.

    All they need to do is paint themselves as Conservatives, as Christians, and as Job Creators and there are plenty of people who will slavishly follow along even as their own water resources are poisoned, and their own families starve.

    Corporation is just another term for organized crime. It’s just a semantical term that renders it “legal” no matter what they do.

  48. 48

    Iraqi Prime Minister Arrives in Mosul to Declare Victory Over ISIS

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/world/middleeast/mosul-isis-liberated.html

    A declaration that should never have been necessary:

    Relief Over U.S. Exit From Iraq Fades as Reality Overtakes Hope

    The journey from then to now is a tale of premature celebration and dashed hopes. A president who thought he had set Iraq on a more stable course that could be sustained without American help has now determined that American diplomacy and power are critical to saving it. Tired of war, like most Americans, he found his aspiration to move on bedeviled by forces tearing across a region in a story punctuated by miscalculation and missed opportunities.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/world/middleeast/relief-over-us-exit-from-iraq-fades-as-reality-overtakes-hope.html

    WASHINGTON — As he described the factors that went into his decision to keep American troops in Afghanistan, the one word President Obama did not mention on Thursday was Iraq.

    Four years ago, he stuck to his plan to pull out of Iraq, only to watch the country collapse back into sectarian strife and a renewed war with Islamic extremists. Facing a similar situation in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama has decided not to follow a similar course.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/world/asia/lessons-of-iraq-loom-over-obamas-decision-to-keep-troops-in-afghanistan.html

  49. 49

    @ 47

    State Department guy from ’11-17, loses his job when the new administration takes over, and whines about it.

    Yes, things are different now.

    #CrookedHillary was awful. Truly awful. Elections have consequences.

    The thing is, ‘froggy, regardless of last November’s outcome, you still wouldn’t be able to hold a job.

  50. 50

    I wonder how long before ‘froggy posts a piece by a former VA employee lamenting the way that everything is changing there now that Trump’s in office.

    Trump administration has fired more than 500 VA employees since January

    Shulkin’s predecessor, Robert McDonald, was criticized for misrepresenting the number of VA employees fired for their involvement in covering up long delays in healthcare at VA hospitals.

    McDonald was caught obscuring the number of VA employees disciplined for misconduct on several occasions as his agency suffered scrutiny of the perceived lack of accountability for its employees.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer......le/2627988

    Confidential to @23: Wouldn’t this be another promise kept?

  51. 51

    @ The Liar @ 49

    Rex Tillerson isn’t “reorganizing” anything. He’s deliberately destroying the entire institution. It is willful and intentional.

    Just because he’s a man whose anus you’d lick when he has explosive diarrhea for the right salary doesn’t change the fact that the people now in charge of the United States Government are deliberately destroying it rather than operating it as it was intended to be under the Constitution. The rule of Law, not of any Man.

    Remember, 3 million more people voted for the person that Putin feared and hated than voted for your screwball. Trumppp thinks he’s a Hitler, all he really is is a Quisling. He makes Benedict Arnold look like a cheap whore.

    Madame Guillotine is cracking her knuckles.

  52. 52

    @ 51

    Oh, look, more popular vote nonsense. What was that thing you were spewing, just now, about what the Constitution intended?

    ‘froggy, the Constitution intended that the Electoral Vote winner, not the popular vote winner, be inaugurated as president. You know that, don’t you? You just find it inconvenient, so you substitute something else.

    I guess that’s what you liberals mean when you talk about a living document. The Constitution is something you point to when you think it helps, but feel free to disregard when you don’t.

    You’re a clown, ‘froggy. A permanently unemployable clown.

  54. 54

    @ The Liar @ 48:

    “Four years ago, he stuck to his plan to pull out of Iraq, only to watch the country collapse back into sectarian strife and a renewed war with Islamic extremists. Facing a similar situation in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama has decided not to follow a similar course.”

    Once again, you’re lying your fat little ass off. The agreement to withdraw ground troops from Iraq was negotiated by the Bush Administration, approved by a Republican dominated Congress during his administration, and signed into law by him. It was set in stone, and was the Law. Obama could not change that He did in fact try to renegotiate that treaty, but the “government” of Iraq was having none of it. They pretty much told him to go pound sand on the entire subject. Their nation had been utterly destroyed, there was no way for them to develop a purely domestic resource base to rebuild it, and they certainly weren’t going to take any more shit from the Country that destroyed them.

    The destruction of Iraq had nothing to do with our “domestic” security. That is, protecting ourselves from a hostile foreign power that threatened us, but because Saddam Hussein, like Mohammar Qadaffi, had announced that Iraq would no longer be trading oil in Petrodollars, but for Gold or some other currency like the Yuan. That would have caused the total collapse of the United States Dollar. Fiat currency based on a consumable, perishable product produced in politically unstable Nations controlled by warlords isn’t a good way to maintain a currency’s value, especially when that currency has become utterly reliant on the good will of foreign-owned banks and their willingness to maintain the paradigm.

    Obama thus chose to obey the Law as written. To disobey it would have been an impeachable offense and Barack Obama damn well knew this. To imply that he had some alternative is disingenuous at the very least.

    But, being disingenuous is your stock in trade in this forum. I suspect it has been for your entire life.

    No comparable agreement was made with the Afghani Government and none was even proposed, as no such Government really even exists in Afghanistan and to this day there really isn’t any such institution. The purported “Afghanistan Government” rules in Kabul and nowhere else.

    The outlying territories are ruled by local warlords who are mostly concerned with building up their personal fortunes by growing opium and murdering each other over their little shitty bits of turf. The Afghani Government is now mostly concerned with protecting that market and mitigating disputes between those warlords while maintaining a public-relations department that can present a face of respectability to the outside world. In the mountains, they have no real political power.

    After all, the United States and Russia are the largest markets for their product and they have nothing else to sell.

  55. 55

    #CrookedHillary was awful. Truly awful.

    Every single time I see this sort of comment, the only thing I read is: “Fuckface Von Treason is better and more qualified to serve”.
    Of course that meaning and intent is logically and inescapably implicit in such statements. And I suppose this is to be expected. No matter how bad the Fuckface administration gets, and in only 170 days it’s gotten pretty fucking bad, these traitors have no choice but to stand behind their disaster. It’s why the majority of fraud crimes go unreported. Too degrading to ever admit.

    Still it’s a rather obvious tell that they always formulate their unwavering support for the bloated orange con man in this way – not by standing behind him and defending his rapidly declining stamina, his lack of interest in the job, his constantly shifting, ad-hoc ideology or his record of failure, but by pointing “over there” to their straw-man-in-a-pant-suit.

  57. 57

    “The loon was probably here”

    These days, goat rescue and sanctuary is more important than ever.

  58. 58

    “Fuckface Von Treason is better and more qualified to serve”

    I suppose it depends on your perspective. On a day of presidential love-tweets to Putin and Doctor Dumbfuck’s 4,000th pro-Putin hashtag, at least Vladimir must feel well served.

    “I strongly pressed President Putin twice about Russian meddling in our election. He vehemently denied it. I’ve already given my opinion…..”

    “Trump Twitter-blames Democrats and Obama for election hacks and backs Putin’s ‘vehement denial’”

    http://www.rawstory.com/2017/0.....nt-denial/

  59. 59

    @ 52:
    “the Constitution intended that the Electoral Vote winner, not the popular vote winner, be inaugurated as president. You know that, don’t you? You just find it inconvenient, so you substitute something else.”

    The institution of the Electoral College was negotiated by the less-populated agrarian (slave) States to preserve their institution of slavery and land inheritance rights that had been fixed into their State Constitutions. The Southern States had actively rejected industrialization for almost 100 years and paid for that by losing a war that they had started to preserve the institution that made certain landed families wealthy in spite of that rejection. They didn’t want to give up their 100,000 acre plantations. They didn’t want to be subjected to Federal laws regarding who they could trade with even if those trading partners were enemies of the United States. Their statements of Secession and Confederation were quite explicit in these matters.

    At the time immediately before and during the States War, Spain, Britain, the Prussians, the Austro-Hungarian empire etc. were all at loggerheads with the United States Federal Government for control of territory for trade and the requisite trading routes.

    Britain was in active warfare in India, Burma, China, Egypt, greater Palestine and Syria, Kenya, Libya, France, the Balkans, Tanzania, Botswana, Angola, the Malay peninsula, the Sumatran/Javanese archipelagos, IndoChina etc. etc. etc. and the British though they could do the same in the United States if they had the right allies here, if they could gain a foothold. The Southern States promised them that foothold.

    They somehow were able to convince hundreds of thousands of young men to to to war to preserve an institution that kept those same young men from gaining employment or owning land, which was the reason why they joined the Confederate Army in the first place as they couldn’t find work and they certainly didn’t have the scratch to buy a farm large enough to make them wealthy. Why would anyone hire a young man to do work for pay when one could just buy a slave? Why would anyone sell off a chunk of a plantation to someone who would be in competition with them?

    Kansas and Missouri had been fighting a tit-for-tat border war just to that purpose for three decades by that point. It’s easy to convince an uneducated, illiterate teenager that someone else is to blame for his poverty when one can wave a few dollars in his face and promise him glory in battle and a seat at the Right Hand of God.

    The old German method of inheritance for the first born son was institutionalized in the law of all the States, this well into the mid 1950s, and it took only five or six generations for that to fall apart once new land had ceased to become available. The British supported the South because they thought that it would gain them the bulk of the Louisiana Purchase. The States War was the last gasp of the British Empire’s efforts to gain a permanent presence in the presumptive property of the United States.

    You’re just a damn Tory is all you are. You’re probably even a goddamned Stuart.

  60. 60

    Today’s stage was won with a broken bike. It takes a long time to wind up a 53/11 gearing.

    “When there was the crash of Richie Porte and Dan Martin, Martin hit my gear and broke it,” Uran added. “I did the whole descent with a broken gear, and I was thinking that I had to find a way to save the day.”

    Save the day he did. The descent off Mont du Chat concluded with around 14-kilometers still to race. Uran’s derailleur hanger was bent, and his shifting was broken when he paid a visit to the Mavic neutral support car where Mavic mechanic Max Ruphy put the chain in the biggest gear, the 11. Uran was left with two gear options: 53/11 and 39/11
    …
    “Without the ability to change gears, he needed a long sprint,” Wegelius added. “We told him to go for a long one. We gave him the information about where to be. He did great.”

    http://procyclingnews.eu/uran-.....sh-sprint/

    Meanwhile, with the sprint about to launch, #CrookedHillary chose to have her bike tuned in Arizona.

  62. 62

    @1 Well it was definitely polarizing 241 years ago, and King George was not too happy as well, and it’s not like he pulled the troops out and apologized for Queen Anne’s war.

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