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Majorian posted:You guys, I'm really sad that Peter O'Toole is dead. It's been several months I know, but I was just listening to Paul F. Tompkins doing the King of Coffee bit, and it made me miss O'Toole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaxjpQARxWo
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I can't even remember the last time I saw CNN without having some kind of breaking news, except for commercials and the likes.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:19
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zoux posted:The Peace Corps pulled out of the three W. African Ebola countries It would really suck to have to listen to smug doomsday preppers though.
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Joementum posted:It would really suck to have to listen to smug doomsday preppers though. Luckily since they can't shut up about it I know where they are and I can take their poo poo  Oh god would I love to loving rob some gun tactical training fat mother fucker and his fat fuckign wife of their giant canisters of beans and then sell them into post apocalyptic slavery.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:21
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The House is currently debating the bill to sue Obama. 
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Jul 30, 2014 22:22
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How are there still people who read National Review?
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zoux posted:The Peace Corps pulled out of the three W. African Ebola countries That being said, the likelihood of a pandemic of ebola is really, really low. People who are infected get very, very sick very quickly, and the only way you can catch it is through contact with bodily fluids or organs; the virus is not very robust, and outbreaks usually burn themselves out very quickly (this one is an unfortunate exception).
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Yeah I know that's why I'm not worried about it.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:29
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In my country we have a saying that the freedom of the press is the freedom of 100 rich men to publish their opinion. The difference is that this isn't done so blatantly obvious
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Jul 30, 2014 22:35
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Chantilly Say posted:I have to say the breathless 24/7 cycle has its moments. I was sitting in an airport terminal during the Deepwater Horizon blowup and I swear that at one point while CNN just cycled through talking heads next to a live-feed from the little robot they'd sent down there I caught the robot just desperately whacking the valve with a big wrench. The one silver lining of that cloud of aerosolized poo poo was hearing news anchors spend days breathlessly speculating about the efficacy of the Junk Shot.
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demonicon posted:In my country we have a saying that the freedom of the press is the freedom of 100 rich men to publish their opinion. That's good. What is your country?
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ufarn posted:How are there still people who read National Review? Someone is all the time leaving copies of it at my gym in the magazine rack. I checked once and the address information on the cover had been removed so I don't know if someone in the gym management is behind it or not (possibly, since I've also come across Bircher pamphlets in the locker room a couple of times), but it is amusing to see the scare art they use on the covers; it's only two or three steps removed from a Dees Illustration at times. The articles are, of course, complete garbage.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:37
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Go go cultural imperialism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWDZngk7Fw
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Jul 30, 2014 22:38
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Jul 30, 2014 22:50
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zoux posted:The Peace Corps pulled out of the three W. African Ebola countries Makes me glad California's in a drought right now. Less standing water for the nasty little virus to infect people with here.
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Jul 30, 2014 22:56
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Joementum posted:The House is currently debating the bill to sue Obama. Have they decided what to sue him for?
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Jul 30, 2014 23:09
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Pope Guilty posted:Have they decided what to sue him for? Failure to enforce the employer mandate in Obamacare. Yes, that's right, Republicans are suing Obama for not enforcing Obamacare.
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Jul 30, 2014 23:22
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Majorian posted:Makes me glad California's in a drought right now. Less standing water for the nasty little virus to infect people with here. Unless you have infected people bleeding and making GBS threads in that standing water it's not going to make a difference.
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zoux posted:Go go cultural imperialism I would like to personally apologize to the people of China. I've never given a Hooters my money, nor do I own any of their stock. I've never even jokingly made a "you guys should go to China" comment. Yet I can't help but feel like I'm partly responsible for this somehow. paragon1 fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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Jul 30, 2014 23:34
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Reaganbook is making news. http://www.breitbartunmasked.com/2014/07/30/reagan-book-trolled-offline-after-being-flooded-with-porn-putin/ Edit: Semi-NSFW ^^^ They blamed it on Reddit, Twitter, and 4Chan but not us. quote:By early Wednesday afternoon, the Facebook replacement for the Fox News crowd became a dial-up level of slow, even as trolls continued to upload what appeared to be an enormous collection of gay porn, tributes to Putin, and event plans with their new friends. Dirt fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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Buffalo wild wing's stock fell around 13% today. I am eating their wings to mark this somber occasion, and I do not understand how that chain isn't making money hand over fist.
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Jul 30, 2014 23:53
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So I hear the house voted to sue obama, now what? This isn't impeachment, does it just go on like a normal lawsuit?
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Jagchosis posted:Buffalo wild wing's stock fell around 13% today. I am eating their wings to mark this somber occasion, and I do not understand how that chain isn't making money hand over fist. I feel like they are very inconsistent from store to store. People also tend to poo poo on them a lot for not making "real wings" whatever that means. The one near my old house in the Detroit Suburbs was awesome, and I went there often for wings during UFC PayPerView's. Sidenote: "Thai Curry" wins are amazing. The one near my parents place was awful every time I went there. Might be a problem all around? There is no Buffalo Wild Wings where I live now. Only one place in town even serves "wings". I ordered them and I'm 99% sure the sauce on them was Franks Red Hot mixed with butter. 
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chain pubs are the worst in my old small rear end city every suburb had a pop's pub. the taphouse thing started getting big awhile back to naturally pop's cashed in and became pop's taphouse. no, they didn't update the place, just changed the name. A taphouse with bud, pil, bud light, rickards, and keiths. you could get a bottle of corona if you were feelin squirrelly
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Tatum Girlparts posted:So I hear the house voted to sue obama, now what? This isn't impeachment, does it just go on like a normal lawsuit? Bestow thine knowledge on us, Lord Ezra! quote:Since the suit would be filed on behalf of the US House of Representatives, Boehner will convene a group of five House leaders called the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group. The BLAG instructs the House of Representatives General Counsel's office on how to handle the lawsuit. Its members are Boehner himself, new majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD). That's three Republicans and two Democrats, so though the BLAG theoretically represents the whole House, GOP leadership will have full control over it.
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What was Reaganbook?zoux posted:Gah! Just an FYI for those who read the cartoons thread, Wolf Blitzer got his start as a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, right around the time that a certain young man became their full time cartoonist. 
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Dirt posted:There is no Buffalo Wild Wings where I live now. Only one place in town even serves "wings". I ordered them and I'm 99% sure the sauce on them was Franks Red Hot mixed with butter. Franks and butter, better known as "buffalo wing sauce."
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moller posted:Franks and butter, better known as "buffalo wing sauce." Is that all "buffalo sauce" is? Well I sound like an idiot then. But those wings were gross. Apparently I'm only accustomed to normal "chain buffalo sauce". Whatever it was, I didn't like it. Dirt fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Jul 31, 2014 |
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XyloJW posted:What was Reaganbook? A conservative lady in Ohio got mad that Facebook was "censoring" her (which they weren't) so she started a Facebook clone for conservatives. Except that the signup form didn't even do basic email validation and well....
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What, exactly, is the incentive for Hoyer and Pelosi to even show up for those meetings?
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XyloJW posted:What was Reaganbook? Don't put that evil on us.
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Thanatosian posted:What, exactly, is the incentive for Hoyer and Pelosi to even show up for those meetings? Kabuki, removes a reason for republicans to cry, no real benefit boycotting them.
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Chantilly Say posted:CNN in particular is pretty much carried at this point by the fact that it's the least 'offensive/partisan' cable channel and thus gets played in airport lounges and doctor's waiting rooms, and you've got to fill that time you're spending not doing real journalism with something. But the focus on the sensational over the mundane in American media has been some time in the making. The idea of blasting cable news in a doctor's waiting room is bizarre to me. Despite being the 'least partisan', CNN is still so goddamn inane and irritating that I'm sure being exposed to it would increase my blood pressure by a few points. If they aired Fox News there's a decent chance I'd walk out of there with an unnecessary prescription or two. What happened to the idea of a calm, quiet room where you can thumb through back issues of Car and Driver before being seen? It's so perfect that the acronym of the advisory group sounds like someone gagging. Also, wasn't the employee mandate just delayed until 2015? What happens if the mandate goes into effect anyway while the lawsuit is ongoing?
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Rhesus Pieces posted:Also, wasn't the employee mandate just delayed until 2015? What happens if the mandate goes into effect anyway while the lawsuit is ongoing? Then the House would lose its standing and the court would dismiss the suit, I'd guess. But I don't think anyone is going to care about this after November 4, 2014.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Kabuki, removes a reason for republicans to cry, no real benefit boycotting them.
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Is this old news to you all? The news about the newest Lois Lerner e-mails is coming out and in it she is lamenting right wing whackos and assholes and crazies (her words) taking "us" down. From the context she is clearly implying "Republicans." The demon IRS bitch who hates Tea Baggers is... a Republican. Was this common knowledge? Can she be hoisted on her petard as an establishment Republican now? Can we agree that this means she would probably not be inclined to act on the orders of some Democrat in the WH? http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/07/30/new_irs_bombshell_lois_lerner_bemoaned_right_wing_crazies.html http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/irs-lois-lerner-email-crazies-109544.html quote:By RACHAEL BADE | 7/30/14 1:02 PM EDT Updated: 7/30/14 5:39 PM EDT quote:“Great. Maybe we are through if there are that many a—holes.”
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Obama is immune from lawsuits while he is in DC. The Congress should vote him proconsular authority of the waterways of the Mississippi and then serve him while he is boarding a steamboat in Cairo.
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euphronius posted:Obama is immune from lawsuits while he is in DC. The Congress should vote him proconsular authority of the waterways of the Mississippi and then serve him while he is boarding a steamboat in Cairo. Presumably they're not suing Obama personally, but the office of the President.
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Obama should argue that he's a free man on the land and immune from prosecution because his name is printed in all caps on his berth certificate.
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They can't do that because of sovereign immunity. Anyway Obama could empty the White House and refuse to accept service.
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