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Donald Trump: 'I am honored to have played a big role' in the release of Obama's birth certificate" -- nm - oblique Apr 27, 06:33 6
- Trump now pushing the "Obama was a terrible student at Occidental & Columbia" issue. - sgtmike Apr 27, 06:42
- Is anybody bothering to ask him, Why? -- nm - amoxy Apr 27, 06:41
- Get out, he did not. -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:40
- Serioiusly, go fuck yourself. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 06:35
- Dammit Jax. -- nm - Amy Apr 27, 06:34
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so that mail2web thing kilbo found me is a no-go. it won't let me login. so here's the next question: - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:27 1
- As an aside, you should confirm your IMAP settings externally (public Internet) using Windows Live mail or another desktop client like Thunderbird - oblique Apr 27, 06:31
Actual Fox headline: "White House Releases What it Says Is President Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate" -- (link) - sgtmike Apr 27, 06:26 22
- Fox Network Releases What It Says Is Actual News Story -- nm - Roger More Apr 27, 06:31 2
  - That's TDS or Onion worthy. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 27, 06:35
  - Okay, I'm stealing that and will use it mercilessly from now on. - TWuG Apr 27, 06:33
- i have no idea why he thought this would stop the crazy. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:28 15
  - I doubt he's dumb enough to think it would stop. Appease a few people in the middle who maybe weren't sure, and then once and for all expose the nuts - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:32 10
    - i think he hoped it would stop it, but that rationally he knew that they will always find a reason to dislike him -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:33 9
      - Eventually he'll get them to admit that it's because he's black. - TWuG Apr 27, 06:35 8
        
        black or someone with a muslim sounding name. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:36 7
        
        I really wonder which hurts them more. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:37 6
        
        admitting anything is the worst pain they can endure. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:40
        
        I think the Muslim thing freaks more people out. - Mel Profit Apr 27, 06:40 4
        
        Klingons are our allies now -- nm - Jean Luc Apr 27, 06:41 2
        
        you're a geek. -- nm - Mel Profit Apr 27, 06:42 1
        
        Jealous? -- nm - Jean Luc Apr 27, 06:45
        
        And Klingons are played by black people. Cake AND eating it. -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 06:41
  - I'm beginning to think the idea is to foster the crazy. Truthers are a very, very small minority of the voting population, but they - TWuG Apr 27, 06:31 2
    - Not that small. Nearly 50 percent of Republicans in most polls. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:32 1
      - Yeah, but the GOP voter pool ain't that big. Self-identifieds are way down. -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 06:34
  - also, i find it amusing that fox news site has two links to the same article, but with totally different headlines. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:29
- The level of stupid in this country is just amazing. -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 06:27 2
  - aint it though - I might quote you on Facebook -- nm - Epiphany Apr 27, 06:29 1
    - *hat tip* Thank you, ma'am. -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 06:32
Apple responds. We're not tracking you, we're just tracking, sort of -- (link) - oblique Apr 27, 06:22
New report says 1 in 4 children in US raised by single parent. -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:22
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President Obama has released long form birth certificate -- (link) - sgtmike Apr 27, 06:09 10
- Ugh, they need to drop the stupid "winning the future" line already. -- nm - Ender Apr 27, 06:42
- It's weird that all the other docs are in PDF but the birt cert. -- nm - lileve Apr 27, 06:35 3
  - NYTimes had a link to the pdf of the birth certificate... -- nm - znufrii Apr 27, 06:36 2
    - here -- (link) - znufrii Apr 27, 06:38 1
      - Thanks! -- nm - lileve Apr 27, 06:58
- The first thing I thought of is that I wonder if Google, Scribd and those other doc sharing sites are kicking themselves that they picked Slideshare - oblique Apr 27, 06:13 2
  - heh, i went "wtf is a slideshare" when I saw that. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:34
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- I'm sure this will put the matter to rest once and for all. -- nm - nubby Apr 27, 06:12 1
  - Obviously it won't but now if you are a birther you have even less credibility (which is somehow possible) -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:13
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- Please oh please let his statement be: - Jim Apr 27, 06:40 1
  - "Huh. It says 'O-bama Ishi-I' on this." -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 06:41
- Whew...I brought up the phony college admission just in time! -- nm - Trump Apr 27, 06:26 1
  - This is the best post on the whole topic. -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:30
- He just pimp slapped the entire birther audience, with perfect timing. Goodbye Trump. -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:12 33
  - When I do things, I get them *done*. I'm the one who got him to finally show it. - Donald Trump Apr 27, 06:28 4
    - So lets see your tax returns -- nm - amoxy Apr 27, 06:31 1
      - Elect me president and I will. -- nm - Donald Trump Apr 27, 06:33
    - i never liked Donald Trump. Now i *hate* Donald Trump. (your subject isn't even a stretch, he'll totally say this.) -- nm - Andie Apr 27, 06:30 1
      - this is what I think... - Mel Profit Apr 27, 06:31
  - oh no. dude, it's so obviously a forgery. why else would it take so long? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:15 27
    - Right? Why is he even given this any credence? -- nm - ty97 Apr 27, 06:27 1
      - the word is "credentiaryism." -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:30
    - Yeah, I think it's going to have the opposite effect that he intends. -- nm - nubby Apr 27, 06:19 23
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      - agreed. it feeds the nuts. - Mel Profit Apr 27, 06:24
      - he can't win with the crazies though. he doesn't answer the questions once and for all, they say he's hiding something. He provides it, they'll - Andie Apr 27, 06:23 6
        
        *looks down, high fives* -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:24 5
        
        Did you just high five your penis? -- nm - Spawn Apr 27, 06:25 4
        
        Five's being generous. -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 06:27 3
        
        heh -- nm - Epiphany Apr 27, 06:30
        
        The issue deserves investigation. -- nm - nubby Apr 27, 06:28 1
        
        "I have nothing to hide" -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:39
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      - Expose all the lunatics, that's fine. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:21 12
        
        Exactly. Only the truly crazy ones will still go at the issue I think. Everyone else will shrug and go okay. -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:22
        
        they were already exposed!! -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:21 10
        
        It feels the issue was always "He won't show the birth certificate!" now if they change the argument to "It's fake!" thats a whole other level of craz -- nm - MDH Apr 27, 06:23 9
        
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        Right, and this exposed the media as an even bigger than it already was. That they continued to give credence to the birthers. "Birthers say they - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:30 2
        
        ^ "even bigger joke" -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:36
        
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        oh, the whole thing is absolutely insane.. this is what your president has to spend his time doing (repeatedly), but maybe if this showing is public - Andie Apr 27, 06:29 2
        
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        It's okay, I didn't really have anything better to do today, anyway... -- nm - Obama Apr 27, 06:30
        
        And that was always the funny part: he DID show his birth certificate 3 years ago. The same type that everyone else gets. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 06:24
        
        precisely ! :) -- nm - Andie Apr 27, 06:24
    - I have no doubt that this is coming, but see above. I just love that he gave no warning and was like here it is. - MDH Apr 27, 06:16
- "Well if he has to go through all this trouble, he *must* be hiding *something*. What *isn't8 he showing us, hmmm?" -- nm - Habitual Truth Deniers Apr 27, 06:10 8
  - *waiting for trump to say he has experts expertly exmaining it to see if it is a fake* -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:12 7
    - Silly Democrat. They'll say that thanks to their tireless efforts, justice and lawfulness has been served. They'll be the heroes. -- nm - JaxSean Apr 27, 06:26 4
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        ooh, no. Nicey. - JaxSean Apr 27, 06:35 2
        
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        Yep, and I think it's a 13 or 14 gallon tank. - JaxSean Apr 27, 06:38
    - and obviously the fact that he took so long to produce it means it's suspect... -- nm - Habitual Truth Deniers Apr 27, 06:14 1
      - and its not white paper. -- nm - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:21
An Atheist Army Chaplain? -- (link) - znufrii Apr 27, 06:06 4
- I don't see the conflict. Chaplains are there to help soldiers deal with things through the lens of the soldier's belief system. Atheists need - TWuG Apr 27, 06:25
- You can't have it both ways, atheists. You're either a religion or you're not. -- nm - nubby Apr 27, 06:20 2
  - I guess that's the question at the heart of things, does the definition of religion require a belief in a god? -- nm - znufrii Apr 27, 06:29
  - You've certainly got me, using this person that I've never heard of and who doesn't speak for me. -- nm - Reagen Apr 27, 06:27
(also, I don't love the new beasties.) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:52
It's like xkcd is listening to our conversation. Nail, head, hit -- (link) - oblique Apr 27, 05:49
today is SRDP day. what goals/metrics do I plan to accomplish this year? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:45 5
- Sleep with at least 50 different guys/gals?? -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 05:49 4
  - no no. this coming year. not *last* year. -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:52 3
    - Oh, missed that. :) How about: purchase at least 30 new pairs of boots? -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 05:56 2
      - three this weekend!! (way on sale. for next year. I *swear.*)(I totally bought the taylor momsen boots I linked.) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:57 1
        
        those were cute as pie -- nm - Epiphany Apr 27, 06:32
yo, where is tru? tru, I just finally clicked - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:31 5
- heh. yeah the green bedroom has to go, and the wallpaper in the other bedroom too. - tRuMAN Apr 27, 05:44 4
  - did you use your agent? -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:45 3
    - yes/no. her boss at the realty group - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:02 2
      - I don't know how I feel about that. my primary concern is that everyone in the middle knows just how high and just how low the other party is willing - amanda jones Apr 27, 06:07 1
        
        yeah I know, but I also think that sometimes that information is shared - tRuMAN Apr 27, 06:09
Afghan military officer kills 8 NATO troops, 1 contractor after dispute at Kabul airport -- (link) - Beaker Apr 27, 05:23
We have a new leader in the useless sports stats category -- the Series hit streak - Will Hunting Apr 27, 05:16
Gene Wojciechowski of espn.com breaksdown Roger Goodell's Op-Ed piece in the WSJ (and by breaksdown I mean destroys) -- (link) - Beaker Apr 27, 05:07
I love that stuff from the Atlas Shrugged producer. - Mel Profit Apr 27, 05:07 4
- I'm trusting that someone somewhere headlined this as Audience Shrugs -- nm - TWuG Apr 27, 05:57
- What was shocking to me was learning that - prayformojo Apr 27, 05:08 2
  - Yeah, I think they kind of downplayed that -- they wanted people to go in expecting the whole story. Poor saps. -- nm - mara Apr 27, 05:19
  - also - prayformojo Apr 27, 05:09
Lego Royal Wedding -- (link) - Beaker Apr 27, 04:53
Lawsuit to legalize assisted suicide filed in Canada -- (link) - Beaker Apr 27, 04:51
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- blech on both. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 04:56
- I just don't get it. Why would you take a general and put him in charge of spooks when you're looking for a guy to lead generals? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 27, 04:52 11
  - because he's a better manager, and that's what the spooks need. - znufrii Apr 27, 05:53
  - this happens in every industry. in education, it's particularly common and damaging. we have academics running finance offices, for instance. - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:26
  - SecDef needs to many other things beyond that. - Mel Profit Apr 27, 05:04 8
    - The Patreus pick is exactly what I'm asking about...why take a highly regarded General and put him in charge of spooks when the job you're hiring for - Will Hunting Apr 27, 05:11 7
      - It's extremely rare for a military man to be SecDef. I think they go to great lengths to put a civvie there to maintain the whole "civilian control of the military" thing. -- nm - Ender Apr 27, 06:37 1
        
        (And it's fairly common to have a military man at CIA, their list of Directors is littered with Admirals.) -- nm - Ender Apr 27, 06:39
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      - Spitballing, but maybe the CIA isn't producing the right type of intelligence to help in wars like Afghanistan - Roger More Apr 27, 05:20 2
        
        If that's the case, I fire Panetta, and find someone Patreaus can work with as the new CIA guy - Will Hunting Apr 27, 05:26 1
        
        I guess it depends on what Obama's plans for the Pentagon are, and whether they match Petraeus' -- nm - Roger More Apr 27, 05:30
Happy Administrative Assistants Day! -- nm - Beaker Apr 27, 04:49 1
- isn't it "administrative professionals day"? (yesterday we got free pretzels. do we get free admins today??) -- nm - amanda jones Apr 27, 05:43
Ron Paul 2012 -- (link) - nubby Apr 27, 04:42
Who Is That Hot Ad Girl? -- (link) - prayformojo Apr 27, 04:29
NHL TV PSA: Habs/Bruins Game 7 ; Penguins/Lightning Game 7. -- nm - Beaker Apr 27, 04:23 3
- And Survivor and Justfied. Man, have I got stuff to watch tonight. -- nm - bc/nc Apr 27, 04:39
- Go Boston!, Go Lightning! -- nm - J Apr 27, 04:31 1
  - Go Opposites! -- nm - Beaker Apr 27, 04:48
Wake up -- nm - prayformojo Apr 27, 04:17 5
- Too late. -- nm - Don Homer Apr 27, 04:19 4
  - Kite festival on the beach! - prayformojo Apr 27, 04:21 3
    - When is this? Has it already happened? - kelly Apr 27, 06:21
    - And from two years ago... -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 27, 04:44 [flickr]
    - Yes, that's right. Thanks! Here are pics from last year... -- (link) - Don Homer Apr 27, 04:43 [flickr]
So we were doin' paramedical work in affiliation with the state highway system. Not actual practice, you understand. -- nm - moles Apr 26, 23:04 4
- No, not that mother scratcher! Bill Parker! nm - ralph wiggum Apr 26, 23:08 2
  - )Raising Arizona is probably the movie I've seen more times than any other and 'mother scratcher' still really makes me laugh.) nm - ralph wiggum Apr 26, 23:14 1
    - it's one of the things i admire about the Coen's writing the most - moles Apr 26, 23:18
- ?? Talking in your sleep again? -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Apr 26, 23:07

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