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friday pizza party for lunch - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:39 2
- nummy nummy -- nm - JenBro Jan 29, 12:42
- You get what you pay for. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:40
Would detachable passenger cabins on airplanes be a good idea? - budice Jan 29, 12:33 3
- I'm sure I closed all the latches, let's go -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 29, 14:04
- *cues up the first 5 minutes of Pitch Black* -- nm - ML Jan 29, 12:36
- is spawn in the part that's detaching? - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:35
Marketwatch has listed the 10 items you should not buy in 2016. What do you see as the things you should hold off on buying this year? -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:28 24
- The rest are a bit unusual, so this is the link to the single-page list. -- (link) - GregW Jan 29, 12:39 2
  - I would think 4-6 would be never buy items, not just this year. -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:41 1
    - yah, some of those are really dumb. don't buy bourbon because there are some bad ones out there or you may like rye better? dumb. -- nm - b. Jan 29, 12:43
- hyperloop. -- nm - spawn s.i. #845x Jan 29, 12:39
- TV's -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 12:38
- Coal -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:37
- Slaves. -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 12:37
- Oil futures. -- nm - pmb Jan 29, 12:36
- Apple Watch, VR headsets, all-electric cars -- nm - ML Jan 29, 12:32 1
  - #2 - Apple Watch, #3 VR Headsets. Nope. -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:34
- House -- nm - con_carne Jan 29, 12:32
- cocaine -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:31
- hoverboards -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:30
- hoverboard -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 12:30 6
  - #1 -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:33
  - Fine. Apple. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:32 4
    - Need to be more specific. Two Apple products are listed. -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:36 3
      - Since watch is above I will also say ipad. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:37 1
        
        #9 - iPad Pro -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:38
      - he was talking about the fruit -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:36
- fitbit? -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:29 3
  - #8 - fitness trackers -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:33 2
    - do they give reasons too? -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:33 1
      - Yes, I will post the link in a few minutes. -- nm - GregW Jan 29, 12:35
Midwest blizzard next week? -- (link) - decline Jan 29, 12:28 3
- all rain here. Not a surprise since I have a snowblower nowl -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 12:30
- there was a time when I would point and laugh at other region's pain in this regard. Not anymore. - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:30
- man I can't even DOOOOM at that -- nm - ML Jan 29, 12:29
Wow. Former (drunk) renter called to see if we have any openings so she can rent from us again. We do not. She called her former neighbor and told... - Spawn Jan 29, 12:26
*sigh* - znufrii Jan 29, 12:18 10
- I started doing my taxes last night and had to text 97 within the first 20 minutes because something looked screwy. - amanda jonas Jan 29, 12:26 3
  - I probably won't start for a bit. Still missing 2 1099s (I think) and it will be March before I get a state tax credit form I need. -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 12:32 1
    - I'll probably file on April 15th, it looks like I won't owe too much this year though -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:33
  - "What's the deduction for chubbers treats?" -- nm* - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:27
- But we should *totally* make them more complicated instead, amiright? -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 12:18 5
  - Spammy gotta eat! -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 12:27
  - Of course, It's my own fault for trying to be clever. -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 29, 12:20 3
    - One would think you would have learned by now. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:23 2
      - You'd think. -- nm - znufrii Jan 29, 12:24 1
        
        However -- (edited) - znufrii Jan 29, 12:32
also from b2, re: fsog - it wouldn't be the same characters. - b. Jan 29, 12:15
DFS players, you may want to get your money out sooner than later -- (link) - decline Jan 29, 12:13 2
- Word. -- nm - what Strongbad did 3 months ago Jan 29, 12:35 1
  - There are way too many similarties to this and Black Friday for the poker industry -- nm - Strongbad Jan 29, 12:36
Every movie Bill Clinton watched in the White House -- (link) - Beaker Jan 29, 12:13 12
- Coyote Ugly - September 10, 2000 -- nm - budice Jan 29, 12:18 4
  - Galaxy Quest - December 25, 1999 -- nm - budice Jan 29, 12:21 1
    - "I don't know, that looks pretty right to me..." -- nm - TWuG Jan 29, 12:23
  - September 11, 2000. September 12, 2000, September 13, 2000... -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 12:18
  - Fight Club - November 6, 1999 -- nm - budice Jan 29, 12:18
- I assume Trailer Trash Booty #6 isn't on the list. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:15 5
  - every movie* - ML Jan 29, 12:16 4
    - ** Live shows also excluded. -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 12:18 3
      - actual article quote: "But there are some curious gaps in the record." - ML Jan 29, 12:28 2
        
        "come..*static*..butt..*static*..baby..*stati c*..dad?" -- nm - budice Jan 29, 12:39
        
        "all of the 10-30min variety" i.e. Porn Duration. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:36
- Dave - April 23, 1993 -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:14
Retreating Clinton Campaign Torches Iowa Town To Slow Advance Of Sanders Volunteers -- (link) - ty97 Jan 29, 12:13 1
- Better call General Luck -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 12:14
One of our 3 jail escapees just turned himself in. -- (link) - Meg Jan 29, 12:11 1
- Hannibal? -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:12
The NFL says reported concussions rose 58 per cent in regular-season games to the highest number in any of the past four years. -- (link) - Beaker Jan 29, 12:10 1
- And just think how much higher that would have been if we didn't suspend egregious violations like Vontaze Burfict -- nm - Roger Goodell Jan 29, 12:11
NYT: Payment Processor to Stop Working With Daily Fantasy Sports Clients -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 12:10 2
- damn you! -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:14 1
  - You were too busy quoting Poe. -- nm - spamlet Jan 29, 12:17
Dinger positive -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 12:09
Hilary Duff discusses what her relationship with ex-husband Mike Comrie is like these days -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 12:06 5
- Big, if true. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:14
- One of the Best Engagements.... -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 12:11
- she's like Bizarro Miley Cyrus (turned out well-adjusted) -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 12:08 1
  - Thanks for the parenthesis. Thought you would have meant good looking -- nm* - con_carne Jan 29, 12:09
- *blank stare* -- nm - groiny Jan 29, 12:07
Business: Xerox on life support -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 12:00 5
- makin' copies... -- nm - Beaker Jan 29, 12:07
- is that related to their split into two? nm but: -- (link) - b. Jan 29, 12:04 2
  - Interesting. I imagine the two halves will be much easier targets for take-over. - Mop Jan 29, 12:11 1
    - not really, given the control Icahn now has -- nm - decline Jan 29, 12:13
- Enlarge sales 150% -- nm - Max Jan 29, 12:01
from b2, reading the two other shorter stories below the first one re: too young to retire, I wonder if the writer purposely picked questionable - b. Jan 29, 11:59 2
- Although it does remind me how relatively well off I am. Can't imagine living on $1,200/mo Social Security. -- nm - Meg Jan 29, 12:17 1
  - oh yah, that's so hard to think of - definitely not likely in either of our areas, unless homes are owned; and even then, upkeep, etc. even - b. Jan 29, 12:21
Big Dog Food needs to stahp. - ML Jan 29, 11:51 6
- well, you don't want to feed them crap; but I hear ya - same for cats, esp. grain-free dry food. it's nutso, and it's gone higher and higher. -- nm - b. Jan 29, 12:03
- What would you classify as ridiculous? -- nm - Shaun Jan 29, 11:55 1
  - Something on Hillary's server. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:55
- why do you hate dogs, ML ? -- nm - decline Jan 29, 11:53
- Yeah -- nm - Ol Roy Jan 29, 11:52
- Scott? -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:52
BREAKING: State Department now looking into whether Clinton emails were classified when they were sent. -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 11:50 35
- this thread is such a precis of st politics. -- nm - b. Jan 29, 12:23
- Things are going to get interesting if she winds up indicted. -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 12:06 5
  - I have confidence that Comey will do the right thing, whatever that ends up being. - ML Jan 29, 12:15 3
    - Yeah, things also get interesting if Justice is seen as impeding things. -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 12:17 2
      - For a few reasons, I don't expect that would occur - ML Jan 29, 12:23
      - All of the applicable criminal statues are intent-based. At worst, she was merely negligent in handling the server and emails -- (edited) - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:22
  - she won't -- nm - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:07
- Trying to put partisanship aside (impossible, I know, but...), I really do not understand the free pass many are extending her on this issue. - Name Withheld by Request Jan 29, 12:02 15
  - I also add the 'boy who cried wolf' theory on top of the rest. The GOP has thrown so much shit at Clinton over the years - ty97 Jan 29, 12:24
  - It's not really a free pass, it's "I don't like this, but check out how bad the other options are." -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 12:15 2
    - Pretty much. "Put the stuff on a server where I control the security" versus "put the stuff on servers that suck and have iffy security." -- nm - TWuG Jan 29, 12:25 1
      - I meant "check out how bad her competition is in the Democratic primary, and then how bad her likely Republican opponent is going to be" - Roger More Jan 29, 12:41
  - "Spokesman John Kirby tells the AP that no judgment on past classification was made. But the department is looking into that, too." -- nm -- Spawn -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:11
  - On the one hand, it's an egregious violation of OpSec. On the other hand ... - Beryllium Jan 29, 12:07
  - what free pass? it is undisputed (to this point, and the investigation is still ongoing so things could always change) that none of the emails were - mr. plow Jan 29, 12:07
  - But you do realize that every Secretary of State prior to John Kerry used private email instead of the government servers. I don't see anyone combing - pmb Jan 29, 12:07 7
    - Though it would be a bigger thing if Rice had presidential ambitions. -- nm - Roger More Jan 29, 12:16 3
      - It would be the same political witch hunt. -- nm - pmb Jan 29, 12:24 2
        
        agreed. too big not to make something of this. -- nm - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:28 1
        
        Actually I was making the point that it is just a political witch hunt. And if Condoleeza Rice were running for president, going after this stuff - pmb Jan 29, 12:34
    - The Cheney administration pioneered the policy. They just didn't get hacked, that we know. - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:10 2
      - Because the Repubs are looking for anything they can. - nic to be determined Jan 29, 12:17
      - Because the GOP must produce some smoke. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:17
- All those follow-up tweets are from the first tweet of this thread. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:57
- AP has learned that 7 Clinton email chains are being withheld for containing 'top secret' material -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 11:54 1
  - (And these are just the ones she didn't unilaterally delete...) -- nm - Ender Jan 29, 12:18
- Sent from her or to her? -- nm - Max Jan 29, 11:53 5
  - might be easiest to inquire here -- (link) - ML Jan 29, 11:55 4
    - Just passing my mouse pointer over that link has put me on a watch list. -- nm - Mop Jan 29, 12:07
    - pff, Russia. Russian hackers probably go to seminars in China to learn how to hack. -- nm - Max Jan 29, 12:01 2
      - Russia has an immense work force relating to Programming. - Mel Profit Jan 29, 12:02 1
        
        I think a third of Russia's economy is based on hacking. :-) -- nm - TWuG Jan 29, 12:30
- Obama administration confirms for 1st time Clinton's unsecured home server contains some closely guarded secrets -- (link) - budice Jan 29, 11:51 2
  - Aliens. -- nm - Mop Jan 29, 11:58
  - "Spokesman John Kirby tells the AP that no judgment on past classification was made. But the department is looking into that, too." -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:54
i know this may be shocking but the NFL refuses to tell Broncos or Panthers fans how many SB tickets they actually had a real chance of purchasing -- (link) - mr. plow Jan 29, 11:49 1
- Man the NFL is so effed up these days. Remember the good ole days when the worst NFL story out there was TO doing driveway crunches? -- nm - Shaun Jan 29, 11:50
(12/22/14) -- down there -- nm* - mr. plow Jan 29, 11:47
~~Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— -- nm - decline Jan 29, 11:46
"Will there be an earthquake during the [Super Bowl]" is only 10:1? -- (link) - ML Jan 29, 11:46 1
- puts a fin on it -- nm - decline Jan 29, 11:48
what would you do if I sang out of tune.....noooooo, say it so joe....Joe Cocker died of F#$%!ng cancer -- (link) - zeitgeist Jan 29, 11:46 15
- IN 2014 -- nm - Andie Jan 29, 11:56
- ST Legends of Tomorrow! -- nm - groiny Jan 29, 11:48 1
  - Wherein we learn that Joe Cocker is actually Guy's son from a previous life. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:55
- well stand up and walk out of this first, worst I say *worst* ever, sorry, didn't see the post count -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 29, 11:47
- Check the date on the article -- nm - ty97 Jan 29, 11:47 6
  - f'n A man, a bunch of my local friends are posting this now...stupid facebook - zeitgeist Jan 29, 11:49 5
    - they do that to me all the time too -- nm - groiny Jan 29, 11:50 1
      - Evil delights in the stupidity of man. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:57
    - Seems Leslie Neilsen is also making the rounds again too -- (link) - ty97 Jan 29, 11:50 2
      - slow news day -- nm - decline Jan 29, 11:52
      - I thought he was Dead And Loving It -- nm - Beryllium Jan 29, 11:50
- I don't understand. Is this news? -- nm - Mop Jan 29, 11:47 3
  - 13 months ago it was. -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 11:51 2
    - Just wondering if it took this long to get autopsy results or something. -- nm - Mop Jan 29, 11:59 1
      - Well, 2016 is the Year of Music Cancer... -- nm - Spawn Jan 29, 12:05

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