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Our primary process is so goofy. Oregon is only by mail?!? -- nm - Volnelk May 17, 20:01 2
- Not really "only," but yes. All ballots are distributed by mail about 2 weeks ahead of election day -- primary, general, or special election. - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 20:03 1
  - WA also -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 20:24
Five minutes to poll closure. Run run run -- nm - Bacon May 17, 19:54
WB: had a feeling this was coming...'Batman v Superman' Fallout: Warner Bros. Shakes Up Executive Roles...Geoff Johns to co run DC Films... -- (link) - Remlik May 17, 19:46 10
- They screwed this from the beginning, and there's really no way they can fix it. -- nm - MDH May 17, 19:51 4
  - yeah there is. plenty of time. -- nm - Remlik May 17, 19:53 3
    - I just don't think the superhero thing lasts more than a few more years. Marvel started building in 2008 - MDH May 17, 19:55 2
      - clearly they don't have the time like Marvel did. They have to do it this year and next.... - Remlik May 17, 20:03
      - the heads of DC need to rent a ballroom at Comiccon and do an all day press conference/apology -- nm - Peglegpete May 17, 19:58
- ... - David May 17, 19:49 2
  - I'm wondering if this isn't the first step for Johns to bring Bertalanti to the movie side, since he's gonna do the Booster Gold movie... - Remlik May 17, 19:52 1
    - That's a lateral move since neither Johns or Berlanti has shown anything as a film producer. - David May 17, 19:59
- shuffle those deck chairs -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:49 1
  - Right off the side of the ship. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:55
I just noticed the dude the Raptors drafted who "two years away from being two years away" had a PER of -7.7 this season. - David May 17, 19:45 2
- Who was this kid? -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 20:10
- no where to go but up! -- nm - Reagen May 17, 20:00
AP says it's to close to call it for KY tonight..... -- (link) - Remlik May 17, 19:42 2
- Kentucky SOS: Hillary Clinton appears to be winner -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:44 1
  - in fairness, she is HRC's biggest Ky. supporter -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:45
chomp. -- nm - b. May 17, 19:42
today's aggravation with my students - Reagen May 17, 19:36 6
- that makes me think of this -- (link) - prayformojo May 17, 19:44 [youtube]
- They were do busy searching for the penis gallery -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:37 4
  - not these ones, though I suppose anything's possible -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:37 3
    - can they read? maybe they were high - mud May 17, 19:38 2
      - that is definitely a possibility with the bunch I'm talking about. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:41 1
        
        Its the world of Steve Jobs, everything is available at the push of the button, and just *one* button cause you don't want to confuse anybody -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 19:43
that reminds me, I passed by the new apple building area last night on a side that is pretty open. I knew it's big; but, man, it's BIG. -- nm - b. May 17, 19:30 5
- and that reminded me of other general area news - the san jose paper has had a number of stories this week about tesla, unfortunately not so positive. - b. May 17, 19:39 3
  - that parallels what drumpf did with the polish subcontractors on his NY building -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 20:24
  - this includes some of tesla's response yesterday. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 17, 19:40 1
    - actually this one from today is better. nm but: -- (link) - b. May 17, 19:43
- How BIG is it? -- nm - Canned Response May 17, 19:34
I caught the side effects in a commercial for Opdivo without hearing what it was used to treat. - Spawn May 17, 19:22 2
- if they get one person in the study who reports anything, they have to include it. - Reagen May 17, 19:34
- Yeah, for that list...it betterbesomething that serious. -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 19:31
Let's talk flowers. What's your favorite type of flower? Favorite color of flower? -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:19 27
- Sunflowers. -- nm - kelly May 17, 19:41
- Daisy -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:39 4
  - how You doin'? -- nm - skye May 17, 19:40 3
    - I may or may not be watching right now. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:42 2
      - see the Remlik B2 funny? -- nm - mud May 17, 19:43 1
        
        About him fearing the new-fangled Coke machines? -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:43
- Irises. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 17, 19:33
- Purple Pansy. - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 19:31 5
  - I was expecting you to be a hero of the French Revelution -- (link) - Peglegpete May 17, 19:41
  - I love you, you love me, we're a happy family. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:35 3
    - The first person to make a pansy joke is gonna get ... something ... . -- nm - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 19:40 2
      - pansy is a rather hardy flower, I mean it can survive winters around here -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 19:45 1
        
        I knew there was a reason why I liked you. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 19:59
- begonia, yellow but most are cool tulips (I don't care for dafodils, don't know why) roses, fushias in hanging bskets -- nm - zeitgeist May 17, 19:30
- Currently? Morticia the Corpse Flower! -- (link) - Qale May 17, 19:30
- bird of paradise...vibrant -- nm - Peglegpete May 17, 19:28
- all i know is that when i went to post "black eyed susans" in response to this, i got swirling bats... - x May 17, 19:23 8
  - The shortcut key to activate bats is "b"; it just means you typed the letter without selecting the subject box first -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 19:25 7
    - bats -- nm - Peglegpete May 17, 19:29
    - you shouldn't do this to people who grew up in the seventies!...nm - x May 17, 19:28 1
      - "We can't stop here - this is bat country!" -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 21:48
    - or the ether kicked in -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:25 1
      - Or both -- nm - Beryllium May 17, 19:27
    - what happens it I press c? -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:25 1
      - Swirling .... - Beryllium May 17, 19:27
- Gazania -- nm - Dano May 17, 19:23
- Ramona. Whatever color her hair is on a given day. -- nm - David May 17, 19:21
Interesting (?) factoid. With the Kentucky win, Hillary is 11/11 in closed primary (insert 'voter fraud!' scream here). Oregon is closed. - ty97 May 17, 19:17
CNN had to turn off the Bernie feed since the shirt said "F*ck Politics Vote Bernie" -- nm - MDH May 17, 19:17 1
- Bernie Sanders. Member of Congress for three decades. The ultimate outsider. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:18
The crazy Bernie guy on my FB. "we did it. This is a catastrophic result for the Hillary campaign. Drop out hillary" -- nm - MDH May 17, 19:11 7
- ... did what? -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:13 5
  - Bernie lost. But only by a little so he's *does math* exactly as far behind as he was in delegates this morning. - ty97 May 17, 19:15 4
    - Minus the Bernie delegate that flipped today. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:16 2
      - I think the fact from today I found most interesting: If there were no superdelegates, Clinton would have already clinched. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:22 1
        
        See!?! It is all falling into place! -- nm - Crazy FB Bernie Guy May 17, 19:43
    - "virtual tie" -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:16
- certifiable -- nm - ty97 May 17, 19:12
51 minutes. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 19:09 3
- Did you say they were extending an hour? - ty97 May 17, 19:12 2
  - The tyNewsNetwork political coverage is really slacking lately, so I'm anchoring the late night desk. -- nm - ReluctantCynic (Team Cap) May 17, 19:19 1
    - tyNN has been placed into in-patient mental rehab following the Donald Trump's presumed candidacy - ty97 May 17, 19:24
in hindsight, it's cute that Rand Paul thought that he would even be competitive enough tonight to make the Ky. GOP cancel their primary for a caucus -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:02
Oh no, an e-mail from Discover that they're sending me a chip card. - Tim May 17, 18:59 2
- Weird. I have had mine for almost a year. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 19:08
- Ball-less woman or Ball-less man. The Iron will decide. -- nm - budice May 17, 19:01
Benchmark Politics turning now to analyzing the Westeros polls -- (link) - senor dentista May 17, 18:56
the Others just don't have it in them tonight -- nm - prayformojo May 17, 18:56 1
- being non-corporeal is really hurting them. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:02
Got in the Nice Guys theater with a tablet and phone, i should record it. -- nm - budice May 17, 18:56 4
- I could Periscope this. -- nm - budice May 17, 19:02 2
  - don't be that guy. Shane Black is a cool dude -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:03 1
    - and might kill you personally. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 19:03
- ST let's setup a Paypal account to start a collection for his bail money. -- nm - Bacon May 17, 19:01
IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE! GET OFF THE DAMN PLANE. - iSpam May 17, 18:55
Latte art is no longer monochrome -- (link) - zork May 17, 18:53
i had to stay up late to watch the end of the west conference finals last night, but tonight i get to go to bed early..nm - x May 17, 18:50 3
- and when you wake in the morning you'll see the error of your ways as the Raptors mounted a massive comeback to take game 1 -- nm - J May 17, 19:02 2
  - still awake. still waiting...nm - x May 17, 19:13 1
    - Ya...me too - J May 17, 19:15
FWIW, AP refuses to call KY for either candidate. -- (link) - ML May 17, 18:45 1
- Clinton +1813 votes with 8 precincts left to report. -- nm* - znufrii May 17, 18:55
20 strikeouts in the Scherzer game! - Tim May 17, 18:40 4
- Meanwhile... -- (link) - David May 17, 18:43 3
  - Do they still have your number? -- nm - Tim May 17, 18:44 2
    - If I bought the Braves, I'd fire everyone in the front office, starting with Schuerholz. - David May 17, 18:47 1
      - That IM is just ugh. -- nm - iSpam May 17, 18:58
I keep hearing survey "monkey poll" rather than 'survey monkey' poll. May not be wrong for this election? -- nm - Meg May 17, 18:38
I gave The Witch a B+ish too but think I'll really like it if I see it again. It's so full of dread and self loathing. -- nm - Mel Profit May 17, 18:37 8
- My big grip is (spoilers) - amoxy May 17, 19:27
- The way he maintained the tone throughout was really good - prayformojo May 17, 18:40 6
  - Bah -- nm - Black Phillip May 17, 19:04
  - Did you buy this? -- nm - David May 17, 18:49 2
    - yep -- nm - prayformojo May 17, 18:50 1
      - Thanks! Kim had asked me to get it. -- nm - David May 17, 18:52
  - agreed. it's a slow burn of really uncomfortable and moody -- nm - Mel Profit May 17, 18:45
  - the goat makes it..nm - x May 17, 18:45
There was a post on FB in one of the bigger pro-Bernie groups (Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash) that suggested he should be Hillary's VP. - Tim May 17, 18:35 10
- all I know is that both conventions this year will be mayhem and I adore it -- (edited) - ML May 17, 18:36 8
  - SMoD, take us home -- nm - iSpam May 17, 18:52 2
    - "Looking for a real "outsider" to blow it all up? Say hello to 9.2 quadrillion tons of Oort Cloudian iron & nickel." -- (edited) - ML May 17, 18:53 1
      - He's busy. -- nm - iSpam May 17, 18:54
  - I used to think this about Cleveland. Not anymore. The Repubs will have been lying there thinking of England for too long to put up a fight.. -- nm - Diva May 17, 18:47
  - I am rooting for someone to win (yeah yeah) that I don't even like. -- nm - Bacon May 17, 18:40
  - *buys stock in popcorn factories* -- nm - Tim May 17, 18:38
  - Philly will be Obamastock for the Dems. A four-night victory lap -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 18:37 1
    - right, you heard him, mayhem! -- nm - znufrii May 17, 18:39
- *smh* -- nm - znufrii May 17, 18:36
That was a terrific movie - prayformojo May 17, 18:34
Megyn Kelly waves the white flag to Donaldo -- (link) - senor dentista May 17, 18:29 2
- If a survey asked her to rate How much do you want to be the most beloved and respected journalist in media? she'd mark 11 - Max May 17, 18:50 1
  - all of the Fox heads take their marching orders from Murdoch, and he's decided to give up on fighting against Trump -- (link) - senor dentista May 17, 18:55
Big Hill big winnah in the KY -- (link*) - budice May 17, 18:24 24
- Almost 30,000 votes for 'Other'. Who else is on the ballot there? -- nm - GregW May 17, 18:37 7
  - Martin O'Malley and Rocky de la Fuente account for 7,000 of those, no idea who the other votes are going to. - znufrii May 17, 18:38 3
    - "anybody but these jackasses" took a cool 5%, looks like -- nm - ML May 17, 18:57 2
      - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- nm - znufrii May 17, 18:59 1
        
        he's so disgusted by the whole process that he can't stop posting about it -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 19:04
  - Ky. allows you to vote "Uncommitted" -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 18:38 2
    - Found it. Over 24,000 Uncommitted. -- (link) - GregW May 17, 18:41 1
      - the ML vote -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 18:58
- Louisville flipped it in the end. -- nm - Volnelk May 17, 18:26
- "big" winner...notsomuch. :) -- nm - znufrii May 17, 18:26 14
  - Oh it's big. He needs to get the message that it's over. A win for her is a loss for him. -- nm - Bacon May 17, 18:28 10
    - losing by around 1K votes out of > 450K votes cast isn't going to send that message -- nm - ML May 17, 18:30 8
      - When you are behind in delegates you can't lose anywhere. A loss is another nail in the coffin. -- nm - Bacon May 17, 18:36 2
        
        Let me be clear: Bernie has already lost. He knows that. He's only getting out if the electorate turns against him, and that isn't happening. -- nm - ML May 17, 18:38 1
        
        gotta keep getting those sweet, sweet donations averaging $27 each. -- nm - Tim May 17, 18:39
      - Currently showing over 4000 vote lead. Currently. -- nm - Diva May 17, 18:32 3
        
        I'm going by the link on B2 that has 99.7% in and a 1K-ish lead - ML May 17, 18:35 2
        
        I was going by NBCNews.com's running tally. (At time of post) -- nm* - Diva May 17, 18:48 1
        
        Dunno. I only see 99.9% in on B2 with a 1200 vote margin -- nm - ML May 17, 18:50
      - after she got crushed in a similar coal-country state, even winning by a single vote is great -- nm - senor dentista May 17, 18:31
    - eh, hasn't stopped him so far from pretending otherwise. -- nm - znufrii May 17, 18:30
  - In that Bernie can't keep saying he's winning all the states. -- nm - Volnelk May 17, 18:27 2
    - Oh look, she won another state that won't go blue in the fall. - Tim May 17, 18:31
    - That hasn't been a compelling argument for anyone who actually understands the process. - znufrii May 17, 18:30

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