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Halep/Kerber was a phenomenal match until (oddly) the final tiebreaker. - David Jul 5, 09:08
So, we will have Trump complaining the system is rigged for the remainder of the day, and then tweet out his next racist comment -- nm - amoxy Jul 5, 09:03
TIL: I can drive my Honda Accord through a foot-plus of standing water without breaking it. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 5, 08:56 15
- Turn around, don't drown. - spamlet Jul 5, 09:07
- and you thought that was a good idea? -- nm - decline Jul 5, 08:59 7
  - It wasn't very far that it was that deep. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 5, 09:01 6
    - Six inches of water will reach the bottom of most passenger cars causing loss of control and possible stalling. A foot of water will float many cars -- (link) - decline Jul 5, 09:02 5
      - Maybe it wasn't as deep as all that, then. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 5, 09:07 4
        
        Given the annual stories about cars being washed away during flash floods and people drowning trying to cross rivers, "maybe" is never good thinking. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 09:09 2
        
        If it were moving at all, or an unfamiliar road, no question I would not have risked it. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 5, 09:10 1
        
        dammit, man, you're a dad, and even if you weren't, this would be stupid behavior. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 09:11
        
        I don't think a man would ever enlarge something while discussing it would they? -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 09:08
- - Bad Idea Jeans -- nm - Max Jul 5, 08:57
- They're such great cars. - David Jul 5, 08:56 2
  - Is this going to be like with the TiVos? -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 5, 09:04 1
    - Our order of car purchases goes... - David Jul 5, 09:07
- So you think. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 5, 08:56 1
  - If it had been sitting in it, I would have been more concerned. -- nm - znufrii, dad. Jul 5, 08:59
All of this is merely obscuring the fact that LMM and JLo are working on a song together. -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 08:51 8
- I think LMM has a dart board of famous people and throws something at it on occasion and just decides to work with that particular person. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 5, 08:59
- Nick Jonas to star opposite Diva in the next run of Hamilton -- nm - budice Jul 5, 08:57
- WAIT WHAT!? -- nm - MDH Jul 5, 08:56 2
  - And with one post, Diva kills MDH deader than even Meg could. -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:59
  - I was thinking to myself where is MDH during all this goodness? -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 08:58
- Well, every golden streak needs to end at some point. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 5, 08:52 2
  - all the proceeds will go to the victims and families of the Orlando Pulse shooting. -- (link) - Diva Jul 5, 08:56 1
    - Now you made me sad for making a joke. -- nm - Will Hunting Jul 5, 08:57
ST Quiz - the role of Sid Vicious in the film Sid & Nancy came down to a choice of 2 actors. Gary Oldman and who? -- nm - LMS Jul 5, 08:49 4
- Ray Winstone -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 08:56
- Maybe Daniel Day-Lewis? -- nm - Roger More Jul 5, 08:53 1
  - Correct! Was listening to Kathy Burke on the Adam Buxton podcast telling a story about Gary. -- nm - LMS Jul 5, 08:56
- billy Idol? -- nm - mud Jul 5, 08:49
2016 y'all -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:44 1
- Facebook activity introduced into evidence is also common. -- nm - budice Jul 5, 08:46
The 14 Most Insane Things Happening Right Now (7/5) -- (link) - Beaker Jul 5, 08:38
YDC: Ya'll, the Bernie board is furious over this. They are about to reach peak insanity. -- nm - MDH Jul 5, 08:35 11
- I'm sick and tired that we're still hearing about the emails too! -- nm - Max Jul 5, 08:57
- honestly, i can understand why. -- nm - Andie Jul 5, 08:46
- This was their Little Bighorn, and much like the shocked skewed polls GOP folks of 2012, many really believed an indictment was coming. -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:37
- They're mad about Nick Jonas too? Yeah, i get it. -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 08:36 7
  - I am shocked regarding his vocal quality. I was blown away by Demi and I think Little Big Town is the ABBA version of Country/Western - Epiphany Jul 5, 08:54 6
    - exactly this. they even dressed like ABBA! -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 09:02 4
      - They were the kindest, loveliest people ever. They were so sweet and went out of their way to be kind and gracious to us. - Diva Jul 5, 09:07 3
        
        I love ABBA so my comparison is a high compliment! -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 09:07 2
        
        agreed -- nm - Epiphany Jul 5, 10:12
        
        me too! -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 09:11
    - :) -- nm - Diva Jul 5, 08:55
Here's the full text of Comey's statement -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:34 2
- Comey also thinks the Ferguson Effect is real, yo, so . . . - gerald Jul 5, 08:39
- I need these guys to help restore the family photos I accidentally deleted on my previous computer. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 08:39
10 million Android devices already infected by Chinese malware -- (link) - spamlet Jul 5, 08:33 1
- dammit Samaritan! -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 08:39
Text social media sites are a weird metric of "true" friendship. Back me up in the next 30 seconds if you're a true friend and agree! - Max Jul 5, 08:22 3
- I have seen only 3 of those. -- nm - Andie Jul 5, 08:25 1
  - I'm keeping pretty close to my goal of seeing all 2016 wide releases that are available on video to date. -- nm - Max Jul 5, 08:54
- This dude has no avatar so I'm going to support him. -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:23
Bottom line appears to be: no prosecution as expected, but near worst case scenario otherwise for Clinton with the way Comey just ripped her apart -- (edited) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:18 28
- The three biggest problems I have with the statement are 1) that he speculated on hacking rather than just saying they couldn't prove access either way -- (edited) - Max Jul 5, 08:51 2
  - My read (partisan for sure) is that there was no case to be prosecuted but he had personal desire to hit her anyway. - ty97 Jul 5, 08:54 1
    - Former Bushies gonna Bush -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 08:57
- Bottom line: no prosecution. Period -- nm - mud Jul 5, 08:42 3
  - But how about House Congressional Committee? Pretty please? -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:44 2
    - Impeach Comey comin -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 08:45
    - whose side are youse on, dude -- nm - mud Jul 5, 08:45
- The politics of it sickens me. -- nm - David Jul 5, 08:36
- I don't really care about what happened. I want to know if anyone is doing the same violations *now* - Max Jul 5, 08:23 1
  - Srsly, How does one run a private email server for business purposes? -- nm - budice Jul 5, 08:24
- Poor Bernie. -- nm - spamlet Jul 5, 08:22 1
  - H A Goodman is having a bad morning -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:22
- No. HRC gave Trump/GOP a lot of ad material. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 5, 08:20 15
  - The most interesting comment to me was his scathing indictment (pun intended) of lax security at State overall. -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 08:22 11
    - Yeah, if nothing else I hope this is a wakeup call to take this shit seriously. -- nm - spamlet Jul 5, 08:22 10
      - In a world with networked and cloud computers, 100% security is a fallacy. -- nm - David Jul 5, 08:56 1
        
        Yes, I agree but there are degrees of security you can take. He specifically mentioned disabled security features as part of the problem. -- nm - spamlet Jul 5, 08:59
      - Though TBF it seems like a lot of the focus is on "could the server have been hacked" - ty97 Jul 5, 08:33 5
        
        State was hacked last year, so maybe they're not. But State should have more resources to deal with those issues than a privately managed server. - Roger More Jul 5, 08:36 1
        
        (a privately managed server...where they turned *off* security features) -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 08:37
        
        I bet the servers are a lot more secure. Yes, they get attacked but that's why they have experts there watching them. - spamlet Jul 5, 08:35 2
        
        I doubt the level of security was any greater. The level of monitoring is probably vastly superior though. - decline Jul 5, 08:39 1
        
        Basically this was what I was trying to say. -- nm - spamlet Jul 5, 08:46
      - but this, like similar instances, is like hitting an elephant with a bb-gun - decline Jul 5, 08:33
      - (another one) -- nm - Roger More Jul 5, 08:31
  - you know, I'm not even gonna bother. -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:21 2
    - Yeah. Seems like a huge relief for Clinton, but opposition is going to be able to walk away with some talking points still, so it doesn't go away. - Volnelk Jul 5, 08:23 1
      - It was never going away. That fire would always remain. The way Comey delivered his presser just adds fuel. - ty97 Jul 5, 08:25
No indictment -- nm - Jovian Jul 5, 08:17
Director Comey: "We do have evidence Hillary Clinton's top secret server was hacked into by the St. Louis Cardinals." - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 08:17 1
- heh -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 08:23
Just got around to Preacher ep 6 last night. It got an audible gasp out of me. *spoils* (edited to correct episode number) -- (edited) - TorBaron Jul 5, 08:16 1
- agreed on both accounts. This show is delivering the goods -- nm - Epiphany Jul 5, 08:44
Sigh.....no more Blackberry for me....BlackBerry to phase out Classic model.... - Walt_Disney Jul 5, 08:10 3
- So you're the one guy -- nm - oblique Jul 5, 08:10 2
  - There are two in our company. At some point I'm assuming IT is going to force the issue. - spamlet Jul 5, 08:11 1
    - That's what we did. We basically refused to upgrade our server and it became an issue where it just had to be shut off and we made people switch -- nm - oblique Jul 5, 08:12
Um. Jim. Cell is available on Vudu -- (link) - oblique Jul 5, 08:05 1
- I watched. I paid $ 10. I was disappointed. John Cusak has gone full Nic Cage on us. SLJ was a muted version of himself -- nm - Epiphany Jul 5, 08:45
Comey speaking, and it'd definitely about Clinton (not a shock there) -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:04 13
- Comey is VERY careful to note that he has told no one else in government about what he is going to say. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:05 12
  - Comey says investigators read ALL of the approximately 30,000 emails on Clinton's server. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:06 11
    - Comey says 110 emails in 52 chains had classified info at the time Clinton sent them -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:07 10
      - ^^^^This may be the #1 talking point coming out of this. -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:11 1
        
        actually marked classified or top secret? -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 08:37
      - Comey: FBI found work-related emails that were not part of 30,000 emails Clinton turned over to State Dept -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:08 7
        
        And probably #2 ^^^^^ -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 08:12
        
        FBI found no intentional deletion with intent to conceal them. "Like many email users," Clinton deleted emails as a routine matter. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:09 5
        
        "There was no archiving at all of her emails," says FBI's Comey. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:09 4
        
        No intentional misconduct in effort to sort Clinton's work vs personal email, per Comey. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:11 3
        
        No clear evidence Clinton or colleagues intentionally broke secrecy laws, but evidence of them being "extremely careless." -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:12 2
        
        Comey says "none of the emails should have been on any unclassified system." -- (link*) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:13 1
        
        Comey: although there is "evidence of potential violations," no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:16
Tom Brady won't be speaking at RNC -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 08:02 1
- Judas! -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 08:02
My heartfelt thanks to everyone who watched and/or recorded the show this weekend, supported and cheered me on and made me laugh here and on FB. -- (edited) - Diva Jul 5, 08:01 13
- \m/ -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 5, 08:41
- Seeing you perform live is high on my bucket list!! -- nm - Meg Jul 5, 08:33
- You're awesome and it's an absolute pleasure to know you and see all the awesome things you do. *edited to remove real names -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 5, 08:23
- Sorry for tweetstorming Clinton all over the top of your celebration thread. SO thrilled for you! - ty97 Jul 5, 08:21
- it was great (even though I hate Jonas) -- nm - Beaker Jul 5, 08:16
- So awesome and happy. -- nm - budice Jul 5, 08:15
- I couldn't be happier for you. We recorded it but I made my wife watch all the clips last night. - spamlet Jul 5, 08:14 1
  - I did this too - had company but sat in bed and watched all clips. Very good stuff. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 5, 08:46
- so what *really* happened backstage with Nick Jonas? - mafic Jul 5, 08:09 2
  - i'm keeping my eyes on the Blind Items in the next little while. -- nm - Andie Jul 5, 08:11 1
    - ikr? hee. -- nm - budice Jul 5, 08:13
- I wan't able to watch live, but caught the clips from here. So proud of our Diva!! -- nm - decline Jul 5, 08:05
- I have it on the Tivo. Sorry we missed it. Wifey crashed super early last night and the boy wanted to watch Two Towers - oblique Jul 5, 08:03
Re: B2 Next ticket is for Ladyhawke tomorrow - JD Jul 5, 07:58
"If I had to stop everything to comment on every ridiculous tweet sent out by this campaign, I wouldn’t have time to do anything," -- (link) - Paul Ryan, Profile in Courage Jul 5, 07:58
Do we really need the Moon? -- (link) - LMS Jul 5, 07:54 6
- Tides come in, tides go out. Can't explain that. -- nm - Bill O'Reilly Jul 5, 08:07
- If we'd like a stable planetary orbit: yes. - Mel Profit Jul 5, 07:57 3
  - you've clearly been bought by Big Tide -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 08:00
  - "M-O-O-N, that spells massive global extinction-level event." -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Jul 5, 08:00 1
    - SMoD: *perks up* -- nm - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 08:00
- Haha! Yes. -- nm - Krusty Jul 5, 07:55
We watched the Brain Dead pilot yesterday. Still digging the Cars joke. - spamlet Jul 5, 07:51 4
- It ends up being kinda like "Time is on my side" creeping me out since Fallen -- nm - oblique Jul 5, 07:54
- do I like it? -- nm - unbreakable mandy jones Jul 5, 07:53 2
  - If nothing else, check out the pilot for the joke I mentioned. It's just 45 minutes. -- nm - spamlet Jul 5, 08:00
  - As dano said, it's... different. - spamlet Jul 5, 07:54
Krusty reB2 and outdated laws. AFAIK, it is still illegal (by statute, not enforced) to carry wire cutters in your pocket in Austin. - ty97 Jul 5, 07:51
Gangs and Politicians in Chicago: An Unholy Alliance -- (link) - ÜMLaut Jul 5, 07:49 1
- Thanks, there are some harsh realities in that article. -- nm - Roger More Jul 5, 08:24
The Struggle to Vote in Kansas -- (link) - ty97 Jul 5, 07:48 8
- I'm sure the voters in Kansas care deeply what the NY Times editorial board thinks about this. -- nm - TorBaron Jul 5, 08:00
- There have been 3 instances of voter fraud in Kansas from 1995 to 2013 - amoxy Jul 5, 07:53 1
  - of course. Brownback is trying to save his own ass -- nm - ty97 Jul 5, 07:53
- not to be confused with the Struggle to Keep the Lights On in Kansas -- nm - gerald Jul 5, 07:50
- I never had a passport until 4 years ago. eesh -- nm - Bacon Jul 5, 07:48 3
  - Birth certificate would suffice instead of passport - ty97 Jul 5, 07:50 2
    - I had to get a birth certificate to get my passport. Think it cost me $25 for the BC -- nm - Bacon Jul 5, 07:52 1
      - $25 is a lot of money for some people to scrape together but, worse, what if they were born at home - ty97 Jul 5, 07:53

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