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Sally Yates warned the White House about Michael Flynn's calls -- (link) - mud Feb 13, 18:16
The trump team is very much reminding me of that particular scene in Zoolander -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 13, 17:53
Ghost in the Shell or: What if Robocop was hot? -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 17:24 3
- I'll check it out on Netflix -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 18:18 1
  - Robocop? -- nm - mud Feb 13, 18:19
- who cares? his partner was hot :) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 13, 17:34
Dammit! It appears someone walked off with my favorite pen. - iSpam Feb 13, 17:06 5
- impervious to everything but water -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 17:14
- Can it write in outer space? -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 17:12
- We go now live to the scene: -- (link) - Reagen Feb 13, 17:12 [youtube] 2
  - I hate that not one of my coworkers ever knows what I'm talking about when I'm quoting this -- nm - dogbert Feb 13, 17:36
  - The perpetrator is on a spree! (nmblink) - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 17:13 [youtube]
Fire reported in one of the Disneyland parking structures. -- nm - Meg Feb 13, 17:06 5
- Not much detail yet. -- (link) - Meg Feb 13, 17:24 4
  - It's a new attraction. Cars in Hell -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 17:33 3
    - Based on Cars 3! -- nm - David, ST's Ultimate Lover Feb 13, 17:34 2
      - If Toy Story 3 had had the guts to go through with its natural ending... -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 17:37 1
        
        maybe the Pirates of the Caribean really DO eat the tourists when the ride breaks down -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 19:13
One thing I've grown to appreciate about The Young Pope is the layered subtle complexities in the episode titles -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 17:01 1
- also great: hearing James Cromwell call Jude Law "Lenny" -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 17:04
I'm just going to admit it: I like Riverdale. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 16:55 6
- It's OK - I don't think any less of you than I already did. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 16:56 3
  - There's that Canadian passive-aggressive jerkiness you were talking about! njm - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 16:58 2
    - I *just* channeled this at someone.... - Mel Profit Feb 13, 17:08
    - I felt it was only fair to demonstrate. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 16:59
- was the mean redheadchick in the comics? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 16:55 1
  - Not in my day, but I gather she was a character later. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 16:57
Mnuchin confirmed 53-47 -- nm - decline Feb 13, 16:40 3
- 100? Who got Sessions seat? -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 13, 16:47 2
  - Luther Strange. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 13, 16:49 1
    - He's come to bargain. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 16:55
I have a friend who basically predicted the North Korean thing. said "Within a month Trump will discuss classified information publicly, if not - mafic Feb 13, 16:25 5
- if he does that, is he declassifying it by his actions or is there a different way it has to be officially declassified? - Peglegpete Feb 13, 16:39 4
  - If it's intel gathered by another country, he could be seriously jeopardizing intelligence assets. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:40 3
    - which would then change how other countries decide to share info with us, or not. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 13, 16:43 2
      - Would? Is. -- nm - znufrii Feb 13, 16:47
      - Yep. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:46
Check out the Humble *FREEDOM* Bundle. -- (link) - Mop Feb 13, 16:21
Texturally, the pulled pork in the pasta sauce was kind of weird on the spaghetti. But man, that sauce was ymmmmmy -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 16:12 7
- Pappardelle. -- nm - jnine Feb 13, 18:33
- a mini lasagna might work. I use a pizza cutter when making fresh pasta. that wheel is a godsend when you have a 2' square of dough rolled out flat -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 13, 16:48
- Seems like a good thing on paper, but spaghetti might not be a good pasta choice for that sauce. I would have gone rigatoni mezzi -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 16:21 2
  - You're right.....we just haven't gotten that brave with the pasta maker yet -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 16:23 1
    - oh, making your own pasta too. look at you :) -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 16:24
- read this back to me. slow.ly. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:13 1
  - 50 Shades of Mel -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 16:16
RC: I wonder if that's the tweet that exposes Rogue White House Tweets as a hoax? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 15:59 23
- I put it at about a 0.001% that it's what it says it is. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 16:10 12
  - Ive been following it for weeks. Im at 50/50 -- nm - Jovian Feb 13, 16:59
  - I love how outraged Canada is about a made up quotes allegedly from your PM. - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:15 10
    - Canadian-level outrage or American-level? -- nm - Spawn Feb 13, 16:50
    - outraged is the wrong word - Reagen Feb 13, 16:20 8
      - Irked? -- nm - . Feb 13, 16:33 4
        
        miffed, perturbed, rankled... -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:36 3
        
        Ruffled. Bestirred. Vexed. nm - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 16:45 1
        
        Peeved. -- nm - znufrii Feb 13, 16:47
        
        Frankly - concerned. You know how much faith Trump puts in Twitter. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:39
      - I was teasing with the word choice. I do admire how you defend him essentially as "too nice to..." - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:23 1
        
        We can be jerks, we're generally just passive-aggressive about it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 16:54
      - Yeah, I started ignoring it several weeks ago for that reason. Then it intruded onto my timeline. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:21
- I've been casually paying attention to this since ST brought it up. what's going on? -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:05 8
  - The RoguePotusStaff twitter account is posting overheard remarks from Trudeau, but they sound too juicy to be true, at least to me. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:07 7
    - I give it single digit probability that this acct is real (but I'd love it to be). -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:11 2
      - As Jon Oliver taught us, we have the power to make them real! -- nm - Spawn Feb 13, 16:13 1
        
        well this one certainly is! -- (link) - mud Feb 13, 16:15
    - This really sounds exceedingly familiar to me. A movie quote, or a previous statement about Trump. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:11 3
      - I tried various permutations on Google but didn't get anything so far -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 16:21 1
        
        Thanks for for trying -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:25
      - Maybe mcconaughey said it ... hrm -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:19
- Four tweets. They sound too candid ... two of them sound like a movie quote. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:04
Further to my "Crosby/Nash" sweatshirt. If I were to donate it to the Hist. Soc. for our sale what kind of price would you suggest? -- nm - Meg Feb 13, 15:43 10
- One million dollars! -- nm - decline Feb 13, 15:57
- Not associated with a tour - just a random sweatshirt from a local bar. No authentication. -- (link) - Meg Feb 13, 15:56 [Backboard] 1
  - I'll bid 31.25 -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 16:25
- is there a photo? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 15:52
- $300 -- nm - mud Feb 13, 15:51 1
  - (serious suggestion) -- nm - mud Feb 13, 16:16
- it depends on which of the several tours they did together and the art. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 13, 15:46 3
  - And how much weed was smoked on said tour - eag Feb 13, 15:51 2
    - Meg will never tell. -- nm - Spawn Feb 13, 15:55 1
      - I meant by CSN not Meg - eag Feb 13, 16:18
Lol -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 13, 15:29 12
- Whore. - Diva Feb 13, 17:07 2
  - She grabs them by the dick! -- nm - Bacon Feb 13, 17:10
  - Hee! nm - ralph wiggum Feb 13, 17:08
- That Canadian Wall aint goin up anytime soon -- nm - budice Feb 13, 16:29 1
  - unless by wall you mean her Diaphragm -- nm - Beaker Feb 13, 17:39
- Is Jared at home? I hope so or *somebody* is getting a workout tonight. -- nm - spamlet Feb 13, 16:16 1
  - I thought he was on an odyssey to bring peace to the Middle East? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 13, 16:19
- there's total 'love bubbles' going on there. [nm] - Mel Profit Feb 13, 16:07
- Daaaaaaaaaaaamn. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 15:58
- Diva and Pippy gonna cut a bitch -- nm - ty97 Feb 13, 15:42
- She *so* wants to call him "Daddy". -- nm - Spawn Feb 13, 15:35
- She just registered to vote in several Canadian provinces as well. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 13, 15:34
From B2: We're not celebrating tomorrow, but are going out (kid-free! whoo!) on Friday night. Going to dinner at a (seemingly) nice place. -- nm - kelly Feb 13, 15:08 3
- I should do something really romantic, like take her to LEGO Batman -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 15:27 2
  - I'm taking Kelly to 50 Shades of crazy -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 13, 15:30 1
    - Eww. -- nm - kelly Feb 13, 15:55
I watched the first 90 minutes and the last 90 minutes of OJ: Made in America last night/this morning. Very well done -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 14:57 1
- Was the middle too awful to watch? -- nm - decline Feb 13, 14:58
Interesting in my circles. Meetup.com has created a thousand regional Meetup groups specifically for #Resist. -- (link) - Mop Feb 13, 14:40
Playboy is bringing nudes back to its magazines -- (link*) - decline Feb 13, 14:33 2
- Thanks, Trump! -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 14:46 1
  - He let out a tweet that seemed so Nixonian to me. I swear he is trying to bring back the seventies. Next thing you know ABBA will reunite -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 15:23
What do you do when a non-partisan study blows apart the central tenet of conservative economic theory? Why, suppress it of course! - decline Feb 13, 14:27 15
- There was also a recent study that showed that the increases in the top tax rates had not only no negative impact on the economy, it actually had no - pmb Feb 13, 15:37
- How well could they have suppressed it if it was reported about in the NYT? - spamlet Feb 13, 15:11 2
  - suppressed in that the CRS withdrew the report under political pressure. not that its existence was denied. -- nm* - Mel Profit Feb 13, 15:16
  - the failing NYT, next best thing to suppression -- nm - crash davis Feb 13, 15:12
- huh, I would have expected Forbes to suppress it too. -- nm - Max Feb 13, 15:02
- Facts and evidence have not stopped Republicans from advocating trickle down economics for years. -- nm - Mop Feb 13, 14:45 1
  - generations now. "trickle down economics" may be the first political phrase I remember. or maybe... - Mel Profit Feb 13, 14:52
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  - But Obama extended them, so they must be good... right? -- nm - Strongbad Feb 13, 14:55 5
    - Actually he increased the top rate. -- nm - pmb Feb 13, 15:34
    - Lol -- nm - znufrii Feb 13, 14:59
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      - Bush tax cuts are here to stay -- (link) - Strongbad Feb 13, 18:10
  - "But looking at how many yachts they buy will change everything!" -- nm - . Feb 13, 14:52
pray for us. heading outside to look for beer and storm chips -- nm - Beaker Feb 13, 14:18 10
- good.luck! -- nm - Diva Feb 13, 14:41
- What are storm chips? -- nm - JaxSean Feb 13, 14:24 4
  - when you have a big storm, you make sure you have potatoe chips for the storm. Storm Chips -- nm - Beaker Feb 13, 15:23 1
    - ...but that's not important right now. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 15:29
  - Indeed. Inquiring minds would like to know -- nm - JD Feb 13, 14:24 1
    - Have you ever heard of cow chips? - Spawn Feb 13, 14:30
- I think there's a stash on that liner iced in in the harbor. You know, the one with wolves on it. good luck -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 14:22
- "All they have is sour cream & Onion? Take me now, winter!!!" -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 14:21 1
  - *eggplant emoji* -- nm - Winter si Feb 13, 15:05
- Take a weapon to beat off the hordes of starving neighbors -- nm - decline Feb 13, 14:20
It was one of those days where I said, "screw it, I'm making a key lime pie." -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 14:15 5
- i'll wager you're making it with persian limes....nm - x Feb 13, 14:18 3
  - nellie's key lime juice. sorta fake -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 14:21 2
    - ah, at least it's actually juice from key limes. that's fine....nm - x Feb 13, 14:23 1
      - yeah, that's lime pie, heh. -- nm - CQ Feb 13, 14:32
- Man, Raymond Chandler really ran out of story lines at the end. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 14:17
that sounds kinda nutty.VVVVV -- nm* - Johnny Carson Feb 13, 14:14
Now cooking: homemade spaghetti with pulled pork pasta sauce -- nm - prayformojo Feb 13, 14:13 12
- I like you. I really really like you *kitten eyes* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 15:29
- I'm making this (with beef kielbasa): -- (link) - kelly Feb 13, 15:22
- Sghetti with pork ribs n sauce is really good the way an Italian gf's folks used to make it -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 13, 15:06
- did you use 00 flour? -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 13, 14:23
- interesting....nm - x Feb 13, 14:21 5
  - there was a crazy sale on pork shoulder last week, so i bought one that was 7 pounds. Gonna make cubanos this weekend, also - prayformojo Feb 13, 14:46 1
    - i love cubanos....nm - x Feb 13, 15:19
  - I've made pasta sauce from salsa before - it works pretty well. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 14:26 2
    - *cat hiss* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 13, 15:18
    - i could see that....nm - x Feb 13, 14:28
- Penne probably preferable, partner. -- nm - Reagen Feb 13, 14:14 1
  - is Wayne your middle name? -- nm - mud Feb 13, 14:18
rOLL IT. -- nm - Spawn Feb 13, 14:04

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