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NYT: Georgia Special Election Shapes Up as Referendum on Trump -- (link*) - Strongbad Feb 15, 04:39
This is all nuts. -- nm - ty97 Feb 15, 04:33 3
- Reading a bunch of articles this morning - Strongbad Feb 15, 05:08 1
  - more - Strongbad Feb 15, 05:10
- You should switch to Mounds -- nm - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 15, 05:07
More pokemon coming later this week for all you Pokemon Go peeps. - CQ Feb 15, 04:13
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- One frustrating result of all of this - Strongbad Feb 15, 04:49 2
  - I think we are getting into the politicization of EVERYTHING. - volnelk Feb 15, 04:54 1
    - I agree. - Strongbad Feb 15, 04:58
- We are as corrupt as Russia but just not as good at it. -- nm - Diva Feb 15, 04:15
- BUT WHAT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE NEW EMAILS. - mafic Feb 15, 04:12
TV Tonight: Arrow, Blindspot, Black Ink Crew, Hunted, Lethal Weapon, Goldbergs, Speechless, Criminal Minds, L&O SVU, 100, Modern Family, Magicians, -- nm - Beaker Feb 15, 03:48 1
- Star, Blackish, America's NTM, Chicago PD, Doubt, Legion, GF's Guide to Divorce, Match Game, Suits, SIX, Expanse, Sam Bee, Workaholics, Bering Sea Gol - Beaker Feb 15, 03:49
McConnell doesn't think we need a special committee to investigate, congress can do it themselves - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:53
I know I'm late but happy anniversary to Amy and Spawn. - crash davis Feb 15, 00:18 3
- love to all of you -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:44 1
  - Hear hear.. (NM) - Marlowe Feb 15, 04:45
- Happy anniversary Trish, Amy, Crash, and Spawn - zork Feb 15, 01:16
Toshiba facing bankruptcy, total disintegration thanks to bad bets on nuclear power -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 23:04 1
- Something something financial meltdown -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 23:23
Kate Upton on the cover of SI Swimsuit Edition 2017 -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 22:31 3
- Kelly Brook does VDay right -- (link) - budice Feb 14, 22:42 1
  - wow, for a tiny gal she really packs it in, must do a lot of gym work -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 03:04
- seems like a good post to head to bed on... -- nm - oblique Feb 14, 22:35
In the movie of this debacle, Jonathan Pryce from Taboo will play... Mitch McConnell? -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 22:24
What America needs: some meddling kids, and a dog -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 22:24
I'm just not sure if this is a bad omen or not. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 22:11
Well, here it is. My completed 2016 Photo-A-Day album. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 21:46 [flickr]
All of this will not matter, as it has begun. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 14, 21:08
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... -- (link) - Spawn Feb 14, 21:02 4
- Following a call from the White House it was announced that a Russian Wolfhound was the 'real' winner. (nm) - howie Feb 14, 21:22 1
  - Heh -- nm - zork Feb 15, 05:01
- Fox News Alert! -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 21:22
- Only the second ever! - IrishStephen Feb 14, 21:16
I imagine this is what early August 1974 was like for people... - Cuzzin Todd Feb 14, 20:53 3
- buying a later edition from a newstand of the same day's paper you read at lunch as they updated the front page -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:46
- Riiiiiiight. Actually it was dead air after midnight, but during the hearings it was gavel-to-gavel coverage on all THREE channels. -- nm - GregW Feb 14, 22:50 1
  - every day you went to Doonesbury first in the newspaper to see Trudeau's take on events -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 14, 22:59
Torn between coding on ST and working on the next chapter of my book. Hmm. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 20:39 2
- ~... feeling like a fool...~ -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 20:50
- also an option: finishing the last few photos for my photo-a-day project -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 20:40
Yeah. You don't want to piss off the people whose job it is to find out all the secrets. -- nm - Dano Feb 14, 20:17 4
- And I gather it's also not wise to mess with the State Department. - . Feb 14, 23:00
- McConnell says an investigation into Flynn is "highly likely" by the senate intelligence committee ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 20:31
- He has bumbled through life and got away with it. - Spawn Feb 14, 20:21 1
  - It seems that for him to have the biggest fall, he had to rise to the highest of heights. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 21:23
This tweet made me LOL -- (link) - Jovian Feb 14, 19:50 1
- That's great -- nm - Mara Feb 14, 20:08
If Delaney's sister appeared over me when I woke up, I would die of fear right that second. -- nm - Max Feb 14, 19:47 2
- look sis, no pants! -- nm - CQ Feb 14, 19:49 1
  - Happy V-Day. #Taboo -- nm - Max Feb 14, 20:07
I want this boat. It needs a bit of work, but it's cute. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:45 3
- Or this one - doesn't need as much work, also very cute. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:47 2
  - The first one is so cute it looks like a Pixar character -- nm - Mara Feb 14, 20:09 1
    - Yep. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 20:30
Anyway....bets on who goes to jail? -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 19:38 9
- Presidential pardons for some, miniature American flags for others! -- nm - mafic Feb 14, 20:14
- Conway Twitty -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:54
- G. Gordon Liddy -- nm - Bacon Feb 14, 19:54
- Chris Christie -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 14, 19:52
- They's a bunch of old white men. No bet. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:41 4
  - ... -- nm - Max Feb 14, 19:45 3
    - what'd I do? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 21:53 2
      - no no - Max Feb 14, 23:11 1
        
        you don't mean?.... - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:49
Young Pope: man what an interesting show. -- nm - Remlik Feb 14, 19:37
Tweet of the day (with a movie reference!) -- (link) - ty97 Feb 14, 19:31 4
- What about this? -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:38 3
  - Or THIS, which I actually double-checked to make sure was real. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:43 2
    - Chad Kroeger has had enough of all of our shit -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:45 1
      - they had a follow-up tweet that was essentially "well-played" -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 19:47
3 ancient, rare round temples have been found in the Sudan -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 14, 19:24
This is how it's gonna be under Trump. At 10 pm on a Tuesday, shit can fall apart. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:20 13
- i'm fine with not finding out until morning....nm - x Feb 14, 19:32 5
  - Oh, there will be something else by then. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 14, 19:34 4
    - don the con starts tweeting at 6am (probably while crapping on the toilet)...which is 3am here on the west and the time I'm about to go to bed...omg -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 15, 02:52
    - that's cool. it's not like i can control it.... - x Feb 14, 19:40 2
      - or so you claim - ty97 Feb 14, 19:41 1
        
        shhhhhhhhhhhhhh...nm - x Feb 14, 19:46
- SNL needs to update the bit to something like "I'd like to be able to get one's night's sleep with screaming" -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 19:24
- If this is all a computer simulation, somebody somewhere has attained self-awareness over the last two days. - David's iPad Feb 14, 19:23 1
  - It's like Sim City where you get bored and send a Godzilla after a tornado after an earthquake. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:25
- You should edit this to change "Tuesday" to "[Day]' and then you can recycle it over and over. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 14, 19:22 3
  - I'm repeating David from last night. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:26 2
    - Well done, but also it's shit that this is a thing. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 14, 19:35
    - (Cleverly) - David's iPad Feb 14, 19:28
Sessions refuses to remove himself from any potential investigation of Trump's ties to Russia. -- (link) - znufrii Feb 14, 19:18 2
- Of course. -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 19:19 1
  - Give it 24 hours. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 21:24
THIS IS FINE -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 19:16
Can you imagine the newsrooms at NYT and WaPo right now? Can you imagine Jeff Bezos's boner? Or Mark Cuban's? -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 19:09 2
- don't forget the SNL writers -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 14, 19:19
- Or the aides that are about to be called out by name? That's got to be a fun feeling when you get a call asking for comment. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 14, 19:13
not politics: did any of you dorks who read books read the passage trilogy by justin cronin?... - x Feb 14, 19:07 7
- Quite liked the passage, but found the 12 disappointing. - mafic Feb 14, 20:20
- Yes, very good reads -- nm - decline Feb 14, 19:41
- Yes. Really good stuff. -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 19:17
- yes. It's cool - mud Feb 14, 19:10 1
  - spoilers!...nm - x Feb 14, 19:16
- Yep. Read all three. Liked them a lot. -- nm - Volnelk Feb 14, 19:08 1
  - nice. i think the guy really can write characters and dialogue that works....nm - x Feb 14, 19:14
JackDawson is right. Yesterday was a good day. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 19:05 1
- “I want one day without a CNN alert that scares the hell out of me! I just wanna relax and watch the Grammys, and no one has ever said that.” -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 19:06
BUT SHE HAD A PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER!!!!! -- nm - Volnelk Feb 14, 19:03 2
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  - And she is female! -- nm - . Feb 14, 19:35
15 minutes into Legion and it's clear I'm gonna have to watch it all again once it's over. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 19:03 1
- heh -- nm - CQ Feb 14, 19:08
Shhhhh. Next: Taboo -- nm - decline Feb 14, 19:00 2
- Lucian Msamati, who plays Chichester, is fantastic. I want him in all the movies. -- nm - Max Feb 14, 19:14
- *takes off pants* -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 19:01
Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence -- (link) - Reagen Feb 14, 18:55 3
- The avalanche is coming. It appears obvious it was a concerted effort and that the contents of the dossier were at least partially true. - Mop Feb 14, 19:03 1
  - "in a dacha with Viktor Yanukovich" doesn't seem entirely far fetched. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:05
- "Are you a Russian intel cop? You have to tell me if you are. No? Okay, we're good. Take a look at this..." -- nm - Paul Manafort Feb 14, 19:01
A close analysis of the Trudeau/Trump handshake. -- (link) - mara Feb 14, 18:54
If you didn't see it the Russian intelligence/Trump aide story is having huge impact right now. Expect big news, and quick. -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 18:38 34
- CNN says they know who it is, are holding names while seeking comment -- (link) - Reagen Feb 14, 19:35 1
  - Hey, Omarosa... CNN has dossiers too. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 20:35
- So, this and how much more did the Democrats learn in that meeting they stormed out of? -- nm* - Spawn Feb 14, 18:54
- Are you talking about this story? -- (link) - JaxSean Feb 14, 18:54
- The interesting theoretical... -- (edited) - David's iPad Feb 14, 18:43 28
  - That would be treason? -- nm - . Feb 14, 19:33
  - Kevin Costner decides. -- nm - Reagen Feb 14, 19:21 1
    - ha! -- nm - mud Feb 14, 19:25
  - Yakov Smirnoff -- nm - Dano Feb 14, 19:19
  - Roman Reigns. -- nm - Qale Feb 14, 19:11
  - IMO: The Constitution doesn't provide for a clear route. It would require a lawsuit by Hillary, like Gore's. I personally believe it would be a - mara Feb 14, 18:59 2
    - Revote! -- nm - JaxSean Feb 14, 19:19
    - This is the post I agree with the most. -- nm - David's iPad Feb 14, 19:17
  - There is no constitutional mechanism that I know of to invalidate the results of an election. -- (edited) - znufrii Feb 14, 18:59
  - Pence, just like Nixon getting removed. If you pin something on Pence (and I doubt that it's there) you go down the line -- nm - Bacon Feb 14, 18:54 1
    - Right now Paul Ryan is trying to figure out how to lump Pence in with the rest of them. -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 19:05
  - Even if the Russian collaborated with Trump, you can't overturn election outcomes. Pence becomes POTUS. -- nm - ty97 Feb 14, 18:53
  - all i know is, marcus camby may have done some stuff and the ncaa can tell me that my umass alma mater didn't go to the final four.... - x Feb 14, 18:53
  - Pretty sure it means Obama is still POTUS. -- nm - Spawn Feb 14, 18:50 8
    - The movie ends with a helicopter landing on the beach. "Sir, come with me. The country needs you." -- nm - Mop Feb 14, 19:07 1
      - "Bitch, can't you see I'm kite surfing?" *kite surfs into the sunset* -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 14, 19:37
    - TRUDEAU! -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 18:59 4
      - ... I'm okay with this. -- nm - Max Feb 14, 19:01 3
        
        but he has to take Ivanka as a second wife -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 19:02 2
        
        I'm still on board. -- nm - Max Feb 14, 19:02 1
        
        word -- nm - Trudeau Feb 14, 19:04
    - *throws phone into the surf* -- nm - Barry Feb 14, 18:56
  - I've literally been reading the 25th amendment the past few minutes. It's well worth a read right now. -- nm - MDH Feb 14, 18:50 1
    - "Keep the pigs, how many broads do I get?" -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 18:53
  - To follow the GOP Senators 2016 line, we should have an election to determine who the American people want to be president. -- nm - Max Feb 14, 18:48
  - Pence unless evidence suggests otherwise. Then Ryan. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 14, 18:47 1
    - I think they Gerald Ford someone in before they let Ryan have it. - mafic Feb 14, 20:26
  - Just do what we do in Canada, and call a do-over because of No Confidence. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 18:45
- If ump resigns before Saturday, his presidency will have been the shortest in history ... -- (edited) - Beryllium Feb 14, 18:41
sharks with freakin' lazers -- nm - Beaker Feb 14, 18:35

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