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roll -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 15:22
Ah, waiting room at the car dealership. Boy, Fox News is batshit crazy. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 15:20 1
- yup -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 15:22
from bb, Andie, sorry about Harvey - I hope he's better soon! - b. Feb 17, 14:50 1
- word -- nm - Beaker Feb 17, 15:22
Great story about a successful face transplant. -- (link) - mara Feb 17, 14:49
Terrifying -- (link) - decline Feb 17, 14:40 3
- That's... our university. -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 15:21
- Just wait until it gets tired of being kicked. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:41 1
  - Just wait till they implant Trump's consciousness into one. -- nm - Jovian Feb 17, 14:51
LOL. Yeah, I'm thinking Teen Vogue is definitely on track for a Pulitzer. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:18 5
- they should stick with traditional teen mag articles, what is your gun's sign. 10 fun dates with your gun. fashion tips for CC -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 17:03
- "Guns Rights"? -- nm* - Andie Feb 17, 14:18 3
  - You're damn right. Guns are people too under the constitution. -- nm - Zombie Scalia Feb 17, 14:25
  - Yarp. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:22 1
    - It still amuses me that Michael and the Hound are the same actor. -- nm - TWuG Feb 17, 14:30
SoCal: Its a finally rainin...Acts of God style -- nm - budice Feb 17, 14:08 10
- Yup, just as I was heading out to the library. At least it held off for the tour this morning. -- nm - Meg Feb 17, 14:29
- Have a look. From Angela (Office) -- (link) - budice Feb 17, 14:27 1
  - Oh my. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:48
- I hope it eases up. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:25
- Is there any dam news? -- nm - Max Feb 17, 14:08 5
  - Watch your own dam news!! -- nm - Bacon Feb 17, 14:09 4
    - How hard is it to get updates about the dam structure? -- nm* - Max Feb 17, 14:11 3
      - I'm still waiting on the dam tour. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 14:13 2
        
        I'm just gonna sit back and wait for some dam photos -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:25 1
        
        What if nobody gives a dam? -- nm - Bacon Feb 17, 15:01
This is a rather good and very illuminating article on the top-secret new desires of the upcoming iPhone -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:05
This is a very good and rather depressing article on trying to buy grown-up furniture. -- (link) - mara Feb 17, 14:01 1
- the whole thing is great. but my fave line is "searched for throw pillows that didn’t have any words or foxes on them." - Andie Feb 17, 14:06
This is tweeted by a trustworthy account, but I can't tell if it's true or not. I hope it's not true. I really do. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:45 20
- It's like the old Nixon enemies list. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 14:00
- LMFAO! He deleted it and reposted it so he could add CBS and ABC. -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:55 3
  - What about @PBS -- nm - Max Feb 17, 13:56 2
    - and HGTV? can i still trust HGTV? -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 13:57 1
      - the people who had their house done over for Love it or List it season 6 ep. 22 is sueing them - Peglegpete Feb 17, 14:06
- It's real -- (link) - oblique, SuperFeud Champion Feb 17, 13:55 1
  - Whew! WaPo is safe! -- nm - Mop Feb 17, 15:34
- Every Tweet like this is just bringing us closer to conclusion. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:50 7
  - but "talk of Impeachment is nonsense", mel? -- nm - mud Feb 17, 14:01 6
    - I refuse to believe there aren't some type of ouster plans already being drawn up. It's just a question of how much of the agenda can get dealt with.. - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 14:02 5
      - They have to get some real evidence to charge him with. The best indication will be what investigations and what kind of investigations republicans - pmb Feb 17, 14:04 4
        
        Right. The ouster plan might just involve threats of special investigators, committee hearings, whatever and not mean impeachment. - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 14:08 3
        
        I just cannot see any circumstance under which he quits absent likelihood of a jail term (with promised pardon). It's just not in his nature. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 14:15 1
        
        Agree with the nature argument - see everything he's done to date - but that would be the prudent first step for Republican leadership. - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 14:17
        
        Absolutely. With Trump, you don't have to impeach him, you just have to threaten to expose him. And he can always have a fake health crisis to save - mara Feb 17, 14:15
- Jeez, add this to the idea of a national Guard call up to round up illegals, he's getting into the paranoia phase -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 13:49 1
  - ABC posted it , just now on FB -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 13:55
- I think all Trump tweet's are reproduced at unfollowtrump, and it's not there. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 13:49
- Well then we should probably round them up and put them in jail. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 13:48 1
  - I'll handle the custody of Brooke Baldwin -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 17, 13:50
UFC. GSP signs multifight deal. May be fighting at middleweight. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 13:32 2
- I really wonder if he isn't cooked. Three years off is a lot of downtime. - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:43 1
  - I hope we get early GSP, not towards the end of his title reign where he was coasting to decision victories -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 14:09
Members of Congressional Hispanic Caucus shut out of meeting they requested with acting ICE head. -- (link) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 17, 13:23 2
- *Places a call to George Lopez to find out what Congressional Hispanic Caucus is up to* -- nm - Trump Feb 17, 13:30
- Why did he agree to leave? -- nm - Max Feb 17, 13:27
NWBR: Perot's pull was equally split along ideology, and a sliiight favourite to R over D. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 17, 13:20 5
- Okay. So maybe 2-to-1 is too much, but I think it's still pretty clear which way it would have gone in a normal cycle. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:24 2
  - probably a bit of a mistake to project today's bitter partisan lines on a 24 year old election. - Reagen Feb 17, 13:27 1
    - Oh sure, but then there would have been Democrats as well who didn't like Clinton on moral grounds. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:40
- turnout was also up 5% so he likely brought in a number of "wouldn't haves" -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:23 1
  - Yeah, I assume that's the independents he pulled. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:25
I've been to 2 or 3 Billy Joel concerts over the years. He puts on a great show. - kelly Feb 17, 13:13 1
- Oh, and Beauty and the Beast will (hopefully) be seen opening weekend here. - kelly Feb 17, 13:16
i'm sure most of you have seen this over the past couple days - Beatrice King (MLK's daughter) advice on resistance. - Andie Feb 17, 12:54
it costs the taxpayers approx $3M every time POTUS goes to Mar-A-Lago -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 17, 12:46 22
- Fine. It's not my money. -- nm - Dump Feb 17, 12:49 20
  - I love that we have went from the customary single residence to not two, but *three* now. -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:51 19
    - Other than frequency, I'm not sure how this is different from the Obamas' home in Chicago. - TWuG Feb 17, 13:09 18
      - Trump has already spent 1/8 of what the Obama's spent in 8 years on time away from the WH -- nm - decline Feb 17, 14:27
      - (and Hawaii) -- nm - spamlet Feb 17, 13:39 2
        
        He didn't keep a home in Hawaii to my knowledge. He took a vacation there once a year. As I said. No problem with vacations. Other than the fact - pmb Feb 17, 13:43 1
        
        I thought he owned a place there but things are fuzzy right now. -- nm - iSpam Feb 17, 13:55
      - In the '70s Congress decided to limit what is spent after Nixon bought a second home. The Secret Service fought it and lost. - Krusty Feb 17, 13:21 2
        
        reposting for krusty -- (link) - Roger More Feb 17, 13:35 [Backboard] 1
        
        Thanks! -- nm - Krusty, baseball fanatic Feb 17, 13:50
      - I think only from the perspective of logistics. It didn't take a lot of manpower for Obama's house here. Being in a high rise condo in the middle of - pmb Feb 17, 13:15 9
        
        POTUS is a 24/7 job regardless of where they are, so I'm not bothered by the "where", especially since the "how" has been so - TWuG Feb 17, 13:18 7
        
        Yes, it's 24/7, but at this point we're talking about spending roughly $150 million/year just so he can spend weekends in Florida. And, BTW, a - pmb Feb 17, 13:21 6
        
        I suppose Congress could try to restrict the budget allocation, but outside of that, are we really to prescribe a President's travel? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:45 4
        
        I don't know. I would expect the president to act with some common sense, but of course we know who we're dealing with. -- nm - pmb Feb 17, 13:58 1
        
        Right. In the end, it's for the public to decide on its propriety or not. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 14:01
        
        i think it's a bit excessive (especially as it's simultaneous, always - wife and son in NYC while he is elsewhere - but that would happen with any - Andie Feb 17, 13:50
        
        They have limited the spending the president can do. See above. -- nm - Krusty, baseball fanatic Feb 17, 13:49
        
        right (and this has probably been linked earlier [i haven't bb'd] but here's a story from the Post about it) -- (link) - prayformojo Feb 17, 13:40
        
        sounds like a lot of manpower is put on boats guarding the shores by his place. -- nm - groiny Feb 17, 13:16
      - frequency, and like Spawn said, it's NYC and Florida. -- nm - Andie Feb 17, 13:13
- Nah, they just close down the White House and leave it empty so all the security/help can go too, right? -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:49
I don't see how attacking Jim will solve anything. -- nm - David Feb 17, 12:35 2
- Right? -- nm -- Nick Fudge (aka Spawn) Feb 17 '17, 12:16 -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:36
- Nothing cuts harder than the icy steel blade of pmb's shiv as it plunges into the warm beating heart of a fellow STer. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 12:36
Oops, contractors are installing a new gate on the dumpster enclosure - and the trash truck just arrived :) -- nm - Meg Feb 17, 12:33 4
- "No witnesses." -- nm - Max Feb 17, 12:35 3
  - We're replacing the wooden gate with a steel one after the trash guys ripped the old one off it's hinges. - Meg Feb 17, 12:44 2
    - Stupid trash pepple! -- nm - Big Bad Wolf Feb 17, 12:52
    - 'roid rage while you were sleep walking? -- nm - decline Feb 17, 12:45
10 missing questions from Trump's media questionnaire -- (link) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 17, 12:24
“This character has been within me for 17 years but not until this film do I think I have got to the heart of him,” Hugh Jackman said at the world... - Spawn Feb 17, 12:21 16
- If I don't at least get a cameo out of him for Deadpool 2, I will have a sad. -- nm - Teddy Baron Feb 17, 13:06 4
  - the Wolverine character is still at least partly owned by Fox, no? -- nm - groiny Feb 17, 13:17 3
    - So's Deadpool. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 14:03
    - Just the metal parts. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 13:22 1
      - that's what she said! *cymbal crash* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 17, 13:27
- I'm not going to let JackDawson persuade me. This is still one of my most anticipated films of the year. - ReluctantCynic Feb 17, 12:24 1
  - word -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:25
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  - like Xmen Origins: Wolverine bad or Jem and the holograms bad? -- nm - decline Feb 17, 12:28 5
    - ~Truly Outrageous~ -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 12:30
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      - of course! -- nm - decline Feb 17, 12:34
    - Imagine if Xmen Origins: Wolverine had a dughter and she was Jem from Jem and the holograms... -- nm - JakeDawson Feb 17, 12:29 1
      - That sounds like it could be a fun comedy. (but obviously it should star Dwayne Johnson) -- nm* - Max Feb 17, 12:31
  - Bad bad, or just different than the typical X-Men format? -- nm - Max Feb 17, 12:24 1
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"Tell us how you really feel." -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 12:16
Speaking of, ML ALERT!!! -- (link) - Spawn Feb 17, 12:07
B2 - Clinton loses, Bush wins a second term. Does George W Bush run in 2000, just four years after the end of his father's second term? -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 12:04 11
- "What if Perot didn't flake out halfway through and come back" is the better counter factual. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 12:17 3
  - I also don't think it's so given that HW wins in the absence of Perot - Reagen Feb 17, 12:24 1
    - Oh, I think its a pretty healthy leap to think he didn't knee cap George the most there. At least 2-to-1 had to be Republican second choice. - Name Withheld by Request Feb 17, 13:04
  - Sure - anti-NAFTA, concern about US debt, etc. Maybe we wouldn't have the populist issues today if we'd have visited them in the 1990s. -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 12:23
- A lot of that would depend on who ran/won in 96... -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 12:11 6
  - Obama would have ran/won then. -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:15
  - Obama? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 12:15 4
    - He turned 35 in August 1996, so... -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 12:17 2
      - So you're saying there's a chance. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 12:18 1
        
        Exactly! -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 12:24
    - heh -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:15
German telecom agency classifies internet-enabled doll as an "illegal espionage device", orders parents to destroy or disable them. -- (link) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 17, 12:02 3
- those dolls are terrifying -- nm - decline Feb 17, 12:13
- There are reports that the dolls have... resisted. -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:03
- *clenches fist* -- nm - AIDA Feb 17, 12:03
Classic pmb. -- nm - Max Feb 17, 12:00 1
- I don't see why Jim has to make the rest of us suffer though, -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 12:01
Politico on the Trump trademerk China deal I have posted about. -- (link) - Spawn Feb 17, 12:00 16
- You obviously won't see it while Trump remains president, but when he is gone (voluntarily or involuntarily) I think you will see a bunch of new laws - pmb Feb 17, 12:18 14
  - As soon as the next Democrat is elected, it will suddenly become a big concern of Republicans. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 12:31 11
    - *ding* -- nm - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 17, 12:42
    - Zuckerberg 2020! -- nm - Strongbad Feb 17, 12:41
    - Probably, but I think even republicans will note how distracting some of this has been for them from getting to their agenda. I think both sides will - pmb Feb 17, 12:40 6
      - This is similar to what I think is going to happen...Trump will exist until he stops being useful to Ryan and McConnell or worse - starts becoming a - Mel Profit Feb 17, 12:50 4
        
        As soon as it starts to look like they might lose the House in 2018 and not a day before. -- (edited) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 17, 13:34
        
        We'll see. It will have to get pretty bad (with deeper allegations of wrongdoing). But at some point you have to think they'll say to themselves, - pmb Feb 17, 13:02 2
        
        I agree with the IM in particular. They will defend him right up until there is evidence of something pretty outrageous. But until then this talk of Impeachment is nonsense. -- nm* - Mel Profit Feb 17, 13:09 1
        
        A republican committee that investigated hill SEVEN times ina row on the basis if a faked time stamp email evidence can bring any of a dozen charges -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 17, 13:30
      - I've been assuming that someone from the establishment/intellectual side of the party would emerge - much like Blair did for Labor (and later, Cameron - Roger More Feb 17, 12:49
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    - ... for 4 (or 8) years and then they will repeal them. -- nm - Spawn Feb 17, 12:32
  - Nah, we're good. -- nm - GOP Feb 17, 12:23
  - oo, yet another positive to Trump being elected. -- nm - colin Feb 17, 12:21
- emoluments smemoluments -- nm - decline Feb 17, 12:05

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