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almost -- nm - Beaker Feb 19, 04:02 1
- now -- nm - Beaker Feb 19, 04:02
The Reuters story of Somali asylum seekers fleeing U.S. Border Patrol to enter Canada makes it sound like people fleeing East Berlin. -- (link) - Mop Feb 19, 00:43 1
- Then Reuters wrote a lousy story. Let'a keep just a smidge of historical context, shall we press? -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 19, 07:03
So the day after I start browsing Columbia River cruises again I get a catalog from the American Queen Steamboat Company..... - Meg Feb 18, 23:25 2
- What about Mop and a rowboat? -- nm - . Feb 18, 23:27 1
  - I only have about a week ;) -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 23:29
Be sure to let Fox News know that you want there to be an investigation of Trump's ties with Russia. Vote early and often. -- (link) - Mop Feb 18, 23:18
So, Trump is telling us about a non-existent terrorist attack in Sweden, now? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 23:09
$403M estimated Powerball jackpot wednesday. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 22:48
John Wick 2 is an A. A horror movie for criminals. Unrepentant. The best opening sequence in cinema since Lego Batman Movie! -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 21:49
Our carmike theater will be closed next Tuesday for "AMC upgrades" -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 21:47
the Twinks4Trump founder has joined the White House Press Corps... -- (link) - Remlik Feb 18, 20:38 4
- Some of these people are clearly playing a long con, including perhaps Trump himself. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 21:50
- please help. I do not know the rules..is 28 too old to be a twink? is there a cutoff age? -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 20:42 2
  - If you have to ask.... -- nm - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 18, 20:52
  - Sorry, you are too old. -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 20:46
Brothers Grimsby sure is something.... -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 20:29
I'm torn on the paint job on Oregon's basketball court or Baylor's unis being the bigger eyesore. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 20:13 3
- The court. It shouldn't be regulation. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 21:47
- You can't tell if they're out of bounds. -- nm - jnine Feb 18, 20:25
- Oakland University did a knockoff of Oregon that's somehow even worse. -- nm - David Feb 18, 20:23
PGA trollin' the NBA -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 19:30 1
- heh -- nm - Beaker Feb 19, 04:00
the Galapogos Iguana segment of Planet Earth II is amazing -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 19:29
"All my life, I was an underdog..." Get the fuck out of here...your dad signed a contract worth 60mil as a rookie. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 18, 19:28
12 dunks -- I count 8 jumping over people. - Will Hunting Feb 18, 19:25 4
- All the misses. -- (link*) - budice Feb 18, 19:29
- Between that and 3pt, still think Prorzingis had the best showing in the Skills -- nm - budice Feb 18, 19:27
- Last year was great. This year was a trainwreck. -- nm - David Feb 18, 19:27
- I never thought people watched this stuff until now -- nm - Bacon Feb 18, 19:26
#DroneDunkFail -- nm - David Feb 18, 18:59 2
- trudat, also bummed by Steph Curry's showing at midcourt -- nm* - budice Feb 18, 19:00 1
  - NBA Dunk Finals .. Fan-tastic -- nm - budice Feb 18, 19:21
I really dug La La Land....A- -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 18:43 4
- My favorite scene of 2016 was in this movie. (Spoils) - kelly Feb 18, 19:05
- I still whistle the tune from La La Land...All the time -- nm - Flavorize Feb 18, 19:04
- Arrival--A Very good flick Edge of Seventeen--B+ -- nm - Flavorize Feb 18, 19:00 1
  - Inferno--C- -- nm - Flavorize Feb 18, 19:04
Pence's tour of Europe could be summed up as "Don't Do What Donny Don't Does." - Mop Feb 18, 18:34
NBAAllStarWknd: Sager Strong tribute was great, but folks gotta sink some shots -- nm - budice Feb 18, 18:32
Tom Hanks was quite the over actor in the Splash days. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 18:30 4
- All my life I've been waiting for someone and when I find her, she's... she's a fish. .. -- nm - Willaim Shatner Feb 18, 19:15 1
  - is that why he ate the piranha in Loaded Weapon 1? -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 19:23
- OH COME ON -- nm - Tom Hanks Feb 18, 19:13 1
  - Any questions? -- nm - David S. Pumpkins Feb 18, 19:15
Dr. Ben Carson was “baffled” and “speechless” that one of his most loyal aides was walked out of the Housing and Urban Development after an op-ed - Spawn Feb 18, 18:10 2
- Actually, that article raises more questions than I answers. Carson is not yet Secretary. How is he connected to this guy? - Mop Feb 18, 18:15
- Yeah, but to be fair, Ben Carson is always... -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 18:12
Trump's communications people aren't happy that we found their survey. -- (link) - Mop Feb 18, 18:07 10
- Am I a great president. ..or the greatest? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 20:57
- He is now equating Democrats, along with the media, as enemies of the "American" People. -- nm - GregW Feb 18, 18:24 4
  - He missed the Canadians. -- nm - . Feb 18, 21:04
  - But really, when the majority of Americans oppose you, doesn't that may you the enemy of the American people? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 18:26 2
    - I wonder how many people he has checking those names against the registered voters data base. -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 18:30
    - But those that oppose him are not "American". -- nm - GregW Feb 18, 18:28
- We've sabotaged the survey by giving honest answers? -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 18:21 2
  - I'm still having trouble wrapping my hear around those questions. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 18:24 1
    - My response to one of them was "Other" - "I can't believe this is a real question." -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat Feb 18, 18:25
- Heh heh. -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat Feb 18, 18:20
I did not like Manchester By The Sea. If I'd had a watch, I'd have been checking it - JD Feb 18, 17:41 1
- Heh. "Annoyed by the use of music" - I had that reaction to Hereafter. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 18:17
Tickeled is on HBO Feb 27th -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 17:10 1
- yup -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 18:41
I wonder if they can work this into the next season of Better Call Saul -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:26
After John Wick last night, a weird thing happened. - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:22 20
- You are lucky you still have both of your kidneys -- nm - Bacon Feb 18, 17:19 1
  - I know, right? - Beryllium Feb 18, 17:28
- so that dude didn't really need a blow job to get back to his home planet? -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 17:05 2
  - Rut roh -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 17:10
  - Morty! Faster! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 17:07
- This is a classic scam, FWIW. -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 17:04 4
  - Agree with Rea-cumber -- nm - budice Feb 18, 17:09
  - Of course. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 17:08 1
    - They do this at the gas stations down here. -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 17:16
  - yup -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 17:07
- She might be like the folks here who ask for train fare. Gotta get home had wallet stolen...it's a great story, but the second time I knew it was bs. - . Feb 18, 16:56 2
  - Basically this is what I felt it was, yeah. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:58 1
    - No harm is meant, just a more dignified(?) way of begging. -- nm - . Feb 18, 17:01
- Reads, reads,....are you employed...now? -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 16:47 3
  - No. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:51 2
    - Give it 5 minutes. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 16:54
    - (it's a big long story. Freedom is glorious and refreshing after the last year.) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:51
- So she had car keys in her hand and was asking for bus money? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 16:46 2
  - we had one guy carry an old gas can -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:13
  - Gas money -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 16:51
Geek Deal: 65in 4K LED TV for $450 @ HHGregg (linky) - budice Feb 18, 16:19
Caesars is leaving Nevada Power. they are paying a fortune to be able to go solar or to other power vendors -- (link) - Peglegpete Feb 18, 16:13 4
- Isn't Caesars on the brink of bankruptcy? receivership? -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 17:15 2
  - They have been in bankruptcy for some time. I think they're almost ready to come out. -- nm - pmb Feb 18, 17:37
  - they have been recently. I am not sure this week. -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 17:34
- Seems expense -- nm - Epiphany Feb 18, 16:50
TV PSA: NBA All-Star Saturday Night, Ransom, HNIC, Star Wars Rebels, Bellator 172, Showtime boxing, other stuff -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 15:29 1
- Planet earth 2 on BBC-A..Britney Spears biopic on Lifetime -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 16:07
huh, the voice of Sabine from Satr Wars Rebels is Real Eleanor from The Good Place (also a voice on Walking With Dinosaurs) -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 15:22 1
- and we have a new episode tonight -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 15:25
Great Wall 36% (52/92), Fist Fight 32% (23/48), A Cure for Wellness 38% (38/62), XX 70% (26/11), Logan 96% (55/2) -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 15:16
Hillary for Prison sign spotted at Trump rally in Florida -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 15:15
La La Land spoilers/questions - kelly Feb 18, 15:13 4
- spoilers - Marlowe Feb 18, 17:14
- I asked the same thing. (Spoils) - Inigo Feb 18, 16:28 1
  - Spoilers - kelly Feb 18, 18:06
- Spoils - Covington Feb 18, 15:30
On a lighter note, Coffee Nut M & Ms gets the crash seal of approval -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 15:03 1
- Yepper -- nm - con_carne Feb 18, 21:14
I'd like to add our condolences to Andie as well -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 15:03
Groiny and spawn, the ghost recon woodlands beta istarts the 24th - TRuMaN Feb 18, 15:00
I sure hope there is more to this story, because who the fuck does this? -- (link) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 18, 14:54 2
- The incident being...he sat next to a guy who was sleeping the whole trip. -- nm - . Feb 18, 17:48
- Thai is crazy. -- nm - Andie Feb 18, 17:01
DJ flat out owning Riviera right now -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 14:43
fvck 2017...seems like now its the sidemen getting harvested unconfirmed report from a local musician William "Bootsy" Collins died...nothing on msm -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 18, 14:31 2
- not him...but Clyde Stubbefield and Junie Morrison passed -- nm - Remlik Feb 18, 15:10
- Hoax -- nm - Covington Feb 18, 15:06
Bradley Cooper is so good in Joy -- nm - Dano Feb 18, 14:17
Duke education at its finest. -- (link) - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 18, 14:04 8
- take me off killfile! -- nm - Tim Feb 18, 15:12
- interesting... -- nm - Trump Feb 18, 14:24
- People like this should be taken into space and dropped off between the Earth and the Moon. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 14:15 4
  - 🎶 a home out on Lagrange 🎶 -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 17:32 1
    - Nice. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 17:49
  - Best that they can do, is fall in love. -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 14:24 1
    - POINTS! -- nm - crash davis Feb 18, 15:06
- Fake Education! -- nm - Spawn Feb 18, 14:13
Hell or High Water.....still an A -- nm - prayformojo Feb 18, 14:03 1
- Fun fact, saw that when it was titled Commancheria in previews -- nm - budice Feb 18, 14:33
Watching USA and Japan mixed doubles curling, Japan got 3 in the first end. USA should just concede now. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 14:03 1
- Mixed doubles curling is weird and un-Canadian. Is this how rugby fans feel about sevens? -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 14:04
I just learned that Kingdom Hearts 3 will be on the Xbox. You're all fired for not posting about this. Fired! -- nm - Krusty, baseball fanatic Feb 18, 13:47
Mayor DeBlasio combats the greed of oil companies by appealing to the better natures of....bankers? -- (link*) - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 18, 13:16 1
- "wave after wave of needle snakes" -- nm - Reagen Feb 18, 13:43
Octopus vs crab...ends a little differently than either anticipated -- (link) - Beaker Feb 18, 13:10 2
- Nice -- nm - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 18, 13:23
- why is my first thought Theon Greyjoy? :))) -- nm - Peglegpete Feb 18, 13:20
Are the Expanse novels a good read? How long is the series supposed to go? (the Wiki indicates 10 books, 6 released so far) -- nm - Beaker Feb 18, 12:48 2
- I love them. There are supposed to be 9 novels and there are a number of short stories and novellas available. - TWuG Feb 18, 14:23
- I read the first one and thought it was decent, keep meaning to continue. -- nm - Cucurucu Todini Feb 18, 13:04
Listening to the Presidential podcast on Truman and they are focusing on the polling failures of '48. - iSpam Feb 18, 12:37
"I'm not saying that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. I'm just saying we need to learn the lessons of history." - Cucurucu Todini Feb 18, 12:31 2
- *votes for all Trump's plans anyhow*. So, he's complicit in Donald's activities. -- nm - Will Hunting, King of Astronauts Feb 18, 12:43 1
  - Yeah, don't fall into this trap. Dems are getting hit on the left for not stopping Trump's noms even though they can't, while McCain makes a speech - Reagen Feb 18, 13:40
On the roof of the Superstore, (spoils) - Covington Feb 18, 12:23 1
- I don't regularly watch but have caught eps here and there, I thought it was pretty entertaining. -- nm - Cucurucu Todini Feb 18, 12:26
Peeps flavored Oreos on their way -- (link) - budice Feb 18, 12:23 3
- Wtf is wrong with people? -- nm - znufrii, not a sociologist Feb 18, 14:12
- That Cheetos VP is a genius -- nm - Beryllium Feb 18, 12:33 1
  - Look, all I'm saying is that one man's genius is another man's weed-induced idea. - Mop Feb 18, 14:01
Rock Chalk Jayhawk! Wooooooooo!!! It appears they have the Big 12 locked up for the 13th straight year! This will tie UCLA's record of 13. :-) -- nm - Krusty, baseball fanatic Feb 18, 12:10
Completely forgot yesterday was Kiva payment day!! Have you checked your account? -- nm - Meg Feb 18, 12:06
I was called in to do a little bit of PC support for a friend... - Mop Feb 18, 12:03 1
- :( My refund is $300 less than last year. I forgot a checkbox somewhere, I'm sure. -- nm - Mop Feb 18, 13:36

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