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"Lonzo Ball looks like an eight grader's drawing of Drake" -- nm - Reagen May 17, 07:32
good news! I'm hiring! bad news! my applicant pool sucks. - amanda jones state university May 17, 07:27 6
- I'm also hiring - Account Coordinator and Events Coordinator. -- nm - Callisto Buffalomeat May 17, 07:46
- "I would make me an excellent candidate"? Huh? -- nm - volnelk May 17, 07:34
- Oh, come on, mandy! Her personality is detailed!! -- nm - mara May 17, 07:33
- what's a Business Support Coordinator? -- nm - decline May 17, 07:30 2
  - very good question. next question! - amanda jones state university May 17, 07:33 1
    - you work in a very weird place -- nm - decline May 17, 07:38
Paul Ryan blames Comey? Of course. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 07:21 1
- Comey should have put his fingers into his ears and said, "la la la la I can't hear you la la la la" when the President tried to strong arm him -- nm - Ryan May 17, 07:28
More U.S. Voters Want President Trump Impeached Than Don’t, New Poll Finds - crash davis May 17, 07:17 3
- Have you seen similar polls for Nixon? Kind of astounding how low those numbers were. -- nm - mara May 17, 07:24
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- Make it so. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 07:18
SEC commissioners hit the pause button on 4x-leveraged etf approval -- (link) - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 17, 07:15 2
- government overreach! Why do they keep trying to restrict how honest citizens can lose their money? -- nm - decline May 17, 07:23
- Just take your money and play roulette with it. -- nm - Bacon May 17, 07:17
Val Kilmer did an AMA. -- (link) - Shaun May 17, 07:13
New fire tablets -- (link) - oblique May 17, 07:11 1
- nvm -- (edited) - decline May 17, 07:17
ty: are all your shots up to date? -- (link) - decline May 17, 07:08 4
- I actually got a MMR booster about two years ago because my measles immunity had worn off. -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:09 3
  - Please note: I did not develop autism. -- nm* - Andie May 17, 07:10 2
    - But you can now move objects with your mind. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 07:11 1
      - well, sure, there's that. -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:11
Ah! It was a test! -- (link) - Reagen May 17, 07:05 10
- In fairness, I kind of agree with that. -- nm - volnelk May 17, 07:12 9
  - Add that to the "Will you swear your allegiance to me" line and there is no way he could go "public". Until we know who all he *did* tell, lets not... -- (edited) - Spawn May 17, 07:35
  - But how does that work? "I'm firing you for not informing Congress that I tried to obstruct justice!" -- nm - Reagen May 17, 07:31 3
    - Ryan thinks Comey should have resigned immediately, so... -- nm - Roger More May 17, 07:39
    - More the idea that he wasn't really doing his job by withholding any of that. Not necessarily that it was Trump that should've fired him. -- nm - volnelk May 17, 07:36
    - Don't try to think it through; you'll blow up your logic circuitry. -- nm - mara May 17, 07:34
  - I assume he was compiling evidence, and more memos, wanting to present Congress with as much as possible. - mara May 17, 07:26
  - The Justice Department got the memo, right? -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:20 2
    - Limited people in Justice were informed about it, not sure if they were given copies. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 07:23 1
      - ah. -- nm - Andie May 17, 07:24
I'd like to say that John Kasich is looking really smart. - Will Hunting May 17, 06:50 4
- It doesn't take much for a Republican to look smart these days. -- nm - mara May 17, 07:00 3
  - No, but given he's the only one of note to never embrace Trump - Will Hunting May 17, 07:05 2
    - Well, Jeb, but... -- nm - Reagen May 17, 07:31 1
      - I said of note. -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 07:47
Watched the highlights of the Ducks/Preds game. Predators love running goalies apparently. -- nm - Shaun May 17, 06:37 2
- Why we never! -- nm - Anaheim Ducks May 17, 06:53 1
  - Don't get me started on Perry's goal... -- nm - Shaun May 17, 07:07
DOW crashes! -- nm - Spawndroid May 17, 06:33 3
- Trump bump! -- nm - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 17, 06:43
- (down less than 1%. 'Crashes' may be a bit much :) -- nm - ty97 May 17, 06:34 1
  - Hey, I was at a stoplight! -- nm - Spawn May 17, 07:17
Behold. The internet has proved its worth for one more day. -- (link) - ML May 17, 06:31 [youtube] 8 1
- if only this was posted earlier -- nm - Remlik May 17, 07:51
- So weird but so right. -- nm - Krusty May 17, 07:18
- That's magnificent -- nm - prayformojo May 17, 07:05
- Kim, you HAVE to watch this. -- nm - David's iPad May 17, 07:00
- *marks as a favourite so that he can watch this later* -- nm - tRuMaN May 17, 06:41
- It's so good you almost struggle to understand how this was not the original :) -- nm - oblique May 17, 06:34 1
  - It's disconcertingly so. -- nm - Mel Profit May 17, 06:39
- nooooo....NO...NONONONO!!! NO!!! -- nm - Mel Profit May 17, 06:33
guys!!!!!!! our director of HR is goooooooonnnnnnnne effective 7/31. PARTAY!!!!! - amanda jones state university May 17, 06:25 2
- gimme! gimme! gimme! -- nm - Charlie May 17, 06:48
- Charlie gonna get paaaaaaaaaid -- nm - Beaker May 17, 06:25
Puerto Rico in uncharted waters as historic bankruptcy process begins -- (link) - Beaker May 17, 06:22
This is terrifying -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 06:14 7
- Speaking of terrifying, did you see the banner graphic on that guy's Twitter page? -- nm - mara May 17, 07:02 3
  - I had not, and never needed to. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 07:08 1
    - Well, I wasn't going to be the only one, ty!! -- nm - mara May 17, 07:26
  - oh sweet jesus -- nm - prayformojo May 17, 07:06
- It's like dealing with an autistic child -- nm - decline May 17, 06:53
- "make sure there's a picture of a train in it. He likes trains. He says, and I quote, 'They go choo choo'." -- nm - Reagen May 17, 06:52
- it's why he reads the Bridge section of newspapers so closely -- nm - Beaker May 17, 06:21
??????? -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 06:07 3
- Pretty clearly hacked. -- nm - Ender May 17, 06:13 2
  - Hackers should be funnier. -- nm - Andie May 17, 06:22 1
    - Nah, hackers speak the truth. -- nm - Spawn May 17, 07:11
Chelsea Manning is officially free -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 06:03
You all need to let me know when your done with the slave story from The Atlantic so we can discuss. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 06:01 2
- read it yesterday afternoon -- nm - decline May 17, 06:54
- I've finished. -- nm - MDH May 17, 06:13
Epic hotwheels race (slowmo) -- (link) - oblique May 17, 06:00 [youtube]
I'll dedicate this post to Spawn -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 05:45 [youtube]
But wait, it gets worse! "Vultures Caught Using Makeup for the First Time!" -- (link) - prayformojo May 17, 05:45 1
- oh no, sexy vultures! -- nm - ty97 May 17, 05:46
Man, I struggled with this. Putting these cities in order from northernmost to southernmost, where does San Francisco fall on the list? -- (edited) - volnelk May 17, 05:40 1
- Too early for geography? -- nm - volnelk May 17, 06:44
This math question meant for 7-year-olds has everyone stumped -- (link) - oblique May 17, 05:39 10
- when did kilbo find the time to practice his click-bait-ish headlines? -- nm - tRuMaN May 17, 06:15 4
  - You'll never guess what happens next -- nm - oblique May 17, 06:18 3
    - The murders begin? -- nm - prayformojo May 17, 06:18 2
      - nah, Meg's still in bed -- nm - ty97 May 17, 06:19 1
        
        thats what meg wants you to think. -- nm* - tRuMaN May 17, 06:40
- This math problems is why Trump won -- nm - ty97 May 17, 05:54
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- the 2 in the lower left was intentionally messed with it looks like (the 20 makes it doable) -- nm - Beaker May 17, 05:42 1
  - Right. It's impossible to do it with the 2 but with the 20 it's just fine. -- nm* - Krusty May 17, 06:45
- "This math question (with the instructions removed)..." -- nm - Reagen May 17, 05:42
ST Poll: Predict today's Constitutional Crisis -- nm - ty97 May 17, 05:39 1
- Freedom of the Press is going to take a direct hit -- nm - Epiphany May 17, 06:52
One side benefit of the last 24 hours - I have a much better understanding of the meaning and usage of "contemporaneously." -- nm - Cuzzin Todd May 17, 05:37
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- They won't do it so we need to get back both houses. -- nm - Krusty May 17, 06:47
- I agree with something in here. That it's fine to laugh about this but that's the easy way to deal with this. If that's all you do now - you're part - Mel Profit May 17, 05:53 6
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    - I don't think of it as trying to convince people, but laying cultural groundwork so they can convince themselves next year. - znufrii, definitely not 40 May 17, 06:55 1
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    - if i had a Republican Congressperson i would send a friggin email every single day. -- nm* - Andie May 17, 06:23 2
      - ironically I just got a mass mailer yesterday from mine talking about all of the great things he has accomplished working with - tRuMaN May 17, 07:01
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- And then there's still people going "hey, political reporters, try interviewing people outside your bubble!" - Reagen May 17, 05:50 4
  - TBF, I haven't seen any of those stories - ty97 May 17, 05:54 2
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      - They probably have 15 stories pipelined and just haven't had space to run them with the crises over the past week -- nm* - ty97 May 17, 05:58
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- "..for this." - Inigo May 17, 05:49
- "Personally, I’m not exactly a rabid Democrat. " Say it isn't so, Thomas Friedman! -- nm - Reagen May 17, 05:40 1
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- Right, it would take a complete erosion of the base (hasn't happened at all) from supporting Trump for this to even be on the table. - ty97 May 17, 05:40
- agreed -- nm - Beaker May 17, 05:33
GA-6: Both candidates appear to have agreed to hold "several debates" before the June 20 runoff. -- nm - Strongbad May 17, 05:14 3
- I mean, it *is* the most important position in the country. -- nm - Reagen May 17, 05:51
- The never-ending runoff (ahhhhh....ahhh..ahhhh.ahhhhh.ahhhhh) -- nm - ty97 May 17, 05:15 1
  - L3. -- nm - Strongbad May 17, 05:21
Chelsea Manning will be released from prison today -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 05:03
@CBSThisMorning says it asked 20 GOP lawmakers to be a guest this AM to talk about Trump. And asked the WH for someone. ALL declined. -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 04:54 3
- Profiles in Courage -- with a foreward by Senator John McCain. -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 05:15
- Fake News! -- nm - Beaker May 17, 05:05
- Steppin' up! This is it! - Cuzzin Todd May 17, 04:56
MOSCOW (AP) - #Putin says #Russia is willing to hand over to US Congress, Senate records of #Trump's talks with #Lavrov -- (link) - ty97 May 17, 04:48 8
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  - Gee, I wonder if Trump supporters will trust the Russians as a source of what took place in the meeting than the US media? - Cuzzin Todd May 17, 05:11 3
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      - ~guitar riff~ -- nm - Strongbad May 17, 05:14
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  - I'm sure the GOP and Trumpers will trust the Russian info more than anything Comey can provide too... -- nm - Beaker May 17, 05:05
  - Ha! It's interesting as a trolling effort. Does raise the question what type of 'records' they claim to have. Recording? - ty97 May 17, 04:58 1
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wow, good for JR Smith - prayformojo May 17, 04:45
And so it begins....."Ball may work out only for the Lakers." -- nm - volnelk May 17, 04:42
I had a dream about the 2020 primary last night. Ugh. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 04:10 7
- Well...????!???! - prayformojo May 17, 04:11 6
  - I don't think the dream was very realistic - ty97 May 17, 05:00 5
    - I think Hillary would win a re-run of 2016 easily at this point. - Will Hunting May 17, 05:16 4
      - You have more faith in the electorate than I will possibly ever ever again. -- nm - ty97 May 17, 05:28 3
        
        She lost by 80k votes -- he's unable to top 40% approval and is only 82% in GOP circles. - Will Hunting May 17, 06:14 1
        
        oh, I'm not saying you're prediction is unfounded, just that people are stupid and I will never trust them again -- nm - ty97 May 17, 06:23
        
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TV PSA Arrow, Blindspot, Survivor, Shots Fired, Cavs/Celtics, Goldbergs, Speechless, Empire, Criminal Minds BB, L&O SVU, Modern Family, Storage Wars, -- nm - Beaker May 17, 03:05 1
- Downward Dog, 100, Chicago PD, Fargo, Designated Survivor, Lopez, Archer, Pens/Senators, other stuff -- nm - Beaker May 17, 03:06
follow Not a Wolf -- (link) - prayformojo May 17, 02:04 1
- Okay -- nm - Epiphany May 17, 04:53
It's a Brand New Day. -- (link) - Beryllium May 17, 00:17 [youtube]
If I'm the Celtics--I try to get a deal done with Indiana--Send Paul George (with new contract) to Celtics for the #1 overall pick -- nm - Flavorize May 17, 00:16 6
- Make the trade with the Bulls for Jimmy Butler. -- nm - pmb May 17, 05:49
- The Celtics Won the Lottery. Don’t Overthink It: The Answer Is Markelle Fultz. -- (link) - Beaker May 17, 05:34
- Based on what I've read of Fultz, I hope they keep it and he does what they think he can. They still have Nets 2018 as trade bait if needed, plus lots - Beaker May 17, 04:02 2
  - How do they have the 18 Nets pick? - Will Hunting May 17, 04:05 1
    - this year's was a pick swap so the nets still have a first (Boston's)...also Billy King is an idiot. Hi Krusty. Trade details in IM -- (edited) - Beaker May 17, 04:05
- George is going to LA in a year. -- nm - Will Hunting May 17, 03:54

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