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    QUOTE OF THE YEAR

    By Richard Day on Sat, 09/24/2016 - 4:13pm |

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    I just ran across this at the New Yorker. I cannot even remember why I ended up at the New Yorker. hahhah

    TOLEDO (The Borowitz Report)—At a campaign rally on Friday, Donald Trump warned that Hillary Clinton is scheming to “rig the debate by using facts” in their first televised face-off, on Monday.

    When invited by HRC to google in rebuttal of Trump Truthiness, may the moderator accept the invitation along with the public?

    By jollyroger on Sat, 09/24/2016 - 4:06pm |

    Somewhere or other I have urged google access, and now I see that HRC is seeking such by proxy.

     

    How Stupid.

     

    Why are not all three, moderator, Clinton and Trump on a three way hookup that is itself on a jumbotron, so everyone is playing in the same sandbox, everyone can see the questions (and answers) and link trails in real time.

     

    Digit up, people!

    Japanese Whispers: The Swift Boating of Hillary

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/24/2016 - 7:06am |

    In 2004, after losing the post-9/11 2002 mid-terms, the Democrats fielded a decorated Vietnam veteran against an incumbent president who was revealed to have gone AWOL on his National Guard service, a service in itself that was a bypass of the regular draft.

    Instead of accepting the stacked deck, conservative Republicans immediately went to work reframing - parading a group of veterans to call into doubt Kerry's service, while finding a magic unicorn forged document to derail the otherwise overwhelmingly compelling evidence that Bush had failed to complete.

    Why is there a live audience at the debate on Monday? Should there be?

    By jollyroger on Fri, 09/23/2016 - 2:22pm |

     

    Mark Cuban, as an honored guest of HRC, will be in the front row Monday night.

     

    Prediction markets place the likelihood that he will heckle Trump if things are not going well for Hillary at 72%..

     

    I make it a lock.

     

    On a larger note, it certainly was not historically a "given" that there would be any audience at all.

     

    I think it gives Trump too much opportunity to dodge and duck.

     

    I'm against it.

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    T-RUMP REX

    By Richard Day on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 5:47pm |

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    T-Rump Rex


    I usually depend upon Slate or Washpo for truthiness but Politifact had me laughing so hard:

    http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/lists/people/comparing-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-truth-o-met/

    Cherchez la femme...

    By jollyroger on Tue, 09/20/2016 - 1:37pm |

    New details mention a trip to Quetta, Pakistan (parenthetically the seat of the Quetta Shura...) by Rahami, where he met and GOT MARRIED TO a local girl.  (well, the way they do it, he got married to and then met...)

     

    After that trip, say his compadres, he became markedly devout, you know the rest of the story.

     

    Donald Trump, Low T Candidate

    By jollyroger on Sat, 09/17/2016 - 9:52pm |

    One of the few "hard facts" (see what I did there?) that snuck out from Trump's recent foray into medical transparency, was his total blood testosterone level, viz:

    441

    In his smirking interchange, Trump evinces satisfaction in being informed by Mehmet Oz (who I will not dignify with the customery honorific...) that this is "very good."

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    Why Trump and Why the Alt Right

    By Orion on Sat, 09/17/2016 - 1:29pm |

    I'm gonna say some things here that perhaps you won't want to hear, especially in a venue like this. I will say it never the less.

    There's a reason why Donald Trump made it this far, why he is gaining in the polls and why he could even win.

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    Get To Work and GOTV: Where we were and Where We Are

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 09/17/2016 - 2:01am |

     

    Just for a little bit of comparison...

    Note: x-posted from TMP Hive

    Here's where we were and where we are...

    From: election.princeton.edu/


    And here's a good must read from Sam Wang at PEC.

    Orwell Described Today's GOP 70 Years Ago

    By NCD on Fri, 09/16/2016 - 10:41am |

    Trump campaign: Mr. Trump was finally able to bring this ugly incident to its conclusion by successfully compelling President Obama to release his birth certificate. Mr. Trump did a great service to the President and the country by bringing closure to the issue that Hillary Clinton and her team first raised.

    George Orwell 1946: From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.... Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

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    WHO IS THE MOST PHAT & STUPID, RUSH?

    By Richard Day on Thu, 09/15/2016 - 10:51pm |

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    PHAT

    The term derives from African American Vernacular English as a deliberate misspelling of the word fat.

    Flagging Relief

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 2:24am |

    I've never quite gotten the flag, and growing up, I thought that was part of the point. Didn't everyone else sit through history class and learn how country after country had followed jingoistic rhetoric, crass manipulative symbolism and other tricks of the trade to go get slaughtered? I once read the final chapter to "Johnny Got His Gun" on air - at one point, that was required reading, no?

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    POST HOC ERGO ...

    By Richard Day on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 5:33pm |

     

    NEVER ASSUME
    Never assume, it makes an as out of u and an ass out of me
    (Some ass wrote this a long time ago)

    Hillary takes a shit

    By PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 2:45pm |

    Faced with condemnation from David Axelrot for not being more forthcoming about her pneumonia, Hillary Clinton's team has put the traveling press corps on notice that they will be receiving regular updates on bowel movements, including floaters vs sinkers, as well as any gassy bloated moments, painful urination, drowsiness, irritability, and other possible flaws of human nature and physiology.

    Short G4S stock! Orlando shooter unleashed by same people who set dogs loose at Standing Rock

    By jollyroger on Mon, 09/12/2016 - 2:34pm |

    Call it a bad week for G4S.

     

    G4S is one of those companies generally called "contractors" when private security behemoths are referenced.

     

    In a really, really bad, terrible no-good week for their Vice President for Public Relations, G4S employees made the news for two reasons.

     

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    "To Be Grossly Generalistic..." This 9/11 Week is Going to Be a Real Roller Coaster Ride

    By oldenGoldenDecoy on Sat, 09/10/2016 - 2:01pm |

     

    Okay...

    As I've said many times in my various threads. is one of my old favorite Navy sayings...

    "One-Thousand atta-boys wiped out by one aw-shit!"

    Is this an unfortunate "aw-shit" or a positive "atta-boy?"

    Let's all try and spin this one into a positive.


    September 9, 2016 - WaPo

    Instant Karma bites Trump campaign braintrusters. Good for a handshake? Count your fingers afterward

    By jollyroger on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 8:55pm |

    A delightful bit of instant karma has been visited upon the "ideas-for-sale" cohort of thinking humans (to which category of the population Deadbeat Don has been obliged to outsource his forebrain functions), viz.

     

    As if they ought  by now not know better, they agreed on the basis of verbal contracts made with Trump's agents (in the legal sense..) at the very highest level, to work up foreign policy briefings in prep for the (now immanent) debates.

     

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    THE AMERICAN DREAM

    By Richard Day on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 6:28pm |

    WORKIN ON THE RAILROAD
    150 years ago a strange type of caste system was created.


    The railroads needed engineers as well as hard working men to keep the engines running as well as look-outs making sure that the rails were cleared and many other positions related to a new tech that shrank America in terms of trade.

    Blackmailing Big Brother?

    By PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 2:45am |

    It's hard to see why Assange's current approach to Hillary's records isn't illegal - the emails were obtained illegally, the material isn't presented as news but as a threat, a form of harassment and libel. He'll be putting out "teases" and it could have a "significant impact" on November. He's trading in stolen information to harass a candidate for our highest office - behind his walled protective space in a London embassy with no repercussions. It's a kind of pain free extortion or blackmail or simply a peculiar gaming site on the hill with ability to target characters and sling fireballs and explosives at them one by one. Julian at 13, forever and ever.

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    @!*#$"%#&

    By barefooted on Wed, 09/07/2016 - 1:41am |

    Once upon a time, I lost a post and blogged about it.  This is not that.  I spent hours writing about Trump and Clinton, including everything anyone would possibly want to say but simply couldn't in so eloquently a fashion, only to have it wiped away in one painful swoop.

    I will go on.

    Pay Equality

    By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/06/2016 - 4:39pm |

    So Gretchen wassername has now earned about 50% more than Hillary's speeches over 5 years through a harassment suit, and Ailes has earned twice that amount for quitting. Shame they're not demanding his transcripts. But thebiggest scandal remains the Clinton Foundation, where unlike Fox they trade non-access for non pocketed money. Why do they do it?

    OK Guys read E-Ghazi

    By Flavius on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 11:18pm |

    that's the title of a article/blog in Daily kos by Armando.

    The FBI has released a report on Hillary's email "scandal". Armando goes through it point by point and comments.

    If you're going to comment read that first. I haven't included a link- it's easy enough to go to Daily kos and I'm not sure about the propriety of linking to other paddlers in the Internet puddle.

    It's on the opening page, on the right a few clicks down  under recommended

    Read it and draw your own conclusions.

    I was pleased.

     

    Prez to Duterte: "I crap bigger than you..."

    By jollyroger on Mon, 09/05/2016 - 1:31pm |

     

    The new  president of the Phillipines, in asserting his prerogative to violate generally accepted standards of due process within the boudaries that define his rule, has referenced President Obama in pungent terms...

     

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