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Post by Outsider on Mar 19, 2016 10:31:33 GMT -5
Here we go, let me know if you guys like this format, and i'll create a new board each day - or just Monday to Friday - you guys tell me what you prefer.
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Post by Outsider on Mar 19, 2016 10:38:19 GMT -5
Former KKK Grand Dragon Explains Why Racists Like Trump Scott Shepherd, once a high-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan—and David Duke’s ex-right-hand man—discusses why Donald Trump is appealing to white supremacists. Donald Trump will never own up to just why racists and white supremacists are flocking to his presidential campaign, or why his rallies are increasingly marred by ugly outbursts of racially fueled violence. One outspoken anti-racist has an explanation: Trump speaks to the issues that America’s white supremacists care about. Scott Shepherd, a former Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan—who once called ex-KKK leader David Duke a good friend—sees strong similarities between Duke’s campaigns for public office and Trump’s GOP Presidential bid. “Their campaigns are pretty much parallel when I look at it,” Shepherd told The Daily Beast in Austin, Texas, where he appeared in the new documentary Accidental Courtesy, about R&B musician Daryl Davis’s crusade to convert Klansmen by befriending them. “Trump won’t take a direct stand in Israel, and these are the things white supremacists are looking at,” said the soft-spoken Shepherd. “They’re latching onto him because his campaign is pretty much in line with their beliefs.” www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/19/former-kkk-grand-dragon-explains-why-racists-like-trump.html
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Post by Outsider on Mar 19, 2016 10:39:19 GMT -5
Bill Maher: Trump Is ‘The White Kanye West,’ and America’s Self-Esteem Movement Is to Blame On Friday night’s ‘Real Time with Bill Maher,’ the host unloaded on modern-day parenting for creating the ‘spoiled five-year-old throwing a tantrum’ that is Donald Trump. In mid-January, in an interview with The Daily Beast, political satirist Bill Maher branded Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) “scarier than Donald Trump,” explaining that whereas Cruz is “high intelligence in the service of evil,” the bombastic real estate heir/reality TV star “also says some things that a liberal can love.” Not anymore. You see, that was January, before Trump required considerable public pressure to distance himself from former KKK leader David Duke, his shady campaign manager allegedly assaulted a female journalist (for a pro-Trump propaganda site, no less), and his rallies turned into disturbing White Lives Matter summits, where aggrieved, racist whites get so worked up by Trump’s xenophobic blame it on them rhetoric—and his encouragement of violence as a means to silence those opposed to him—that they regularly abuse black protesters exercising their First Amendment rights. Oh, and he took it upon himself to defend the size of his penis during a nationally televised presidential debate. “Republicans are coming around to the idea that their only savior of Donald Trump is Ted Cruz,” said Maher on Friday night’s edition of Real Time. “It’s like that horror movie where the guy runs up to the policeman thinking he’s saved, and the policeman is one of the zombies. Hey, life is about shitty choices, and if I have to decide between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, count me in for Ted Cruz.” “Donald Trump this week literally said the words, ‘All I know is what’s on the Internet,’” added a bewildered Maher. “This guy’s going to change America’s symbol from the bald eagle to a turtle fucking a shoe!” During his “New Rules” segment closing out the HBO program, Maher blamed the rise of Trump, a Vietnam draft-dodger who was born with the most shimmering of silver spoons in his mouth, on American parents’ coddling of children. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/18/bill-maher-trump-is-the-white-kanye-west-and-america-s-self-esteem-movement-is-to-blame.html
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Post by Outsider on Mar 19, 2016 10:44:00 GMT -5
Senate GOP Must Choose: Merrick Garland, Hillary Clinton, or Donald Trump By refusing even to hear Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court, Republicans are risking a Hillary or Donald nominee they won’t be able to stop. Senate Republicans have only three choices for the next Supreme Court justice: Merrick Garland, a young liberal from Hillary Clinton, or God Knows Who from Donald Trump. You’d think, given that Door #2 is quite likely, and Door #3 is a game of chance, that they’d give a closer look (or any look) to a 63-year-old moderate once praised by Orrin Hatch and Chief Justice John Roberts. Senate Republican leaders, however, are placing their bets on Donald Trump. Despite the grave reservations some Republicans have expressed about his candidacy—Lindsey Graham is now raising money for Ted Cruz, for God’s sake—they seem oddly confident that Trump will faithfully nominate a Scalia-like replacement for the late Justice Scalia, and have thrown the constitution into the Russell Building’s fireplace in order to enable him to do so. This despite the fact that nothing Trump does is ever that predictable, and that the rumor mill’s favorite candidate for a Trump SCOTUS pick is his own sister, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, nominated for the district court by President Reagan and the appellate court by Bill Clinton. (Barry did testify in favor of confirming Justice Alito, burnishing her conservative credentials.) Moreover, as Five Thirty Eight observed in its usual geeky detail, a Trump candidacy might well have a negative effect down the ballot, tilting the Senate to the Democrats. Then Hillary Clinton could nominate whomever she wanted. Based on current betting markets, Five Thirty Eight gave this a 40 percent chance of coming to pass. So why, if the risks are so high, are Senate Republicans playing Russian Roulette with the Supreme Court? Simple. Because the leadership isn’t really that different from Trump after all. First, the current strategy—in Trump’s own formulation, “Delay, Delay, Delay”—reeks of his anti-political extremist philosophy: damn the whole system, shut the doors, ban the Muslims, build the wall. There’s no precedent for refusing, for nine months, to even hold a hearing on a Supreme Court nominee. Such disrespect for the constitution and tradition, in the name of an invented idea that the “people should decide” (more on that in a moment), makes no sense in the party of John McCain and pre-2016 Charles Grassley. It only makes sense in the party of Donald Trump. Second, the Senate’s political calculation is as rash as Trump’s tweeting style. There seems to be no consideration given to what this scorched earth policy will mean once the shoe is on the other foot, and a Democratic Senate is asked to confirm Republican nominees. Does anyone expect that Democrats will somehow rise above partisanship after this oath-defying Republican obstructionism? The Senate leadership’s rhetoric is also Trumpian in its delegitimization of President Obama. “Republicans think the people deserve a voice in this critical decision,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “The president does not. So we disagree in this instance and as a result, we logically act as a check and balance.” Well, that’s not true at all. Of course the president (and Senate Democrats) believes the people deserve a voice. In fact, the people spoke with that voice when they reelected President Obama in 2012, among other things entrusting him with four full years of filling judicial vacancies. www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/18/senate-gop-must-choose-merrick-garland-hillary-clinton-or-donald-trump.html
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Post by tittletag on Mar 19, 2016 11:58:46 GMT -5
Number 1. You are dominating this thread. Well done! Number 2. Is there a way to respond to specific comments or is each comment sequential?
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Post by diecash1 on Mar 19, 2016 13:37:57 GMT -5
I think the repubs will go all in and block Obama's nominee. There's too much pressure on any (of there are any left) reasonable repubs for them to "capitulate" to Obama. Really, there best move is to confirm this guy because any nominee by Hillary will be significantly younger and more liberal, but I'm sure that they will hold out hope for a miracle. The base demands it.
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Post by kbanginmotown on Mar 19, 2016 13:46:39 GMT -5
Question 1: How to scale down avatars so thatt they do not take up so much real estate? Question 2: Same as tittletag #2: How to reply to individual comments?
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Post by diecash1 on Mar 19, 2016 13:52:28 GMT -5
Question # 3: Can we receive notifications when comments are posted? I don't see this option, but I haven't tried the app yet.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 19, 2016 14:00:49 GMT -5
Question # 3: Can we receive notifications when comments are posted? I don't see this option, but I haven't tried the app yet. Don't know about the app but in the top right is a button called "Participated" which will have a new icon if there's new posts. The forum is sequential but you can respond to individual posts using the "Quote" button. Another argument in favor of separate threads for each story.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 19, 2016 15:35:09 GMT -5
Number 1. You are dominating this thread. Well done! Number 2. Is there a way to respond to specific comments or is each comment sequential? No
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 19, 2016 15:37:40 GMT -5
We could rename it to something like Daily Read and date - considering that we usually just yammer on the whole day.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 19, 2016 15:45:32 GMT -5
A Romney walks into a bar and tells everyone he's onboard with Cruz. Except for that other time
"I badly want Obamacare to go away, and stripping it of funds has appeal. But we need to exercise great care about any talk of shutting down government," Romney said in the first speech of its kind since his November election loss to Obama. "What would come next when soldiers aren't paid, when seniors fear for their Medicare and Social Security, and when the FBI is off duty?...I'm probably not the first person you'd ask for advice. But because we all learn from our mistakes, I may have a thought or two of value."
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Post by Outsider on Mar 19, 2016 17:32:58 GMT -5
FOGGY IS BACK!!! i'm very glad you came back Foggy!
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Post by LA_Randy on Mar 19, 2016 18:52:14 GMT -5
Just experimenting:
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Post by phillippatUK on Mar 19, 2016 19:29:05 GMT -5
(FY/AI, we have a long-running live-music tv show over here called Later With Jools Holland. If you're looking for live performances (other than full concerts) it can be a good place to look, so long as they've come over here, of course...)
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Post by tittletag on Mar 19, 2016 19:39:21 GMT -5
He is better playing guitar with his feet than I am with my hands. So sad.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 19, 2016 20:18:59 GMT -5
[video src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT2JbSayTLk"][/video]
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 19, 2016 21:39:31 GMT -5
(FY/AI, we have a long-running live-music tv show over here called Later With Jools Holland. If you're looking for live performances (other than full concerts) it can be a good place to look, so long as they've come over here, of course...) Cool video as usual
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Post by LA_Randy on Mar 19, 2016 21:57:01 GMT -5
He is better playing guitar with his feet than I am with my hands. So sad. Sad to say it is the same with me.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 20, 2016 0:06:55 GMT -5
He is better playing guitar with his feet than I am with my hands. So sad. Sad to say it is the same with me. I can't even play pots and pans.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 20, 2016 0:17:12 GMT -5
Massive DDOS attack against Swedish Media sites. Shutting them all down (almost) for hours. It started with a anonymous threat over twitter. Apparently someone wanted to attack free speech in Sweden and shut down what they call lying Swedish Media.
Having read Swedish med from the time I left I'd say that they must be doing something wrong that managed to make the guy or group behind the attack so pissed. I'm guessing some country - type Russia or whatnot that don't like truth. The fact that similar attacks are not done on USA Media companies can only be explained with the fact that they're fairly terrible. It's either gobs of punditry or repeat of other Media outlets like AP and Reuters.
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Post by forgottenlord on Mar 20, 2016 0:29:03 GMT -5
Massive DDOS attack against Swedish Media sites. Shutting them all down (almost) for hours. It started with a anonymous threat over twitter. Apparently someone wanted to attack free speech in Sweden and shut down what they call lying Swedish Media. Having read Swedish med from the time I left I'd say that they must be doing something wrong that managed to make the guy or group behind the attack so pissed. I'm guessing some country - type Russia or whatnot that don't like truth. The fact that similar attacks are not done on USA Media companies can only be explained with the fact that they're fairly terrible. It's either gobs of punditry or repeat of other Media outlets like AP and Reuters. Or the quality of the American Education system.
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Post by mrobvious on Mar 20, 2016 10:44:19 GMT -5
Massive DDOS attack against Swedish Media sites. Shutting them all down (almost) for hours. It started with a anonymous threat over twitter. Apparently someone wanted to attack free speech in Sweden and shut down what they call lying Swedish Media. Having read Swedish med from the time I left I'd say that they must be doing something wrong that managed to make the guy or group behind the attack so pissed. I'm guessing some country - type Russia or whatnot that don't like truth. The fact that similar attacks are not done on USA Media companies can only be explained with the fact that they're fairly terrible. It's either gobs of punditry or repeat of other Media outlets like AP and Reuters. Or the quality of the American Education system. I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the quality of education journalists gets - but Media companies are not interested in investigative journalism.
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Post by oreo062200 on Mar 20, 2016 11:15:21 GMT -5
I'm back
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Post by oreo062200 on Mar 20, 2016 11:17:27 GMT -5
I'm back
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I'm back and it wasn't me.
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Post by I'm back and it wasn't me. on Mar 20, 2016 11:21:12 GMT -5
Hello.
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Post by kw on Mar 20, 2016 11:26:27 GMT -5
Number 1. You are dominating this thread. Well done! Number 2. Is there a way to respond to specific comments or is each comment sequential? No
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Post by kw on Mar 20, 2016 11:28:21 GMT -5
Its terrible and its like a maze.
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Post by Outsider on Mar 20, 2016 12:49:05 GMT -5
Which is why we started new threads for each post. Wern, you're welcome. You have never acted the way Collie did. So welcome, you don't have to come as a guest. Though you can if you like.
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Post by Outsider on Mar 20, 2016 12:49:47 GMT -5
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