A Very Touching Short Animated Film: The Present

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After a very successful festival circuit, running on over 180 film festivals and winning more than 50 awards, we’ve decided that it’s finally time to share “The Present” with the rest of the world.

“The Present” is a thesis short from the Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

We really hope you enjoy the result of our hard work. Thanks to everyone who help creating this film and everyone who supported us during the festivals. Thanks a lot for making this such an incredible journey.

“The Present” is based on a great little comic strip by the very talented Fabio Coala.
Make sure to check out his page: www.mentirinhas.com.br

Soundtrack by “Zealand”
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/present-feat.-septemberkind/id915500091

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 4:52:39pm

Following up on the chair thing…

Youtube Video

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 4:56:04pm

I just tried it a few times myself with about a 50/50 success rate. My shorter height may explain why I was able to break even.

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b.d.  Jan 31, 2016 • 4:58:01pm

Great film

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b.d.  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:01:11pm

When Obama was running against HRC in the primary I don’t remember the outright hatred being spewed at her from the people backing Obama. I am afraid that a few folks have worked themselves into such a tizzy that they’ll never vote for HRC if she is the nominee.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:01:18pm

re: #1 Eclectic Cyborg

Following up on the chair thing…

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Video

I thought you’re supposed to put your head not your butt against the wall.

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calochortus  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:02:27pm

re: #5 The Vicious Babushka

I thought you’re supposed to put your head not your butt against the wall.

You are.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:03:13pm

re: #5 The Vicious Babushka

I thought you’re supposed to put your head not your butt against the wall.

It appears you are right. That’s what I get for not paying too close attention to the video.
I did do the exercise correctly myself.

Okay, I’ve amended my post to a video showing the correct example.

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Jenner7  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:05:40pm

That made me cry.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:07:15pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:07:21pm

re: #4 b.d.

When Obama was running against HRC in the primary I don’t remember the outright hatred being spewed at her from the people backing Obama. I am afraid that a few folks have worked themselves into such a tizzy that they’ll never vote for HRC if she is the nominee.

I imagine the response to Bernie endorsing her upon losing the race will be absolute frothing rage from his supporters, much like the PUMAs after Hillary quit the race in ‘08.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:08:25pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart

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Chuck C Johnson must be so conflicted right now.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:09:43pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart

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That’s awful.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:10:26pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:12:14pm

re: #13 Tigger2

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We could only be so lucky. I don’t think Trump picks a guy in his mid 80’s as his running mate though but do I think Arpaio has his ear, absolutely.

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WhatEVs  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:12:30pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I just tried it a few times myself with about a 50/50 success rate. My shorter height may explain why I was able to break even.

Hubby just did it and looked at me like I was nuts. “What was supposed to happen?” I ‘splained it to him.

He’s about 5’10” but is longer in the torso. Perhaps that’s why it was easy peasy for him.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:13:00pm

re: #8 Jenner7

That made me cry.

I got a little verklempt myself.

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Targetpractice  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:15:00pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart

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I doubt wingnuts will lose any steam over this. I actually feel somewhat sorry for this girl, as the nutters are now likely to assume she either was forced into making a false confession or that she’s part of a “false flag” staged by the German gov’t to cast doubt on stories about Muslim migrants.

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WhatEVs  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:15:10pm

I don’t know anything about this site but what an interesting article.

counterpunch.org

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HappyWarrior  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:16:37pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

I doubt wingnuts will lose any steam over this. I actually feel somewhat sorry for this girl, as the nutters are now likely to assume she either was forced into making a false confession or that she’s part of a “false flag” staged by the German gov’t to cast doubt on stories about Muslim migrants.

Right. My thoughts exactly.

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WhatEVs  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:16:52pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

I doubt wingnuts will lose any steam over this. I actually feel somewhat sorry for this girl, as the nutters are now likely to assume she either was forced into making a false confession or that she’s part of a “false flag” staged by the German gov’t to cast doubt on stories about Muslim migrants.

I think they’ll behave like every other outrage, ignore anything that conflicts.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:22:21pm

re: #18 WhatEVs

I don’t know anything about this site but what an interesting article.

counterpunch.org

The fact that it’s counterpunch (a so-far-left-it’s-right Greenwaldian-type site) makes me not want to click on it.

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Targetpractice  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:25:14pm

re: #20 WhatEVs

I think they’ll behave like every other outrage, ignore anything that conflicts.

Most will, but the thing about “martyrs” when it comes to wingnuts is that they can never prove to be anything but. That this story not only led to protests, but also a cross-border spat, will generate a very real need to believe that it’s still “true” despite her confession.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:27:36pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart

Thanks for nothing Russia.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:29:36pm
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Kryptik  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:31:52pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

I doubt wingnuts will lose any steam over this. I actually feel somewhat sorry for this girl, as the nutters are now likely to assume she either was forced into making a false confession or that she’s part of a “false flag” staged by the German gov’t to cast doubt on stories about Muslim migrants.

Just as likely it goes completely down the memory hole while the initial claim continues to go viral and continue the freak out. The sheer amount of raging xenophobia I’ve seen stirred up because of stuff happening (or supposedly happening) in Germany and Sweden has been so depressing astronomical, and again how much I’ve seen from otherwise left wing people that end up jumping on the ‘All immigrants are psychotic savage scum!!’ line is just…goddammit.

It just feels like it’s getting worse in a way that’s impossible stem at this rate.

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WhatEVs  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:32:10pm

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

The fact that it’s counterpunch (a so-far-left-it’s-right Greenwaldian-type site) makes me not want to click on it.

It’s a historical article about Mormon history and how it relates to the Bundy’s and militias. FWIW.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:34:09pm

re: #26 WhatEVs

Largely correct too. I have read One Nation Under Gods in the past, and the article does gloss over a number of anti-Federal incidents as well, along with the causes of tension in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:35:04pm

re: #23 Ziggy_TARDIS

Thanks for nothing Russia.

If Russia is involved then one must be on the lookout for FSB “Active Measures” intended to push opinions in Moscow’s favor.

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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:35:27pm

Anyone watch the NHL All Star Game?

There was an online movement to get John Scott on the All Star team, he’s a journeyman, 285 games in 7 years, 5 goals - basically an enforcer type. He ended up being voted the captain of the Pacific Division team (he played for the Phoenix Coyotes). The league didn’t like it, so they tried to get him to turn it down. That didn’t work, so he was sent to the minors (allegedly at the behest of the league office), and then traded to a team in the Eastern Conference (to play for their minor league team).

The fans revolted. So the league let him play.

This year, they did a four team tournament - 3 on 3 - a team representing each division. Scott scored two goals in the first game. A former teammate, Patrick Kane also got in a “fight” with him, for fun.

He was also voted All Star Game MVP by the fans. Got the full treatment too, as fans in the arena were chanting “MVP” for him before the announcement was even made. (I’m guessing that the league is still not entirely happy about the situation, but Gary Bettman, the commissioner is absolutely despised by fans)

It’s a nice reminder, I think, for sports fans who bitch about pro athletes and say that they “suck” - those guys are still typically one of the best 500 or so athletes in their sport in the entire world.

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Jenner7  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:36:18pm
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sagehen  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:37:37pm

re: #4 b.d.

When Obama was running against HRC in the primary I don’t remember the outright hatred being spewed at her from the people backing Obama. I am afraid that a few folks have worked themselves into such a tizzy that they’ll never vote for HRC if she is the nominee.

oh, I do. Keith Olbermann did whole shows about how appalling he found her.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:38:26pm

In about 24 hours we are going to be elbow deep in the Iowa Caucus. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the right. I’m betting Cruz for the win, Trump to place about 7 percentage points behind, and Rubio shows well off the pace. The Daily Double (Iowa and New Hampshire is Cruz / Trump).

RBS

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Reckless Disregard  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:38:46pm

re: #29 KGxvi

theplayerstribune.com Read this if you haven’t already. Fun piece by Scott.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:39:30pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:39:31pm

re: #29 KGxvi

I have such a huge fucking smile on my face.

He has been so classy about this whole thing - you can see what he wrote about it here. The Pacific wasn’t expected to do well in this because he was on the team.

He scored twice. It was an awesome game. And they pulled it out for him, and he gets MVP. His share of the million pot and a new car for being MVP.

But the best part was how fucking happy he was about the whole thing. From start to finish. No matter how it turned out.

Apologies to any Lizards who follow me on Twitter for all the John Scott spam.

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BeachDem  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:39:40pm

re: #30 Jenner7

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Why would anyone even WANT a $100 million ballroom at the White House? (And if TRUMP was going to build it, it would have been hideously gaudy and obnoxious, just like him.)

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:39:50pm
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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:40:14pm

re: #27 Ziggy_TARDIS

Largely correct too. I have read One Nation Under Gods in the past, and the article does gloss over a number of anti-Federal incidents as well, along with the causes of tension in New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois.

Still, the article is posted on a disreputable site. Counterpunch isn’t vicious as World Net Daily is, but its still a cave whose ceiling is full of moonbats clinging to it while its floor is covered in their guano.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:40:53pm

re: #30 Jenner7

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Isn’t that what the East Room is already?

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EmmaAnne  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:41:38pm

re: #15 WhatEVs

Hubby just did it and looked at me like I was nuts. “What was supposed to happen?” I ‘splained it to him.

He’s about 5’10” but is longer in the torso. Perhaps that’s why it was easy peasy for him.

My husband can do it just as easily as I can. And he has plenty of upper body musculature. 6’ tall, too.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:44:29pm

re: #13 Tigger2

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Of course it’s fake. That’s not Arpaio, that’s LePage.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:45:23pm

re: #29 KGxvi

Anyone watch the NHL All Star Game?

There was an online movement to get John Scott on the All Star team, he’s a journeyman, 285 games in 7 years, 5 goals - basically an enforcer type. He ended up being voted the captain of the Pacific Division team (he played for the Phoenix Coyotes). The league didn’t like it, so they tried to get him to turn it down. That didn’t work, so he was sent to the minors (allegedly at the behest of the league office), and then traded to a team in the Eastern Conference (to play for their minor league team).

The fans revolted. So the league let him play.

This year, they did a four team tournament - 3 on 3 - a team representing each division. Scott scored two goals in the first game. A former teammate, Patrick Kane also got in a “fight” with him, for fun.

He was also voted All Star Game MVP by the fans. Got the full treatment too, as fans in the arena were chanting “MVP” for him before the announcement was even made. (I’m guessing that the league is still not entirely happy about the situation, but Gary Bettman, the commissioner is absolutely despised by fans)

It’s a nice reminder, I think, for sports fans who bitch about pro athletes and say that they “suck” - those guys are still typically one of the best 500 or so athletes in their sport in the entire world.

Exactly!!!! When you consider that pretty much pro athlete is so far off the norm of performance as to genuinely be considered a “freak of nature”. I remember watching a high-def video at real time speed of what a batter sees when facing a 95 MPH fastball and a tennis player facing a 120 MPH serve.

I don’t even want to talk about things like skiers, bikers and other who just aren’t human.

RBS

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TedStriker  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:45:36pm

re: #30 Jenner7

Yeah, Trump’s full of shit.

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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:46:32pm

re: #35 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I actually kind of hope this idea of voting a journeyman onto All Star teams becomes a thing. The NBA All Star game is about the only one I typically watch, but even that is half hearted. This sort of thing would make them much more interesting.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:46:49pm

re: #41 Barefoot Grin

Of course it’s fake. That’s not Arpaio, that’s LePage.

That is Arpaio

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:47:11pm

re: #42 Reality Based Steve

Exactly!!!! When you consider that pretty much pro athlete is so far off the norm of performance as to genuinely be considered a “freak of nature”. I remember watching a high-def video at real time speed of what a batter sees when facing a 95 MPH fastball and a tennis player facing a 120 MPH serve.

I don’t even want to talk about things like skiers, bikers and other who just aren’t human.

RBS

He was in the hardest shot competition yesterday. (Full disclosure, I watched all the ASG stuff because of John Scott being a fucking awesome human being.) He was middle of the pack, with a shot of almost 96mph.

The only reason Scott looked “less good” was because he was being compared to the league superstars. He still made the league.

Also the guy has his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Michigan Tech, which is not exactly a slacker engineering school.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:47:45pm

re: #45 FormerDirtDart

That is Arpaio

Concur. That’s “Sheriff Joe” alright.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:48:15pm

re: #44 KGxvi

I actually kind of hope this idea of voting a journeyman onto All Star teams becomes a thing. The NBA All Star game is about the only one I typically watch, but even that is half hearted. This sort of thing would make them much more interesting.

The NHL is still pissy about this. Unless they can get their old-boys-clubheads out of their asses, I’m not expecting it to happen.

Bettman gets booed for a reason.

I have never been as invested in the ASG before.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:48:31pm

re: #45 FormerDirtDart

That is Arpaio

I know. But they really are doppelgangers in several ways.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:48:34pm

LMAO

Posted by Funniest 15 Seconds on Sunday, January 24, 2016
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:48:40pm

Les really really likes pie:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:49:06pm

re: #45 FormerDirtDart

That is Arpaio

They all look alike.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:50:20pm

re: #10 Targetpractice

I imagine the response to Bernie endorsing her upon losing the race will be absolute frothing rage from his supporters, much like the PUMAs after Hillary quit the race in ‘08.

I really think there are a ton of Ron Paul people supporting Bernie.

I love Bernie, but he’s not going to be President.

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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:51:39pm

re: #48 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Bettman gets booed for a reason.

I like how it was just reported, because a reporter had to investigate it, that Bettman signed a contract extension to keep him on the job through like 2022. It was like, “oh, yeah, we did that back in September, because fuck you.”

My folks have season tickets for the Ducks, I was lucky enough to go to the game last year when the Ducks retired Selanne’s number. I’ve never seen more heat from an Anaheim crowd for anyone - and I was at the Royal Rumble in 1999, when heat was expected.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:52:30pm

re: #38 Dark_Falcon

Call it a Broken Clock Moment.

Everything they have written there can be found in more reputable sources.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:53:14pm

re: #54 KGxvi

I like how it was just reported, because a reporter had to investigate it, that Bettman signed a contract extension to keep him on the job through like 2022. It was like, “oh, yeah, we did that back in September, because fuck you.”

My folks have season tickets for the Ducks, I was lucky enough to go to the game last year when the Ducks retired Selanne’s number. I’ve never seen more heat from an Anaheim crowd for anyone - and I was at the Royal Rumble in 1999, when heat was expected.

I cheered a Corey Perry goal. Because John Scott.

THE GREAT UNITER!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:53:41pm

heh

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Stanley Sea  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:53:52pm

re: #30 Jenner7

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Only Drumph would need a 100 million ballroom.

GAH

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:54:10pm

How meal prep feels like when dieting.#Nutrex #gymmeme #mealprep #LIPO6Rx

Posted by Nutrex Research, Inc. on Thursday, January 28, 2016
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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:55:12pm

re: #53 Stanley Sea

I really think there are a ton of Ron Paul people supporting Bernie.

I love Bernie, but he’s not going to be President.

I don’t think they’re Ron Paul supporters, they might be the Democratic equivalent of Ron Paul supporters.

I’m really curious what happens in the general if it ends up being Hillary against Trump or Cruz. All three of them seem to have pretty solid favorability numbers that run around net 5% unfavorable.

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sagehen  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:57:14pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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are those buzzards?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:57:53pm

re: #61 sagehen

are those buzzards?

Vultures I think.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 5:58:29pm

re: #55 Ziggy_TARDIS

Call it a Broken Clock Moment.

Everything they have written there can be found in more reputable sources.

Then those facts need to be assembled at a more reputable location.

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Great White Snark  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:06:19pm

re: #53 Stanley Sea

I really think there are a ton of Ron Paul people supporting Bernie.

I love Bernie, but he’s not going to be President.

All that’s just fine, we gotta love how he shapes the debate. An honest leftie schools the Dem Org pro politician candidate. And her base. Particularly on the corporate influence thing. Poor guy is singing solo. My California Dem friends figure her all tied up on domestic business/economic matters.

The better Bernie does for now the better candidate and President HRC might be more able to manage. He can buy her room on the left by a set of hard arguments now and getting behind her later. Room she wants but can’t get herself and win.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:08:58pm

re: #62 Eclectic Cyborg

Vultures I think.

With the snow melted off the trees here in the Midwest (it was 50 degrees in Chicago today), the vultures are perched in the trees in Iowa, waiting for campaigns to die.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:09:01pm

re: #59 Tigger2

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I actually disagree with that. The key is finding the stuff that is healthy for you that you like to eat. :p

And then figuring out how to eat it in moderation.

I also have come to the conclusion that getting on, and keeping on, a steady exercise program is more of a key to losing weight than the diet.

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lockjawcanbefun  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:09:02pm

re: #29 KGxvi

John Scott’s name was also supposedly left off the ballot for MVP, but got the vote as a write-in.

The game also caused Amy Grant to start trending. For this:

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Great White Snark  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:10:06pm

Sorry folks screwed up the sentences in 64 above, makes a lot more sense now.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:10:27pm

re: #64 Great White Snark

All that’s just fine, we gotta love how he shapes the debate. An honest leftie schools the Dem Org pro politician candidate. And her base. Particularly on the corporate influence thing. Poor guy is singing solo. My California Dem friends figure her all tied up on domestic business/economic matters.

The better Bernie does for now the better candidate and President HRC might more able to be. He can buy her room on the left by a set of hard arguments not and getting behind her later.

Unless the pure Bernie’s go all PUMA. They are that hateful of Ms. Rodham.

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ObserverArt  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:11:04pm

re: #65 Dark_Falcon

With the snow melted off the trees here in the Midwest (it was 50 degrees in Chicago today), the vultures are perched in the tress in Iowa, waiting for campaigns to die.

I think they have a list drawn up. Rand Paul, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina. Ready to start picking some bones clean.

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Great White Snark  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:13:01pm

re: #69 Stanley Sea

That’s his job as he loses the primary, to rally his people. That will be the true test of his skills to lead. If he can do that it’s a win for all but the GOP.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:14:16pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:14:25pm
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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:15:03pm

re: #67 lockjawcanbefun

the way the crowd was chanting for him, if the NHL was stupid enough to give it to someone else, it would have been Ten Cent Beer Night all over again.

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ObserverArt  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:16:32pm

re: #73 FormerDirtDart

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Well, business for small sign shops with both printers and vinyl lettering plotter/cutters sure got a boost making all that signage.

(Used to manage a small sign shop for about 5 years.)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:19:34pm

Speaking of diets - some food pr0n from tonight’s meal.

Salad (not shown); roast vegetables (carrot, squash, parsnip) and pork tenderloin in a garlic-fennel marinade. Also put garlic cloves on top of the meat and they roasted out nicely. :)

Beer (not shown) was a nice wheat. Dreamweaver by Troeg’s Brewery in Hershey, PA.

Deferred dessert is a apple pie with macerated cranberries. Liquid the cranberries got to sit in was lemon juice and Benedictine.

Pork tenderloin, veggies, and roasted garlic
Pie and pork about to go into the oven

I can recommend the marinade since it put a really nice garlic flavor on the pork with a hint of the licorice/fennel flavor which I also enjoy. Best of the marinade varieties I have found in Wegman’s so far. (They also do chicken and beef if pork is not your thing.)

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:20:19pm

re: #73 FormerDirtDart

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:20:35pm

re: #73 FormerDirtDart

I wonder if Abbott has friends in the sign and decal business.

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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:20:49pm

re: #67 lockjawcanbefun

Also, if you want some fun, go to the NHL’s twitter feed and see how people are replying to their posts where announce Scott as the MVP and then call him a hero. It almost makes me not hate twitter.

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ObserverArt  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:21:48pm

Charles…I was at a buddy’s house earlier today and was looking at the CDs he had been listening to recently. One of them was a digitally remastered double CD of George Duke’s From Me to You and Reach for It albums. I see you are featured on a couple of the songs on Reach for It.

Gonna give it a listen.

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:23:56pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

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That’s certainly the hope - that America becomes more and more numb to gun fetishists and accustomed to seeing people cosplaying with dangerous toys in public, instead of treating it as the cult of human sacrifice that it is.

Sadly, I think that’s probably your hope as well.

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Belafon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:24:50pm

re: #78 Feline Fearless Leader

I wonder if Abbott has friends in the sign and decal business.

Nope. The top of the Republican party here in Texas are believers, i.e. crazy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:25:00pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

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no

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:25:39pm

re: #81 Renaissance_Man

It’s pretty hard to get used to the jerks attached to the guns; they keep making themselves known.

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ObserverArt  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:25:41pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

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Bleech!!!

Guns, guns, guns, guns…glorious GUNS!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:26:22pm

re: #85 ObserverArt

Bleech!!!

Guns, guns, guns, guns…glorious GUNS!

Until the blah people are carrying them.

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:27:18pm
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Belafon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:27:37pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

Actually, what’s happened here in Texas is that the crazy people who need to wave their dicks guns around have caused shops that allowed concealed carry to ban both. People who have to wear them open are doing it for one reason, to be bullies. They are openly threatening people around them, essentially stating “Look, I have the ability to kill you. Don’t cross me.”

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:28:43pm

Yeah, they’re “Patriots”…

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:29:02pm

re: #80 ObserverArt

Charles…I was at a buddy’s house earlier today and was looking at the CDs he had been listening to recently. One of them was a digitally remastered double CD of George Duke’s From Me to You and Reach for It albums. I see you are featured on a couple of the songs on Reach for It.

Gonna give it a listen.

One of the gold records on the wall in my office is for “Reach For It.” I co-wrote that track, and I’m still getting royalties and re-use payments for it.

Because it was funky.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:29:18pm

re: #86 Feline Fearless Leader

Until the blah people are carrying them.

If that starts happening there wont be a gun law strict enough for the wingnuts.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:30:42pm
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Stanley Sea  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:32:37pm

re: #76 Feline Fearless Leader

Speaking of diets - some food pr0n from tonight’s meal.

Salad (not shown); roast vegetables (carrot, squash, parsnip) and pork tenderloin in a garlic-fennel marinade. Also put garlic cloves on top of the meat and they roasted out nicely. :)

Beer (not shown) was a nice wheat. Dreamweaver by Troeg’s Brewery in Hershey, PA.

Deferred dessert is a apple pie with macerated cranberries. Liquid the cranberries got to sit in was lemon juice and Benedictine.

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I can recommend the marinade since it put a really nice garlic flavor on the pork with a hint of the licorice/fennel flavor which I also enjoy. Best of the marinade varieties I have found in Wegman’s so far. (They also do chicken and beef if pork is not your thing.)

YUM. Bravo.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:33:09pm

re: #86 Feline Fearless Leader

Until the blah people are carrying them.

In Texas that already happens. The Open Carry people decided that they cared about carrying around their guns more than they worried about black people doing likewise. Their attachment to their guns overcame racial panic, which is progress. Progress of an odd kind, but a step forward still in the racial fears have diminished in priority.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:33:49pm

re: #91 Tigger2

When that starts happening there wont be a gun law strict enough for the wingnuts.

I believe unfortunately it is instead going to be a recurring series of “stand your ground” or “police in fear” shootings of minorities that result in either large civil penalties to individuals and towns for wrongful death to the point that there is taxpayer revolt to roll things back. Or, worse, they legislate out civil lawsuits for these shootings at the state or federal level. If that happens I expect within a decade things will get very very bad since such a move will essentially be declaring open season on people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:34:27pm

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

In Texas that already happens. The Open Carry people decided that they cared about carrying around their guns more than they worried about black people doing likewise. Their attachment to their guns overcame racial panic, which is progress. Progress of an odd kind, but a step forward still in the racial fears have diminished in priority.

only the right kind of blah people…

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Belafon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:34:29pm

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

In Texas that already happens. The Open Carry people decided that they cared about carrying around their guns more than they worried about black people doing likewise. Their attachment to their guns overcame racial panic, which is progress. Progress of an odd kind, but a step forward still in the racial fears have diminished in priority.

I remember it slightly differently. The black open carry group in Fort Worth got followed by cops until they broke up. The white open carry group didn’t have cops.

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ObserverArt  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:35:39pm

re: #97 Belafon

I remember it slightly differently. The black open carry group in Fort Worth got followed by cops until they broke up. The white open carry group didn’t have cops.

Details, details. Pffft. /

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:36:17pm

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

In Texas that already happens. The Open Carry people decided that they cared about carrying around their guns more than they worried about black people doing likewise. Their attachment to their guns overcame racial panic, which is progress. Progress of an odd kind, but a step forward still in the racial fears have diminished in priority.

Sorry, but I think that’s a delusional statement. Outside of a few places in large cities a group of blacks doing open carry would draw a heavy LE response and probably some sort of “I was afraid of them so I shot at them” response which would then morph into some sort of “stand my ground” defense at the trial. Assuming there is one.

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Stephen T.  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:37:07pm

re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg

I just tried it a few times myself with about a 50/50 success rate. My shorter height may explain why I was able to break even.

I’m 6’ even. I’m able to do it with lighter weight chairs, say a folding chair, every time. I don’t know why I, as a man, can do this.

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TedStriker  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:37:48pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

One of the gold records on the wall in my office is for “Reach For It.” I co-wrote that track, and I’m still getting royalties and re-use payments for it.

Because it was funky.

Can’t blame you one bit for a humblebrag there. because you earned it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:38:05pm

Do you think Hillary would offer Bernie a cabinet position if he wins??

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:38:31pm
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Belafon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:41:42pm

re: #102 Eclectic Cyborg

Do you think Hillary would offer Bernie a cabinet position if he wins??

I would suggest the position of US senator myself.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:42:35pm

Sourdough rye bread has been eated, nom nom nom!
It was so nice and fluffy!
Now that my sourdough is behaving so nicely I’ll try baguettes next week.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:42:38pm

re: #97 Belafon

I remember it slightly differently. The black open carry group in Fort Worth got followed by cops until they broke up. The white open carry group didn’t have cops.

The group in nearby Dallas seems to be going strong:

On a warm fall day in South Dallas, ten revolutionaries dressed in kaffiyehs and ski masks jog the perimeter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park bellowing “No more pigs in our community!” Military discipline is in full effect as the joggers respond to two former Army Rangers in desert-camo brimmed hats with cries of “Sir, yes, sir!” The Huey P. Newton Gun Club is holding its regular Saturday fitness-training and self-defense class. Men in Che fatigues run with weight bags and roll around on the grass, knife-fighting one another with dull machetes. “I used to salute the fucking flag!” the cadets chant. “Now I use it for a rag!”

“A knife changes the whole game,” one of the drill sergeants, who goes by the name Chief, explains, demonstrating how to perform a slash-and-stab maneuver on the torso of a wide-eyed girl in her 20s. A panhandler wanders up from the street. He is about to ask for spare change but then becomes interested. “What is this? Self-defense? That’s cool.” A pack of black bikers throw up their fists as they roar by.

SNIP

This past August, the gun club staged their first openly armed patrol through Dixon Circle, a predominately African American neighborhood in Dallas where police killed a young unarmed black man named James Harper in 2012. About two weeks before the rally, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, had killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, and in July a white cop had choked Eric Garner, a Staten Island dad, to death over the alleged sale of untaxed cigarettes. In Dallas, several dozen black militants stood at attention in front of a field officer, holding assault rifles and AR-15s. “This is perfectly legal!” the leader bellowed. “Justice for Michael Brown! Justice for Eric Garner!” came the hoarse cries from the formation. “No longer will we let the pigs slaughter our brothers and sisters and not say a damn thing about it,” the leader answered back. “Black power! Black power! Black power! Black power!”

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:44:17pm

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

In Texas that already happens. The Open Carry people decided that they cared about carrying around their guns more than they worried about black people doing likewise. Their attachment to their guns overcame racial panic, which is progress. Progress of an odd kind, but a step forward still in the racial fears have diminished in priority.

It’s not progress at all. It’s nothing more than evidence that irrational religious beliefs (worship of guns) are reinforced by irrational and bigoted fears. Suggesting that this shows people are somehow less racist is ridiculous. Their racial fears are assuaged by clinging to their magic freedom talisman, because then they’re always ready to shoot the armed black person. It’s a quintessential American trait: fantasising about gunfights in the street.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:45:42pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

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This is in TEXAS. Lots of businesses used to be tolerant of concealed carry, but the Open Carry idiots made them reevaluate their position, so now they don’t allow ANY guns.

Be careful what you wish for. You might get it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:51:25pm

re: #107 Renaissance_Man

It’s not progress at all. It’s nothing more than evidence that irrational religious beliefs (worship of guns) is reinforced by irrational and bigoted fears. Suggesting that this shows people are somehow less racist is ridiculous. Their racial fears are assuaged by clinging to their magic freedom talisman, because then they’re always ready to shoot the armed black person. It’s a quintessential American trait: fantasising about gunfights in the street.

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

I remain opposed to open carry, but I do think its worth noting that Texas pushed it through even after black groups made it clear they would be open-carrying. The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

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WhatEVs  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:52:32pm

re: #77 Dark_Falcon

Christ, the last thing I ever want is to see a gun in a place of business. I’ll never support or shop at a place like that. Ever. I won’t get used to it. I don’t want to get used to it. This isn’t the 1800s.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:53:10pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

I remain opposed to open carry, but I do think its worth noting that Texas pushed it through even after black groups made it clear they would be open-carrying. The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

I wonder how many of these people perceive government as “failing” due to what it is doing and has done regarding equal rights and racism.

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Belafon  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:53:18pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

I remain opposed to open carry, but I do think its worth noting that Texas pushed it through even after black groups made it clear they would be open-carrying. The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

Think of how many awful things have happened in history due to people’s perceptions of government failure, stoked by a certain group. Your party is stoking that fear right now.

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KGxvi  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:54:54pm

re: #110 WhatEVs

Christ, the last thing I ever want is to see a gun in a place of business. I’ll never support or shop at a place like that. Ever. I won’t get used to it. I don’t want to get used to it. This isn’t the 1800s.

In the 1800’s they’d have had to check their guns in with the sheriff or the barkeep at the saloon

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:55:50pm

Meanwhile, storms have arrived in San Diego:

SDGE outage map

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fern01  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:57:56pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

.

Massive government (well congress) fail re infrastructure - are the people out there building roads and bridges. Much more useful than walking around with guns which are more likely to shoot the owner than anyone else.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:58:33pm

re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth

Meanwhile, storms have arrived in San Diego:

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SDGE outage map

Given San Diego’s “normal” weather conditions how bad relative to everyone else is a “bad storm” there?

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 31, 2016 • 6:58:58pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

I remain opposed to open carry, but I do think its worth noting that Texas pushed it through even after black groups made it clear they would be open-carrying. The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

The paranoia that drives open carry is gun worship. I’m not sure where you got this line of argument that it’s somehow about feeling that government isn’t protecting them adequately (which is what I assume the argument is), but it’s specious. Denial of the role and existence of government is another American peculiarity that exists in varying degrees, but that’s not what makes people want to carry guns.

Gun worship is a cultural identifier, just like religion. It has cultural codes of dress and behaviour. It so happens that those who subscribe to this degenerate cult also tend to deny the validity of government to irrational levels, but one is not causative of the other.

These people worship guns. They love them more than people. They carry them because it makes them feel good. Their hatred and fears are stoked daily by the TV they watch and the websites they view, but that is peripheral to their love of guns.

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Kragar  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:00:11pm

re: #114 Backwoods_Sleuth

Meanwhile, storms have arrived in San Diego:

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SDGE outage map

Bunch of tree down around my place, and a bunch of the big palms were bent from 10-15 degrees when the big gusts were hitting

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:00:18pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

More like people deciding to do for themselves what government is perceived to be failing at doing.

I remain opposed to open carry, but I do think its worth noting that Texas pushed it through even after black groups made it clear they would be open-carrying. The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

Sorry, but that analysis is nonsense.

White people afraid of black people are no longer satisfied with the kind of guns they can carry concealed. That’s why the Open Carry assholes like carrying black rifles - because they think they’ll scare away the black people who came to robe them and rape their women.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:01:25pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

Sorry, but that analysis is nonsense.

White people afraid of black people are no longer satisfied with the kind of guns they can carry concealed. That’s why the Open Carry assholes like carrying black rifles - because they think they’ll scare away the black people who came to robe them and rape their women.

That’s “Birth of a Nation” in a nutshell, isn’t it?

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Kragar  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:01:38pm

re: #116 Feline Fearless Leader

Fierce storm unleashes on San Diego

The winds gusted to about 50 mph along the coast, and were strong enough to uproot an 80 foot tall tree, which crushed four cars and killed a motorist on Ingraham Street in Pacific Beach. Crews worked to cut it away to free the body.

Bad enough

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Kragar  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:03:26pm
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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:03:49pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

The NRA and associated trade groups have profitably expanded the fear potential to black, brown and Muslim.

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gwangung  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:04:12pm

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

The paranoia that drives open carry is about government and its failings (real and perceived) and not about race.

Violent crime statistics over the last 20 years? How have they been going?

And if the government is perceived to be failing at the job they are, in fact, being very successful at….just why IS that? What’s the root reason?

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Kragar  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:04:29pm

Why does California have earthquakes and El Nino and the South have the Klan and Evangelicals?

CA got first pick.
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:04:31pm

re: #122 Kragar

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good grief.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:04:53pm

re: #113 KGxvi

In the 1800’s they’d have had to check their guns in with the sheriff or the barkeep at the saloon

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ipsos  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:07:18pm

re: #116 Feline Fearless Leader

Given San Diego’s “normal” weather conditions how bad relative to everyone else is a “bad storm” there?

Plenty bad when the streets don’t have much drainage and the homes are built relatively lightly compared to those up north or back east.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:07:28pm

re: #125 Kragar

Vaguely reminiscent of the old joke that went around Detroit back in 1985 when GM bought EDS and the rise of AIDS happened:

“Q: Why did California Get AIDS and Detroit got EDS?
A: California had first pick.”

During that time if you could fog up a mirror and could spell IT, EDS was hiring.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:07:33pm

re: #119 Blind Frog Belly White

Sorry, but that analysis is nonsense.

White people afraid of black people are no longer satisfied with the kind of guns they can carry concealed. That’s why the Open Carry assholes like carrying black rifles - because they think they’ll scare away the black people who came to robe them and rape their women.

Then why do they no longer freak out about photos of black people carrying AKMs?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:07:40pm

cat caught a mouse in the kitchen.

cat lost the mouse in the kitchen.

cat is now under a shelf trying to re-catch said mouse.

she failed.

Imma going to sleep now…

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:08:33pm

re: #130 Dark_Falcon

Then why do they no longer freak out about photos of black people carrying AKMs.

I think that’s an unwarranted assumption.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:09:09pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

cat caught a mouse in the kitchen.

cat lost the mouse in the kitchen.

cat is now under a shelf trying to re-catch said mouse.

she failed.

Imma going to sleep now…

You should first upbraid the cat. She had one job, one job…

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:09:29pm

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

cat caught a mouse in the kitchen.

cat lost the mouse in the kitchen.

cat is now under a shelf trying to re-catch said mouse.

she failed.

Imma going to sleep now…

Sounds like one of the standard movie plots.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:11:02pm

re: #133 Dark_Falcon

You should first upbraid the cat. She had one job, one job…

Typical success rate for cat kills isn’t that good.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:11:13pm
The Dog did it!
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:12:33pm

Zedushka has just discovered Downton Abbey so now he’s going to binge-watch the entire series before it ends.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:13:05pm

re: #132 jaunte

I think that’s an unwarranted assumption.

Their words on the subject have not been those of people who are freaking out.

It could also be because whenever the Huey Newton Gun Club stages an event in a large park the rate of drug and property crime in that park drops to 0% while they are there. The Peace of The Gun, but peace nevertheless, and that can be read to bolster the case of Open Carry: Visibly armed citizens deter crime. Note that that is the argument of those groups in Texas, and my saying it by way of discussion should not be taken as my agreement with said argument.

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Renaissance_Man  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:13:26pm

re: #130 Dark_Falcon

Then why do they no longer freak out about photos of black people carrying AKMs?

Because they have their own guns to shoot them with. I suspect the idea actually excites them a bit.

If it were actually about ‘perceived government failing’, and the insecurity that they feel from that, go through this thought exercise. Let us say that President Trump wins this year. Suppose that the media rejoices and starts running breathless pieces daily about his every utterance, following them slavishly, as they do now. Suppose that FOX and Republican media, now in control of all three branches of government, now start reinforcing the authority of government at every turn and scapegoating liberals for everything, much as they did in the Bush years. Now these people feel that government is on their side and everything would be fine if they could just get rid of the liberals.

Do you suppose for a second that they will now suddenly not want to carry their guns?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:13:48pm

re: #136 Feline Fearless Leader

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:16:09pm

re: #138 Dark_Falcon

The Open Carry Texas people are fine with using them for propaganda cover as long as they stay in their own neighborhood. If the Huey Newton Gun Club appeared armed at a shopping mall in Irving, there would be many freakouts.

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Jenner7  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:19:11pm

Ylvis, who brought you The Fox, sings Old Friends. Pretty funny.

Video

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:19:32pm

Sagging pants, what could that be about…

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Great White Snark  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:20:04pm

If a city is big enough to be paved and or has a police dept or Sheriff, it’s too many people for open carry to make any sense at all.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:21:36pm

re: #130 Dark_Falcon

Then why do they no longer freak out about photos of black people carrying AKMs.

Like I said, they outnumber the black people. Plus they now also fear Messican Cartels and Moozlim Terr’rists. And back when Reagan got loaded open carry made illegal in California, gun enthusiasts hadn’t been subject to 50 years of “YOU NEED A GUN!!!!! NOW!!!!! OR THEY’LL KILL YOU!!!!!!” from the NRA and others.

50 years ago, white people were not as scared as they are now. Back then, they were afraid that black people might get guns, so they wanted to stop that. Now they assume black people already HAVE guns, so they want to be allowed to carry a big, scary, “Tactical” rifle at all times, so they’re READY.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:22:09pm

re: #143 jaunte

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Sagging pants, what could that be about…

No short shorts. John Wayne be warned!

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:23:34pm

re: #141 jaunte

The Open Carry Texas people are fine with using them for propaganda cover as long as they stay in their own neighborhood. If the Huey Newton Gun Club appeared armed at a shopping mall in Irving, there would be many freakouts.

Of course there’d be freakouts, but those freakouts would occur if a large number of black people turned up at such a suburban shopping center regardless of if they were armed. Which is sick, but its also reality in Texas.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:25:07pm

re: #138 Dark_Falcon

Visibly armed citizens create an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, and lead to innocent people being wrongfully shot. This is an absolutely insane right wing trend. You’ve got to be kidding, spreading this gun cult nonsense at LGF.

People are dying every day because of the idiocy you’re promoting.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:25:39pm

Wonkette has a review of the late Lavoy Finicum’s great American novel & Panegyric to GUNZ==>

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:26:56pm

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

One more person who would be alive today if he hadn’t hypnotized himself into believing the magic of guns.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:29:57pm

re: #150 jaunte

One more person who would be alive today if he hadn’t hypnotized himself into believing the magic of guns.

He tried to act out the final scene but his “quick draw” didn’t work like it did in the book.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:31:13pm

re: #138 Dark_Falcon

Visibly armed groups. So long as they are white, right???

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:31:57pm

re: #150 jaunte

Don’t forget the Holy Bomb from the Planet of the Apes series.
All Things Bright And Beautiful

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:32:52pm

re: #152 GlutenFreeJesus

Visibly armed groups. So long as they are white, right???

You didn’t read what I wrote or you wouldn’t have said that. I was specifically referring to the impact made by a black open carry group in a mostly-black area.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:39:26pm

re: #154 Dark_Falcon

And if blacks were open-carrying in Whole Foods? How about Muslims? Any other group that would happen to be a minority wherever they decide to “exercise their right”?

Open carry is stupid. Period.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:40:02pm

re: #149 The Vicious Babushka

Wonkette has a review of the late Lavoy Finicum’s great American novel & Panegyric to GUNZ==>

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I can hardly wait for next week’s installment

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:40:45pm

“Open carry” is just one more way the right wing is trying to pull American society back to the Dark Ages.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:42:57pm
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calochortus  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:43:16pm

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

He tried to act out the final scene but his “quick draw” didn’t work like it did in the book.

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Every time I see that quote I ask myself whether I’m just ignorant of the meaning of “Spalmed” or if it is just another example of someone not using spell check.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:44:30pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

Open Carry is a solution looking for a non-existent problem.

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Kragar  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:46:15pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:47:37pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart

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The funny part is that at the time that ad was made the M-16 was still being derided as a “Mattel Toy”. The M-16A1, better troop training, and better ammo repaired the M16’s reputation over time, but in the early 1970’s it was still under something of a cloud due to the original M-16’s troubles in Vietnam.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:49:11pm

re: #161 Kragar

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:49:19pm

re: #161 Kragar

See? Guns have been penis replacements for a long time.

/

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:50:23pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:52:04pm

re: #99 Feline Fearless Leader

Sorry, but I think that’s a delusional statement. Outside of a few places in large cities a group of blacks doing open carry would draw a heavy LE response and probably some sort of “I was afraid of them so I shot at them” response which would then morph into some sort of “stand my ground” defense at the trial. Assuming there is one.

No trial, they won’t even get indicted.

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SoundGuy 2016  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:52:21pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:53:01pm

re: #165 Tigger2

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:53:35pm

BREAKING: Signe Toly Andeson, the original singer of the Jefferson Airplne before being replaced by Grace Slick, died also on Thursday, the 28th on her home in Oregon.

She made Appearances with the KBC Band and with Jefferson Starship.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:55:25pm

re: #165 Tigger2

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The militia types are in distress because of demands by Bundy supporters that they surrender so the Ammon and Ryan can be home in type for the big pre-caucus event their father has planned. Killian Bundy is going to give Donald Trump one of his famously aggressive bulls.

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I’m kidding but such a bull would be the perfect gift for Donald Trump since it would be big, loud, aggressive, would produce large amounts of bullshit, and like its master it would father offspring by several different females.

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:57:11pm

re: #168 FormerDirtDart

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Deleted the tweet didn’t follow that link.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 31, 2016 • 7:58:34pm

re: #159 calochortus

Every time I see that quote I ask myself whether I’m just ignorant of the meaning of “Spalmed” or if it is just another example of someone not using spell check.

From Urban Dictionary:

spalm: To apply ointment or lubricant to the undercarraige of ones self to prevent chafing and or sores
Before going running, penelope spalmed her nether regions to avoid chafing from her ass cheeks rubbing together,

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No Depression  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:00:23pm

Heh:

Texas Gun Owners Worry That Open Carry Is Backfiring

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Tigger2  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:00:32pm

re: #171 Tigger2

Deleted the tweet didn’t follow that link.

Looks like that guy doesn’t like big Gov, but he wants Bundy and his asshats gone.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:06:10pm

re: #173 No Depression

Heh:

Texas Gun Owners Worry That Open Carry Is Backfiring

I’m fine with this backlash, but I doubt the open carry louts are going to take the appropriate lesson. Most likely they’ll conclude that they have somehow been “betrayed by RINOs and Libtards!!1”.

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calochortus  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:07:02pm

re: #172 Blind Frog Belly White

From Urban Dictionary:

Who knew? I actually Googled it and came up blank.

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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:07:16pm

He can’t afford to lose a single person.

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allegro  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:08:27pm

re: #175 Dark_Falcon

I’m fine with this backlash, but I doubt the open carry louts are going to take the appropriate lesson. Most likely they’ll conclude that they have somehow been “betrayed by RINOs and Libtards!!1”.

I’m fine with their hurt fee-fees.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:11:12pm

re: #178 allegro

I’m fine with their hurt fee-fees.

The next step will be lobbying for a law prohibiting discrimination against people carrying firearms.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:11:12pm

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:12:34pm

re: #178 allegro

I’m fine with their hurt fee-fees.

Ditto.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:13:17pm

re: #180 goddamnedfrank

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:15:55pm

re: #180 goddamnedfrank

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:16:24pm
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jaunte  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:16:37pm

Some heavy dogwhistling from the Cruz rally:

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allegro  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:17:10pm

re: #179 Big Beautiful Door

The next step will be lobbying for a law prohibiting discrimination against people carrying firearms.

There may be lobbying but the actual people of Texas are speaking more loudly and with sincere conviction. We just won’t have it. Businesses are righteously responding for the protection of their employees and customers who are telling them they will not do business at establishments where they are unsafe with assholes walking around with loaded guns.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:17:33pm

They won’t learn. Open Carry is not a rational position, and you cannot reason somebody out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place.

I’m against it. LEO are against it. The average person probably doesn’t like it too much either. It’s always been a minority position in the self-defense world, but our state government has gleefully abdicated any sense of responsibility and decorum on this and many other things.

My old man used to say that the hippies ruined everything with their “Do what feels good” mentality, but there’s a corollary on the right which goes something like “Fuck All Y’All!” which has become the operating principle of the Abbott administration.

Texas CHL coursework and the LEOs who teach it have, in my experience, always emphasized avoiding conflict, following all applicable laws even when nobody’s looking, and carrying as a secretly held means of defense. There were even strict punishments for revealing your weapon accidentally. I don’t know what’s happened to those statutes now.

The only time I’d ever want to open carry is on my motorcycle, because a tiny part of me wants to strap a chrome Desert Eagle .50 to my leg so people like this career American Asshole think twice before picking on the weak, but I also ride with a white helmet and high-viz gear, and I’d rather not have people thinking I’m really a cop.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:18:07pm

re: #184 FormerDirtDart

Did he really tweet that from Intercourse, PA?

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:18:14pm

re: #183 Charles Johnson

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:21:46pm

re: #173 No Depression

Heh:

Texas Gun Owners Worry That Open Carry Is Backfiring

From the article:

“OCT [Open Carry Texas] has hurt much more than helped. I insist on carrying when taking my young son and wife to the movies, but that is now becoming more difficult. I do not really oppose OC, but the way they went about it was unwise and just down right ignorant. I too wonder if some of them are anti-2A [Second Amendment]. If I were anti-2A, that’s how I would do it.”

I think I’ll stick with Netflix for awhile…

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FourEyeFreckleFace  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:22:21pm

re: #118 Kragar

Bunch of tree down around my place, and a bunch of the big palms were bent from 10-15 degrees when the big gusts were hitting

Still have power in Vista, but I’m surprised. Anyone see that a wannabe tornado was seen in Poway a few weeks back, that never touched down? I’m new to SD county from Seattle, I didn’t sign up for this shit. ; -)

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ausador  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:23:32pm

re: #158 FormerDirtDart

I had one of those M-16s, I also had a very realistic looking M-1 with a real wood stock. As kids we played “war” in the local Florida woods all the time from like 7-12 years old.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:25:47pm

re: #189 goddamnedfrank

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allegro  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:25:51pm

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

From the article:

I think I’ll stick with Netflix for awhile…

IMO someone who is so paranoid to feel the need to carry a loaded gun around has already proven to be too unstable to even own a weapon.

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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:30:41pm

Today all of Denver’s skiers showed up to the little valley I live in to go skiing. A foot of new snow overnight will do that.

This was the lift line this morning at Gondola One in Vail, 10 miles down the road from where I work.

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retired cynic  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:31:47pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

OMG!!!

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CuriousLurker  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:33:19pm

re: #194 allegro

IMO someone who is so paranoid to feel the need to carry a loaded gun around has already proven to be too unstable to even own a weapon.

THIS. I’ve never carried a gun around except for a few months after I got robbed (driving a taxi) many, many years ago. Even if it was legal here in NJ, I wouldn’t do it. For what? It’s not as if I carry around large amounts of cash or other valuables. It’s the job of the police to keep me safe.

For all the wingnuts’ #BlueLivesMatter bullshit, it seems like they have no trust in law enforcement’s ability to keep them safe.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:33:20pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

I feel the beginnings of an agoraphobic panic attack just looking at that picture.

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ausador  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:34:01pm

re: #162 Dark_Falcon

The funny part is that at the time that ad was made the M-16 was still being derided as a “Mattel Toy”. The M-16A1, better troop training, and better ammo repaired the M16’s reputation over time, but in the early 1970’s it was still under something of a cloud due to the original M-16’s troubles in Vietnam.

No, the original M-16 had no forward assist lug for the bolt. If the round didn’t fully seat in the chamber you were screwed because you couldn’t easily eject it either. The addition of the assist lug let you force the round forward to clear the jam.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:34:20pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

And that is one reason I preferred cross-country skiing.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:34:42pm
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No Depression  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:38:29pm

re: #190 Eclectic Cyborg

From the article:

I think I’ll stick with Netflix for awhile…

I disagree with his decision to carry at the movies, but I can kind of understand it. Ever since that theater shooting in Louisiana, I get just a little bit anxious when the lights dim, especially if someone is up and walking around. Key difference is that I realize that my feelings are largely irrational as the likelihood of a theater shooting happening to me is minuscule, so I don’t feel the need to arm myself.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:38:33pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:38:42pm

re: #195 teleskiguy

There were tens of thousands of skiers on the mountain where I work today. No matter. The first four runs I did this morning I didn’t cross any tracks in the fresh snow. On the fifth run, I finally crossed one of my own tracks. That’s what I mean by “stash spots.”

:-D

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FourEyeFreckleFace  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:42:05pm

re: #8 Jenner7

That made me cry.

The moment I saw that little puppy paw (or, lack of), I knew I was done for. A couple years ago, one of my foster boxer dogs was a tripod who lost a front limb to an untreated rattlesnake bite. Part of our job was to help mend the remaining wound around his chest. His skin was so necrotic, that neither staples or sutures could be used on the exterior. We used a granulation spray over the open parts and over time, it helped his skin to close.

Today, that happy, silly boy (now named Moseley) is in his forever home in British Columbia, with a family of both fur kids and human kids. His sister, also a foster of ours, is likewise in a fantastic home now and utterly adored.

My wife (a dog trainer for the really difficult stuff) just wrapped up a few weeks of training on another amputee. After working through layer after layer of behavioral stuff, his true nature came shining through. Such a pleasure, and so worth the effort.

Needless to say … this animation hit close to home. Very sweet.

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lockjawcanbefun  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:42:13pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:47:09pm

re: #203 Feline Fearless Leader

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:51:57pm

re: #202 No Depression

I disagree with his decision to carry at the movies, but I can kind of understand it. Ever since that theater shooting in Louisiana, I get just a little bit anxious when the lights dim, especially if someone is up and walking around. Key difference is that I realize that my feelings are largely irrational as the likelihood of a theater shooting happening to me is minuscule, so I don’t feel the need to arm myself.

My problem is that even if he did have a gun in the theater what good would he be trying to stop an assailant in a dark and crowded room with only mere seconds to respond?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:52:03pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:53:35pm

If people are crying watching this video…

I don’t know if I want to watch it at this moment. I just got home, I’m still unwinding. An emotional roller coaster doesn’t sound appealing to me right now.

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ausador  Jan 31, 2016 • 8:55:45pm

re: #210 teleskiguy

If people are crying watching this video…

I don’t know if I want to watch it at this moment. I just got home, I’m still unwinding. An emotional roller coaster doesn’t sound appealing to me right now.

Happy crying, not sad, watch it.

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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 9:00:56pm

re: #209 Feline Fearless Leader

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teleskiguy  Jan 31, 2016 • 9:01:35pm

re: #211 ausador

Happy crying, not sad, watch it.

Ya. I still don’t want to cry, even if it’s a happy release.

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FourEyeFreckleFace  Jan 31, 2016 • 9:07:15pm

re: #213 teleskiguy

Ya. I still don’t want to cry, even if it’s a happy release.

It is really sweet, but then again I could get misty from detergent commercials, so it was inevitable. “There’s something in my eye! AGAIN.”

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Nojay UK  Feb 1, 2016 • 6:13:48am

re: #202 No Depression

I disagree with his decision to carry at the movies, but I can kind of understand it.

He may believe, as many Americans seem to believe, that carrying a firearm makes him and his family bulletproof.

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Dark_Falcon  Feb 1, 2016 • 8:28:51am

re: #194 allegro

IMO someone who is so paranoid to feel the need to carry a loaded gun around has already proven to be too unstable to even own a weapon.

That’s circular logic and it legitimizes a man’s duty to protect his wife and child.


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