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When Donald Trump went on the Wisconsin radio show of conservative talker Charlie Sykes, he may not have expected to face one of the toughest questioners he’s yet encountered.

Sykes pressed Trump very hard on his hateful comments toward women, especially his attacks on Ted Cruz’s wife. At one point Sykes compared Trump to a 12-year old playground bully, and asked why Wisconsin voters shouldn’t consider him “a giant fraud.”

These are the kinds of questions Trump never gets asked when he appears on the cable news shows, and even though Sykes’ came at this as a Ted Cruz supporter it was pretty refreshing to hear someone treat this horrible misogynistic clown as exactly that.

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1
Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:47:17pm
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Unabogie  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:51:22pm

Wow, Donald Trump is a freaking adolescent. How on earth is this guy even in the running? He can’t even compliment Heidi Cruz.

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KingKenrod  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:53:38pm

Looking at RCP polls…

I see an LA Times poll out yesterday that shows Trump and Cruz in a virtual tie in California.

Plus you have Cruz ahead in Wisconsin, and Kasich within the MOE in Pennsylvania.

It it possible Trump’s skyrocketing negatives with female voters are finally starting to knock him down?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:56:06pm

re: #2 Unabogie

Wow, Donald Trump is a freaking adolescent. How on earth is this guy even in the running? He can’t even compliment Heidi Cruz.

I think “adolescent” is unnecessarily generous. He whinges on and on about “It’s not fair!”, like a second grader, and he won’t apologize because ‘He started it! He needs to apologize first!’

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:56:51pm

re: #3 KingKenrod

Looking at RCP polls…

I see an LA Times poll out yesterday that shows Trump and Cruz in a virtual tie in California.

Plus you have Cruz ahead in Wisconsin, and Kasich within the MOE in Pennsylvania.

It it possible Trump’s skyrocketing negatives with female voters are finally starting to knock him down?

I suspect a lot more Republican women identify with Heidi Cruz than with Melania Trump.

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Lidane  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:58:37pm
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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:58:39pm

This will only end in tears

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:00:49pm

This is clickbait and possibly not worth the effort, but some of them are pretty good.
13 BURNING QUESTIONS FOREIGNERS HAVE FOR AMERICANS — ANSWERED!

8. What are some things the outside world would be shocked to learn about the United States of America?

From redditor deuteros: “A Russian once told me that he thought it was crazy that a delivery service could leave a package at your front door and nobody would steal it.”

My answer: All the thieves have gotten jobs in banks and churches.

(edited to add link)

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:06:02pm

re: #6 Lidane

Never really needed Apple, they just wanted the ruling.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:06:46pm

Charlie Sykes is utter scum.

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BeachDem  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:07:13pm

And to the Greenwaldians who say Democrats created Trump, I say (well, actually Charles P. Pierce says)

For four decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan fed it the monkeybrains in the 1980, hitching his party to the snake-oil of supply-side economics and to the sad remnants of white supremacy, often as expressed through an extremist splinter of American Protestantism, the Republican Party has been afflicted with the prion disease that now has blossomed into utter public madness. That’s the story everyone was too blind, stupid, or afraid to tell. You know who in the media really created He, Trump?

Anyone who laughed at Ronald Reagan’s casual relationship with the truth and with empirical reality. Anyone who blew off Iran-Contra. Anyone who draped C-Plus Augustus in a toga after 9/11. Anyone who cast Newt Gingrich as a serious man of ideas. Anyone who cast Paul Ryan as an economic savant, that’s who.

Anyone who wrote admiring profiles of how shrewd Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were. Anyone who put Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck on the cover of national magazines based simply on their ratings. Anyone who put Matt Drudge on a public-affairs program. Anyone who watched the conservative movement, the only animating force the Republican party has, drive the party further and deeper into madness, they are the ones who share the blame.

esquire.com

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KingKenrod  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:10:15pm

re: #6 Lidane

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The whole episode is pretty embarrassing. The low point (for me) was when Loretta Lynch went on Colbert’s show to sell a sanitized, pre-school version of what the Feds wanted.

You try to have a little faith in these people and then they get all power grabby on you.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:11:01pm

re: #11 BeachDem

For four decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan fed it the monkeybrains in the 1980, hitching his party to the snake-oil of supply-side economics and to the sad remnants of white supremacy, often as expressed through an extremist splinter of American Protestantism, the Republican Party has been afflicted with the prion disease that now has blossomed into utter public madness.

Exactly. That is brilliantly insightful.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:12:47pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel

For four decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan fed it the monkeybrains in the 1980, hitching his party to the snake-oil of supply-side economics and to the sad remnants of white supremacy, often as expressed through an extremist splinter of American Protestantism, the Republican Party has been afflicted with the prion disease that now has blossomed into utter public madness.

and it also marked the start of a serious decline in basic education on civics, civility and socialization

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:13:37pm

Bernie Bros don’t like it when you correct anti-hillary bullshit, no matter how ridiculously false it is.

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Jenner7  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:13:42pm
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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:16:59pm

re: #9 Great White Snark

Never really needed Apple, they just wanted the ruling.

Yes, the FBI are just all terrible people. /

I am glad they were able to open the phone without Apple. But must we be such absolutists on the subject as to always make one party the “bad guy”? It is complicated.
I think each side had a good faith argument, even if in the end I would side with Apple.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:17:38pm

Trump was actually correct in what he said about Scott Walker and Wisconsin. Stopped clock, blind squirrel, all that shit.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:19:58pm

re: #15 goddamnedfrank

Just like when Bernie Bots started chiming about him winning diverse states after AK/HI/WA wins… except Bernie’s key issue is support in the AA community, not merely ‘diverse’ states.

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wrenchwench  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:21:35pm

re: #16 Jenner7

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That should be a rocket-powered spatula the coyote is on, so Bernie can ‘flip the super-delegates’ (like pancakes).

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:22:42pm

re: #17 blueraven

Yes, the FBI are just all terrible people. /

I am glad they were able to open the phone without Apple. But must we be such absolutists on the subject as to always make one party the “bad guy”? It is complicated.
I think each side had a good faith argument, even if in the end I would side with Apple.

Added bonus: now the government can do this as it wants to and Apple doesn’t know for sure what they did or how to block it. And everyone knows it’s possible now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:23:05pm
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Timothy Watson  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:25:30pm

re: #11 BeachDem

the Republican Party has been afflicted with the prion disease that now has blossomed into utter public madness.

Me and family member have seriously wondered if a sizable portion of the population is suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

I’ve seen plenty of people, who I thought were smart and rational, and sure, I might disagree with them on politics, but they’ve gone all-in for Trump and I can’t find a logical explanation for it.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:27:32pm

re: #16 Jenner7

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History note: Roadrunner was enormously popular among GIs in Vietnam. I don’t know a published source but I have heard rumors that various senior officers tried to get AFVN (Armed Forces Vietnam Network) TV to drop it, for fear that we identified with the heroically persistent but constantly frustrated Wile E. Coyote. Wile E.’s fantastically elaborate but ultimately futile Acme technology also seemed relevant.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:27:52pm

re: #23 Timothy Watson

Me and family member have seriously wondered if a sizable portion of the population is suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

I’ve seen plenty of people, who I thought were smart and rational, and sure, I might disagree with them on politics, but they’ve gone all-in for Trump and I can’t find a logical explanation for it.

I call it DoucheFeldt-Whacko Disease. Caused by excessive AM Radio, Fox News, and right wing blogs.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:27:57pm

re: #21 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Added bonus: now the government can do this as it wants to and Apple doesn’t know for sure what they did or how to block it. And everyone knows it’s possible now.

Indeed.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:28:18pm

Feel the Derp.

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:28:58pm
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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:31:31pm

re: #21 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Added bonus: now the government can do this as it wants to and Apple doesn’t know for sure what they did or how to block it. And everyone knows it’s possible now.

It was always possible. I’d never, for a single second, expect someone who wanted in to my iPhone couldn’t get there.

I actually think a 13 year old hacker could get in if they wanted. At least that’s my expectation.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:35:43pm

Bernie Bros are approaching Paulian level annoyance.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:36:45pm

re: #7 Kragar

This will only end in tears

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Lets see, how about we start with the KKK and go down the list from there?

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:37:24pm

re: #30 SoundGuy 2016

Bernie Bros are approaching Paulian level annoyance.

They will become irrelevant in just a few more weeks.

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:39:44pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:41:14pm

re: #6 Lidane

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Heard that earlier. It will be interesting to see where this will all go and how Apple and their uses react to the fact the FBI got in without Apple’s help. I have a feeling this will hurt Apple in some ways.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:42:22pm

re: #11 BeachDem

C-Plus Augustus

hahahaha, haven’t heard that one!

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Danack  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:42:45pm

re: #17 blueraven

But must we be such absolutists on the subject as to always make one party the “bad guy”?

Except in this case the FBI were the bad guys.

The legal motions they were submitting were full of false-hoods, and they had carefully picked the case to try to set a precedent to have as much emotional value as possible, even though it is incredibly unlikely the phone in this case has any evidence on it.

The prosecutor that the FBI were using really ought to be investigated for abusing his position. I will not hold my breath in anticipation of that happening.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:43:03pm

re: #6 Lidane

The Feds won’t let out that there was nothing of value on the phone. Just call it a hunch.

Let the cat and mouse game continue.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:44:23pm

re: #27 goddamnedfrank

Obama offered Joe Biden the choice first: VP or Secretary of State. It was fairly obvious that Clinton would get a very high profile administration post.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:44:46pm

re: #11 BeachDem

And to the Greenwaldians who say Democrats created Trump, I say (well, actually Charles P. Pierce says)

For four decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan fed it the monkeybrains in the 1980, hitching his party to the snake-oil of supply-side economics and to the sad remnants of white supremacy, often as expressed through an extremist splinter of American Protestantism, the Republican Party has been afflicted with the prion disease that now has blossomed into utter public madness. That’s the story everyone was too blind, stupid, or afraid to tell. You know who in the media really created He, Trump?

Anyone who laughed at Ronald Reagan’s casual relationship with the truth and with empirical reality. Anyone who blew off Iran-Contra. Anyone who draped C-Plus Augustus in a toga after 9/11. Anyone who cast Newt Gingrich as a serious man of ideas. Anyone who cast Paul Ryan as an economic savant, that’s who.

Anyone who wrote admiring profiles of how shrewd Lee Atwater and Karl Rove were. Anyone who put Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck on the cover of national magazines based simply on their ratings. Anyone who put Matt Drudge on a public-affairs program. Anyone who watched the conservative movement, the only animating force the Republican party has, drive the party further and deeper into madness, they are the ones who share the blame.

esquire.com

Damn, that was a full body slam.

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:45:02pm

re: #10 Amory Blaine

Charlie Sykes is utter scum.

Even the devil can do good works by accident.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:45:05pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:45:30pm

re: #37 GlutenFreeJesus

Since there probably isn’t going to be a court case, they can leak whatever they want.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:45:56pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:46:41pm

re: #27 goddamnedfrank

Feel the Derp.

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The Ghost of the Spaghetti Weevil  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:47:32pm

re: #33 Kragar

To be fair, the Department of Fish, Wildlife, & Ninjas has been slacking off on culls since the early 90s or so. Their funding for dudes with mullets and torn-off shirt sleeves was slashed.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:49:19pm

re: #27 goddamnedfrank

Feel the Derp.

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I gotta give you credit for fighting the good fight. I really do not know how you do it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:50:13pm

re: #42 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

And Apple will figure out how they did it and make changes. Back to the drawing board. I’m ok with this. I wasn’t ok with the Fed approach of forcing Apple to help them.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:50:22pm

re: #17 blueraven

The FBI has demonstrated bad faith time and time again. I mean fool me twice? We are at fool me the 20th time. I have links such as wins by the ACLU but it’s a bit tedious. Did you read the article with Tim cook? Or this?
One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:50:39pm

RWNJ bloggers assert that torture could have prevented the Brussels attacks:

Flopping Aces: Did the ticking time bomb scenario play itself out in Brussels? (freeper re-post, do not link not working just now)

Their case depends on the assumption that Paris ringleader Salah Abdeslam (captured in Brussels 4 days before the bombings there) knew the exact details of the upcoming attacks and would have spilled his guts if “properly motivated.” That is quite a stretch to begin with, since the Brussels cell (if they were in contact at all) would have been unlikely to share their plans with a man they knew was the most wanted fugitive in the world. There’s more, though: The scenario requires an assumption that Abdeslam would have told the truth under torture and that the authorities could have verified his story in time to prevent the attack.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:51:18pm

re: #33 Kragar

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:51:26pm

re: #3 KingKenrod

Looking at RCP polls…

I see an LA Times poll out yesterday that shows Trump and Cruz in a virtual tie in California.

Plus you have Cruz ahead in Wisconsin, and Kasich within the MOE in Pennsylvania.

It it possible Trump’s skyrocketing negatives with female voters are finally starting to knock him down?

Looking at the cross tabs for the Republican primary out here, Republican woman break 37-28-11 Trump-Cruz-Kaisch. 10% say someone else and 11% are undecided. So about 2/3 of Californian Republican women primary voters are not supporting Trump.

In a general election match up between Trump and Clinton, women break 63-25 for Clinton. That’s a hell of a gender gap.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:51:33pm

re: #29 MsJ

It was always possible. I’d never, for a single second, expect someone who wanted in to my iPhone couldn’t get there.

I actually think a 13 year old hacker could get in if they wanted. At least that’s my expectation.

Doesn’t that go against Apple’s claims and their stance on the whole security issue? Have they not just lost a selling point and a bit of stature for the users that were thinking they were so secure the FBI couldn’t get in?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:51:45pm

re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus

And Apple will figure out how they did it and make changes. Back to the drawing board. I’m ok with this. I wasn’t ok with the Fed approach of forcing Apple to help them.

I was ok with it. The police have a duty to investigate crimes.

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No Country For Old Haters  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:11pm

re: #40 William Lewis

Even the devil can do good works by accident.

Our enemy’s enemy may harm our enemy, but they don’t do it to do good work. They do it to advance their own lunatic.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:27pm

re: #7 Kragar

This will only end in tears

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One?

How about I give you three off the top of my head?

Army of God
KKK
Christian Identity Movement

You could add groups like Operation Rescue, White Patriot Party, Abiding Truth Ministries, and about a half-dozen “Sovereign Citizen” groups who have spawned dozens of “lone wolf” acts of domestic terrorism as well.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:33pm

BTW what does Trump mean when he says “just released. International gangs are all over our cities.”?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:37pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Not sure where Apple has ever said their phones were unhackable. Jailbreaking has existed for years.

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:47pm

re: #43 SoundGuy 2016

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Sandbagger desperation in full bloom: “Give Bernie the nomination because indictment!”

After months of “undemocratic” this and “let the people decide” that, Sanders’ supporters are just admitting he can’t win the nomination honestly and are demanding the DNC crown him because of the possibility that the FBI investigation will lead to anything significant before November.

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:53:47pm

re: #47 GlutenFreeJesus

And Apple will figure out how they did it and make changes. Back to the drawing board. I’m ok with this. I wasn’t ok with the Fed approach of forcing Apple to help them.

Involuntary servitude. We had a war several decades ago over something like that, right?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:54:37pm

re: #59 unproven innocence

Involuntary servitude. We had a war several decades ago over something like that, right?

Huh?

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:55:09pm

re: #58 Targetpractice

Just vote Bernie BCUZ FBI!

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:55:50pm

re: #10 Amory Blaine

Charlie Sykes is utter scum.

re: #40 William Lewis

Even the devil can do good works by accident.

What’s the story on this guy? Both of you seem to know him enough to know you do not like him.

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:56:19pm

re: #60 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Forced labor. Slavery.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:56:41pm

re: #59 unproven innocence

Involuntary servitude. We had a war several decades ago over something like that, right?

A court order obtained through due process is not involuntary servitude. Mainly because of that whole “due process of law” bit.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:56:57pm

re: #53 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I was ok with it. The police have a duty to investigate crimes.

Thing is what they want is often going to be a much wider problem. case in point-Backdoors. I’m not the least bit afraid of the FBI looking in my computer. With a warrant please or probable cause if that’s not too much to insist upon. But that back door in millions of computers will get exploited by those who would steal or worse. No, not acceptable.

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:57:11pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:57:17pm

re: #63 unproven innocence

So what does that have to do with going to court for an order to access the phone?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:57:38pm

re: #53 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Then investigate the crime. Don’t use it as an excuse to violate our right to privacy.

This was an overreach just like Iraq was after 9/11. And I’m not exaggerating.

How soon will they admit there was no information relevant to the case on the phone? Never would be my guess.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:57:42pm

Major LOL!!!!

Warning: Wingnut link

Marcus Bachmann Refused Service in Indiana, Store Owner Assumed He Was Gay

Damn, Never mind… Satire. But we can dream can’t we?

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:58:35pm

re: #64 KGxvi

A court order obtained through due process is not involuntary servitude. Mainly because of that whole “due process of law” bit.

Ah, that All-Writs Act from the late 1700s. Right.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:58:39pm

re: #67 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

So what does that have to do with going to court for an order to access the phone?

It’s one of the stupider arguments that were raised against the FBI’s attempt to get Apple to hack the phone. Sadly, I’ve even had some law school friends raise it - which was just utterly depressing.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:58:45pm

re: #64 KGxvi

Depends what the court order says. if it says perform work like develop and implement a crack your own OS security rather than say just surrender data or evidence, well those are very different demands.

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BeachDem  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:59:03pm

re: #35 Stanley Sea

C-Plus Augustus

hahahaha, haven’t heard that one!

Some of Pierce’s fabulous nicknames:

Big Chicken: Chris Chistie
Brogressive Man-Crush Senator Aqua Buddha: Rand Paul
C-Plus Augustus’ Excellent Mesopotamian Adventure: (Bush’s) Iraq War
Clinton Guy Shocked By Blowjobs: George Stephanopoulos
The Combover Trump: Rudy Giuliani
Douglas McArthur McCain: John McCain
Fred Hiatt’s Home Depot For Bad Ideas: The Washington Post
FREE MONEY (!): Medicaid Expansion
Fracksylvania: Pennsylvania
Girl With The Faraway Eyes: Michelle Bachmann
Goggle-Eyed Homunculus Hired by Koch Industries to Run Their Midwest Subsidiary Formerly Known as the State of Wisconsin: Scott Walker
Governor Goodhair: Rick Perry
Senator Huckleberry J Butchmeup: Lindsey Graham
Manson Family of American Geopolitics: Cheney family
Mausoleum of Unemployables: breitbart.com
Mitchell Brothers: Charles and David Koch
Mrs Greenspan: Andrea Mitchell
Nine Wise Souls: Supreme Court
Obvious Anagram: Reince Priebus
Our Lady Of The Magic Dolphins: Peggy Noonan
Padishah Emperor of All Crazy People: Louie Gohmert
Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods: Sarah Palin
Senator McDreamy: Scott Brown
Senator Professor Warren: Elizabeth Warren
Squint and the Meat Puppet: Morning Joe
Tailgunner Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz
Tiger Beat on the Potomac: Politico

franklycurious.com

Squint and the Meat Puppet and Tiger Beat on the Potomac are two of my favorites.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:59:16pm

So my car has been at the shop since Friday, when it decided that idling was overrated. My dad helped me drive it over there, since it required keeping the throttle open the whole way. (The shop is also helpfully close.)

It’s running JUST FINE for them now in the shop. Stupid car.

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The Ghost of the Spaghetti Weevil  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:59:30pm

re: #49 Shiplord Kirel

Hold on. Setting aside the general poverty of the “torture works” premise momentarily:

The Brussels attack was expressly a punitive strike after the raids relating finding individuals involved in the Paris attack. Seems like there’s a timeline fail, in that Abdesalam would most likely have been in custody while the Brussels attack was being planned. Ergo, no “ticking time bomb” combination of (1) subject known to have pertinent information in custody, (2) perfect information of an attack occurred within a timeframe such that the subject is in play, (3) a level of certainty where confirmation isn’t required to judge information actionable.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:59:31pm

re: #69 Dave In Austin

That is too awesome not to be true.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:00:00pm

re: #59 unproven innocence

Involuntary servitude. We had a war several decades ago over something like that, right?

15 decades to be precise.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:00:24pm

re: #76 SoundGuy 2016

I guess it’s satire…. Shit

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:01:51pm

re: #69 Dave In Austin

Major LOL!!!!

Warning: Wingnut link

Marcus Bachmann Refused Service in Indiana, Store Owner Assumed He Was Gay


S-A-T-I-R-E

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:01:53pm

re: #49 Shiplord Kirel

RWNJ bloggers assert that torture could have prevented the Brussels attacks:

Flopping Aces: Did the ticking time bomb scenario play itself out in Brussels? (freeper re-post, do not link not working just now)

Their case depends on the assumption that Paris ringleader Salah Abdeslam (captured in Brussels 4 days before the bombings there) knew the exact details of the upcoming attacks and would have spilled his guts if “properly motivated.” That is quite a stretch to begin with, since the Brussels cell (if they were in contact at all) would have been unlikely to share their plans with a man they knew was the most wanted fugitive in the world. There’s more, though: The scenario requires an assumption that Abdeslam would have told the truth under torture and that the authorities could have verified his story in time to prevent the attack.

Addendum: I wonder if these nutcakes think the captured Bundy gang should be waterboarded to find out what they know about future sovereign citizen outrages and usurpations?
I am sorely tempted to use my posting privileges at Free Fepublic to find out, but I know that would be the end of me in freepland. Better save it for a more important occasion.

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Danack  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:02:00pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Have they not just lost a selling point and a bit of stature for the users that were thinking they were so secure the FBI couldn’t get in?

Apple (and most sane computer people) recognise there are limits to security. In particular - if a state level actor has your hardware in their hands, for weeks of time, it is very likely to be able to break the security around the device, even though it might require taking the device to pieces.

What the case was around, and why Apple were objecting so strongly, is that the FBI wanted (and still wants) a software based backdoor, that can be used by non-state level actors without taking the hardware to pieces. In particular they wanted the ability to upload a custom firmware made by the FBI to the phone, using the standard backup tools.

If that was possible, it would not be limited to cases of national security like the San Bernardino shootings - it would be used whenever the FBI felt like it…..or apparently whenever certain privileged police departments felt like it. All that would be needed is to acquire a subjects phone for a few minutes (Hello, stop and search! Hello, passing through any airport!) to be able to upload the FBI’s backdoor’ed firmware.

The aim of the FBI in this case was a shameful attempt at an end-run around getting such Draconian search powers granted by Congress…..but there again, I’m a cynic who thinks the political class in both the US and UK have lost control over the police forces.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:02:16pm

re: #78 Dave In Austin

No, can’t be satire. It’s too Fake But Accurate to not be true. It’s true until proven otherwise.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:02:20pm

re: #57 GlutenFreeJesus

Not sure where Apple has ever said their phones were unhackable. Jailbreaking has existed for years.

I think they give that impression. Their stance gave the impression.

As far as I am concerned, I never say never to anything designed and produced by man. If it was put together by humans it can be taken apart by humans.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:02:37pm

re: #65 Great White Snark

That’s why Apple had an opportunity to avoid creating a “back door” by assisting on a case by case basis. They refused, no nobody can be sure whether a “back door” exists or not. And whether it is acceptable to you or not, the founders anticipated unreasonable searches and required judicial oversight. No system is perfect, but the order did reference a specific phone. In fact the FBI actually had the consent of the phone’s owner.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:02:42pm

re: #72 Great White Snark

Depends what the court order says. if it says perform work like develop and implement a crack your own OS security rather than say just surrender data or evidence, well those are very different demands.

Not really. A court order is a court order is a court order. The parties brief the issues, submit evidence, have oral arguments and the judge rules on it. The losing party can appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal, depending on the outcome it can be reheard en banc or appealed to the Supreme Court. But however it plays out, there are procedures to ensure that the government is acting within its constitutional bounds. All that said, the courts will obviously weigh the nature of the order that the government is seeking in determining whether it is appropriate or not, but that still comes down to process.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:03:44pm

re: #85 KGxvi

Not really. A court order is a court order is a court order. The parties brief the issues, submit evidence, have oral arguments and the judge rules on it. The losing party can appeal the decision to the Court of Appeal, depending on the outcome it can be reheard en banc or appealed to the Supreme Court. But however it plays out, there are procedures to ensure that the government is acting within its constitutional bounds. All that said, the courts will obviously weigh the nature of the order that the government is seeking in determining whether it is appropriate or not, but that still comes down to process.

Due process either is good enough or it’s not. The outcome of the process should not influence what one thinks of it.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:04:22pm

re: #82 SoundGuy 2016

No, can’t be satire. It’s too Fake But Accurate to not be true. It’s true until proven otherwise.

It’s also a year old

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:05:30pm

re: #68 GlutenFreeJesus

Then investigate the crime. Don’t use it as an excuse to violate our right to privacy.

This was an overreach just like Iraq was after 9/11. And I’m not exaggerating.

How soon will they admit there was no information relevant to the case on the phone? Never would be my guess.

Does the fact there may have been nothing on the phone take away the fact they needed to check?

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:05:31pm

re: #87 FormerDirtDart

It’s also a year old

Thanks for confirming the veracity of the Fabulous Marcus.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:06:12pm

re: #81 Danack

What the FBI wanted, and what the court actually ordered were two different things. Actually, the only sources I ever heard that said the FBI wanted access to all phones were from FBI critics, so I’m not really going to take that argument seriously. The actual court order was specific to that phone. The FBI didn’t order Apple to do anything, the courts did.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:06:43pm

re: #74 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So my car has been at the shop since Friday, when it decided that idling was overrated. My dad helped me drive it over there, since it required keeping the throttle open the whole way. (The shop is also helpfully close.)

It’s running JUST FINE for them now in the shop. Stupid car.

The shop needs to drive it around for a while.

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:06:59pm

re: #73 BeachDem

Some of Pierce’s fabulous nicknames:

Big Chicken: Chris Chistie
Brogressive Man-Crush Senator Aqua Buddha: Rand Paul
C-Plus Augustus’ Excellent Mesopotamian Adventure: (Bush’s) Iraq War
Clinton Guy Shocked By Blowjobs: George Stephanopoulos
The Combover Trump: Rudy Giuliani
Douglas McArthur McCain: John McCain
Fred Hiatt’s Home Depot For Bad Ideas: The Washington Post
FREE MONEY (!): Medicaid Expansion
Fracksylvania: Pennsylvania
Girl With The Faraway Eyes: Michelle Bachmann
Goggle-Eyed Homunculus Hired by Koch Industries to Run Their Midwest Subsidiary Formerly Known as the State of Wisconsin: Scott Walker
Governor Goodhair: Rick Perry
Senator Huckleberry J Butchmeup: Lindsey Graham
Manson Family of American Geopolitics: Cheney family
Mausoleum of Unemployables: breitbart.com
Mitchell Brothers: Charles and David Koch
Mrs Greenspan: Andrea Mitchell
Nine Wise Souls: Supreme Court
Obvious Anagram: Reince Priebus
Our Lady Of The Magic Dolphins: Peggy Noonan
Padishah Emperor of All Crazy People: Louie Gohmert
Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods: Sarah Palin
Senator McDreamy: Scott Brown
Senator Professor Warren: Elizabeth Warren
Squint and the Meat Puppet: Morning Joe
Tailgunner Ted Cruz: Ted Cruz
Tiger Beat on the Potomac: Politico

franklycurious.com

Squint and the Meat Puppet and Tiger Beat on the Potomac are two of my favorites.

One nickname missing from the list:

Zombie-eyed Granny Starver: Paul Ryan

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:08:09pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

The shop needs to drive it around for a while.

The ten scariest words in the English language.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:09:01pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

The shop needs to drive it around for a while.

They’ve had it running for a bit. It actually started being able to idle again after my dad drove it over and the engine warmed up, so the hope was keeping it cold might prompt it to misbehave.

He did say that if we don’t figure it out and then it happened again while I was at home, I’m close enough that they could send a tech over with the scan-tool and try to do a diagnosis. They have earned me as a customer, I think.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:09:38pm

re: #81 Danack

Apple (and most sane computer people) recognise there are limits to security. In particular - if a state level actor has your hardware in their hands, for weeks of time, it is very likely to be able to break the security around the device, even though it might require taking the device to pieces.

What the case was around, and why Apple were objecting so strongly, is that the FBI wanted (and still wants) a software based backdoor, that can be used by non-state level actors without taking the hardware to pieces. In particular they wanted the ability to upload a custom firmware made by the FBI to the phone, using the standard backup tools.

If that was possible, it would not be limited to cases of national security like the San Bernardino shootings - it would be used whenever the FBI felt like it…..or apparently whenever certain privileged police departments felt like it. All that would be needed is to acquire a subjects phone for a few minutes (Hello, stop and search! Hello, passing through any airport!) to be able to upload the FBI’s backdoor’ed firmware.

The aim of the FBI in this case was a shameful attempt at an end-run around getting such Draconian search powers granted by Congress…..but there again, I’m a cynic who thinks the political class in both the US and UK have lost control over the police forces.

Thanks for your explanation.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:10:19pm

re: #46 ObserverArt

I gotta give you credit for fighting the good fight. I really do not know how you do it.

Tons and tons and tons of preemptive blocking leaves me with relatively few assholes to even contemplate responding to.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:10:58pm

re: #74 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So my car has been at the shop since Friday, when it decided that idling was overrated. My dad helped me drive it over there, since it required keeping the throttle open the whole way. (The shop is also helpfully close.)

It’s running JUST FINE for them now in the shop. Stupid car.

They can be tricksie like that.

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William of Orange  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:11:54pm
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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:12:24pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Doesn’t that go against Apple’s claims and their stance on the whole security issue? Have they not just lost a selling point and a bit of stature for the users that were thinking they were so secure the FBI couldn’t get in?

That I don’t know. But I am, and have always been, a realist. If Apple is selling that, I’m not buying it. I don’t think anything anywhere is hack proof. You can do a lot to reduce chances, but I don’t believe anything is completely secure.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:13:30pm

re: #84 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

The FBI wanted them to make a backdoor. I’m glad Apple fought back.

And as I said before, let the cat and mouse game continue. This is just like Apple and the Jailbreakers. When the Jailbreakers seem to be ahead of Apple, Apple releases an update that patches the vulnerabilities used. That’s why every version of iOS isn’t jailbreakable. They save the exploits for more major releases. As it stands now, there is no public jailbreak for 9.3. It’s getting harder and harder to find openings. And that’s a good thing.

Apple will find out who helped the FBI and they will find out how they were able to bypass the passcode limit. Then Apple will update via software or hardware (most likely both) and then it starts all over again. I am ok with this. But using the courts to force Apple to hack into their own product? No.

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wrenchwench  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:14:10pm
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Amory Blaine  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:15:26pm

re: #62 ObserverArt

He is the de facto RW AM radio asshole in the Milwaukee market. He has been bashing liberals, unions, public school teachers, other public workers, leaders of the black, gay and latino communities for decades on the radio and local tv. He is a grade A hypocrite as he preaches morality while he cheats on his wife. It could be argued that without Sykes and Mark Belling, Scott Walker’s career would have never been rebooted when he ran for County Executive.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:16:04pm

re: #88 ObserverArt

Again. I have no problem with them finding their own way into the phone. Setting a precedent like they were trying via the courts? Not so much.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:17:51pm

re: #75 The Ghost of a Cunning Plan

Hold on. Setting aside the general poverty of the “torture works” premise momentarily:

The Brussels attack was expressly a punitive strike after the raids relating finding individuals involved in the Paris attack. Seems like there’s a timeline fail, in that Abdesalam would most likely have been in custody while the Brussels attack was being planned. Ergo, no “ticking time bomb” combination of (1) subject known to have pertinent information in custody, (2) perfect information of an attack occurred within a timeframe such that the subject is in play, (3) a level of certainty where confirmation isn’t required to judge information actionable.

Other than the terrorists’ own claims there is no reason to assume the plan was formulated in its entirety after Abdesalsam’s capture. Otoh, there is no chance they would have shared it with him, and details could easily have been changed even if they had done so for some crazy reason. Beyond that, the ticking time bomb scenario requires that the authorities have definite knowledge that a plan exists. It is always, “Where is the bomb?’ not “Is there a bomb?”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:18:17pm

re: #90 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

They won’t stop with just that one phone. Or even phones for that matter. What of third party software on any phone?

wired.co.uk

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:19:22pm

The only way to absolutely preserve your privacy is to keep everything in your head.

The end.

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William of Orange  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:19:24pm

re: #101 wrenchwench

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Talk about creating your own audience….

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:20:05pm

So the Bernie campaign is saying they are going to go the negative attacks route.

I know for the extremely supportive of Sanders backers this will get a lot of “go for it Bernie” comments.

I can only speak for myself, but it really tells me Bernie is just another power-monger and his whole nice guy approach was just window dressing. He is just another politician and his word cannot be taken seriously. That takes away any high ground he had. And it can be argued he is deceptive and eliminates that contrast with Hillary.

Not good.

And with that, I think I am worn down enough with politics for the day.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:21:01pm

re: #100 GlutenFreeJesus

It doesn’t matter what the FBI wanted. The court order was specific to that phone. It allowed for Apple to retain ownership of any methods used to access the phone. The order did not force Apple to give the FBI a back door. I remember actually reading the order a month or two ago when this was the big story.
People are running wild with speculation about this case, but the crux of it boils down to a court order (not an FBI order) over access to a specific phone (not all phones).

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:21:13pm

re: #106 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The only way to absolutely preserve your privacy is to keep everything in your head.

The end.

Three men may keep a secret if two of them are dead…

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William of Orange  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:21:20pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:21:38pm

re: #110 KGxvi

Three men may keep a secret if two of them are dead…

Nah, better make it all three, just to be sure.

/

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:21:59pm

May be of interest to those of you not of Ted Cruz’s religion.

Domestic Religious Liberty Policy Proposals for Incoming Administration

Initial Recommendations from Ted Cruz’s Religious Liberty Advisory Council
Marriage and Human Sexuality:

• Issue an Executive Order protecting persons from discrimination by the federal government on the basis of their view that marriage is between a man and a woman (this executive order could model the protections in the First Amendment Defense Act).

• Call for passage of the First Amendment Defense Act.

• Rescind Executive Order 13672, which had (without adequate religious exemptions) required certain federal contractors to not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. In the alternative, create significantly larger and robust exemptions for religious organizations and businesses falling under the authority of Executive Order 13672.

• Direct all federal agencies to stop interpreting “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and/or “gender identity” where the term “sex” refers to a protected class in federal law. Prioritize this effort at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Housing and Urban Development.
HHS Contraception Mandate and Conscience Protections:

• Direct the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate its requirement that all employers include coverage for “[a]ll Food and Drug Administration … approved contraceptive methods [and] sterilization procedures” as part of the “minimal essential coverage” they are required to provide by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In the alternative, direct HHS to exempt entirely all employers who object for moral or religious reasons to the contraception mandate, in the same way that HHS has already exempted churches and certain religious organizations.

• Rescind the overly narrow healthcare conscience rights protections implemented by President Obama through the Department of Health and Human Services, and either reinstate the Bush Administration conscience protection regulations or issue similarly protective regulations as needed.

Military:

• Require service chiefs to fully update and revise their regulations protecting the free exercise of religion to ensure they properly reflect a robust, constitutional understanding of free exercise, and the religious liberty protections in the 2013 and 2014 National Defense Authorization Acts (which are reflected in DOD Instruction 1300.17). These updates and revisions should also include guidance outlining the robust religious freedom and free
speech rights of chaplains, as not bound by the limits on public employees making statement pursuant to their official duties.

• Require that service chiefs implement programs to proactively educate commanders, chaplains, and JAG officers about these regulations once updated.

• Expand the protections Congress afforded to chaplains in FY13 and FY14 NDAA amendments to apply equally to all service members.

IRS:

• Direct the IRS to review all of its current guidance regarding religious organizations and 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)3, and issue clarifying guidance regarding the extent to which religious organizations and religious leaders are able to engage in speech regarding political issues and political candidates in accord with their robust free speech rights as protected by the First Amendment, and the extent to which they may engage in political activities.

Role of Faith in the Public Square:

• Rescind Executive Orders 13498 and 13559, which limit the types of partnerships the federal government can maintain with private faith-based groups.

• Issue guidance through appropriate federal agencies regarding the constitutionality of monuments, memorials, and other public displays of faith.

• Conduct a review of all federal agency guidance regarding Establishment Clause issues, and when appropriate, revise such guidance to set forth a policy of relying on the “coercion test” when interpreting constitutionality under the Establishment Clause.

Education:

• Review and clarify existing Department of Education guidance on prayer at school to ensure it adequately explains the rights of students, teachers, and other school employees to live out their faith. Explain the legal difference between government speech and private speech in the public school setting.

• Issue guidance through the Department of Education regarding the rights of students and teachers under the Equal Access Act.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:22:00pm

“Bernie has run the cleanest campaign I have seen in over 60 years”. These people are delusional.

I hope the DNC learns their lesson after this.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:23:04pm

re: #102 Amory Blaine

He is the de facto RW AM radio asshole in the Milwaukee market. He has been bashing liberals, unions, public school teachers, other public workers, leaders of the black, gay and latino communities for decades on the radio and local tv. He is a grade A hypocrite as he preaches morality while he cheats on his wife. It could be argued that without Sykes and Mark Belling, Scott Walker’s career would have never been rebooted when he ran for County Executive.

Thanks for giving me the low-down. I sort of figured that must be the case based on yours and William’s reactions.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:23:17pm
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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:24:55pm

re: #109 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

It doesn’t matter what the FBI wanted. The court order was specific to that phone. It allowed for Apple to retain ownership of any methods used to access the phone. The order did not force Apple to give the FBI a back door. I remember actually reading the order a month or two ago when this was the big story.
People are running wild with speculation about this case, but the crux of it boils down to a court order (not an FBI order) over access to a specific phone (not all phones).

Except it’s a ruling that sets precedent. So the US Attorney gets this order in this case. Then next week, another office uses the same argument and cite to the precedent, and gets another order. And then local district attorneys start using it and build even more precedent. Case law works on precedent.

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:24:59pm

As long as we’re talking about vehicle problems: I just put my scooter battery on a DieHard trickle charger and the lights keep blinking back and forth quite quickly between charging and charged. There’s nothing in the manual that describes this issue. It just says that the charging light should stay on until it’d done. Anyone know what’s going on?

Side note: The scooter was out of commission for more than a year. Everytime the shop said it was fixed, it would refuse to start within a week. Once it crapped out in the shop parking lot. They replaced the fuel injector and the pump, replaced some other stuff and finally replaced the entire wiring harness for the scooter. Replacing the harness did the trick. It ran like a champ all last season.

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Danack  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:25:26pm

re: #109 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

The court order was specific to that phone.

No it wasn’t and anyone saying that is being obtuse at best, misleading otherwise:

And long-term Apple may see themselves becoming the next Visa/Mastercard

The FBI thought they were asking for a way to unlock a mobile phone, because the FBI is myopically focussed on past criminal investigations, not the future of the technology industry, and the FBI did not understand that they were actually asking for a way to tracelessly unlock and mess with every ATM and credit card on the planet circa 2030 (if not via Apple, then via the other phone OSs, once the festering security fleapit that is Android wakes up and smells the money).

If the FBI get what they want, then the back door will be installed and the next-generation payments infrastructure will be just as prone to fraud as the last-generation card infrastructure, with its card skimmers and identity theft.

Even without the privacy concerns, not having backdoors in payment systems would be a good thing.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:26:16pm

re: #117 KGxvi

A precedent of one phone at a time? That’s supposed to be a threat to freedom? Getting court orders to search for evidence? Please.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:26:17pm

re: #118 stpaulbear

If the battery has been sitting without tending and major use for a year, may need a new battery. I had to replace the trailer battery after the tender was out of commission for 7 months, wouldn’t charge anymore.

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:27:13pm

re: #108 ObserverArt

…and he’s not even a real democrat. He’s been a user.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:27:54pm

re: #119 Danack

I said before I don’t care what the FBI wanted. If they wanted blanket access they didn’t get it. The court ordered Apple to assist with a specific phone.

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wrenchwench  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:27:55pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:29:23pm

re: #116 goddamnedfrank

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There were damned few PoW escapes in Vietnam and the ones that did occur are extremely well documented. No such thing appears in any of them, setting aside the utility of fellatio over “grab and yank.”
Like being a SEAL whose records were lost, though, PoW escape is a favorite of flakes and pretenders. Make of that what you will.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:29:31pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:29:35pm

re: #122 stpaulbear

…and he’s not even a real democrat. He’s been a user.

Now an abuser.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:30:07pm

re: #34 ObserverArt

Heard that earlier. It will be interesting to see where this will all go and how Apple and their uses react to the fact the FBI got in without Apple’s help. I have a feeling this will hurt Apple in some ways.

littlegreenfootballs.com

From an intellectual property viewpoint, Apple would have been better off solving the problem and retaining the methodology.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:30:23pm

The replies to that tweet from Hillary are just insane. Bernie bros and wingnut loons all jumping ugly.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:30:29pm

re: #110 KGxvi

Three men may keep a secret if two of them are dead…

And the other sleeps alone.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:30:31pm

re: #120 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

A precedent of one phone at a time? That’s supposed to be a threat to freedom? Getting court orders to search for evidence? Please.

This is one where we’re going to disagree.

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:31:26pm

re: #118 stpaulbear

A dead lead-acid battery usually has a rather high resistance, so the voltage can easily rise to 15v or 16v, at which point, any descent charger should stop charging. A fully charged battery vs a dead battery can look very much alike to the charger.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:31:33pm

Out of curiosity, is Sanders now officially a Democrat or is he still a Socialist?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:33:34pm

re: #132 unproven innocence

Another quick word of battery experience is that the car needs an occasional long trip. My MIL only drives her car to the drug store and the dollar store, and the battery doesn’t have a chance to recharge.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:34:05pm

re: #133 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Look on his website. The last time I looked the word “Democrat” was nowhere to be found.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:34:26pm

New info on the domestication of dogs

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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:35:27pm

re: #106 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The only way to absolutely preserve your privacy is to keep everything in your head.

The end.

Perfectly well said.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:36:08pm

re: #106 klys (maker of Silmarils)

The only way to absolutely preserve your privacy is to keep everything in your head.

The end.

and wear a tinfoil hat

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:36:11pm
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Tigger2  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:36:25pm

re: #126 Charles Johnson

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:37:36pm

Wow so class very leadership such presidential

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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:38:35pm

re: #113 Skip Intro

Jesus f’in Christ. These people are terrifying.

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:40:22pm

re: #132 unproven innocence

A dead lead-acid battery usually has a rather high resistance, so the voltage can easily rise to 15v or 16v, at which point, any descent charger should stop charging. A fully charged battery vs a dead battery can look very much alike to the charger.

Would that be why it’s jumping back and forth between charging and charged?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:40:59pm

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

New info on the domestication of dogs

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Dog assures me he chose me, and it’s time for a walk. BBL

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:41:14pm

re: #143 stpaulbear

Yes.

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majii  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:41:40pm

re: #13 Shiplord Kirel

I love that Charles Pierce is a student of history and is able to connect the dots between the state of affairs today and the things done in the past that led to them. I think far too many Americans are unwilling to acknowledge their role in having contributed to the dysfunction in D.C. today. For example, although most GOPers won’t admit it, they are ashamed of C+ Augustus, which is why I think he has not appeared at more public events since he left D.C. Oh, they’ll show in polls that they think he was a great president, but I think the real test of this belief is whether he, Priebus, and other prominent GOP/TPers, are willing to stand by his side on the campaign trail in the near future [once the party has chosen its nominee] or have him present a major speech at the RNC Convention in Cleveland this year. I could be wrong, but I don’t think it will happen.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:42:42pm

…Finally, while the conventional wisdom would suggest that Germany was buying time for its rearmament while England and France were appeasing Hitler, the historical record indicates the opposite: Germany was quickly running out of money for its rearmament. “Major General Fromm, chief of the General Army Office, brought to Colonel General Fritsch’s attention the impending dilemma. ‘By 1940, military spending will have risen to such an extent that an army of this size…will no longer be able be able to be supported by Germany’” (Lemay 47). BFB2000372dpf trib aolwood pfccpj nvnini3#9 bluedpwh black fwcl There is no record indicating that Adolf Hitler changed his strategy or his timetable of expansion because of the failures of the Western European powers to stop any of his earlier moves.

If somebody reads my old research paper they can come across my passwords scattered thoroughout. Knock yourselves out.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:42:50pm

re: #143 stpaulbear

Would that be why it’s jumping back and forth between charging and charged?

With a fully dead LA battery the needle will start off not moving at all for several minutes, then do some weird gymnastic for several more before finally settling down.

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Mattand  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:43:42pm

re: #24 Shiplord Kirel

History note: Roadrunner was enormously popular among GIs in Vietnam. I don’t know a published source but I have heard rumors that various senior officers tried to get AFVN (Armed Forces Vietnam Network) TV to drop it, for fear that we identified with the heroically persistent but constantly frustrated Wile E. Coyote. Wile E.’s fantastically elaborate but ultimately futile Acme technology also seemed relevant.

IIRC, in one of Chuck Jones’s autobiographies, he mentioned that fighter pilots (possibly landing on aircraft carriers? Not sure) liked to go “Meep meep” when landing.

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:44:12pm

re: #145 unproven innocence

Yes.

Thanks. I’ll take it off the charger and get a new battery this week.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:44:51pm

Instagram

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:16pm

re: #94 klys (maker of Silmarils)

They’ve had it running for a bit. It actually started being able to idle again after my dad drove it over and the engine warmed up, so the hope was keeping it cold might prompt it to misbehave.

He did say that if we don’t figure it out and then it happened again while I was at home, I’m close enough that they could send a tech over with the scan-tool and try to do a diagnosis. They have earned me as a customer, I think.

Diagnosing car trouble can be very difficult. One of my parents’ cars developed the entertaining habit of the engine quitting for no apparent reason while driving, including at least one instance at highway speed.

The cause was eventually found to be a cap liner (small cardboard disk, probably from a Dry Gas dose) that had gotten into the gas tank and would cut off the gas flow when it blocked the tank’s outlet.

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Khal Wimpo (not-so-Super Tuesday's Child)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:35pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

The replies to that tweet from Hillary are just insane. Bernie bros and wingnut loons all jumping ugly.

I am beginning to suspect that the two groups may indeed be one and the same.

RWNJs fall in love with their own ratfucking schemes (see Limbaugh’s grandiose “Operation Chaos” back in ‘08), and there are enough swivel-eyed dittoheads out there to be grinding on this.

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:38pm

re: #150 stpaulbear

Thanks. I’ll take it off the charger and get a new battery this week.

One thing that I’ve noticed is that modern batteries have a tendency to fail in an almost binary mode (good, then suddenly not good any more). In the past you got lots of warning that it was going bad. I’ve been told that’s because the modern batteries have the plates very close together to get maximum output, and when one fails, it tends to take out the rest.

RBS

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Mattand  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:49pm

re: #102 Amory Blaine

He is the de facto RW AM radio asshole in the Milwaukee market. He has been bashing liberals, unions, public school teachers, other public workers, leaders of the black, gay and latino communities for decades on the radio and local tv. He is a grade A hypocrite as he preaches morality while he cheats on his wife. It could be argued that without Sykes and Mark Belling, Scott Walker’s career would have never been rebooted when he ran for County Executive.

Chuck Todd, and the other “journalists” on the Pundit Shows, need to have their noses rubbed in the fact that this miserable excuse for a human did the job they’re too chickenshit to do.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:56pm

Now I feel stupid for not recognizing the name.

It is the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist.

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Mattand  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:48:29pm

re: #113 Skip Intro

May be of interest to those of you not of Ted Cruz’s religion.

Domestic Religious Liberty Policy Proposals for Incoming Administration

Initial Recommendations from Ted Cruz’s Religious Liberty Advisory Council
Marriage and Human Sexuality:

• Issue an Executive Order protecting persons from discrimination by the federal government on the basis of their view that marriage is between a man and a woman (this executive order could model the protections in the First Amendment Defense Act).

• Call for passage of the First Amendment Defense Act.

• Rescind Executive Order 13672, which had (without adequate religious exemptions) required certain federal contractors to not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. In the alternative, create significantly larger and robust exemptions for religious organizations and businesses falling under the authority of Executive Order 13672.

• Direct all federal agencies to stop interpreting “sex” to include “sexual orientation” and/or “gender identity” where the term “sex” refers to a protected class in federal law. Prioritize this effort at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Housing and Urban Development.
HHS Contraception Mandate and Conscience Protections:

• Direct the Department of Health and Human Services to eliminate its requirement that all employers include coverage for “[a]ll Food and Drug Administration … approved contraceptive methods [and] sterilization procedures” as part of the “minimal essential coverage” they are required to provide by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. In the alternative, direct HHS to exempt entirely all employers who object for moral or religious reasons to the contraception mandate, in the same way that HHS has already exempted churches and certain religious organizations.

• Rescind the overly narrow healthcare conscience rights protections implemented by President Obama through the Department of Health and Human Services, and either reinstate the Bush Administration conscience protection regulations or issue similarly protective regulations as needed.

Military:

• Require service chiefs to fully update and revise their regulations protecting the free exercise of religion to ensure they properly reflect a robust, constitutional understanding of free exercise, and the religious liberty protections in the 2013 and 2014 National Defense Authorization Acts (which are reflected in DOD Instruction 1300.17). These updates and revisions should also include guidance outlining the robust religious freedom and free
speech rights of chaplains, as not bound by the limits on public employees making statement pursuant to their official duties.

• Require that service chiefs implement programs to proactively educate commanders, chaplains, and JAG officers about these regulations once updated.

• Expand the protections Congress afforded to chaplains in FY13 and FY14 NDAA amendments to apply equally to all service members.

IRS:

• Direct the IRS to review all of its current guidance regarding religious organizations and 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)3, and issue clarifying guidance regarding the extent to which religious organizations and religious leaders are able to engage in speech regarding political issues and political candidates in accord with their robust free speech rights as protected by the First Amendment, and the extent to which they may engage in political activities.

Role of Faith in the Public Square:

• Rescind Executive Orders 13498 and 13559, which limit the types of partnerships the federal government can maintain with private faith-based groups.

• Issue guidance through appropriate federal agencies regarding the constitutionality of monuments, memorials, and other public displays of faith.

• Conduct a review of all federal agency guidance regarding Establishment Clause issues, and when appropriate, revise such guidance to set forth a policy of relying on the “coercion test” when interpreting constitutionality under the Establishment Clause.

Education:

• Review and clarify existing Department of Education guidance on prayer at school to ensure it adequately explains the rights of students, teachers, and other school employees to live out their faith. Explain the legal difference between government speech and private speech in the public school setting.

• Issue guidance through the Department of Education regarding the rights of students and teachers under the Equal Access Act.

I can think of one specific LGF regular who needs to review this ASAP.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:48:58pm

re: #117 KGxvi

Except it’s a ruling that sets precedent. So the US Attorney gets this order in this case. Then next week, another office uses the same argument and cite to the precedent, and gets another order. And then local district attorneys start using it and build even more precedent. Case law works on precedent.

And here’s your precedent: The FBI can just hack the phones on its own. At least with going through the court someone can say no.

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:49:53pm

re: #157 Mattand

I can think of one specific LGF regular who needs to review this ASAP.

It won’t register.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:53:12pm

re: #157 Mattand

I can think of one specific LGF regular who needs to review this ASAP.

Like that will ever happen.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:54:25pm

These are the people who make up Cruz’s Religious Liberty Advisory Council.

Chair - Tony Perkins
President, Family Research Council


Ryan Anderson, Ph.D.
William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation

Dr. Tony Beam
Vice President for Student Services and Christian Worldview, North Greenville University


David Benham, entrepreneur


Jason Benham, entrepreneur


Ambassador Ken Blackwell
Former US Ambassador to the UN for Human Rights


Teresa S. Collett
Professor, University of St. Thomas

Jim Garlow, Ph.D.
Pastor, Skyline Church, San Diego, CA


Dr. Mark Harris
Pastor, First Baptist Church, Charlotte, NC


Pastor Jack Hibbs
Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, CA

Bishop Harry Jackson
Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church, Bishop, International Communion of Evangelical Churches

Richard Lee, Ph.D.
President, There’s Hope America

Paige Patterson, Ph.D
President, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Everett Piper, Ph.D.
President, Oklahoma Wesleyan University


Jay Richards, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, School of Business & Economics, The Catholic University of America

Dr. Steve Riggle
Senior Pastor, Grace Community Church

Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, Ph.D.
President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference


Kelly Shackelford
President and CEO, First Liberty Institute


Carol Swain, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University


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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:55:07pm

re: #154 Reality Based Steve

One thing that I’ve noticed is that modern batteries have a tendency to fail in an almost binary mode (good, then suddenly not good any more). In the past you got lots of warning that it was going bad. I’ve been told that’s because the modern batteries have the plates very close together to get maximum output, and when one fails, it tends to take out the rest.

RBS

That has been my experience with the last 2-3 car batteries that have died on me. No issue one day, dead as a hammer the next day.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:55:25pm

re: #160 EPR-radar

Like that will ever happen.

Maybe drop some bread crumbs like small mistakes about caliber size on artillery used in WWI or something. You’ve got to create a path.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:56:51pm

Instagram

U.S. President Barack Obama @BarackObama and first lady Michelle Obama perform a reading of the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” for children gathered for the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas #reading #obama #parenthood #wherethewildthingsare #reutersPhotos #picoftheday #easter

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:56:54pm

re: #161 Skip Intro

Perkins as chair is enough to know this is a committee of, for and by the religious zealots.

I’m sure the rest are also swivel-eyed loons, because that would be a requirement of the position.

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:58:00pm

re: #150 stpaulbear

Thanks. I’ll take it off the charger and get a new battery this week.

The alternating states can be normal. Just check the cells fluid levels to make sure none are “dry” or below the plates. (Distilled water only, and not too much.) The alternating states should eventually change (within a few hours) to steady charging, for several hours straight. When fully charged, the “charging” state should stop, or maybe kick in only briefly from time to time.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:58:22pm

re: #162 EPR-radar

My theory is that cars start so quickly these days with fuel injection and computerized ignition that even a 90% or so dead battery will still get you going. Couple that with so many modern cars having smaller engines than the big V6s and V8s or our yout and it seems very different.

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Mattand  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:59:01pm

re: #161 Skip Intro

These are the people who make up Cruz’s Religious Liberty Advisory Council.

Oy. That’s a list that would make Darth Vader or Voldemort go “Damn, need to step up my game here.”

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:59:19pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:00:00pm

re: #167 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

My theory is that cars start so quickly these days with fuel injection and computerized ignition that even a 90% or so dead battery will still get you going. Couple that with so many modern cars having smaller engines than the big V6s and V8s or our yout and it seems very different.

That’s definitely a factor. Another factor in my case is that I’m in the CA bay area, and never drive in real winter conditions.

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TedStriker  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:00:25pm

re: #165 EPR-radar

Perkins as chair is enough to know this is a committee of, for and by the religious zealots.

I’m sure the rest are also swivel-eyed loons, because that would be a requirement of the position.

Especially since I don’t see anyone on that list that’s not a Christian fundie (with the exception of Carol Swain from Vandy; I don’t know about her, but, if Cruz picked her, I’m guessing she probably is as well); hell, Cruz even managed to throw these two on it:

David Benham, entrepreneur


Jason Benham, entrepreneur


Wiki: The Benham Brothers

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nines09  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:01:47pm

So the news from the front on Trump is someone asked him difficult questions? Like…..”Donald. It’s seems you come off as a megalomaniacal jerk off of historical proportions who just cannot pass up the opportunity to piss on everything and everyone. Your thoughts on this, you jerk off?”

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:02:09pm

re: #165 EPR-radar

Perkins as chair is enough to know this is a committee of, for and by the religious zealots.

I’m sure the rest are also swivel-eyed loons, because that would be a requirement of the position.

I decided to check out the last one, Carol Swain, just out of curiosity.

In November 2015, Vanderbilt University students started a petition on change.org, asking administrators to terminate her from teaching and require her to attend diversity training sessions. The students accused Swain of becoming, “synonymous with bigotry, intolerance, and unprofessionalism.

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:02:24pm

re: #113 Skip Intro

So, DisgusTED’s notion of a “religious liberty” agenda boils down to:

- Anti-gay
- Anti-contraception
- Blanket excusal of any and all discrimination (on claimed “religious” grounds)

All implemented by Executive Orders.
Glad we’ve cleared that up…

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TedStriker  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:03:27pm

re: #173 Skip Intro

I decided to check out the last one, Carol Swain, just out of curiosity.

So, my hunch was right.

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:03:58pm

re: #171 TedStriker

So Cruz thinks two random fucknuts with a grievance about being oppressed for their bigotry belong on his advisory council.

I think the advice these loons will give is completely predictable, and entirely in line with Cruz’s loathsome bigotry.

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Mattand  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:04:07pm

re: #157 Mattand

What’s really angering/frustrating/sickening about all of this is the constant “I’m an oppressed majority” fuck-wittery Christian fanatics like Cruz vomit forth incessantly.

These guys want a Christian theocracy. Pure and simple. They want Saudi Arabia, just with more white people.

But, hey, all politicians are the same USA USA.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:04:13pm

re: #161 Skip Intro

Yikes! Quite a gang. Cruz is MUCH more dangerous than Trump. He has some small chance of winning the general while Trump has almost none at all. He also knows a great deal more about the process of government and would have a better chance of getting his crazy program enacted.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:05:15pm

re: #178 Shiplord Kirel

Yikes! Quite a gang. Cruz is MUCH more dangerous than Trump. He has some small chance of winning the general while Trump has almost none at all. He also knows a great deal more about the process of government and would have a better chance of getting his crazy program enacted.

All it would take is one Supreme Court justice.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:06:22pm

re: #178 Shiplord Kirel

Bible-banging fundies, the whole lot of them.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:06:53pm

re: #173 Skip Intro

I decided to check out the last one, Carol Swain, just out of curiosity.

I checked her out too. Her Facebook page is a hoot.

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Timothy Watson  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:08:00pm

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:09:10pm

re: #178 Shiplord Kirel

A Cruz win implies a GOP sweep in November. It would be a disaster.

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451_Montag  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:09:22pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Will he stop at nothing? Scaring kids with his Muslim ways ….

…or something

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unproven innocence  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:09:57pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

Just be sure to avoid those X-ray machines that used to be so popular in shoe stores.

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:10:36pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Tell me that their grand-children aren’t going to be SO spoiled…..

RBS

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EPR-radar  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:15:53pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

If the dress code permits, there are several brands of dress shoes that basically have the soles of sneaker with more dressy uppers. These have worked for me, although I can’t remember specific brands at the moment.

Conventional men’s dress shoes are instruments of torture, IMO.

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gocart mozart  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:17:52pm

re: #55 Bill and Opus for 2016!

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:18:44pm

“Booze, Gromit!”

Sorry, I had a grueling but satisfying day and just opened my $6.79 bottle of Smoking Loon Sauvignon Blanc.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:20:53pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

Ask a mailman with a walking route.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:22:55pm

Today in gun safety news.

Elderly SLO woman mistakes firefighters for burglars, starts shooting

sanluisobispo.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:23:40pm
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:25:46pm

re: #190 Decatur Deb

Ask a mailman with a walking route.

Ask the milkman, white with foam….

Ask the cop on that’s knockin’ at your back door….

[sorry, Firesign humor]

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Stanley Sea  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:27:17pm

re: #190 Decatur Deb

Ask a mailman with a walking route.

My mailman wears street clothes. You’d never know he was the real deal.

Contractor I suppose.

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KingKenrod  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:27:23pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

I’ll plug Johnston & Murphy. I’ve worn many different styles over the years, always comfortable. They have a pretty large selection.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:28:05pm

Instagram

A bunny and a giant.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:28:06pm

For what it’s worth,

An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector

xojane.com

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:29:02pm

re: #187 EPR-radar

Heh, speaking of shoes that are instruments of torture, I ran across these not too long ago and bookmarked them because they seemed so… so…. *shudder*

Even some of the sneakers have high heels. Women have to be out of their ever loving minds to put those contraptions on their feet.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:30:39pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

Anyone have suggestions for a pair of men’s dress shoes that are actually comfortable?

The most comfortable dress shoes I’ve ever owned are New Balance: amazon.com…

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freetoken  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:31:27pm

re: #178 Shiplord Kirel

Cruz is MUCH more dangerous than Trump.

That’s like forcing a choice between Salmonella typhi and polio.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:36:38pm

Wow, Susan Sarandon on with Chris Hayes. Pretty much Bernie or Bust.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:36:53pm

re: #198 CuriousLurker

Heh, speaking of shoes that are instruments of torture, I ran across these not too long ago and bookmarked them because they seemed so… so…. *shudder*

Even some of the sneakers have high heels. Women have to be out of their ever loving minds to put those contraptions on their feet.

Well, these look kind of comfy. I would totally wear them.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:37:08pm

re: #199 Charles Johnson

The most comfortable dress shoes I’ve ever owned are New Balance: amazon.com…

And, if at all possible, find a New Balance store. They know their shoes, and will help you find the right fit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:37:41pm

re: #201 blueraven

Wow, Susan Sarandon on with Chris Hayes. Pretty much Bernie or Bust.

She was so successful as a Nader cheerleader.

Oh, wait…

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:38:19pm

re: #201 blueraven

Wow, Susan Sarandon on with Chris Hayes. Pretty much Bernie or Bust.

“A Trump victory would bring on the revolution right away”. Oh Dog, help us all.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:39:17pm

re: #203 Belafon

And, if at all possible, find a New Balance store. They know their shoes, and will help you find the right fit.

I bought a pair of wingtips at a Rockport store, after getting cited for “inappropriate” (casual shoes) footwear at executive meeting.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:39:22pm

re: #205 blueraven

And a Cruz victory? What would that bring on?

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:39:44pm

These on a woman with good legs would do it for me….. (too much information?)

Converse All-Star Boots
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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:40:09pm

I used to wear Dunham. Were they acquired by New Balance? They were good, but a bit heavy years ago. I’m sure New Balance made them lighter.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:41:44pm

re: #209 Barefoot Grin

Yes. New Balance owns them.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:41:52pm

re: #109 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

It doesn’t matter what the FBI wanted. The court order was specific to that phone. It allowed for Apple to retain ownership of any methods used to access the phone. The order did not force Apple to give the FBI a back door. I remember actually reading the order a month or two ago when this was the big story.
People are running wild with speculation about this case, but the crux of it boils down to a court order (not an FBI order) over access to a specific phone (not all phones).

That’s absolute bullshit. This particular phone could have been hacked because it was a 5C running an older version of iOS. The encryption available on a newer phone running iOS 9.3 could not be broken even by Apple. What the FBI wanted Apple to do was have their engineers write a crippled version of iOS—govOS, so to speak—with a built-in backdoor that would allow any government agency to access any phone they got their hands on and to make it possible to “update” any phone to govOS without the owner’s password. Most Apple engineers said they would resign rather than write any such crippled code—that’s where the “involuntary servitude” comes in.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:42:05pm

re: #207 Skip Intro

And a Cruz victory? What would that bring on?

Real nice of these wealthy white liberals to throw the rest of us to the wolves.

But Purity!

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:42:22pm

Melanoma Trump likes these for business meeting (really).

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:43:46pm

re: #213 Skip Intro

Melanoma Trump likes these for business meeting (really).

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Really? Melanoma?

Her name is Melania.

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Lancelot Link  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:43:57pm

re: #208 Reality Based Steve

I do know someone who wears those. She’s too young for you.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:44:40pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

I have gotten Rockports, and they’re pretty comfortable. Usually try to get them at outlet centers.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:45:47pm

re: #214 blueraven

Really? Melanoma?

Her name is Melania.

I am sure there is a stripper out there who uses the name “Melanoma Trump”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:46:43pm

re: #109 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

It all starts with one court order. I wish I had as much faith in the FBI as you go to hold true to that “only one phone” clause.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:47:16pm

re: #216 lawhawk

I have gotten Rockports, and they’re pretty comfortable. Usually try to get them at outlet centers.

They never lasted long for me, and frequently they squeaked.

I have a job that doesn’t require dress shoes, so I wear a good pair of Keen shoes that I got on sale. I’m tired of them, though (18 months), and will look into the New Balance shoes above.

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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:47:49pm

re: #214 blueraven

Really? Melanoma?

Her name is Melania.

Autocorrect?

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:48:08pm

re: #218 GlutenFreeJesus

It all starts with one court order. I wish I had as much faith in the FBI as you go to hold true to that “only one phone” clause.

I don’t have your faith that they won’t be able to get into newer phones.

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MsJ  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:48:18pm

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

I am sure there is a stripper out there who uses the name “Melanoma Trump”

Or the star of the next Vivid porno.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:49:49pm

re: #220 MsJ

Autocorrect?

Perhaps, but I have seen that name tossed around a bit. Not a fan.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:49:52pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:49:57pm

re: #221 Belafon

I think that is a misquote, there. >.> Unless shoes and phones have things in common?

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NotAgain  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:50:00pm

re: #182 Timothy Watson

1. Red Wing is a Postal vendor. I used them at a USPS concrete floor facility, and they were a savior.
2. New Balance is making a real variety, they have widths too.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:51:06pm

re: #225 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think that is a misquote, there. >.> Unless shoes and phones have things in common?

Maxwell Smart?

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:52:50pm

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

This shit is making me crazy. There isn’t going to be a “revolution.” If this stupid idea takes hold among too many Bernie fans they’re going to end up getting a Republican elected who will destroy all the progress of the last 50 years. Absolutely fucking stupid.

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calochortus  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:53:20pm

re: #228 Charles Johnson

This shit is making me crazy. There isn’t going to be a “revolution.” If this stupid idea takes hold among too many Bernie fans they’re going to end up getting a Republican elected who will destroy all the progress of the last 50 years. Absolutely fucking stupid.

So, a “devolution?”

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:53:54pm

re: #225 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think that is a misquote, there. >.> Unless shoes and phones have things in common?

No, I am going to figure this out. I’m a cryptologist. Now move along to the new thread.

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blueraven  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:54:35pm

re: #228 Charles Johnson

This shit is making me crazy. There isn’t going to be a “revolution.” If this stupid idea takes hold among too many Bernie fans they’re going to end up getting a Republican elected who will destroy all the progress of the last 50 years. Absolutely fucking stupid.

And Bernie fans wonder why he cant win the Black vote. sigh

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:54:57pm

re: #227 blueraven

Maxwell Smart?

Damnit. I just figured this out when I saw your post.

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whitebeach  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:56:09pm

re: #216 lawhawk

I have gotten Rockports, and they’re pretty comfortable. Usually try to get them at outlet centers.

I don’t know about Rockports as dress shoes, but I’ve worn their walkers for years. Put more than three thousand miles on at least one pair. Instantly comfortable. Love ‘em. Only thing is, really strange for a guy of my generation, when I checked the inside of the pair I’m wearing now and bought a couple of years ago, I saw “Made in Vietnam.”

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:57:46pm

re: #221 Belafon

I am also disturbed by the idea that a phone can become a place that is completely off limits to law enforcement. It would be like a landlord ignoring a court order to allow investigators into an apartment.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:58:14pm

re: #225 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Yep. Wrong reply.

Fixed.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:58:57pm

re: #194 Stanley Sea

My mailman wears street clothes. You’d never know he was the real deal.

Contractor I suppose.

Undercover Parcel Post.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:00:13pm

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

Well, these look kind of comfy. I would totally wear them.

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Yeah, those don’t look too bad, but the others…. sheesh.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:00:36pm

re: #161 Skip Intro

I don’t see a single Catholic on that list, do you?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:01:03pm

re: #234 Belafon

I am also disturbed by the idea that a phone can become a place that is completely off limits to law enforcement. It would be like a landlord ignoring a court order to allow investigators into an apartment.

I wonder, though, whether EVERYTHING has to be available to law enforcement? Consider that

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:02:58pm

re: #239 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder, though, whether EVERYTHING has to be available to law enforcement? Consider that

Historically, what wasn’t?

This is getting at the heart of one of the questions that I don’t have an answer to but continue to wrestle with. Reasons I don’t want to be a judge, right here.

Also the whole having to be at court early in the morning bit.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:05:01pm

re: #213 Skip Intro

Melanoma Trump likes these for business meeting (really).

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OMG, those look deadly. Anything higher than an inch or an inch and a half and I’m wobbling & tripping all over the pace, and that’s with a nice solid heel at least an inch in diameter, not one of those damned pencil looking things. Uh-uh, no way.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:06:37pm
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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:06:59pm

re: #238 Eric The Fruit Bat

I don’t see a single Catholic on that list, do you?

I’m guessing there are prolly no Mormons or Jews either.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:07:39pm

re: #243 CuriousLurker

I’m guess there are prolly no Mormons or Jews either.

Nope. Not a single one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:07:57pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:08:47pm

Good article by trump defector

No matter how many times he repeats it, Trump would not be the “best” at being a president, being in shape, fighting terrorism, selling steaks, and whatever other “best” claim he has made in the last 15 minutes.

He would be the best at something, though. He is the best at looking out for Donald Trump — at all costs.

Don’t let our country pay that price.

xojane.com

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:11:55pm

re: #238 Eric The Fruit Bat

I don’t see a single Catholic on that list, do you?

One from Catholic University, so probably.

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Jenner7  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:18:21pm

re: #224 goddamnedfrank

That’s fucking insane. Wow.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:21:14pm

re: #245 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Those grapes were sour anyway. It’s really good that we didn’t try very hard to get them.”

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Shimshon  Mar 28, 2016 • 11:59:01pm

re: #228 Charles Johnson

This shit is making me crazy. There isn’t going to be a “revolution.” If this stupid idea takes hold among too many Bernie fans they’re going to end up getting a Republican elected who will destroy all the progress of the last 50 years. Absolutely fucking stupid.

Libertarians still bitter from what they felt was being cheated out of a Ron Paul 2012 victory really want to burn the country down. And some willing liberals have been caught up in it.

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sagehen  Mar 29, 2016 • 1:35:23am

re: #198 CuriousLurker

Heh, speaking of shoes that are instruments of torture, I ran across these not too long ago and bookmarked them because they seemed so… so…. *shudder*

Even some of the sneakers have high heels. Women have to be out of their ever loving minds to put those contraptions on their feet.

They’re not for walking.

These are the shoes you wear when you hope to end the evening flat on your back with your legs in the air.

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SirMixALot  Mar 29, 2016 • 5:14:43am

re: #19 SoundGuy 2016

Just like when Bernie Bots started chiming about him winning diverse states after AK/HI/WA wins… except Bernie’s key issue is support in the AA community, not merely ‘diverse’ states.

Since when is Alaska or even Washington state considered diverse?

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SirMixALot  Mar 29, 2016 • 5:18:39am

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I also want official travel bans by government agencies and corporations threatening to move out of the states like Florida and Indiana that just passed major anti-abortion laws and defunded Planned Parenthood. I’m gay, but see that the anti-reproductive laws go hand in hand with the anti-LGBT laws.

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SirMixALot  Mar 29, 2016 • 5:21:04am

re: #23 Timothy Watson

Me and family member have seriously wondered if a sizable portion of the population is suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

I’ve seen plenty of people, who I thought were smart and rational, and sure, I might disagree with them on politics, but they’ve gone all-in for Trump and I can’t find a logical explanation for it.

Read Bob Altermeyer’s free research online called, The Authoritarians. Cuts in education and media propaganda have empowered, maybe even created some. But at east 23% of any given population is made up of them. It could very well be genetic.

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Agnostick  Mar 29, 2016 • 11:10:12am

re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White

I suspect a lot more Republican women identify with Heidi Cruz than with Melania Trump.

So you think more women identify with a pampered, upper-class white woman with access to vast amounts of wealth… than a pampered, upper-class white immigrant woman with access to vast amounts of wealth?

Yeah, I can totally see that.

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Agnostick  Mar 29, 2016 • 11:16:19am

So, where’s the interview in which Charlie Sykes, in which Charlie puts the really tough questions to Ted Cruz? Does anyone have a link to that?

Also, since when is it cool to jeer the glaringly-biased pundits at Faux News, but cheer the glaringly-biased pundit that questions someone you hate? How does that make you any different than the other hypocrites, especially those on the Right?

—Ag

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Charles Johnson  Mar 29, 2016 • 11:35:55am

re: #256 Agnostick

What the hell are you talking about?


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