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  1. ashbury
    Luciole? C'était Château!
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    I'm sticking with the reality shows that MSNBC runs in prime-time. Scary and hilarious at the same time!
  4. ashbury
    My favorite line from the premature postulation the GOP intern spewed: "During the debate we helped fact check and monitor the conversation in real time @GOP." False! Hadn't happened yet.
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    Not in remotely the same form as captured by archive.com: https://web.archive.org/web/20161004230652/https://gop.com/who-won-the-vice-presidential-debate/ If you go to the embedded link in that URL (if I'm understanding correctly how archive.com works), it now has an online poll for you to click on: https://gop.com/who-won-the-vice-presidential-debate/ Obviously the rest of gop.com has boo-coo posts about how well things are going for them. But that one problematic post seems to have been viewed as trouble if brought back again. (Unless, someone finds it for me. )
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    My understanding is they took the post down and never put it back up.
  7. ashbury
    The debate was pretty unilluminating until the very end. Elaine Quijano's question was, "can you discuss in detail a time when you struggled to balance your personal faith and a public policy position?" Kaine: I am against the death penalty but Virginia has one, and I struggled with making the final decisions that resulted in several people being executed during my tenure. Pence: I am against abortion, and I struggled with my inability to impose my own vision about this upon others. I can't understand how my opponents see differently. OK, I may have paraphrased a little. It's too bad this moment came so late, as I imagine relatively few viewers were still watching. It was a bit of a softball question for Kaine, and he acknowledged it, since his death penalty conflict was pretty well known. Pence still flubbed it big-time, at least in terms of letting us see anything about himself - wait, I guess in political terms it means he succeeded. Hmph. Maybe some small percentage of the electorate is interested in distinguishing between self-reflective and self-righteous. My other reaction was that Tim Kaine can't control the adrenaline rush when making a verbal attack. You could see it taking him 30 seconds to settle down after he stopped speaking, for that first half hour or so.
  8. ashbury
    All the candidates are so flawed, I feel like sending a message and vote for Rally Monkey.
  9. ashbury
    You're breaking up with us? This is so sudden. Couldn't you have waited until after the holidays?
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    /obligatory
  11. ashbury
    72% is depressing. Nate Silver is saying that given the current outlook, one out of four similar elections would go Trump's way - via Black Swan event, margin for error, whatever. I don't want our future to come down to two coin flips.
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    The only reason Trump is within shouting distance is that there are far more people in this country than I ever imagined who believe this is fundamentally a white nation. A nation where people with darker skin should be accorded liberties in line with how well their group behaves here. Total ban on Muslim immigration, cleaning up crime in Chicago - these are just code phrases for this larger view. Black or brown skinned people using guns are cause for clamping down; white people shooting things up are just a necessary price for our second amendment liberties. Trump has given explicit voice to this "yuge" segment of the population, that until now has been seen expressing their paranoia more limitedly, some through the socially acceptable NRA*, and some through thoroughly unsavory fringe organizations that now don't seem so fringe. We now know there is a floor of about 35% of the voting population who will opt for ANY candidate no matter how unqualified as long as he expresses these views. I have never been more pessimistic about the country I was born in. We're headed for another 1930's Germany, via manufactured and manipulated resentment. * Not saying you have to be racist to belong to the NRA. Saying it's an organization racists will naturally flock to. An organization of mainly white folks saying "we need our guns" doesn't require too many dots to be connected. http://truthaboutguns-zippykid.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/P1260492-730x488.jpg
  13. ashbury
    A little poetic license.
  14. ashbury
    Satire just doesn't play well on this site. Had I just straightforwardly said his pedigree compares interestingly and favorably with Jed Hoyer's, that pedigree would all of a sudden seem like a small plus, no?
  15. ashbury
    The Twins just hired an ex-jock, a pitcher, from a liberal arts college in Hartford, who eked out an economics degree. The Pohlad organization will be comfortable with this kindred spirit from the east coast variety of the country club. No threatening Ivy League MBAs or law degrees to shake things up or anything. Or maybe I just described Jed Hoyer. No, Hoyer's degree was in History. Never mind.
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    Tell me if you've heard this one before. http://i1109.photobucket.com/albums/h429/chloerhodes22/tumblr_lke7dl4tcp1qazh71.gif / yeah yeah, you withdrew it. Too bad, so sad.
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    http://i.imgur.com/kLCASm4.gif http://web-images.chacha.com/raw/082ef2e5-0b2e-4e11-bed3-88a94ecf1df8.gif
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    I used to be hip like that too. That got old after a few months and I moved on.
  19. ashbury
    Con... http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3x648wxbj1ru99qvo1_500.png ...cur.
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    I choose to believe this one gets walked back, as needed. Mollie gets promoted to VP of Strategic Acumen and Advanced Baseball Thinkology, and the GM's choice is thereupon ushered into the dugout.
  21. ashbury
    Old Air Force sergeants never die, they just go to a higher plane.
  22. ashbury
    Striking out like a man instead of an overmatched rookie is a welcome improvement.
  23. ashbury
    Click on image for solution to puzzle.
  24. ashbury
    ISWYDT http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/obama_iswydt.gif
  25. ashbury
    Gonna be some cold looks in the clubhouse for the rest of the season.
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