Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to linger,
Time to point you at Rich Hall’s US Election Breakdown.
Available to stream and as MP3 download until Nov 18.Excellent! Thanks
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Nate Silver's 538 has Clinton at 85% to win, with 325.4 electoral college seats to Trump's 211.8
Even if he wins the 3 "battleground states" - Ohio, Indiana* and North Carolina - he can't get enough seats to win. Still, it ain't over till it's over.
EDIT: Iowa, not Indiana
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Where's my popcorn?
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to BenWilson,
Can one even work out Trump's position on anything?
It didn't pass the sniff test.
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Someone on my FB was touting Clinton as "more hawkish than Trump". My response:
When people talk about Clinton being more hawkish than Trump (scusi but who was it wants to use nukes?) and a warmonger, because the US was at war for the 4 years while she was Secretary of State, I think they need to learn some history. What do the years 1796, 1797, 1811, 1826, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1834, 1845, 1850, 1897, 1977, and 1979 have in common? Those are the only years, since the beginning of the War of Independence in 1775, when the US has *not* been at war internationally or domestically. 13 years out of 242. The US was born in war and for 95% of its existence, has waged war. It's its natural state of being. That's what Eisenhower was warning about the military-industrial complex, as he left office. Deplorable as that is, you can't blame Clinton for doing her job
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Russell Brown,
In more past-24-hours madness:
Trump Ally Alex Jones: High-Level Sources Confirmed That Clinton, Obama Are Demons
NOT satire.
Ah Alex, I've missed you. But my aim is getting better.
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Hard News: Trump's Dummkopfs, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And it's a pretty tacky excuse for a tux he's wearing badly as well.
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Just for historical accuracy, the Comics Code Authority as a "voluntary" industry censorship body was created in 1954, as a consequence of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency hearings in that year.
It was helped along the way by the publication of Frederic Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent which "warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency.... Many of his other conjectures, particularly about hidden sexual themes (e.g. images of female nudity concealed in drawings or Batman and Robin as gay partners), met with derision within the comics industry. Wertham's claim that Wonder Woman had a bondage subtext was somewhat better documented, as her creator William Moulton Marston had admitted as much; however, Wertham also claimed Wonder Woman's strength and independence made her a lesbian. Wertham also claimed that Superman was both un-American and a fascist." ( Wikipedia
Wertham was a fruitbat.
Marston's biography is quite interesting in it's own right. He invented the systolic blood pressure test which lead to the development of the polygraph.
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Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) seems to have a mole in Newsweek's office, or else Newsweek has a really crap advance publicity strategy. This is the second week in a row that they have had a "small piece" of exclusive notice of the next day's cover story.
Whatever. Seems that Trump was doing business in Cuba while it was illegal. Surprise.