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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Baucus Worries Health Care Implementation Could Be a Huge Train Wreck

    2013-04-18 14:18:02View | Delete

    Probably at least in part because it was done without the “benefits” of computerization. Software developement is hard. Ask the FAA!

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the diary post NOM Calls CJ Roberts’ Family “Second-Best” by Teddy Partridge.

    2013-03-14 12:15:44View | Delete

    Wow, that’s a crazy conspiracy theory. By which I mean, “that’s a very insightful hypothesis.”

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Obama Will Keep Pushing for Deficit Reduction

    2013-01-02 14:37:12View | Delete

    There are only three sentences there. Did you not read the second??

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Obama Will Keep Pushing for Deficit Reduction

    2013-01-02 14:35:04View | Delete

    Recognize sarcasm much?

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Obama Will Keep Pushing for Deficit Reduction

    2013-01-02 14:04:30View | Delete

    If anyone anywhere has more than you, then you don’t have enough. Never mind that you have more than 99.9% of the country, or 99.99% of anyone who has ever lived. Envy and bitterness are all that matter.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the diary post David Brooks Reports that the NYT Can’t Find Conservative Columnists Who Know Arithmetic by Dean Baker.

    2013-01-02 12:58:51View | Delete

    Fuck David Brooks gently with a chain saw.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Obama’s Latest Fiscal Slope Offer: I’m Missing the Part Where Republicans Give Up Something

    2012-12-18 14:59:26View | Delete

    Bizarro indeed. I almost wish I lived in a red state. I could call my Senators here in WA, and maybe one of them will make some mouth-sounds about Social Security, but I’m sure neither of them will filibuster this platter of turds.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Entertaining Republican deep denial and delusions…all the way up to the top

    2012-11-09 22:24:07View | Delete

    @38 I kinda doubt she was *enjoying* it (unless she’s secretly a LOT less of a partisan then the person she plays on TV), but as she said “notwithstanding the doubts that Karl Rove has attempted to place,” it does have a touch of viciousness that suggests she’s not too happy thinking that the fat boy has skimmed about $50 million off the Repug gravy train and they have nothing to show for it.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Hail Cthulhu! What Ms. Lovecraft Teaches. Or, Why Conservatives Fear Sex Ed in Schools.

    2012-10-25 06:50:08View | Delete

    No, that is a fallopian tube. Or maybe an ovary…we can’t see exactly where the pointer lands.

    Nits picked. Laughing resumes.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post The Debate’s Benghazi Moment: America Cheers the Media Correcting the Record

    2012-10-17 06:53:09View | Delete

    That’s not a lizard brain, it’s a cerebral Mormon construct. Remember, in his mind, Romney is a god-too-be.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post The Debate’s Benghazi Moment: America Cheers the Media Correcting the Record

    2012-10-17 06:50:10View | Delete

    “They cheered because it’s been so long since a media figure decided not to balance an argument with the utmost objectivity, but to actually call balls and strikes.”

    This pervasive meme right here is the root of the problem. What is NOT objective about calling balls and strikes, if done right? An umpire is supposed to OBJECTIVELY call balls and strikes by applying the same standards to both teams, not stand there dumb as a stump!

    Silence only LOOKS more objective if you actively call “bullshit” on bullshiting, and one side in the debate is *consistently more prone* to shoveling it out. Inevitably, you’ll be calling the Repugs on their “balls” more frequently, since the Dims have a reality-based view on at least SOME subjects.

    (I kinda hate spectator sports culture in genereal, and baseball in particular, so gagging throughout.)

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the diary post Pull Up a Chair by Ruth Calvo.

    2012-10-13 08:06:35View | Delete

    I would re-examine your assumption that a small truck is safer than a small car for highway travel. While a higher vehicle may be safer in some types of collisions, small trucks probably have the worst vehicle dynamics of anything you can buy. They have poor braking performance and a tendency to roll over even [...]

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the diary post This Week’s GOP Primary Voters Think Obama’s Muslim by Teddy Partridge.

    2012-03-12 21:36:02View | Delete

    “How on earth could anyone think that a Muslim would kill so many fellow Muslims? ” Anyone who remembers the Iran-Iraq war might be willing to entertain the possibility. Not that I think 1 in 50 of those Southern-fried dumbfucks knows the difference between a Sunni and a Shia, but there it is. Or perhaps [...]

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Four-Loco

    2012-03-02 10:34:03View | Delete

    It’s MUCH better to wake up on Saturday morning thinking it’s Friday.

    That *never* happens, yet waking up on Sunday thinking it’s Saturday, which is an error of parallel structure, happens all too often.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Blunt Amendment Tabled: Casey, Manchin, Nelson Cross Over

    2012-03-02 08:45:45View | Delete

    You might not want to hear this but when the Democrats had control of the House, Senate and the WH, they made the same party that made them hold investigative hearings down in a basement when they were in minority point men on their crowning acheivement.

    Similarish problems at the local level. WA state leg. had a D supermajority a few years ago, and a D gov. Lot’s of middle-of-the-road Ds, though, dubbed “the Road-Kill Caucus” and excoriated by the liberal weekly paper for being too scared to do any “freaky liberal shit” for fear of angering moderate voters and losing their supermajority. Of course, the supermajority is of no use if you won’t use it, and then they lost it anyway…

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Blunt Amendment Tabled: Casey, Manchin, Nelson Cross Over

    2012-03-02 08:44:08View | Delete

    You might not want to hear this but when the Democrats had control of the House, Senate and the WH, they made the same party that made them hold investigative hearings down in a basement when they were in minority point men on their crowning acheivement.

    Similarish problems at the local level. WA state leg. had a D supermajority a few years ago, and a D gov. Lot’s of middle-of-the-road Ds, though, dubbed “the Road-Kill Caucus” and excoriated by the liberal weekly paper for being too scared to do any “freaky liberal shit” for fear of angering moderate voters and losing their supermajority. Of course, the supermajority is of no use if you won’t use it, and then they lost it anyway…

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Andrew Breitbart Dead

    2012-03-01 16:23:34View | Delete

    Country Dick Montana is someone who’s young death I’ll lament. At least, his attempts to annoy and offend people were leavened with some humor.

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Andrew Breitbart Dead

    2012-03-01 15:17:36View | Delete

    I think that level of reflection and humility is VERY rare on the far right. It’s probably pretty rare generally, but when you’re that self-righteous and ideological, whoa doggy!

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Andrew Breitbart Dead

    2012-03-01 14:35:17View | Delete

    Well said, Bro

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    scrawnykayaker commented on the blog post Andrew Breitbart Dead

    2012-03-01 14:01:05View | Delete

    @32 You are SOOOOO persuasive. Go tell it on Pharyngula.

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