Comment on Winter is Trumping by Jay
Hi John, here’s a mirror: http://tinyurl.com/zqpoupy Fell free 2 share 😉
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Gates appears to be backpedaling <Blockquote>Gates takes issue with the FT story, but it’s not entirely clear whether he is walking back his comments, or simply doesn’t like the headline and...
View ArticleComment on Missouri Catholics in cookie crisis as archbishop questions Girl...
Surely an archbishop wouldn't be having trouble with the modern world?
View ArticleComment on How to Stop Donald Trump Now – There’s Only One Way by Sue W
Good luck, America.
View ArticleComment on Helicopter drops might not be far away by Sue W
That, and debt forgiveness, just might work. Politically impossible, though.
View ArticleComment on Bill Gates says he was ‘disappointed’ by reports he backs FBI in...
Why would anyone wonder what Gates thinks? He just a selfish SOB like the rest of the ultra rich.
View ArticleComment on How to Stop Donald Trump Now – There’s Only One Way by mark
Why does, He, Charles Pierce, keep inserting that word, He, over and over again, like we don't know that He, Charles Pierce, is referring to Trump?
View ArticleComment on How to Stop Donald Trump Now – There’s Only One Way by porpentine
@mark It’s a rhetorical flourish. It’s meant to reflect the bombastic, empty, power-mad attitude of some fictional ruler he imagines he will become. As in, “I, Zog, will mercilessly slay our enemies,...
View ArticleComment on Missouri Catholics in cookie crisis as archbishop questions Girl...
@will: Oh. The alter boys and the gays are dealt with, then?
View ArticleComment on How to Stop Donald Trump Now – There’s Only One Way by Sue W
@porpentine: He, Charlie, appears on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me!” from time to time. It’s worthwhile getting the podcast anyway.
View ArticleComment on Bill Gates says he was ‘disappointed’ by reports he backs FBI in...
@will: The reasoning goes thus: “Somehow, if we carefully study his* every word, we can figure out how this person got to be filthy rich, and then we can get filthy rich too!” (* Messrs. Gates, Jobs,...
View ArticleComment on How to Stop Donald Trump Now – There’s Only One Way by porpentine
@Sue: Thanks for that.
View ArticleComment on Plaintiffs had no First Amendment right to take cellphone video of...
Why don’t you try this argument? They friggin’ work for us!
View ArticleComment on Drone footage of immense devastation of Syria’s Homs by mark
Looks like photos I’ve seen of Berlin or Dresden after WWII – or maybe even Detroit last month…
View ArticleComment on Bernie Sanders backs the prosecution of Edward Snowden by will
The question I’d like answered is “does he back the prosecution of the NSA for lying to Congress?” Will he remove the lying SOS from the government?
View ArticleComment on Apple’s Privacy Fight Tests Relationship With White House by Mykolas
John, With perhaps the Affordable Care Act as an exception, Obama’s presidency has as its hallmark “lack of leadership”. Perhaps he is using it this time to bolster the gov’s position or perhaps he is...
View ArticleComment on Twitter Hashtag #WhichHillary Goes Viral, Disappears by will
Has Hillary already started her reign?
View ArticleComment on Canada Announces 2016 Presidential Candidacy by Sue W
Our problem with the wall around here is it would have to be in 30m of water!
View ArticleComment on Cardinal admits ‘scandalous’ response to abuse allegations by Mudak
I’m assuming you’ve heard the new Tim Minchin song about Cardinal Pell.
View ArticleComment on Cardinal admits ‘scandalous’ response to abuse allegations by John...
I do now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHOmforqxk
View ArticleComment on Amazon Quietly Removes Encryption Support from its Gadgets by Tod
And just as quietly but more quickly promised encryption would return “in the Spring…” due to a shitstorm from devoted Amazon clones asking if Echo and other spyware would be secure without encryption....
View ArticleComment on San Bernardino DA says seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber...
Is this a “seaka” virus action?
View ArticleComment on Schalttag: 1.200 Koffer bleiben am Flughafen Düsseldorf liegen by...
I’m not ever going to fly on a leap day though
View ArticleComment on President Jimmy Carter Speaks Out: Calls The U.S. An Oligarchy by...
The US is not a democracy! All claims to moral superiority are false!
View ArticleComment on San Bernardino DA says seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber...
If it contains a “cyber pathogen”, it should be destroyed immediately.
View ArticleComment on San Bernardino DA says seized iPhone may hold “dormant cyber...
“Oh, hello your honor, I am here on behalf of the CDC, the center for disease control, and we’ve been informed by Apple you told them one of your phones is infected. I am here to take it into custody...
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