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They said they were going to fly that balloon over London, but it was only 50 feet up over a street corner with about 50-100 people taking pictures of it, and they took it down after 2 hours.

SAD!

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Nathalie's back! I saw the fun fact for Friday and had to scroll up to see who was doing the news Nathalie-stylee. Nathalie, of course! Welcome back!

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Prezinazi AntiChrist finally has the crowds he’s always lied about—hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of protestors have flooded the streets in possibly the largest mass protest in England’s history. The photos are incredible—just wait til he grabs Queen Elizabeth by the royal pu$$y.

http://www.towleroad.com/2018/07/massive-anti-trump-protests/

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Why do we have volunteer firefighters?

If you want people to do difficult, dangerous work, pay em. Save unpaid internships for places like The Stranger

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Yay, Nathalie!

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With anyone gloat about a supposedly failed anti-Trump protest unless they are pro-Trump? Nope.

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"Risk my life for...free? How's that going to build my brand?"

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Prezinazi Trumpfy wants to make the USA -- make that the WORLD -- into his own image: morally bankrupt, and financially bankrupt too (does being Billion$ in debt actually make one a Billionaire?)(show Us those Tax Returns, Mein Furor).

Somehow, when it's a Republican doing it, it isn't Treason.

Can someone please explain that to me?

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Would anyone gloat. . .

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Jesus how do you not have anything about the absolute shitshow that went down at the Strzok hearings yesterday?

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Always the damn domestic abusers. Get tough on domestic abusers and you'd prevent like 80% of all violent crime.

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@9

He wants to make it some version of Alabama

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Some version of Alabama in 1897.

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Nathalie Graham is back! Hooray!

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@11: The bloggers at The Stranger and the majority of its readers have no idea it happened, is the best answer. Lisa Page is currently being grilled in secret as we speak. Also, showing the almost impossible levels of bias the FBI has shown in those messages and emails is not helpful for their narrative.

Rosenstein also announced show charges for 12 more Russian officials for influencing the election.

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@11

Strzok was amazing. It taught me that if the FBI ever investigates me not to fuck with them.

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@4:

My brother ran a volunteer fire station for about 10 years, while at the same time working as an EMT, in an unincorporated township in Cowlitz County. VFD's exist because outlying communities aren't always under the jurisdiction of City fire departments and/or may be too far away from stations and equipment to receive quick response. Also, many of these communities lack a tax base to fund first response services, so it's a cheaper way to provide at least a minimal level of protection for residents. Finally, competition for paid slots in fire departments is pretty fierce, and the physical qualifications are as rigorous as being in the military or law enforcement, so some people use volunteer service as a way of keeping themselves in good condition, while at the same time building up practical experience in the hopes of someday being hired for a paid position. Think of them as sort of farm teams for firefighters wanting to move up to a more professional situation.

OTOH, he also complained bitterly about the lack of volunteers (this was back in the early 2000's), not to mention the fact that a lot of people who would sign up never responded to emergency calls, or failed to show up for mandatory training sessions. So, it's not really a new problem, but it does sound like it's gotten progressively worse over the past few years.

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The man who directly benefited from a Russian military operation to get him elected will be meeting with the man who directed that operation(in a room by himself), in the capacity of head of state of the US government and commander in chief of the us military.

It's like a cold war spy novel/alternative history novel.

What the fuck is going on.

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@11 Merely "incredible" bias? Why reach for the brass ring and call it "super mega-massive bias of trans-historical proportion"? Over at Bretibart, they are ready to claim that the FBI has been in the hands of the Communists since the day after Hoover died - don't let them steal a rhetorical march on you!!!!

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I never noticed the tiny cellphone in the hands of the giant baby balloon before. That's perfect.

Selling Trump TP though... I feel like that's a harder sell for women. I love the MK shirt though. (Also, whenever I saw the campaign logo for Trump/Pence, this is what I thought of when reading "TP".)

Teddy is also giving us some insight as to where he gets his news. Apparently it's not a reputable source, since "the almost impossible levels of bias the FBI has shown in those messages and emails" is not the takeaway everyone else is getting from this.

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@16: Yes, Strzok obviously hates Trump. But that's kind of what happens when you're a member of the FBI and you find evidence that his campaign has been colluding with enemies of the state in order to get elected. Honestly he probably SHOULD have revealed the information before the election, but he didn't because he's a man of the law who operates within the protocols of the bureau and doesn't let his biases (justifiable as they are) dictate his actions.

As for why people like you keep concentrating on the bias and not the reason behind the bias--that we had a candidate, and now a president, who very well may be an asset of the Russian intelligence apparatus--I have no clue.

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@22: The messages are legitimate. No one questions their content, only how important it is that the FBI be a policitally neutral organization. Which news source is telling you that the messages are fake?

@23: The police have to be neutral, and it becomes a problem when the police are not neutral. How can we even trust any possible evidence when the people in charge of finding and presenting it are overtly discussing their bias with each other?

Look, the hearing itself was a partisan clown show like everything else, but the content of the messages is the point. Messages that laugh about how everyone knew certain people were lying to the FBI for political reasons, messages stating "No, we'll stop it" if a certain candidate won the election, and "insurance policies" in case their chosen candidate did not win.

Personally, I think the FBI trying to influence elections and oust democratically elected officials is bad. You may disagree in this case, but something tells me you would be against police bias if you found messages from your local police chief that stated they were out to get you, and that they hated you personally.

In any event, if the evidence is there, a normal investiagtion should find it. Why jeopardize the investigation with these ridiculous text messages? What are your arguments for the police being politically biased?

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See, @26, I and every other sane person thinks the very real possibility of an election that was hacked by a foreign power to install a puppet of the Russian State is a bigger problem than whether one person at the FBI expressed negative thoughts about Trump in private communication.

And wtf are you even talking about with this whole “trying to influence elections” shit? They had the dossier and the dirt on Trump BEFORE THE ELECTION and didn’t release it. That would have stopped the “Trump train” in its tracks in a heartbeat. And justifiably so. But they didn’t do that. What’s your cockamamie theory explaining that?

The content of the text messages is NOT the point, FFS. The point is that Republicans are attacking a guy for having negative thoughts about a traitor to the country who is now the president. The real scandal isn’t why he had the negative thoughts. It’s that people like you can’t accept the fucking truth.

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@26: your comment is so dumb I have to continue going off on you. To wit, “How can we even trust any possible evidence when the people in charge of finding and presenting it are overtly discussing their bias with each other?”

You don’t seem to understand the nature of evidence. Evidence is evidence regardless of bias. If you have proof that something exists your bias is no longer bias. It’s fact. And in this case, there is lots of evidence that the Trump campaign is guilty of breaking election laws and colluding with a hostile foreign power. It does not depend on the absolute unbiased nature of the investigators to be trustworthy. It stands on its own.

Can you grasp that? We are way past "bias" being a plausible explanation for what's happening. People are being indicted. Documents are being presented. Many different investigative arms and agencies outside the supposedly too-biased-to-see-straight FBI are also turning up evidence. Can you understand how bad it makes you look to ignore facts when they are staring you in the face, simply because you don’t like the facts? Especially when those facts indicate that our entire fucking democracy is in jeopardy?

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"was fatally shot four times"

This guy was killed four times?!

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Helplessly imagining that bead of sweat. Gaaah! Being the change is hard for me: unabashed old lech. Another fine report, Nathalie. Ta.

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Trump's comments on how immigrants are threatening European culture brought to mind that Archie Bunker rant about how Jackie Robinson's entry to major league baseball "changed the whole complexion of the game."

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Ok MAGA chuds. I'll concede that trump isn't a Russian "puppet" or agent if we can agree that Russia helped him win because he was the dumbest candidate and they thought he would be the easiest to manipulate. Deal?

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The FBI does indeed have a bias. A bias against criminals.

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Sunburns

Neat trick: Once sunburnt, Rinse your sunburn with Apple Cider Vinegar, only. Wait 15 min. Then rinse off with a cool shower.

This will take your burn to tan in under 2 hours.

No joke.

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@33

Don't be ridiculous. Teddy has a job and he can't sit around posting all day like the rest of us.

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@36 - "The FBI does indeed have a bias. A bias against criminals."
And antiwar activists, progressives, blacks, leftists and hippies.
(Cf. COINTELPRO, MLK Jr., IWW, Palmer Raids, "antiwar arrests", etc.)

@26 - "The police have to be neutral, and it becomes a problem when the police are not neutral."
Indeed. However the history of these United States shows that the police & FBI are not neutral, but definitively biased against left-wing & socially progressive activism of any kind. They are quite conservative, as in: establishmentarians; they work to maintain the power structure.
Which should tell you something if they are truly working against Trumpet.

"Personally, I think the FBI trying to influence elections and oust democratically elected officials is bad."
What about the FBI trying to oust UNdemocratically elected officials? Also bad? Maybe good?
Are you pro or con on that question?

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@39

I'll grant COINTELPRO was pretty bad, but it was also exposed, shut down, and followed up with extensive departmental reform, like... 46 years ago, now?

So, OK, yes, let's hold the feet of law enforcement to the fire, but for Christ's sake could we please try to do that to the living feet, where it really fucking matters, and stop chewing on the feet of corpses that died before Disco was born?


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