Terrible law. Just terrible.

A decent piece of Dog even at the Fancy Places.
It's corrupt!

Beware the foo dogs, lest they hunt you down!

Foo dogs by tribe

石獅 Shíshī

Trump!

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by cahaya on 11-09-16 at 12:26 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-09-16 AT 12:49 PM (EST)

I stayed up until almost 1:00 a.m. EST watching the election results. It became clear by that time that things weren't going Hillary's way, losing some battleground states and lagging behind in the 4 last "too close to call" states. The betting market swung the other way with 50/50 at about 9:30 p.m. EST and going high-percentage Trump before midnight.

Looks like the real loser (besides Hillary) were the pollsters, who got it all wrong and underestimated the Pub voting strength.

I'm not one of those naysayers who say we're going to enter into the dark ages with Trump in office. There's a limit to what he can and can't do. I despise the man, but there's a lot more to America than one man, even if he is (soon) Prez.

And no, I'm not moving back to Malaysia, or Canada, eh.

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"Girlfriend wants to move to Canada!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-09-16 at 01:06 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-09-16 AT 01:06 PM (EST)

Guess I'm going too, eh?
Hellooo Pepe!

Guess I brought this on myself.

What about all those phony actors moving to France? ..Oh wait, what was a long time ago..

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"RE: Girlfriend wants to move to Canada!"
Posted by cahaya on 11-09-16 at 04:46 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-09-16 AT 04:51 PM (EST)

Pssst... Pepe's in the epicenter of all this, where he's at now. Ya think a Canadian will move back to Canada?

Here's your 3-step How to move to Canada guide. (Girlfriend says, "Let's go, honey!")

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by AyaK on 11-09-16 at 01:52 PM

Haven't been around at all for a few months. I wanted to post to defend the pollsters, though. The advice that I gave our firm at our weekly meeting on Friday was that the polls rely on sampling assumptions that may not necessarily be valid in a race in which people strongly dislike both candidates. And that's exactly what happened. The truly undecided voters broke strongly to Trump by almost 7-to-1. The polls were built on an assumption, true in virtually every election since 1980, that the undecideds would break in rough approximation to the decided voters. But they didn't in 1980, and they didn't this year.

All the pollsters were aware of the issue, but they minimized it because people look to pollsters for predictions, not doubt. Nate Silver kept bringing up this doubt on 538, but other people (such as the Puffington Host pollster) pressed to disregard it. Well, it was real, and it bit people who disregarded it on the butt.

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-09-16 at 03:50 PM

Intellectually I know that there are voters who are undecided up to the last minute, and that there will always be undecided voters. But from media, friends, the extreme rhetoric and from just about every personal source, it seemed that everyone had an opinion up to the day of the vote.

So, to think that undecided voters exist in the numbers suggested by this election is a revelation.

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by cahaya on 11-09-16 at 04:32 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-09-16 AT 04:44 PM (EST)

I follow Nate Silver's 538 site quite closely (not only for politics, but also NFL ELO ratings and predictions and interesting analysis of various side topics). You're correct in saying that he indicated that there was a lot of uncertainty in the poll numbers translating to electoral college votes, one reason why he still had Trump posted with a significant chance (around 27% if I recall correctly) of winning the election. In football terms, that translates to a minor upset (anything can happen on a given Sunday).

Exit polls indicated that the vast majority of voters decided on their choice as far back as September and there weren't that many remaining in the final week prior to the election. I'm curious where you got that 7-to-1 figure, since I'm also curious what percentage of the electorate that represented as well.

What's interesting is that Hillary got a (very) slight edge on the total population vote by a narrow margin of about 200,000 votes (as of now, with votes still to be counted). Had it been a popular vote, the final result perhaps would been different. I wonder if this would give any additional impetus to election reform based on the popular vote by dismantling the electoral college system now in place. It seems that there is no real desire to overhaul what has historically evolved from the provisions given in Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution.

P.S. Good to see you post, AyaK, I miss the analytically critical posts that you're well known for.

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"Doesn't"
Posted by foonermints on 11-09-16 at 05:16 PM

A Constitutional Convention open up quite the can of worms?

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"RE: Doesn't"
Posted by kingfish on 11-09-16 at 09:36 PM

I heard land is cheap in upper Nunavut Canada.

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"I Believe"
Posted by foonermints on 11-09-16 at 11:32 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-09-16 AT 11:40 PM (EST)

The Crazy Woman has a "Hobby Farm" in Saskatchewan. 5000 acres of organic wheat. Hey! I'm a farmer!
Donald Trump is a good shake up for America.

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"RE: I Believe"
Posted by kingfish on 11-10-16 at 11:03 AM

Wheat beer tastes terrible. Trade for some barley.

Happy farming.

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"Yes, it is"
Posted by cahaya on 11-10-16 at 05:00 PM

You can get land cheap-cheap at $10 a lot.

It's in Reston, Manitoba. Makes you wonder the ladies in Reston are pretty enough to rest on.

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"RE: Yes, it is"
Posted by kingfish on 11-10-16 at 07:17 PM

1000 acre lots? {Looks in wallet, then in cookie jar} I'll take two. Wait, there's another five, I'll take two and a half lots.

See you suckers later.

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"Wear Your Woolies!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-10-16 at 11:25 PM

It's 2° there today.

Forbidden Fudgikle

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"No Problem"
Posted by kingfish on 11-11-16 at 10:33 AM

As long as the Ice Road Truckers can get thru with the beer and burgers.

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"RE: No Problem"
Posted by cahaya on 11-11-16 at 06:57 PM

I'll pick up a case of Molson's Ale on my way up to visit.

Ragtop Ride by foonermints

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"RE: No Problem"
Posted by kingfish on 11-11-16 at 09:12 PM

I'll move to Canada, but I won't drink Canadian beer.

Just Mexican beer.

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"RE: No Problem"
Posted by cahaya on 11-12-16 at 00:38 AM

Find your beach... just watch out for the polar bears!

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"RE: No Problem"
Posted by kingfish on 11-12-16 at 10:11 AM

I heard they were extinct.

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"Remember To Stock Up"
Posted by foonermints on 11-12-16 at 01:03 AM

For the holidays, like "Easter Monday". No alkie for YOU!

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"RE: Remember To Stock Up"
Posted by kingfish on 11-12-16 at 10:12 AM

You're forcing me to drink wine? Oh well, better than Aqua Velva.

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-13-16 at 10:19 AM

After recent events, Raypipi might actually get some business.

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"Good! "
Posted by foonermints on 11-13-16 at 11:30 AM

Take your rioting to France, and stay off my *!!#@&! Freeway!

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"YEAH!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-13-16 at 12:35 PM

Dam Frenchies!

Wait, why do we hate France again?

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"RE: YEAH!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-14-16 at 03:13 AM

Snails!
Bleech!

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"RE: YEAH!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-14-16 at 10:01 AM

Oh yeah, they eat snails. That's pitiful.

And they waste all those great grapes that could be used for moonshine on wine.

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"RE: YEAH! Moonshine on Wine!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-14-16 at 03:25 PM

Hell yeah. Whatever that means! I'll drink it!

The Trump Confederacy!

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"Sign me up!"
Posted by cahaya on 11-14-16 at 11:50 AM

Trump says the demonstrators outside Trump Tower where he hangs out are "professional protesters".

Pray tell, Donald, who's hiring and how much do I get an hour? Minimum wage?

I could use a few bucks to buy that lot in Manitoba.

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"RE: Sign me up!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-14-16 at 01:19 PM

I protest that post!

(Does that count?)

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"You Still Get Paid"
Posted by foonermints on 11-14-16 at 03:09 PM

In Obama Dollars.
I don't think President Trump is about to print up another trillion for us.
As a professional protester, you still get a chance to pick up the hot chicks, you Rebel you!

For the Freeway Blockers, the mini-rioters and assorted idiots, I have some advice!

A true member of the Trump Confederacy.

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"RE: You Still Get Paid"
Posted by kingfish on 11-14-16 at 05:20 PM

I'm protesting all these posts.

(Mo money, mo money. I'm even making money off of Raypipi.)

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"Next Window"
Posted by foonermints on 11-14-16 at 06:37 PM

{font color=democrat} You smash, I could really go for a 60" color TV.

Arribà la Revoulutiòn!

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"The POTus Calling The Kettle Black?"
Posted by foonermints on 11-15-16 at 05:35 PM

Seems like the crying loser is already spinning his heroism for the last 8 years, even though it was him that made the divisions so volcanic in American government.

←Love the Clownie!
buh-bye!

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"Volcanic?"
Posted by cahaya on 11-15-16 at 06:57 PM

... it was him that made the divisions so volcanic in American government.

Whadja expect? He's from Hawaii, after all!

New nickname for POTUS: LavaMan

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"RE: The POTus Calling The Kettle Black?"
Posted by kingfish on 11-15-16 at 07:07 PM

Yeah, we're still reeling from the conflict that arose when he crammed the ACA down America's throat without any compromise to Republicans, and without a single Republican vote. Hopefully the Republicans can repair the damage by not doing the same in reverse. I mean, Affordable Medical care is a good thing, it just has to me implemented in a way that is agreeable to people of both parties as well as being fair and fiscally sound.

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"RE: The POTus Calling The Kettle Black?"
Posted by foonermints on 11-15-16 at 08:10 PM

I would like my Blue Cross Plan back.

"We are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an 'us' and a 'them'," Obama said in Athens.

"We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up... the 20th century was a bloodbath," he said, adding that the United States was also painfully aware of the dangers of "(dividing) ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity."

What horseshit. That's exactly what HE did.

Trayvon Martin? An inflammatory rush to judgement for The President of the United States to set an example? Crock!

"The 20th Century was a bloodbath?" What, WWI and WWII? I don't think we were fighting about Nigeria. Civil rights? We were progressing with more sanity until the pseudo Jesse Jackson got in office.

Just shut up and go away. Stop spreading more divisiveness.

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"Alt"
Posted by cahaya on 11-16-16 at 12:59 PM

I'd rather be identified as in the alt-wrong rather than in the alt-right, who seem to be hell-bent on creating alt-ercations. I'd rather us be alt-ogether.

Al-right!

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"All Agree to that!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-16-16 at 03:41 PM

It will take some time to heal the ill-will that the last 8 years leaves behind.

fireclownie: no longer on slow burn!

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"Healing posture"
Posted by cahaya on 11-16-16 at 06:49 PM

Chant after me... Ommmmm... Ommmmm... Ommmmm...

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"*Flip-Flop!*"
Posted by foonermints on 11-16-16 at 10:41 PM

OmmmmmMG! OmmmmmMG! OmmmmmMG!

Better, eh?

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"RE: *Flip-Flop!*"
Posted by cahaya on 11-17-16 at 00:09 AM

Especially when she says it!

Passengers on fooner's crazytrain

Don't stop the train, honey!

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"RE: The POTus Calling The Kettle Black?"
Posted by kingfish on 11-17-16 at 05:36 PM

That a'hole got me fired. So it's personal.

(And I'm protesting the additional posts, and doubling the charges. 'Cause now I'm mad!)

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"Bastard!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-17-16 at 11:35 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-18-16 AT 00:40 AM (EST)

The Lame Duck is still out there, poisoning the well. Another foreign vacation for him and whats-her-face on our dime.
I wonder if Hilary the Hipocrite is invited, with Bill and Monica?

Useful in so many ways..

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-18-16 at 11:47 PM

A shoulder patch!

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-19-16 at 01:09 AM

LAST EDITED ON 11-19-16 AT 02:05 AM (EST)

I can get that embroidered with a Velcro back.

Not arrived at the "Idi Amin" look, but hell, you have to start somewhere.

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-19-16 at 02:39 PM

Of Course, 'Theater of Combat' medals with 'Didn't run away' clusters and 'I lied' stars would be nice.

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-19-16 at 03:19 PM

Can't forget the "Love Your Fellow Man" Cannibal Cross.

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by kingfish on 11-19-16 at 04:58 PM

I'm sure you really meant Hannibal cross. Like with Fava beans?

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"RE: Bastard!"
Posted by foonermints on 11-19-16 at 06:11 PM

The musical fruit? Red wine is good, but some things are totally verboten in polite company.
What's in that Soylent Green anyway?
*fuuuuurt*

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"I can get you a Tee Shirt"
Posted by foonermints on 11-22-16 at 10:22 PM

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"And I can get you these..."
Posted by cahaya on 11-23-16 at 05:54 PM

LAST EDITED ON 11-23-16 AT 05:59 PM (EST)

His waist wouldn't fit inside these, but his woodpecker would.

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"I believe"
Posted by foonermints on 11-23-16 at 06:08 PM

The DC Coroner can take care of the real Chump. *evil grin*

btw: I missed the convention where that's what all the girls were wearing.

Only.

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by foonermints on 03-06-17 at 03:51 PM

*bump*
_{Trump for President!}

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"Our Local Election"
Posted by foonermints on 03-12-17 at 05:21 PM

Had a 12% turnout the other day. Increased the sales tax 1/4%. and voted in the idiot Mike Bonin for city council, and all his special interest cronies. Sad!

And unbelievable. Welcome to Los Angeles..

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"The Field Office"
Posted by foonermints on 03-18-17 at 12:12 PM

Is also a dump.

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"RE: The Field Office"
Posted by kingfish on 03-18-17 at 12:44 PM

Just make sure you don't sneak over at night and empty a can of expandable foam in their sewage outlet connection.

An make sure you didn't get the idea from me.

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"RE: I voted today!"
Posted by greenmachine on 03-24-17 at 11:59 AM

Oh wait? you mean the election is over? Guess I'll wait another 4 years.

It may give me time to despam

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