DC Tom

They don't think you're stupid. They think enough people are stupid to buy that story that they can win elections. And they're right. But they don't think that you're personally stupid. I can think you're stupid if you want, though.

Not nearly enough.

More seriously, she was tasked with the post-earthquake relief efforts to Haiti, which is where the whole "Mom, can I borrow the Navy?" Rear Admiral Chelsea joke comes from.

The Democratic primary debate:

He can have him arrested by the FBI Police.

When a private person sells a property to another private person, that's a business transaction, not bribery. Interesting to note that particular quote was from mid-2015, when he was finishing up reducing his business interests in Saudi Arabia to almost nothing. Every report of Trump's "financial ties to Saudi Arabia" can't quote anything more recent than three years ago, save Saudi travelers not on government business staying in the NY Trump Hotel. And once again...if you apply consistently to others the standard to which you hold Trump, Clinton has much stronger financial ties to Kingdom. You won't, of course...on the basis of "That's different, so shut up!"

A literal NPC... Never noticed that, in her profile, she actually lists "hair icon."

"He keeps calling me Otto? I'll show him! I'm going full Costanza!"

Behind this line, even Wolverine would be injury-prone.

Can he run routes? Or block? Or call plays on the sideline?

You're just jealous because you're the other end.

You misspelled "bimbo eruptions." *****, I hate Hillary Clinton. I might hate her more than Tom Brady. Or Penguins. Or Tom Petty. Between the four of them, it's a really close call.

Also caused by global warming: as the planet gets warmer, people have less need for housing and live on the streets. Global warming: there is nothing it can't do.

I've heard that one before. Global warming causes tsunamis, though...that's a new one.

So...does she have any more Pow Wow Chow recipes? It's reminding me more and more of Gary Hart and the Monkey Business.

I wish I'd held off posting my daily Otto meme; it was much better suited for that post.

Tennessee's "one drop" laws passed applied to all minorities...interestingly, VA's explicitly excluded Native Americans from the rule and specified that 1/16 or less Native American ancestry was officially "white." Due to the number of VA founding fathers who had Powhatan ancestry somewhere in their family. That was known as - and I am not making this up - the "Pocahantas Rule." Trump's "wiggle room" strategy may be narcissistic, but it's entirely appropriate in this case. Warren claimed to be Native American, and her own tests show that by any sane and rational standard she isn't. Anyone who accepts Warren as "Native American" on the basis of this test owes Rachel Dolezal a mammoth apology.

Trumpin' Gangnam style...

So glad the Bills got rid of Woods and Goodwin...

Counterpoint: you just used a Ben Affleck character as a primary source. You're an idiot.

So the writer, as a cis-Aborigine, rejects Warren's claims to trans-Aboriginality because the colonial-settler paradigm of genetics denies the intersectionality of traditional Native American heritage and modern socio-economic inequality, which most Americans don't understand because they're ignorant of Native American Critical Theory? What. A. Bunch. Of. !@#$ing. bull ****.

I've been cleaning out old boxes of stuff lately, and came across some back issues of Scientific American from 2000-2002. Some interesting stories in there, like one how New Orleans could be devastated by flooding from a hurricane, about four years before it happened. But one of my favorites was about Mann's "hockey stick" graph, where he dismisses all challenges to his result = the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age - as being "only local in scope." But his hockey stick graph is based in large part on measurements of tree rings...which aren't local? It's not that global warming is a crock of ****...more that it's a complete hash of scientific research.

I think it's most important to note that the report says she's overwhelmingly European (greater than 95% of genetic segments match European samples with greater than 99% confidence.) But one segment matches Native Americans, and four others are more common in Utah than in England. So one Native American marker in an ocean of European genetics = "Native American." But a Y-chromosome? We still can't tell your gender. Liberals are !@#$ing idiots. And it shows Trump and Warren share a common Native American ancestor?