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Just what this thread needed - a dose of drive-by sanctimony. Baskin? Is that you?

30 - Betazoid I'm not.

If this is how ABC chooses to react to Barr's tweets, then they're well within their rights to do so. Her comments even bothered me, and I set my bar (no pun intended) pretty low - we should all be able to say whatever the hell we choose to, and then have the spine to endure the potential repercussions of our words. Freedom of speech is simply a guarantee that the feds can't silence us - it's not a shield meant to insulate us from the owning up to what we say in the public arena. She shot herself in the foot big time with such ignorant words, whether they were meant in jest or not. As others have already pointed out, it's too bad for all of those who were experiencing the resurgence of success that the show was bringing them.

Noted.

You think that's okay? Something that mature people in a supposedly diverse society can resort to as an acceptable option when faced with someone who represents a different value set than your own? Do you mean it would be okay if other patrons simply sat at their tables and voiced a general "boo" that she was allowed in and served the same as they were? Or do you mean more of a metaphorical "boo", like getting up from their seats and jeering her until her and her parents fled the property? Of course, simply saying "boo" in a public setting is completely innocuous on it's own, right? I'll tell you what, Andrew - I disagree with you. I choose to express my disagreement by waiting until I see you and some of your family out for a pleasant evening of dinner and drinks. My friends and I won't throw anything at you or anything else that might be construed as "never OK". We'll just gather around you and yours and boo until you get up and leave. Perfectly okay, right?

And she weathers an awful lot of insults over her weight from the party of sensitivity.

You're the one here that's having an emotional meltdown. You're so eaten up by insecurity over your closet racism that you leap at every chance, grasp at every straw you can in a pathetic attempt to make others appear as ignorant as yourself. It ain't working. Our society will be a much healthier, more accepting one when dinosaurs like you finally fade away for good.

Seriously, this jackass is as bad as Meathead was.

You pay way, way too much attention to race. Some day you'll stop worrying about skin color and view people as the individuals that they truly are.

Considering the hour that all three entries were posted, the unusually overt hostility in calling fellow posters out, and total lack of emojis, I had just assumed it to be a case of drunk-posting.

I'm no psychologist, but I'm guessing that Manning has some kind of need for attention. Just a guess.

In all fairness, you see that kind of thing literally everywhere online. Any place where comments can be posted; articles, blogs, twitter, youtube videos, you name it. They all eventually devolve into the same low-brow back & forth. It would be entertaining if it wasn't so depressing.

If that were the case shouldn't have the Bills won a superbowl by now?

" It said Kim Jong-un had thanked Moon Jae-in for "much effort made by him" to arrange the Singapore summit and "expressed his fixed will" that it would take place."

I've always liked Fox Mulder's I didn't lie, I willingly participated in a campaign of misinformation.

I suppose it would depend on how the intelligence was acquired, since the FBI's scope is supposed to be limited to within the US. Assuming that it was solid intel I would imagine that acquiring evidence of a foreign entity's involvement would necessitate involvement by the CIA as well. I think we're all learning a valuable lesson with everything that's coming out with regard to the supposed Russian collusion in 45's campaign, and how instead it's been people in our own government working to undermine both a presidential campaign and the subsequent administration. One thing in particular that I've learned is that despite my long standing belief that there are always a few bad apples in every barrel, the apparent amount of corruption within both the FBI and the IC at large shows that I have been very naive. The phrase "drain the swamp" sounds a hell of a lot less like a cheesy slogan than it did a couple years ago.

Martha Stewart has to be royally pissed off right about now.

I'll go out on a limb and say that not receiving a pension is the least of his worries right now. It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

The 2nd paragraph alone should be enough to piss off literally everybody: "The officials have leaked specific information that could directly identify the source on three separate occasions to reporters at the Washington Post and New York Times. This raises even more questions about whether current top intelligence and law enforcement officials can be trusted to obey the law and to adequately protect the nation’s intelligence secrets."

Fox and Alex Jones are state-run media?

How do you not yet understand that 45's constant presence on twitter is an end-run around a hostile media that mischaracterizes and misquotes him on a routine basis? That he also uses it to keep would-be opponents off balance? If you buy into everything he posts on twitter, then you're letting him manipulate you. With regard to your impeachment question, what has Trump done, in your opinion, that merits impeachment?

Sorta reminds me of that old joke I went to the fights the other night and a hockey game broke out.

If he wrote a dissertation on analingus and the subsequent effects on barges and Asian carp, 20 paragraphs or no, I wouldn't enjoy a single syllable of it but would be compelled by horrified fascination to read it in it's entirety. God help me.

You can only disappoint if you show signs of original thought and then fail to deliver. No original thought has been forwarded on your part, so you're good so far.