Jack's Tweets from the GOP 10/28/2015 GOP debate

By Jack Brummet, GOP-Tea Party Ed.

I always try to live tweet the whole thing, and then reality, a.k.a.,  the actual debate sets in. But this wasn't a bad debate.  I think it will "move the needle" a little.  No one actually had a Rick Perry moment or anything, but Jeb Bush was pathetic (and next to the least screen/talk time). 538 seems to think it's just about the end of the line for the Bush fiasco.  Me too.

1. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  11m11 minutes agoSeattle, WA

   The most memorable & creepiest image lingering from the #GOPDebate is the thought of being on the receiving end of a #JebBush warm kiss. #FB

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2. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  59m59 minutes ago

   "Do you want me to answer, or do you want to answer? . . .that would be rude even in New Jersey." #ChrisChristie #GOPDebate #FB

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3. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Trump: "I don't know, you guys write this stuff." #GOPDebate #fb

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4. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Ben Carson just got the audience to boo a panelist. That was pretty sweet. Strange inquisition. #GOPDebate #fb

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   Bernard Goldberg ‏@BernardGoldberg  2h2 hours ago

   Cruz: Questions are designed to get candidates to rip into each other. he's right. Moderators losing control. #GOPDebate

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6. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Ted Cruz actually just made sense. #SlapMyAssAndCallMeSally #GOPDebate #fb

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7. 1.  jack brummet Retweeted

      Complex@Comp

      Currently, tbh. #GOPDebate

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8. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   In the last few minutes, four candidates have talked about what nice people they are.@ #GOPDebate #fb

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9. jack brummet ‏@jackbrummet  2h2 hours ago

   Jeb is largely silent. It's almost time to wheel in the crash cart. When he does pipe up, it's about Rubio's day job. #GOPDebate #fb

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A GIF of some famous musician mugshots

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Is Bernie Sanders soft on guns? Probably.

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Ed.

For quite a while, I've wondered why Sanders' supporters—a generally pretty left-leaning group of people—have such a blind spot for his stance on guns.  And a couple of other issues, like immigration.  It seems at odds with what I perceive of as his supporters' core values.  I guess not, eh?

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A strange experiment with cadavers to prove we are still cavemen (the pugilism hypothesis).

A research article recently appeared in The Journal of Experimental Biology — "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution."

What they were studying in plain English: University of Utah researchers made a "pendulum-like apparatus" in which they placed cadaver arms, and proceeded to make the arms punch a padded dumbbell with clenched or unclenched fist. The experiment was to test the theory that the human hand evolved its shape so that men could "fistfight over females" (the "pugilism hypothesis"). [Link: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/20/3215]

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