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Funeral homes in Florida are close to capacity as more people die from COVID-19. https://t.co/rqz98A83Cl
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) August 28, 2021
Maybe because he wants to win? https://t.co/uATNnt9NBe
— Travis Akers (@travisakers) August 28, 2021
New: House Republican Jim Banks tells telecom companies not to comply with expected Jan. 6 committee subpoenas for Trump allies and GOP members’ phone records — what he calls an “authoritarian undertaking”.
— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) August 27, 2021
I haven’t been able to even read anything here for awhile because the site kept crashing. Crossed fingers 🤞 it works for me now….
An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting over half of them in May — and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported https://t.co/fMyOnrKkGq
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2021
A new study finds that Covid-19’s Delta variant doubles the likelihood of hospitalization compared with the Alpha variant https://t.co/o27b1FjcCB
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2021
“You get it, and you’re sick, and you don’t know if you’re going to live or die.”
Many patients at an overwhelmed Mississippi hospital tell @miguelmarquez that they’ll now get the Covid-19 vaccine, but others still refuse. https://t.co/iqq5h8Kf5k pic.twitter.com/PjVIqFY5WU— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 27, 2021
Anyone have any experience with a Dyson hot/cold air purifier fan? Is it worth it? It’s on sale for like $350.
Rachel is talking about ivermectin right now. JFC people are drinking the injectable version for cows.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’d check Woot! and see if they have any refurbished Dyson products up for sale…
Go To Hell Seditionist. Straight to Hell. I pic.twitter.com/wGrceCrFmE
— And The Wind Cries: “Ted Cruz will never be Pres.” (@DaveoutofAustin) August 28, 2021
re: #8 Eric The Fruit Bat
I’d check Woot! and see if they have any refurbished Dyson products up for sale…
This one is refurbished by Dyson Canada and comes with a warranty. And I don’t have to deal with customs.
“Hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, a Z-Pak … a steroid nebulizer” — Rep. Louie Gohmert is giving a speech at the Texas Youth Summit in which he’s giving terrible Covid-related medical advice to huge cheers pic.twitter.com/NnTe3bAXIo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 28, 2021
Just seen in Austin, Texas 💪 pic.twitter.com/tH3Vo5BGSv
— Janet Janssen (@janetjanssen) August 27, 2021
All the obstruction of justice in the world won’t help you stop the truth from coming out, or stop justice from being served.
You can run but you can’t hide. pic.twitter.com/bVBsrqifUc— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) August 28, 2021
We attacked an Isis-K target according to Rachel.
BREAKING: U.S. airstrike targets Islamic State in Afghanistan in retaliation for deadly Kabul airport attack, according to Pentagon. https://t.co/a2PmPNds94
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 28, 2021
re: #3 Dave In Austin
Punishing sedition is well within the powers of the government, whether the people who have betrayed us respect that authority or not.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) August 28, 2021
Louie Gohmert, doing his part to turn Texas blue. https://t.co/Xpj4cEek2X
— soonergrunt 🇺🇸 A Capybara Appreciation Account (@soonergrunt) August 28, 2021
re: #19 sagehen
I so desperately hope they got the right people.
In a vehicle. Trust me when I say there are still plenty of eyes on the ground with a cell phone at hand. This will be the model going forward.
re: #20 Eric The Fruit Bat
Even better.
Is this the model?
consumerreports.org
That’s the one I’m looking at. I don’t have a sub to consumer reports. Is it well rated?
re: #20 Eric The Fruit Bat
While you’re here…I could use an Ozzie fix. How’s that sweet boy doing?
re: #3 Dave In Austin
Somebody’s getting nervous.
re: #22 Dave In Austin
Did you wind up getting that puppy?
Blow this photo up and look at her face.
A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. (AP/Jose Luis Magana) pic.twitter.com/yxhpKklyLE
— The Recount (@therecount) August 27, 2021
re: #23 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Unfortunately, no - issues cited are expensive filters, poor filtration of dust and dander, and relatively loud, even st low speeds.
Overall rating: 23 (lowest 18, highest 86) - but at that price, it may be worth it….YMMV.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Anyone have any experience with a Dyson hot/cold air purifier fan? Is it worth it? It’s on sale for like $350.
In his last (very long) podcast, Dr. Osterholm from the U of M brings up an air purifier that you can make with a specific furnace filter and a box fan. He’s really desperate to see schools do something (anything) about indoor air quality. His podcasts are not full of optimism.
re: #34 stpaulbear
Yeah, I saw that, and dirtcheap to make. Gotta use highest MERV-rated 20x20 furnace filters and a 20” box fan. Key to making it is a good fan cutout and preferably good sealing all-around.
re: #35 Eric The Fruit Bat
Yeah, I saw that, and dirtceap to make. Gotta use highest MERV-rated 20x20 furnace filters and a 20” box fan. Key to making it is a good fam cutout and preferably good dealings all-around.
Sounds like a job perfect for duct tape.
re: #33 Eric The Fruit Bat
Unfortunately, no - issues cited are expensive filters, poor filtration of dust and dander, and relatively loud, even st low speeds.
Overall rating: 23 (lowest 18, highest 86) - but at that price, it may be worth it….YMMV.
Damn. That’s a shame. I was looking at it as a fan with the added bonus is filtering. But this is expensive and poorly rated. That’s a total no go.
re: #6 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Anyone have any experience with a Dyson hot/cold air purifier fan? Is it worth it? It’s on sale for like $350.
I have 2 Dysons. The original heater and the original Pure Cool Link.
I use the heater in the winter and it assists my gas “efficient” wall heater. The wall heater takes at least 3 hours to warm up my main room. The Dyson heater is used as the heater gets started. It also kicks in during cold rain storms.
The Pure Cool Link moves a lot of year. Filters last around 6 months but I take them out after 4 because they really fill up with dust.
“You get it, and you’re sick, and you don’t know if you’re going to live or die.”
Many patients at an overwhelmed Mississippi hospital tell @miguelmarquez that they’ll now get the Covid-19 vaccine, but others still refuse. https://t.co/iqq5h8Kf5k pic.twitter.com/PjVIqFY5WU— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) August 27, 2021
— CNN (@CNN) August 27, 2021
The hospital in this story is the closest major one to where I live.
re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg
Every time I go out now I feel like I’m only as safe as the stupidest person I walk past.
Not trying to bore y’all with too many volcano shots (though I do find Fagradalsfjall to be the most interesting thing going), but the pot has been boiling over spectacularly tonight:
Also, this thing has shown me how much a volcano can change day by day. Perhaps later I’ll put up a before-and-after comparison at what just one week can bring.
re: #43 stpaulbear
Every time I go out now I feel like I’m only as safe as the stupidest person I walk past.
Same as it ever was. (But more obvious now.)
Republicans: Go to war! Full combat! Fuck yeah!
Joe Biden: Conducts surgical drone strike within 48 hours, casualties: 1.— Kate 🤍🇺🇸 (@ImSpeaking13) August 28, 2021
re: #43 stpaulbear
Every time I go out now I feel like I’m only as safe as the stupidest person I walk past.
It was ever thus, just now more obvious
You work with them
You work for them
they’re driving the cars around you!
You let them run your local state and natl govts
They operate on you
They prepare and serve your food
They prescribe drugs
Fly planes, run trains, buses, taxis
Teach your kids…
re: #7 A Mom Anon
Rachel is talking about ivermectin right now. JFC people are drinking the injectable version for cows.
I for one do not understand how this obese unvaccinated 57 year old died of Covid after ingesting horse paste he got at Wayne Feed and Seed. sorryantivaxxer.com
re: #50 No Malarkey!
I for one do not understand how this obese unvaccinated 57 year old died of Covid after ingesting horse paste he got at Wayne Feed and Seed. sorryantivaxxer.com
Do these morons know that there is, in fact, a form of Ivermectin that is specifically for human use?
Instead, in their combination of desperation and willful stupidity, they’re ingesting livestock deworming paste. And quite literally shitting themselves in public.
Ivermectin is not the cure for COVID-19. But FFS, if they want to take it, at least take the stuff that’s meant for use in people, not farm animals.
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
They can’t find doctors to prescribe it, so they buy the uncontrolled form. They do the same thing with antibiotics at the local feed stores, or they cross into Mexico and buy who knows what.
“Why People Are Eating Horse Goo from the Tractor Store”
NBC has the totally bonkers story
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
They can’t get the human stuff because doctors aren’t stupid enough to fucking prescribe it.
re: #52 Dr Lizardo
Do these morons know that there is, in fact, a form of Ivermectin that is specifically for human use?
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Instead, in their combination of desperation and willful stupidity, they’re ingesting livestock deworming paste. And quite literally shitting themselves in public.
Ivermectin is not the cure for COVID-19. But FFS, if they want to take it, at least take the stuff that’s meant for use in people, not farm animals.
I am beyond baffled that someone had to write this!
At some point, people are gonna have to learn that Fuckbook is the common denominator in the equation.
— Greg @ Camp Run Amok (@gdinc2016) August 28, 2021
Right now grifters are formulating a cherry flavored Ivermectin.
re: #59 JOE 🥓
Right now grifters are formulating a cherry flavored Ivermectin.
If I were on social media, I’d be seriously tempted to pretend to be a raving right wing nut job and try to get other right wingers to take ivermectin rectally.
re: #60 EPR-radar
If I were on social media, I’d be seriously tempted to pretend to be a raving right wing nut job and try to get other right wingers to take ivermectin rectally.
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
-Netzsche
In other words, avoid temptation.
re: #61 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
-NetzscheIn other words, avoid temptation.
This is a big part of why I’m not on social media.
Hemant Mehta presents tonights episode of Pulpit Pimp Theater!
Here’s New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preacher Tyler Baker complaining last night about how Republicans aren’t anti-gay anymore.
And then it gets worse.
(Warning: Tons of bigotry) pic.twitter.com/AyLwwrcYOy— Hemant Mehta (@hemantmehta) August 26, 2021
re: #59 JOE 🥓
Right now grifters are formulating a cherry flavored Ivermectin.
Or a crystalized form you can put in your coffee! Like those little sugar packets you get in restaurants.
re: #51 Eric The Fruit Bat
He’s sleeping next to me in bed. Bloody wet cat food leaves out the welcome mat for fruit flies, gonna feed him hard kibble until the infestation is gone.
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Gorgeous kitty
State Dept. on this issue: “MR PRICE: What I can say is that the idea that we are providing names or personally identifiable information to the Taliban in a way that exposes anyone to additional risk, that is simply wrong.” Will all the RT’s and the columns correct?
— Jennifer ‘pro-voting’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) August 28, 2021
re: #64 Dr Lizardo
Or a crystalized form you can put in your coffee! Like those little sugar packets you get in restaurants.
Better yet, like packs of silica gel desiccant. Perhaps the anti-vaxxers will start chowing down on those.
I fixed my flat tire today. Tube patches have come a long way in 55 years. I remember cutting a thick piece of rubber and coating it with some cement. IIRC you used to have to light it on fire too. Today I just peeled a super thin clear sticker off the paper and placed it on the hole and I was done. When I put the back wheel on all the parts found their places, the disc brakes worked, the motor worked, and the derailleur worked. I rode 5 miles and it seems to be holding air just fine. This was the first flat I’ve had since I was 10. Back then our neighborhood had goathead thorns and I hated them I fixed flats weekly in the summer. I’m pretty sure there was some goathead eradication program as they are gone now.
re: #67 JOE 🥓
And in tonight’s Part 2 of Pulpit Pimp Theater, Shane Vaughn resurfaces…after he claimed Trump would be back in the White House in April…May…June…July…
Never mind that Shame, er, Shane was kicked out of his church because he couldn’t keep Mr. Twinkee in his pants…
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I like that God is judging His people.
2) Not totally wrong. https://t.co/DIMoarnAxZ
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 27, 2021
1/3 Imagine if state governments treated hurricanes like some are treating COVID.
“While this is a serious situation, it’s a fact that most people survive hurricanes. Evacuation is a personal choice. No state resources will be used to encourage or facilitate evacuations.” https://t.co/jeTT7JmWZ8— The Process Party (@ProcessParty) August 28, 2021
re: #68 EPR-radar
Silica gel powder is a great way to treat all matter of crawling bugs…
“Professor Bernstein said, ‘That’s it. I’m retired,’ and we watched him pack all of his papers into his bag and walk out of the classroom.” Absolute legend. https://t.co/n3co3zpXBO via @redandblack
— Chip Stewart (@MediaLawProf) August 27, 2021
They can’t make you wear pants. Firstly, it’s a HIPAA violation and secondly, it violates my religious freedumbs.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) August 28, 2021
re: #59 JOE 🥓
Right now grifters are formulating a cherry flavored Ivermectin.
…but horses like apple!
Say it with me:
Obstruction
of
Justice https://t.co/21bhi76R8z— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) August 27, 2021
If we are a country that allows the families of victims to dole out justice, can we drag the murderer of Trayvon Martin back to court and ask Tracy Martin what he would like to do with him? @BTraymartin9
— Ellen Barkin (@EllenBarkin) August 27, 2021
I was never comfortable with J&J as a one dose vaccine. It didn’t make any sense.
I hope the millions who got this vaccines can get a booster recommendation ASAP. https://t.co/THBJ02iLDG— Vincent Rajkumar (@VincentRK) August 25, 2021
2) new study of a J&J booster (2nd shot) 6 months after first shot yielded 9x increase in antibody response. Good. Now roll it out now https://t.co/YW1VZejTkO
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) August 27, 2021
A juggling act! 😱 pic.twitter.com/Zc9K343Ama
— MLB (@MLB) August 28, 2021
Caleb Wallace, a leader in the anti-mask movement in central Texas, became infected with the coronavirus and has been lying in an intensive care unit for the past three weeks, clinging to life, his wife Jessica said on social media. https://t.co/tDn8Cz1Yo6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 28, 2021
Submitted to sorryantivaxxer.com (and they are on top of items submitted - last post was under 1/2 hour ago!)
Also in Texas: More from the objectively pro-deadly virus platform. https://t.co/viQf72e8wU
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) August 26, 2021
We’re living through an incredible collision of crises fueled, in large part, by some of the most evil motherfuckers living amongst us. https://t.co/yrEn0900BL
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) August 27, 2021
re: #61 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
-NetzscheIn other words, avoid temptation.
“The only way to deal with temptation is to yield to it….”
Oscar Wilde
Despite their name, the National Religious Broadcasters are almost completely Evangelical, and thus part of the Evangelical Industrial Complex. They’re also anti-vaccine. The More You Know…
@NRBassociation fired an employee for being publicly pro-vaccine. Again the Evangelical Industrial Complex shows its anti-social, anti-human, anti-life stand. Don’t even claim to follow Jesus, guys, we know you’re lying. https://t.co/e4CJJBLDHX
— (((Dee *still a Professional Cat Herder* Holmes))) (@mmmirele) August 28, 2021
re: #88 mmmirele
Despite their name, the National Religious Broadcasters are almost completely Evangelical, and thus part of the Evangelical Industrial Complex. They’re also anti-vaccine. The More You Know…
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MM, it’s all about that sweet, sweet tax-exempt cash and that’s all those Pulpit Pimps care about!
A tale of two months. pic.twitter.com/o7UIjMWz7q
— Priya Sampathkumar (@PSampathkumarMD) August 1, 2021
— Deven Nunez ‘no you can’t have my invermectin’ Cow (@EmmReef) August 28, 2021
Bad juju is here up in the Fruit Bat Cave…..
forecast.weather.gov
re: #90 Eric The Fruit Bat
…and by the end of August we’ll be over 200,000 cases a day.
House Republicans are already saying they plan to impeach Biden if they take control of the House. After the years of Benghazi nonsense, take this seriously. Enjoy the last week of August, then get ready to come back and fight to keep our majorities!
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) August 27, 2021
re: #95 JOE 🥓
Gee what flavor did KKKandy get—Delta or Lambda?
Most likely Delta.
Even though Delta is burning through Czech Republic (and the EU generally), our numbers are still pretty low. The country’s top epidemiologist, Dr. Roman Prymula, reckons that’s because a staggering 85% of the population has been infected with COVID-19 since March of last year. That’s just the percentage of the population that actually had the disease - he’s not counting the fully or partially vaccinated.
As he said on Czech TV the other night, “We are, almost certainly, the most infected country in the EU and quite possibly, the world. We have reached herd immunity, though at the cost of about 40,000 dead.”
re: #69 Dread Pirate Ron
The stick it and quit it flat tire kit has come in handy a number of times on some big mountain bike rides, most notably this ride, Monarch Crest, 35 miles one way.
Me on Monarch Crest. Still got 28 more miles past this point!
Monarch Crest, one of the finest mountain bike rides in Colorado.
When I was living in Steamboat I went several hundred miles on a repaired tube.
re: #94 Eric The Fruit Bat
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Also if the Republicans get the House they will gladly reject 2024 electoral votes from Blue States and proclaim Caligula Trump President For Life…
I shouldn’t engage — but I was having some unpleasant exchanges with Trumpsters. One claimed that some homeowner in a northern suburb of Chicago was told by authorities to move an anti-mask sign on their personal property to a less prominent position because it was disinformation. Has anyone heard a story anything like this?
Larry Elder: I don’t have the temperament or the drive to be governor of California pic.twitter.com/OOZh7H4Hgd
— John Whitehouse+ (@existentialfish) August 27, 2021
I believe him.
re: #99 Hecuba’s daughter
I shouldn’t engage — but I was having some unpleasant exchanges with Trumpsters. One claimed that some homeowner in a northern suburb of Chicago was told by authorities to move an anti-mask sign on their personal property to a less prominent position because it was disinformation. Has anyone heard a story anything like this?
Went thru Snopes and also did a headline search in Google and can’t find anything. If something does show up will post.
re: #99 Hecuba’s daughter
I shouldn’t engage — but I was having some unpleasant exchanges with Trumpsters. One claimed that some homeowner in a northern suburb of Chicago was told by authorities to move an anti-mask sign on their personal property to a less prominent position because it was disinformation. Has anyone heard a story anything like this?
Sure it wasn’t a homeowners’ association? They can be right nasty about signs, any signs.
re: #102 mmmirele
Sure it wasn’t a homeowners’ association? They can be right nasty about signs, any signs.
This. Governments can’t do that but a homeowner’s association can and will.
re: #102 mmmirele
Sure it wasn’t a homeowners’ association? They can be right nasty about signs, any signs.
who the fuck cares? It’s a silly anecdote at best. Conservatives always want to make policy over the smallest and dumbest incidents.
re: #104 I Would Prefer Not To
who the fuck cares? It’s a silly anecdote at best. Conservatives always want to make policy over the smallest and dumbest incidents.
I’m going to sleep (edit)
A little news nugget to keep your eyes on:
Tonight at the Texas Youth Summit, a speaker says that Candace Owens could not make her speaking slot due to a “sudden illness.”
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) August 28, 2021
2 “..thus perchance inflict & pollute others & so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God shld wish to take me, he will surely find I have done what he has expected of me & so I am not respons for either my own death or the death of others.”https://t.co/nEMwXosMHe
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 24, 2021
re: #103 William Lewis
This. Governments can’t do that but a homeowner’s association can and will.
I did bring that up but was immediately attacked by another Trumpster. I then requested a link to the actual story — my guess is that nothing will be provided. They were using the anecdote to claim liberals don’t support free speech.
re: #106 Ace-o-aces
Could be COVID-19.
Could be a sudden case of “January6CommitteeSubpoena-itis” too.
re: #109 Dr Lizardo
Could be COVID-19.
Could be a sudden case of “January6CommitteeSubpoena-itis” too.
Or could be some other physical ailment — kidney stones, food poisoning, overdose of horse ivermectin etc.
Twitter is pushing this story tonight:
🏠 No matter what kind of house you’re looking for, the price likely went up by more than 20% in 2020.
We looked at data and figured out which places saw the most people come, go, and which of these changes might be permanent. 👇pic.twitter.com/d9nzjTLXzJ— Strategy Insider (@StrategyInsider) August 27, 2021
As I’ve been posting here all pandemic about this housing price thing it’s no surprise to me that house prices in the “sun belt” have jumped 20% or so.
What has happened during this pandemic is that people with money have gone ahead and bid up houses while the supply has been very tight (due to the pandemic.)
And I contend that the financial market and banking system cannot allow the prices to come down (or at least not very much), so there will be an effort to keep housing prices up.
All of this works out to the idea that we are reverting to an older, feudalistic, system, where land ownership becomes the domain of the wealthy, and most people live on land at the whims of the wealthy.
Agency posted a couple more manager positions for offices in Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and Florida that they cannot fill. Still cant get a single person to apply for those slots.
Me? Nope. Can’t live in Ivermectinland.
For Californians too busy to do the reading: pic.twitter.com/gLipNSOsf0
— Mark Gagliardi (@MarkGags) August 17, 2021
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
I did bring that up but was immediately attacked by another Trumpster. I then requested a link to the actual story — my guess is that nothing will be provided. They were using the anecdote to claim liberals don’t support free speech.
There are two notorious cranks with yards full of pro-Trump anti-Biden stuff in our town.* They happen to live two doors apart from each other. For the past few months realtors have been hitting up local FB to try to find out ahead of time who might be selling. Like many places, the market has been so hot that sellers are getting more than the asking price. Except for a home across the street from these two clowns—it’s been on the market for about 6 weeks. There could be lots of reasons it isn’t selling, but having over-the-top full-yard displays showing anger at the 2020 election probably isn’t helping things.
*more than two, actually.
re: #84 JOE 🥓
You Xtian B-holes have been standing up and REALLY fucking the country ever since you put Pruneface Reagan in the Oval Office.
There is one great thing you have done and that’s turn off millions of kids who want nothing to do with you phony ass flakes!
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They’re only talking about boycotts because the 1A means they can’t pass “blasphemy laws” and start throwing all us “heathens” in prison.
hi
This popped up:
The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist. (New York Times)
The elevation of Greg Epstein, author of “Good Without God,” reflects a broader trend of young people who increasingly identify as spiritual but religiously nonaffiliated.
The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the 1630s had a nagging concern about the churches they were building: How would they ensure that the clergymen would be literate? Their answer was Harvard University, a school that was established to educate the ministry and adopted the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was named after a pastor, John Harvard, and it would be more than 70 years before the school had a president who was not a clergyman.
Nearly four centuries later, Harvard’s organization of chaplains has elected as its next president an atheist named Greg Epstein, who takes on the job this week.
Mr. Epstein, 44, author of the book “Good Without God,” is a seemingly unusual choice for the role. He will coordinate the activities of more than 40 university chaplains, who lead the Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and other religious communities on campus. Yet many Harvard students — some raised in families of faith, others never quite certain how to label their religious identities — attest to the influence that Mr. Epstein has had on their spiritual lives.
“There is a rising group of people who no longer identify with any religious tradition but still experience a real need for conversation and support around what it means to be a good human and live an ethical life,” said Mr. Epstein, who was raised in a Jewish household and has been Harvard’s humanist chaplain since 2005, teaching students about the progressive movement that centers people’s relationships with one another instead of with God.
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The article goes on to talk to several religious people of many faiths who all support the election by all the chaplaincies of Mr. Epstein. He becomes the first atheist in the position since the college was founded. No pressure.
The Delta variant is bad enough, but there has been debate as to whether it, per se, carries a higher risk of hospitalization (H) beyond its very high contagiousness. A new, rigorous study shows a doubling of the H rate https://t.co/qom8l6fw4v pic.twitter.com/CwXPOU0YWi
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 27, 2021
The accompanying editorial for this important paper, the first to nail down and quantify Delta’s increased virulence https://t.co/sTAfacr3lQ by @JeromeLechien
And a very good thread by @kallmemeg https://t.co/rUdjyN8ih2 pic.twitter.com/KQL2LEMPR3— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) August 28, 2021
Quick! To the gerrymander! Before more Democrats enter the Unicameral!
Gov. Ricketts calls lawmakers back for special session on redistricting (Omaha World-Herald)
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, a Z-Pak … a steroid nebulizer” — Rep. Louie Gohmert is giving a speech at the Texas Youth Summit in which he’s giving terrible Covid-related medical advice to huge cheers
The same folks who would boo at Trump for mentioning the vaccine…
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
They can’t get the human stuff because doctors
aren’t stupid enoughrefuse to fucking prescribe it because they are part of the elietist Deep State Soros/Gates Plot.
re: #79 Belafon
Allowing families to dole out justice is what is referred to as “Honor Killings” in certain Muslim nations…
Power won’t keep us safe until we hold the power. WE protect us, from the streets to the state house.
I stand with the survivors who live every day with the courage that those who terrorize them will never understand. 🤍 https://t.co/mjEXh7DDJ5— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) August 27, 2021
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
All of this works out to the idea that we are reverting to an older, feudalistic, system, where land ownership becomes the domain of the wealthy, and most people live on land at the whims of the wealthy.
Who made the statement about how a depression “restores the natural order” of wealth distribution?
re: #75 Eric The Fruit Bat
A different UGA faculty member than the recently re-retired psychology professor
Georgia professor bucks administrators to order masks in classrooms#highered(Via AJC News) https://t.co/C8tFppmZnc
— Eric Stirgus (@EScoopStirgus) August 27, 2021
College aged adults *used to be* the primary driver of COVID-19 cases. Not anymore. It’s K-12 aged kids in Georgia. Not because they want to be those people, but because of a lack of safety culture. These data should be reviewed at EVERY school board meeting in the state. pic.twitter.com/mpERpKl8j2
— Amber Schmidtke, PhD (@AmberSchmidtke) August 27, 2021
KISS cancels show after Paul Stanley tests positive for COVID https://t.co/HFVNs1VjAE
— Atlanta Journal-Constitution (@ajc) August 27, 2021
re: #126 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
COVIDeo killed the radio star…
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. TL;DR: Don’t listen to libertarians for healthcare advice for your children.
1/Getting ALOT of questions in last 24hrs “is COVID less severe than seasonal flu for kids?” The answer is NO. Do not fall for the great Barrington Declaration “infect the kids” mantra.
— John J. Lowe, Ph.D. (@Prof_Lowe) August 27, 2021
The only advice you turn to Libertarians for is on how to be a sociopathic asshole.
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) August 25, 2021
Breaking - New surge forecast up to 15’ to the right of landfall This could easily shift towards NOLA if storm tracks east at all over next 2 days. This is a get out of there situation. Please listen to your emergency manager. pic.twitter.com/AVmU2D9dDc
— Bill Karins (@BillKarins) August 27, 2021
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 28, 2021
Hurricane Ida will make landfall in Louisiana on the sixteenth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.
MN man please guilty to federal weapons violation after being accused of bragging at a pro-Trump rally about his illegal shotgun and plans to kill a law enforcement officer. His online posts reflected antigovernment sentiments similar to the Boogaloo Bois. https://t.co/DthUh8ErYq
— Joanna Mendelson (@jo_mendelson) August 27, 2021
California man pleads guilty to breaking into Capitol wearing US flag cape with his brother https://t.co/kCqyZ3azW8
— Travis Gettys (@wirecan) August 27, 2021
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hurricane Ida will make landfall in Louisiana on the sixteenth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina.
Let’s hope Obama doesn’t make a mess of this one like he did with Katrina!
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Let’s hope Obama doesn’t make a mess of this one like he did with Katrina!
Quick! Rehire Brownie!
Washington white supremacist Lynn Cargile indicted on firearms charges in the wake of a 6-hour standoff with police in 2019. https://t.co/FMUslxRRzV
— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) August 27, 2021
BREAKING: 4th Circuit upholds death penalty for Dylann Roof in 2015 Charleston church shooting. But DOJ has temporary moratorium in place on executions Doc: https://t.co/wAwSfPdHai
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) August 25, 2021
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
No need for death penalty, just never let that f*cker loose on society ever again…
If you ever worry you work for complete hypocrites, just remember, Kremlin paid someone to write report on human rights in other countries. https://t.co/Q0F0FsT80c
— Darth Putin (@DarthPutinKGB) August 28, 2021
Remember, his partner said he was unresponsive.
John Piece Tries to Hire His 18th January 6 Defendant While on a Ventilator (emptywheel)
re: #141 ericblair
If you ever worry you work for complete hypocrites, just remember, Kremlin paid someone to write report on human rights in other countries.
They are entitled to commission all the human rights reports they want and you are entitled to give them the degree of attention and trust that they warrant…
Hmmmm
Why is Liberty University restricting their students FREEDUMB ? ? ?
Liberty University announces campus-wide quarantine amid COVID-19 surge https://t.co/jwsvTViWOl pic.twitter.com/znymQI23aJ
— The Hill (@thehill) August 28, 2021
As it happens, Ryan Joseph Marshall, the lawyer who is handling John Pierce’s cases as he fights COVID in the hospital, is awaiting trial in Pennsylvania on multiple charges of theft, fraud & conspiracy related to a prior job as a judicial law clerk. https://t.co/Z8H93AiAPK pic.twitter.com/a6JB7wudrn
— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) August 25, 2021
These guys find the best people.
JAQ: Pierce doesn’t seem to be collecting clients with much in common besides January 6, and none of these deadbeats are paying him. So what’s the angle here, who’s trying to make martyrs out of these guys, and which deep-pockets libertarian is paying Pierce? (Third-party legal financing is a libertarian specialty: See Peter Theil and Gawker.)
Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Denies Being Rescued by Oklahoma Woman (Gawker, August 27, 2021)
Over the past week, an Oklahoma woman named Allyson Reneau has been going on a media tour telling various outlets that she is responsible for helping rescue the Afghan all-girl robotics team from Kabul amid the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan.
To that, the team’s lawyer has to say: Not quite.
Kim Motley, a lawyer for the team’s parent organization the Digital Citizen Fund (DCF), sent a cease-and-desist letter to Reneau on Wednesday telling her to quit taking credit for the girls’ evacuation to Qatar and putting them and their families at risk by running her mouth, per the Washington Post.
“Continuingly recycling old pictures with the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, many of whom are minors, as validation that you had anything to do with their immensely stressful and dangerous escape not only impacts the safety of the girls but it also significantly affects the safety of the members of the team who still remain in Afghanistan,” Motley wrote. “It is highly unfortunate that you would use such a tragically horrible situation … for what appears to be your own personal gain.”
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So, I woke up expecting the national tide of bullshit to fall, then I read the overnight LGF.
Oh well.
re: #147 Decatur Deb
So, I woke up expecting the national tide of bullshit to fall, then I read the overnight LGF.
Oh well.
Rising bullshyte sinks all ships.
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are entitled to commission all the human rights reports they want and you are entitled to give them the degree of attention and trust that they warrant…
The point is, of course, to give ammo to their whataboutism. “Ok, yes, we do this is Russia, but you do/did do that in your country too! Checkmate, Russophobes!”
However, the idea that a person can speak out against an abuse in another country, while simultaneously speaking out against that abuse in their own country, is a completely alien concept to them. All people are either traitors, or mindless ethically barren supporters of anything their government does, and there is nothing in the middle, because that’s what they’ve been shoving in Russian people’s heads for decades now.
China was doing this recently, because they apparently are into Tiger Diplomacy, which apparently means being an aggressively stupid asshole on teh twitters while shooting your privates off. Their answer to criticism about the Uyghurs is to point out that the United States committed genocide against the native peoples. The answers that flood in are yes, that was a genocide, and that China seems to be happy to compare their treatment of the Uygurs to that, so what does that tell you. That’s usually the end of the “discussion.”
I suppose there could be a kernel of truth in there for some people.
ARE YOU PART OF THE PANDEMIC’S PANDENTISTRY BOOM? (Weekly World News, August 15, 2021)
Marsha Vickers was never happy with her smile. “I knew I had a weird bite,” she said. “My front and bottom teeth don’t quite touch.”
But the Providence lawyer thought that was just the way things would always be. “Here I am in my life,” she said. “I have my career, a husband, a child. I have a flow of existence. I couldn’t just stop and get braces.”
SHE COULD!Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, and with it various health and safety protocols. “Most of them were a nuisance, but a tolerable nuisance,” she said. “I understood social distancing even though it felt alienating. I got a vaccine even though I was a little scared.”
But the most controversial health measure proved to be the one that benefitted her the most. “At first I was very hostile to the idea of masks,” she said. “I was skeptical of their health benefits and concerned that the made people braver than the science thought was advisable. But then I realized that if I was wearing a mask, people couldn’t see my mouth. And then I realized that if people couldn’t see my mouth, maybe it was the perfect time to fix my bite.’
Vickers went straight to the orthodontist and got braces. Nine months later, her bite is better than ever. And not a single person ever suspected. “For my job, I just did phone calls instead of Zooms,” she said. “And whenever I was out, I was masked up.”
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re: #149 ericblair
The point is, of course, to give ammo to their whataboutism. “Ok, yes, we do this is Russia, but you do/did do that in your country too! Checkmate, Russophobes!”
Whataboutism is a disease in itself.
I recall seeing a meme “I would rather support a cop than a criminal”
As if the two had to be mutually exclusive…
And I recall that right after 9/11 the Chinese justified their crackdown on the Uighurs as part of the broader War on Terror and nobody complained very loudly about what they were doing at the time.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whataboutism is a disease in itself.
I recall seeing a meme “I would rather support a cop than a criminal”
As if the two had to be mutually exclusive…
Absolutely agreed. And the underlying logic is disgusting: Those self-righteous do-gooders did X, which is horrible and wrong, and so we get to do X as well, because that’s only fair.
re: #152 ericblair
Absolutely agreed. And the underlying logic is disgusting: Those self-righteous do-gooders did X, which is horrible and wrong, and so we get to do X as well, because that’s only fair.
and not to mention the anti-PC argument “It was just meant as harmless fun back then!”
Just because something was accepted back then does not make it acceptable now.
Flames along Hwy 50 outside of Kyburz. That’s @kcranews photographer Mike Rhinehart in the distance.
Cal Fire has called the #CaldorFire the state’s number one priority. The fire has burned 143,951 acres. It is 12% contained as of this AM. pic.twitter.com/lI8nOCffRF— Stephanie Lin (@StephanieLinTV) August 27, 2021
Containment efforts continue on Caldor Fire; town of Meyers prepares to evacuate https://t.co/MphicLpdcc
— kcranews (@kcranews) August 28, 2021
Dixie Fire: Fire still active as containment nears 50% https://t.co/MDe7wNrpmV
— kcranews (@kcranews) August 28, 2021
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and not to mention the anti-PC argument “It was just meant harmless fun back then!”
Just because something was accepted back then does not make it acceptable now.
My read is that most of the 6 Jan insurgents spent their lives just having “harmless fun” terrorizing the women and children and minorities in their lives with deadly force and with no consequences, and are now quite confused that they’re looking at real time in the greybar hotel.
re: #156 ericblair
My read is that most of the 6 Jan insurgents spent their lives just having “harmless fun” terrorizing the women and children and minorities in their lives with deadly force and with no consequences, and are now quite confused that they’re looking at real time in the greybar hotel.
They are confused because they are not being celebrated as heroes and saviors of the Republic. And they are confused that Trump is still not back in office, whereupon he will not only pardon them but invite them all over to the White House for all-you-can-eat cheezeburgerz.
re: #51 Eric The Fruit Bat
I love that picture so much! It looks like Ozzie is sleeping in a field of puppies. That cats face just melts me!!
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
And what’s up with the damned fruit flies? I keep looking for some lost lemon or something because they’re everywhere. Better now than a week ago but definitely still here.
re: #141 ericblair
That’s like the Office of the Caliph of Islamic State publishing a report on religious freedom, LOL.
Cool country you’ve got there. Would be a shame if someone invented a website for ranking hot girls on campus and your mom used it to learn how to poison herself with horse paste.
— Shawn Fleek (he / they) (@shawnfleek) August 27, 2021
Uh, wut?
In a muddled, verbal glob of gibberish, Louie Gohmert tonight tells an audience of high school students at the Texas Youth Summit to remember back in 1993-94, and ask what would’ve happened if Bill Clinton had attempted pandemic restrictions. pic.twitter.com/6LYROVdoUD
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 28, 2021
This comment got me a 3-day ban on Facebook. Back Tuesday.
I suppose I should have phrased it, “…who deny that we are all evolved primates.” FB couldn’t tell the difference between that concept and a “You’re all animals” slam.
(sigh) https://t.co/J2Ro4gDUZ6— Seth Andrews (@SethAndrewsTTA) August 27, 2021
Thread, nine tweets. Christians are trying to subvert the language of anti-LGBT bigots by trying to indoctrinate children that therapy and such are “conversion therapy” to make them gay or trans.
(First of nine tweets.)
This video is such a disgrace that it needs a thread. It is aimed at children and sole purpose appears to be to make them paranoid and suspicious of therapy/therapists.it’s the moral equivalent of coaching children in techniques to avoid crucial prescription medication. (1/7) https://t.co/0yUYhIaZI2
— James Esses (@JamesEsses) August 26, 2021
re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
What has happened during this pandemic is that people with money have gone ahead and bid up houses while the supply has been very tight (due to the pandemic.)
And I contend that the financial market and banking system cannot allow the prices to come down (or at least not very much), so there will be an effort to keep housing prices up.
All of this works out to the idea that we are reverting to an older, feudalistic, system, where land ownership becomes the domain of the wealthy, and most people live on land at the whims of the wealthy.
It’s already starting to come down. I am seeing Price Decreases on Redfin again. I’m also seeing houses sold over asking, but more of the former than the latter.
re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Uh, wut?
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What pandemic was there in 1993? And what person born in 2003 would know anything about the politics of the time even if there was.
Is that when America’s Derpies outbreak started? I’m pretty sure it was well before that.
re: #166 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
What pandemic was there in 1993? And what person born in 2003 would know anything about the politics of the time even if there was.
Is that when America’s Derpies outbreak started? I’m pretty sure it was well before that.
The only thing that comes close in the USA is the 1993 Four Corners Hantavirus Outbreak. Since that does not spread human-to-human, like Louie, that makes no sense.
There’s also the ongoing HIV pandemic, but lockdowns wouldn’t have anything to do with that either.
re: #166 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
What pandemic was there in 1993? And what person born in 2003 would know anything about the politics of the time even if there was.
Is that when America’s Derpies outbreak started? I’m pretty sure it was well before that.
He knows that Hatred of Hillary can be carried back over to dump on Bill
re: #159 steve_davis
She is divine! But the best pics are of her and you because the bond between you is so obvious and so delightful!
re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He knows that Hatred of Hillary can be carried back over to dump on Bill
Still that’s like if a congress member spoke at my high school graduation and started ranting about LBJ. (I graduated high school in 1992)
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The only thing that comes close in the USA is the 1993 Four Corners Hantavirus Outbreak. Since that does not spread human-to-human, like Louie, that makes no sense.
There’s also the ongoing HIV pandemic, but lockdowns wouldn’t have anything to do with that either.
And I’m pretty sure no one remotely associated with the GOP would have ever considered that a pandemic.
re: #144 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Hmmmm
Why is Liberty University restricting their students FREEDUMB ? ? ?[Embedded content]
What about God’s immune system?
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
I did bring that up but was immediately attacked by another Trumpster. I then requested a link to the actual story — my guess is that nothing will be provided. They were using the anecdote to claim liberals don’t support free speech.
This is why I don’t argue with Tea-baggers MAGAs. They throw out the shit loonie story of the day, like the IRS hired 50,000 new auditors (an old one), and when you debunk it they giggle and move on. Facts are useless in the argument.
re: #170 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Still that’s like if a congress member spoke at my high school graduation and started ranting about LBJ. (I graduated high school in 1992)
If Ladybird Johnson had followed him into politics that might have applied
re: #173 Ming5000
This is why I don’t argue with
Tea-baggersMAGAs. They throw out the shit loonie story of the day, like the IRS hired 50,000 new auditors (an old one), and when you debunk it they giggle and move on. Facts are useless in the argument.
Which is why I generally avoid politics on FB and other social media channels. If I want to argue about politics I go to a political blogsite.
Researchers discover world’s ‘northernmost’ island (Yahoo!, with photo, not sure why they put northernmost in quotes)
Scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world’s northernmost landmass — a yet-to-be-named island north of Greenland that could soon be swallowed up by seawaters.
Researchers came upon the landmass on an expedition in July, and initially thought they had reached Oodaaq, up until now the northernmost island on the planet.
“We were informed that there had been an error on my GPS which had led us to believe that we were standing on Oodaaq Island,” said the head of the mission, Morten Rasch from Copenhagen University’s department of geosciences and natural resource management.
“In reality, we had discovered a new island further north, a discovery that just slightly expands the kingdom” of Denmark, he added.
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re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The National Hurricane Center out with a new tropical forecast.
Tropical Depression Ten has formed in the Atlantic. This storm will not be a threat to land.
Hurricane Ida is rapidly intensifying. The storm surge forecast has been increased to fifteen feet above ground level wherever the storm makes landfall and to its immediate east. Staying near the landfall area means you will die.
SUMMARY OF 700 AM CDT…1200 UTC…INFORMATION
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LOCATION…24.4N 85.7W
ABOUT 385 MI…620 KM SSE OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER
ABOUT 440 MI…710 KM SSE OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS…85 MPH…140 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT…NW OR 315 DEGREES AT 16 MPH…26 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE…985 MB…29.09 INCHES
Hurricane watches have been extended to the east and west of the warning area, primarily due to rapid intensification of the storm.
Ida is expected to become a major hurricane just after midnight on Sunday. It will still have about a day to intensify before it makes landfall in the hurricane warning area.
By 1AM Wednesday it is expected to be a tropical depression located over the flooded areas of Tennessee, then cross Kentucky and far-west Virginia before being downgraded to a post-tropical depression over West Virginia.
The tropical storm windfield will reach the northern Gulf of Mexico coast early Sunday morning as the size of the storm expands. Explosive growth is expected as it passes over an unusually warm area of the Gulf.
On the issuance of an early Hurricane Warning (they are normally issued only thirty-six hours before a landfalling storm), I’m betting that President Biden’s talk with FEMA and state governors in the affected area involved a little arm-twisting of NOAA to get them to issue the warning days early to get the disaster declarations, emergency orders, and evacuations under way as soon as possible.
re: #183 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
FORECAST POSITIONS AND MAX WINDS
INIT 28/0900Z 24.0N 85.2W 70 KT 80 MPH
12H 28/1800Z 25.4N 86.9W 85 KT 100 MPH
24H 29/0600Z 27.1N 88.9W 105 KT 120 MPH
36H 29/1800Z 28.6N 90.5W 120 KT 140 MPH
48H 30/0600Z 30.1N 91.3W 85 KT 100 MPH…INLAND
60H 30/1800Z 31.6N 91.2W 45 KT 50 MPH…INLAND
72H 31/0600Z 33.2N 90.5W 30 KT 35 MPH…INLAND
96H 01/0600Z 36.0N 87.0W 25 KT 30 MPH…INLAND
120H 02/0600Z 37.5N 82.5W 20 KT 25 MPH…POST-TROP/REMNT LOW
Too soon?
re: #181 William Lewis
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been untouchable for the past year as he commanded the Republican culture wars to become heir apparent to Donald Trump. The latest coronavirus surge is starting to change that,” Politico reports.“Covid infection rates continue to climb as the state faces shortages of health care staff, morgue space and even oxygen for patients. About 16,000 people are hospitalized. Child infection rates have shot up. School districts — even in Republican strongholds — have rebelled against DeSantis’ anti-mask mandates. And cruise lines are resisting DeSantis’ vaccine passport ban. Even his recent poll numbers are slipping.”
reality doesn’t care if you acknowledge it
I’ve ridden out several tropical storms and hurricanes either at sea or on the coast when I was in the Navy, but the last hurricane was a “mud hurricane” when I lived in Oklahoma.
A mud hurricane is created by specific conditions: Before a tropical system comes to an area of normally dry land, that land has to receive considerable amounts of rain, followed by very hot weather warming the saturated ground to the point that evaporating water and rising heat will support a tropical system.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whataboutism is a disease in itself.
I recall seeing a meme “I would rather support a cop than a criminal”
As if the two had to be mutually exclusive…
And I recall that right after 9/11 the Chinese justified their crackdown on the Uighurs as part of the broader War on Terror and nobody complained very loudly about what they were doing at the time.
What about a criminal cop?
Head explodes…..
re: #186 Dangerman
reality doesn’t care if you acknowledge it
It took a half million dead to topple Trump and even then it was a close-run thing…
re: #188 Dangerman
What about a criminal cop?
Head explodes…..
And this is the issue that came to an ugly head in Ferguson, MO: District Attorneys are used to cooperating with police departments to obtain indictments and convictions.
When a policeman is the object of an investigation, this creates a conflict of interest and could compromise future relations between the DA and the police force…
re: #84 JOE 🥓
You Xtian B-holes have been standing up and REALLY fucking the country ever since you put Pruneface Reagan in the Oval Office.
There is one great thing you have done and that’s turn off millions of kids who want nothing to do with you phony ass flakes!
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re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Uh, wut?
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buy an actual goddamned suit, you rednecked doofus.
Because right-wing “media” will always defend Republicans, mainstream media will always two-sides the issue, & left-wing media effectively doesn’t exist. The kind of media pile-up we’re seeing against Biden is *structurally impossible* for an R, literally no matter what they do.
— David Roberts (@drvolts) August 27, 2021
re: #84 JOE 🥓
You Xtian B-holes have been standing up and REALLY fucking the country ever since you put Pruneface Reagan in the Oval Office.
They put Pruneface McPussywhipped in the Oval Office but he quickly abandoned them as soon as Nancy’s White House Astrologer advised them it was time.
It was then that they started a long-term campaign to put their people in at all levels of public administration, law, education, the military, etc., to ensure that they would not get cast aside again. Heck, with Mike Pence, they were within one dicky heartbeat of the Presidency.
Evacuations have resumed at the Kabul Airport. The Pentagon now believes there was only one blast, and the explosion in the hotel was not related to a terrorist attack.
President Joe Biden was briefed that another terror attack in Kabul is “likely” following Thursday’s deadly blast.
The mission’s next few days “will be the most dangerous period to date,” the White House warned.https://t.co/gIsCM3PYEo— Insider (@thisisinsider) August 27, 2021
Why Uber was always doomed. https://t.co/34wCjN1FN2
— Cory Doctorow (@doctorow) August 28, 2021
re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
End of the Line for Uber (Medium)
Accounting tricks and tech gimmickry don’t matter when the coffers are empty.
In the meantime, they destroyed a number of taxicab companies in the libertarian quest of “creative destruction” (usually rendered more simply as “destruction”).
Uber is a bezzle (“the magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it”). Every bezzle ends.
Uber’s time is up.
Uber was never going to be profitable. Never. It lured drivers and riders into cars by subsidizing rides with billions and billions of dollars from the Saudi royal family, keeping up the con-artist’s ever-shifting patter about how all of this would some day stand on its own.
Like the pretense that self-driving cars would eliminate all their labor costs. They knew this would never happen. They spent billions on a doomed effort, then had to bribe another company with a $400m “investment” to take its window-dressing away.
Uber didn’t need self-driving cars — it needed us to think it would have self-driving cars. That way the company’s Saudi owners could raise investment capital from subsequent “investors” (AKA “suckers”) all the way up to the IPO, cash out, and walk away, whistling innocently.
That’s the bezzle at work — a dazzle op that keeps new money flowing in, convincing people that a pile of shit this big must have a pony beneath it. But as the years went by, the stories that Uber told us about its path to profitability got more and more fanciful.
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re: #198 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Bernie Madoff of the taxi world.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The mission’s next few days “will be the most dangerous period to date,” the White House warned.
The troops there have at most three wake-ups.
That last chalk (helicopter) out is going to be a real nail biter. Just one E3 going missing (getting mugged and the leadership not counting correctly) could end up a major international incident.
I suspect that the final team out is going to include the battalion commander, company commander and platoon commander. Or C team and B team commanders if a Special Forces Team.
“Do I have to do it all myself?”
🎥 TW: @sour269 pic.twitter.com/enwkcGEvk2— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) August 28, 2021
Uber is also a scam that is run like a lot of companies who insist that their workers, who have no other clients, are not free to negotiate fees or prices, and work regular shifts are somehow still to be considered “freelancers”.
There were even restaurants who tried the scam of hiring “free lance” waiters, who “rented” the tables from the restaurant, “bought” the food from the kitchen and “sold” it to the customer…
re: #199 PhillyPretzel
The Bernie Madoff of the taxi world.
The BS worker misclassification initiative they got passed in California they are trying to ram through now in Massachusetts. Hopefully they won’t fall for it.
The biggest failure of the mountain of failure of Uber is the claim that it would reduce traffic, by putting more private cars on the road to replace light rail, buses, and taxicabs.
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Uber is also a scam that is run like a lot of companies who insist that their workers, who have no other clients, are not free to negotiate fees or prices, and work regular shifts are somehow still to be considered “freelancers”.
There were even restaurants who tried the scam of hiring “free lance” waiters, who “rented” the tables from the restaurant, “bought” the food from the kitchen and “sold” it to the customer…
Uber also signed up restaurants for their scam app, promising increased numbers of customers. After increasing their cut, and “optimising” searches, they opened ghost kitchens to drive customer orders away from the actual restaurants, cutting them out entirely.
Thread, twelve tweets.
Oh wait, there’s more. On Tuesday night at 7:30 PM ET, I got an email from @NARAL asking for feedback on plans to “raise money [in advance of SB8 going into effect] and send part of the proceeds to an abortion fund in the state, but we don’t know which one is best…” THREAD https://t.co/ukJIzQaTyo
— Kelsey Rhodes (she/her) (@KelseyDotOrg) August 27, 2021
re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Uber is also a scam that is run like a lot of companies who insist that their workers, who have no other clients, are not free to negotiate fees or prices, and work regular shifts are somehow still to be considered “freelancers”.
There were even restaurants who tried the scam of hiring “free lance” waiters, who “rented” the tables from the restaurant, “bought” the food from the kitchen and “sold” it to the customer…
That’s something they learned from the newspaper circulation wizards—12 year old contractors buy newspapers and sell them at your door.
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
NARAL is getting dragged pretty badly in their tweet. NARAL is not part of the lawsuit against Texas, they have no people on the ground in Texas oganising against the law, and seem to be gathering money and information and taking it away from the people who are working to get the anti-abortion law overturned.
Looks like we may soon have another prominent anti-vaxxer to add to sorryantivaxxer.com
Tonight at the Texas Youth Summit, a speaker says that Candace Owens could not make her speaking slot due to a “sudden illness.”
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) August 28, 2021
I’m going to shuffle off to bed. I need to practice both my shuffle and sleeping.
re: #206 Decatur Deb
That’s something they learned from the newspaper circulation wizards—12 year old contractors buy newspapers and sell them at your door.
That model is okay for a short-term part-time job, but not as a full-time profession.
And those are the criteria they look for at least in some parts of the world.
Do you have only one major client?
Are you free to negotiate rates and determine your working hours?
Are you active on the market?
That applies in my case: I have 2-3 major clients who generate the bulk of my income but several other smaller, occasional customers and some one-offs, and I have different rates for each of them.
re: #211 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m going to shuffle off to bed. I need to practice both my shuffle and sleeping.
Shuffle off to (the land of the) Buffalo
He’s part of a groundswell of Georgia professors, frustrated that their schools and the University System of Georgia are not requiring students to wear masks in classrooms, that are demanding administrators mandate such requirements. #gapol https://t.co/ylqLjhi5aG
— Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) August 28, 2021
re: #209 No Malarkey!
Isn’t she being sued for libel to the tune of some huge amount, like in the millions? That could explain her “sudden illness”.
re: #215 Dr Lizardo
Isn’t she being sued for libel to the tune of some huge amount, like in the millions? That could explain her “sudden illness”.
Yeah. I’m not sure that level of karma exists.
re: #159 steve_davis
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That model is okay for a short-term part-time job, but not as a full-time profession.
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It’s bullshit for newsies, too. The bogus contract, signed by the kids’ parents, is designed to free the paper from labor and safety laws.
re: #215 Dr Lizardo
Isn’t she being sued for libel to the tune of some huge amount, like in the millions? That could explain her “sudden illness”.
I hadn’t heard. Who is suing her, Dominion?
Just an FYI: I cannot access LGF at all on my iphone or ipad mini. Both are kind of old, but all the software is current. I get here, sign in, click on a page and it won’t fully load then the site crashes. I am on my desktop running windows and it’s working fine. It worked briefly last night and then that was it. Problems began at some point yesterday afternoon.
2 (!) reporters were assigned to this blockbuster story https://t.co/uYcohq2CCl
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) August 28, 2021
re: #219 No Malarkey!
I hadn’t heard. Who is suing her, Dominion?
Congressional candidate Kimberly Klacik says her fellow Black conservative made false statements about her in a June 22 video posted to social media
Conservative talking head Candace Owens has never been one to mince words and now that’s gotten her into some legal trouble.
According to The Baltimore Sun, the political commentator is being sued by Kimberly Klacik, another Black conservative, for defamation. Klacik, a former Republican congressional candidate, alleged that in June, Owens made false statements about her in an Instagram video which caused her to lose a book deal and led to several politicians backing out of her fundraising events.
As a result, she is now suing for a whopping $20M.
Study cited by an anti-vaxxer because it purports to show that immunity from infection is better than immunity from the vaccine also confirms that previously infected persons should get vaccinated: “Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.”
Clapton, King of the Delta Variant Blues
— Ed (@grandpadrover) August 27, 2021
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
If they can’t find something on Joe they will attack the dog who cannot defend himself.
re: #220 A Mom Anon
Just an FYI: I cannot access LGF at all on my iphone or ipad mini. Both are kind of old, but all the software is current. I get here, sign in, click on a page and it won’t fully load then the site crashes. I am on my desktop running windows and it’s working fine. It worked briefly last night and then that was it. Problems began at some point yesterday afternoon.
I’m having problems on my iPhone X latest iOS as well.
re: #224 DodgerFan1988
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Anyone who takes their medical advice from an aging rocker deserves to get infected. Just like people who eat horse paste instead of getting a free, effective vaccine.
re: #220 A Mom Anon
re: #227 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is what happened the other day.
littlegreenfootballs.com
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
thread
Judicial Watch released records about the Biden family dog, Major.
What about @JudicialWatch records?
The IRS classifies Judicial Watch as a 501(c)(3) ‘public charity.’ Judicial Watch paid ZERO tax on gross receipts of more than $162 million. Donors take tax write-offs. pic.twitter.com/KUhyWpezUY— Nancy Levine (@nancylevine) August 28, 2021
re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter
I did bring that up but was immediately attacked by another Trumpster. I then requested a link to the actual story — my guess is that nothing will be provided. They were using the anecdote to claim liberals don’t support free speech.
I’m wondering if this was from a Nextdoor post — something that has no verification whatsoever.
Dr. Mark Kline, Physician-in-Chief of Children’s Hospital New Orleans, tells @CapehartJ that his “staff is exhausted” due to a surge of children infected with Covid-19 and “the last thing in the world that we need right now is a category four storm.” https://t.co/P4sgpkmLJr pic.twitter.com/gMxdV05tbx
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) August 28, 2021
Please read and share statement from my family regarding today’s recommendation of parole for Sirhan Sirhan. pic.twitter.com/60klc1fHxU
— Rory Kennedy (@roryekennedy) August 28, 2021
re: #214 No Malarkey!
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And speaking of assholes in Georgia—come on down, David Perdue.
Thanks, everyone, for your words of support. @AJC leadership contacted @Perduesenate this afternoon on my behalf. Perdue then called me directly, apologized & we cleared the air. I accept his apology. Thanks again for your kindness. And I hope you all have a great weekend! #gapol https://t.co/z5CbO2N2Rt
— Maya T. Prabhu (@MayaTPrabhu) August 27, 2021
Maya used to work for our local paper, and is the sweetest person you’ll ever meet. Also, Perdue keeps saying “Bonnie and I are considering running in 2022.” Since when is running for office a tag team event?
re: #221 Backwoods_Sleuth
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And from what we are seeing about some Capitol police and SS being sympathetic to domestic terrorists, maybe the dog was just protecting its companion human.
Long term cov*d effects when treated with Ivermect*n. pic.twitter.com/usvR9uMHnj
— KamStanVibingOn369 💗💜💙🌈 (@Three3sMalka) August 28, 2021
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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As a general matter, the U.S. incarcerates vastly too many people. A 77 year old who has been in prison for over half a century is a no brainer for release, IMHO.
Hold hearings. Do it.
Review the ENTIRE war, start with the decision to invade. What was the plan? What were the objectives? Who made the decisions? Up to the FULL details of that agreement Trump made with the Taliban at Camp David
Make it ALL public. ALL 20 years of the war https://t.co/88RSNB8ZxQ— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2021
re: #212 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That model is okay for a short-term part-time job, but not as a full-time profession.
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What has always sat wrong with me with all of the shared economy type companies is that they are all so obviously an attempt to shift the financial risks onto someone else. Building thousands and thousands of hotel rooms would cost billions with millions spent on upfront analysis on location, cash flow, and more. Creating a company providing taxi services in hundreds of cities would have huge upfront costs. It’s a lot cheaper to get thousands of people to offer up their, homes, their cars, and their investments and then skim off of each transaction. If someone makes a poor decision on whether thir property location makes sense for short term rental, no problem - doesn’t create any addition shut down costs. If someone wears and tears their car so much that it needs to be replaced in three years, no problem - you know who pays for the replacement
One playbook on the right this summer is to do everything possible to discourage vaccination (mostly though not exclusively killing conservatives) and then blame Biden for the deadly results.
They’ve outdone Mitch McConnell in cynicism. https://t.co/AGxMxY2ovH— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) August 28, 2021
The Biden Education Department will offer loan forgiveness to 115,000 former students of the defunct ITT Technical Institute, potentially wiping out a total of $1.1 billion debt. https://t.co/dV8Pjao67v
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 28, 2021
re: #220 A Mom Anon
Just an FYI: I cannot access LGF at all on my iphone or ipad mini. Both are kind of old, but all the software is current. I get here, sign in, click on a page and it won’t fully load then the site crashes. I am on my desktop running windows and it’s working fine. It worked briefly last night and then that was it. Problems began at some point yesterday afternoon.
The only way I could “get through” on my phone was to use Firefox, turn off images, wait for the page to load completely (with long blank spaces where all the images should be) — which takes a while — then turn images back on.
Charles, are you seeing this?
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
re: #225 PhillyPretzel
If they can’t find something on Joe they will attack the dog who cannot defend himself.
Actually, it appears the dog can defend himself. That’s the problem….😉
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
No, he did it to destroy Americans right to self determination in an election. He attacked America not a family.
re: #246 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
The “Press” does not like folks who can defend themselves to their so-called verbal attack. The fact that Major being a dog has resorted to defending himself in a traditional dog type manner is wrong in their view and he must be “punished” for it.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
They are talking about the man who GUNNED THEIR FATHER DOWN IN COLD BLOOD AND ON LIVE TELEVISION. Even the children of the rich have feelings, you know.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
There is a useful finality to the concept “If you assassinate an American political figure, you will die in prison.”
re: #248 PhillyPretzel
The “Press” does not like folks who can defend themselves to their so-called verbal attack. The fact that Major being a dog has resorted to defending himself in a traditional dog type manner is wrong in their view and he must be “punished” for it.
I seriously doubt that they care about the dog. Just another dig at his owners.
re: #248 PhillyPretzel
The “Press” does not like folks who can defend themselves to their so-called verbal attack. The fact that Major being a dog has resorted to defending himself in a traditional dog type manner is wrong in their view and he must be “punished” for it.
This would never have happened under Trump…
re: #252 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Yes that is what is going on.
re: #252 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
I seriously doubt that they care about the
dogAfghanistan, the US troops or the refugees. Just another dig athis ownersBiden.
re: #245 Nojay UK
Sirhan Sirhan, convicted of Robert F. Kennedy assassination, seeks parole with no opposition from prosecutors https://t.co/q7eQU0WsGF
— Mark S. Getzfred (@marknyt) August 25, 2021
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The “stature” of the victim meant a reshaping of all our choices for a President with preplanned violence. Not the last name. Not the wealth. The change of political history with a gun. Still no objections?
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
DT always avoided dogs because he feared them. That they would somehow pick up that he was pulling a scam on the American people.
re: #257 PhillyPretzel
DT always avoided dogs because he feared them. That they would somehow pick up that he was pulling a scam on the American people.
Remember why W.C. Fields hated children and dogs?
“No matter how you dress and act, they can always smell the bum on you.”
re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Remember why W.C. Fields hated children and dogs?
“No matter how you dress and act, they can always smell the bum on you.”
Why does TFG hate dogs so much? Probably because dogs hate him.
Dogs can tell when people are lying to them, study finds
If only the RWNJs had this ability…
re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This would never have happened under Trump…
Because he hates dogs.
Good news for human and critter kind
BREAKING: Former Royal Marine Pen Farthing’s charter flight has arrived in Kabul to evacuate him and the animals from his shelter in Afghanistan.
Live updates: https://t.co/D9AnNRG6WD pic.twitter.com/in5mg6cUkG— Sky News (@SkyNews) August 28, 2021
re: #260 A Cranky One
Why does TFG hate dogs so much? Probably because dogs hate him.
Dogs can tell when people are lying to them, study finds
He has no use for them, in that he has no means of making money off them.
A fellow I knew once came and told me he was buying a greyhound.
I was amazed as he was not a dog person at all and lived mostly in his camper van and worked free-lance as an engineering contractor for electronics companies around Phoenix.
But he explained that as a single fellow with no mortgage or dependents to set off against his free-lancing income, he needed a tax break so he was going to “purchase” a greyhound, set the purchase price and upkeep off against any winnings the dog might make in its career and at the end of three years, he could write $3,000 off his taxable income. He would never have anything to do with the dog itself directly.
(Some years later I read about police finding a mass dog grave outside Phoenix filled with greyhounds, all with their ears cut off so the tags were gone and they could not be identified.)
re: #209 No Malarkey!
Looks like we may soon have another prominent anti-vaxxer to add to sorryantivaxxer.com
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We’ll have to keep watching. Ragweed season is in and it’s ruining my ability to talk or do anything other than blow my nose.
re: #265 Belafon
Ragweed season is going strong here in Philly too. :(
re: #265 Belafon
We’ll have to keep watching. Ragweed season is in and it’s ruining my ability to talk or do anything other than blow my nose.
Flonase works pretty well for me.
Some of y’all will remember when the city of Philadelphia bombed the MOVE house, and an entire city block burned down back in 1985. This year MOVE was in the news after it came out that the remains of one of the victims of the bombing, believed to be 14 YO Tree Africa (or possibly Delisha Afrida), were used by the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.
Bones of Black children killed in police bombing used in Ivy League anthropology course
Apology for same: theguardian.com
(Holy Shit! A white person’s bones would never be used in such a fashion.)
Now with that background out of the way…
Well, MOVE is still around and some former members are calling it a full-fledged cult with the usual cultie practicies one finds in these high demand groups. As with most cults, the story is complicated and not easily pulled down to a few sentences. But I guess this is as good a place to start as any:
More than a half-dozen ex-MOVE members have gone on the record in both the Murder at Ryan’s Run podcast and a blog titled Leaving MOVE 2021, alleging physical and mental abuse in MOVE, a doctrine of homophobia and colorism, and what they describe as a manipulation of the public and the media under the banner of social justice.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a page limit if you run into it. Here’s another article from Billy Penn, from earlier this month:
The podcast is “Murder at Ryan’s Run” (about the unsolved murder of a former MOVE member in 2002) and a blog, Leaving MOVE. leavingmove2021.blogspot.com
To me it looks like Philadelphia authorities dealt very badly with a cult, and then the cult got worse. Maybe if the city and police hadn’t turned MOVE into a cause celebre with their abominable behavior (burning down 60 house?!?!?!) perhaps MOVE would have fallen apart of its own accord. Nearly two generations later, the descendants are still having issues!
Being a mom to a shelter adopted GSD, I am going to guess that Major may have missed his socialization window as a puppy. This is what I am dealing with as far as Cleo is concerned. We got her at age 7 months and we are certain she never spent any time indoors ever in her life til she got here. She didn’t understand furniture and carpeting freaked her out until she had been here awhile. Cleo is also hypervigilant with my husband and a bit less so with my son. I am the “enemy” and am basically her food giver, outside to go potty taker, and any other things the man people don’t do. We’re having a terrible time socializing her with other dogs, I mean, how do you ask other people to let their dog be a guinea pig for that? I also don’t know anyone with a large breed dog, so that makes it tougher. So, Cleo is almost 3 and doesn’t know how to deal with other dogs at all except to bark like she’s on fire. New people are a bit easier, they just have to be warned she will jump on them and not to pay a bit of attention to her til she sits and calms down. Getting the humans to comply is harder.
Major likely missed his socialization window to some degree. Combine that with his nature to guard his people and all the activity surrounding them, he thinks he’s doing his job. The humans around him need some training too it looks like. What should happen is that a competent trainer should be spending some time at the White House with Major and going through his day to see what the triggers are. I’d bet he’s protecting his favorite person/people and thinks that is his job. We joke around here that Cleo is partly the way she is because she’s an unemployed working dog and she’s bored AF with us old sick people. Husband’s health took a downward turn shortly after we got her and things slowed way down after that. We recognize that this part is on us, it’s not Cleo’s fault. I suspect Major has created a job for himself because he doesn’t have one.
re: #268 mmmirele
Yes. I remember the MOVE bombing and the burning of a city block. And when things start like that they are not going to have a good ending.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
Are you old enough to remember 1968 as something other than “a thing from the history books”? Even if you are, would you have been paying attention to what was going on in the US?
RFK’s killing was A LOT more than “a” murder, the loss of “an aristocrat golden child”.
Stay in your lane.
re: #256 Rightwingconspirator
The “stature” of the victim meant a reshaping of all our choices for a President with preplanned violence. Not the last name. Not the wealth. The change of political history with a gun. Still no objections?
Back in the late 60s the US population had a choice of maybe 60 million or so eligible citizens over 35 to elect to the position of American Caesar. One of them, the Golden Child of a powerful and rich family was murdered, a single regrettable victim of violence among (quick Google) 13,800 or so other homicide victims that year.
“All men are created equal” as a founding principle demands that Kennedy’s murder should be treated under law and justice like any other murder, like that of a homeless man or a prostitute. Similarly the murderer should face the same levels of punishment decided on the circumstances of the crime but the tarriff should not depend purely on the political prominence of the victim(s).
Monarchies value the lives of nobility and Royalty more than the lesser creatures under their rule. I believe the judicial system of a democracy should hold itself to higher standards.
re: #248 PhillyPretzel
The “Press” does not like folks who can defend themselves to their so-called verbal attack. The fact that Major being a dog has resorted to defending himself in a traditional dog type manner is wrong in their view and he must be “punished” for it.
It’s because Major is black.
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re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
So, like any other family that lost someone due to murder and argues that the killer shouldn’t be released?
Close friend of mine works in a children’s hospital in San Antonio. She texted me this while I was asleep, a little after 1 a.m.
Texas is burning. This has been a terrible week.
If you happen to know any adults who haven’t been vaccinated. Please feel free to punch them in the face. Tell them it’s from me ❤️
ICU beds in each state filled *just* w/COVID patients:
Mississippi 59%
Alabama 55.7%
Florida 53.3%
Georgia 53.1%
Texas 49.6%
Arkansas 48.1%
Louisiana 46.8%
Idaho 46.3%
Okla 42.5%
Hawaii 41.9%
N.Carolina 39.9%
Missouri 39.3%
Kentucky 39.3%
Tennessee 36%
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Lowest: NJ 6.4%
Via HHS— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 28, 2021
You can look up your state, your hospital, etc. here at the HHS website: https://t.co/EVZSmMH9Ys
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 28, 2021
In every state, the story is the same: Vast majority of COVID patients hospitalized and dying are NOT fully vaccinated. 💉💉
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) August 28, 2021
re: #272 Nojay UK
Back in the late 60s the US population had a choice of maybe 60 million or so eligible citizens over 35 to elect to the position of American Caesar. One of them, the Golden Child of a powerful and rich family was murdered, a single regrettable victim of violence among (quick Google) 13,800 or so other homicide victims that year.
“All men are created equal” as a founding principle demands that Kennedy’s murder should be treated under law and justice like any other murder, like that of a homeless man or a prostitute. Similarly the murderer should face the same levels of punishment decided on the circumstances of the crime but the tarriff should not depend purely on the political prominence of the victim(s).
Monarchies value the lives of nobility and Royalty more than the lesser creatures under their rule. I believe the judicial system of a democracy should hold itself to higher standards.
What a uniquely bad take on actual US history from someone I would have thought would have been more cynical out it.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
I was going to downding this comment, but thought better of it, and will proffer a respectful rejoinder instead.
Robert Kennedy’s social status was, in a rare instance, irrelevant to the circumstances of his murder and the prosecution of his murderer. To be sure, Kennedy was a son of wealth (and the privileges it bought), but his assassination would have had the same import and impact had he been a working-class kid who put himself through Harvard tending bar, or whatever. And Sirhan Sirhan’s act (as noted elsewhere), was as much a crime against the whole of the American body politic as it was a personal assault against Bobby Kennedy.
And yeah, sometimes a “life sentence” should mean “life”: we all know The System is very often (“usually” to the cynic) biased and unfair, but once in a while, it should be allowed to work as intended. Regardless of the probability of a paroled Sirhan going out and shooting someone else, which is (IMO) irrelevant in this case.
A family evacuated from Afghanistan arrives at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. (AP/Jose Luis Magana) pic.twitter.com/yxhpKklyLE
— The Recount (@therecount) August 27, 2021
The next von Trapp story.
All 10 ICU beds at the hospital in my city, Frankfort are occupied. At University of Ky hospital in Lexington, they are reporting more ICU patients than they have beds for them, 228/225.
Biology wars, thread:
This is why bench biologists should spend some time doing field biology. We’re still discovering new species of bats. Every year. In Southeast Asia. The idea that we could quickly survey THE ENTIRE VIROME OF EVERY SPECIES IN THE REGION is batshit stupid. https://t.co/bLjXptiuTT
— Josh Rosenau (@JoshRosenau) August 26, 2021
Try 12 years. https://t.co/DcVsu1COVK
— Josh Rosenau (@JoshRosenau) August 26, 2021
re: #272 Nojay UK
Back in the late 60s the US population had a choice of maybe 60 million or so eligible citizens over 35 to elect to the position of American Caesar. One of them, the Golden Child of a powerful and rich family was murdered, a single regrettable victim of violence among (quick Google) 13,800 or so other homicide victims that year.
“All men are created equal” as a founding principle demands that Kennedy’s murder should be treated under law and justice like any other murder, like that of a homeless man or a prostitute. Similarly the murderer should face the same levels of punishment decided on the circumstances of the crime but the tarriff should not depend purely on the political prominence of the victim(s).
Monarchies value the lives of nobility and Royalty more than the lesser creatures under their rule. I believe the judicial system of a democracy should hold itself to higher standards.
I worked for Eugene McCarthy and not RFK that year, but it was a nightmare time for Americans. We were in the midst of the Vietnam war, the great civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated triggering a set of riots, and then RFK Jr was assassinated 5 years after his brother was assassinated. Your casual dismissal of what that meant to Americans shows a lack of understanding of that time and place and a total lack of empathy for how real people respond in the midst of one crisis after another.
re: #272 Nojay UK
Back in the late 60s the US population had a choice of maybe 60 million or so eligible citizens over 35 to elect to the position of American Caesar. One of them, the Golden Child of a powerful and rich family was murdered, a single regrettable victim of violence among (quick Google) 13,800 or so other homicide victims that year.
“All men are created equal” as a founding principle demands that Kennedy’s murder should be treated under law and justice like any other murder, like that of a homeless man or a prostitute. Similarly the murderer should face the same levels of punishment decided on the circumstances of the crime but the tarriff should not depend purely on the political prominence of the victim(s).
Monarchies value the lives of nobility and Royalty more than the lesser creatures under their rule. I believe the judicial system of a democracy should hold itself to higher standards.
This entire post is ridiculous, and sounds like some of the particularly idiotic shit I might have said when I was about 19 and knew everything.
(Note that I am still a bottomless well of idiotic shit, but the difference is that I’m aware of it now.)
re: #276 A Cranky One
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Freedom of religion is: I can’t do that, it is against my religion.
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re: #272 Nojay UK
Back in the late 60s the US population had a choice of maybe 60 million or so eligible citizens over 35 to elect to the position of American Caesar. One of them, the Golden Child of a powerful and rich family was murdered, a single regrettable victim of violence among (quick Google) 13,800 or so other homicide victims that year.
“All men are created equal” as a founding principle demands that Kennedy’s murder should be treated under law and justice like any other murder, like that of a homeless man or a prostitute. Similarly the murderer should face the same levels of punishment decided on the circumstances of the crime but the tarriff should not depend purely on the political prominence of the victim(s).
Monarchies value the lives of nobility and Royalty more than the lesser creatures under their rule. I believe the judicial system of a democracy should hold itself to higher standards.
“American Caesar”? Obviously your view here is that of a severe critic. Im just going to suggest that a electoral system depends on its candidates and that everyone old enough had their shot if they chose to take it. As imperfect as that landscape may be… Our system can and should be harsh on its violent attackers. From Sirhan Sirhan to everyone that brought wepons to the capitol January 6.
Worth noting that RFK’s conspiracy loving third child, Robert Jr., and his equally batshit sister, Kathleen, both support Sirhan’s release because they buy into the CT that Sirhan is not the real assassin, or at least not the only one. Sirhan himself has given up making that claim, though he still claims not to remember the shooting itself.
RFK Jr., of course, is a leading perp of the anti-vaxx industry.
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Became the Anti-vaxxer Icon of America’s Nightmares
re: #279 Jay C
And yeah, sometimes a “life sentence” should mean “life”: we all know The System is very often (“usually” to the cynic) biased and unfair, but once in a while, it should be allowed to work as intended. Regardless of the probability of a paroled Sirhan going out and shooting someone else, which is (IMO) irrelevant in this case.
The closest Our Generation analogy would be… what if somebody had shot Obama the night of the Indiana primary that guaranteed him the nomination? The country would have exploded.
RFK’s killing was that level of significant.
re: #279 Jay C
I was going to downding this comment, but thought better of it, and will proffer a respectful rejoinder instead.
Robert Kennedy’s social status was, in a rare instance, irrelevant to the circumstances of his murder and the prosecution of his murderer. To be sure, Kennedy was a son of wealth (and the privileges it bought), but his assassination would have had the same import and impact had he been a working-class kid who put himself through Harvard tending bar, or whatever. And Sirhan Sirhan’s act (as noted elsewhere), was as much a crime against the whole of the American body politic as it was a personal assault against Bobby Kennedy.
And yeah, sometimes a “life sentence” should mean “life”: we all know The System is very often (“usually” to the cynic) biased and unfair, but once in a while, it should be allowed to work as intended. Regardless of the probability of a paroled Sirhan going out and shooting someone else, which is (IMO) irrelevant in this case.
This isn’t just about Sirhan and the Kennedys. His attack wasn’t just on a man or family, it was an assault on the democratic process. He deprived me of my chosen candidate for President.
I couldn’t give a shit less about Sirhan. I care a lot about the next one.
Our lame music marketer is back on the pages.
We certainly agree that you stormtrumpers are deranged. pic.twitter.com/bQF85bKxwI
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) August 28, 2021
Analysis: Biden escalates his efforts to puncture the Fox News bubble https://t.co/84Yz8P2NyO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 27, 2021
In a sense, Peter Doocy’s arrival in the White House press briefing room has been to his employer’s detriment. It used to be that Fox News could spend days condemning Democratic presidents for not responding to whatever controversy its hosts had been tumbling around in their rhetorical rock polishers. Now, though, there’s Doocy, who is regularly selected by White House press secretary Jen Psaki to ask questions probably in part so that the familiar process can be beheaded early. Her exchanges with Doocy drop into the political conversation like bang snaps, crackling with life for an instant before being forgotten, the gotcha almost always redirected to the junkyard.
That’s at least in part because the questions often reflect a network or right-wing consensus that hasn’t been exposed to any significant scrutiny. Little grains of ice snowball into scandals, with Sean Hannity, Dan Bongino and whoever else packing on more and more — and then they get removed from the cooler and placed on the sidewalk. It often doesn’t take long for it to melt…
“Mr. President, there had not been a U.S. service member killed in combat in Afghanistan since February of 2020,” Doocy said. “You set a deadline. You pulled troops out. You sent troops back in. And now 12 Marines are dead. You said the buck stops with you. Do you bear any responsibility for the way that things have unfolded in the last two weeks?”
When Donald Trump was asked a similar question in March 2020 about the failure of coronavirus testing, he answered like Donald Trump: “No, I don’t take responsibility at all, because we were given a — a set of circumstances, and we were given rules, regulations, and specifications from a different time.” Rejection of the idea that he deserved blame and a pivot to his predecessor.
Biden’s been doing this longer, so he accepted blame — and then pivoted to his predecessor.
“I bear responsibility for, fundamentally, all that’s happened of late,” Biden said. “But here’s the deal: You know — I wish you’d one day say these things — you know as well as I do that the former president made a deal with the Taliban that he would get all American forces out of Afghanistan by May 1. In return, the commitment was made — and that was a year before — in return, he was given a commitment that the Taliban would continue to attack others, but would not attack any American forces.”…
At that point, though, Biden went in a different direction: He challenged Doocy to admit that he knew that his own framing of the question was unsound.
“Remember that? I’m being serious,” Biden said to Doocy.
Doocy tried to interject that Trump was no longer the president, but Biden kept at it.
“Now wait a minute,” he said. “I’m asking you a question. Is that — is that accurate, to the best of your knowledge?”
“I know what you’re talking about,” Doocy conceded, before then trying to get Biden to opine on why Americans might be frustrated with the situation in the country. Biden, after resting his head on his hands in apparent frustration, replied that Americans “have an issue that people are likely to get hurt” as they had that day.
He then returned to the prior point: that U.S. forces had avoided attack thanks to the deal made by Trump that had included a withdrawal pledge. This was the case, he said, “whether my friend will acknowledge it” or not — his friend being Doocy…
For all of the right’s focus on Biden’s mental acuity, he’s sufficiently adept at the sort of exchange seen Thursday to be able to put Doocy on the defensive…
re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth
I agree with Stonekettle.
re: #201 Backwoods_Sleuth
Taking all the groceries in from the car in a single trip
We’ve all been there
re: #274 Belafon
So, like any other family that lost someone due to murder and argues that the killer shouldn’t be released?
No problem — they’re apparently devastated by the knowledge this person killed their father/grand-uncle/grand-father half a century ago may be released from custody. They seem equally or even more annoyed that he prevented the family from occupying the White House again, something they considered their natural right as Kennedys.
(I suspect they’d be amazed that anyone thought their assumption of natural superiority to be odd or even in bad taste, a common affliction of the American upper classes and the bubbles they live in).
In a society of equals, that sense of disappointment should play no part in any judicial consideration of the release of Sirhan Sirhan from custody. It may well play a decisive part in American society given its fixation with glorifying individuals and hierarchical clans.
Generally I’m of the opinion that Justice should be blind and familial demands for vengeance should not be on the scales in sentencing decisions and parole board deliberations. I’ve never lost a family member or anyone I cared for to violence and I might well change my mind if that ever happened. I don’t know.
re: #289 Decatur Deb
This isn’t just about Sirhan and the Kennedys. His attack wasn’t just on a man or family, it was an assault on the democratic process. He deprived me of my chosen candidate for President.
I couldn’t give a shit less about Sirhan. I care a lot about the next one.
I’m not sure that the prospect of being released as an old man if you survive a half century of prison is much of an incentive to commit a political assassination. I just think as a matter of principle the US keeps way too many people locked up for way too long.
re: #297 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure that the prospect of being released as an old man if you survive a half century of prison is much of an incentive to commit a political assassination. I just think as a matter of principle the US keeps way too many people locked up for way too long.
True, but this isn’t some kid busted for a crack pipe.
re: #296 Nojay UK
No problem — they’re apparently devastated by the knowledge this person killed their father/grand-uncle/grand-father half a century ago may be released from custody. They seem equally or even more annoyed that he prevented the family from occupying the White House again, something they considered their natural right as Kennedys.
(I suspect they’d be amazed that anyone thought their assumption of natural superiority to be odd or even in bad taste, a common affliction of the American upper classes and the bubbles they live in).
In a society of equals, that sense of disappointment should play no part in any judicial consideration of the release of Sirhan Sirhan from custody. It may well play a decisive part in American society given its fixation with glorifying individuals and hierarchical clans.
Generally I’m of the opinion that Justice should be blind and familial demands for vengeance should not be on the scales in sentencing decisions and parole board deliberations. I’ve never lost a family member or anyone I cared for to violence and I might well change my mind if that ever happened. I don’t know.
OK, we’ll keep the Kennedys out of office and you go overthrow your parasitic feudal monarchy.
re: #297 No Malarkey!
I’m not sure that the prospect of being released as an old man if you survive a half century of prison is much of an incentive to commit a political assassination. I just think as a matter of principle the US keeps way too many people locked up for way too long.
Big picture? Agreed. Gun in hand violence? Very different ballgame than selling single cigs or ID theft.
Wait until Nojay finds out how many other presidents FDR was related to.
Pediatricians say they are being deluged by calls from anxious parents, who are eager to get their children vaccinated against the virus that continues its deathly rampage, especially as the delta variant appears to exact a greater toll on kids. https://t.co/qzZHzq2Iyn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 27, 2021
More science:
Covid, not vaccination, causes the biggest blood clot risk, a new study found. Scientists examined clotting & other blood events in 29M cases of vaccination w/ 1st dose of AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaxxes. After 1st dose, risk rises briefly for adverse events https://t.co/JszoOkz508
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) August 27, 2021
re: #299 Decatur Deb
True, but this isn’t some kid busted for a crack pipe.
True. But my understanding of the data is that violent crimes are overwhelmingly committed by young men, and keeping even violent felons locked up until they are decrepit doesn’t make Americans significantly safer. I do understand, however, that Sirhan is not your run of the mill murderer; if he was, he may have been released decades ago.
re: #306 No Malarkey!
True. But my understanding of the data is that violent crimes are overwhelmingly committed by young men, and keeping even violent felons locked up until they are decrepit doesn’t make Americans significantly safer. I do understand, however, that Sirhan is not your run of the mill murderer; if he was, he may have been released decades ago.
His original sentence was death. He’s ahead on points.
re: #286 Rightwingconspirator
“American Caesar”? Obviously your view here is that of a severe critic.
The form of Republican government decided on 250 years ago in the US was modelled closely on the middle-period Roman Republic, or at least what the historians of the time were portraying, with the idea of an Augustus who ruled (His Excellency the President) and a Caesar (The Spare Wheel aka the Vice President). The President was (and still is to a large extent) a dictator, directly commanding the military and with wide powers of immunity, patronage and pardon which are barely unchallenged even to this day.
re: #304 Belafon
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The last time I checked, the largest “fully vaccinated” group in my town was children 12 - 18. This despite the fact that vaccinations of children began months later than the ones for the older cohort. (The smallest was adults 18 - 34.)
Study, @CDCgov
“Among previously infected #Kentucky residents, those who were not #vaccinated were >twice as likely to be reinfected compared with those with full vaccination.”
No, @SenRandPaul, #COVID19 infection doesn’t protect as well as vaccination.https://t.co/Wp70qpk8ak— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) August 27, 2021
This is so depressing. So infuriating.
New York’s rate was so high in part because it got hit so hard at the very beginning, before we had any idea how to treat — and of course before the vaccine.
Not the case for Mississippi. https://t.co/XTaBwrETAy— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) August 28, 2021
At a children’s hospital numerous young patients are struggling to breathe. A federal “surge team” is helping exhausted doctors & nurses through one of the most trying periods in the history of Children’s Hospital New Orleans https://t.co/lmCmKS02mI
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) August 27, 2021
re: #308 Nojay UK
The form of Republican government decided on 250 years ago in the US was modelled closely on the middle-period Roman Republic, or at least what the historians of the time were portraying, with the idea of an Augustus who ruled (His Excellency the President) and a Caesar (The Spare Wheel aka the Vice President). The President was (and still is to a large extent) a dictator, directly commanding the military and with wide powers of immunity, patronage and pardon which are barely unchallenged even to this day.
You seriously need some education in US history. (And Roman, too — Augustus is not “middle republic.”)
Off to do real world stuff — later!
re: #301 Decatur Deb
OK, we’ll keep the Kennedys out of office and you go overthrow your parasitic feudal monarchy.
We did, back in 1620 when the realities of power were explained to King Charles 1 with the edge of an axe and we adopted a political system where Parliament is supreme. The various Royal houses that have held the British Crown have been neutered politically since then and rightly so.
re: #296 Nojay UK
No problem — they’re apparently devastated by the knowledge this person killed their father/grand-uncle/grand-father half a century ago may be released from custody. They seem equally or even more annoyed that he prevented the family from occupying the White House again, something they considered their natural right as Kennedys.
(I suspect they’d be amazed that anyone thought their assumption of natural superiority to be odd or even in bad taste, a common affliction of the American upper classes and the bubbles they live in).
In a society of equals, that sense of disappointment should play no part in any judicial consideration of the release of Sirhan Sirhan from custody. It may well play a decisive part in American society given its fixation with glorifying individuals and hierarchical clans.
Generally I’m of the opinion that Justice should be blind and familial demands for vengeance should not be on the scales in sentencing decisions and parole board deliberations. I’ve never lost a family member or anyone I cared for to violence and I might well change my mind if that ever happened. I don’t know.
With all due respect, sod off. Mangled history (Roman and US) make for very poor takes.
re: #312 Nojay UK
We did, back in 1620 when the realities of power were explained to King Charles 1 with the edge of an axe and we adopted a political system where Parliament is supreme. The various Royal houses that have held the British Crown have been neutered politically since then and rightly so.
There are no Kennedys in national office. If they want to ride in a golden carriage, they have to pay their own fare.
re: #314 Decatur Deb
There are no Kennedys in national office. If they want to ride in a golden carriage, they have to pay their own fare.
The Kennedys are like the British Royal family in one respect: Both are birthright icons of celebrity pop culture with little or no genuine relevance.
Before this is memory-holed —> https://t.co/XPEkCpgo9C
— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 27, 2021
I was a bit surprised to hear that RFK’s widow, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, is still alive. She is 93. Nine of their 11 children are still with us, too. Youngest daughter Rory was born 5 months after her father’s murder.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
They lost their father to a terrorist. It wasn’t an accident. It was a political hit. We should discourage this type of behavior. Let him rot in jail.
re: #314 Decatur Deb
I think you can argue that RFK’s assassination actually cemented the Kennedy’s place as a national family. Arguing about American Caesers is pretty much assbackwards in confusing cause and effect.
Guess what parents are doing with the child credits being sent to them each month:
Expansions to the child tax credit provided a bigger boost to incomes than spending in July. Much of the extra funds were used to feed children. Measures of hunger dropped in July and fell to their lowest level of the pandemic, esp among households with children in August.
— Diane Swonk (@DianeSwonk) August 27, 2021
re: #320 I Would Prefer Not To
They lost their father to a terrorist. It wasn’t an accident. It was a political hit. We should discourage this type of behavior. Let him rot in jail.
If released, he is a convicted criminal non-citizen, up for deportation to a nation that will take him. I don’t want to see his hero’s welcome in any of those places.
re: #245 Nojay UK
My reading of this letter from the Kennedy family is that they believe this peon, this lesser being, Sirhan Sirhan deprived the Kennedy family from a rightful place in the halls of power by killing one of their Golden Children, a special being who had been born and raised to rule the American lumpenproletariat and for that reason Sirhan Sirhan must continue to be held in confinement more than 55 years after he was arrested and convicted for the crime he committed against the American aristocratic class.
I understand what you’re saying, and I upvoted it, but I have to point out that RFK’s assassination was *very* traumatizing at the time. Particularly since it came hot on the heels of MLK’s assassination only two months earlier. *Especially* as an 8 YO girl in California on that day. My parents were letting us (ok, me, yes, I was weird) watch the California primary returns and yes, I got to hear he’d gotten shot and killed from TV. To say my parents were devastated would be an understatement. More than any other day in the 1960s, June 6, 1968 has been burned into my brain.
These now old Kennedy children are still living with the trauma of their father taken away suddenly and I think we have to respect that. It’s not a matter of “golden children” being deprived of a place. I think that’s kind of horseshit. A few years later, Teddy Kennedy managed to weather Chappaquiddick (which would have killed any political chances today and have hounded him out of the Senate) and then run for president, and some Kennedy clan members have been or are currently in politics.
Personally, I want to know where/how a 77 YO man (Sirhan Sirhan) is going to live, as he’s been in state custody since he was 24 years old. You can’t just put a guy who has no experience in the 21st century out in the street. Hell, the payphones he would have known in 1968 are *gone* and replaced with devices he has no familiarity with.
re: #314 Decatur Deb
There are no Kennedys in national office.
Funnily enough, there are no British Royalty in political office here either, and it’s very unlikely they ever will be. There’s no outright ban on this happening but it’s not considered a good idea.
On the other hand the Bush family is prepping their next candidate for the Presidency, George P. Bush, ticking off all the boxes they’ll need for him to ascend to his anointed throne behind the Resolute Desk at the right time with the overwhelming mandate of the American people.
The Kennedys had a bit of a setback a decade ago when their hand-picked candidate for the family’s senatorial seat in Massachusetts crashed and burned a while back. This let a non-Kennedy squat in their personal property which must have really rankled. They tried again with another Golden Child, Joe Kennedy who had to give up his his sinecure Congressional seat to challenge Senator Ed Markey, unsuccessfully as it turned out. Their time will come again, though.
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re: #272 Nojay UK
or you can look at it this way, if Democracy is a set of choices, the Sirhan’s actions illustrate a set of choices denied…
Instead of Humphrey vs Nixon… (Nixon won)
we have Kennedy vs. Nixon do you want to imagine the choices of a possible Kennedy Presidency?
and say what you will about the cache of noble political families, Kennedy was a stronger Candidate with much broader appeal. I liked Hubert, he was a good man but without the legislative chops and charisma that would catch the eye of a large swath of American voters. Robert would have had the advantage of trying to complete his brother’s legacy.
No guarantee that Kennedy would have won, but without him dead, there would have been a vocal focused counterpoint to Nixon (who then did what he did to ensure his 2nd term). No guarantee Nixon gets us out of Vietnam or even gets a second term without the death of Robert Kennedy.
Its not for me to say if Sirhan gets paroled, to simply wave off his death as no more significant than any other and that a political party could and should survive it… that sure as hell didn’t apply to the Republicans in 1865 either.
re: #325 Nojay UK
The chances that a family will produce two good democratically-elected presidents is about the same as that a royal family will produce two good kings.
re: #322 Belafon
Guess what parents are doing with the child credits being sent to them each month:
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El Rushbo, may he burn in Hell, once argued that if you feed children, they won’t learn the value of hard work.
re: #325 Nojay UK
There are no Kennedys receiving foreign government officials in any official public capacity.
Wife is off great-grandmothering.
“Those that do not cook shall not eat.”
re: #328 Decatur Deb
That’s why the British people rose up and neutered the bastards, politically that is. We can survive a bad Prime Minister or three, we can’t survive a Bush-style family dynasty with the power of pardon, the power of patronage and a deathgrip on the judicial system. That’s why we took those powers away from the Royal family and restricted them to grip-and-grin sessions and acting as placekeepers and ceremonial puppets, a bit like Disney’s Hall of Presidents (but with more wrinkles). The fact they bring in a lot of tourist dosh is a bonus.
re: #324 mmmirele
Sirhan’s younger brother, Munir, is offering to take him in. He has a room ready for him in his home in Pasadena. A lot of questions come to mind, like how safe it will be, whether he will be deported, etc. but we will see.
Sirhan parole hearing
re: #332 Nojay UK
Our problem isn’t the Bush family Dynasty, it’s the Republican party. They’ve been tearing down the country for decades at the local, state and national level.
re: #330 Belafon
There are no Kennedys receiving foreign government officials in any official public capacity.
That wasn’t true until recently. Joe Kennedy was a Congressman from, where else, Massachusetts until he tried to grab back the family’s Senate seat in the 2020 election and failed. He’s spending time out doing a political commentator deal and ‘working’ as the figurehead of various good-causes foundations at the moment but he’ll be back in DC eventually. That brass ring won’t grab itself you know.
re: #334 Weaselone
Our problem isn’t the Bush family Dynasty, it’s the Republican party. They’ve been tearing down the country for decades at the local, state and national level.
The Republican Party is essentially the party of the local gentry, which is why it has such disproportionate influence at the local level and why it seems to naturally fall into the pattern of goober aristocracy. In big cities, there are Democratic fatcats who can raise the money and build the networks for high office. This is more difficult elsewhere, while the local country club mob and hereditary business bosses can summon a lot of clout in even very small communities.
re: #336 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
The Republican Party is essentially the party of the local gentry, which is why it has such disproportionate influence at the local level and why it seems to naturally fall into the pattern of goober aristocracy. In big cities, there are Democratic fatcats who can raise the money and build the networks for high office. This is more difficult elsewhere, while the local country club mob and hereditary business bosses can summon a lot of clout in even very small communities.
The trashy Palin clan from Wasilla, Alaska are a good example. They are reality TV lowlife by national and world standards, but they are actually wealthy and prominent people locally.
re: #251 Decatur Deb
There is a useful finality to the concept “If you assassinate an American political figure, you will die in prison.”
he may have been “rehabilitated” or reformed in these 50 years. That’s fine.
no parole for assassination.
re: #265 Belafon
We’ll have to keep watching. Ragweed season is in and it’s ruining my ability to talk or do anything other than blow my nose.
Azalastin!
re: #328 Decatur Deb
The chances that a family will produce two good democratically-elected presidents is about the same as that a royal family will produce two good kings.
John Adams, John Quincy Adams.
Do 2nd cousins count? If so, Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
re: #340 sagehen
John Adams, John Quincy Adams.
Do 2nd cousins count? If so, Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Harrisons: William Henry and Benjamin
Were either of the Harrisons any good? I can’t remember a thing about them except that Wm Henry got pneumonia at his inauguration and died barely a month in.
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