Friday Afternoon Funk: Ghost Note, “Steppin’ Out”

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Ghost-Note brings the funk to the 2022 Mo Jazz Music Festival in Columbia, Missouri Saturday, September 10. The FREE Festival is the gift to mid-Missouri (and anyone else who shows up!) from Jazz Forward Initiative, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization

Robert “Sput” Searight - Drums
Nathaniel Werth - Percussion
A. J. Brown - Bass
Dominique Xavier Taplin - Keyboards
Danny Wytanis - Trombone
Xavier Lynn - Guitar
Jonathan Mones - Alto Saxophone

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383 comments
1
Dangerman  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:30:17pm

Any surprise?

Unfortunately as Santos has proven, lying is not a disqualification

Guardian: “During a 2020 presidential debate, Trump was asked about having a bank account in China. He said he closed it before he began his campaign for the White House four years earlier.”

“The tax returns contradict that account. Trump reported a bank account in China in his returns for 2015, 2016 and 2017.”

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Dangerman  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:34:30pm

Donald Trump’s tax returns show the former president received income from more than a dozen countries during his time in office, highlighting a string of potential
conflicts of interest,” Politico reports.

In addition to the obvious conflicts of interest the IRS better verify any tax credit claims were actually, you know, paid to those countries

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gocart mozart  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:35:13pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:37:25pm

LGF is running really slow for me. Did you hire Elon?

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:39:15pm

The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel is pretty unsparing with Bobo in this article:

In a Dec. 22 tweet about the spending bill that cleared Congress earlier this month, she highlighted some earmarks she said were designed to do just that.

“I’m working hard in D.C. to protect the freedoms of all Americans, but this bill funds the sexualization of our children, and that is disgusting,” she wrote. “It’s un-American and it’s wrong, and it’s just another reason why I am a no on this omnibus.”

Even though she also said in that same tweet, “this isn’t about consenting adults living their lives,” the bulk of the money she referenced were for programs that included adult students.

Among the money she mentioned, $1.2 million went to LGBT students in San Diego-area community colleges; $500,000 was for a Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth Inc. program that works to boost safety for LGBT people and combat homophobia and transphobia; and $523,000 for Compass LGBTQ Youth Services in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, which offers mental health and health services to all ages.

More: Boebert making headlines | The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

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Captain Magic  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:39:33pm

re: #4 I Would Prefer Not To

LGF is running fine for me.

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Dangerman  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:41:05pm

re: #4 I Would Prefer Not To

LGF is running really slow for me. Did you hire Elon?

Fidelity slashed its carrying value of Twitter by 56% during the first month of Elon Musk’s ownership, Axios reports.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:42:34pm
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Captain Ron  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:46:21pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:49:45pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:49:45pm

My seven day forecast:

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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:51:03pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

Snowbird/Alta has some epic powder…snorkle-dorkle shit.

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sizzzzlerz  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:54:46pm

So it seems John Stockton, former Utah Jazz point guard and NBA HOFer, has special insight into the deaths of pro athletes due to the Covid vaccine. Thousands of them. When asked how he arrived at this number, he said he’d done his own online research but would not provide details. He claims, however, to have names, pictures, and where they played.

Well, I’m sold…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:58:43pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:58:44pm

Projecting like IMAX from outer space SPACE SPAAACE!!!

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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 4:59:33pm
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BigPapa  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:01:00pm

re: #4 I Would Prefer Not To

LGF is running really slow for me. Did you hire Elon?

The violence!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:01:58pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:06:55pm

re: #11 teleskiguy

Coming up to your north, to kick off the New Year.

…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
LATE MONDAY NIGHT…

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12
inches possible.

* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska, including the cities of
Chadron, Alliance, Scottsbluff, Kimball, and Sidney.

* WHEN…From Sunday afternoon through late Monday night.

* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:07:01pm

BabelColour helps me stay sane.

Then again, if I am not sane, I would be the last to know. Right?

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Dopamine Fish  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:08:11pm

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’re getting a share of that, only a bit later. Monday night all through Tuesday, we’re supposed to get a truckload of snow. I have a feeling my kids may be delayed in their return to school.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:08:33pm

re: #4 I Would Prefer Not To

LGF is running really slow for me. Did you hire Elon?

Seems OK on this end.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:11:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:12:32pm
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:14:17pm

re: #16 darthstar

🎶
Dousing down the Christmas tree
Have a hap-py hol-iday
🎶

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:14:33pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Seems OK on this end.

It was local and the company formerly known as time warner cable sucks.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:15:43pm
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:19:05pm

re: #26 I Would Prefer Not To

It was local and the company formerly known as time warner cable sucks.

Sphinctrum

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No Malarkey!  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:19:42pm

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Coming up to your north, to kick off the New Year.

…WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
LATE MONDAY NIGHT…

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12
inches possible.

* WHERE…Portions of panhandle Nebraska, including the cities of
Chadron, Alliance, Scottsbluff, Kimball, and Sidney.

* WHEN…From Sunday afternoon through late Monday night.

* IMPACTS…Travel could be very difficult. The hazardous
conditions could impact the morning or evening commute.

Temperature here reached at least 69.

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Captain Magic  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:24:07pm

re: #29 No Malarkey!

Got as high as the mid-50s here in Motown - all the snow melted…not that there was to begin with…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:31:02pm

So. Is House (MD🤷🏻‍♀️🙃)what is wrong with American health care?

Yes, yes it is.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:32:28pm

re: #110 Joe Bacon

Memories of Grandma’s Maytag wringer washer that worked flawlessly until it finally died in 1984. Maytag stopped making replacement parts for that model she bought in…1935!

Ours was manufactured in 1943. Aftermarket parts are available for everything except the timer.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:38:10pm

re: #29 No Malarkey!

Temperature here reached at least 69.

Nice!
(Someone had to.)

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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:47:56pm
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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:57:28pm
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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:58:15pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Nobody ever really stops sniffing model airplane glue…they just stop buying it.

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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 5:59:31pm

re: #29 No Malarkey!

Temperature here reached at least 69.

re: #33 A Three Hour Tour

Nice!
(Someone had to.)

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:00:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:02:18pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:02:42pm

re: #36 darthstar

A scent you never forget.

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William Lewis  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:03:37pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

I did block him before I bailed completely.

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Captain Magic  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:11:06pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Until MPC released NoTox, a nontoxic plastic glue in the 1970s. Didn’t last long in the marketplace. Had a lemon smell to it.

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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:14:42pm
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darthstar  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:15:45pm

re: #41 William Lewis

I did block him before I bailed completely.

I muted him. I’m due to close my account tomorrow. Won’t miss it.

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Captain Magic  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:27:13pm

re: #35 darthstar

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:31:34pm

re: #29 No Malarkey!

Temperature here reached at least 69.

It only got to 39 here.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:36:53pm
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:43:05pm

re: #47 DodgerFan1988

Rest In Peace Ms Walters.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:45:24pm

I don’t have a lot of good memories of Barbara Walters. A lot of sucking up to the powerful, a lot of injecting sensationalism in hard news, softball interviews, etc.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:47:13pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

I don’t have a lot of good memories of Barbara Walters. A lot of sucking up to the powerful, a lot of injecting sensationalism in hard news, softball interviews, etc.

And perhaps her greatest crime, inflicting “The View” upon the public airwaves.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:48:26pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:49:00pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

You’re not wrong.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:49:36pm

re: #50 A Three Hour Tour

And perhaps her greatest crime, inflicting “The View” upon the public airwaves.

Oh c’mon! We at least got to see how much Meghan McCain’s hairstylist hated her.

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:50:06pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

Auuggh!

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sagehen  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:50:55pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

I don’t have a lot of good memories of Barbara Walters. A lot of sucking up to the powerful, a lot of injecting sensationalism in hard news, softball interviews, etc.

Can you at least credit her that Gilda Radner gave us Baba Wawa?

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:51:04pm

Quadrohairia!

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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:53:04pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

I don’t have a lot of good memories of Barbara Walters. A lot of sucking up to the powerful, a lot of injecting sensationalism in hard news, softball interviews, etc.

There was a video about how she treated Brooke Shields and Drew Barrymore when they were younger.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:55:34pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

MY EYES!!! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:55:36pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:55:57pm

Whatever happened to Stone Phillips? Now there’s a ready-made name for TV!

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 6:57:02pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

Whatever happened to Stone Phillips? Now there’s a ready-made name for TV!

Almost as good as weatherman Storm Field.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:01:59pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

Whatever happened to Stone Phillips? Now there’s a ready-made name for TV!

I always wondered what kind of person would name their child “Stone.” Those parents had issues.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:02:25pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

And it’s his real name!

Stone Phillips was born December 2, 1954, in Texas City, Texas, to parents Victor and Grace Phillips, a Monsanto chemical engineer and school teacher, respectively.

Victor and Grace, in Texas City, TX in 1954 decided to name their second boy Stone (their first boy was named Victor III).

I mean, cool?

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:03:35pm

Stone Walljackson Phillips

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:04:29pm

re: #64 jaunte

Stone Walljackson Phillips

His middle name is actually Stockton.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:04:49pm

Names are funny. My parents wanted to name me Clarence, Warren, and Harrison, in that order. But Dad took it upon himself to name me after himself. I’ve got a Roman Numeral II at the end of my legal name.

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:05:11pm

re: #65 A Three Hour Tour

The Walljacksons are a dwindling klan.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:15:43pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

All those names were foisted upon my parents by my grandfather (Dad’s dad) when they found out I was to be a male. They were all family names *on that side* so Mom basically had no say in naming her only son. Compromises were made. I get the exact same name as my Dad, but while my grandfather was alive he could never call his son (my Dad) Charlie ever again (Grandpa George had called his firstborn Charles [my Dad] Charlie for decades at this point) he had to call him what MY MOM called him, which was Chuck. My grandfather agreed.

And ever since, my Dad’s been Chuck and I’ve been Charlie. Though a lot of my friends call me Chuck.

Like I said, names are funny.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:17:50pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

Names are funny. My parents wanted to name me Clarence, Warren, and Harrison, in that order. But Dad took it upon himself to name me after himself. I’ve got a Roman Numeral II at the end of my legal name.

I *was* going to give my children veddy, veddy English names going down the alphabet: Alistair, Basil, Cedric, Dylan, etc., if boys.

The second child ended up being a girl, and we quit after that, so both children ended up with names beginning with “A.”

We gave our daughter a Gaelic middle name which, if properly spelled Gaelic fashion, looks like a mangled curse word, because I wanted to see authority figures struggle with the prospect of saying it. The spousal unit put the kibosh on that, and so we spelled it phonetically, so now it looks instead like the name of a generic computer science firm.

A few years back, I told my daughter the origin of her middle name, and was rewarded with an outraged, “My name is an extended Dad-joke??!!??”

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:18:16pm

These three goofballs go back to their parents tomorrow.

Click to Reveal
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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:21:24pm

I mean, this is a tweet I did 45 minutes ago. Harkens back to the Twitter days of yore.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:26:45pm

re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Michael Tracy would excuse a cannibal with a broiled Christian Baby’s leg in it’s mouth on Easter Sunday if it brought him twelve more fans.

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:28:28pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

My great grandfather, who spent ten years on a whaling ship out of Hamburg before coming ashore in San Francisco, had the first name of Charles, but his middle name has been passed on to the subsequent four generations.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:33:54pm

So Baba Wawa has stepped on a rainbow and gone home to baby Jeebuz.

As a human, I think she was a better parody character on SNL.

I know this makes me a fowl human being, but I’m OK with that because I’m a raptor.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:34:57pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

I don’t have a lot of good memories of Barbara Walters. A lot of sucking up to the powerful, a lot of injecting sensationalism in hard news, softball interviews, etc.

Wiseasses called her, “Baba Wawa”. I put her in the same category as Tim Russert. I didn’t celebrate his life either, when he kicked it.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:35:08pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

Robert’s a little more, let’s say, unsparing than me.

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Sherlock Hound  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:35:47pm

re: #55 sagehen

Can you at least credit her that Gilda Radner gave us Baba Wawa?

Yes.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:40:07pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

Whatever happened to Stone Phillips? Now there’s a ready-made name for TV!

He’s 68 and retired now. Great TV anchor name, though. Reminds me of the Ultimate West Texas Rancher name, Dak Hereford.

Can’t get more manly than that!

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:48:59pm

re: #78 austin_blue

He’s 68 and retired now. Great TV anchor name, though. Reminds me of the Ultimate West Texas Rancher name, Dak Hereford.

Can’t get more manly than that!

True story: Stone Phillips interviewed Jeffrey Dahmer in 1994.

Jeffrey Dahmer Original Stone Philips Interview = Dahmers Last Interview (2K HD)

They had a nice lunch of liver and fava beans with a nice Chianti.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:52:24pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

All those names were foisted upon my parents by my grandfather (Dad’s dad) when they found out I was to be a male. They were all family names *on that side* so Mom basically had no say in naming her only son. Compromises were made. I get the exact same name as my Dad, but while my grandfather was alive he could never call his son (my Dad) Charlie ever again (Grandpa George had called his firstborn Charles [my Dad] Charlie for decades at this point) he had to call him whaat MY MOM called him, which was Chuck. My grandfather agreed.

And ever since, my Dad’s been Chuck and I’ve been Charlie. Though a lot of my friends call me Chuck.

Like I said, names are funny.

Ditto my husband and his father, Charles/Charlie and Chuck, respectively. And Chuck’s father, Charles.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 30, 2022 • 7:53:23pm

re: #49 teleskiguy

Walters had over a half century of a career in the news industry. Someone who has been around that long will have both seen and experienced many changes.

Say what you will of her cozying up to the power brokers later (and I’ll propose that a great fraction of the journalism industry has done this at one time or another), in the 1960s she was indeed a pioneer for women in TV news.

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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:10:38pm

My mom’s family had this thing where the male line swapped between Bill and William. So my grandfather was named William, my uncle was named Bill, and his first son was named William.

Luckily I was not part of that line.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:12:09pm
Ethan Gabel, a math teacher at Kirksville High School in Missouri since 2012 and the head coach of the Boys and Girls Cross Country teams since 2016, won’t be returning in the latter role next season after Christians interpreted his satirical tweets to mean he wanted to impose Satanism upon students.

The chaos began in late June after the Supreme Court handed down the Bremerton decision. The right-wing majority said that high school football coach Joe Kennedy had every right to conduct performative, coercive Christian prayers at midfield after games despite all the evidence showing how his attention-seeking stunts were harming students on the team. In response to the ruling, Gabel jokingly tweeted about how he was going to follow suit and inject some Satanism onto his Cross Country athletes.

(more)

In the United States, you can only get away with that if your a Christian. You can’t even joke about it if you are not.

A high school coach joked about preaching Satanism. Then he got fired. (Hemant Mehta, December 23, 2022)

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:12:32pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:14:43pm

re: #81 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

in the 1960s she was indeed a pioneer for women in TV news.

This is undeniable. And probably her finest legacy. Which is a good one.

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:19:09pm

re: #69 A Three Hour Tour

I *was* going to give my children veddy, veddy English names going down the alphabet: Alistair, Basil, Cedric, Dylan, etc., if boys.

The second child ended up being a girl, and we quit after that, so both children ended up with names beginning with “A.”

We gave our daughter a Gaelic middle name which, if properly spelled Gaelic fashion, looks like a mangled curse word, because I wanted to see authority figures struggle with the prospect of saying it. The spousal unit put the kibosh on that, and so we spelled it phonetically, so now it looks instead like the name of a generic computer science firm.

A few years back, I told my daughter the origin of her middle name, and was rewarded with an outraged, “My name is an extended Dad-joke??!!??”

A Chinese guy I worked with mentioned that his family based their naming of children on a Chinese poem. Each generation took their names from the next line in the poem. I was kind of surprised and didn’t want to press further. But in retrospect, I should have been more inquisitive in the details, the poem, what line, how did they pull the names from the poem’s words, etc.

He was from Taiwan and was brought up in more traditional Chinese culture. The guy next to him was from mainland China. It was interesting to hear the two of them discuss the merits of the traditional Chinese pictographs taught in Taiwan versus the simplified PinYin taught on the mainland.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:19:10pm

If I ever have a son he’ll be named Warren, like famed ski filmmaker Warren Miller. If I ever have a daughter she’ll be named Ambrose, just to piss off the ghost of Ambrose Bierce.

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William Lewis  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:28:23pm

I’m named William Andrew III after my grandfather, William Andrew Jr. (He went by Bill which made me choose to go by William after I left home).

They were going to name a son William III, but he was stillborn.

My father is Kenneth Allen instead. He and mom chose to give me the III instead.

My ex and I sort of named our son when we adopted him after John L (Llewellyn) my great-grandfather who moved to Wisconsin after the ACW. I say sort of because we kept his birth name Lac (Vietnamese Buddhist name meaning Peaceful) so he’s still John L.

Had more than a few people think we named him for John Locke… ;)

Names can be interesting, eh?

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:30:03pm

re: #29 No Malarkey!

Temperature here reached at least 69.

It made it into the 60’s here in Virginia the last couple of days.

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:31:56pm

re: #89 ckkatz

19F here last week, 78F on Jan.1. It’s crazy.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:34:57pm

re: #82 Belafon

My mom’s family had this thing where the male line swapped between Bill and William. So my grandfather was named William, my uncle was named Bill, and his first son was named William.

Luckily I was not part of that line.

My Da was Irish, my Ma was German (Westphalian). My Da prevailed in the naming and we were (me) Sean, Anne, Patrick, Brian, and Kate. Irish quints (all of us born inside of eight years).

So for the first nine years of my life, not a single teacher, looking at the class roll, got my name right, except for the occasional nun. It got to be eye-rolling funny to see how badly they fucked it up.

The most common, of course, was “Seen”. Followed by “Say-ann”.

Finally, when I turned 9, I just said “007” and the Teachers went “Oh! Shawn!” and I said “That’s the Protestant spelling. Mine is Gaelic.”

And they were like “Ooh! Fancy.”

Then I would go out to the playground and have to fight some asshole who thought I was hoity-toity with my Euro name. I wasn’t a big kid, so I kicked them in the balls and then pounded their nose with my elbows. Then I got left alone.

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:35:43pm

re: #90 jaunte

19F here last week, 78F on Jan.1. It’s crazy.

A friend used to say that”You should enjoy Texas weather while you can. Before it somehow tries to murder you”.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:37:07pm

re: #88 William Lewis

I’m named William Andrew III after my grandfather, William Andrew Jr. (He went by Bill which made me choose to go by William after I left home).

They were going to name a son William III, but he was stillborn.

My father is Kenneth Allen instead. He and mom chose to give me the III instead.

My ex and I sort of named our son when we adopted him after John L (Llewellyn) my great-grandfather who moved to Wisconsin after the ACW. I say sort of because we kept his birth name Lac (Vietnamese Buddhist name meaning Peaceful) so he’s still John L.

Had more than a few people think we named him for John Locke… ;)

Names can be interesting, eh?

The tradition in my family is no person recycles the name of a previous person in the family. Thus we’re getting more unusual names: My son is named Cedric.

The family has a Michaela, a Mayo, a Savoh, a Llewellyn, a Dawn, a Sheila, a Floyd, &c.

I lucked out that a common name was still available; my sister, not so much.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:38:35pm

re: #88 William Lewis

Names can be interesting, eh?

This is what I’m saying!

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Captain Ron  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:39:09pm

I’ve been stuck indoors for about a month due to weather. My watch didn’t get a charge the whole time. I had to stick it out in the rain in the daylight to charge up the battery today. Still doing pretty well after 16 years on the original battery.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:39:12pm

re: #90 jaunte

19F here last week, 78F on Jan.1. It’s crazy.

This is fucked up. Not normal.

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jaunte  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:40:53pm

re: #96 teleskiguy

Life with a wobbly arctic.

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:41:30pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

re: #80 retired cynic

I was always “Chuck” rather than “Charlie”.

Kind of reminded me of the reverse of Peppermint Patty always calling Charlie Brown “Chuck”.

Of course my parents always claimed that they almost named me Thomas and almost named my sister “Kitty”.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:46:38pm

Another compromise my parents made with my grandfather (Dad’s dad) when my sister was born two and a half years after I was born, and this was orchestrated by Mom. “Sure, George, you’ll be named for my daughter, Georgeann will be her name.” Grandpa George actually loved this idea. My sister Georgeann goes by Annie, which is a really nice name for a gal from Colorado, though it’s a nickname and not her legal name. No one calls my sister Georgeann in everyday conversation. To everyone, she’s Annie.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:47:30pm

Tennessee is beating Clemson like a red-headed stepchild.

Sorry for the ancient southern idiom, but that’s what’s happening.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:49:57pm

re: #99 teleskiguy

The song (and movie) Georgie Girl came out to many years prior, I think.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:54:03pm

re: #101 retired cynic

The song (and movie) Georgie Girl came out to many years prior, I think.

!966.

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Captain Ron  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:54:15pm

Weather is really strange here. It has been raining for 2 hours and the clouds are and have been thin enough to clearly see the moon the whole time.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:54:47pm

re: #102 austin_blue

Yep, I’m old. Graduated from high school in 1966.

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:55:54pm

re: #100 austin_blue

Tennessee is beating Clemson like a red-headed stepchild.

Sorry for the ancient southern idiom, but that’s what’s happening.

Not too knowledgeable in the why’s of SouthEastern Football. But Clemson and Texas A&M always seemed to me to be the target of a lot of ragging down South.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:55:55pm

re: #104 retired cynic

Yep, I’m old. Graduated from high school in 1966.

1965

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:58:07pm

re: #106 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

1965

I roll over not long after the new year, so coming up to the big Seventy Five. EEK!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:58:11pm

re: #104 retired cynic

Yep, I’m old. Graduated from high school in 1966.

re: #106 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

1965

I don’t feel quite so old now (1978)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:58:44pm

re: #107 retired cynic

I roll over not long after the new year, so coming up to the big Seventy Five. EEK!

Prepping the E-cake to post here… .

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:59:03pm

re: #104 retired cynic

Yep, I’m old. Graduated from high school in 1966.

I was a proud grad of W.T. Woodson High School, the Fighting Cavaliers, of 1974.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 8:59:18pm

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s ‘cause you are just a kid. A few years older than my ‘son’, that’s all.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:00:10pm

re: #110 austin_blue

I was a proud grad of W.T. Woodson High School, the Fighting Cavaliers, of 1974.

I hate to say this, but we were the Mighty Maroons. I have NO fekkin’ idea where they got that from!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:04:07pm

Now that we have water again (meaning we can wash dishes), my wife made a real dinner, rather than us subsisting on foods which can be microwaved or eaten directly.

She made roast chicken breasts with assorted chard and baked potatoes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:04:50pm

re: #112 retired cynic

I hate to say this, but we were the Mighty Maroons. I have NO fekkin’ idea where they got that from!

Bugs Bunny.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:05:58pm

re: #114 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s all I could think of, but we had to be Serious about it. Fight, fight, rah, rah!

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:06:07pm

re: #110 austin_blue

I was a proud grad of W.T. Woodson High School, the Fighting Cavaliers, of 1974.

Looks like it has its own Wiki entry as well as website:

Wiki - W.T. Woodson High School

Fairfax County Public Shools - WT Woodson High School

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:06:37pm

re: #105 ckkatz

Not too knowledgeable in why’s of SouthEastern Football. But Clemson and Texas A&M always seemed to me to be the target of a lot of ragging down South.

Well. yeah, at least as far as A&M is concerned. Add an E before and after their official logo of AtM and it becomes EAtME.

And Clemson is referred to as Clemons by grads of South Carolina (the Fighting Cocks!) because they can neither spell nor parse.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:09:29pm

re: #112 retired cynic

I hate to say this, but we were the Mighty Maroons. I have NO fekkin’ idea where they got that from!

Were you an Austin High School Grad?

They are the Maroons. Their Mascot is a fuzzy reddish brown dot with arms and legs.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:11:46pm

re: #118 austin_blue

Nope. Champaign High, back before it was split into two high schools for the growing town. Our mascot was a big fuzzy maroon bear-like thing that led cheers. Ah, well. I can still remember the cheers… oh god…

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:12:19pm

re: #116 ckkatz

Looks like it has its own Wiki entry as well as website:

Wiki - W.T. Woodson High School

Fairfax County Public Shools - WT Woodson High School

Hell yes! We were the only high school in Fairfax County to get its roof blown off in the April 1st, 1973 tornado.

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:17:09pm

Feeling a bit unloved these days. When I went to the local clinic with a persistent cough, swelling feet, high blood pressure, a hummingbird pulse, and getting easily winded, they just took some blood and sent my happy ass home to wait for the results. Only to be told that it was recommended by the doc that I got to the ER to get checked for congestive heart failure.

By contrast, my sister went in with high blood pressure, fast pulse, and little else and they immediately ran an EKG when she mentioned the family history of heart disease, then was given a free ride to the hospital in an ambulance.

I spent three days in a gown to find out that I’ve got a bad heart, she got sent home with a cookie because they can’t figure out what is going on with her EKG even after running a CAT scan.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:21:32pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Well, you are loved here, and we are anxious to hear about the next step in your medical odyssey to get some repairs done.

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:21:41pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Feeling a bit unloved these days. When I went to the local clinic with a persistent cough, swelling feet, high blood pressure, a hummingbird pulse, and getting easily winded, they just took some blood and sent my happy ass home to wait for the results. Only to be told that it was recommended by the doc that I got to the ER to get checked for congestive heart failure.

I spent three days in a gown to find out that I’ve got a bad heart,

This is not good!

Hoping that you will be able to successfully address and overcome this.

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Captain Ron  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:22:02pm

YouTube

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:22:59pm

Speaking of those not feeling well.

Has anybody heard from Michelle? Last I heard was that she was facing serious back issues.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:23:11pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Feeling a bit unloved these days. When I went to the local clinic with a persistent cough, swelling feet, high blood pressure, a hummingbird pulse, and getting easily winded, they just took some blood and sent my happy ass home to wait for the results. Only to be told that it was recommended by the doc that I got to the ER to get checked for congestive heart failure.

By contrast, my sister went in with high blood pressure, fast pulse, and little else and they immediately ran an EKG when she mentioned the family history of heart disease, then was given a free ride to the hospital in an ambulance.

I spent three days in a gown to find out that I’ve got a bad heart, she got sent home with a cookie because they can’t figure out what is going on with her EKG even after running a CAT scan.

Oh, my dear. All the hugs are yours. Please take care.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:24:40pm

Memories of New Year’s Day growing up in Western PA.

For some reason lots of people ate pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day. Maybe it was a tradition from Eastern Europe.

We didn’t. On New Year’s Day Mom would get 2 boxes of this and the six of us went to town on it.

Chef Boy-Ar-Dee commercial - 1953

Mom would get the Mushroom Sauce version and it tasted great! Mom also made a lot of Cole slaw as a side dish.

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:25:33pm

re: #122 retired cynic

re: #123 ckkatz

re: #126 austin_blue

Thanks folks. They’ve got me on a fistful of meds with an appointment for Tuesday to schedule surgery, but otherwise I’m alive enough that I’ve been working the last three weeks. Haven’t been as good a boy as I should be about my diet since release, but such is the life of a service industry employee.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:26:42pm

I’m going to roll off to bed.

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:27:05pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

Well, make sure you keep us up to date on your plans, because we seriously do want to keep up with you!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:27:41pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Damn when Mercury goes retrograde a lot of stuff happens. So sorry, Target. Please rest, take care and hoping everything will be OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:30:25pm

re: #130 retired cynic

Well, make sure you keep us up to date on your plans, because we seriously do want to keep up with you!

It’s funny, I’ve never joined social media because I decided long ago that my life just isn’t interesting enough to keep others appraised.

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William Lewis  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:31:29pm

So. Earlier tonight I noticed that I have a flat tire. Totally flat. I was planning on leaving the truck at work and taking an Uber or Lyft home. Then in the morning, dad and I can deal with it. The bank, for unknown reasons is declining my card (there is enough $$ in my account) so no ride for me. Thankfully the GM is willing to comp me a room and I can get Dad here in the morning. Sigh.

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austin_blue  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:32:25pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

Thanks folks. They’ve got me on a fistful of meds with an appointment for Tuesday to schedule surgery, but otherwise I’m alive enough that I’ve been working the last three weeks. Haven’t been as good a boy as I should be about my diet since release, but such is the life of a service industry employee.

Be well, be safe.

I am for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams, and be kind to each other, unlike the cocksucking motherfucking sons of bitches who are already blowing up explosives in town right now in expectation of burning the City down tomorrow night.

And get your candy ass off of my fucking lawn!

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William Lewis  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:32:28pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

{{{Targetpractice}}}

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ckkatz  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:32:32pm

It’s time to head to bed. Tomorrow is, of course, the ultimate day of the year. And I already have my tickets for New Years Eve -

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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:33:19pm

re: #132 Targetpractice

You are a clear thinker and writer, and your stories of Tales Behind the Desk, especially combined with William Lewis’s, would make a book that would make many people thankful that they aren’t working such jobs! Besides, we agree with you politically, so of course we like what you say!

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:33:27pm

Oh yeah, just to let y’all know…

My injury is just as I predicted, a big sore spot on my bottom which is getting better at a medium pace. The most optimistic predictions is that I may ski tomorrow! I’m actually low key planning on it. Thing is, I got some different demo skis from the shop and I need to adjust the bindings to my boots. That involves a lot of bending down, leaning on one’s knees and getting on all fours. If I can do that without wincing tomorrow morning (likely) I’ll go skiing on New Year’s Eve.

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:34:02pm

re: #133 William Lewis

So. Earlier tonight I noticed that I have a flat tire. Totally flat. I was planning on leaving the truck at work and taking an Uber or Lyft home. Then in the morning, dad and I can deal with it. The bank, for unknown reasons is declining my card (there is enough $$ in my account) so no ride for me. Thankfully the GM is willing to comp me a room and I can get Dad here in the morning. Sigh.

I had a running issue for years with my ‘97 Explorer, that I’d drive my mother’s ‘11 Altima with the nice automatic lights, then go back to driving the Explorer without remembering its lights aren’t automatic. Get off an 8 hour shift to discover that the battery wasn’t just drained, it was pretty much inert to the point that it required a 2 hour charge on a fast charger each time.

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Captain Ron  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:35:39pm

It is still raining and I can still see the moon, freaking weird.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:36:45pm

re: #124 Captain Ron

When asked why he never returned the items to Zulily, he said that once they fired him, his opinion was, ‘F**k ‘em,’” the report said.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:41:59pm

Weather Channel currently expects rain in Los Angeles tomorrow and I am hoping the rain gets heavy during the night to prevent idiots from setting off fireworks and shooting their guns off. Would be nice to have a peaceful night with thunderstorms instead of gunfire…and sirens…

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:42:18pm

re: #137 retired cynic

You are a clear thinker and writer, and your stories of Tales Behind the Desk, especially combined with William Lewis’s, would make a book that would make many people thankful that they aren’t working such jobs! Besides, we agree with you politically, so of course we like what you say!

I’m somebody that was too late for the blogger revolution and too early for TikTok.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:43:48pm
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retired cynic  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:45:14pm

re: #144 teleskiguy

Thank you. Much appreciated.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:48:57pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

I fucking hate the U.S.A. healthcare system with the heat of a thousand suns. Your story rests my case.

I hope you can navigate this shit and *live your life.*

Much love, brother…

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 9:51:54pm

As I tell my coworkers, I’m vertical and I’m breathing, so I’m doing ‘bout as well as can be expected.

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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:05:47pm
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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:07:56pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:08:10pm

No one won the big MegaMillions jackpot tonight, so Tuesday’s jackpot climbs to $785M, annuity.

Cash value is of course much less, with the high interest rates.

After taxes the cash value is around $249M here in California.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:11:54pm

re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

almost real money

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:24:58pm

This audio is from my first concert indoors (Fox Theater, Boulder, CO) since the before times… 23 October 2021

Good Days (Live)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:38:21pm

re: #151 teleskiguy

almost real money

With the annuity rates so high, the jackpot has to climb quite a bit more before I declare “real money”.

$250M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Many of the latest houses in swanky places are going or $20M+. Up in certain places around LA new projects are going for $50M+ .

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:38:33pm

re: #152 teleskiguy

I took one photo.

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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:39:24pm
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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:40:59pm

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

With the annuity rates so high, the jackpot has to climb quite a bit more before I declare “real money”.

$250M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Many of the latest houses in swanky places are going or $20M+. Up in certain places around LA new projects are going for $50M+ .

$250M would set me and my wife for the rest of our lives, and would set up our kids pretty well for theirs.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:42:17pm

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

With the annuity rates so high, the jackpot has to climb quite a bit more before I declare “real money”.

$250M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Many of the latest houses in swanky places are going or $20M+. Up in certain places around LA new projects are going for $50M+ .

We could talk about high dollar real estate, sure. I live near Vail and Aspen, have for most of my life.

We could, but what do we do about it, eh? Fuck if I know.

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Cheechako  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:43:22pm

re: #104 retired cynic

Yep, I’m old. Graduated from high school in 1966.

1960 - Get off my lawn you whippersnappers.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:47:40pm

re: #158 Cheechako

1960 - Get off my lawn you whippersnappers.

I’ll do whatever you say within reason. You’re an old fellow living in Juneau and you got all that *life experience*.

Love you lots, Cheechako!!!

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:52:53pm

My father graduated early from Bear Creek High School in Lakewood, CO - he was 16 - in 1965.

I graduated early from Eagle Valley High School in Gypsum, CO in 1999, I was 17.

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Cheechako  Dec 30, 2022 • 10:54:06pm

re: #159 teleskiguy

“blushes”

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 11:00:27pm

Coming up on a new year. Two Zero Two Three.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 30, 2022 • 11:11:05pm

There is one of those odd chronology things about Barbara Walters: We think of Walters, Anne Frank, and Martin Luther King Jr. as people of different eras, but they were all born in 1929; King on January 15, Frank on June 12, and Walters on September 25.

Similarly, Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born just 5 weeks apart in 1926 QEII on April 26, and Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) on June 1.

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Belafon  Dec 30, 2022 • 11:14:15pm

re: #163 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

There is one of those odd chronology things about Barbara Walters: We think of Walters, Anne Frank, and Martin Luther King Jr. as people of different eras, but they were all born in 1929; King on January 15, Frank on June 12, and Walters on September 25.

Similarly, Queen Elizabeth II and Marilyn Monroe were born just 5 weeks apart in 1926 QEII on April 26, and Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) on June 1.

My grandmother was born on November 15th, 1929. She died in July, 2011.

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Targetpractice  Dec 30, 2022 • 11:14:54pm

*siggggh*

So I just spent close to 15 minutes chained to the desk, trying to explain in a dozen different ways to a woman how I can’t fix her mistake. I told her over an hour ago that we were sold-out for tonight, but she still went online and booked a room with us for tomorrow. Only then did she read the fine print that check-in for the booking is 3pm Sat and tried to cancel it. And the half-assed company she booked through told her that we (the hotel) are responsible for refunding her money, even though we are physically blocked from doing anything with third-party bookings. So instead of listening to me and contacting the company’s help line, she instead spent 10 minutes trying to prove me wrong about being unable to cancel the booking until I turned the screen around to show that the “Cancel” button is greyed out.

The technology gets smarter and the people get dumber.

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teleskiguy  Dec 30, 2022 • 11:39:25pm

re: #152 teleskiguy

Keep goin’. Listen through, Get all the way to where they start singing! It’s a 20+ minute song, but it’s worth it. Big smiles!

All In (Live)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:02:19am

Here is the newspaper article exposing George Santos’s lies, months before the election. As the paper noted at the time, they wanted to endorse a Republican, but Santos was so sketchy they had no choice but to endorse his Democratic opponent.

This is the article no outlet in the larger New York press paid attention to.

Santos Filings Now Claim Net Worth of $11 Million (North Shore [Long Island] Leader, September, 2022)

The newspaper is run by Grant Lally, a lifelong Republican who was George W. Bush’s floor manager during the 2000 recount.

Controversial US congressional candidate George Santos has finally filed his Personal Financial Disclosure Report on September 6th - 20 months late - and he is claiming an inexplicable rise in his alleged net worth to $11 million..

Two years ago, in 2020, Santos’ personal financial disclosures claimed that he had no assets over $5,000 - no bank accounts, no stock accounts, no real property. A net worth barely above “zero”.

And his income was only just over $50,000 for the prior year, derived from a venture fund called “Harbor Hill Capital,” that was closed and seized in 2020 by US federal prosecutors as a “Ponzi Scheme.” Santos was the New York Director of that “fund.”

Now, in a filing dated September 6th, 2022, Santos claims his assets are now as much as $11 million, including personal bank accounts of between $1 million and $5 million; a Condo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of between $500,000 and $1 million; and business interests of between $1 million and $5 million.

Santos parents were from Brazil, according to Santos, and he has claimed to be a US-Brazilian dual citizen.

Interestingly, Santos shows no US real property in his financial disclosure, although he has repeatedly claimed to own “a mansion in Oyster Bay Cove” on Tiffany Road; and “a mansion in the Hamptons” on Dune Road. He recently told several Republicans that he was selling his “Hamptons mansion” for $10 million, because he rarely uses it.

However an investigation of Santos’ alleged “Hamptons mansion” showed the house is owned by someone else having nothing to do with Santos, and.has a market value of less than $2 million.

For a man of such alleged wealth, campaign records show that Santos and his husband live in a rented apartment, in an attached row house in Queens. (See photo)

(more)

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Targetpractice  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:18:24am

re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here is the newspaper article exposing George Santos’s lies, months before the election. As the paper noted at the time, they wanted to endorse a Republican, but Santos was so sketchy they had no choice but to endorse his Democratic opponent.

This is the article no outlet in the larger New York press paid attention to.

Santos Filings Now Claim Net Worth of $11 Million (North Shore [Long Island] Leader, September, 2022)

The newspaper is run by Grant Lally, a lifelong Republican who was George W. Bush’s floor manager during the 2000 recount.

(more)

But how can this be when we’ve been assured that nobody did the proper research into Santos before the election and that’s why the media wouldn’t cover it?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:21:26am

re: #150 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

No one won the big MegaMillions jackpot tonight, so Tuesday’s jackpot climbs to $785M, annuity.

Cash value is of course much less, with the high interest rates.

After taxes the cash value is around $249M here in California.

I’d take the annuity.

For that kind of money, I could buy my whole township. I’m not sure what I would do with a township but I’ll bet I could figure out something.

Since I have no family to leave any money to, a bunch of charities and our public library would get very rich when my wife and I are gone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:25:01am

re: #168 Targetpractice

But how can this be when we’ve been assured that nobody did the proper research into Santos before the election and that’s why the media wouldn’t cover it?

////////

We’re left with the problem of local newspapers being extinguished.

Local journalists are plugged into their communities like a beat cop: They know everything going on in the area, and when something looks off they know who to ask.

Important stories in local outlets would be picked up by regional, then national outlets, who have the resources to dig into the most important stories of the day. It is not a stretch to think that twenty or thirty years ago, this guy would not have gotten past the election.

Now, with so many national outlets relying on things like social media and reduced staffs, it is impossible for them to get the local stories which are of national importance. There aren’t many areas left like mine where the local newspapers are the main sources of news.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:34:46am

Bucking that trend of national news are people like Dr. Rachel Maddow.

When she does one of her deep-dive articles, she and her staff dig into hyper-local news articles to get the story from the people closest to it. She also puts the local journalists who break those stories on her show, giving their story and the journalist national exposure.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:43:26am

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The annuity is not a good deal. Inflation is much higher than the annuity rates.

The only reason to get the annuity - and in the history of these big lotteries only one person has chosen such - is if one knows one has an addiction problem. In that case the parceling out of the prize over 29 years keeps one from blowing all the money.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:44:50am

I continue to try and make something meaningful out of the AI image software:

PERCEPTION IN MAGAworld
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:48:07am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 12:53:36am

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

For that kind of money, I could buy my whole township. I’m not sure what I would do with a township but I’ll bet I could figure out something.

You and the wife could buy a place down in The Villages, Florida, and run around in golf carts like all the Trumpers there, but instead of having a Trump flag on your golf cart you could fly an atheist flag (whatever that may be.)

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 31, 2022 • 1:46:03am

Coming over the news wires that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has died.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 31, 2022 • 1:47:21am
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health.

He led the Catholic Church for less than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415.

Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the walls of the Vatican.

bbc.com

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John Hughes  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:05:59am

Putin decrees that personnel involved in invasion of Ukraine will pay no income tax.

Also:

The decree also granted them the right to receive “rewards and gifts” if they were of “a humanitarian character” and received as part of the military operation in Ukraine.

It applies to the partners and children of those serving, and is back-dated to February 24 2022 - the date Russia invaded Ukraine.

I.E. looting is legalized.

theguardian.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:21:35am

re: #172 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The annuity is not a good deal. Inflation is much higher than the annuity rates.

The only reason to get the annuity - and in the history of these big lotteries only one person has chosen such - is if one knows one has an addiction problem. In that case the parceling out of the prize over 29 years keeps one from blowing all the money.

See, that’s financial advisors talking (the annuity is not a good deal because inflation is much higher).

Inflation is much higher than my passbook savings account but I’m not abandoning that either.

The variant of that is “you’ll pay more income tax.”

I don’t give a flip about investing to make more money if I have half a billion dollars. I think collecting such amounts of money is a mental disorder no different than collecting cats. Unlike collecting cats, it is damaging to society.

And taxes are the price of civilisation.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:33:50am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Currently the after-tax cash value is a quarter of a billion, not a half.

But may I suggest that the goal is not to make more money but to have more influence?

I am positive you can find worthy causes for which you can boost their impact, should you have a couple of hundred million dollars.

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Captain Ron  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:43:08am
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Targetpractice  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:45:51am

re: #178 John Hughes

Putin decrees that personnel involved in invasion of Ukraine will pay no income tax.

Also:

I.E. looting is legalized.

theguardian.com

This doesn’t sound like a leader who thinks that the war is going swimmingly and the people support it, this sounds like a leader who is desperate to get public favor back before he ends up dying from the 9mm flu.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:49:19am

Former Pope Benedict XVI dies age 95 (CNN, today, 5:42 AM EST)

Benedict XVI, the Pope Emeritus, has died in Vatican City at the age of 95 following a period of ill health.

Benedict, who was the first pontiff in almost 600 years to resign his position, rather than hold office for life, passed away on Saturday, according to a statement from the Vatican.

“With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican,” the Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Matteo Bruni said.

“Further information will be provided as soon as possible.”

News of his death came days after Pope Francis asked the faithful to pray for Benedict, saying he was “very sick.”

“I want to ask you all for a special prayer for Pope Emeritus Benedict who sustains the Church in his silence. He is very sick. We ask the Lord to console and sustain him in this witness of love for the Church to the very end,” Francis said at his general audience on Wednesday.

His health had been in decline for some time.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:50:55am

re: #182 Targetpractice

This doesn’t sound like a leader who thinks that the war is going swimmingly and the people support it, this sounds like a leader who is desperate to get public favor back before he ends up dying from the 9mm flu.

American soldiers in combat pay no income tax. I was tax-exempt for our little soiree in the Yugoslav Civil War interdicting genocide of Bosniaks, for example.

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John Hughes  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:52:27am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

American soldiers in combat pay no income tax. I was tax-exempt for our little soiree in the Yugoslav Civil War interdicting genocide of Bosniaks, for example.

Yeah, but I doubt you were allowed to take a washing machine home without some proof that you bought it

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 2:59:12am

re: #185 John Hughes

Yeah, but I doubt you were allowed to take a washing machine home without some proof that you bought it

That and it would have been tough to swim from shore to the ship with one on my back.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:01:48am

The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed (The Verge, December 27, 2022)

A new law, which would allow the FCC to regulate the price of phone calls from prison, just needs President Joe Biden’s signature. (more)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:21:42am

WKBW-TV, Buffalo, NY (December 30, 2022)

McDonalds workers take in more than 50 people during storm

AMHERST, N.Y. (WKBW) — It was around 2:00 p.m. Friday when Jeffrey Spangler, Kristin Kosha and Amanda Kendall were closing up the McDonalds on Sweet Home Road and Sheridan Drive in Amherst, when the snow started flying and the winds were whipping.

“It wasn’t safe to drive,” said Kosha. “We had to make the right choice for us and our other manager with us.”

Knowing they had a warm place to stay, and plenty of food, Kosha opened up an invitation to anyone stuck on the streets to come to the McDonalds.

(more)

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:23:56am

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t feel quite so old now (1978)

Class of ‘79 grad here

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:24:55am

re: #112 retired cynic

I hate to say this, but we were the Mighty Maroons. I have NO fekkin’ idea where they got that from!

My high school colors were maroon and gold.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:26:06am

re: #115 retired cynic

That’s all I could think of, but we had to be Serious about it. Fight, fight, rah, rah!

Rah rah ree, kick ‘em in the knee
Rah rah ras, kick ‘em in the … other knee

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 3:56:41am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:10:45am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:15:56am

Hmm… I just felt some rumbling.

Thought it was a quake.

First a light shake. Then a second pause (this happens between P and S waves), then more rumbling.

…

Here we go, out at Borrego Springs: earthquake.usgs.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:31:10am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hmm… I just felt some rumbling.

Thought it was a quake.

First a light shake. Then a second pause (this happens between P and S waves), then more rumbling.

…

Here we go, out at Borrego Springs: earthquake.usgs.gov

Man, I don’t want to live anywhere the earth moves. I can hide from a tornado, I can dig out from snow, but I can’t get away from the ground. I went through one earthquake in Ponca City, Okla. which collapsed a bunch of downtown building façades, aw hell naw.

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:34:56am

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

With the annuity rates so high, the jackpot has to climb quite a bit more before I declare “real money”.

$250M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Many of the latest houses in swanky places are going or $20M+. Up in certain places around LA new projects are going for $50M+ .

You could lose more than that buying Twitter

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:41:30am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

See, that’s financial advisors talking (the annuity is not a good deal because inflation is much higher).

Inflation is much higher than my passbook savings account but I’m not abandoning that either.

The variant of that is “you’ll pay more income tax.”

I don’t give a flip about investing to make more money if I have half a billion dollars. I think collecting such amounts of money is a mental disorder no different than collecting cats. Unlike collecting cats, it is damaging to society.

And taxes are the price of civilisation.

Wise thinking for sure.

However when you win, your first call is to a lawyer. Your second is to a competent accountant/financial advisor. Do not, repeat, do not claim the money yourself.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:45:07am

re: #197 Dangerman

However when you win, your first call is to a lawyer. Your second is to a competent accountant/financial advisor. Do not, repeat, do not claim the money yourself.

In California fictitious persons can not claim the prize, and the winner(s) can’t hide their identities behind trusts.

You got to show up.

You can, however, refuse to have your photo taken.

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:52:07am
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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:54:33am

It’s spring here, 17°C.

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:54:46am

re: #198 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In California fictitious persons can not claim the prize, and the winner(s) can’t hide their identities behind trusts.

You got to show up.

You can, however, refuse to have your photo taken.

Don’t run right down there. You have some time. Get representation first.

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:56:05am

re: #199 Dangerman

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:58:10am

ewwwwwwwww

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 4:58:58am

re: #202 Dangerman

I could believe that he’s his dad *and* brother.

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:00:00am

I hope Ukrainians do something in Moscow today…

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:00:45am

re: #81 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Walters had over a half century of a career in the news industry. Someone who has been around that long will have both seen and experienced many changes.

Say what you will of her cozying up to the power brokers later (and I’ll propose that a great fraction of the journalism industry has done this at one time or another), in the 1960s she was indeed a pioneer for women in TV news.

She did manage to accurately portray trump

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:09:39am

2013. Rossiya 1, the main Russian TV channel (and propaganda megaphone). The Russian comedian Maksim Galkin (in 2022 denounced the war, left Russia for Israel) and Vladimir Zelensky are the presenters of the main Russian New Year eve’s show. Vladimir Solovyov, the future überpropagandist, is dancing to their tune.

Первый Новогодний вечер 2013г - М.Галкин

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:14:26am

What’s the over/under I’ll manage to stay awake until midnight tonight? Zero chance? Ok.

Here’s wishing everyone an early healthy, happy 2023!

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:15:51am

re: #208 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Happy New Year!
(I intend to dance the night away lol.)

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:23:05am

Just a 4/6 Wordle thingy.

Click to Reveal

Wordle 560 4/6

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:24:07am

re: #209 Nyet

Happy New Year!
(I intend to dance the night away lol.)

You might need this mashup then.

Leotallica - “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing (You Know It’s Sad But True)”

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TarHellion  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:24:51am

Challenging one to end the year. Will take the par and get ready for 2023.

Happy New Year to everyone here! Thanks for making this such a wonderful site!

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Wordle 560 4/6*

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:26:44am

re: #211 Eventual Carrion

Bwahahaha!

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darthstar  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:28:38am

re: #210 Eventual Carrion

Just a 4/6 Wordle thingy.

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I did it in 6 like a true alpha male.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:34:21am

re: #209 Nyet

Happy New Year!
(I intend to dance the night away lol.)

I hope you have a wonderful time doing so!

Napoleon Dynamite Dance

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:35:14am

re: #210 Eventual Carrion

Just a 4/6 Wordle thingy.

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TarHellion  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:45:22am

Longtime North Carolina State broadcaster Gary Hahn - who has a reputation for being a jackass per my media pals - was suspended yesterday for being a total shithead on air.

espn.com

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:46:51am

re: #112 retired cynic

I hate to say this, but we were the Mighty Maroons. I have NO fekkin’ idea where they got that from!

My dad was Central 1944. I was Central 1982.

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:55:09am

re: #192 Nyet

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:56:29am

Got this pic off Counter Social. Don’t know if it has been touched up or even shopped in some way. But this cat has some beautiful markings.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:57:31am

Annuity rates went up again.

They took a dip in early December but have now jumped up to almost the recent high.

The money guys must expect inflation to stay around and the Fed to not lower the interest rate for quite some time.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 5:58:26am

re: #220 Eventual Carrion

I’ve decided that any image I see, for which I do not know the provenance, could just as easily come from an AI program as from a camera.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:08:32am

This will be interesting. Here in Centex, we all know that once one gets 2 miles out of the large metro areas. Politics goes deep red.

Right down the road from me, there is a Catholic prayer retreat that just closed its doors. The property was sold and a Sikh Temple has taken its place. I intend to make a stop this weekend with a welcome gift of an owl nest box and words of welcome.

There is an element out here that no matter what’s said, that turban will mean only one thing, I.e. “Muslims!”.

I’ve already gone out to NextDoor and posted some definitions.

I’m really hoping for free Bhangra lessons

HOW WE TURNIN UP AFTER QUARANTINE I aBg I BHANGRA DANCE OFF I Who wants to Dance Battle?

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William Lewis  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:21:36am

Turns out that the trouble last night was my bank’s fraud prevention routines. I’ll have to get them to okk that for the future.

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William Lewis  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:27:09am

Oh, and North High 1982.

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dharmamark  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:34:47am

I’ll play - KAHS, 1982. That’s Kaiserslautern American HS…

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:40:15am

re: #7 Dangerman

Someone at Fidelity is getting fired soon.

Fidelity slashed its carrying value of Twitter by 56% during the first month of Elon Musk’s ownership, Axios reports.

techcrunch.com

Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund stake in Twitter was valued at around $8.63 million as of November, according to a monthly disclosure and Fidelity Contrafund notice first reported today by Axios. That’s down from $19.66 million as of the end of October.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:43:30am

re: #227 Florida Panhandler

Someone at Fidelity is getting fired soon.

techcrunch.com

Fidelity’s Blue Chip Growth Fund stake in Twitter was valued at around $8.63 million as of November, according to a monthly disclosure and Fidelity Contrafund notice first reported today by Axios. That’s down from $19.66 million as of the end of October.

When you believe all the hype and bullshit.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:43:31am

Trump is having restless nights.

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jeffreyw  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:48:01am

Fish cooked in dill butter with slaw and pasta salad

Good morning!

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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 6:48:19am

Barbara Walters has passed. Also Pope Benedict XVI.

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Belafon  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:12:02am

re: #197 Dangerman

Wise thinking for sure.

However when you win, your first call is to a lawyer. Your second is to a competent accountant/financial advisor. Do not, repeat, do not claim the money yourself.

What kind of lawyer?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:13:00am
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Belafon  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:18:30am

re: #233 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

“And to save humanity from a bleak future, I call on my followers to take care of immigrants, the sick, the elderly, the poor, to not worship money, and to treat everyone kindly.”

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:19:36am

How 2022 is showing 2023 around on New Years Eve…

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Dave In Austin  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:19:37am

Most precious. Her coat is like velvet.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:19:51am

re: #212 TarHellion

Challenging one to end the year. Will take the par and get ready for 2023.

Happy New Year to everyone here! Thanks for making this such a wonderful site!

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John Hughes  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:21:54am

re: #233 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

And learned English, the language the bible was written in.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:22:36am

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:26:13am

Bah. Sometimes you just get on the wrong track.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:26:16am

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year! May 2023 be a good year for all lizards worldwide, with good health, happiness, and prosperity.

And may it see the final end of the Trump cult and a full restoration of democracy here.

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Varek Raith  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:30:51am

Hello. I got the fourth covid booster shot yesterday and feel like crap.
How ya’ll doing?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:30:54am

re: #210 Eventual Carrion

Just a 4/6 Wordle thingy.

I knew the song, I couldn’t remember the title.

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Vocabulary porn in three.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:37:29am

Just when the snow is melting enough to get my car out, comes more snow.

…WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING…

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12
inches possible, with local amounts in excess of 1 foot over
high ridges.

* WHERE…Western Nebraska Panhandle including Chadron, Harrison,
Alliance, Hemingford, Scottsbluff, Harrisburg, Bridgeport,
Sidney, and Kimball.

* WHEN…Sunday evening through Monday evening.

* IMPACTS…Dangerous travel conditions due to icy, snow packed
roads and significantly reduced visibilities in falling and
blowing snow.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:37:49am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:37:54am

Good way to end the year:

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Varek Raith  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:40:34am

re: #244 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just when the snow is melting enough to get my car out, comes more snow.

…WINTER STORM WATCH NOW IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH
MONDAY EVENING…

* WHAT…Heavy snow possible. Total snow accumulations of 6 to 12
inches possible, with local amounts in excess of 1 foot over
high ridges.

* WHERE…Western Nebraska Panhandle including Chadron, Harrison,
Alliance, Hemingford, Scottsbluff, Harrisburg, Bridgeport,
Sidney, and Kimball.

* WHEN…Sunday evening through Monday evening.

* IMPACTS…Dangerous travel conditions due to icy, snow packed
roads and significantly reduced visibilities in falling and
blowing snow.

Mother nature be like, dawg, I heard you like snow….

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:43:24am

re: #125 ckkatz

Speaking of those not feeling well.

Has anybody heard from Michelle? Last I heard was that she was facing serious back issues.

I’m still kicking around. Still have some hip pain, but at my age that’s to be expected. Thanks for asking though. It’s very much appreciated.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:45:38am

re: #248 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’m still kicking around. Still have some hip pain, but at my age that’s to be expected. Thanks for asking though. It’s very much appreciated.

Hi!! We missed you around here. I’m sorry you’re not feeling too well. I hope things are better for you in the upcoming year.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:52:00am

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hi!! We missed you around here. I’m sorry you’re not feeling too well. I hope things are better for you in the upcoming year.

I’m feeling a LOT better than I was the other day. I basically aggravated the L4-L5 section of my spine (disk? What disk?) and needed some time to recover. My hip always bothers me this time of year. It REALLY, REALLY doesn’t like the cold.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 7:56:43am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:01:06am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:07:25am

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:07:52am

re: #229 No Malarkey!

Trump is having restless nights.

I wish they would just get past giving him sleepless nights and rant opportunities and get around to actually indicting him.

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gocart mozart  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:08:11am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:10:17am

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

I saw a Ford Festiva on the highway the other day with “Antique Car” plates on it.

To qualify for those in PA the car only needs to be 25 years old. So at this point just about anything built in the 20th century can apply for them.
(Though PA’s climate and roads does pretty much eat cars. Potholes and road salt will do that.)

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:10:27am

re: #255 gocart mozart

Why do I hear that song sung by a sobrietally challenged crowd in my head?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:11:37am

In addition to self-check stands in markets eliminating workers to allegedly save money, they also don’t prevent theft.

Guy Blatantly Stealing Through Self-Check (Reddit’s r/Facepalm, video, 0:45)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:16:26am

re: #256 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I saw a Ford Festiva on the highway the other day with “Antique Car” plates on it.

To qualify for those in PA the car only needs to be 25 years old. So at this point just about anything built in the 20th century can apply for them.
(Though PA’s climate and roads does pretty much eat cars. Potholes and road salt will do that.)

Nebraska has two different plates.

Vintage: A vehicle at least thirty years old. The vintage plate is a plate issued in the original plate design and year of the vehicle. You may manufacture the plate, but must submit it to the state for approval.

Historical: A vehicle at least thirty years old. The state issues a “historical” plate of the current series.

No vehicle with either plate may be driven on public roads except as part of parades, events, to-or-from those, or as hobby drives. They may not be used for hire.

I can get a historicaal plate for my Smart in 2042.

I could keep my current Gold Star Family plates and use those as vintage plates in the same year.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:20:03am

The final recognition of random karma points for the year goes to FFL (GOP Delenda Est), who as of this moment has 85,172 LGF points.

These may be redeemed along with a suitable fee for a new cigar for your avatar cat, since the cigar is almost down to the nub.

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Mattand  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:23:29am

re: #258 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In addition to self-check stands in markets eliminating workers to allegedly save money, they also don’t prevent theft.

Guy Blatantly Stealing Through Self-Check (Reddit’s r/Facepalm, video, 0:45)

I was thinking about this the other day when I was using the self check out at the ShopRite. To the best of my knowledge, I haven’t missed anything, but it occurred to me that I could accidentally walk out without paying for something if I’m not paying attention.

And, yeah, I’m aware that these things are there to cut down on staff. I kind of think you should be given a small discount for using the self check out, on the theory, that the prices of everything in the store factor in payroll.

Lol, I’m becoming an incredibly temporary part-time employee when I check myself out.

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Mattand  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:25:37am

re: #250 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

I’m feeling a LOT better than I was the other day. I basically aggravated the L4-L5 section of my spine (disk? What disk?) and needed some time to recover. My hip always bothers me this time of year. It REALLY, REALLY doesn’t like the cold.

I feel ya. I’ve got a ruptured disc in the same area. It’s basically not if I’ll get arthritis of the spine down there, it’s when. Hope you’re feeling better.

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Belafon  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:27:02am

re: #251 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I don’t want exactly what you’re having, but I would like more winter:

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:27:20am

re: #230 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

Deck the walls
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Dopamine Fish  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:27:51am

Given how today is going already, this is about what I expected.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:28:51am

I hope Mar-A-Lago burns down at the stroke of midnight.

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darthstar  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:31:18am
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mmmirele  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:31:26am

re: #149 Targetpractice

That’s actually a take on one of the characters in the anime “Neon Genesis Evangelion.” That would be Gendo Ikari, who is one of the antagonists in the original series and the final boss in the rebuilds.

And this, at a critical point early on…

This is quite amusing to anyone who has watched the NGE series and/or movies.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:32:13am

I haven’t shaved since my water died before Christmas. Now that it’s back today, I’m going to enter the New Year with a sharp straight razor and less barbwire on my face. Goalz.

My New Year’s Resolution is the same as it is every year: Not to write the previous year on cheques. I have been amazingly successful at keeping that resolution over the decades.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:34:01am

re: #258 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In addition to self-check stands in markets eliminating workers to allegedly save money, they also don’t prevent theft.

Guy Blatantly Stealing Through Self-Check (Reddit’s r/Facepalm, video, 0:45)

Yeah. There’s been a number of cases here in Sweden as well. It seems that some people don’t get that there are people watching the checkout line, that partial or full double checks performed at random (which are oh so fun when you have two big shopping carts and hear the word “helavstämning” (full count)). Like, there’ll be a cashier or even a guard showing up pronto if your total is remarkably lower than your cart load…
Like, we had one idiot at IKEA, tried to get through the line with stuff for 15,000 SEK ($1,500-ish) but only wanting to pay for 2,000 SEK or so ($200-ish).
Speaking of which, raided IKEA® this Thursday, got away relatively pain free (2500 SEK ($250-ish) ballpark), needed new office chair, cabinet and odds and sods. Don’t know how I survived without the self-scan feature of their app until now.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:36:27am

re: #153 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

With the annuity rates so high, the jackpot has to climb quite a bit more before I declare “real money”.

$250M just doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Many of the latest houses in swanky places are going or $20M+. Up in certain places around LA new projects are going for $50M+ .

Yeah and imagine the property tax you have to pay on a $20 million mansion…and Prop 13’s property tax cap doesn’t apply to any property sold after 1978…

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Dr. Matt  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:39:59am

This should be posted every day everywhere:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:40:34am

re: #271 Joe Bacon

Yeah and imagine the property tax you have to pay on a $20 million mansion…and Prop 13’s property tax cap doesn’t apply to any property sold after 1978…

I’ll cut you a break and sell you my house for just $1MM. You even get original drawing rights on water from the Beerline Canal one block away.

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mmmirele  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:42:52am

re: #194 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hmm… I just felt some rumbling.

Thought it was a quake.

First a light shake. Then a second pause (this happens between P and S waves), then more rumbling.

…

Here we go, out at Borrego Springs: earthquake.usgs.gov

I had a dream overnight that I was in a building in Salt Lake City, an earthquake started, and the building I was in had its foundations undermined (liquefaction), started to tip over and then roll down the hill. And then I woke up.

There is an active fault that runs through northern Utah, called the Wasatch Fault. Statistically, the five active segments are overdue for an earthquake, and yeah, because SLC is built on the remains of ancient Lake Bonneville, liquefaction is a real threat.

en.wikipedia.org

I knew this, it was interesting how it played out in my dream.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:46:16am

I’m waiting for the cringe of our Catholic President to issue a half-staff notice for the death of Pope Benedict XVI.

The only time a President issued a half-staff notice on the death of the Pontiff was when President Geo. W. Bush ordered the flag lowered for Pope John Paul II.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:47:19am

re: #274 mmmirele

I had a dream overnight that I was in a building in Salt Lake City, an earthquake started, and the building I was in had its foundations undermined (liquefaction), started to tip over and then roll down the hill. And then I woke up.

There is an active fault that runs through northern Utah, called the Wasatch Fault. Statistically, the five active segments are overdue for an earthquake, and yeah, because SLC is built on the remains of ancient Lake Bonneville, liquefaction is a real threat.

en.wikipedia.org

I knew this, it was interesting how it played out in my dream.

Well, the statue of the Angel Moroni on top of the Temple in Salt Lake City toppled over without an earthquake.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:47:25am

re: #273 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ll cut you a break and sell you my house for just $1MM. You even get original drawing rights on water from the Beerline Canal one block away.

Tomorrow starts the last full year of working for Social Security. Originally I wanted to retire on my 70th Birthday but my doctors are telling me that’s gonna put too much of a strain on me. I’m under the old CSRS system which is a real pension instead of the current FERS that Pruneface Reagan and Phil Gramm put new hires starting to work for the Feds in 1984 on.

I have to put in 41 years and 11 months under CSRS to get the maximum pension and that maximum date hits on 6/30/24 so that’s the date when I will retire after 42 full years working at the Social Security 800#.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:47:25am

3rd degree jaw drop on this one, but not really:

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Dave In Austin  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:47:40am

If this is “Cedar Fever”’, it’s as bad as I’ve ever had it since moving to Centex in ‘07.
A real ass kicker…..
David, thy name is Snot…….

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John Hughes  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:47:45am

re: #261 Mattand

Lol, I’m becoming an incredibly temporary part-time employee when I check myself out.

You used to go into a shop with a list of stuff you wanted to buy. The people in the shop would get the stuff, wrap it up for you, then you would pay.

You first became an unpaid shop worker when they made you wander around the shop looking for the stuff. Doing the checkout yourself is just the next step.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:51:55am

re: #277 Joe Bacon

Tomorrow starts the last full year of working for Social Security. Originally I wanted to retire on my 70th Birthday but my doctors are telling me that’s gonna put too much of a strain on me. I’m under the old CSRS system which is a real pension instead of the current FERS that Pruneface Reagan and Phil Gramm put new hires starting to work for the Feds in 1984 on.

I have to put in 41 years and 11 months under CSRS to get the maximum pension and that maximum date hits on 6/30/24 so that’s the date when I will retire after 42 full years working at the Social Security 800#.

Congratulations on a long and successful career, selflessly serving the public to ensure they receive what they paid for and earned.

Public service is a long proud tradition which rarely gets the recognition it deserves. It is often thankless, degraded, ignored, or attacked.

I’m of the opinion that the civilian corps of our government deserve “thank you for your service” far more than the military component.

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JC1  Dec 31, 2022 • 8:54:14am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The predatory prison phone call industry is finally about to be fixed (The Verge, December 27, 2022)

A new law, which would allow the FCC to regulate the price of phone calls from prison, just needs President Joe Biden’s signature. (more)

About time. Both ‘industry’ leaders are privately held, so can’t short either. Paytel communications is a ‘christian’ company, as they state several times on their website. Exploiting the incarcerated, par for course.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:00:28am

re: #281 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Thanks fella. Been running my pension calculation on the OPM website and I’m gonna be stung by Dummy’s Pill Bill Tax on my Medicare Part B because I’m just over the threshold. So instead of paying the base Medicare B premium of $164.90 I will be stuck paying $230.80.

Kaiser requires me to enroll in Medicare B once I retire or I lose eligibility. Oh and the other sting is that I have to pay California Income Tax. But I’ll manage to do that.

Sorry to note that with my pension I can’t afford to buy a house or condo. Don’t meet the income thresholds for any kind of home sale unless I match six lotto numbers. And I’m just glad I still have a rent-stabilized apartment to live in.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:02:26am

re: #270 Teukka

Yeah. There’s been a number of cases here in Sweden as well. It seems that some people don’t get that there are people watching the checkout line, that partial or full double checks performed at random (which are oh so fun when you have two big shopping carts and hear the word “helavstämning” (full count)). Like, there’ll be a cashier or even a guard showing up pronto if your total is remarkably lower than your cart load…
Like, we had one idiot at IKEA, tried to get through the line with stuff for 15,000 SEK ($1,500-ish) but only wanting to pay for 2,000 SEK or so ($200-ish).
Speaking of which, raided IKEA® this Thursday, got away relatively pain free (2500 SEK ($250-ish) ballpark), needed new office chair, cabinet and odds and sods. Don’t know how I survived without the self-scan feature of their app until now.

I always thought Sam’s Club was that little bit more paranoid since after leaving a check out line and paid about 100’ away at the entrance/exit I had to show my receipt to a employee there who’d then check the receipt against what I had in my cart and sign-off on it. Thinking on it further that, if anything, seems to be paranoia about their own employees colluding with a “shopper” to rip them off.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:03:16am

Half-staff notice: All of Germany

The German Bundestag has ordered the German flag to be flown at half-staff as a mark of respect for the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

In the US, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has praised Benedict as “a global leader whose devotion, scholarship and hopeful message stirred the hearts of people of all faiths.”

The California Democrat, who is Catholic, said in a statement: “Spiritually, I am always moved by Pope Benedict’s powerful encyclical, ‘God is Love,’ where he quotes St. Augustine highlighting our moral duty as public servants to fight for justice.”

Pelosi said she hoped it would be a comfort to Pope Francis and the Vatican that “so many pray for Pope Benedict during this sad time.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:05:00am

re: #258 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

In addition to self-check stands in markets eliminating workers to allegedly save money, they also don’t prevent theft.

Guy Blatantly Stealing Through Self-Check (Reddit’s r/Facepalm, video, 0:45)

I’m not sure what store that is but the scales built into the bagging area would/should stop that from occurring. I’ve encountered the scale issue when I was 100% honest.

At Meijer, there’s two types of scales, one where you bag directly as I saw on that video (small orders) and the other where the belt weighs the groceries after you scan the items (larger orders). They weigh stuff in grams and are pretty sensitive.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:05:33am

re: #280 John Hughes

You used to go into a shop with a list of stuff you wanted to buy. The people in the shop would get the stuff, wrap it up for you, then you would pay.

You first became an unpaid shop worker when they made you wander around the shop looking for the stuff. Doing the checkout yourself is just the next step.

Which is part of the amusement watching “Double Indemnity” where the two main characters meet in the grocery store where people are pushing around small handcarts. And that store is *innovative* for that time.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:06:36am

re: #284 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I always thought Sam’s Club was that little bit more paranoid since after leaving a check out line and paid about 100’ away at the entrance/exit I had to show my receipt to a employee there who’d then check the receipt against what I had in my cart and sign-off on it. Thinking on it further that, if anything, seems to be paranoia about their own employees colluding with a “shopper” to rip them off.

Here, they simply scan the items by hand, and the receipt contains a barcode which opens the gate you have to pass to get out.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:07:16am

re: #266 Eclectic Cyborg

Trump is Al Bundy reliving his glory days. 🙄

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:07:34am

Half-Staff Notice: United Kingdom

It is with great regret that we learn of the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

Flags will be flown at half mast on UK Government Buildings today until 20.00hrs (Saturday 31 December).

Other organisations and local authorities may follow suit.

ukpol.co.uk

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:09:21am

re: #288 Teukka

Here, they simply scan the items by hand, and the receipt contains a barcode which opens the gate you have to pass to get out.

Here, a few stores like Wal*Mart in Sidney and Safeway in Scottsbluff tried using scanners. They were ignored completely: No one here wants them. Safeway closed them; Wal*Mart took them out.

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austin_blue  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:10:06am

re: #184 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

American soldiers in combat pay no income tax. I was tax-exempt for our little soiree in the Yugoslav Civil War interdicting genocide of Bosniaks, for example.

We had a guy here before The Purge nicked TaxFreeKiller.

As swivel-eyed as a loon can be.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:10:48am

re: #291 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Here, a few stores like Wal*Mart in Sidney and Safeway in Scottsbluff tried using scanners. They were ignored completely: No one here wants them. Safeway closed them; Wal*Mart took them out.

Some like the old-skool check-out, even here in Sweden.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:11:11am

re: #281 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Congratulations on a long and successful career, selflessly serving the public to ensure they receive what they paid for and earned.

Public service is a long proud tradition which rarely gets the recognition it deserves. It is often thankless, degraded, ignored, or attacked.

I’m of the opinion that the civilian corps of our government deserve “thank you for your service” far more than the military component.

When I worked as a contractor* at the USDA back in the late 80s the one analyst I worked with once gave me the sort-a-famous piece of paper on why the government preferred using contractors to laboratory rats.

* - I did the first 3-4 years of my IT employment as a contractor. First two working in DC with the US government. Which were generally very good people in a creaky system. The contracting company had some very slime ball practices that they decided they needed to do to keep competitive. The following two years in Pittsburgh as a contractor before a company hired me full-time was interesting as knowing DEC/VAX COBOL and VMS was a niche environment in that region where everyone knew everyone. The contracting firms had their share of slime ball contract managers there as well so I was glad to move on into a more secure corporate position.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:12:51am

re: #293 Teukka

Some like the old-skool check-out, even here in Sweden.

The market in Dalton and the butcher in Bridgeport here get all your items for you. (Still old skool in a few places here.)

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:13:20am

Just watched I Am Not Your Negro. Should be shown to HS kids. The OG Critical Race Theory. Really well put-together film.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:13:27am

re: #289 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Trump is Al Bundy reliving his glory days. 🙄

Please don’t insult Al Bundy.

At least Al had a moment of glory on the football field and he knew his life peaked at 18.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:13:45am

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The market in Dalton and the butcher in Bridgeport here get all your items for you. (Still old skool in a few places here.)

You have that in some stores out in the sticks here in Sweden, but those stores are becoming a dying breed, alas…

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:15:57am

re: #294 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Well I sorta fell into Civil Service when graduating from college because company after company told me that I had no prior work experience. If they didn’t say that back in the 70s they actually told me that they could not hire me due to affirmative action and I had to fit a race quota.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:17:02am

re: #286 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m not sure what store that is but the scales built into the bagging area would/should stop that from occurring. I’ve encountered the scale issue when I was 100% honest.

At Meijer, there’s two types of scales, one where you bag directly as I saw on that video (small orders) and the other where the belt weighs the groceries after you scan the items (larger orders). They weigh stuff in grams and are pretty sensitive.

One of the problem with self-checkout is all the false positives the machines give, requiring a checker to come over and reset the alarm so the customer can continue.

In many places, stores have decided to disable those alarms.

Bean-counters in corporations are very good at pinching pennies: If they determine “shrinkage” is less expensive than “employee,” employee gets yeeted out the door.

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Jay C  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:19:39am

re: #286 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’m not sure what store that is but the scales built into the bagging area would/should stop that from occurring. I’ve encountered the scale issue when I was 100% honest.

At Meijer, there’s two types of scales, one where you bag directly as I saw on that video (small orders) and the other where the belt weighs the groceries after you scan the items (larger orders). They weigh stuff in grams and are pretty sensitive.

True: I find that (just one) of the PITA things about self-scanning checkout is that you have to scan and place each and every item: like cans of cat food: you can’t just scan the same can 6 times like the human checkout-clerk can.
Also: I guess it depends on the store, and the type of equipment: the local (across the street) CVS installed self-scanners some years ago, and the things are ludicrously unreliable: every third or fourth visit usually requires a human intervention. Which kinda defeats the purpose…
OTOH, the new Whole Foods up the block has banks of shiny new self-check stations that work like a charm. Go figure….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:22:24am

re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of the problem with self-checkout is all the false positives the machines give, requiring a checker to come over and reset the alarm so the customer can continue.

In many places, stores have decided to disable those alarms.

Bean-counters in corporations are very good at pinching pennies: If they determine “shrinkage” is less expensive than “employee,” employee gets yeeted out the door.

I’ve rarely had issues with them. I usually don’t mind them because I’m picky about bagging stuff. The people who bag always smoosh my bread. It drives me nuts to the point where I rebag their shit before I leave the check out line.

Hubby, OTOH, hates self checkout with a fire of 10,000 suns.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:22:35am

Memories of going to New York in 1977 for interviews with Chase, Met Life, Prudential and several Wall Street investment banks and being told point blank that my college degree wasn’t enough to get employed with them. I had to have worked 2 years as an unpaid intern with letters of recommendation.

Bell Telephone would not even interview anyone who did not have a perfect 4.0 grade average. Mellon required the 4.0 plus Honor Roll for all 4 years in High School.

Pain in the ass to bust your ass in college for nothing. So when I was picked up by Social Security to work in the Chicago Payment Center I worked on my Masters in Economics at the University of Chicago and after getting that still got the door slammed in my face from private industry.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:25:20am

Guys and gals, you ain’t gonna believe this one

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:25:34am

re: #300 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One of the problem with self-checkout is all the false positives the machines give, requiring a checker to come over and reset the alarm so the customer can continue.

In many places, stores have decided to disable those alarms.

Bean-counters in corporations are very good at pinching pennies: If they determine “shrinkage” is less expensive than “employee,” employee gets yeeted out the door.

Which is similar to the burger-making machines in that eventually you yeet all the experience and flexibility out of the door since a self-check out is not going to help with an emergency or something like a power outage where you really do need feet on the ground.

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nines09  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:26:49am

I noticed there was a post here about a shooting (murder) at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville Pa last night in the employee parking lot. I know a few people who work there and one stated on Facebook they were barricaded in a room inside.

UPDATE Geisinger employee dead, suspect on loose, officials say

And then this came across 30 minutes ago.

UPDATE Coroners: Mount Carmel man’s fiery fatal crash linked to fatal shooting in Geisinger parking lot

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:26:57am

re: #302 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ve rarely had issues with them. I usually don’t mind them because I’m picky about bagging stuff. The people who bag always smoosh my bread. It drives me nuts to the point where I rebag their shit before I leave the check out line.

Hubby, OTOH, hates self checkout with a fire of 10,000 suns.

I used a self-checkout once.

Aside from calling over a clerk several times for false weigh alarms, the bill clipper was all wonky, failing to take bills or even mis-reading the value.

Nope. Ain’t using them. I’d rather a knowledgeable checker who is far faster than me (checkers are skilled labour) process my purchase.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:27:44am

re: #302 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ve rarely had issues with them. I usually don’t mind them because I’m picky about bagging stuff. The people who bag always smoosh my bread. It drives me nuts to the point where I rebag their shit before I leave the check out line.

Hubby, OTOH, hates self checkout with a fire of 10,000 suns.

I will use a self-check out for 2-3 items. Usually prefer a regular check out. And I load the conveyor belt in a certain order to sort of force the cashier (or bagger) to load my tote bags properly. Cans, heavy objects and stiff boxes first. All the frozen stuff together. Eggs, bread, chips, and crushable stuff last.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:28:14am

re: #303 Joe Bacon

Memories of going to New York in 1977 for interviews with Chase, Met Life, Prudential and several Wall Street investment banks and being told point blank that my college degree wasn’t enough to get employed with them. I had to have worked 2 years as an unpaid intern with letters of recommendation.

Why didn’t you pull yourself up by your bootstraps and be born into a wealthy family that allowed you to work unpaid for two years and have Unko or Pops write that letter for you?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:29:11am

re: #303 Joe Bacon

Memories of going to New York in 1977 for interviews with Chase, Met Life, Prudential and several Wall Street investment banks and being told point blank that my college degree wasn’t enough to get employed with them. I had to have worked 2 years as an unpaid intern with letters of recommendation.

Bell Telephone would not even interview anyone who did not have a perfect 4.0 grade average. Mellon required the 4.0 plus Honor Roll for all 4 years in High School.

Pain in the ass to bust your ass in college for nothing. So when I was picked up by Social Security to work in the Chicago Payment Center I worked on my Masters in Economics at the University of Chicago and after getting that still got the door slammed in my face from private industry.

Corporate world is still very much who you know over what you know for most positions. OBN was even more powerful in the past.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:29:28am

re: #304 Teukka

Guys and gals, you ain’t gonna believe this one

LOLWUT?

A Lolbertarian owner of a social media platform allowing oppressive terrorist regime which ignores human rights to make their case to the whole world on his platform. I am entirely unsurprised.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:30:40am

Alright now…… Who did this?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:32:08am

re: #262 Mattand

I feel ya. I’ve got a ruptured disc in the same area. It’s basically not if I’ll get arthritis of the spine down there, it’s when. Hope you’re feeling better.

Thanks. I am feeling a whole lot better.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:32:55am

re: #312 Dave In Austin

He should have listened to his dad and stuck to playing chess…instead he got on the steroids and got checkmated in more ways than one…

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Jay C  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:33:24am

re: #295 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The market in Dalton and the butcher in Bridgeport here get all your items for you. (Still old skool in a few places here.)

TBF, that’s basically what Instacart does here: only the person who “gets your stuff” is on the other end of the Internet, rather than face-to-face. Not exactly “old-skool”, but the same net effect. And since the shoppers connect via text, it’s almost like being there.
Still doesn’t deal with the out-of-stock issue, though (a BIG problem here), but that’s not the remote-shopping-system’s fault.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:33:39am

re: #308 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I will use a self-check out for 2-3 items. Usually prefer a regular check out. And I load the conveyor belt in a certain order to sort of force the cashier (or bagger) to load my tote bags properly. Cans, heavy objects and stiff boxes first. All the frozen stuff together. Eggs, bread, chips, and crushable stuff last.

My mother should write a book: Tales from the Winn-Dixie Express Lane.

Winn-Dixie scores their checkers on how many items they can process per hour. She routinely got the highest score at the store in Dade City, Fla., using an electromechanical NCR machine when the rest of the lanes had scanners.

In power outages, she’d just put the crank in the side of the machine and keep the store running by herself.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:34:06am

re: #309 BigPapa

Pull yourself up by your Genestraps.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:36:03am

I feel judged.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:36:28am

re: #316 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My mother should write a book: Tales from the Winn-Dixie Express Lane.

Winn-Dixie scores their checkers on how many items they can process per hour. She routinely got the highest score at the store in Dade City, Fla., using an electromechanical NCR machine when the rest of the lanes had scanners.

In power outages, she’d just put the crank in the side of the machine and keep the store running by herself.

I still note particular little preferences or procedures I was taught by my mother regarding cooking, shopping, and a large swath of day-to-day standard activities.

How to pack a grocery back was one of them. And I have a constant reminder* in that one of my canvas shopping bags was given to me by her over 25 years ago.

* - Which I hold as a proper tribute since my mother was a secular humanist and held a person’s immortality was to be remembered by others. She mainly attended UU services for the community and that she liked singing in a choir.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:39:24am

The hell with ‘compassionate conservatism’: In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time

There was a brief moment of hope that the GOP’s poor results in the midterm elections might cause Republicans as a whole to “moderate,” or at least pull away from noxious MAGA extremism. After all, data demonstrates that entirely accurate perceptions of the party’s radicalism led independents — and even a small but crucial number of normally Republican voters — to break for the Democrats. But examples like these and countless others have made clear that the opposite is happening. Republicans aren’t backing away from MAGA. They’re doubling down. The cruelty that has come to define the party is only likely to intensify in the next year, resulting in more vicious attacks on LGBTQ people, more dehumanizing treatment of migrants, more deranged conspiracy theories, more pregnant people denied medical care with specious “pro-life” arguments, and more winking approval of political violence.

The ever-nastier behavior we saw after the 2022 midterms wasn’t a show performed for the benefit of the Fox News-drunk base, or at least not entirely. That’s just who these people are: privileged bullies who can’t stand the idea of treating people different than themselves as equals. The more they come face to face with clear evidence that they’re losing the battle for hearts and minds, the more they’ll use the authority they still possess — which is a lot — to enforce ever more baroque punishments on the most vulnerable people in our society, out of their misbegotten desire for revenge.

alternet.org

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:43:46am
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has only invited official delegations from Germany and Italy to participate in the funeral for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. That underlines the fact that he was no longer pope and had requested a simple funeral.

According to a letter to the diplomatic corps obtained Saturday by The Associated Press, the Vatican Secretariat of State asked diplomatic missions to communicate to the protocol office how many people would be attending Thursday’s funeral. But it stressed that aside from German and Italian official delegations, “the presence of other official delegations is not foreseen.”

It added that “authorities from other countries who wish to may participate in a private capacity.”

That made clear this is not a funeral for a pope, which would normally be a state affair requiring the presence of heads of state or government from any of the more than 185 countries with which the Holy See has diplomatic relations.

Italian security officials estimate some 60,000 people will attend Thursday’s funeral in St. Peter’s Square, state TV reported. That’s far fewer than the estimated 300,000 who attended the 2005 funeral for St. John Paul II.

—-

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden says that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI “will be remembered as a renowned theologian, with a lifetime of devotion to the Church, guided by his principles and faith.”

Biden — a church-going Catholic who differs with church teaching on abortion and some other social issues — issued a statement recalling a meeting with Benedict at the Vatican in 2011. Biden recalled Benedict’s “generosity and welcome as well as our meaningful conversation.”

Biden said: “May his focus on the ministry of charity continue to be an inspiration to us all.”

Live Updates (Associated Press)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:48:40am

re: #308 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I will use a self-check out for 2-3 items. Usually prefer a regular check out. And I load the conveyor belt in a certain order to sort of force the cashier (or bagger) to load my tote bags properly. Cans, heavy objects and stiff boxes first. All the frozen stuff together. Eggs, bread, chips, and crushable stuff last.

I do the same thing but that doesn’t mean they bag things appropriately. They don’t.

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Dangerman  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:49:45am

re: #232 Belafon

What kind of lawyer?

Start with one you trust.
use that person to help you select an expert.
You’re gonna have a lot of money. You can afford it.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:52:04am

re: #323 Dangerman

I’ve always said, you will the Lotto, hire a lawyer and a financial manager/accountant. And lay the law down to both.

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A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:52:56am

re: #320 Joe Bacon

The hell with ‘compassionate conservatism’: In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time

About what I expected. Repugs in CA stopped winning elections a while back, and every time it happens, they decide it was because they strayed from the straight and narrow path and need to be even more batshit next time. (It’s not working.)

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wrenchwench  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:57:49am

re: #321 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Live Updates (Associated Press)

Pope Dies: Live Updates

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:58:21am

re: #325 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS

About what I expected. Repugs in CA stopped winning elections a while back, and every time it happens, they decide it was because they strayed from the straight and narrow path and need to be even more batshit next time. (It’s not working.)

I wish it didn’t work here.

Governor-Elect Jim Pillen (R) was asked about the groundbreaking investigative report from the Flatwater Free Press here about nitrate levels in the state’s water rising many times over the levels recorded in 1970, and his response was that it was elite coastal groups pushing an agenda.

Nevermind the measurements cited in the newspaper’s report were from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the state Department of Environmental Quality, not “elite coastal groups with an agenda.”

I expect there will be no action taken on the nitrate issue with our next wingnut.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 9:59:30am

re: #327 wrenchwench

Pope Dies: Live Updates

Live Pope: Dead Updates.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:01:14am

re: #324 Dave In Austin

I’ve always said, you will the Lotto, hire a lawyer and a financial manager/accountant. And lay the law down to both.

I’ll move to Saskatchewan where it’s warmer. I imagine if you bring enough money Canada will find some way to allow a disabled person to immigrate.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:02:53am

re: #327 wrenchwench

re: #329 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Love that play on words. It is sort of like driving on a parkway and parking on a driveway.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:04:33am

re: #322 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I do the same thing but that doesn’t mean they bag things appropriately. They don’t.

True. I am just trying to get them to tend to load the bags properly. I have no idea if the employees doing so get an any training whatsoever regarding how/what to pack bags. Though they often ask me whether I want the eggs put in a separate plastic bag* - which implies there might be some training or advice in that regard.

* - Will be interesting to see what happens when the plastic bag bans make it into this region since eggs are not a good fit into anything smaller than a full-size paper bag in that regard.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:05:53am

re: #282 JC1

About time. Both ‘industry’ leaders are privately held, so can’t short either. Paytel communications is a ‘christian’ company, as they state several times on their website. Exploiting the incarcerated, par for course.

That’s the kind of thing that makes you want to go Bolshevik on the sleazebags.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:06:56am

re: #304 Teukka

I haven’t been able to reliably discern between sincere insanity and the satire thereof since about 2010. Poe’s Law is real, and one of these days the remnants of our society will have to reckon with it.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:11:18am

re: #328 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I wish it didn’t work here.

Governor-Elect Jim Pillen (R) was asked about the groundbreaking investigative report from the Flatwater Free Press here about nitrate levels in the state’s water rising many times over the levels recorded in 1970, and his response was that it was elite coastal groups pushing an agenda.

Nevermind the measurements cited in the newspaper’s report were from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and the state Department of Environmental Quality, not “elite coastal groups with an agenda.”

I expect there will be no action taken on the nitrate issue with our next wingnut.

Unfortunately I think it is going to be too late regarding a lot of environmental and other factors when the common clay of the West* realizes how totally they have been had and reacts to it in a way harmful in a meaningful way to the GQP.

* - Not to pick just on those people. My current region has a lot of conservative Catholics who seem to have bet heavily in this regard as well. And the springs of systemic racism and resentment on being called out about white privilege run just under the surface around here as well.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:14:01am

As for Benedict—just put him in the vault. Never forgot how he gave cover to that creep Bernard Law.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:16:45am

Breaking extremely local news: My toilet feed line thawed. The tank is filling again, though only with a trickle.

Bad news: The tank shut-off valve doesn’t completely shut off, so it fills slowly until it reaches the handle, then water flows out on the floor.

Good news: Last year when we had the plumber install a bidet, we asked him to also install a valve to cut off the toilet. That means now I can keep my bathroom from flooding.

More good news: I don’t have to flush my toilet with melted snow any more, like we’ve been doing for over a week.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:16:56am

re: #302 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

10: *PLEASE PLACE ITEM IN BAGGING AREA*
11: *UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA*
12: GOTO 10

Plus, if I want to buy a 6-pack of beer or a bottle of wine, I have to wait for someone 30 years younger than me to come over, check my ID (despite my bald head, grey whiskers, and weary dead-fish eyes) to make sure I’m not a 20 year-old master of disguise.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:20:16am

re: #326 wrenchwench

No need to show off. We’ve all known you’re awesome for a long time.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:22:36am

A few things to be thankful for:

LGF
Client gave me some of his fresh roasted coffee from just above town. Just made some French Press.
Right now two dudes I work with are fishing for ahi and if they catch they promised a small block of sashimi grade and maybe a few steaks, colar, or belly, and a fish head for stock.
And… I’m not Andrew Tate.

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wrenchwench  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:22:36am

re: #339 BigPapa

No need to show off. We’ve all known you’re awesome for a long time.

I thought it was average around this joint. And it’s a 5 on the current puzzle, somebody called that a Bogart. /

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nines09  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:22:53am

My New Years PSA.

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mmmirele  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:25:46am

re: #301 Jay C

True: I find that (just one) of the PITA things about self-scanning checkout is that you have to scan and place each and every item: like cans of cat food: you can’t just scan the same can 6 times like the human checkout-clerk can.
Also: I guess it depends on the store, and the type of equipment: the local (across the street) CVS installed self-scanners some years ago, and the things are ludicrously unreliable: every third or fourth visit usually requires a human intervention. Which kinda defeats the purpose…
OTOH, the new Whole Foods up the block has banks of shiny new self-check stations that work like a charm. Go figure….

After BITCHING and MOANING for a couple of years to anyone who would listen, Fry’s has finally allowed for six packs of bottled soda to be scanned and left in the cart instead of stacked with the rest of the groceries. Because I’m one of those people who stock up when there’s a sale. But then I hit the magic number *19* and the clerk has to come over and check I’m not making off with the store.

As for CVS, I’ve complained that the self scanners require you to be more swift than I am at scanning, and I’ve said, “this is not helpful for disabled people.” Inevitably I just wait for the regular checkout instead of dealing with those self-scanners.

As for Whole Foods, the closest is 10 miles away. We, out here in east central Mesa, are not the market for Whole Paycheck. Besides, we have Sprouts and Trader Joe’s.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:26:56am

Oh, and I just made a fruit bowl with local papaya, banana, mandarin orange (only one big seed), grapefruit, and Cosco blueberries. 100% Suck Free.

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Belafon  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:26:57am

Trying to get hair off of my brother’s dog:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:27:14am

re: #336 Joe Bacon

As for Benedict—just put him in the vault. Never forgot how he gave cover to that creep Bernard Law.

Well, since you commented first, I’ll comment that I’m not impressed by the effusion of praise from President Biden and Speaker Pelosi (both Catholics) for Benedict, considering his role in helping cover up child sexual abuse.

I would rather our nation treat the Holy See the way it did before Ronald Reagan recognised the Holy See. In 1867, the United States cut off diplomatic relations with the Papal States as out-of-character with the secular nature of our nation and oppression by that state of non-Catholics. President Reagan explicitly pushed the idea of the USA being a Christian nation.

In 1867, the New York Times reported any non-Catholics were forced out of Rome.

Both the Democratic and Republican Parties explicitly pushed for recognition of the Holy See, until the Lugar Act (Richard Lugar, R-Indiana) repealed the law financing a legation and prohibiting the recognition of the Papal States (and its successor the Vatican City-State). The vote was overwhelming by both parties to diplomatically recognise a church.

Since then, the USA has sent an ambassador and the Holy See has sent a Papal Nuncio.

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BigPapa  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:29:34am

I think it’s time for some vain giraffes.

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Belafon  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:30:01am

I try to go through people lines. When I do my own checkout, if I have something like a case of dog food, I will get the clerk to do the thing where you scan one and then enter the amount.

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A Cranky One  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:30:45am

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:32:20am

re: #330 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ll move to Saskatchewan where it’s warmer. I imagine if you bring enough money Canada will find some way to allow a disabled person to immigrate.

They will. If you invest enough $$$ into the local economy, they’ll basically “give” you a permanent resident card. Leastwise that is how I have interpreted their immigration laws.

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ckkatz  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:36:40am

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:37:51am

re: #348 Belafon

When I last worked in retail (Office Depot) in the early 1990s it became policy to SCAN EVERY ITEM individually, even though the system was specifically designed so that you could enter (number of items) and scan once. Is the barcode on the 37th iteration of the same item FUBAR and unscannable? Well better call a manager for an override.

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darthstar  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:38:20am
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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:39:54am

Remember, the only issue differentiating Cheney from the House Republicans is her opposition to violent overthrow of the government.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:40:44am

re: #345 Belafon

Trying to get hair off of my brother’s dog:

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I’ve always wondered how that could possibly be used for a hangover cure.

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A Cranky One  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:42:53am

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:43:44am

re: #355 Barefoot Grin

the man who was mortally wounded in war kept on fighting
the man who was cut to the quick by love kept on loving
the man who was mercilessly tortured by thoughts kept on thinking
the man who was crippled with concern kept on caring kept on caring

hair of the dog
hair of the dog
hair of the dog that turned
hair of the dog

the man whose eyes were sore from obscenities kept on looking
the man whose heart bled, killed by compassion kept on feeling
the man whose legs buckled under exertion kept on running
the man whose ears rang with the sound of his own name kept on listening

hair of the dog
hair of the dog
hair of the dog that turned
hair of the dog

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jeffreyw  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:45:26am

re: #306 nines09

I noticed there was a post here about a shooting (murder) at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville Pa last night in the employee parking lot. I know a few people who work there and one stated on Facebook they were barricaded in a room inside.

UPDATE Geisinger employee dead, suspect on loose, officials say

And then this came across 30 minutes ago.

UPDATE Coroners: Mount Carmel man’s fiery fatal crash linked to fatal shooting in Geisinger parking lot

Damn! Shot himself, crashed himself, and then burned himself up. I’d be checking for a nuke in low earth orbit, just to be sure.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:45:32am

re: #296 BigPapa

Just watched Holy Spider, a somewhat fictionalized retelling of the Iranian serial killer Saeed Hanaei, who waged a one-man war against the sex workers of his city, Mashaad.

A very good film, but disturbing (to say the least). Nonetheless, Mehdi Bajestani, who plays the killer, turned in an award-worthy performance, as did Zar Amir Ebrahimi. I checked out an actual documentary on the matter, And Along Came a Spider, a 2002 film directed by Maziar Bahari, and damn…that’s positively chilling. It’s on Vimeo. Be forewarned if you wanna look it up, that documentary has crime scene photos, as well as showing the immediate aftermath of the actual execution by hanging of Hanaei.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:46:28am

re: #354 No Malarkey!

Remember, the only issue differentiating Cheney from the House Republicans is her opposition to violent overthrow of the government.

That’s an interesting idea, though.

Back when Speaker of the House Gerald Ford was elevated to Vice-President, the Democratic Party was of the opinion that the new Speaker should be of the majority party.

Supporting Liz Cheney would provide a few benefits:

a) The Wingnut Caucus hates her, helping drive the wedge deeper into her party.

b) She actually wants to “do government,” even if her positions do not align with Democrats.

c) She probably would not be keen on endless committees to investigate everything from Hunter Biden’s genitals to re-litigating the 2020 election.

The Democrats have a bad hand here and I can see where elevating the least-popular person in the Republican caucus works as an advantage.

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darthstar  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:49:17am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:50:13am

re: #360 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

d) On top of that, Rep. Cheney would know every single day where her power as Speaker comes from: the Democrats. They could oust her just as fast as they install her. To maintain her power as Speaker, she would be required to negotiate with the Democrats rather than ignore them.

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darthstar  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:51:04am

re: #354 No Malarkey!

Remember, the only issue differentiating Cheney from the House Republicans is her opposition to violent overthrow of the government.

She would be far preferable to be 2nd in line to the Presidency than Scalise or Jordan.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:51:08am

The Time column just killed me:

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A Cranky One  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:53:58am

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mmmirele  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:55:38am

re: #333 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

That’s the kind of thing that makes you want to go Bolshevik on the sleazebags.

I know, definitely not a communist here (I work for a sleazy temple of capitalism) but the absolute RIP OFF that is phone calls to family/friends outside prisons/jails is *disgusting*. If I think about it too much, it makes me wanna go Bolshie.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:57:33am

re: #363 darthstar

She would be far preferable to be 2nd in line to the Presidency than Scalise or Jordan.

Speaker of the House Marjorie Taylor-Green (shudder)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 10:59:38am

re: #366 mmmirele

I know, definitely not a communist here (I work for a sleazy temple of capitalism) but the absolute RIP OFF that is phone calls to family/friends outside prisons/jails is *disgusting*. If I think about it too much, it makes me wanna go Bolshie.

I once made a call to a friend in jail. The damn call was over a hundred dollars just to arrange a commissary account for her (another rip-off in jails).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:03:51am
During National Stalking Awareness Month, we shine a light on the insidious crime of stalking, recommit to protecting survivors, and reaffirm that every American deserves to live free from fear, intimidation, and threats to their physical safety and emotional well-being.

(more)

A Proclamation on National Stalking Awareness Month, 2023 (Goes to the White House Website)

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jeffreyw  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:07:03am

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mmmirele  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:08:56am

re: #358 jeffreyw

Damn! Shot himself, crashed himself, and then burned himself up. I’d be checking for a nuke in low earth orbit, just to be sure.

Another incident where a woman is hunted down and killed by her ex-boyfriend. Which you wouldn’t learn until the third paragraph. That article should have started something like,

A woman employee of the Geisinger Medical Center in Danville was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend around 5:04 p.m. Friday. Vikki Wetzel, 49, of Berwick, was walking to her car outside the medical center when she was shot multiple times by David Morgan, 48, her ex-boyfriend. Morgan was later found dead of a gunshot wound after a single car traffic accident and car fire on Route 42 north of Aristes, Columbia County, near Weiser State Forest.

Authorities report the chain of events began (etc.)

So, so, so, ever so very very very glad that I failed the last class in the journalism program at UT Austin 40 years ago this month and thus did not get a bachelor of journalism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:08:59am

Poor Wikipedia had to lock Andrew Tate’s entry due to everyone updating Greta Thunberg’s TKO on his fight list.

en.wikipedia.org

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:09:10am

*DIES*

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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:09:33am

re: #360 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s an interesting idea, though.

Back when Speaker of the House Gerald Ford was elevated to Vice-President, the Democratic Party was of the opinion that the new Speaker should be of the majority party.

Supporting Liz Cheney would provide a few benefits:

a) The Wingnut Caucus hates her, helping drive the wedge deeper into her party.

b) She actually wants to “do government,” even if her positions do not align with Democrats.

c) She probably would not be keen on endless committees to investigate everything from Hunter Biden’s genitals to re-litigating the 2020 election.

The Democrats have a bad hand here and I can see where elevating the least-popular person in the Republican caucus works as an advantage.

Though I’m still expecting that Qevin will be able to debase himself thoroughly enough to get enough fascist votes to become Speaker, I’m hoping not.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:11:20am

re: #363 darthstar

She would be far preferable to be 2nd in line to the Presidency than Scalise or Jordan.

The thought of a President Cheney sends chills down my spine.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:11:39am

re: #354 No Malarkey!

Remember, the only issue differentiating Cheney from the House Republicans is her opposition to violent overthrow of the government.

I think on at least the first few ballots the Democrats should nominate and vote for their leader. Simply to see if a small number of “moderate” Republicans would “believe in bipartisanship” and vote for a Speaker that would actually lead.

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:12:49am

re: #373 Teukka

How… What… *head Windows freezes*

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:13:26am

re: #377 Nyet

How… What… *head Windows freezes*

You’re welcome :)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:13:51am

re: #373 Teukka

*DIES*

Dayum, they really want to make this about body-shaming. Classic DARVO.

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Nyet  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:16:20am

An even hotter take.

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No Malarkey!  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:16:33am

re: #379 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Dayum, they really want to make this about body-shaming. Classic DARVO.

I wondering if it’s a subtle insinuation that toxic masculinity influencer Andrew Tate is a transgender homosexual.

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Teukka  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:25:19am

re: #377 Nyet

How… What… *head Windows freezes*

Stole your response :D

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TarHellion  Dec 31, 2022 • 11:31:58am

re: #360 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

One correction: Ford was House Minority Leader, not Speaker. Oklahoma Democrat Carl Albert was SoH.

That being said, if you wanted to make Fox and the GQP utterly melt down, put Cheney in as Speaker.


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