Back at it like old times. Quick demo with the trusty Danelectro. Maybe this will become a full song someday too…shot vertically because it was supposed to go on Instagram too. Whoops.
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Talking about dogs that hunt. I had a small, gracile Shiba Inu, Hoshi, who was a great hunter.
She would regularly kill moles and bring them to me. She would listen for them running in their tunnel , then leap on the ground, collapsing the tunnel and killing the mole, which she would dig out.
But the big game hunting she did thaty scared the heck out of me happened in the evening. While out in the fenced yard, we heard this screaming like a little child. We went outside and she had cornered some animal I had never seen. The size of a large rabbit, it had round ears like a bear. And huge, nasty incisors that seemed to have horizontal projections on them.
I tried to hold her back because I did not want those teeth to get her. As I tried to use a shovel to move the animal, Hoshi ran around, caught the animal by the neck, flung it in the air and broke its neck. She was very pleased with herself.
Turns out it was a mountain beaver. We get them around here and a few curious golden retrievers in the neighborhood got mauled buy them.
But not my Hoshi. I never worried about her having to del with any of the wildlife that made it into our backyard. She was too good to get caught.
She died 2 years ago. I stll miss her.
It is spring in Philly. I have a bumper crop of dandelions.
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re: #289 PhillyPretzel ✅
OMG I am not going to ask how it got there or why they have it. Just get that &^%$ thing to a bomb disposal unit.
I was involved in an incident like this while I was home on leave from the army in the early 70s. I was outside working on my parents’ lawn. A neighbor had come to visit with my stepmother. They called me into the house. The neighbor explained that she had been going through some of her late husband’s belongings and was wondering if I could identify an object he had brought home from the war. She set a box down on our kitchen table, opened it, and lifted out what appeared to be a 75mm artillery round, complete with casing and fuse. I suppressed a squeal and told her to set it down very gently on a folded towel that happened to be handy. Then I told them to run, not walk, to a house across the street.
We called the fire department. I mentioned that military ordnance was suspected so they also sent the nearby Air Force base’s crash rescue department, of which my father happened to be chief. He arrived first with his big O-11a crash trucks, followed by a small fleet of civilian fire apparatus. He found us huddling with the other neighbors behind a concrete wall at the end of the block. His first words were “OK, what have you done now?” I explained. He sent most of the fire equipment away and helped the cops evacuate the neighborhood. The Air Force explosive ordnance types (eg “bomb squad”) arrived and took the shell away to be blown up with C-4 at their bomb range. They told us later that it had in fact been inert, no explosive, in spite of the live fuse. The ATF investigated and quickly closed the case.
MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Next week I’m introducing a bill to ban elementary school children from voting in federal elections. Because just like Trump, I want to talk about bills that duplicate existing law.#SaturdayVibes https://t.co/vaf64haty0
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 13, 2024
Iran launched the initial drone volley towards Israel.
BREAKING: Iran launches attack against Israel using dozens of drones, four U.S. and Israeli officials told me
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) April 13, 2024
In other news, done this weeks good deed. Helped the cat of my neighbors, had gotten her claw stuck in her tail somehow. After some fail attempts and some sacrifice of blood to the feline overlady, and some feline curses which would be against LGF ToS to present in translated form here, managed to get her paw free from her tail.
Given advise to keep an eye on the tail, so it doesn’t show signs of infection (warm, swollen, pain), or if she begins to lick it excessively, keeping an eye on the claws on the paw that got stuck that they didn’t get excessively stretched out, to leave her be to calm down, pamper her a bit and if she wants company, give it, and otherwise be in a wait-and-see pattern.
Am I forgetting anything?
re: #6 JC1
Iran launched the initial drone volley towards Israel.
I wonder if Putin has approved this? Israeli reprisals could take a big bite out of the Iranian industries that supply a sizable fraction of the ammunition and drones used by Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
re: #9 Teukka
In other news, done this weeks good deed. Helped the cat of my neighbors, had gotten her claw stuck in her tail somehow. After some fail attempts and some sacrifice of blood to the feline overlady, and some feline curses which would be against LGF ToS to present in translated form here, managed to get her paw free from her tail.
Given advise to keep an eye on the tail, so it doesn’t show signs of infection (warm, swollen, pain), or if she begins to lick it excessively, keeping an eye on the claws on the paw that got stuck that they didn’t get excessively stretched out, to leave her be to calm down, pamper her a bit and if she wants company, give it, and otherwise be in a wait-and-see pattern.
Am I forgetting anything?
Catnip.
re: #7 Teukka
“ballistic missiles fired from Iran would take 12 minutes to reach Israel, cruise missiles would take two hours, and drones would reach targets in nine hours”https://t.co/hNfWdLM3VM
— Marvin Baumann (@MarvinTBaumann) April 13, 2024
re: #5 Captain Ron
“Trump and Mike Johnson zero in on noncitizen voting. It’s already illegal and very rare.”
I’ve said this before: the cost of getting caught voting illegally is so great compared with the benefit that it’s virtually unheard of. Anyone who managed to make it into this country as a non-citizen is much more capable than the average Trump cultist of making a rational, personal cost-benefit calculation.
People who agitate about non-citizens voting assume their audience is stupid.
re: #1 silverdolphin
Here we get skunks, skunks, and more skunks. Only walks at dusk and later. No back yard. 😅
re: #14 jaunte
THIS.
It’s well documented that the vast majority of immigrants are very hard-working people just looking to provide a better life for themselves and their families.
And they are WELL AWARE they have few inherent rights in the United States. They are not instantly granted the same privileges as people who are born here.
They have to work and earn pretty much everything. They want to prove that they can be productive members of society. They want to reach a place where they can call this country home. This also plays into why they are willing to work jobs Americans won’t.
When you come to a new country, you basically have to start your life over in a lot of ways: Your friends and family do not come with you. Your credit score does not come with you. All the places you have known and appreciate do not come with you.
You have to begin again. From scratch. That’s not an easy thing to do.
And on top of that, for migrants who are not here legally, there’s always the specter of deportation hanging over them. They don’t want to draw attention to themselves, they don’t want to get out of line. They want to work hard and keep a relatively low profile just like the rest of us.
The transition migrants have to go through when they move to a new country is something someone who has never lived outside the United States will ever truly understand.
It’s just too easy for some Americans to sit in their place of privilege and judge others for fighting for things they didn’t have to lift a finger for.
I am an American citizen now, but I am still a hard-working immigrant and always will be. I have busted my butt for everything I’ve gotten in this country and I’m damn proud of it.
Anyone who would judge me and treat me badly simply because I am from somewhere else can fuck right the hell off.
re: #14 jaunte
I’ve said this before: the cost of getting caught voting illegally is so great compared with the benefit that it’s virtually unheard of. Anyone who managed to make it into this country as a non-citizen is much more capable than the average Trump cultist of making a rational, personal cost-benefit calculation.
It is a matter of RW doctrine that corrupt Democrats bring them here in order to pay them thousands of dollars and offer them all forged documentation they need to vote Democrat.
re: #16 GlutenFreeJesus
Here we get skunks, skunks, and more skunks. Only walks at dusk and later. No back yard. 😅
Had an infestation of those critters when I lived on Oak Creek in Sedona, AZ.
re: #18 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You would think they might be able to find a few hundred examples, maybe a few thousand; enough to sway an election.
re: #21 jaunte
If that much. It does not happen as often as they say it does.
re: #20 jaunte
You would think they might be able to find a few hundred examples, maybe a few thousand; enough to sway an election.
DJT insisted that Hillary found more than 3 million in 2016.
re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
His first words were “OK, what have you done now?”
Knows you well 😹
re: #10 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines
I wonder if Putin has approved this? Israeli reprisals could take a big bite out of the Iranian industries that supply a sizable fraction of the ammunition and drones used by Putin’s forces in Ukraine.
I doubt that Iran cares much about what Putin thinks.
re: #25 JC1
I doubt that Iran cares much about what Putin thinks.
Very few people these days outside of Russia care much about what Putin thinks, excepting American Republicans.
re: #23 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and it was done so secretly that there’s no financial trail or practical evidence to be found… because if you’re going to get millions to vote illegally, you’ll have to have suborned election officials locally and at the state level and STILL not leave a trail as to where they voted and how they voted. Truly diabolical.
My thinking came around to be if she’s that good at arranging election perfidy and killing anyone who dares speaks out against the Clinton machine, how the fuck did she lose in 2016?
Radical Xtians are jumping for joy believing the Rapture is at hand…
re: #29 Joe Bacon ✅
Radical Xtians are jumping for joy believing the Rapture is at hand…
If they won’t give you their car keys, they’re not being serious.
Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble - The Atlantic
Some of the bigger names in the field have been pummeled the hardest: The Daily Caller lost 57 percent of its audience; Drudge Report, the granddaddy of conservative aggregation, was down 81 percent; and The Federalist, founded just over a decade ago, lost a staggering 91 percent. (The site’s CEO and co-founder, Sean Davis, called that figure “laughably inaccurate” in an email but offered no further explanation.) FoxNews.com, by far the most popular conservative-news site, has fared better, losing “only” 22 percent of traffic, which translates to 23 million fewer monthly site visitors compared with four years ago.
News: Iran has launched a fleet of drones headed toward Israel. Will take several hours to get there. Israel has deployed war planes.
re: #34 Charles
News: Iran has launched a fleet of drones headed toward Israel. Will take several hours to get there. Israel has deployed war planes.
And ballistic and cruise missiles. And lots of them…
re: #35 Teukka
And ballistic and cruise missiles. And lots of them…
Let’s be careful what we repeat without sourcing. I haven’t seen any confirmation of ballistic or cruise missile attacks, and given the short flight time compared to drones it seems unlikely any ballistic missiles in particular have been fired yet.
re: #39 goddamnedfrank
I agree with that assessment. Just a little cage rattling by the Iranians.
At least I hope that’s all it is.
Vlad must be pissed that Iran is using those missiles he was going to get from them.
re: #41 b.d.
Vlad must be pissed that Iran is using those missiles he was going to get from them.
Hopefully Israel targeted all of Iran’s war factories and can cut off their supply to Putin completely.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I agree with that assessment. Just a little cage rattling by the Iranians.
At least I hope that’s all it is.
They can always escalate and fire off a ton of cruise and ballistic missiles so everything is timed to arrive all at once, but no indications that’s happened yet. Wait and see.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
Israeli media is reporting that cruise missiles have already been launched about an hour ago, with an estimated arrival time of two hours.
Marquis De Fraud is holding another Nazi gathering tonight.
Woman at Trump rally today holding a White Claw which clearly is not her first one gets confused about then MAGA slogan and calls it Make America Better Again. pic.twitter.com/viGSBFyfD0
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 13, 2024
Israel’s airspace has just been closed ahead of the impending attack, with local news reporters citing estimates by US officials that over 400 UAVs have been launched by Iran in its attack on Israel.
There are assessments that a volley of ballistic missiles, which if launched from Iran would take approximately 13 minutes to strike in Israel, may be timed to coincide with the cruise missiles Iran has apparently already launched.
Iran claims it has launched ballistic missiles at Israel.
re: #52 (((Archangel1)))
Iran claims it has launched ballistic missiles at Israel.
We’ll know in about 15ish minutes then…
The Iranian weapons and the Israeli defense systems meant to counter them:
From left to right:
UAV systems - 9 hours arrival time- Patriot and Iron Dome platforms
Cruise missiles - 2 hours arrival time - David’s Sling and Iron Dome platforms
Ballistic missiles - 12 minutes arrival time - Arrow 3 platforms
re: #55 (((Archangel1)))
The Iranian weapons and the Israeli defense systems meant to counter them:
From left to right:
UAV systems - 9 hours arrival time- Patriot and Iron Dome platforms
Cruise missiles - 2 hours arrival time - David’s Sling and Iron Dome platforms
Ballistic missiles - 12 minutes arrival time - Arrow 3 platforms[Embedded content]
Curious whether the Iranian systems are going to be able to target something considered a legitimate target as compared to simply trying to hit a city and not care whether or not they kill civilians.
I presume Iran is stating that this is retaliation for the strike on their consulate?
re: #57 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
You presume correctly - the IRGC have apparently named the attack on Israel as operation “True Promise”, and announced that it’s part of “the punishment for Israel’s crimes.”
Technically it wasn’t the consulate itself that was hit but a nearby building where the senior Quds force and Hezbollah officials were apparently meeting to plan an attack (seeing how the top mofo there was involved with terrorist attacks with thousands of deaths, including Americans, no one here should shed a tear).
Cultists To Rally Monday Outside NYC Courthouse
“On Friday morning, Mr. Trump signaled his desire for demonstrations in a fund-raising email entitled “72 hours until all hell breaks loose!”
This is even worse than what he said on Jan.6. Is he hoping that they will disrupt the trial so much that it is delayed? Will prospective jurors be threatened?
Meanwhile J. Dickhead Vance continues his never ending asskissing of Putin by opposing all aid to Ukraine. And of course that reliable cog in the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine known as the New York Times lets him print that bullshit on their Op-Ed page.
JD Vance Wants Ukraine To Give Up, Roll Over, Think About Someone Better-Looking
Easy to tell another country to give up when it costs you nothing.
Having not learned its lesson about publishing dishonest and un-fact-checked swill from GOP senators with that whole “Tom Cotton calls for active-duty military to shoot all the hippies” debacle a few years ago, The New York Times on Friday decided to give diseased penile cyst JD Vance the run of its Opinion page so he could simp for Vladimir Putin’s “Phony nation of Ukraine must be stomped into ground beef under boot heel of Russian greatness” foreign policy.
Vance has been a scumbag since, oh, ever, and if he wants to publish fact-free, self-serving screeds on Breitbart or the Daily Wire or his old Tumblr account, that’s his business. But please keep it away from allegedly legit media organs, the adults are trying to solve serious problems here.
FWIW still no independent confirmations of ballistic missile launches or impacts, the IRNA claim was based on a single anonymous source. This is a typical dogshit early conflict info space and I’ll say again that all claims repeated here should be sourced for evaluation rather than presented as raw assertion.
re: #55 (((Archangel1)))
The Iranian weapons and the Israeli defense systems meant to counter them:
From left to right:
UAV systems - 9 hours arrival time- Patriot and Iron Dome platforms
Cruise missiles - 2 hours arrival time - David’s Sling and Iron Dome platforms
Ballistic missiles - 12 minutes arrival time - Arrow 3 platforms[Embedded content]
If this is Israeli television, in Hebrew, why would it read left to right?
re: #61 silverdolphin
Cultists To Rally Monday Outside NYC Courthouse
This is even worse than what he said on Jan.6. Is he hoping that they will disrupt the trial so much that it is delayed? Will prospective jurors be threatened?
I just don’t think there are that many MAGAts in around Manhattan. I’ll be shocked if more than a few dozen people show up.
Welp, if ballistic missiles were in fact launched from Iran, then they’re the slowest ballistic missiles in recorded history - nothing whatsoever so far.
Meanwhile Israeli news is reporting now that drones have been shot down over Jordan coming from the east (likely those launched by the Houthis).
re: #66 Eclectic Cyborg
I just don’t think there are that many MAGAts in around Manhattan. I’ll be shocked if more than a few dozen people show up.
Large numbers are a bitch, Manhattan has 1.6 million inhabitants and if only 1% of them are Trumpers that’s 16K dipshits at the ready.
re: #68 goddamnedfrank
Large numbers are a bitch, Manhattan has 1.6 million inhabitants and if only 1% of them are Trumpers that’s 16K dipshits at the ready.
Plenty of them in Staten Island. It’s not like there’s a wall around Manhattan.
re: #65 sagehen
If this is Israeli television, in Hebrew, why would it read left to right?
Not sure I understand. If you are talking about the “Arabic numerals” ie symbols, I have always seen them written left to right in Hebrew.
re: #65 sagehen
If this is Israeli television, in Hebrew, why would it read left to right?
That’s just me starting the translation as such for convenience (right to left bothers many English-speakers in my experience).
re: #61 silverdolphin
I think the cultists will find that New York police are just a tad bit different in demeanor from Capitol police when it comes to maintaining a strict semblance of order as opposed to the cultists rioting and chaotically expressing themselves.
So…I’m thinking ballistic missiles were not, in fact, launched.
re: #69 JC1
Plenty of them in Staten Island. It’s not like there’s a wall around Manhattan.
It’s more like a moat. With ferries.
Skynews reports interceptions over Jerusalem, video too.
Strange issue with IOS 17.4.1 update today. I’d previously updated via wifi a week ago but whenever I plug in the phone or ipad to itunes, it said there was still a 17.4.1 update available. I went ahead and OKed an update on both devices. The phone was first and following the update, it appeared to operate fine. The ipad, not so much. Nearly every non-apple app would start up, show its splash screen, and then crash. Checking several apple websites, it seems that this is a common problem. Ultimately, I found one entry on MacRumors forum that stated it was some problem with icloud and suggested a fix was to logout of icloud, log back in, and restart. I did the icloud logout/in and that seemed to fix the apps problem. Everything that was crashing before now works on start. Although many people complained it happened on their iphone, it didn’t on mine. I hope this is a permanent resolution, not just a temporary patch. Watch and wait.
I’m searching for a response from apple but haven’t found one yet. This is literally the first time I’ve had a problem with apple updates on my phone or ipad.
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