That’s right, folks. According to US News and World Report, we won’t have Sean Spicer as Press Secretary to kick around any more.
Ah, Sean. We hardly knew ye. But what we did know we really didn’t like very much. Bye now.
“White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer will step back from giving reporters the daily press briefing”
He tried turning off the cameras, he tried turning off the recorders, he tried hiding in the bushes.
Yet another Republican OD’s from kissing Trump’s ass!
I hear they’re going to replace him with an animatronic velociraptor.
Spicer searching for candidates to take over White House briefing https://t.co/fvrc10sq6W pic.twitter.com/wjOeTYhOjo
— POLITICO (@politico) June 20, 2017
No one in their right mind will take this job. So it will probably be Kaleigh McEnany. https://t.co/rsrLOVGZLX
— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) June 20, 2017
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
I hear they’re going to replace him with an animatronic velociraptor.
That would eliminate the problem of no humanoid wanting the job.
Live shot of Spicer leaving the White House: pic.twitter.com/lv4buBVsei
— The Spite House (@SpiteHouseSpox) June 20, 2017
Jared’s pick Martosko seems to be a big enough asshole to fit in well with trump.
It’s simply wrong for legislation that’ll affect 100% of the American people to be negotiated behind closed doors - ow.ly #hcr
— Governor Mike Pence (@GovPenceIN) January 13, 2010
Now this is just downright embarrassing:
US Shakespeare theaters report abuse amid uproar over Trump-like Caesar
Apparently, ignorant wingnuts are launching verbal assaults and threats against any and all Shakespeare organizations who have an in-the-park production; that is, quite a few of them. They seem to think that all productions of Julius Caesar, or perhaps all Shakespearean plays, include the Trump-like character.
In Lenox, Massachusetts, an all-year Shakespeare festival received around 40 abusive messages, the Boston Globe reported. One reportedly wished Shakespeare & Company “the worst possible life you could have and hope you all get sick and die”.
In Texas, meanwhile, Shakespeare Dallas artistic director Raphael Parry reported the receipt of around 80 messages including threats of rape and death and one suggestion, referencing the fate of Shakespeare’s Caesar, that theater staff should be “sent to Isis to be killed with real knives”.
“We just got slammed,” Parry told the Globe. “It’s pretty amazing the vitriol, the wishing we would die and our family would die. A whole lot of them say that we should burn in hell.”
How many Dems who hate Sanders for being an independent also love Democratic lawmakers who vote with Dems far less than Sanders does?
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) June 20, 2017
And how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop, who gives a shit? https://t.co/SR7PXg2V4a
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) June 20, 2017
So Sean Spicer’s for the dumpster after just what? 5 months on the job?
I almost feel sorry for the poor slob - trying to maintain something approaching reasonable relations with the press for this abominable Administration has got to be an impossible task.
Almost, but not quite: fuck this stupid buffoon, and good riddance. The only sad part of this is that his boss won’t be leaving with him….
re: #11 Kragar
#SpicerReplacements pic.twitter.com/E54TmycqS4
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) June 20, 2017
What an administration. The Greatest. Why would anyone work with this clan of cons? I suspect many are asking that question. Why wouldn’t you ask when you see people hiring lawyers? If this fool goes a full year in the damn job will he even have the same staff he started with?
Trump The Fuck Up.
By the way, I see Spicer as the kind of guy that might lash back at Trump. I hope he runs his mouth. Hey Sean, ignore those non disclosure agreements. Trump demands loyalty and look where it got you.
Laura Ingraham is rumored to be Spicey’s replacement. If she gets the job, her tenure should be orders of magnitude more interesting than Spicey’s. That is, if she lets the media record the events of the White House. Who knows. Just today they barred audio and video from the press “gaggle.” I can see Laura confiscating pens and notebooks from the press room.
If I was Spencer, I’d go home and cry out of relief that it’s finally over. I can imagine what it’s like working for Trump and I can’t see how anybody stays. The pay can’t be that good.
re: #20 stpaulbear
If I was Spencer, I’d go home and cry out of relief that it’s finally over. I can imagine what it’s like working for Trump and I can’t see how anybody stays. The pay can’t be that good.
I think he’ll still be running the Office of Communications or whatever it is. He just won’t be Press Secretary.
re: #20 stpaulbear
If I was
SpencerSpicer, I’d go home and cry out of relief that it’s finally over. I can imagine what it’s like working for Trump and I can’t see how anybody stays. The pay can’t be that good.
FTFY
re: #20 stpaulbear
He’s not leaving, he’s being kicked upstairs.
re: #22 calochortus
I think he’ll still be running the Office of Communications or whatever it is. He just won’t be Press Secretary.
It will be presented as a promotion for exceptional service.
Because Republican senators will LIE to their own constituents about who cut their Healthcare #holdthefloor
— Joe (@activistmode) June 20, 2017
re: #26 jaunte
Joe @activistmode
Because Republican senators will LIE to their own constituents about who cut their Healthcare #holdthefloor
10:28 PM - 19 Jun 2017
There is no political party more dishonest, deceptive, or hypocritical than the modern Republican party.
Spicer may never have gotten over the fact that Trump did not permit him to meet the Pope — a meeting that would have actually meant something to him. Maybe he will eventually gain enough courage to leave this White House and speak the truth — but probably not.
re: #28 stpaulbear
Gah. I got everything wrong. Mind on other things this evening…
It happens to all of us occasionally.
There was chatter about no more briefings by Spicer weeks ago, but not because he’s going anywhere but because Trump et all are giving the press a big fuck you (like today). They’re simple not going to have daily briefings any longer.
I wouldn’t watch Megan Kelly interview someone I was interested in. I’m certainly not going to watch her interview someone like Jones. I’m not interested in seeing her at all. Ever.
She’ll never get any ratings from this house. Not. Ever.
re: #32 MsJ
There was chatter about no more briefings by Spicer weeks ago, but not because he’s going anywhere but because Trump et all are giving the press a big fuck you (like today). They’re simple not going to have daily briefings any longer.
The Washington Post’s new motto “Democracy Dies in Darkness” describes exactly what is happening now: the Senate operates in darkness; the WH now operates in darkness. We are being governed by decree and not consent.
re: #20 stpaulbear
If I was Spencer, I’d go home and cry out of relief that it’s finally over. I can imagine what it’s like working for Trump and I can’t see how anybody stays. The pay can’t be that good.
I would be totally unsurprised if Richard Spencer were named to a White House position, given that the two Stephens (Bannon and Miller) are both fans of him.
re: #34 Shiplord Kirel
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Doesn’t Canada have private air traffic control? Probably not quite like Trump envisions, but it might not be one of his stupidest ideas.
Forecast temps in Phoenix tomw (120F) exceed operating range of commercial airliners, so they’re grounding flights https://t.co/UQgUDQnJ9R
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) June 20, 2017
re: #37 calochortus
Doesn’t Canada have private air traffic control? Probably not quite like Trump envisions, but it might not be one of his stupidest ideas.
You’re confusing Canada’s private and strictly regulated air traffic system with Trump’s blatant money grab.
re: #13 Jay C
So Sean Spicer’s for the dumpster after just what? 5 months on the job?
I almost feel sorry for the poor slob - trying to maintain something approaching reasonable relations with the press for this abominable Administration has got to be an impossible task.Almost, but not quite: fuck this stupid buffoon, and good riddance. The only sad part of this is that his boss won’t be leaving with him….
Rumor has it that he is being promoted to Communications Director.
Maybe Ivanka shamed her dad into doing it after denying Spicey a meeting with the Pope, which he desperately wanted.
Getting him out from behind the microphone trying to defend the indefensible will at least allow him to regain his ability to take a dump after his morning coffee.
re: #37 calochortus
Doesn’t Canada have private air traffic control? Probably not quite like Trump envisions, but it might not be one of his stupidest ideas.
And flying in Canada costs 3x what it does in the US. Just saying.
re: #39 Kragar
You’re confusing Canada’s private and strictly regulated air traffic system with Trump’s blatant money grab.
Well, I did say it probably wasn’t quite what Trump was envisioning…
re: #38 jaunte
It is currently 111° F in Phoenix.
re: #41 MsJ
And flying in Canada costs 3x what it does in the US. Just saying.
Advantages to privatizing Air Traffic Control:
No Government pensions.
Disadvantages to privatizing Air Traffic Control:
The two or three lowest bidders, after a round of Best And Final Option discussions, will be awarded a Contract where they will do their damnedest to minimize costs and maximize profits at the cost of the public good and air safety.
What could go wrong?
Fave part of this article about the women helping Ossoff win: Their tactics to keep people from ripping down their signs. pic.twitter.com/SkrgnquD1E
— Lily Herman (@lkherman) June 19, 2017
I’d forgotten how much of retail politics is GOP vandalism.
re: #45 jaunte
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I’d forgotten how much of retail politics is GOP vandalism.
“The Great Game.”
#NowPlaying Johnny Winter > Captured Live > Highway 61 Revisited https://t.co/j5K1UA9vNB
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 20, 2017
Now that Louise Mensch was outed as a moonbat scam artist, I hear she’s looking for a new gig…
re: #48 covfefe
Now that Louise Mensch was outed as a moonbat scam artist, I hear she’s looking for a new gig…
Writer for The Young Turks, or perhaps The Intercept?
I’m out for the evening.
Hasta mañana, Lizards
Beards can protect you from being gay, says Putin-backed Russian priest https://t.co/7fJa0k0ixJ #wtf pic.twitter.com/W8w4fRyuGl
— GSN (@gaystarnews) June 19, 2017
Ironic, considering how many gay men have had beards for protection. https://t.co/aIjjWXLvjC
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #52 Kragar
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Ladies and gentlemen, Exhibit #974742 against having a state religion.
Drove 495 miles today. I’m a veg. Talk atcha tomorrow.
Sweet dreams, all.
Republican party data on 198M voters exposed online https://t.co/KQRibzm0Ry via @USATODAY @morgfair
— Half Full (@Rkstevens4) June 20, 2017
Information about as many as 198 million registered voters was left on an open online database and only taken down when it was discovered by a cyber security analyst.
The data was stored on publicly accessible files in an Amazon cloud account used by a data analytics contractor employed by the Republican National Committee to help it identify potential audiences for television ads.
Deep Root Analytics’ main database included names, dates of birth, home addresses, phone numbers, and voter registration details for over 198 million registered voters, as well as data that looked as if it attempted to guess each voter’s ethnicity and religion based on other information collected about them. The firm said it believes the data was a mix of proprietary information and publicly available voter data.
………
In this case, the RNC files were not hacked but instead were simply posted online without password protection.
🚨Watch this — McConnell in 2009 https://t.co/Fqu52gXYXA
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 20, 2017
re: #59 jaunte
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In this case, the RNC files were not hacked but instead were simply posted online without password protection.
Have I ever told you how glad I am that these pictures exist? pic.twitter.com/JlLXfWMG5Z
— ㅤ (@grahamslexa) June 19, 2017
re: #60 jaunte
He doesn’t care. He knows his constituents won’t.
re: #60 jaunte
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The GOP entered this year declaring “LET’S SCORE AS MANY HYPOCRISY POINTS AS POSSIBLE!!!” And lo, they did work their asses off to make it happen.
More climate change news.
Local fishermen worry they’ll be hauling in hundreds of kilograms of worthless pyrosomes via @cbcnewsbc https://t.co/P71AlCctwT
— Oceana Canada (@OceanaCAN) June 19, 2017
“If the nutrient-poor pyrosomes out-compete nutrient-rich crustaceans, it could severely upend the food chain from crustaceans right up to salmon and humpback whales.”
re: #65 jaunte
More climate change news.
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Seems that the Republican “God” doesn’t give much of a fuck if the ocean food chain goes belly-up.
re: #67 Targetpractice
Seems that the Republican “God” doesn’t give much of a fuck if the ocean food chain goes belly-up.
re: #65 jaunte
More climate change news.
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Climate change is going to upend entire industries and people’s livelihoods, but the denialists will continue to argue it’s just a fluke, and say everything will go back to normal in a few years.
While you folks in the USA are baking, here in Central China the temps are remarkably cool for this time of year. In years past, temperatures in the middle of June were already hovering in the high-80s to low-90s (with high humidity), and I’d be running the aircon at home just to be able to sleep at night. Today at 1 pm, it’s around 80 degrees F.
Trump was only part right. The Chinese did not invent climate change as a hoax. They are actually controlling the weather to favor China. //
You read it here first.
re: #69 wheat-dogg
Climate change is going to upend entire industries and people’s livelihoods, but the denialists will continue to argue it’s just a fluke, and say everything will go back to normal in a few years.
While you folks in the USA are baking, here in Central China the temps are remarkably cool for this time of year. In years past, temperatures in the middle of June were already hovering in the high-80s to low-90s (with high humidity), and I’d be running the aircon at home just to be able to sleep at night. Today at 1 pm, it’s around 80 degrees F.
Trump was only part right. The Chinese did not invent climate change as a hoax. They are actually controlling the weather to favor China. //
You read it here first.
One “serious” conservative I know pretty much typified the thinking that I hear from denialists:
1. “Climate change isn’t happening! Scientists predicted Global Cooling years ago and they were wrong!”
2. “Okay, it’s happening, but there’s no way to prove that humans are responsible! It’s a totally natural phenomenon!”
3. “Okay, so maybe humans play a part in it! But we can’t stop/reverse it, so there’s no point in changing anything we do!”
4. “Alright, so we could possibly reduce the effects if we do something, but it will be easier to just adapt to the problem later!”
5. Finally: “Oh, what do I care if the planet is warming? By the time it hits the breaking point, I’ll be dead and my kids will be the ones to deal with it.”
Charlie Sykes Blasts Sean Hannity Over Julius Caesar: ‘This is Cringeworthy’ https://t.co/Xr3NtgJx4j pic.twitter.com/BSrOqWlR5I
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) June 19, 2017
Mediaite staff, not today, but suffice to say if the play killed off an “Obama”, or say historical religious figures, all hell would follow! https://t.co/dhO3ktVQI7
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) June 19, 2017
They did stage Julius Caesar with Obama getting killed.
Hell wandered around aimlessly https://t.co/42ZKMFc6ym— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
BREAKING: Russia says it will treat US-led coalition planes in Syria, west of the Euphrates, as targets after US downed Syrian jet.
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 19, 2017
Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough, @PutinRF
Yeah.
That’s what I thought, bitch.#USA https://t.co/Me1aRgADAM— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) June 20, 2017
Great, an unstable British dilettante is writing checks on twitter that American soldiers may end up being required to cash with their lives https://t.co/iefH5dRlqC
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) June 20, 2017
A water park feature in Austria. This will never happen in the United States.
#humancannon #fireball 🔥 #area47 #adrenaline #training #diving #highdiving #redbullcliffdiving #austria #extremesports #fireaway #cannonball 😂 🔮🚀💦
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
Five days ago I gave her a piece of my mind.
@LouiseMensch You’re a horrible human being.
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) June 15, 2017
re: #72 goddamnedfrank
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This shit is how shooting wars begin. Now that Russia has announced what’s effectively a no-fly zone, there’s going to be some dickhead in our Armed Forces who will decide to test that. If nothing happens, they’ll assert that the Russians are bluffing and resume operations unimpeded. If targeted but not shot, they’ll just keep sending up birds until the Russians either shoot or give up. All it takes is one Russian pilot with an itchy trigger finger…
re: #43 teleskiguy
It is currently 111° F in Phoenix.
It’s currently 103° F in Phoenix, so it has cooled off somewhat. Hopefully it gets below 100° tonight, Phoenix people need a cool down.
*Full Disclosure, I don’t live in Phoenix*
I’m watching the Sonoran Desert closely weather-wise. Driest place on earth. May become drier than The Empty Quarter. And over five million people live there.
re: #77 teleskiguy
we’re just now in the moderate drought zone, but it’s late June, its typically dry here then, Monsoonal pattern usually shows up around the 4th of July or so, kicks off earlier by a few weeks in the I25 corridor.
re: #76 teleskiguy
Thanks man! Currently 98 in my hood, just shy of 11:30pm.
Tomorrow should be fun. Uggh.
Come on up to SE Alaska. High today was a brisk 60 and we even had a bit of sunshine.
Currently 48 and getting ready to rain (again).
re: #38 jaunte
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Brief explanation of the physics involved:
airplane engines do not make airplanes rise into the air. The propeller blades are shaped, and angled, in such a way that when they rotate they bite into the air and pull the plane forward, much like a drill bit does in rock.
As the plane moves forward, the air its flying through must split; some goes under the wing, some goes over the wing. The wing is shaped in such a way that the air going over it has a farther distance to travel than the air going under the wing. Different speeds = different pressure. That makes lower pressure above the wing than below, creating a vacuum effect. The hole in the air above the wing sucks the plane upwards.
Hotter air has more space between molecules; at 120º, the air is too thin for the hole in the air to be “empty” enough to make a vacuum. The plane doesn’t get sucked upwards. Ergo, gravity pulls it down.
re: #76 teleskiguy
It’s currently 103° F in Phoenix, so it has cooled off somewhat. Hopefully it gets below 100° tonight, Phoenix people need a cool down.
*Full Disclosure, I don’t live in Phoenix*
I remember when Phoenix used to cool off at night…and yes, so glad I no longer live there
re: #82 sagehen
Brief explanation of the physics involved:
airplane engines to do not make airplanes rise into the air. The propeller blades are shaped, and angled, in such a way that when they rotate they bite into the air and pull the plane forward, much like a drill bit does in rock.
As the plane moves forward, the air its flying through must split; some goes under the wing, some goes over the wing. The wing is shaped in such a way that the air going over it has a farther distance to travel than the air going under the wing. Different speeds = different pressure. That makes lower pressure above the wing than below, creating a vacuum effect. The hole in the air above the wing sucks the plane upwards.
Hotter air has more space between molecules; at 120º, the air is too thin for the hole in the air to be “empty” enough to make a vacuum. The plane doesn’t get sucked upwards. Ergo, gravity pulls it down.
This has been your LGF Physics Lesson of The Day.
re: #82 sagehen
Hot air is less dense than cooler air, so it exerts less force on control surfaces at normal flying speeds. So, jets would need higher takeoff speeds (and longer runways) to get airborne, which at a civilian airport is a serious risk factor. Higher speeds also would mean higher g-forces in turns, which passengers might not appreciate much.
Prop planes have the additional issue of less thrust from the less dense air, so taking off would be another difficulty.
re: #85 wheat-dogg
I actually remember this stuff from ground school from 35 years ago.
re: #82 sagehen
Brief explanation of the physics involved:
airplane engines do not make airplanes rise into the air. The propeller blades are shaped, and angled, in such a way that when they rotate they bite into the air and pull the plane forward, much like a drill bit does in rock.
As the plane moves forward, the air its flying through must split; some goes under the wing, some goes over the wing. The wing is shaped in such a way that the air going over it has a farther distance to travel than the air going under the wing. Different speeds = different pressure. That makes lower pressure above the wing than below, creating a vacuum effect. The hole in the air above the wing sucks the plane upwards.
Hotter air has more space between molecules; at 120º, the air is too thin for the hole in the air to be “empty” enough to make a vacuum. The plane doesn’t get sucked upwards. Ergo, gravity pulls it down.
Not quite true. What you’ve described is known as the airfoil myth (I think “myth” is a bit harsh, it’s really more of an incomplete theory of flight):
A flat wing works too, but needs a steeper angle of attack for the low-pressure pocket to form on the upper side of the wing (and to cause a stronger deviation of the air downwards to compensate for the weaker lifting force caused by the weaker low-pressure pocket). The disadvantage of this is that a steeper angle of attack causes more drag. The airfoil-shaped wing is more economical because it causes the low-pressure pocket without the need for a steep angle of attack, thus reducing drag.
Incorrect Lift Theory. (from NASA)
Here’s a good description from Cambridge, How Wings Really Work:
It’s one of the most tenacious myths in physics and it frustrates aerodynamicists the world over. Now, University of Cambridge’s Professor Holger Babinsky has created a 1-minute video that he hopes will finally lay to rest a commonly used yet misleading explanation of how wings lift.
“A wing lifts when the air pressure above it is lowered. It’s often said that this happens because the airflow moving over the top, curved surface has a longer distance to travel and needs to go faster to have the same transit time as the air travelling along the lower, flat surface. But this is wrong,” he explained. “I don’t know when the explanation first surfaced but it’s been around for decades. You find it taught in textbooks, explained on television and even described in aircraft manuals for pilots. In the worst case, it can lead to a fundamental misunderstanding of some of the most important principles of aerodynamics.”
To show that this common explanation is wrong, Babinsky filmed pulses of smoke flowing around an aerofoil (the shape of a wing in cross-section). When the video is paused, it’s clear that the transit times above and below the wing are not equal: the air moves faster over the top surface and has already gone past the end of the wing by the time the flow below the aerofoil reaches the end of the lower surface.
“What actually causes lift is introducing a shape into the airflow, which curves the streamlines and introduces pressure changes - lower pressure on the upper surface and higher pressure on the lower surface,” clarified Babinsky, from the Department of Engineering. “This is why a flat surface like a sail is able to cause lift - here the distance on each side is the same but it is slightly curved when it is rigged and so it acts as an aerofoil. In other words, it’s the curvature that creates lift, not the distance.”
At the end of the day flight is probably best understood in Newtonian terms by mass deflection, taken as a whole the net volume of air encountering the wing is deflected downwards and in an equal and opposite reaction the entire airplane is thus pushed upwards. Yes, the low pressure pocket above the wing plays a critical role but as previously demonstrated that pocket will form using a flat plank given a steep enough angle of attack. The problem with hot air is that it’s less dense, which means less mass is being deflected downwards. Passenger airplanes can compensate to a point using flaps to increase the volume of air being deflected, but at a certain point the air becomes too thin to support safe takeoff and landing.
I personally prefer to use the F-4 Phantom II as an example of how you can make a brick fly if you put enough thrust behind it.
re: #88 goddamnedfrank
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche is probably the best flying how-to ever written. It is the one book that would get you through if you somehow had to teach yourself to fly with no help from anyone else. Langewiesche, too, dismisses the airfoil myth out of hand. He says to think of a a wing simply as an inclined plane. All the complicated invocation of Bernoulli’s Theorem and such is probably motivated by a reluctance to believe that the first, simplest, and most intuitive impression is in fact correct. This is understandable, since intuitive “common sense” notions will get you killed in a hurry in many aspects of aviation. Not this time, though. It works. Similarly, thin air provides less lift because there is less of it. It’s that simple.
That is my 6820 hours speaking, fwiw.
re: #87 Apocalypse
“ground” school?
Ground school is the lessons you take to be able to pass the written test, which you need to get a student license; instructors won’t usually waste time giving you lessons until you’ve got it. The test has physics of flight, how the engine works, weight & balance, weather, navigation and laws.
re: #91 sagehen
Ground school is the lessons you take to be able to pass the written test, which you need to get a student license; instructors won’t usually waste time giving you lessons until you’ve got it. The test has physics of flight, how the engine works, weight & balance, weather, navigation and laws.
“How the engine works”? It just does. What’s so complicated about that?
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re: #92 Targetpractice
“How the engine works”? It just does. What’s so complicated about that?
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you turn the switch and it goes “vroom” (or “whoosh” if it is a jet)
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel
Langewiesche, too, dismisses the airfoil myth out of hand.
It probably helps if we think of the airfoil and for that matter almost the entirety of aerodynamic science as being primarily about two things, stability and overcoming drag/friction. Getting airborne is relatively straight forward, staying there for any appreciable length of time is much less so.
The RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) suspends air strikes over Syria with Russian threat.
re: #95 ozharas
The RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) suspends air strikes over Syria with Russian threat.
and shake their heads at Trump for being such a hapless, easily conned jerk
re: #95 ozharas
The RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) suspends air strikes over Syria with Russian threat.
I suspect other nations participating in the bombings will shortly make the same announcement. But our president* already abdicated his CinC responsibilities to Mattis, so I suspect we’ll continue to antagonize the Russians until they blow one of our birds out of the sky. When that happens, it’s all over but the crying.
re: #97 Targetpractice
I suspect other nations participating in the bombings will shortly make the same announcement. But our president* already abdicated his CinC responsibilities to Mattis, so I suspect we’ll continue to antagonize the Russians until they blow one of our birds out of the sky. When that happens, it’s all over but the crying.
This is what the Russians were bargaining for by helping DT get elected: the US as hapless and dysfunctional, leaving them a free hand in all international matters.
re: #91 sagehen
Thanks, I thought Wheat had made a typo, wasn’t aware it was an actual thing.
re: #92 Targetpractice
“How the engine works”? It just does. What’s so complicated about that?
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Somehow reminded me of this earth-shattering revelation from CNN: The Boeing 777 has difficulty flying without fuel.
NEW: Diane Abbott back to ‘fighting fitness’ after period of ill health: https://t.co/VIpEhbRtEd pic.twitter.com/LKDCSX7bxB
— PoliticsHome (@politicshome) June 20, 2017
It’s a miracle!!!! https://t.co/LneRiy3J6d
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) June 20, 2017
The dictionary used to give the definition of Wanker as “See Piers Morgan”, until the Wanker lobby threatened to sue for defamation https://t.co/8joaFv59Ay
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #101 Kragar
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Wasn’t Oliver Stone on recently with his Putin Interviews claiming that there is no discrimination against gays in Russia?
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wasn’t Oliver Stone on recently with his Putin Interviews claiming that there is no discrimination against gays in Russia?
GLOBALIST PLOT!1!!
Stone, and all the Putinversteher I have encountered have one valid point: that is that it is incorrect and misleading to discuss Putin in Cold War Terms.
This is no longer a worldwide struggle between competing ideologies, this is purely a manifestation of Russian nationalism and imperialism. It is generally limited to the former Russian Empire (or the ex-USSR) and the states immediately bordering on it (which is a sizable chunk of the world in itself).
re: #37 calochortus
hey bro, i don’t know who you are, but i worked in air traffic control for 26 yrs, and sir, you don’t know what the fvck you’re talking about.
re: #99 Apocalypse
Thanks, I thought Wheat had made a typo, wasn’t aware it was an actual thing.
They want you learn stuff on the ground before you go up in the air and potentially do damage to people and things.
re: #5 jaunte
It doesn’t matter who takes the job since whoever it is will continue to stonewall the media and lie on Trump’s behalf. I’ve heard that Laura “Nazi Hand Gestures” Ingraham is in the running.
re: #109 jeffreyw
“What are you looking at?”
I’m going to buy Mr. Spicer a nice fruit basket.
re: #111 Romantic Heretic
One that’s about a week out of date…
re: #11 Kragar
At least Mad Dog isn’t an evil bastard like the rest of Trump’s administration.
I’m not nuts. I’m condiments. I’ve been promoted.
re: #114 Romantic Heretic
Buddy? That hat is really gay.
It’s fabulous. Can someone let him know Putin doesn’t have a beard or honestly from what I’ve seen ever had one?
re: #115 HappyWarrior
It’s fabulous. Can someone let him know Putin doesn’t have a beard or honestly from what I’ve seen ever had one?
Is it bad that I read “fabulous” in my mind in a really flamboyant voice?
re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Stone, and all the Putinversteher I have encountered have one valid point: that is that it is incorrect and misleading to discuss Putin in Cold War Terms.
This is no longer a worldwide struggle between competing ideologies, this is purely a manifestation of Russian nationalism and imperialism. It is generally limited to the former Russian Empire (or the ex-USSR) and the states immediately bordering on it (which is a sizable chunk of the world in itself).
Right. Even though Putin was a product of the Cold War, this is ore USSR. Anyhow Stone can fuck off. He may be a decent filmmaker but he’s an absolute idiot politics wise.
re: #116 Timothy Watson
Is it bad that I read “fabulous” in my mind in a really flamboyant voice?
That was the point. :)
Last night I dreamed Louise Mensch was chasing me and I had to get away from her.
re: #12 bratwurst
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It’s that he bashes the Democratic Party repeatedly while taking their money. Sirota like too many lefty bros thinks leadership is a voting record. It’s not.
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel
Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying by Wolfgang Langewiesche is probably the best flying how-to ever written. It is the one book that would get you through if you somehow had to teach yourself to fly with no help from anyone else. Langewiesche, too, dismisses the airfoil myth out of hand. He says to think of a a wing simply as an inclined plane. All the complicated invocation of Bernoulli’s Theorem and such is probably motivated by a reluctance to believe that the first, simplest, and most intuitive impression is in fact correct. This is understandable, since intuitive “common sense” notions will get you killed in a hurry in many aspects of aviation. Not this time, though. It works. Similarly, thin air provides less lift because there is less of it. It’s that simple.
That is my 6820 hours speaking, fwiw.
My wallet hates you (into the amazon cart it goes).
re: #119 The Vicious Babushka
Last night I dreamed Louise Mensch was chasing me and I had to get away from her.
Did you try throwing her some rubles?
Lre: #119 The Vicious Babushka
Last night I dreamed Louise Mensch was chasing me and I had to get away from her.
Agh politics related dreams are creepy. I did have a cool one once where I was part of a husband and wife performing team that played for the JFK though.
re: #119 The Vicious Babushka
Last night I dreamed Louise Mensch was chasing me and I had to get away from her.
Still a lot better than the dreams I’ve had since ‘15 sometime…
New law: Christian adoption agencies won’t be forced to give kids to gay couples in Texas https://t.co/R8MWCE9bQe
So your religion allows you to force people to have kids and also insist that kids remain orphans if you don’t like WHOM the adoptees love? https://t.co/tNUZn8fZbO
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) June 20, 2017
re: #125 The Vicious Babushka
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Yeah how dare those gay couples have a loving home. Somehow doubt Abbott would accept a gay owned adoption agency refusing to let Christians adopt.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
Yeah how dare those gay couples have a loving home. Somehow doubt Abbott would accept a gay owned adoption agency refusing to let Christians adopt.
Because such a thing is not likely to exist…just like you would not find a gay-owned bakery refusing to cater a hetero wedding.
Remember, the Pilgrims did not come to America to practice religions freedom, they came here because Europe did not allow them to practice religious oppression.
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because such a thing is not likely to exist…just like you would not find a gay-owned bakery refusing to cater a hetero wedding.
Remember, the Pilgrims did not come to America to practice religions freedom, they came here because Europe did not allow them to practice religious oppression.
I know. That’s honestly part of my point. Christians can define themselves as such even when operating a business that offers secular goods such as cake and flowers and discriminate as such but if the shoe were flipped, these people would go ballistic.
re: #128 HappyWarrior
I know. That’s honestly part of my point. Christians can define themselves as such even when operating a business that offers secular goods such as cake and flowers and discriminate as such but if the shoe were flipped, these people would go ballistic.
These “oppressed” bakers and photographers and wedding planners cry about how their “oppression” is EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!!! as “forcing a kosher or halal bakery to provide a bacon cake.”
They do not understand how kosher and halal bakeries work or in fact how public-facing business works.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
These “oppressed” bakers and photographers and wedding planners cry about how their “oppression” is EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!!! as “forcing a kosher or halal bakery to provide a bacon cake.”
They do not understand how kosher and halal bakeries work or in fact how public-facing business works.
and it’s okay to murder a black Julius Caesar on stage, but not a white one with an orange wig…
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and it’s okay to murder a black Julius Caesar on stage, but not a white one with an orange wig…
They don’t know how Shakespeare works.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and it’s okay to murder a black Julius Caesar on stage, but not a white one with an orange wig…
The black Caesar was obviously a thug who had it coming…
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re: #131 The Vicious Babushka
They don’t know how
Shakespeareanything to do with literature works.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They don’t know how
Shakespeareanythingto do with literatureworks.
The whole Julius Caesar blowup reminds me a bit of the Mohammed Cartoon kerfuffle of several years back: the people who were behind both are aware of the nuances, that in one case, the governments in Western Democracies do not dictate or restrict the content of newspapers, or that a stage play can take liberties with the setting to make it more relevant, but it both cases, the perpetrators pushed the outrage angle in order to promote a particular agenda.
And in both cases, they knew that their target audiences were too undereducated to realize those distinctions.
re: #129 The Vicious Babushka
These “oppressed” bakers and photographers and wedding planners cry about how their “oppression” is EXACTLY THE SAME!!!!!! as “forcing a kosher or halal bakery to provide a bacon cake.”
They do not understand how kosher and halal bakeries work or in fact how public-facing business works.
Exactly Christian/Gay wedding cake. All the same ingredients. A halal or kosher bakery has different ingredients which is why this analogy is a fail. They just want to be able be bigots without being called on it.
Morning all…. Gonna be a hot one in the Hill Country today.
re: #137 HappyWarrior
Exactly Christian/Gay wedding cake. All the same ingredients. A halal or kosher bakery has different ingredients which is why this analogy is a fail. They just want to be able be bigots without being called on it.
The only difference I can see is the Christian bakery owner might not stock 2 brides or 2 grooms wedding cake toppers. In which case the customer would have to provide their own topper.
Uhh, CNN: An aircraft always struggles to maintain altitude except when the fuel tanks are empty. Then it stops struggling.
You’re not a Christian baker anymore then I’m an Agnostic legal aide. re: #139 The Vicious Babushka
The only difference I can see is the Christian bakery owner might not stock 2 brides or 2 grooms wedding cake toppers. In which case the customer would have to provide their own topper.
Exactly.
When asked why press briefings are now held off camera, Steve Bannon said “Sean got fatter.” Pathetic & undemocratic https://t.co/sVM1R5iH9e pic.twitter.com/LkwFfQDhlm
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) June 20, 2017
The White House using fat shaming to justify increased opacity. 2017. https://t.co/pWqupoAOXu
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 20, 2017
It’s a joke people… https://t.co/2mMNcX7GHY
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) June 20, 2017
Oh ok. So using fat shaming to avoid answering questions about increasing opacity. Got it. 2017. https://t.co/RbUSc6ipZS
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 20, 2017
Dressing Julius Caesar in a Trump wig was just a joke, people…get over it!
re: #142 Teukka
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I could put up with everything the GOP has planned for our nation and the world, but when they turn to fat shaming, it’s just a step too far.
WTF
re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Dressing Julius Caesar in a Trump wig was just a joke, people…get over it!
No, it’s just another thing theatre people do to separate their production from the crowd. They run to the show-offy.
re: #145 Decatur Deb
No, it’s just another thing theatre people do to separate their production from the crowd. They run to the show-offy.
We all know that they do it out of Liberal Hate and Intolerance.
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re: #144 Decatur Deb
I could put up with everything the GOP has planned for our nation and the world, but when they turn to fat shaming, it’s just a step too far.
WTF
They are anti-PC. They glory in the right to say whatever they want about anyone — but they are absolute snowflakes when anyone makes a comment critical of them.
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
They are anti-PC. They glory in the right to say whatever they want about anyone — but they are absolute snowflakes when anyone makes a comment critical of them.
See, the lady who flipped her shit over the joke on her Starbucks cup because she was wearing a Trump shirt.
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
They are anti-PC. They glory in the right to say whatever they want about anyone — but they are absolute snowflakes when anyone makes a comment critical of them.
We are so bright we are going to win every rhetorical point and lose every election.
re: #149 Decatur Deb
We are so bright we are going to win every rhetorical point and lose every election.
We refuse to be dragged down to their level even though politics has turned into a race to appeal to the lowest common denominator…
re: #147 Hecuba’s daughter
They are anti-PC. They glory in the right to say whatever they want about anyone — but they are absolute snowflakes when anyone makes a comment critical of them.
They still haven’t gotten that when not taken to extremes, PC basically boils down to not being a dick…
re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We refuse to be dragged down to their level even though politics has turned into a race to appeal to the lowest common denominator…
At least that will give me a warm glow as I watch 80 years of progress erased.
re: #152 Decatur Deb
At least that will give me a warm glow as I watch 80 years of progress erased.
We came to take a lot of that stuff for granted, and guess what? It ain’t. Means we will have to work twice as hard again to see it restored and maintained.
re: #138 Dave In Austin
OK, you got me, what was that?
Spicer searching for a replacement? So I guess Huckabooboo isn’t getting the job. Tells you how much Trump likes her.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and it’s okay to murder a black Julius Caesar on stage, but not a white one with an orange wig…
Don’t kill teh Orange Julius!!!
re: #156 darthstar
Spicer searching for a replacement? So I guess Huckabooboo isn’t getting the job. Tells you how much Trump likes her.
She’s not a supermodel so Trump has no use for her.
Watching pics from the Portugal forest fire…
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re: #156 darthstar
Spicer searching for a replacement? So I guess Huckabooboo isn’t getting the job. Tells you how much Trump likes her.
She may get it simply for the fact that nobody else wants the job.
re: #161 makeitstop
She may get it simply for the fact that nobody else wants the job.
I hear Bill O’Reilly is looking for work…
re: #76 teleskiguy
It’s currently 103° F in Phoenix, so it has cooled off somewhat. Hopefully it gets below 100° tonight, Phoenix people need a cool down.
*Full Disclosure, I don’t live in Phoenix*
It’s 82 right now, and the sun’s been up for a bit. Our excessive heat warning has been extended to Sunday at 9 pm.
But but but but the left is dangerous!
Republican Terrorist Robert Doggart Sentenced to 20 Years over Plot to Massacre Muslims https://t.co/nGpm3vSk2p
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 20, 2017
A little candy for the history buffs around here. A 600-Year-Old Sword Found in Texas.
re: #168 darthstar
a mentally ill person with a history of gun violence and domestic violence who nonetheless had a license to purchase firearms legally…
HOW IS THIS A WHITE HOUSE https://t.co/ff71fQNqGs pic.twitter.com/Qh8zH9BOSF
— Scott Bixby (@scottbix) June 20, 2017
re: #172 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Quite true. IIRC, the drought breaking pattern includes a summer hotter than most. So far electricity providers are ok.
re: #151 Teukka
They still haven’t gotten that when not taken to extremes, PC basically boils down to not being a dick…
I don’t find fat shaming jokes funny either. Ever.
What they refer to as “PC” is almost invariably summed up in not being a d*ck.— Teo (@Teukka72) June 20, 2017
To them, yes, it’s a hilarious joke.
They want to abolish democracy and go back to being a republic (Don’t ask…).— Teo (@Teukka72) June 20, 2017
re: #73 teleskiguy
I see and raise….
Looping water slide. I’ve seen this in person (but after they shut down the ride because everyone kept getting hurt riding it).
re: #173 darthstar
The atlantic article linked in the tweet above is pretty damn good. Here it is for those without Twitter:
theatlantic.com
Money, Money, Money! Analysis | This explains why there are so few Republican women in Congress https://t.co/UrTtl7HVOY @emilyslist #women
— ggt (@geegeetee) June 20, 2017
So, I started listening to Dark Money by Jane Mayer. It is definitely biased version of events —starting with the Koch brothers and expanding outwards.
Yet, if one thing in her account is true, it’s scary as fuck.
Control for the uber rich, anarchy for everyone else —is the basic premise.
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. The storms last night cleared out the humidity, and one can only hope that the coming storm of indictments (which aren’t likely to happen before next year in any event) will sweep out the GOP and their cabal of craven cronies.
The damage they’re doing is already taking a toll on people, and the need now is to limit the damage. The special election in GA-6 is today, and Ossoff v. Handel is the headline event, but there’s lots more to be done ahead of next year.
There’s the GOP still trying to push tax cuts for the rich as a form of health care reform (they cut health care coverage for millions, boost the uninsured rate beyond the pre-Obamacare days, and call it a day after rich folks get massive tax cuts) and they’re separately pursuing tax reform, which is yet another scheme to reduce the burden on the rich and shift all the burdens to everyone else.
Yet, the GOP can’t escape the gravity of the Russia-Trump mess, and it’s finally starting to penetrate the GOP derp.
Key takeaway is 40% of GOP polled now find his campaign had improper contacts with Russia, up from 25%.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 20, 2017
This is key; if the GOP rank and file realize that Trump’s running for the other side - the Russians, then the GOP will have to engage in some serious pretzel logic avoiding the shit storm of their own creation by aligning with a guy who was so thoroughly compromised from before he even entered the race that it shows just how debased the GOP is as a party. They continue enabling Trump at every opportunity, and there’s no way they have clean hands in all this - that goes double for McConnell and Ryan.
re: #181 Birth Control Works
PC basically boils down to not being a dick
…so stealing this.
That point has been made here (and elsewhere) before
But yes, it is still valid.
You have the right to be a dick, you just do not have the right to be immune from your words and actions (unless you are the President or one of his staff)
re: #177 lawhawk
I see and raise….
Looping water slide. I’ve seen this in person (but after they shut down the ride because everyone kept getting hurt riding it).
Have they released the semi-documentary comedy on Action Park yet?
re: #180 Birth Control Works
So, I started listening to Dark Money by Jane Mayer. It is definitely biased version of events —starting with the Koch brothers and expanding outwards.
Yet, if one thing in her account is true, it’s scary as fuck.
Control for the uber rich, anarchy for everyone else —is the basic premise.
A return to feudalism, basically. The modern über rich would do well to read up on some history; the medieval über rich had as much troubles with anarchy as the peasants did.
Case in point: depriving the underclasses of affordable health care can lead to outbreaks of contagious diseases, which don’t discriminate according to social class. Depriving the underclasses of a livable income leads to discontent and unrest, and guess who they will blame for their sorry lot?
See also, the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution. Did not go well for the über rich.
re: #184 Birth Control Works
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re: #186 wheat-dogg
A return to feudalism, basically. The modern über rich would do well to read up on some history; the medieval über rich had as much troubles with anarchy as the peasants did.
That was before they invented Soylent Green
re: #187 Decatur Deb
For a portion of the population, being a dick is the only reward in life. You can find them even on the elementary school playgrounds.
It’s those schoolyard dicks who are now grown up, and trying to run the country.
re: #140 Decatur Deb
Uhh, CNN: An aircraft always struggles to maintain altitude except when the fuel tanks are empty. Then it stops struggling.
And, of course, its would be impossible for a modern airliner to run out of gas with all of the redundant systems available. Oh, wait…
re: #189 wheat-dogg
It’s those schoolyard dicks who are now grown up, and trying to run the country.
and get revenge on everyone they perceived to have slighted them in the past
re: #45 jaunte
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I’d forgotten how much of retail politics is GOP vandalism.
That is a really good article.
I think this is the key takeaway, mysekf:
“Jon is reaching out to everyone, and we need that here,” says Indivisible cofounder Amy Nosek, who was a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders in last year’s Democratic primary. “There’s no way the sixth district is ready for a Bernie right now. I think of Jon as a pragmatic progressive, and that’s what we need.”
And…
It’s been hard for some on the left to get their minds around all the energy in the sixth district, in part because Ossoff, the object of all of this activism, disappoints them by opposing single-payer health care and tax hikes, even on the rich. Progressive Democrat Stacey Abrams, the Georgia House minority leader who is running for governor next year, endorsed Ossoff early. “What Jon understands is that being progressive in the South looks different than it does in other states. We have to work with, not just against.
…..
Longtime Democratic activist James Brown, who grew up in rural Alabama and voted for Senator Bernie Sanders in the primary, says, “We live in a conservative Republican district, so I couldn’t expect someone to represent this district and be where I am.” “This is Georgia, for God’s sake. I actually haven’t heard [progressive] people in the district criticizing him for any of that. We live here—we understand.”
re: #190 austin_blue
And, of course, its would be impossible for a modern airliner to run out of gas with all of the redundant systems available. Oh, wait…
My old Land Rover gets much better mpg if I use the original British fuel in both tanks.
Had to take break fro Dark Money (getting to angry), so I switched to Revolt in 2100 by Robert Heinlein.
Yeah, no really a good choice as it is set in the a version of the future the Dominionists are working towards. Heinlein does a good job showing how dogma is difficult to combat.
So, I went from angry to nihilistic in two books.
re: #193 Decatur Deb
My old Land Rover gets much better mpg if I use the original British fuel in both tanks.
you mean petrol?
re: #187 Decatur Deb
For a portion of the population, being a dick is the only reward in life. You can find them even on the elementary school playgrounds.
teachers?
re: #196 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you mean petrol?
Imperial petrol. (Or 95 proof booze in a pinch.)
re: #198 Decatur Deb
Imperial petrol. (Or 95 proof booze in a pinch.)
ah yes, you get better mileage if you use imperial gallons…
re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
ah yes, you get better mileage if you use imperial gallons…
Special order in Alabama, though.
re: #185 Decatur Deb
I thought they did a few years back….
re: #203 lawhawk
I thought they did a few years back….
I’ve only seen an interview with the owner’s son, here. There’s supposed to be one by the guy who did the “Jackass” movies.
Ford to import Focus small car from China https://t.co/zJfrWclxV8 #detroit pic.twitter.com/tiHFSpRk9E
— Detroit News Now (@detroitnewsnow) June 20, 2017
re: #205 The Vicious Babushka
Well, I wonder how the Orange Yam will respond to this news.
re: #205 The Vicious Babushka
Ford to import Focus small car from China
let’s all demand that Trump impose a 30% import tariff like he promised!
re: #4 goddamnedfrank
I hear they’re going to replace him with an animatronic velociraptor.
Or the talking parrot from Disneyland’s Tiki House, at a minimum.
re: #206 wheat-dogg
Well, I wonder how the Orange Yam will respond to this news.
By blaming HRC, of course.
re: #206 wheat-dogg
Well, I wonder how the Orange Yam will respond to this news.
Maybe he’ll talk abut how we bombed Japan to free China.
re: #210 Belafon
Maybe he’ll talk abut how we bombed Japan to free
ChinaTaiwan.
re: #210 Belafon
Maybe he’ll talk abut how we bombed Japan to free China.
Or about how Henry Ford published The Protocols of the Elders of Zion… (upon Steve Bannon’s advice)
Jared Kushner Didn’t Disclose $1 Billion in Loans, Investment Ties to Goldman Sachs & George Soros #TrumpRussia https://t.co/izYMdROBe7
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 16, 2017
George Soros says the economic reality of Brexit is catching up to Britain https://t.co/052CcM8gwf pic.twitter.com/GGkwPzLHA3
— Bloomberg (@business) June 20, 2017
Jared Kushner partners with George Soros. See,that George Soros is so evil he made you conspiracy theorists think he was supporting Hillary.
— Steve Redmond (@sjredmond) June 19, 2017
re: #86 wheat-dogg
I actually remember this stuff from ground school from 35 years ago.
I got my aerodynamics lessons flying model rockets competitively. The best part, our main educator for two central Ohio rocket clubs was the head of the aerodynamics/aeronautics department at Ohio State. He had us building the best rockets and boost-gliders in the US.
Even though I wanted to be an artist and went to art college, I am still a lover of mechanical arts and Dr. Gerald Gregorek gave me one hell of an education for all things flying. Several of the guys I flew rockets with went on to some pretty dang big careers in the sciences. One of my best buds back then ended up a major player at Boeing.
Obamacare had 100 Senate hearings and 161 amendments from Republicans.
Trumpcare has had 0 Senate hearings and 0 amendments from Democrats. pic.twitter.com/jSyeHhm3TQ— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) June 20, 2017
Quoted for factual accuracy and truth. The GOP keeps lying about Obamacare passage all while keeping details of #Trumpcare secret https://t.co/tT5jdii5Hc
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 20, 2017
re: #218 lawhawk
Obamacare had 100 Senate hearings and 161 amendments from Republicans.
Trumpcare has had 0 Senate hearings and 0 amendments from Democrats.
Remember Romney saying at the debates that the big difference between his MA health care bill and ACA was that the former was not “rammed down our throats without bipartisan support”?
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or as eloquent or well educated…
or respected.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
or as eloquent or well educated…
But it’s nice seeing them both working to raze the Republican Party.
re: #215 Birth Control Works
Good article. I remain surprised that they didn’t hold another Brexit referendum that lays down specifics to what it means to the UK to leave the EU. Specifics and costs, as well as the number of people required to vote for it to be valid and the number required to say they will actually leave the EU.
What the UK is doing is shooting itself in the foot over a non-binding vote where the proponents immediately said all the BS they said up to the original vote was just that, BS.
To say that is shocking is an understatement of epic proportions. Yes Boris Johnson remains popular.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
Yeah how dare those gay couples have a loving home. Somehow doubt Abbott would accept a gay owned adoption agency refusing to let Christians adopt.
I have a very simple question. Why are modern fundamentalist religious types so hateful?
I’m not religious, but having been Catholic schooled for 12 years I did learn some of the fundamentals of the Bible and learned of the works of the saints, etc. and I don’t remember this level of hatred for humans that someone like Texas Fundies seem to have.
It almost seems like it is a cult that has more about being seen as better than everyone else than it has to do with the teachings of this guy that walked the earth and taught love…for everyone.
VIDEO: Large rat drags bag of trash across sidewalk in Brooklyn https://t.co/2dNC49MHfB pic.twitter.com/wb1lU4Aa0n
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 19, 2017
Live footage of Senate delivering health bill to CBO #AHCA https://t.co/4rUA3zuLsT
— Damon Jones (@nomadj1s) June 20, 2017
re: #226 MsJ
Good article. I remain surprised that they didn’t hold another Brexit referendum that lays down specifics to what it means to the UK to leave the EU. Specifics and costs, as well as the number of people required to vote for it to be valid and the number required to say they will actually leave the EU.
What the UK is doing is shooting itself in the foot over a non-binding vote where the proponents immediately said all the BS they said up to the original vote was just that, BS.
To say that is shocking is an understatement of epic proportions. Yes Boris Johnson remains popular.
Like with the Scottish Independence Referendum, which also left too many open questions, but was turned down at the time because it would have meant leaving the EU and having to apply for membership.
Brexit, like the Trump campaign, was just a blank canvas on which people could project their wishes of what they wanted the UK to look like; free of foreigners, with “UK first” trade deals, etc…
re: #230 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Like with the Scottish Independence Referendum, which also left too many open questions, but was turned down at the time because it would have meant leaving the EU and having to apply for membership.
Brexit, like the Trump campaign, was just a blank canvas on which people could project their wishes of what they wanted the UK to look like; free of foreigners, with “UK first” trade deals, etc…
Which, in all honesty, makes me very sad. There are people all over the world hurting over right-wing policies (austerity, austerity, austerity) and a full-blown propaganda machine supporting the people who hurt the most. I understand why people vote against their interests, and I understand why people voted for Trump. Desperation is an unpleasant bedfellow.
Alas, we have a dumbed-down population and a reality show government (notice that trump’s new attorney is a radio show host. which just adds to the fact that so many people surrounding trump are in that Hollywood arena in some fashion.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The whole Julius Caesar blowup reminds me a bit of the Mohammed Cartoon kerfuffle of several years back: the people who were behind both are aware of the nuances, that in one case, the governments in Western Democracies do not dictate or restrict the content of newspapers, or that a stage play can take liberties with the setting to make it more relevant, but it both cases, the perpetrators pushed the outrage angle in order to promote a particular agenda.
And in both cases, they knew that their target audiences were too undereducated to realize those distinctions.
It’s damn art. Art drives religious people nuts. They have no idea that art is supposed to make people think.
Oh, I get it. They don’t want to think, they want to be told what to do.
They live hollow lives.
re: #232 MsJ
Which, in all honesty, makes me very sad. There are people all over the world hurting over right-wing policies (austerity, austerity, austerity) and a full-blown propaganda machine supporting the people who hurt the most. I understand why people vote against their interests, and I understand why people voted for Trump. Desperation is an unpleasant bedfellow.
Alas, we have a dumbed-down population and a reality show government (notice that trump’s new attorney is a radio show host. which just adds to the fact that so many people surrounding trump are in that Hollywood arena in some fashion.
People voting with their middle finger…
And regretting it only when they see that it is too late.
This popped up whilst poking around steemit.com jsut now, and it seems appropriate for the discussion here.
“Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.”
— Proverbs 21:13
re: #144 Decatur Deb
I could put up with everything the GOP has planned for our nation and the world, but when they turn to fat shaming, it’s just a step too far.
WTF
And Steve Bannon??? Such a lovely man.
re: #238 ObserverArt
And Steve Bannon??? Such a lovely man.
not a superfluous pound on his figure anywhere
re: #231 Decatur Deb
Hipster rat needs it for an art installation.
Speaking of all things “hipster”, I found replacement parts for my antique bike! A website called retrocyklo dot cz had the parts I needed. I placed my order and I should be ready to ride by the weekend!
An oldie but a goodie. I got it when I was living in Berlin.
re: #241 ObserverArt
Had to be. I’ve never seen any fish make that kind of “splash” ever. That had weight and strength behind it.
others said manatees
re: #240 Dr Lizardo
Speaking of all things “hipster”, I found replacement parts for my antique bike! A website called retrocyklo dot cz had the parts I needed. I placed my order and I should be ready to ride by the weekend!
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An oldie but a goodie. I got it when I was living in Berlin.
Fixie-upper.
re: #241 ObserverArt
Had to be. I’ve never seen any fish make that kind of “splash” ever. That had weight and strength behind it.
They were saying manatees but I have never seen a manatee do anything like that. I have seen flying fish do that, but nothing broke the surface. I, too, think alligator.
re: #182 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. The storms last night cleared out the humidity, and one can only hope that the coming storm of indictments (which aren’t likely to happen before next year in any event) will sweep out the GOP and their cabal of craven cronies.
The damage they’re doing is already taking a toll on people, and the need now is to limit the damage. The special election in GA-6 is today, and Ossoff v. Handel is the headline event, but there’s lots more to be done ahead of next year.
There’s the GOP still trying to push tax cuts for the rich as a form of health care reform (they cut health care coverage for millions, boost the uninsured rate beyond the pre-Obamacare days, and call it a day after rich folks get massive tax cuts) and they’re separately pursuing tax reform, which is yet another scheme to reduce the burden on the rich and shift all the burdens to everyone else.
Yet, the GOP can’t escape the gravity of the Russia-Trump mess, and it’s finally starting to penetrate the GOP derp.
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This is key; if the GOP rank and file realize that Trump’s running for the other side - the Russians, then the GOP will have to engage in some serious pretzel logic avoiding the shit storm of their own creation by aligning with a guy who was so thoroughly compromised from before he even entered the race that it shows just how debased the GOP is as a party. They continue enabling Trump at every opportunity, and there’s no way they have clean hands in all this - that goes double for McConnell and Ryan.
A lot of us have been saying all of this is going to take time. It has to bake. As it has been pointed out it took two years plus for Watergate to bring down Nixon. And that was with a Democratic led Congress.
I’m sort of surprised it is moving at this pace. Maybe the ‘net figures in.
re: #187 Decatur Deb
For a portion of the population, being a dick is the only reward in life. You can find them even on the elementary school playgrounds.
And some make it to The White House and in Congress as Speaker of the House and Senate Leader.
re: #243 Decatur Deb
Fixie-upper.
I already fixed a lot of it already - the coaster brake and the lights, for example. The rest is pretty much foolproof. All I needed was a brake pad for the front spoon brake, and here in the Czech Republic, they are damned hard to find. Thankfully, that website I mentioned had them in stock. I also ordered some new handgrips. Other than that, it’s good to go.
re: #181 Birth Control Works
so stealing this.
I hereby place the expression “PC basically boils down to not being a dick” in the public domain, as-is, no warranty, do not inhale etc. etc. etc.
WAIT WHUT
Hannity compares Russia investigation to Obama “birtherism” conspiracy theory https://t.co/sITILnG3F8 pic.twitter.com/hDXHOyqyME
— The Hill (@thehill) June 20, 2017
re: #249 The Vicious Babushka
Cognitive dissonance. Lumpy haz it.
re: #9 Kragar
This is true now about Trump’s #Wealthcare, even though Pence was lying about the ACA, which was debated in public.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 20, 2017
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
others said manatees
Manatees…. St. Johns River in FL.
re: #246 ObserverArt
And some make it to The White House and in Congress as Speaker of the House and Senate Leader.
I do wonder (as a teacher) what Ryan and McConnell were like as kids. I already know something about Little Donnie. Trump would have been the class goof-off, coasting through on his family’s money and a natural gift for conning people. But I can’t get a reading on Ryan and McConnell.
re: #214 Birth Control Works
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Kushner and Soros???
Maybe the Trump supporters will want Trump impeached just for that.
re: #227 ObserverArt
I have a very simple question. Why are modern fundamentalist religious types so hateful?
I’m not religious, but having been Catholic schooled for 12 years I did learn some of the fundamentals of the Bible and learned of the works of the saints, etc. and I don’t remember this level of hatred for humans that someone like Texas Fundies seem to have.
It almost seems like it is a cult that has more about being seen as better than everyone else than it has to do with the teachings of this guy that walked the earth and taught love…for everyone.
It has to do with control. Whites used Christianity in the US to maintain control. They’ve used it to justify slavery, segregation, subjugation of women, control of gays. But they could be nice about it because all of these people knew their place. Well, we’re reaching a point where these people no longer want to be in their place, they want to be at the table. And so whites are freaking out and threatening those who aren’t like them.
re: #256 Belafon
So, birtherism was a sham.
Wasn’t Hannity one of those supporting the notion that Obama was not a natural-born citizen?
re: #245 ObserverArt
We’re in the opening phases of what’s effectively discovery - identifying witnesses, gathering evidence, talking to witnesses, etc., and the portions that seem to be furthest along in the process relate to Flynn, and Manafort is right behind him. If Flynn has flipped and cooperating with the authorities as some reports seem to indicate, that’s truly bad news for Trump and everyone else in his inner circle - including Pence and Trump.
The Flynn firing was bizarre in its own right for how it was done, who claimed to know what, etc., but everything this admin does is bizarre - up to and including the lies about easily verifiable stuff. Lies, omissions, projecting lies/failures on to others, is all in a day’s work for the Trump admin.
re: #253 wheat-dogg
I do wonder (as a teacher) what Ryan and McConnell were like as kids. I already know something about Little Donnie. Trump would have been the class goof-off, coasting through on his family’s money and a natural gift for conning people. But I can’t get a reading on Ryan and McConnell.
Lying sociopaths, both of them. You can’t tell people it’s a good deal to not have access to or guarantees of healthcare while telling them it’s a good deal for them (lying) and smiling while doing so (sociopathy).
re: #242 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Manatees. I followed the link to facebook and the guy was getting some shit for being a dick(non-PC). The vid threw me for a loop seeing as Dave in Austin lives on/near Lake Travis.
re: #250 Dr Lizardo
Cognitive dissonance. Lumpy haz it.
His TV program is now officially brain dead. It needs to be turned off and left to die.
re: #249 The Vicious Babushka
Hannity compares Russia investigation to Obama “birtherism” conspiracy theory
Ingoring, of course, that he bought all the way the fuck in on that conspiracy theory.
Oh, Lumpy. Self-awareness ain’t exactly your specialty, is it?
The effects of Evangelical Christian homeschooling.
Clip 1 is from “Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson.”
Clip 2 is from “Jesus Camp.”
re: #259 MsJ
Lying sociopaths, both of them. You can’t tell people it’s a good deal to not have access to or guarantees of healthcare while telling them it’s a good deal for them (lying) and smiling while doing so (sociopathy).
Very few of my students have gone into politics. One guy, who is a bilingual immigration lawyer now, ran for a judge’s seat in Louisville, KY, but was unsuccessful. If any others have run for office, it might have been only local races and I didn’t hear about them.
The students I taught my first year teaching are now approaching 50. Some may be past that now. I try not to think about that overly much.
re: #263 Dr. Matt
That girl looks about 10, and she didn’t know her times tables. Sheesh! My godless public school drummed that into our heads by the 3rd grade.
re: #265 wheat-dogg
That girl looks about 10, and she didn’t know her times tables. Sheesh! My godless public school drummed that into our heads by the 3rd grade.
I really, really, REALLY hope that she and her fucked up home-schooled family are just outliers.
re: #261 ObserverArt
His TV program is now officially brain dead. It needs to be turned off and left to die.
Now?
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
About the Ossoff campaign:
According to Ossoff’s campaign spokeswoman, Sacha Haworth, they’ve had more than 11,000 volunteers and knocked on half a million doors. If you include all the calls and texts they’ve sent, the campaign says they’ve made one million voter contacts. USA TODAY found that at least one potential voter had been contacted at least 15 times, without committing to Ossoff.
For those of you ready to throw in the towel if he doesn’t win, I ask you this: What else would you do?
re: #264 wheat-dogg
Very few of my students have gone into politics. One guy, who is a bilingual immigration lawyer now, ran for a judge’s seat in Louisville, KY, but was unsuccessful. If any others have run for office, it might have been only local races and I didn’t hear about them.
The students I taught my first year teaching are now approaching 50. Some may be past that now. I try not to think about that overly much.
It takes a special kind of person to run for public office. Most are the kind of people I generally wouldn’t like. The one’s who are good people are generally so discouraged with the process (their entire being is sifted through by opponents to find anything the opponent can twist into a negative, horrible things said about them or their families, etc., etc., etc.) that they walk away after one try at public service. Which, unfortunately, often leaves less than stellar options for those who do run for public office.
re: #269 Belafon
For those of you ready to throw in the towel if he doesn’t win, I ask you this: What else would you do?
Ask Russia to hack the election. :\
re: #266 Dr. Matt
I really, really, REALLY hope that she and her fucked up home-schooled family are just outliers.
Judging from the homemade frocks the girls wore, I’m guessing this is a Quiverfull family, or something similar. They’re as far away from modernity as you can get without declaring yourself Amish. Doubtless they use some Bible-based homeschooling system that bases every lesson off teh Bibble, as we know, there are no times tables in teh Bibble.
re: #272 wheat-dogg
Judging from the homemade frocks the girls wore, I’m guessing this is a Quiverfull family, or something similar. They’re as far away from modernity as you can get without declaring yourself Amish. Doubtless they use some Bible-based homeschooling system that based every lesson off teh Bibble, as we know, there are no times tables in teh Bibble.
But the mother is wearing a T shirt. STONE THE WANTON SLUT!!!!
re: #268 Teukka
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
Well, if that is the case, most of us in the US will no longer have to worry about Trump (or anything else) and likely a good part of the world won’t any longer, either. Global warming will go away as we go into a major cooling period due to stuff in the atmosphere blocking out most of the sun for, oh, a couple of years.
re: #262 makeitstop
Ingoring, of course, that he bought all the way the fuck in on that conspiracy theory.
Oh, Lumpy. Self-awareness ain’t exactly your specialty, is it?
Hannity compares Russia investigation to Obama “birtherism” conspiracy theory https://t.co/mroCGjWeUE pic.twitter.com/T3XNRcP6OU
— The Hill (@thehill) June 20, 2017
Again, no more shame or self-awareness than a dog licking its asshole in public
Difference is the dog doesn’t know any better https://t.co/Y5Cp3pMXUc— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2017
re: #273 The Vicious Babushka
But the mother is wearing a T shirt. STONE THE WANTON SLUT!!!!
She’s depriving herself a proper frock so the girls can attract a godly husband with theirs.
I am not being sarcastic.
re: #268 Teukka
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
Could this be a consequence of so much of the earth’s water changing position, changing the stresses on the planet, and thereby changing it’s shape?
re: #268 Teukka
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
there has been a surge of volcanic activity in the Eifel, just about 100 miles NW of where I live near the French-Belgian border
re: #227 ObserverArt
I have a very simple question. Why are modern fundamentalist religious types so hateful?
I’m not religious, but having been Catholic schooled for 12 years I did learn some of the fundamentals of the Bible and learned of the works of the saints, etc. and I don’t remember this level of hatred for humans that someone like Texas Fundies seem to have.
It almost seems like it is a cult that has more about being seen as better than everyone else than it has to do with the teachings of this guy that walked the earth and taught love…for everyone.
If you have a couple weeks to spare, I’d recommend Robert Sapolsky’s latest book, Behave (675 pages without the appendices.) The second half has some really interesting observations about “Us” and “Them” as perceived by our brains. It’s far more complex than just this, but we are all very, very adept at unconsciously reinforcing our biases (and then rationalizing them.)
re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there has been a surge of volcanic activity in the Eifel, just about 100 miles NW of where I live near the French-Belgian border
Is this (historically) normal or a completely new phenomena?
re: #277 Belafon
Could this be a consequence of so much of the earth’s water changing position, changing the stresses on the planet, and thereby changing it’s shape?
Thankfully, no.
re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there has been a surge of volcanic activity in the Eifel, just about 100 miles NW of where I live near the French-Belgian border
Wow.
re: #265 wheat-dogg
That girl looks about 10, and she didn’t know her times tables. Sheesh! My godless public school drummed that into our heads by the 3rd grade.
I had to stop watching once she couldn’t get 5 x 5. 12 x 12 was bad enough…but 5 x 5=20. You can add that up…no need to multiply.
But they were dressed so nice and proper and smiled and all.
My god, what are they doing to these kids???
Again, 12 years of Catholic school. Can’t get much more religious than that. However, the nuns would have hung their heads in shame if a third grader couldn’t answer 5 times 5.
And you know what. I do believe the nuns would have been more upset that one of their students couldn’t answer 5 times 5 than had they failed at remembering some Bible story. Why? Because they knew we had to live in the world and they wanted us to be successful at it. They knew the difference between spiritual and reality.
re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
there has been a surge of volcanic activity in the Eifel, just about 100 miles NW of where I live near the French-Belgian border
Really? That I hadn’t heard about.
re: #280 MsJ
Is this (historically) normal or a completely new phenomena?
It has not been volcanically active for at least 10K years…
re: #267 MsJ
Now?
Well, I’ve never watched Hannity on TV…so he’s been dead to me all along. I was just thinking about how it seems that he is really struggling to keep all of his craziness straight. I think the pressure is on and Fox as we knew it may be dying a slow death.
re: #283 ObserverArt
I had to stop watching once she couldn’t get 5 x 5. 12 x 12 was bad enough…but 5 x 5=20. You can add that up…no need to multiply.
But they were dressed so nice and proper and smiled and all.
My god, what are they doing to these kids???
Again, 12 years of Catholic school. Can’t get much more religious than that. However, the nuns would have hung their heads in shame if a third grader couldn’t answer 5 times 5.
And you know what. I do believe the nuns would have been more upset that one of their students couldn’t answer 5 times 5 than had they failed at remembering some Bible story. Why? Because they knew we had to live in the world and they wanted us to be successful at it. They knew the difference between spiritual and reality.
6 years in a Catholic school here, also taught by nuns. Yeah, times table is pretty much etched into my spine… Were yours Notre Dame?
re: #283 ObserverArt
Well, the nuns wanted you to get a job, probably. I’m not sure these godly parents have thought that far ahead. Of course, they don’t expect the girls to go out to work, but even housewives need to know math, so they don’t get cheated at the market.
re: #269 Belafon
About the Ossoff campaign:
For those of you ready to throw in the towel if he doesn’t win, I ask you this: What else would you do?
Is the better question; what else could you do?
Not that yours is a bad question. I wonder how many voters there are in the district. It almost seems like every single voter had been contacted.
re: #255 Belafon
It has to do with control. Whites used Christianity in the US to maintain control. They’ve used it to justify slavery, segregation, subjugation of women, control of gays. But they could be nice about it because all of these people knew their place. Well, we’re reaching a point where these people no longer want to be in their place, they want to be at the table. And so whites are freaking out and threatening those who aren’t like them.
They are insecure people, being in control makes them feel powerful.
re: #257 wheat-dogg
Wasn’t Hannity one of those supporting the notion that Obama was not a natural-born citizen?
when it suits him
re: #265 wheat-dogg
That girl looks about 10, and she didn’t know her times tables. Sheesh! My godless public school drummed that into our heads by the 3rd grade.
Sister Bernadette Marie —scared the shit out of me
Still can’t do my 12’s without thinking about it.
re: #292 Birth Control Works
Wasn’t Hannity one of those supporting the notion that Obama was not a natural-born citizen?
when it suits him
Like Rick Perry comparing Creationists to Galileo…
re: #283 ObserverArt
I had to stop watching once she couldn’t get 5 x 5. 12 x 12 was bad enough…but 5 x 5=
2025. You can add that up…no need to multiply.
FIFY
re: #268 Teukka
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
Well, it’s been nice chatting with you-all over the years.
re: #299 wheat-dogg
The girl said 20 in the video. cc was quoting her.
Ah, hadn’t listened to it. Glad she has a firm grasp of all that stuff.
re: #298 Birth Control Works
Well, it’s been nice chatting with you-all over the years.
Well, unless you’re right smack up close and personal to the Yellowstone caldera neighborhood, you will make it.
However, climate change will not take the form of warming for quite some time after such an event.
re: #279 calochortus
If you have a couple weeks to spare, I’d recommend Robert Sapolsky’s latest book, Behave (675 pages without the appendices.) The second half has some really interesting observations about “Us” and “Them” as perceived by our brains. It’s far more complex than just this, but we are all very, very adept at unconsciously reinforcing our biases (and then rationalizing them.)
on Audible as well.
re: #283 ObserverArt
I had to stop watching once she couldn’t get 5 x 5. 12 x 12 was bad enough…but 5 x 5=20. You can add that up…no need to multiply.
But they were dressed so nice and proper and smiled and all.
My god, what are they doing to these kids???
Again, 12 years of Catholic school. Can’t get much more religious than that. However, the nuns would have hung their heads in shame if a third grader couldn’t answer 5 times 5.
And you know what. I do believe the nuns would have been more upset that one of their students couldn’t answer 5 times 5 than had they failed at remembering some Bible story. Why? Because they knew we had to live in the world and they wanted us to be successful at it. They knew the difference between spiritual and reality.
Yeah, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s are pretty easy. No excuse for not knowing.
I’m particularly good at 3’s. :)
re: #125 The Vicious Babushka
The weird anti-gay bigots aren’t Christian. They’re wicked Conservatives who blame their deficient subculture on their religion.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 20, 2017
re: #287 Teukka
6 years in a Catholic school here, also taught by nuns. Yeah, times table is pretty much etched into my spine… Were yours Notre Dame?
Sisters of St. Francis. Home based out of Joliet Illinois. Franciscan nuns.
re: #300 calochortus
Ah, hadn’t listened to it. Glad she has a firm grasp of all that stuff.
She missed 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 — had not a clue for either. And she obviously was guessing on 5 x 5.
But I bet she knows all the details about the Ark!
re: #301 Teukka
Well, unless you’re right smack up close and personal to the Yellowstone caldera neighborhood, you will make it.
However, climate change will not take the form of warming for quite some time after such an event.
Unless there is a cloud of debris/smoke that covers half the continent and blots out all breatheable air … .
Did you read Krakatoa?
re: #307 wheat-dogg
She missed 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 — had not a clue for either. And she obviously was guessing on 5 x 5.
But I bet she knows all the details about the Ark!
It’s good to know your cubits.
re: #303 Birth Control Works
Yeah, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s are pretty easy. No excuse for not knowing.
I’m particularly good at 3’s. :)
7s, 8s and 9s were the ones that gave me the most trouble. Even now I have to stop and think what 7 x 8 is.
re: #296 calochortus
FIFY
Did you watch the video? The young girl answered 20 to 5 x 5. That is when I had to stop watching.
re: #307 wheat-dogg
She missed 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 — had not a clue for either. And she obviously was guessing on 5 x 5.
But I bet she knows all the details about the Ark!
Well, there’s the problem. No one had to multiply cubits now did they????
re: #311 wheat-dogg
7s, 8s and 9s were the ones that gave me the most trouble. Even now I have to stop and think what 7 x 8 is.
42
re: #313 calochortus
Well, there’s the problem. No one had to multiply cubits now did they????
everything 2x2 and then threescore and ten…
re: #313 calochortus
Well, there’s the problem. No one had to multiply cubits now did they????
Noah got all his directions straight from God, so all he had to do was count.
Divine inspiration would have been necessary, since inland sheep herders are not especially good shipwrights, typically.
WATCH: President Trump greets Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko in the Oval Office https://t.co/mklu3azabX
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 20, 2017
Trump says “the Ukraine” to the face of the president of Ukraine. https://t.co/GWSEXan0xe
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2017
re: #317 wheat-dogg
No, that’s the answer to life, the universe and everything.
then the answer is: Traffic.
re: #308 Birth Control Works
Unless there is a cloud of debris/smoke that covers half the continent and blots out all breatheable air … .
Did you read Krakatoa?
Meh. Try Toba catastrophe theory. According to it, a VEI-8 eruption came very close to wiping our species out 75,000 years ago.
Krakatoa was a “mere” VEI-6. Last VEI-7 we had was in 1816, a.k.a. “Year without a summer”. And even a VEI-4 can pollute, see 1783 Laki eruption, it reeked so bad Franklin wrote about it.
The triumph of hopeful projection over reality. Workers in Elkhart, IN support Trump because despite plentiful manufacturing jobs (since before the elections,) they don’t pay well and working conditions are poor. Somehow they think Trump cares. Article here
Thinking back about school and you know what terrified me the most?
Forgetting my locker combination numbers for the lock.
I swear, I worried about that all the way through freaking college and we didn’t even have lockers. Sometime when awaking in the morning my first thought would be “damn, what is my locker combination?” And then I’d realize I passed that by years ago.
Trauma…it sticks with you.
re: #322 Teukka
Meh. Try Toba catastrophe theory. According to it, a VEI-8 eruption came very close to wipe our species out 75,000 years ago.
Krakatoa was a “mere” VEI-6. Last VEI-7 we had was in 1816, a.k.a. “Year without a summer”. And even a VEI-4 can pollute, see 1783 Laki eruption, it reeked so bad Frankling wrote about it.
Why do you know so much about earthquakes?
re: #324 ObserverArt
Thinking back about school and you know what terrified me the most?
Forgetting my locker combination numbers for the lock.
I swear, I worried about that all the way through freaking college and we didn’t even have lockers. Sometime when awaking in the morning my first thought would be “damn, what is my locker combination?” And then I’d realize I passed that by years ago.
Trauma…it sticks with you.
You could have written it down and kept it in your wallet.
Or told traded combos with your best friends so you could use each other’s lockers and depeded on her/him when you forgot (like i did)
re: #324 ObserverArt
Thinking back about school and you know what terrified me the most?
Forgetting my locker combination numbers for the lock.
I swear, I worried about that all the way through freaking college and we didn’t even have lockers. Sometime when awaking in the morning my first thought would be “damn, what is my locker combination?” And then I’d realize I passed that by years ago.
Trauma…it sticks with you.
I regularly have dreams in which I am enrolled in a class, have never looked at the book or visited the classroom, do not even know where the classroom is…and the exam is tomorrow.
re: #326 FormerDirtDart
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I don’t follow sports —what is his name —so I’ll know the answer in the future.
re: #325 Birth Control Works
Why do you know so much about earthquakes?
Have strong tendencies towards photographic memory. I read or watch it, I can easily remember most of it.
re: #286 ObserverArt
Well, I’ve never watched Hannity on TV…so he’s been dead to me all along. I was just thinking about how it seems that he is really struggling to keep all of his craziness straight. I think the pressure is on and Fox as we knew it may be dying a slow death.
Let us all bow our heads and hope and pray. ;-)
Fox gears itself towards the older folks (like me) and we are a dying demographic (literally). They can (and are) looking to replace that with the hard core variables on the right (alt-right, neonazis, religious extremists) which is a key demo…but not for the majority of Americans.
I hope that what is happening to Megyn Kelly is an omen of what is to come. Average American’s do not want anything to do with that side of the right. It seems Kelly is doing little more with her stint at NBC than to continue to push right-wing stuff, but much less forcefully than she did at her time at Fox. But if it walks and talks like a winger, it likely is one. I continue to hope that her career outside of Fox tanks like a boulder in a lake.
re: #324 ObserverArt
Thinking back about school and you know what terrified me the most?
Forgetting my locker combination numbers for the lock.
I swear, I worried about that all the way through freaking college and we didn’t even have lockers. Sometime when awaking in the morning my first thought would be “damn, what is my locker combination?” And then I’d realize I passed that by years ago.
Trauma…it sticks with you.
All through high school I had the same lock: 18-36-18. Don’t ask for my gym locker combo, though.
re: #330 Teukka
Have strong tendencies towards photographic memory. I read or watch it, I can easily remember most of it.
so jealous.
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I regularly have dreams in which I am enrolled in a class, have never looked at the book or visited the classroom, do not even know where the classroom is…and the exam is tomorrow.
Don’t we all?
re: #333 Birth Control Works
so jealous.
Don’t be. There are things I can’t forget and which drag me down.
re: #334 calochortus
Don’t we all?
No, I never dream of school.
If I remember my dreams at all, they usually involve colors.
re: #269 Belafon
About the Ossoff campaign:
For those of you ready to throw in the towel if he doesn’t win, I ask you this: What else would you do?
Honestly, that opens up the worst-case scenario - too many US voters are TSTL. That, more than anything else, was the most horrifying realization for me after Nov 2016 - 62 million people thought Cheeto Benito worth voting for.
62.
MILLION.
People.
(and if some polls are to be believed, 96% percent of them would vote for him again)
I just can’t wrap my head around so much gullible, stupid, hateful, greedy, or all of the above.
re: #269 Belafon
About the Ossoff campaign:
For those of you ready to throw in the towel if he doesn’t win, I ask you this: What else would you do?
From the LGF complaints about begging emails, I’m fairly certain a million contacts in that district (c. 500,000 voters) could be counterproductive. The analysts who wrote The Victory Lab, for instance, have a very low opinion of repetitive calling, yet we are put to phone banking every campaign.
So, looking at the situation in the UK, it’s all manner of petty chaos. What a farce. The Tory/DUP agreement still hasn’t been inked and PM May is going in to the Queen’s Speech tomorrow - possibly - without a majority government.
At this rate, the UK’s new national anthem should just be “Yakety Sax”.
re: #327 Birth Control Works
You could have written it down and kept it in your wallet.
Or told traded combos with your best friends so you could use each other’s lockers and depeded on her/him when you forgot (like i did)
I think it was a self-discipline thing. And I don’t think it ever really affected me not opening my locker. It was that first thought in the morning mixed with the dread of having to go to school.
The mind can mess with you big time.
re: #334 calochortus
Don’t we all?
then again, being late to class never worried me.
I was on newspaper and yearbook. Advisor would always vouch for us.
And, I never really cared anyway. Nothing in my future depended on my attendance record in high school.
re: #336 Birth Control Works
No, I never dream of school.
If I remember my dreams at all, they usually involve colors.
I don’t remember many of my dreams, and they are virtually always boring, sometimes working their way up to mild anxiety (the aforementioned “haven’t been to class”, or maybe “time to leave and I can’t find my shoes.”) Colors sound like more fun.
re: #329 Birth Control Works
I don’t follow sports —what is his name —so I’ll know the answer in the future.
His story is much bigger than sports. Jackie Robinson. His story was all about race and his people and their hope. I bet you know more about him than you are letting on.
Anyhoo, time to do stuff before it gets hot around here.
BBL
Gal Gadot’s husband went viral on Instagram because of this T-shirt https://t.co/5HTxPRJHlt pic.twitter.com/dxicK9vRE0
— JTA | Jewish news (@JTAnews) June 20, 2017
re: #308 Birth Control Works
Unless there is a cloud of debris/smoke that covers half the continent and blots out all breatheable air … .
Did you read Krakatoa?
The debris will spread throughout most of the midwest all the way to the great lakes on the right coast and a good part of the left coast - most of which feeds America. While it wouldn’t be an extinction level event, it would seriously impact most of the US, Canada and some of Mexico.
re: #348 MsJ
The debris will spread throughout most of the midwest all the way to the great lakes on the right coast and a good part of the left coast - most of which feeds America. While it wouldn’t be an extinction level event, it would seriously impact most of the US, Canada and some of Mexico.
and people connected to Trump will make a profit off of it…
re: #339 Decatur Deb
From the LGF complaints about begging emails, I’m fairly certain a million contacts in that district (c. 500,000 voters) could be counterproductive. The analysts who wrote The Victory Lab, for instance, have a very low opinion of repetitive calling, yet we are put to phone banking every campaign.
I am a big believer in diminishing return. Beat people over the head with the same message over and over and they will plain reject you even if you had them at one point.
The internet and much commercial advertising need to figure that out. More is not always better.
re: #348 MsJ
The debris will spread throughout most of the midwest all the way to the great lakes on the right coast and a good part of the left coast - most of which feeds America. While it wouldn’t be an extinction level event, it would seriously impact most of the US, Canada and some of Mexico.
When Mt St Helens blew its top, the ash was carried eastward for hundreds of miles. I was living in Wyoming at the time, and collected enough ash off my car to fill a pill bottle.
It is time once again to enter my sleep period. Tomorrow I begin grading final exams! Woo hoo!
I leave for the USA in exactly seven days. Still got some packing to do, but the bulk of it is done.
If the person wasn’t such a bigoted pile of ooze, I’d find the irony amusing.
“I spoken (sic) English,” said the woman demanding to see ‘a white doctor who speaks English.’ 🤔 https://t.co/9hI2mk5i31
— Rosa (@journorosa) June 20, 2017
This speaks for itself.
Sky News’ Northern Ireland correspondent describes Theresa May’s apparently botched deal with the DUP as “a quite extraordinary debacle”.
— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) June 20, 2017
re: #338 Interesting Times
Honestly, that opens up the worst-case scenario - too many US voters are TSTL. That, more than anything else, was the most horrifying realization for me after Nov 2016 - 62 million people thought Cheeto Benito worth voting for.
62.
MILLION.
People.(and if some polls are to be believed, 96% percent of them would vote for him again)
I just can’t wrap my head around so much gullible, stupid, hateful, greedy, or all of the above.
the 96% has to be taken with the understanding that the number of people identifying as Republicans is down by like 20-30%. Republicans may support him, but that group is getting smaller right now.
But yes, TSTL does seem to apply. Those who vote against Ossoff will complain about losing their health care.
Late to the party here, but…
It’s more the irony that Spicer may be the thinnest official member on staff save Miller, who needs a sandwich as much as he needs a soul
— Circular K (@Citizen_Kryptik) June 20, 2017
re: #317 wheat-dogg
No, that’s the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Which is what you get when you multiply six by nine.
re: #329 Birth Control Works
I don’t follow sports —what is his name —so I’ll know the answer in the future.
That’s Jackie Robinson. And his number, 42, has been retired from all of US professional baseball since April 15, 1997. The 50th anniversary of him making his major league debut.
And, since 2009, on every April 15th, every player and umpire wears 42 as their uniform number with their names removed from their jerseys.
re: #258 lawhawk
The Flynn firing was bizarre in its own right for how it was done, who claimed to know what, etc., but everything this admin does is bizarre - up to and including the lies about easily verifiable stuff. Lies, omissions, projecting lies/failures on to others, is all in a day’s work for the Trump admin.
Trump’s Razor:
Courtesy of @joshtpm, a principle henceforth to be known as “Trump’s Razor.” https://t.co/YL8xZMJMMt pic.twitter.com/7WwopC4pSe
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) July 16, 2016
I just got an email from someone wanting money for the Georgia Campaign. “DEVOSS JUST DONATED A BUNCH OF MONEY AND IS TRYING TO BUY THE ELECTION-give us $1.”
I know Devoss is richer than God—having married Amway.
OK, I needed a laugh…
Coworkers: Want to come out for a drink with us tonight?
Me: Can’t-I have important plans.
Coworkers: Ok, what are you up to?
Me: pic.twitter.com/bGuJ3R7rOQ— The Cultured Ruffian (@CulturedRuffian) June 20, 2017
re: #360 MsJ
I wonder if anyone out that up on Wikipedia yet.
Nope, but it’s in the Urban Dictionary.
re: #345 ObserverArt
His story is much bigger than sports. Jackie Robinson. His story was all about race and his people and their hope. I bet you know more about him than you are letting on.
couldn’t connect the face with the name.
So, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is Jackie Robinson.
If I put that out on twitter would anyone understand?
re: #331 MsJ
I have yet to see one example of a right winger tv talking head succeeding outside of their zone of comfort. Rush Limbaugh’s Late Night Tv show failed miserably once he had to contend with real actual people on a real basis. This pattern continues once the reality-denying ideology of our right wing meets reality and real people who do not subscribe to their built-in prejudices, anti-science, predetermined talking points, and economic orthodoxy.
re: #362 Birth Control Works
54?
If you read the sequels to Hitchhikers, Arthur and Ford are trapped on an old planet, and Arthur gets the idea that, since he’s part of the computer known as earth, that maybe his brain has the answer and he could come up with it by drawing out scrabble letters randomly. When he does this, it spells “What do you get when you multiply six by nine”.
BTW, 6*9 = 42 in base 13.
re: #366 Birth Control Works
So, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is Jackie Robinson.
If I put that out on twitter would anyone understand?
Someone would probably accuse you of trying to change Hitchhikers to be less white.
re: #353 A dark and stormy covfefe
If the person wasn’t such a bigoted pile of ooze, I’d find the irony amusing.
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At least she didn’t say, “I speak Canadian”.
Rex Tillerson wants to work directly with Russia on cybersecurity, even after last year’s hacking https://t.co/NwyAR7PXXm pic.twitter.com/ipjwjkyl4p
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) June 19, 2017
Robbers broke into our house. We should ask those guys for advice on burglar alarms!
— Rex Tillerson https://t.co/SuTi6FHq9J— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2017
I’ll take it.
#FirstGifComesUpForYourName pic.twitter.com/u6N7dXUyWE
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) June 20, 2017
re: #368 Belafon
If you read the sequels to Hitchhikers, Arthur and Ford are trapped on an old planet, and Arthur gets the idea that, since he’s part of the computer known as earth, that maybe his brain has the answer and he could come up with it by drawing out scrabble letters randomly. When he does this, it spells “What do you get when you multiply six by nine”.
BTW, 6*9 = 42 in base 13.
Yeah, I forgot
I never understood base 13 or base 8. Failed those questions in math class consistently.
McConnell will go down in history as the guy who monkey-wrenched American democracy pic.twitter.com/ciboIAMLJe
— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) June 20, 2017
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
That’s Jackie Robinson. And his number, 42, has been retired from all of US professional baseball since April 15, 1997. The 50th anniversary of him making his major league debut.
And, since 2009, on every April 15th, every player and umpire wears 42 as their uniform number with their names removed from their jerseys.
Also, the best rookie every year gets The Jackie Robinson award.
.@POTUS is the oldest & the hardest working president ever! His stamina & dedication to #MAGA is #TuesdayMotivation RT if you agree! pic.twitter.com/3Ggu46Qse6
— Corryn 🇺🇸 (@Corrynmb) June 20, 2017
re: #366 Birth Control Works
So, the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is Jackie Robinson.
If I put that out on twitter would anyone understand?
Yes.
Never imagined Kathy Griffin could do something meaningful for America. Send Griffin. #MAGA @FoxNews https://t.co/AfWp2XD98Q
— Sheriff Paul Babeu (@PaulBabeuAZ) June 20, 2017
This is the most disturbing thing you will see all day.
This is apparently a thinghttps://t.co/mZ4OECbJ1w pic.twitter.com/dbqXtsvvdg
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 20, 2017
re: #381 The Vicious Babushka
This is the most disturbing thing you will see all day.
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thanks for that
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Puff Piece. pic.twitter.com/N81aInp25a
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) June 20, 2017
Firefly is now available on Hulu
hulu.com
With the episodes in the right (whedon-approved) order.
re: #377 Birth Control Works
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Weird profile for a Trumpkin. Religious damage, I suppose.
re: #373 Birth Control Works
Yeah, I forgot
I never understood base 13 or base 8. Failed those questions in math class consistently.
How about base six, which would allow you to count to 35 (base 10) on your fingers. Your right hand is the ones digit, and your left hand is the sixes digit. As you count through on your right hand, ever time you roll to six, add one more to the left, and start over on the right. Counting as you normally do, that’s base ten from 0-35. But, if you look a the fingers on each hand separately, you’re representing two base six digits.
Conversion from base six to ten would be to take the number of fingers up on the left hand times six and add the number of digits up on the right hand. To convert to base six, take the base 10 number and divide by six. The quotient goes on your left hand, and the remainder on the right.
re: #354 Dr Lizardo
This speaks for itself.
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When you’re being called unsophisticated by people with a belief system from the 17th century, that’s probably not good.
— Lord Enus (@LordEnus) June 20, 2017
re: #41 MsJ
And flying in Canada costs 3x what it does in the US. Just saying.
It takes more effort to flap wings while wearing a heavy winter parka.
So I guess Trump referred to Ukraine as “The Ukraine” in today’s press conference with the Ukrainian President.
re: #391 Barefoot Grin
So I guess Trump referred to Ukraine as “The Ukraine” in today’s press conference with the Ukrainian President.
But he didn’t do his Assault HandshakeTM
I guess world leaders got wise to that and have counter moves.
Trump’s FBI nominee edited online bio to remove reference to legal case against Russia https://t.co/GRlf05h9CD pic.twitter.com/SLSMg6Z12r
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 20, 2017
Panicking Mitch McConnell Shoves Entire Senate Healthcare Bill Into Mouth As Democrat Walks Past https://t.co/6iTOp5Fn60 pic.twitter.com/W2RjP3FOxK
— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 20, 2017
re: #268 Teukka
Great, just when you thought 2017 couldn’t possibly suck an order magnitude worse…
Yellowstone supervolcano hit by a swarm of earthquakes
Please, prayers/positive vibes/positive thoughts/whatever works that this isn’t a precursor to a VEI-8 kabloie.
Sweet Meteor o’Death is pissed that it’ll be eclipsed by the Great One Below.
Seriously though, Yellowstone has gone through a couple of swarm cycles over the past 2 decades:
Earthquake swarms are common in Yellowstone and, on average, comprise about 50% of the total seismicity in the Yellowstone region.
Related figures can be viewed on the original post: quake.utah.edu
This is the highest number of earthquakes at Yellowstone within a single week in the past five years, but is fewer than weekly counts during similar earthquakes swarms in 2002, 2004, 2008 and 2010.
Past performance is no predictor of future behavior, and this is especially true of volcanoes, especially one that has the potential to wipe out life as we know it in North America (and beyond).
What’s far more likely than a VEI-8 quake at this point is another quake along the lines of the 1959 Hebgen Lake quake (~7.3). That could potentially significantly alter the magma chamber/plumbing and initiate an eruptive phase.
Smaller quakes allow subtle shifts in the magma chamber and reduce stresses on certain parts of the caldera (but add stresses elsewhere).
Seems like May is competing with McConnell for the biggest car crash:
DUP: Government talks ‘have not proceeded in a way we would have expected’
[…]
It is thought that the DUP is asking for more investment for Northern Ireland as part of the price of its support, and the party also wants the retention of the triple lock guarantee on pensions and winter fuel allowances for older people.
Arlene Foster’s party backs Brexit, but wants to avoid any disruption to movements across the border with the Irish Republic.
[…]
How that can work is really a mystery. Ireland is part of the EU and will follow EU laws/rules for movements across boarders.
re: #328 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I regularly have dreams in which I am enrolled in a class, have never looked at the book or visited the classroom, do not even know where the classroom is…and the exam is tomorrow.
What’s worst is when your current job gets dragged into those dreams too.
Mueller’s added a fluent Russian speaker who was a former Ginsberg aid to his group:
Prelogar, a former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan, is a Harvard Law School graduate and formerly worked in private practice at Hogan Lovells. Her involvement in the Russia probe has not previously been reported.
Prelogar also appears to be fluent in Russian. As an Emory College undergraduate, she majored in English and Russian. After graduating from Emory she was a Fulbright scholar in Russia. When she was a 1L at Harvard Law in 2006, she won an Overseas Press Club scholarship to study Russian media and censorship.
Even if his conclusion is Trump did nothing, there will be no stones left unturned.
re: #396 freetoken
Seems like May is competing with McConnell for the biggest car crash:
DUP: Government talks ‘have not proceeded in a way we would have expected’
It is thought that the DUP is asking for more investment for Northern Ireland as part of the price of its support, and the party also wants the retention of the triple lock guarantee on pensions and winter fuel allowances for older people.
Arlene Foster’s party backs Brexit, but wants to avoid any disruption to movements across the border with the Irish Republic.
[…]
How that can work is really a mystery. Ireland is part of the EU and will follow EU laws/rules for movements across borders.
And May is all about cutting pensions and government “welfare” like winter fuel allowances…let ‘em free in the name of the Free Market!
Burn your copy of Adam Smith if you get too cold.
Someone should be charged with cruelty to a Stratocaster for this.
Also - engraving on the neck is not the best idea.
“We are going to fix this nation’s tax code once and for all. This has got to get done,” Speaker Ryan says https://t.co/T5uqoA85rO pic.twitter.com/FG90lKbdfV
— CBS News (@CBSNews) June 20, 2017
Ryan’s new Tax Code:
0-$25,000 30%
$25,000-$80,000 25%
$80,000-$200,000 18%
$200,000-$500,000 15%
$500,000-$2million 10%
>$2million 0% https://t.co/XdCwt7MgLK— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) June 20, 2017
It strikes me the best way to mourn poor Otto Warmbier is to resist autocratic regimes wherever they seize power, including here at home. pic.twitter.com/V4L0ww1q7r
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) June 20, 2017
You know who else enjoyed large mandatory portraits of himself?
…………………..
“…The Teton Republican Party launched a petition that asks the Jackson Town Council to pass a resolution requiring portraits of the president and vice president “to always hang in Teton County’s local government buildings.”
washingtonpost.com
re: #402 jaunte
You know who else enjoyed large mandatory portraits of himself?
…………………..
I bet they’ll have trouble if a Democratic president starts demanding to be treated like a king.
re: #402 jaunte
It strikes me the best way to mourn poor Otto Warmbier is to resist autocratic regimes wherever they seize power, including here at home.
The best way to mourn OW is not to visit brutal, oppressive totalitarian countries where your rights are irrelevant.
re: #403 Belafon
I bet they’ll have trouble if a Democratic president starts demanding to be treated like a king.
They complained Obama was “acting like a King” even though he wasn’t.
Jon McNaughton hasn’t created any “art” since his “masterpieces” of Obama ripping the Constitution and random former Presidents making pleading gestures at the first Black POTUS. Does he have any “artworks” of Jesus anointing Trump or something similarly vomitous?
I just made a cup of Nespresso’s Cafe de Cuba.
Beyond delicious!
Here is the correct way to fly the Confederate flag #TheResistance #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/tLHBmj75sa
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 14, 2017
re: #405 The Vicious Babushka
His business of dramatizing victimization is probably suffering in the Trump presidency.
re: #405 The Vicious Babushka
They complained Obama was “acting like a King” even though he wasn’t.
Jon McNaughton hasn’t created any “art” since his “masterpieces” of Obama ripping the Constitution and random former Presidents making pleading gestures at the first Black POTUS. Does he have any “artworks” of Jesus anointing Trump or something similarly vomitous?
Gosh, I wonder why he doesn’t do that with Trump? Hmmmm, I got a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with color…
re: #409 Joe Bacon 🌹
Gosh, I wonder why he doesn’t do that with Trump? Hmmmm, I got a sneaking suspicion it has something to do with color…
When he imagines that the black guy is a tyrant, then completely ignores an actual tyrant, the only other possibility is that he’s just brainwashed to hate modern people. Either way, he’s a fool.
N.B. the thing about voting for a major health care bill or signing it is afterward no one can feign vague “concern” anymore.
— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 20, 2017
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
Here is the correct way to fly the Confederate flag
IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NOTE
The Confederate battle flag never flew above any state capitol during the Civil War: they would have flown the Stars and Bars.
The battle flag did not appear again until the 60’s…to let those uppity Negroes and Yankee agitators who was in charge there…
McNaughton doesn’t have any Trump “art” (yet) but Sharpwriter on Deviantart created a Trump poster. I am not going to link it here. It is predictably deplorable.
re: #408 jaunte
His business of dramatizing victimization is probably suffering in the Trump presidency.
I already visualize one of Jesus offering to help Trump bear his cross of persecution…followed by two Corinthians in red leather.
re: #413 The Vicious Babushka
McNaughton doesn’t have any Trump “art” (yet) but Sharpwriter on Deviantart created a Trump poster. I am not going to link it here. It is predictably deplorable.
There is the one of Jesus holding the pen for DT to sign another executive order banning Muslims…
re: #413 The Vicious Babushka
McNaughton doesn’t have any Trump “art” (yet) but Sharpwriter on Deviantart created a Trump poster. I am not going to link it here. It is predictably deplorable.
I’ve seen them.
His works of “art” would fit right in with the Aryan trash that glorified Hitler!
re: #414 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I already visualize one of Jesus offering to help Trump bear his cross of persecution…followed by two Corinthians in red leather.
re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
There is the one of Jesus holding the pen for DT to sign another executive order banning Muslims…
I don’t think McNaughton made that one.
re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The best way to mourn OW is not to visit brutal, oppressive totalitarian countries where your rights are irrelevant.
“But they’re given to us by God!”
JUST IN: Obama AG Eric Holder considering running against Trump in 2020 https://t.co/x5cUSb3ZV9 pic.twitter.com/f28d6okxo9
— The Hill (@thehill) June 20, 2017
re: #421 lawhawk
JUST IN: Obama AG Eric Holder considering running against Trump in 2020
So we can just replace Benghazi with Fast and Furious; lather, rinse, repeat.
re: #422 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Any D they ran was going to be personally responsible for Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the cancellation of Firefly…so might as well troll the fuck out of them with a selection like that.
re: #423 I cannot.
We trolled the fuck out of them with Hillary Clinton. How did that work out?
re: #423 I cannot.
Any D they ran was going to be personally responsible for Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the cancellation of Firefly…so might as well troll the fuck out of them with a selection like that.
Are there Conservative Firefly fans? I know that wingnut idiot Adam Baldwin is on the show, but it’s about rebels against an oppressive government, which I imagine no longer appeals to Conservatives, now that they got the oppressive government they wanted.
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Are there Conservative Firefly fans? I know that wingnut idiot Adam Baldwin is on the show, but it’s about rebels against an oppressive government, which I imagine no longer appeals to Conservatives, now that they got the oppressive government they wanted.
It is about projecting their fantasies of True Patriots rebelling against Leftist Tyranny
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I don’t think they feel the need to be consistent.
re: #427 jaunte
I don’t think they feel the need to be consistent.
That is the job of TV shows and entertainment: giving people a surface onto which they can selectively project their dreams, fantasies and ideals.
And no coincidence that they voted for a TV celebrity.
THIS STUPID MOTHER FUCKER==>
#TheResistance candidate Ossoff is campaigning explicitly against Medicare-for-all & higher taxes on the rich. https://t.co/DpHnOFdX3o pic.twitter.com/yYJ5z5BDfG
— David Sirota (@davidsirota) June 20, 2017
.@PressSec: “The president clearly wants a bill that has heart”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 20, 2017
Today in things that mean absolutely nothing with no specifics given… https://t.co/XsxlYfpXJ1
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) June 20, 2017
BTW The “Stupid MoFo” is Sirota, not Ossoff.
BTW, did anybody know there’s also a special election in SC Fifth District today?
Didn’t think so.
re: #423 I cannot.
Any D they ran was going to be personally responsible for Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the cancellation of Firefly…so might as well troll the fuck out of them with a selection like that.
And will automatically be The Most Liberal Candidate in the History of Candidates(tm)!
“It’s no secret,” Spicer says about the vacant communications director role. Declines to address reports that he’s stepping away from podium
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) June 20, 2017
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Are there Conservative Firefly fans? I know that wingnut idiot Adam Baldwin is on the show, but it’s about rebels against an oppressive government, which I imagine no longer appeals to Conservatives, now that they got the oppressive government they wanted.
Yes, of course.
The crew of the Serenity are Lost Causers.
re: #303 Birth Control Works
Yeah, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s are pretty easy. No excuse for not knowing.
I’m particularly good at 3’s. :)
1’s are my strong suit.
re: #307 wheat-dogg
She missed 12 x 12 and 6 x 6 — had not a clue for either. And she obviously was guessing on 5 x 5.
But I bet she knows all the details about the Ark!
Yeah, not knowing 12 X 12 is just gross.
“The Clean Coal Industry”… Shut up Sean….
I applaud @SpeakerRyan on his ability to give so many speeches on tax reform without ever sharing details of an actual plan.
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 20, 2017
re: #425 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Are there Conservative Firefly fans? I know that wingnut idiot Adam Baldwin is on the show, but it’s about rebels against an oppressive government, which I imagine no longer appeals to Conservatives, now that they got the oppressive government they wanted.
Of course there are. Firefly was nothing but “Outlaw Josey Wales” in Spaaaaaaaace! and was about confederate lost causers resisting the Union.
re: #436 Belafon
Sirota would hate us here, because we understand reality: #192. The two Democrats who ran for city council here in my city ran on being fiscally conservative.
Fiscal conservatism is funding all schools adequately for an educated citizenry and mandating living wages to enable them to get jobs to increase the tax base and decrease safety net needs. It is funding infrastructure and maintenance which is less costly than dealing with catastrophic failures. It is ensuring universal healthcare (see education and minimum wage).
Austerity and kicking cans down the road is not fiscally conservative.
re: #407 The Vicious Babushka
Here is the correct way to fly the Confederate flag
While we’re burning things:
“A former Ku Klux Klan leader who pleaded guilty to his role in burning a cross in an African-American neighborhood in Dale County has now been convicted of a sex crime.”
:/
I fail to understand the endgame here. Cold heartedly ruining the lives of millions of people doesn’t compute even with the @GOP.
— The Lone Apple (@The_Lone_Apple) June 20, 2017
1) Profit 2) Weakened, sick population can’t fight back 3) Plan hurts women most; women lead opposition 4) Helps Russia + other adversaries https://t.co/uBQt1uM57v
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) June 20, 2017
re: #445 allegro
Austerity and kicking cans down the road is not fiscally conservative.
But it sells a lot better to poor downtrodden whites who need someone to look down on…
re: #447 Interesting Times
While I like some of Sarah’s warnings, sometimes it’s far simpler than “the Russians.” The GOP end game to maintain power. If they have to lie to their constituents to do it, then so be it.
re: #450 Belafon
While I like some of Sarah’s warnings, sometimes it’s far simpler than “the Russians.” The GOP end game to maintain power. If they have to lie to their constituents to do it, then so be it.
The issue is that lying only goes so far. Even Conservatives will notice if they don’t have healthcare anymore. I try not to be paranoid, but it’s as if the Republicans don’t plan to need to win elections anymore.
Bodyguard for white nationalist stabbed 9 times after pro-Trump rally – and he doesn’t have health insurance https://t.co/HTWCOpQHSO pic.twitter.com/IAcDv7VA0K
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 20, 2017
re: #451 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The issue is that lying only goes so far. Even Conservatives will notice if they don’t have healthcare anymore. I try not to be paranoid, but it’s as if the Republicans don’t plan to need to win elections anymore.
Or maybe it’s seeing that if they can get even Trump elected that their base is just that stupid.
Spicer says he has not talked to POTUS about whether the Russians interfered in the election
— Rosie Gray (@RosieGray) June 20, 2017
White House won’t recommend end to travel to North Korea; Spicer says that’s currently being mulled by the State Department.
— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) June 20, 2017
re: #453 allegro
Or maybe it’s seeing that if they can get even Trump elected that their base is just that stupid.
Maybe they’re right. They can tell them that “Obamacare collapsed” when they strip their own voters of healthcare.
re: #453 allegro
Or maybe it’s seeing that if they can get even Trump elected that their base is just that stupid.
^^^THIS.
(again, the most upsetting realization for me after Nov 2016. I knew there were lots of people that stupid and/or brainwashed in America, I just had no idea there were 62 million of them -_- )
re: #451 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The issue is that lying only goes so far. Even Conservatives will notice if they don’t have healthcare anymore. I try not to be paranoid, but it’s as if the Republicans don’t plan to need to win elections anymore.
Why say that? They will continue to disenfranchise minorities, blame Obama and the D’s for any flaws in any legislation. and get the WWC vote. The patrician class in the South persuaded poor whites to vote for them because the other side might provide benefits to African-Americans. Too many people would rather see their “enemies” suffer than for their state in life to be improved if it means that others would benefit also.
re: #451 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The issue is that lying only goes so far. Even Conservatives will notice if they don’t have healthcare anymore. I try not to be paranoid, but it’s as if the Republicans don’t plan to need to win elections anymore.
I think it’s two things: they think they can keep rigging elections, and McConnell believes that if they get this passed, it will take at least a decade to fix it. For starters, even if they lose control of the Senate next year, they will still have enough power to stop Democrats from doing anything big.
re: #457 Interesting Times
^^^THIS.
(again, the most upsetting realization for me after Nov 2016. I knew there were lots of people that stupid and/or brainwashed in America, I just had no idea there were 62 million of them -_- )
A lot of money was spent for decades to make people hate Hillary Clinton. A lot of Trump voters foolishly thought they were voting for a lesser evil, because the wealthy people who now control their minds wanted them to believe that.
re: #460 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
A lot of money was spent for decades to make people hate Hillary Clinton. A lot of Trump voters foolishly thought they were voting for a lesser evil, because the wealthy people who now control their minds wanted them to believe that.
And not all of those wealthy people are GOP.
re: #459 Belafon
I think it’s two things: they think they can keep rigging elections, and McConnell believes that if they get this passed, it will take at least a decade to fix it. For starters, even if they lose control of the Senate next year, they will still have enough power to stop Democrats from doing anything big.
As long as the GOP holds the White House, the Democrats cannot get anything passed. There is no way D’s can have the 2/3 majority in both Houses to override a veto. All they can do is stop the worst legislation from passing, if they control at least one House.
Wait, Steve Bannon made a fat joke? pic.twitter.com/4pqddt50tY
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #452 The Vicious Babushka
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If he’s actually employed a as a bodyguard, this could be a Worker’s Comp case (related- travel incident). He should take it to the Labor Dept.
re: #463 Kragar
Wait, Steve Bannon made a fat joke?
and that is a relatively flattering photo of him
re: #464 Decatur Deb
If he’s actually employed a as a bodyguard, this could be a Worker’s Comp case (related- travel incident). He should take it to the Labor Dept.
What are the odds?
re: #464 Decatur Deb
If he’s actually employed a as a bodyguard, this could be a Worker’s Comp case (related- travel incident). He should take it to the Labor Dept.
He would do no such thing…that’s a gummint institution that should be abolished!!!
Well, “Potential Tropical Cyclone No. 3” has become “Tropical Storm Cindy” in the past hour or so. The northern half of the Texas gulf coast east to New Orleans fall within the future storm effects track. Most models forecast landfall around Port Arthur (TX -
LA state line) early morning Thursday. Currently N.O and east into Florida panhandle being heavily saturated.
re: #463 Kragar
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Steve Bannon looks like the guy HR gives a deodorant stick to after one too many coworker complaints.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) June 20, 2017
re: #432 Skip Intro
BTW, did anybody know there’s also a special election in SC Fifth District today?
Didn’t think so.
If not, they’ve been avoiding my posts about Archie’s campaign—he’s up against it, but has run a great race.
Wah. Nobody listens to me!!
And, according to 538:
Although the South Carolina race has received little national attention, it can still give us insight into how the Democrats’ chances of taking back the House in 2018 are shaping up. The Republican is expected to win — but by how much can tell us how sour the national environment is for Republicans.
fivethirtyeight.com
re: #470 Backwoods_Sleuth
Steve Bannon continues to look like the guy who turns off the cameras to medbay when the alien creature breaks out of quarantine
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #472 Kragar
Steve Bannon continues to look like the guy who turns off the cameras to medbay when the alien creature breaks out of quarantine]
He is the guy who stands to make millions by smuggling the dormant organism past quarantine…
re: #395 lawhawk
Past performance is no predictor of future behavior, and this is especially true of volcanoes, especially one that has the potential to wipe out life as we know it in North America (and beyond).
I really like Harry Turtledove, but I was underwhelmed with his post-yellowstone eruption series.
re: #459 Belafon
I think it’s two things: they think they can keep rigging elections, and McConnell believes that if they get this passed, it will take at least a decade to fix it.
It is bizarre how determined they are to pass something so enormously unpopular. My guesses: McConnell is being directly or implicitly blackmailed (financial crimes). Most of the Republicans figure that the next election is still a long way off and trade short term gain for long term pain, plus they’re more worried about an even crazier primary challenger, and also figure Someone Else must have a great plan to get them reelected.
I think they’re really, really wrong, but if you have lived in the US all your life you haven’t seen a real political collapse. Yet.
re: #473 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He is the guy who stands to make millions by smuggling the dormant organism past quarantine…
“STEVE! ACTIVATE THE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS! ACTIVATE THE -“
*click*
“This is Lunar Station 7. We’re all clear up here.”— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #470 Backwoods_Sleuth
We had a guy like that at my last full-time job. The stench would hang in the air long after he had gone. The person in an adjacent cube would spray room deodorizer over the cube wall.
I saw him at a conference a year after he was let go, and the stench was gone.
Two requests today from Ossoff: One just received 30 minutes ago pleading for $250. Please let this be over soon. (Hopefully he will win)
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017
Trump finally reaches conclusion that US diplomats have known for decades: China has little influence on DPRK. https://t.co/nD8rqHF8uQ
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) June 20, 2017
re: #475 ericblair
It is bizarre how determined they are to pass something so enormously unpopular. My guesses: McConnell is being directly or implicitly blackmailed (financial crimes). Most of the Republicans figure that the next election is still a long way off and trade short term gain for long term pain, plus they’re more worried about an even crazier primary challenger, and also figure Someone Else must have a great plan to get them reelected.
I think they’re really, really wrong, but if you have lived in the US all your life you haven’t seen a real political collapse. Yet.
They want to ram it through ASAP because Trump is decompensating very rapidly an they don’t know how long he can keep up the crazy.
re: #479 FormerDirtDart
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
What a Chinkcuck! A REAL president woulda gone in there and kick slanty-eyed butt all the way to the Yalu river!!!
/
re: #464 Decatur Deb
If he’s actually employed a as a bodyguard, this could be a Worker’s Comp case (related- travel incident). He should take it to the Labor Dept.
Damned Wobblies, always looking out for everyone…
re: #479 FormerDirtDart
He’s slow on the uptake, but at least he didn’t verbally attack China in this Tweet.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) June 20, 2017
Wondering how to get involved in the struggle? We have a website just for that with lots of great info and ideas: https://t.co/RUTncC3ODC
— American Nazi Party (@ANP14) May 6, 2017
Hey Nazi jerkoffs, I bought your website domain https://t.co/6dqmocxWaH and it now forwards to the US Holocaust Memorial donation page 🇺🇸 https://t.co/NUBd79At8X
— Dave Weasel (@DaveWeasel) June 20, 2017
re: #484 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Don’t worry, he’ll still blame Obama for not doing anything.
re: #479 FormerDirtDart
Wait, he knows that China tried? How does he know? He’s taking China’s word on it?
re: #487 lawhawk
Wait, he knows that China tried? How does he know? He’s taking China’s word on it?
He’s blurting out his top secret intel briefing again.
re: #485 The Vicious Babushka
Note that hitting that American flagged tweet will take you to a real ANP thread.
Please pour gasoline on yourself and have a smoke
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 20, 2017
re: #489 Decatur Deb
Note that hitting that American flagged tweet will take you to a real ANP thread.
I blocked it.
re: #479 FormerDirtDart
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We seem to have shot down a drone operated by Assad BFFs:
Will not waste the afternoon beating my head against a wall arguing with climate change denialists on FB.
Will not waste the afternoon beating my head against a wall arguing with climate change denialists on FB.
Will not waste the afternoon beating my head against a wall arguing with climate change denialists on FB.
Will not waste the afternoon beating my head against a wall arguing with climate change denialists on FB.
Where’d the afternoon go?
re: #485 The Vicious Babushka
I reported that page to Twitter. Now lets see what Twitter is going to do…
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017
Another one of your great plans failed utterly?
Who could have predicted that? https://t.co/ql2PTdGmF1— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
#BREAKING: Senate Transportation Committee to reject Trump plan to privatize air traffic control https://t.co/eZlCtQxAcm pic.twitter.com/KvWnz3t3uj
— The Hill (@thehill) June 20, 2017
0 hours without embarassing the nation
I believe Trump just Frederick Douglass’d Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CAaXlNrwyA
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2017
It’s just “Ukraine,” not “the Ukraine”; Ukrainians sometimes are offended by the latter, which connotes the Soviet era republic. https://t.co/UrBP4o3q1h
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) June 20, 2017
re: #490 Dave In Austin
Please pour gasoline on yourself and have a smoke
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) June 20, 2017
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noticed Trump lawyer @JaySekulow’s son and radio co-host @JordanSekulow deleted this old tweet https://t.co/HeziV4BFuB pic.twitter.com/40HJfylXVY
— andrew kaczynski 🤔 (@KFILE) June 20, 2017
Mike Lee, a member of the Senate health care working group, says in a video he doesn’t know what’s in the bill and is frustrated w/ process pic.twitter.com/xjpSj48M9C
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 20, 2017
Free Op-ed Titles:
The Emperor’s ObamaCare Repeal
The AHCA Mirage
Harvey, Snuffleuphagus, & AHCA
Who’s drafting AHCA, Sue Storm? https://t.co/zER1sXBO89— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) June 20, 2017
re: #498 FormerDirtDart
It’s just “Ukraine,” not “the Ukraine”; Ukrainians sometimes are offended by the latter, which connotes the Soviet era republic.
Ukrayina as a noun essentially means “the borderlands”. So, in English, the Ukraine is calling the country just “the borderlands”, while leaving off the article is calling it a country named Ukraine.
Of course, in Ukrainian and Russian there is no “the” or “a”, but it turns out to have the same distinction by which preposition you use to refer to it (“na” or “v”).
The semi-literates at “American Nazi Party” apparently don’t know that actual Third Reich National Socialists regarded the term “Nazi” as slang and even a slur and did not allow its use within the Reich.
Goebbels would be so embarrassed at these pretenders, and Heydrich would probably just take out his Walther and liquidate them right on the spot.
re: #501 FormerDirtDart
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Can we just drop this whole song and dance about how Republicans are “frustrated” or in any way put out by the process that this bill is being drafted in. They’re going to vote for it, they’re going to do so without fail, and any questions about what is actually in the bill will be withheld until after its passed. At which time “moderates” will act “betrayed” and suggest they never would have supported the bill if they’d known what was actually in it.
Want me to take this “frustration” seriously, Repubs? Refuse to vote on the bill until its contents are available to voters and we’ve had a public debate about it.
WHOA! Hit ‘em where it hurts!
Report: NFL prepared to withhold Super Bowl from state of Texas
In April, it was revealed the Dallas Cowboys are the frontrunner to land the NFL’s offseason Super Bowl, and owner Jerry Jones wants to make it happen — having officially placed a bid to hold the event. It would be done in a dual-capacity between The Star in Frisco, TX and AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
That could depend greatly on what happens in the Texas Legislature in July, though.
Per David Moore of The Dallas Morning News, multiple sources state the NFL has their eye on the coming resolution of the “bathroom bill” — House Bill 2899 — a law that determines who can use what restroom facilities. Moore goes on to note the league is in no rush to make the call on who’ll host the draft next season, giving them time to see how things land first.
So who else has thought my avatar was a hair on their screen? :))))
Brussels central station evacuated after reports of explosion - Belgian police say situation under control https://t.co/FLHbF4RNAm
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 20, 2017
So, if members of the so-called health care working group don’t know what’s in the bill, how the hell is this being advanced? @byrdinator
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 20, 2017
Damn! She was really out of control.
after a toxicology report disclosed the Star Wars actress, who died after a flight from London to Los Angeles in December, had taken cocaine in the last 72 hours of her life.
Fisher also had traces of methadone, heroin, and MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy or Molly) in her system, but the report did not definitively state whether these substances caused her death.
re: #510 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Damn! She was really out of control.
Addiction is a harsh bitch.
While I greatly appreciate the efforts of President Xi & China to help with North Korea, it has not worked out. At least I know China tried!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 20, 2017
Called it.
…that Trump will make a few half-assed tweets, fart, and spend the weekend golfing?
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 19, 2017
re: #505 Shiplord Kirel
Want to point out this is in reference to Dallas hosting the NFL Draft, NOT the actual Super Bowl.
Big money involved either way though.
re: #511 Jack Burton
Addiction is a harsh bitch.
When sobriety breaks and we go out, we tend to go (relapse) with gusto…..
re: #509 lawhawk
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Exactly, this is all a staged play and yet the media falls for it every time. Republicans express “frustration” or “outrage” over the secrecy in their party, but when the bill finally comes to a vote, they’ll support it without fail. One or two in tough reelection battles will be allowed to peel off, but they will strong-arm 50 votes out of the caucus to ensure the bill passes. Then when the bill’s contents become public, that secrecy will be exploited by the “moderates” to insist they were totally fooled into supporting this pig in a poke.
re: #508 Kragar
Brussels central station evacuated after reports of explosion - Belgian police say situation under control
Er, OK. Local Brussels news says Centrale train and metro stations evacuated, one person reported hurt. No report of explosion. Central Station isn’t actually the big one in Brussels.
re: #510 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Damn! She was really out of control.
Mixing uppers and downers really isn’t good.
Nat’l Law Journal: Jeff Sessions has lawyered up. He’s retained the well-known GOP lawyer Chuck Cooper. https://t.co/ijIu269XVH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 20, 2017
re: #511 Jack Burton
Addiction is a harsh bitch.
especially when you have ample resources to feed it…
Reports of an explosion and shooting near Central railway station in Brussels https://t.co/cO0N1GXDqj
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) June 20, 2017
re: #520 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
especially when you have ample resources to feed it…
And don’t have to show up for a 9-5 job. This is why rock-star is a vulnerable profession.
re: #515 Targetpractice
Exactly, this is all a staged play and yet the media falls for it every time. Republicans express “frustration” or “outrage” over the secrecy in their party, but when the bill finally comes to a vote, they’ll support it without fail. One or two in tough reelection battles will be allowed to peel off, but they will strong-arm 50 votes out of the caucus to ensure the bill passes. Then when the bill’s contents become public, that secrecy will be exploited by the “moderates” to insist they were totally fooled into supporting this pig in a poke.
Because we have been taught that it is normal that our lawmakers do not know what they are legislation upon us…which then passes down the line to us not feeling compelled to comply with such laws if we don’t feel like it and the cycle of anarchy is complete
re: #521 Kragar
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re: #509 lawhawk
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This sounds like buck-passing with the added benefit that Lee can claim ignorance and avoid questions about the bill up until the time it hits the public.
re: #432 Skip Intro
BTW, did anybody know there’s also a special election in SC Fifth District today?
Didn’t think so.
Yeah. BeachDem has kept LGF updated on that for a couple months.
Where you been? /
re: #451 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
The issue is that lying only goes so far. Even Conservatives will notice if they don’t have healthcare anymore. I try not to be paranoid, but it’s as if the Republicans don’t plan to need to win elections anymore.
They are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They all ran promising to repeal ACA and if they don’t their base will revolt. If they pass the bill they may lose enough votes to lose re-election, if they don’t after controlling all the levers of government they will get a primary challenge.
Also the republican plan while a shit show will hardly be the healthcare apocalypse some seem to think it will be. Most people managed to get insurance before the ACA and even if it was repealed most people would still have insurance. So the question is would enough of those people who still have insurance be sufficiently outraged over those other people who lost their coverage? Or if their deductibles go down because the Insurance companies don’t have to cover all those sick people would they maybe think ‘hey this isn’t so bad’.
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