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ok, reposting from downstairs cause y’all just left me there
(dinner was yum)
just want to point out the over obvious, if we really do get past diplomacy being a solution:
if NK shoots something toward guam, depending on what it is, we dont *have* to retaliate with nukes
if somehow we’re ‘provoked’/forced into a ‘first strike’ or ‘warning’ maneuver - ie NK hasnt actually shot anything off, we dont necessarily have to use nukes there either
this doesnt mean they wouldnt respond nuclear. and still it doesnt consider what would happen re South Korea etc and all the conventional weapons amassed on the border
just that ‘we’ can/could drop/send/deliver lots of different things, and mass quantities, that arent nuclear
“Trump approval rebounds to 45%, surges among Hispanics, union homes, men” https://t.co/vvJMDv9Gjl
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2017
So pathetically needy. https://t.co/T2pJ1g7Wsg
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
I heard an interview with the author on NPR. He told Terri Gross Bannon is a true believer in his sick shit. I did not come away thinking he was a brilliant evil fucker though.
This is as good a place as any to re-up this page.
Of course not. Selfish fuckers spend their spare time plotting to kill us.
That is, when they’re not crapping in our shoes or pissing in the houseplants.
Owning a cat doesn’t actually seem to have health benefits, @jameshamblin reports. https://t.co/n0vyMyPNqZ pic.twitter.com/T3k2nGRbh3
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) August 10, 2017
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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Our numbers are tanking
Quick get me a new poll, I’ll do the rest
I love Preet!!
“What Robert Mueller is doing right now is turning up the crank” https://t.co/Ou91qJK3CH
— Axios (@axios) August 10, 2017
This isn’t a power play. Mueller has 16 lawyers, expansive budget, subpoena power & armed FBI agents. Seriously, dude doesn’t need to flex. https://t.co/oeBDnaPugx
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) August 10, 2017
re: #6 Blind Frog Belly White
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British Muslims need to stop engaging in a victimization complex and straight up condemn the perverts and sexual deviants amongst them:
British Muslims/Pakistanis must realise these grooming gangs are single handedly doing more to fuel Islamophobia than anything else
— Thamina the Terrible (@ThamtheTerrible) August 9, 2017
yes we know their actions are unislamic - now confront their families who blame their victims. And the rapists who shout takbir in court.
— Thamina the Terrible (@ThamtheTerrible) August 9, 2017
someone’s *daughter* who’s been raped by a *Muslim* isn’t going to care about you or your religion or what it says. Speak out. Condemn it.
— Thamina the Terrible (@ThamtheTerrible) August 9, 2017
Slate: Why the dumb stuff Trump says is actually smart.
Yeah, that’s a hot take on hot takes - mostly because it assumes facts not in evidence because there’s no evidence Trump has ever had a strategy or outcome he could stick to for more than 5 minutes.
These are the same people who think that Trump would pivot.
Lock him up pic.twitter.com/1uEtQbDZlC
— Larry Cooper (@coopah) August 11, 2017
Jeffery Lord fired from CNN. Will Lord try for a spot on Trump TV like “DIY Lobotomy w Ben Carson?”
by @VicBergerIV pic.twitter.com/63QQtiUq87— RiotWomenn (@riotwomennn) August 10, 2017
A short thread on Manafort’s lawyer troubles.
Two of Trump’s attorneys, and Kushner’s attorney, have chosen to withdraw. I suspect that’s happening here. Telling. https://t.co/Zkx1FfzdJ0
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 10, 2017
I’m trying one more time with this guy, because he was clearly reacting to my tweet from a place of trauma.
I’m sincerely sorry for your loss, & meant no disrespect. But you misconstrued my tweet; I was not minimizing or dismissing the Nazi salute.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
I was pointing out that Jeffrey Lord had no business being on CNN in the first place. I’m glad he’s gone now, he was disgusting.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
Man, they really have it in against liberalism, don’t they?
— Conservative Liberal (@EagleOfQuraysh) August 7, 2017
I’m not fond of Islam, but I will say this: do not let liberalism do to Islam what it has done to Christianity. https://t.co/8MIgWiovV7
— Andrew Walsh (@MonsieurOrgon) August 9, 2017
Yet it still doesn’t stop some conservative Muslims from desperately seeking support from a group of people that hate us no matter what.
I guess it’s too much to expect Kelly to elbow Trump or kick him underneath the table. Maybe just stick a fork in his leg.
Q: Thoughts on Putin expelling US diplomats?
Trump: “I greatly appreciate the fact that they’ve been able to cut our payroll.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/iR5JbHLHZj— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2017
John Kelly was sitting next to Trump when Trump said this, for what it’s worth. https://t.co/SK8f3TqV1z
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2017
Keeping up with the firehose of craziness from the Trump gang is draining. The US seriously screwed itself by electing this malevolent toad.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
re: #17 Blind Frog Belly White
I guess it’s too much to expect Kelly to elbow Trump or kick him underneath the table. Maybe just stick a fork in his leg.
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So Trump is going to fire the expelled diplomats?
re: #19 b.d. (bill d.)
So Trump is going to fire the expelled diplomats?
You know how Trump hates to fire people in person. I guess he thought Putin had done it for him.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
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Do not insult the toads.
#frogOTD is back after travelling European cities for a month, no amphibians in sight! Bufotes viridis Green Toad @AmphibiaWeb © P. Vaucher pic.twitter.com/JkCVsmkRFB
— Phil Bishop (@AmphibianPhil) July 29, 2017
re: #20 Blind Frog Belly White
You know how Trump hates to fire people in person. I guess he thought Putin had done it for him.
lol, they’re kinda a team those two.
lol what a total dork
#NewProfilePic pic.twitter.com/EaD4tKoH21
— James Damore (@Fired4Truth) August 10, 2017
This is what I am doing to calm myself
Blueberry Pecan Muffins pic.twitter.com/ZJgRe85Q7r
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) August 11, 2017
Caramel Chip Sour Cream Cake pic.twitter.com/YGxMtUacdM
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) August 11, 2017
re: #21 wrenchwench
Do not insult the toads.
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Not all toads! Just the malevolent ones.
re: #23 electrotek
A friend of mine works at Google and his first impression of this mess was that this clown is likely an idiot that stepped on a land mine without really knowing what he did. My first impression was the more cynical view that this idiot is executing a RWNJ martyrdom operation in the US culture wars.
Further evidence appears to be consistent with the more cynical view.
re: #24 The Vicious Babushka
This is what I am doing to calm myself
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re: #23 electrotek
lol what a total dork
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That guy has just fucked up his life.
Getting fired for being an asshole…..maybe possible to recover from that.
Going on right wing media to make your former employer look bad? No sane company would want to hire him ever again.
The guy has only been in the workforce for about 3 years apparently. So it’s not as if he’s got a massive skillset to make people look past his asshole-ness.
re: #24 The Vicious Babushka
This is what I am doing to calm myself
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Dang. I can has some?
re: #11 lawhawk
Slate: Why the dumb stuff Trump says is actually smart.
Yeah, that’s a hot take on hot takes - mostly because it assumes facts not in evidence because there’s no evidence Trump has ever had a strategy or outcome he could stick to for more than 5 minutes.
These are the same people who think that Trump would pivot.
Exactly, Trump is the severely narcissistic idiot king of a bunch of dipshit bigoted supporters who need someone to channel their worst instincts through. It’s socio-pathology not rocket science. America is a grotesquely dysfunctional society, in many ways it always has been and we’ve been very good at glossing over this fact because at the end of the day we had adult level if often times imperfect leadership.
W’s presidency, with its lying us into war and torture advocacy was a harbinger of what we’re seeing today but still at the end of the day orders of magnitude more professional.
I’m honestly not sure if the United States that I lived in until this year is dead or if it ever really existed. What I do know is that whatever national facade once kept us (*us being liberal and moderate white america) from seeing the true and monstrous faces of our cultural peers has been irrevocably destroyed.
*I say white America because I’m pretty sure most visible minorities have recognized this truth for a long time. Indeed how could they not have.
re: #30 Danack
That guy has just fucked up his life.
Getting fired for being an asshole…..maybe possible to recover from that.
Going on right wing media to make your former employer look bad? No sane company would want to hire him ever again.
The guy has only been in the workforce for about 3 years apparently. So it’s not as if he’s got a massive skillset to make people look past his asshole-ness.
Wingnut welfare, never underestimate it.
re: #30 Danack
That guy has just fucked up his life.
Getting fired for being an asshole…..maybe possible to recover from that.
Going on right wing media to make your former employer look bad? No sane company would want to hire him ever again.
The guy has only been in the workforce for about 3 years apparently. So it’s not as if he’s got a massive skillset to make people look past his asshole-ness.
I don’t think the RWNJ interviews materially change his situation vs. a corporate employer. He’d be radioactive for the rest of his life with or without the stupid interviews. Whether or not he realizes it, wingnut welfare is his best career option at this point.
I do like the thought that those interviews aren’t going to help him in any lawsuit he may attempt vs. Google.
Since he was talented enough to get in the door at Google, he could become a more competent peddler of RWNJ propaganda than most, if he decides to turn completely to the dark side.
Some pundits are already trying to float the idea that he was “mocking” Putin. But Trump has no real sense of humor or sarcasm.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump laugh a real laugh? I haven’t. I suspect he doesn’t really understand the concept of humor.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
I saw that rep Harris is calling Dana loesch amd the nra a bad group moving towards domestic terrorism due to their advocating of violence against minorities and liberals.
They also advocate fisting right?
Caramel Chip Sour Cream Cake pic.twitter.com/YGxMtUacdM
— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) August 11, 2017
I would like to purchase if possible…..
re: #23 electrotek
This thread is for that POS.
before you say “hi” or “what’s up sexy” to a camgirl, realize that you are one bore out of thousands of bores. pic.twitter.com/soK9txHAdP
— 👽emmaterrestrial👽 (@bbyuniverseCB) July 31, 2017
This also generally applies to all generic male discourse, like “women should be paid less because biology.” https://t.co/mAap1PY7CC
— Phil McDuff (@Mc_Heckin_Duff) August 8, 2017
re: #35 Charles Johnson
I sure tr*mp has a perfectly fine conservative sense of humor. It kicks in when he sees humiliation (preferably painful) of some person he deems to be ‘lesser’.
My bad. Representative rice. Sorry guys and gals
We need a new Manhattan Project to figure out how the US got trapped in this nightmarish alternate reality, and how to get back home.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
re: #33 electrotek
Wingnut welfare, never underestimate it.
Who’s he gonna write for? He ain’t got the writing skills for anything more complicated than WND or Gateway Pundit. He ain’t got the looks for TV.
His 15 minutes are ticking.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
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re: #35 Charles Johnson
Has anyone ever seen Donald Trump laugh a real laugh? I haven’t. I suspect he doesn’t really understand the concept of humor.
The tell: he can’t even smile naturally.
He has no fun bone. He cannot relax enough to get off laughing.
I swear his parents must have been something, because they fucked him up.
re: #30 Danack
That guy has just fucked up his life.
Getting fired for being an asshole…..maybe possible to recover from that.
Going on right wing media to make your former employer look bad? No sane company would want to hire him ever again.
The guy has only been in the workforce for about 3 years apparently. So it’s not as if he’s got a massive skillset to make people look past his asshole-ness.
He’ll be fine, didn’t Rage Furby put up a fundraiser page for him?
Wingnut welfare will dump money on him for a while for being some kind of brave, straight shooter.
re: #42 scottslemmons
Who’s he gonna write for? He ain’t got the writing skills for anything more complicated than WND or Gateway Pundit. He ain’t got the looks for TV.
His 15 minutes are ticking.
Stephen Miller ain’t exactly a looker, but look how influential he is nowadays.
re: #41 Charles Johnson
Where are the ruby slippers when you need them?
Sometimes reaching out can actually work.
Thank you.
— Bruce (((Levine))) (@levine_bruce) August 11, 2017
Not one, not two, but THREE corpse flowers are set to bloom in D.C. https://t.co/osdIytvUbC pic.twitter.com/UIXpFCX2OT
— DCist (@DCist) August 11, 2017
Reality continues to lay it on really thick. If you put this in a nuclear suspense thriller movie script you’d get laughed out of town. https://t.co/uWIoUjZwja
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 11, 2017
re: #24 The Vicious Babushka
THAT’S NOT CALMING ME……
pecans….blueberries….caramel….WITH SOUR CREAM…..and some light sea salt and a crispy bottom and some sweet butter and, and, and….CHIPS??!!???
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
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— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 11, 2017
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
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We have had some blooms here in Columbus at Ohio State University.
Not sure I want to be around one…but they are big!
re: #51 Barefoot Grin
And it still won’t compare to the fetid stench in the offal office.
The Cesspit of Satan there has unique properties. US conservatives think that stench is manna from Heaven, but the odor has been known to wipe out entire space-faring civilizations as far away as the galactic core.
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1/2 During the campaign Trump described himself as “the most militaristic person in the room.” Now he’s surrounded himself with right …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
2/2 wing generals. Does anyone think this is disturbing, or is it just me?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
re: #30 Danack
That guy has just fucked up his life.
Getting fired for being an asshole…..maybe possible to recover from that.
Going on right wing media to make your former employer look bad? No sane company would want to hire him ever again.
The guy has only been in the workforce for about 3 years apparently. So it’s not as if he’s got a massive skillset to make people look past his asshole-ness.
I think this may be a bit of wishful thinking on your part. If he is a good software engineer there will be lots of bros in management in the software industry who will count that memo as a plus.
I just got back from delivering a water sample to the lab.
re: #121 makeitstop
So’s a dulcimer! Where’s Anymouse? He woulda said that.
(in regards to various stringed instruments being percussive)
“Hey, a hammered dulcimer is a string percussion instrument”
(There, I said it)
Too bad after Monday I won’t be able to play mine for several weeks (left hand surgery)
Pyongyang apparently launders money through Macau casinos. Maybe Donald, Sheldon, and Kim Jong-un could work something out.
re: #60 JordanRules
I wonder what Obama is up to.
HE’S UNDER A PIZZA PARLOR DOING GHASTLY THINGS TO CHILDREN AND WATCHING SNUFF FILMS.
re: #62 teleskiguy
Even with this snarky crew, I got caught slippin’. Spit some of my drink out. LOL Did not see that coming.
re: #62 teleskiguy
HE’S UNDER A PIZZA PARLOR DOING GHASTLY THINGS TO CHILDREN AND WATCHING SNUFF FILMS.
I just heard that on the ‘net. It must be true.
re: #57 danarchy
I think this may be a bit of wishful thinking on your part. If he is a good software engineer there will be lots of bros in management in the software industry who will count that memo as a plus.
In a small enough shop, sure. In a BigCorp, legal will veto it. There is real legal exposure in keeping someone like this around in any state that still has any labor law protection for workers (e.g., CA).
Foreign Policy reports that the NSC memo that got Higgins fired made its way via Don Jr. to POTUS, who loved it. https://t.co/jGU2Z0ksIf pic.twitter.com/MEWyxkTe9i
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 10, 2017
That would be the Don Jr who is running the family business and has nothing to do with politics, right? https://t.co/G2UQyEsbhq
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 11, 2017
A new voice for the times (new to me, at least)dailykos.com
Some samples:
Oh. So we’re having a 21st century nuclear standoff, where the fate of all life on Earth hangs on the whims two buffoons with the personalities of Kids Who Don’t Make it to the Second Reel of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?
…
Weirdly, all those frothing-mad tweets the Marmalade Shartcannon sent out a lil’ while ago? The ones where he shit directly down Jeff Sessions’ throat for recusing himself from the Russia investigation? Yeah, those happened a couple hours after the Manafort raid.
…
Some creep called Robert Jeffress, who I guess is some kind of hate rally warm-up act/mega-church pastor, is making the rounds screeching about how he ate some Little Debbie cakes four years after their expiration date, and then he saw God, and God told him that he sent the Man With Phalangeal Stunting to this World of Sin in order to cleanse North Korea from the face of the earth in holy fire or some psychotic apocalyptic shit or other.
How sad in America that only conservatives get investigated, fired, boycotted and attacked. Double standard, & liberal silence is repulsive!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 10, 2017
Ok, @seanhannity, I’ll bite.
Are you defending the nazi salute guy, the unwanted obscene text messages guy, or the Russian agent guy? https://t.co/IScSWDlCRD— Jason Kander (@JasonKander) August 10, 2017
re: #59 Anymouse 🌹
Too bad after Monday I won’t be able to play mine for several weeks (left hand surgery)
My Dad has had a few surgeries for Dupuytren’s contractures. Here’s hoping for the best results from yours.
re: #35 Charles Johnson
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I heard Al Franken say pretty much the same thing the other day. No one has seen Trump laugh.
re: #66 EPR-radar
In a small enough shop, sure. In a BigCorp, legal will veto it. There is real legal exposure in keeping someone like this around in any state that still has any labor law protection for workers (e.g., CA).
Most shops are small to medium. Also, why the heck would legal get involved, there is no accusation this guy did anything even vaguely illegal.
How sad in America that only conservatives get investigated, fired, boycotted and attacked. Double standard, & liberal silence is repulsive!
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) August 10, 2017
Maybe you can get Kathy Griffin, ACORN, Planned Parenthood, & Lois Lerner to come on your show and talk about it? https://t.co/PKPCTgCB5h
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 11, 2017
re: #69 Interesting Times
How sad in America that only conservatives get investigated, fired, boycotted and attacked. Double standard, & liberal silence is repulsive!
Damn, didn’t know Hillary was that conservative and had changed party.
Q: Thoughts on Putin expelling US diplomats?
Trump: “I greatly appreciate the fact that they’ve been able to cut our payroll.” (via ABC) pic.twitter.com/iR5JbHLHZj— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2017
In case you were still wondering if POTUS has been compromised. https://t.co/BPlE8GSvZp
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) August 10, 2017
Also note that POTUS is so mind bogglingly stupid he thinks the expelled diplomats have been fired. They are still paid State employees. https://t.co/gnOc11FCFe
— Reza Aslan (@rezaaslan) August 10, 2017
re: #69 Interesting Times
Fuck Sean Hannity
IOW
Wow you are blind the the crap your people foisted on HRC, Obama, Planned Parenthood minorities and immigrants. You sad tool.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) August 11, 2017
re: #77 Unshaken Defiance
Just saw Rachel and the non information coming from the State Department - the Hannity response under Obama/Clinton would be screamed from the mountain
Nothing new - @Dloesch has been working this victimhood angle for years.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) August 11, 2017
I’ve been traveling all day and just saw this….WTFITS?!?
BOMBSHELL: NSA Experts Say DNC ‘Hack’ Was Actually a Leak and Inside Jobhttps://t.co/gdAYEEFFO8 pic.twitter.com/iuFV73Mg4S
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 10, 2017
re: #72 danarchy
Most shops are small to medium. Also, why the heck would legal get involved, there is no accusation this guy did anything even vaguely illegal.
Just having him on board in any kind of managerial or collaboration capacity could be construed as creating a hostile work environment vs. women. That’s enough to get everyone in corporate legal to crap out their colons in a panic in states where that kind of lawsuit can be filed.
re: #80 Dr. Matt
I’ve been traveling all day and just saw this….WTFITS?!?
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re: #82 Charles Johnson
It’s complete crap.
Shocking. But, it’s not going to stop Trump and his deplorables from repeating this as truth for the next 4 to 20 years.
re: #70 Momkat56
My Dad has had a few surgeries for Dupuytren’s contractures. Here’s hoping for the best results from yours.
This will be my fifth surgery. This particular operation can only be done so many times before there are diminishing returns.
They first developed before I was forty (thanks to being triggered by my epilepsy meds). When I went in for my first operation, an operating room nurse commented that I was the youngest person she ever saw having that surgery.
I’ll be headed to Cheyenne Monday for my pre-op, with surgery kicking off first thing Tuesday morning. (Might be able to say my last good-byes to y’all Monday night from the hotel the VA puts me up in [in case I don’t survive], if I can get Wifi there.)
re: #1 dangerman
ok, reposting from downstairs cause y’all just left me there
(dinner was yum)
just want to point out the over obvious, if we really do get past diplomacy being a solution:
if NK shoots something toward guam, depending on what it is, we dont *have* to retaliate with nukes
if somehow we’re ‘provoked’/forced into a ‘first strike’ or ‘warning’ maneuver - ie NK hasnt actually shot anything off, we dont necessarily have to use nukes there either
this doesnt mean they wouldnt respond nuclear. and still it doesnt consider what would happen re South Korea etc and all the conventional weapons amassed on the border
just that ‘we’ can/could drop/send/deliver lots of different things, and mass quantities, that arent nuclear
That misses the point - saber rattling with a nutcase like Kim is not only ineffective but is likely to produce the opposite effect. In a rational person’s mind military might makes a difference but in today’s global economy economic influence has an even larger impact. Kim is not rational. He likely believes NK is quite able to respond to the US on an equal footing & that the US is incapable of hurting NK significantly.
Engaging a schoolyard bully with ‘my dick is bigger than yours’ isn’t going to stop the bully, it’s going to force him to preserve ‘face’ by responding violently. You back him into a corner & give him a single way out - violence.
Economic policies work.
Both the carrot and the stick are necessary.
re: #83 Dr. Matt
Shocking. But, it’s not going to stop Trump and his deplorables from repeating this as truth for the next 4 to 20 years.
As it was meant to do.
re: #84 Anymouse 🌹
This will be my fifth surgery. This particular operation can only be done so many times before there are diminishing returns.
They first developed before I was forty (thanks to being triggered by my epilepsy meds). When I went in for my first operation, an operating room nurse commented that I was the youngest person she ever saw having that surgery.
I’ll be headed to Cheyenne Monday for my pre-op, with surgery kicking off first thing Tuesday morning. (Might be able to say my last good-byes to y’all Monday night from the hotel the VA puts me up in [in case I don’t survive], if I can get Wifi there.)
All the best to you (and your surgeon!)
I am suitably grateful that my Dupuytren’s doesn’t really seem to be progressing much, if at all recently, nor is the similar lump on the bottom of my foot (plantar fibromatosis.) I hope it stays that way…
I am just now getting around to reading this and HOLY CRAP IT IS NUTS https://t.co/BZCV97paQJ
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) August 10, 2017
NSC memo is not just nuts but scary - people around the president in nat sec roles are describing the opposition as a threat to the country https://t.co/UQB3YrCsiQ
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) August 11, 2017
re: #85 b_sharp
That misses the point - saber rattling with a nutcase like Kim is not only ineffective but is likely to produce the opposite effect. In a rational person’s mind military might makes a difference but in today’s global economy economic influence has an even larger impact. Kim is not rational. He likely believes NK is quite able to respond to the US on an equal footing & that the US is incapable of hurting NK significantly.
Engaging a schoolyard bully with ‘my dick is bigger than yours’ isn’t going to stop the bully, it’s going to force him to preserve ‘face’ by responding violently. You back him into a corner & give him a single way out - violence.
Economic policies work.
Both the carrot and the stick are necessary.
Kim may not be quite that irrational. He doesn’t want the US, or anyone else, interfering in the sweet set up he has for himself. Countries with nuclear weapons don’t generally get interference from other countries interested in regime change. Threatening him would not lead to his backing down under those conditions. He probably isn’t actually planning to attack, but the more tensions are ratcheted up, the more likely there will be an accident. Trump needs someone to keep him away from foreign policy for a while.
We just got back from a 10 day trip to Vancouver. We left our dog with the neighbours because Max just loves them. When I picked him up he acted as if he thought I was mad at him & I had to sit on the floor and give him a hug before he’d stop grovelling, poor guy. As soon as he got out the door, he damned near dragged V home, she had a hell of a time not getting pulled over by the little (not so little - 30 lbs) guy. When we went upstairs he jumped on the bed & ran in circles as fast as he could.
I think he’s happy we’re home.
“Not only do I thank Mr. Putin for cutting our payroll, but ‘ha, ha; joke’s on him’ I’m making him raise his payroll by giving back the Russian compounds!”
Google cancels a diversity meeting, saying right-wing websites published names of employees who proposed questions https://t.co/5Bf81cnLcz
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 11, 2017
So Clapper, one of least excitable humans in history, just said we’re waltzing into WWIII for absolutely nothing.
Yay.— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) August 11, 2017
re: #96 jaunte
At least the Photoshop artists have us covered:
@TheRickWilson my newest banner in asbury park.n.j. pic.twitter.com/gpRCXESbyZ
— w05ld0 (@w05ld0) August 11, 2017
re: #90 calochortus
All the best to you (and your surgeon!)
I am suitably grateful that my Dupuytren’s doesn’t really seem to be progressing much, if at all recently, nor is the similar lump on the bottom of my foot (plantar fibromatosis.) I hope it stays that way…
I have had huge lumps in the bottom of my feet (Lederhosen Disease) since my Dupuytren’s first kicked off. (It is the same disorder.) It actually takes quite a bit to cause trouble to your feet.
To you hands though, a different story. The VA used to withhold operating until contractures were beyond 45 degrees. Current thinking is that nodules that form on the tendons should be treated as soon as possible, because Dupuytren’s can permanently damage joints (mine are).
It most often attacks the ring finger, followed by the little finger. Currently mine is attacking both thumbs, and my left index finger (currently bent at nearly fifty degrees with the middle joint likely permanently damaged).
Risk factors (aside from northern or eastern European ancestry):
Drinking a lot of alcohol, although most people with the disease do not have alcoholism
Diabetes
Seizures, such as those seen in people with epilepsy
Smoking
From the Hypochondria Encyclopaedia, a description of the disorder, with pictures, drawings, treatments, and outcomes:
It would be totally on brand for Trump to nuke the wrong Korea.
— Ally Maynard (@missmayn) August 9, 2017
I just found out yesterday from a Facebook friend that my high school’s 45th reunion is tomorrow. I let her know that I hadn’t attended one since the 10th and didn’t think I was going to make this one. She sent me back a note that she’s getting together with a couple of her friends (that I knew in school too) before the reunion and I was welcome to join them. I haven’t been out for dinner for ages so I think I’m going to go. I hope it’s not a noisy bar so I can actually hear the conversation with my crappy hearing.
It’s going to be kind of funny because my Facebook friend was the closest thing my deeply closeted self had to a girlfriend in high school. I ran into her a couple years later when we were both in the pre-architecture program at the U of M just as I was getting ready to flunk out and become a full time musician.
We ran into each other one more time a few years later when, totally by coincidence, we had seats right next to each other to see ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the Guthrie Theater. She was with a date and the friend that I was with had some hash that we smoked in the car before walking to the theater. I tended to get really paranoid on drugs so it was a remarkably uncomfortable evening.
She knows I’m gay now and I get to read about her hubby and family on her Facebook page. I’m hoping this will be kind of a fun evening.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹
I’ve got a lump on my palm, under the skin, at the bottom of my middle finger. Just realized it last week. I guess I should have my doctor look at it.
Best of luck next week!
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹
Yeah, the lumpy foot is the same basic thing. Mine builds up calluses, which I scrape off, and I’ve known a couple people who have had to have surgery if the lump gets too big.
I drink in moderation
I’m not diabetic
I’ve never smoked
I’ve never had a seizure
And, oh yeah, I’m a woman, so have a lower risk.
Northern European ancestry? Yup. And my brother has a mild DC on one hand too. I think we’re going to go with genetics here…
Breitbart Writer Tragically Dead from Vogue Cover Featuring the Statue of Liberty (goes to Wonkette)
Vogue had a picture of Jennifer Lawrence on its September issue posing in front of the Statue of Liberty. That has Breitbart up in arms to the point one of their writers suggested that maybe Breitbart should start a conservative women’s fashion page at Breitbart.
They are insisting this is all over the flappadoodle created by the right wing over Emma Lazarus’s poem on the plinth of the statue. Vogue tried to explain to Breitbart that the covers of fashion magazines are shot months in advance (in this case in June, before said flappadoodle) but Breitbart is having none of that. It must be some sort of leftist conspiracy that a magazine based in New York City would shoot a picture of Jennifer Lawrence in front of the Statue of Liberty in New York City.
I can’t keep up with all the whinging from the right.
re: #69 Interesting Times
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re: #101 prairiefire
I’ve got a lump on my palm, under the skin, at the bottom of my middle finger. Just realized it last week. I guess I should have my doctor look at it.
Best of luck next week!
Dupuytren’s is usually down on the palm below the ring finger, but not always. So it won’t hurt to have it checked out.
When I stretch my ring finger back a bit and stroke the palm under it, I can feel that the tendon is tight, unlike the other fingers. Fortunately, the finger is only slightly less extensible (if that’s a word…) than the other fingers so regular gentle stretching seems helpful.
“I personally endorse our president going to war with North Korea. Not our military of course, just the president.”
- Ron Perlman - pic.twitter.com/Ai1Q9C9aMA— Dandelion Dollar💸 (@DandelionDollar) August 11, 2017
re: #107 dangerman
What ‘bout that lady ex sos who was investigated like 9 times and they’re going back for even more emails?
That’s different. She must be involved in Evildoing somehow.
re: #101 prairiefire
I’ve got a lump on my palm, under the skin, at the bottom of my middle finger. Just realized it last week. I guess I should have my doctor look at it.
Best of luck next week!
Yup. If it is associated with Dupuytren’s it is much easier to fix early.
re: #102 calochortus
Yeah, the lumpy foot is the same basic thing. Mine builds up calluses, which I scrape off, and I’ve known a couple people who have had to have surgery if the lump gets too big.
I drink in moderation
I’m not diabetic
I’ve never smoked
I’ve never had a seizure
And, oh yeah, I’m a woman, so have a lower risk.Northern European ancestry? Yup. And my brother has a mild DC on one hand too. I think we’re going to go with genetics here…
Mine don’t build up calluses.
I fit all the other categories of risk factors aside from diabetes. As for drinking in moderation, I might have to cancel that for tonight since I won’t be able to after this weekend.
I’ve considered giving up smoking on the day of my surgery. Smoking not only aggrevates Dupuytren’s Contractures, it also aggravates the healing process. Since I will have gone at least two days without a cigarette when I come around after surgery (assuming I survive it, you never know), perhaps that’s a good starting point to quit.
The VA and my state both have good resources for quitting; I might as well avail myself of them. (My wife says she will quit that day as well. I hope we aren’t too crabby to each other. /s)
In the mid-1970s, Marcel Ophuls began work on a documentary about how people deny what is done in their name. https://t.co/hGMD4yZs2O
— Arts & Letters Daily (@aldaily) August 11, 2017
“…Perhaps the most disturbing interview in the movie is not with an unrepentant Nazi or a war criminal, but with the gentlemanly and highly esteemed lawyer Otto Kranzbühler. A navy judge during the war, Kranzbühler was defense counsel for Admiral Dönitz at Nuremberg, where he cut a dashing figure in his navy uniform. He later had a successful career as a corporate lawyer, after defending the likes of Alfried Krupp against accusations of having exploited slave labor. Kranzbühler never justified Nazism. But when asked by Ophuls whether he had discussed his own part in the Third Reich with his children, he replied that he had come up with a formula to make them understand: if you were ignorant of what went on, you were a fool; if you knew, but looked the other way, you were a coward; if you knew, and took part, you were a criminal. Were his children reassured? Kranzbühler: “My children didn’t recognize their father in any of the above.”
re: #85 b_sharp
That misses the point - saber rattling with a nutcase like Kim is not only ineffective but is likely to produce the opposite effect. In a rational person’s mind military might makes a difference but in today’s global economy economic influence has an even larger impact. Kim is not rational. He likely believes NK is quite able to respond to the US on an equal footing & that the US is incapable of hurting NK significantly.
Engaging a schoolyard bully with ‘my dick is bigger than yours’ isn’t going to stop the bully, it’s going to force him to preserve ‘face’ by responding violently. You back him into a corner & give him a single way out - violence.
Economic policies work.
Both the carrot and the stick are necessary.
Oh I agree. I’m just saying if it came to it, it’s not nukes or nothing. We have lots of other sticks that blow up.
re: #108 calochortus
Dupuytren’s is usually down on the palm below the ring finger, but not always. So it won’t hurt to have it checked out.
When I stretch my ring finger back a bit and stroke the palm under it, I can feel that the tendon is tight, unlike the other fingers. Fortunately, the finger is only slightly less extensible (if that’s a word…) than the other fingers so regular gentle stretching seems helpful.
If the problem is Dupuytren’s, stretching fingers will not help. (Stretching can actually accelerate the growth of the bands, causing the disorder to develop more rapidly.) Stretching after bands have developed can damage the joints or tendons (or even break a finger).
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹
I hope you and your wife will be able to give up smoking. I want you both to live long and healthy lives. And besides, the money you save can go into new windshields for your car if there is actually an increase in hail in your area.
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
When I saw the Statue of Liberty in person the first time, I cried. How has it possibly become OK to attack her?
re: #114 Anymouse 🌹
If the problem is Dupuytren’s, stretching fingers will not help. (Stretching can actually accelerate the growth of the bands, causing the disorder to develop more rapidly.) Stretching after bands have developed can damage the joints or tendons (or even break a finger).
It may just be that it isn’t progressing much, but I was told gentle stretches were a fine thing. The amount of pressure I use couldn’t possibly break anything.
YouTube comment:
Someone should switch out the launch codes for Trump and substitute 867-5309
re: #57 danarchy
I think this may be a bit of wishful thinking on your part. If he is a good software engineer there will be lots of bros in management in the software industry who will count that memo as a plus.
Uber will take him in a second. Might even make CEO. They love assholes there.
re: #24 The Vicious Babushka
This is what I am doing to calm myself
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They look sooooooo gooooood. I just got some Kona Peaberry coffee that would go with those masterpieces!
re: #116 plansbandc
When I saw the Statue of Liberty in person the first time, I cried. How has it possibly become OK to attack her?
It has been fashionable in conservatism all my life to attack immigrants and immigration.
Since a great portion of the world views the statue as the symbol of the welcoming nature of our country, it was inevitable that the statue would come under attack. (Emma Lazarus being Jewish is a bonus.)
I did not cry when I saw the statue (I did visit New York once on government business) but that view filled me with pride in my nation. We have done a lot of bad things (Jim Crow, unnecessary warfare, &c), but we have upheld some of the best ideas in freedom and politics ever produced to date.
There are plenty of people who view those positives as horrible, and as I noted above, it was only a matter of time the statue itself would come under attack (it is a symbol and conservatives love symbols).
1903 description of reporters in “the holladay case”. Burton e Stevenson
besides, I knew that they were gentlemen, that they labored early and late at meager salaries, for the pure love of the work; that they were quick to scent fraud or trickery or unworthiness, and inexorable in exposing them; that they loved to do good anonymously, remaining utterly unknown save to the appreciative few behind the scenes
Good times
So. Do I go back to Twitter or just say fuckit & continue to ignore it?
re: #88 Anymouse 🌹
Why would Mediatite publish something like that?
Mediaite is a Dan Abrams outfit. I saw the original story at his law blog (LawNewz or some such thing) so I’m sure it’s making the rounds on all his sites (and there are a bunch). I’ll bet it makes it up to GossipCop because… Whatever.
re: #116 plansbandc
By the way, I clicked on your avatar. Kewl.
re: #32 goddamnedfrank
W’s presidency, with its lying us into war and torture advocacy was a harbinger of what we’re seeing today but still at the end of the day orders of magnitude more professional.
IMO one huge difference between W’s administration and the Klown Kabal is that the former would lie and make ridiculous arguments/interpretations in order to get their bullshit to appear to conform to the law - because they felt that the rule of law was important enough that they had to at least APPEAR to be within the law. The Klown Kabal gives no shits about your lame libtard “rule of law” whatever that even is you wimpy triggered snowflake!
re: #128 Jebediah, RBG
You identified a great distinction. It’s scary to think about all that it portends.
re: #128 Jebediah, RBG
IMO one huge difference between W’s administration and the Klown Kabal is that the former would lie and make ridiculous arguments/interpretations in order to get their bullshit to appear to conform to the law - because they felt that the rule of law was important enough that they had to at least APPEAR to be within the law. The Klown Kabal gives no shits about your lame libtard “rule of law” whatever that even is you wimpy triggered snowflake!
A good example of this is that the W Bush crew went through the motions of making an international case for the Iraq war. It was all a pack of lies of course, so I dismissed it as such at the time. But now I appreciate it more. Civilization is good enough that even pretending to be civilized helps.
tr*mp is likely to nuke North Korea for personal entertainment without even bothering to plausibly lie about his motives.
re: #95 JordanRules
Funny, I don’t discuss politics at work (except with one guy and we do that over text messages outside of any work communication). I don’t tell guys they suck because they’re guys and written could do it better because it’s inappropriate. Why should ANY of that be part of “open communication” in a work setting? Simple: it’s not. Don’t discuss religion, abortion or politics with co-workers at work. Period. Discuss it with friends (who might be co-workers) away from work. Why is this so difficult?
Graham: Trump told me he is ready to launch preemptive strike against North Korea https://t.co/yJ0KQxjwSR pic.twitter.com/5WY8wOKWHA
— The Hill (@thehill) August 10, 2017
READ: Lindsey Graham encouraging Trumps war talk. Says no Congress Auth needed for US sneak attack. Willing to risk US cities & million dead https://t.co/P69qHB1OKG
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) August 11, 2017
Breitbart women’s fashion page might be too racy for conservatives. Might cause tinglies in the naughty bits.
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So like my sister attempted her first magic trick .. pic.twitter.com/8KKM2LVFth
— yeya 🍯 (@mireya_anahii) August 8, 2017
Doggo is impressed!
re: #132 MsJ
Every time I’ve seen it happen, and this isn’t to say I haven’t joined in a time or two (but never started it), it always seemed to start from a person who just HAD to make their opinion known. Had to. Wanted to see if others got offended or gave them MAGA high fives.
These are folks that can’t imagine constraints on their speech or behavior because they see it as the standard for society and they need to constantly reaffirm that. They always need to flex their soft power in these settings. They see no risk to it.
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
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If you go visit a corpse flower, rub some Vicks Vape-o-rub under your nostrils. I encountered one a couple/three years ago in Houston and it was…overwhelming.
And I’ve eaten Durians. And enjoyed them.
re: #91 JordanRules
Just so everyone’s clear:
“Cultural Marxism” = “THE JEWS!!!!”— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 11, 2017
re: #136 JordanRules
Every time I’ve seen it happen, and this isn’t to say I haven’t joined in a time or two (but never started it), it always seemed to start from a person who just HAD to make their opinion known. Had to. Wanted to see if others got offended or gave them MAGA high fives.
These are folks that can’t imagine constraints on their speech or behavior because they see it as the standard for society and they need to constantly reaffirm that. They always need to flex their soft power in these settings. They see no risk to it.
Their truth is the truth and how can you suppress that?
This is you, and you’re the judge of who is more black? pic.twitter.com/BMeHIeyM55
— Cosmic Dancer 🍩 (@EtreEtro) August 10, 2017
re: #125 b_sharp
So. Do I go back to Twitter or just say fuckit & continue to ignore it?
You know you love it……
When i’m in a bad mood and bored pic.twitter.com/ztxhfjZFct
— Zar Famai (@ZarFamai) August 9, 2017
I’m just going to say it. #NRA & @DLoesch are quickly becoming domestic security threats under President Trump. We can’t ignore that.
— Kathleen Rice (@RepKathleenRice) August 11, 2017
Hi Congresswoman, can you explain why you say I and millions of members are “domestic security threats?” Thank you. https://t.co/lLtPITTBPc
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 11, 2017
Hey, remember when @DLoesch blamed #BLM for police shootings? #snowflake https://t.co/5l1IpEl4qR
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 11, 2017
re: #116 plansbandc
When I saw the Statue of Liberty in person the first time, I cried. How has it possibly become OK to attack her?
French.
Well, after the Breitbart moran was outed as a moran by Vogue Magazine on his own Twitter feed, he immediately switched to “I was joking to trigger liberals.”
He is being pilloried.
If I’d known how awesomely folks would be triggered by Statue of Liberty stuff, I’d have put this on twitter days ago. pic.twitter.com/qrR61PqDaq
— John Carney (@carney) August 10, 2017
re: #138 Ace-o-aces
Also “globalists” and “bankers.” It’s hard to be subtle when they’re using a century old playbook and everyone knows the codes.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) August 11, 2017
re: #147 goddamnedfrank
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Bloodthirsty usurers.
What, we have fallen behind on paying for our wars against the Dutch? Pogrom time!
The Cold War led to some exceedingly strange, not to mention frightening, proposals for the use of nuclear weapons.
How about a delayed action bomb powered by live chickens?
Blue Peacock was a 1950s British proposal to bury 10 kiloton nukes around the North German plain then detonate them among invading Soviets. This could be done by wire, an anti-tampering device, or an 8 day timer. There was a problem though, especially during chilly German winters:
One technical problem was that during winter buried objects can get very cold, and it was possible the mine’s electronics would get too cold to work after some days underground. Various methods to get around this were studied, such as wrapping the bombs in insulating blankets. One particularly remarkable proposal suggested that live chickens be included in the mechanism. The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so. Their body heat would, it seems, have been sufficient to keep the mine’s components at a working temperature. This proposal was sufficiently outlandish that it was taken as an April Fool’s Day joke when the Blue Peacock file was declassified on 1 April 2004. Tom O’Leary, head of education and interpretation at the National Archives, replied to the media that, “It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes.”
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹
Best of wishes on your surgery!
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
“It does seem like an April Fool but it most certainly is not. The Civil Service does not do jokes.”
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Noted National Socialist Sebastian Gorka derided as uselessly feminine milksop, blubbering nonsense to hide intellectual impotence. pic.twitter.com/a1nZMhipyI
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) August 10, 2017
Trump has a decidedly unorthodox approach to this problem, but I have to admit, a nuclear holocaust is one way to end the opioid crisis.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) August 9, 2017
PDF link: TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES FOR NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL, AND CHEMICAL (NBC) PROTECTION https://t.co/bnJIupm8Wb
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) August 11, 2017
re: #151 Decatur Deb
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BBC did what is widely considered the greatest April Fool joke of all time:
Spaghetti-tree hoax
re: #112 jaunte
…. Kranzbühler never justified Nazism. But when asked by Ophuls whether he had discussed his own part in the Third Reich with his children, he replied that he had come up with a formula to make them understand: if you were ignorant of what went on, you were a fool; if you knew, but looked the other way, you were a coward; if you knew, and took part, you were a criminal. Were his children reassured? Kranzbühler: “My children didn’t recognize their father in any of the above.
Too many Americans seem to think that they would have been the ones to notice the rise of fascism and done something to stop it. But most non-Trumpsters I know fall into 4 categories
1. express total lack of interest in politics
2. don’t want to offend family or friends
3. say they don’t want to be depressed so avoid news
4. would rather spend time engaged in activities they enjoy and not be involved in the difficult task of working against this regime.
They aren’t paying attention or think they won’t be affected. Hopefully there are enough others in the active resistance to make a difference.
The clown’s out front doing his crazy thing. The world is at risk because of it. Our democracy has already lost a lot because of it.
The crazy party and money guys are in the back pushing thru ugly shit all over the country.
Indiana Republicans expanding early voting in GOP counties while limiting early voting in Dem counties. Unbelievable https://t.co/fL6fYQIXEe
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) August 10, 2017
The extent to which Republicans lawmakers simply do not believe in equal access to the ballot should be a bigger deal than it is. https://t.co/YdQJ4B7ygV
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) August 10, 2017
It can be hard to grasp it all. It’s really bad. We’ve got a fight ahead of us.
re: #155 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Some interesting trivia from the wikipedia article:
The spaghetti harvest hoax was made for a budget of £100.
Cameraman Charles de Jaeger (who actually originated the idea) passed on in 2000 and narrator Richard Dimbleby in 1965.
Producer Michael Peacock is still with us today at age 87.
re: #149 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
The Cold War led to some exceedingly strange, not to mention frightening, proposals for the use of nuclear weapons.
How about a delayed action bomb powered by live chickens?
Blue Peacock was a 1950s British proposal to bury 10 kiloton nukes around the North German plain then detonate them among invading Soviets. This could be done by wire, an anti-tampering device, or an 8 day timer. There was a problem though, especially during chilly German winters:
The problem of how to defend the Fulda Gap in West Germany was big on the minds of tacticians from the 50’s to the 70’s. A coworker in the 2010’s who was in a scout unit back in the day said that in the late 70’s the Army decided to to defend it with “pissed off, underpaid black troopers, at night”. I asked him if he was serious. His reply? “Pretty much. Along with a shitpot of enfilading artillery.”
re: #156 Hecuba’s daughter
Yup! You nailed all the categories that account for a lot of what I’ve observed in folks across the spectrum.
And we know how bad our voter turnout always is in this teenaged democracy.
re: #160 JordanRules
Yup! You nailed all the categories that account for a lot of what I’ve observed in folks across the spectrum.
And we know how bad our voter turnout always is in this teenaged democracy.
What would be bad enough to shock these apathetic types into concrete, useful action but not so bad it causes permanent damage to America/the world?
re: #162 Interesting Times
I ask myself that all the time. I really do.
re: #162 Interesting Times
What would be bad enough to shock these apathetic types into concrete, useful action but not so bad it causes permanent damage to America/the world?
A Nueremberg Law excluding AA players from highschool/college football leagues.
re: #159 austin_blue
The problem of how to defend the Fulda Gap in West Germany was big on the minds of tacticians from the 50’s to the 70’s. A coworker in the 2010’s who was in a scout unit back in the day said that in the late 70’s the Army decided to to defend it with “pissed off, underpaid black troopers, at night”. I asked him if he was serious. His reply? “Pretty much. Along with a shitpot of enfilading artillery.”
I was South and a bit east of Fulda, near the Czech border in 83-84 in a M-60A3 unit. We were told to kill 5 Russian tanks before we died as that would hopefully slow them down enough for REFORGER to kick in. What we didn’t get told was that the APDS rounds we had couldn’t penetrate the turret or glacius plate of the T-72s we faced or that the upgrade APFSDS rounds might but only if they didn’t fall apart in the barrel as 70+% of them did.
Of course they didn’t come across the gap because the REFORGER exercises convinced them that we could fly in many more troops much faster than we really could.
re: #164 Decatur Deb
A Nueremberg Law excluding AA players from highschool/college football leagues.
They’d pretend only those with “criminal” records were banned and say it was their own fault for messing up fall Saturday Afternoons.
re: #98 Anymouse 🌹
Fella, please take care. Hoping everything will go OK for you!
re: #48 Charles Johnson
Sometimes reaching out can actually work.
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