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“New Light” available now: johnmayer.com
(C) 2018 Snack Money
“‘This … is classic Mueller: he is doing a classic, organized crime case. This is RICO 101 … It’s exactly what Mueller has been doing his whole goddamn life. It’s just that this time the boss of the family happens to be the leader of the free world.” https://t.co/yvQ0JpLGgD
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 26, 2018
Yep.
We’ve updated our privacy policy pic.twitter.com/eMMPD21xdI
— Alaa Khanji علاء خانجي (@AlaAlsoory) May 26, 2018
Left hanging at the end of the last thread, referring to low voter turnout in US elections compared to Ireland’s referendum yesterday.
I think the problem is more low voter turnout in swing states, not all states.
re: #289 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
75.3% in California 11/8/2016.
re: #324 Anymouse 🌹
68.6% in Nebraska on the same day.
Two counties flipped from Obama to Trump (the largest two, Lancaster and Douglas), one county flipped from Romney to Clinton (a very rural county with a couple small villages.)
If every one of the voters in Nebraska who didn’t vote had voted for Hillary Clinton, it would not have made a difference; Trump would have still won (though Clinton might have peeled off one or two electoral votes).
He seems pleasant. pic.twitter.com/efe1u0gdB2
— jamie (@gnuman1979) May 26, 2018
I wish the president was missing
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) May 26, 2018
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
He seems to be downright neighborly. /half
There’s a Reason Conservative Christians Are So Bad At Fact-Checking the News (Goes to Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist blog at Patheos, more at the link):
It [literal reading of the Bible by conservatives] leads to an interesting question: Is there a connection between the way conservative Christians read the Bible and how they interpret the news?
That’s what Francesca Tripodi, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Virginia, set to find out. She just released a report (link to report at Patheos) documenting her initial findings, and the results are incredibly intriguing.
Tripodi studied two groups of Republicans in depth — a college group and a women’s group — to see how they “fact-checked” the news. And it turns out they’re not very good at it. (Surprise.) For example, one person she spoke to talked about how she researched candidates for upcoming elections: She Googled them.
“I literally type it in Google, and read the first three to five articles that pop up, because those are the ones that are obviously the most clicked and the most read, if they’re at the top of the list, or the most popular news outlets. So, I want to get a good sense of what other people are reading. So, that’s pretty much my go-to.”
That completely ignores how certain articles rise to the top of Google search results because people are searching for or talking about them. If we did a search for “Ted Cruz,” because of something newsworthy he said, the top results may include sites that routinely put out misinformation or spin the comment in a particular direction. Facebook faces a different problem, which is that our news feeds all look very different based on our preferences, likes, friends, and what we typically click on. I tend to see a lot of generally accurate and fact-based news sources in mine… but that’s exactly what the people who see Infowars would say.
But these people didn’t know that or get that. They just assumed the top results for them were automatically reliable.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not sure how welcome I’d be in Colorado if I point my car south… . /s
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹
And that is the reason why DT got elected. They have no idea what goes into research or how to do it.
Fantastic read about the women whose persistence as young students helped end formal segregation in schools. In awe of the courage these women had when they were children: https://t.co/2YhKjE5ljN
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) May 25, 2018
“Progressives”
continually live in the past. https://t.co/GcLEFH3NUk— Mindless Robots (@MindlessRobots) May 25, 2018
Hi Mindless Robots - the American fight for civil rights, equal protection & equal opportunity is not in the past. Wonder if I’d tweeted that #OTD in 1787, George Washington convened the Constitutional Convention, would you have had the same reaction? Wishing you a blessed day. https://t.co/CV1LBYITq0
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) May 25, 2018
“Under the Eighth Amendment, women in crisis pregnancy have been told: ‘Take the plane or take the boat’. Today we tell them: ‘Take our hand’.” - Irish Health Minister @SimonHarrisTD #8thref pic.twitter.com/NpIP4uS5sI
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 26, 2018
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹
There’s a Reason Conservative Christians Are So Bad At Fact-Checking the News (Goes to Hemant Mehta’s Friendly Atheist blog at Patheos, more at the link):
That represents a fairly typical human trait: Things can’t be too complicated. In this case, what most people want, and assume, is that one set of rules applies. They want the same pattern that applies to a search for the closest Chinese restaurant to apply to information about politics. A further problem is that sites like Fox know this, and know how to skew the results.
re: #1 Single-handed sailor
I would not call Trump the “leader of the free world”.
That last mantle is being picked up by the PMs of Germany, Canada, etc.
Trump has abdicated any sense of world leadership.
The Failing @nytimes quotes “a senior White House official,” who doesn’t exist, as saying “even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.” WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
This official said this in a background briefing on Thursday https://t.co/rYX3dtQY5w
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) May 26, 2018
Am I the only White House reporter who feels that we shouldn’t have to abide by their insistence on speaking on background if the president is just going to use that to attack and defame us?
I’m seriously considering just tweeting out the SAO’s name. https://t.co/HB3gRQHjrv— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) May 26, 2018
I’ve been a professional journalist for more than 50 years. In my view, Trump, with his mendacious tweet, violated the underlying agreement of that background briefing, and so all bets are off. I say name the briefer he claims doesn’t exist. https://t.co/1trDts9g9y
— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) May 26, 2018
Regarding religious fundamentalism and “facts” - of course there is a connection between buying into fundamentalist ideologies and not being self-honest about facts.
There are many religious people in this world, easily the majority of the world’s population. But being religious is one thing, while rigidity in beliefs is another.
Either one is emotionally and intellectually secure enough to explore various, and differing, ideas, or one has to seek safety.
Playing on Spotify:
Hanalei - Cynics Anthem for a New Tomorrow
The idea that immigration restrictionism ever had anything to do with economics has always been a fig leaf. If that were true, the administration wouldn’t have just made it harder for foreign-born startup founders to stay in the country. https://t.co/sOPn1mV0yb pic.twitter.com/JNnnmHWDpV
— Matt O’Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) May 26, 2018
one of the small neighbor humans. was outside. blowing magic rainbow spheres. so of course i went over to investigate. i know they were magic. because every time i tried to catch one. it disappeared. i have since concluded. that this small neighbor human. is a wizard
— Thoughts of Dog (@dog_feelings) May 26, 2018
re: #14 JordanRules
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I thought the “senior WH official” who Trump doesn’t think exists had already been identified (and audio of the presumably “nonexistent” briefing confirmed it)?
re: #19 Jay C
I thought the “senior WH official” who Trump doesn’t think exists had already been identified (and audio of the presumably “nonexistent” briefing confirmed it)?
He has. Was just posting some of the journalist discussions.
The Failing @nytimes quotes “a senior White House official,” who doesn’t exist, as saying “even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.” WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
The official is Matt Pottinger who serves on the National Security Council. He briefed dozens of reporters on background. https://t.co/5FUP7t8nYQ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 26, 2018
I’ve never revealed name of ppl I spoke with “on background” or published info I got “off the record.” But 100% legit for @yashar to do this:-He wasn’t on call-Was mass-audience “background” briefing-Trump flat-out lied in saying briefing never occurred/staffer doesn’t exist https://t.co/FBxKtkymNX
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) May 26, 2018
All crew,
We have updated our privacy policy for all Enterprise crew members.
The policy describes how we use internal sensors to generate a transporter signature of your brain and body at the quantum level, and when and how we transmit that info to third-party planets.
Worf— Worf Email (@WorfEmail) May 25, 2018
guessing that moron is back from the golf course…
With Spies, or “Informants” as the Democrats like to call them because it sounds less sinister (but it’s not), all over my campaign, even from a very early date, why didn’t the crooked highest levels of the FBI or “Justice” contact me to tell me of the phony Russia problem?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
This whole Russia Probe is Rigged. Just an excuse as to why the Dems and Crooked Hillary lost the Election and States that haven’t been lost in decades. 13 Angry Democrats, and all Dems if you include the people who worked for Obama for 8 years. #SPYGATE & CONFLICTS OF INTEREST!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
guessing that moron is back from the golf course…
This is the logical conclusion of Ronald Reagan’s “government is the problem” statement. Trump is actively attacking government agencies entrusted to maintain the rule of law, and the power-hungry conservatives in Congress are fine with it (because they think they will benefit from that).
re: #14 JordanRules
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So close….”lie to you and about you”
1500 immigrant children “disappeared?”
So we’re turning into one of those authoritarian police states that “disappear” undesirables?
Trump knows this is a potential outcome and he is separating immigrant children from their parents anyway.This is what happens when you dehumanize people, when Trump calls them “animals,” “illegals,” “rapists and murderers.”These are CHILDREN.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) May 25, 2018
This is what happens when Trump calls some immigrants animals. These are CHILDREN. Words matter. Weaponizing the bully pulpit to do this to human children is a gross abuse of power. If and when Trump is tried in the Senate, this must be among the charges brought by the House. https://t.co/S8oCLZDC9w
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 26, 2018
re: #19 Jay C
I thought the “senior WH official” who Trump doesn’t think exists had already been identified (and audio of the presumably “nonexistent” briefing confirmed it)?
This entire administration is lie-gate
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹
This is the logical conclusion of Ronald Reagan’s “government is the problem” statement. Trump is actively attacking government agencies entrusted to maintain the rule of law, and the power-hungry conservatives in Congress are fine with it (because they think they will benefit from that).
I always think of the Captain of the USS Ronald Reagan when it was dispatched to Fukushima to offer tsunami aid. “I’m from the United States government and we’re here to help you!”
Donald Trump says ‘our ancestors tamed a continent’ and ‘we are not going to apologize for America’ https://t.co/6bJD8sgIZt pic.twitter.com/kpj3x4zLIl
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 25, 2018
There were complex civilizations in North America pre-Columbus. The pilgrims would have died without Native intervention & the U.S. Constitution was based on the Iroquois Confederacy…or is ‘tame’ code for genocide? Millions of Indigenous died thanks to colonization. https://t.co/7vPI5kL5vr
— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) May 26, 2018
I can’t believe there’s still humans running around with the gall to believe they can ‘tame’ nature. One hurricane, one earthquake, one polar shift, one asteroid, you’re done. Earth doesn’t need us, we need her. Sit down, be humble. 🙄 https://t.co/1cNAcpeh41
— Ruth H. Hopkins (@RuthHHopkins) May 26, 2018
re: #29 JordanRules
Yeah, but all that’s OK because we’re white and they’re not.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
guessing that moron is back from the golf course…
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I’m so going to enjoy reading his obituary.
Sometimes I’m still absolutely aghast at how we could have ended up in this world, where the president of the US rants like a loon every damned day, viciously attacking the people and agencies of his own government.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2018
re: #31 Skip Intro
I’m so going to enjoy reading his obituary.
“Trump was briefly President of the United States before his impeachment, conviction, removal from office and subsequent indictment and conviction on multiple felony counts of money laundering, perjury, and obstruction of justice. He spent his last days in prison.”
Packed house in Chesapeake meeting local volunteers and getting fired up for November. pic.twitter.com/ROyRpMFUEY
— Brandon Gassaway (@BrandonBG_) May 26, 2018
Great to be out on the trail in Hampton Roads this weekend!! https://t.co/ARvY8wzq3k
— Tim Kaine (@timkaine) May 26, 2018
re: #32 Charles Johnson
And notice the moving goalposts - now anyone who worked in a Democratic Administration is a Democrat.
We cannot be rid of him too soon.
re: #35 Jay C
I cannot wait to see what the Washington Post will write.
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re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White
And notice the moving goalposts - now anyone who worked in a Democratic Administration is a Democrat.
We cannot be rid of him too soon.
Trump is the living embodiment of the “us vs. them” mentality that has been ravaging the right wing since 9/11 or even before. It’s so fucking stupid.
re: #38 Jenner7
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re: #38 Jenner7
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I used to be enthused to live here. Always thought even if I won a huge lotto or made millions I’d want to stay, invest, do something worthwhile. Not so much anymore, my pride in what this country means is diminished. Until Trump and his people are gone.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) May 26, 2018
Donald Trump says ‘our ancestors tamed a continent’ and ‘we are not going to apologize for America’ https://t.co/6bJD8sgIZt pic.twitter.com/kpj3x4zLIl
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 25, 2018
Pride before the fall mother fu… https://t.co/gaOsTVrMLT
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) May 26, 2018
Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
No law requires this — separating parents and children is your administration’s choice.
Hundreds of kids as young as 18 months are in danger of suffering lifelong trauma.
We won’t let you shift the blame or use families as bargaining chips for your wall. #EndFamilySeparation https://t.co/ixRFgPgCq6— ACLU (@ACLU) May 26, 2018
Sometimes I’m still absolutely aghast at how we could have ended up in this world, where the president of the US rants like a loon every damned day, viciously attacking the people and agencies of his own government.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 26, 2018
I’m convinced now that as #Boomers, we failed our children at parenting. https://t.co/m9syNnkPQF
— 🦈🦈Dave’s Not Believing this Crap🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) May 26, 2018
re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White
“Trump was briefly President of the United States before his impeachment, conviction, removal from office and subsequent indictment and conviction on multiple felony counts of money laundering, perjury, and obstruction of justice. He spent his last days in prison.”
Next time you hit the MJ store would you pick some up for me too? I want whatever it is you get.
Actually, maybe acid would be better. Is that still a thing?
lengthy thread…well worth the time to read:
You know when you get a press release to cover a Guinness world record attempt for tallest stack of waffles & expect it to be some big commercial thing & then it’s just a guy’s house? This is SO MUCH BETTER. Follow along, #Denver! Things might get weird! pic.twitter.com/xcxqZCMJZM
— Elizabeth Hernandez (@ehernandez) May 26, 2018
Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
May 7th: Sessions announces “Zero Tolerance” border enforcement policy — “Until now, border agents tried to keep parents and their children at the same detention site.” https://t.co/G5T9z9Nfch https://t.co/N7V9qZ8L1y
— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) May 26, 2018
re: #39 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Trump is the living embodiment of the “us vs. them” mentality that has been ravaging the right wing since 9/11 or even before. It’s so fucking stupid.
Gingrich. It all leads back to Gingrich.
re: #52 Blind Frog Belly White
Gingrich. It all leads back to Gingrich.
Or further back … to Nixon and his aide Roger Ailes’s for “GOP TV”
re: #38 Jenner7
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re: #38 Jenner7
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re: #43 Anymouse 🌹
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16 miles huh?
You know you could combine the walk with a purchase at the store.
If you drink it quick you can work off all the calories before you get home!
A sixteen year-old teenager here was convicted of attempted sexual assault on a teacher. He was given probation.
The student entered an empty classroom (other than the teacher), and pulled a knife on her. She was able to escape.
According to an affidavit of probable cause filed in the case, the student had gone to the classroom of a female teacher before school on Nov. 20. The teacher told police the student got up and got something out of a backpack, walked around to the back of the teacher’s desk, opened up a knife and pushed her against a wall. The teacher reported the student demanded she take off her clothes and she shoved him, causing him to fall over a bookshelf and she ran out of the classroom. However, the teacher said, the student ran after her, grabbing her and grabbing her breast.
The woman ran to another teacher’s classroom and the student fled the school. He was apprehended a short distance from the school. A pocket knife was found in his possession.
(more at the Scottsbluff Star-Herald)
This is one example of the crappy argument from gun fetishists about knives. The teacher was able to put distance between herself and the teen, and at that moment his knife was useless. A gun would be effective over a great distance.
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
He seems pleasant. pic.twitter.com/efe1u0gdB2
— jamie (@gnuman1979) May 26, 2018
My brother keeps me informed of the fantasies and hysterics of the Colorado RWNJ mob. Right now, it is a huge thing for them to attribute all crime, congestion, rudeness, and litter to hippies and other undesirables who come in as weed tourists. This does not cause them to donate the profits or tax revenue to, say, helping the poor, since this would only bring in more weed buyers.
re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth
guessing that moron is back from the golf course…
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Hey, Where’s Melania?
— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) May 26, 2018
Thunderf00t (a physicist who posts YouTube videos on physics) busts the idea of the endless click bait articles we’ve been subjected to on so-called “zero mass water” (dehumidifiers) and the millions the company in question has been scamming for their start-up.
TL;DR version: The solar panels in question would collect more water by rain than they can power pulling water out of the air.
Trucking water halfway across the country is about a tenth of the cost of using these things.
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re: #53 Anymouse 🌹
Or further back … to Nixon and his aide Roger Ailes’s for “GOP TV”
Go further back with Tricky Dicky’s mentor Murray Choitner!
re: #60 Anymouse 🌹
Thunderf00t (a physicist who posts YouTube videos on physics) busts the idea of the endless click bait articles we’ve been subjected to on so-called “zero mass water” (dehumidifiers) and the millions the company in question has been scamming for their start-up.
TL;DR version: The solar panels in question would collect more water by rain than they can power pulling water out of the air.
Trucking water halfway across the country is about a tenth of the cost of using these things.
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Erm, FYI, Thunderf00t’s a fucking loon, a bigot, and a woman-hater. I’m not sure I’d trust him any further than I could throw him (into a woodchipper).
Wingnuts is the craziest people.
Right wing conspiracy theories are bizarre as all hell. pic.twitter.com/1kS5Xekxqz
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) May 26, 2018
re: #63 scottslemmons
Wingnuts is the craziest people.
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Her elevator doesn’t go up even halfway.
re: #62 scottslemmons
Erm, FYI, Thunderf00t’s a fucking loon, a bigot, and a woman-hater. I’m not sure I’d trust him any further than I could throw him (into a woodchipper).
He is certainly no friend of feminism. For a while, he was making videos on that and was roundly spanked (figuratively).
He’s gone back to physics videos, which is his field. The video above simply explains why the laws of thermodynamics preclude the claims of the company (and gives a helping of scorn to science journalists who are more interested in writing click bait than science articles).
re: #59 Joe Bacon 🌹
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Hey, Where’s Melania
PS
Asking where she is and how she is, is not disrespecting of her privacy
She’s the effing first lady
What if she were…say..compromised in some way so (new more different) pressure could be put on the president? Kidnapped or something
It’s a legitimate question where and how she is
re: #63 scottslemmons
Wingnuts is the craziest people.
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I think…I think I’m kind of happy I don’t know what the fuck that person is talking about.
re: #63 scottslemmons
Wingnuts is the craziest people.
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Yeah. I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, a number of the more fanatic ones strike me as “unwell”.
Alberto is north of Cuba and continues to strengthen. The National Hurricane Center has now issued a Tropical Storm Warning for the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida.
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
I think…I think I’m kind of happy I don’t know what the fuck that person is talking about.
At times, this vision of the future with wingnuts crawling on all fours, babbling incoherently and smearing themselves with feces pops into my head.
re: #70 Anymouse 🌹
That would be my particular stomping grounds. Most people around here don’t sweat much over a Tropical Storm. Usually they aren’t strong enough to cause much damage. The main risk is flooding for folks who live close to the water. Thankfully I am not in that group.
re: #71 Teukka
At times, this vision of the future with wingnuts crawling on all fours, babbling incoherently and smearing themselves with feces pops into my head.
I have a vision of an alternate one, where the police accost us on the street and demand where we fit into the Hivite power structure, and cart away those who don’t follow the state-mandated propaganda and don’t know what that is.
re: #72 Eclectic Cyborg
That would be my particular stomping grounds. Most people around here don’t sweat much over a Tropical Storm. Usually they aren’t strong enough to cause much damage. The main risk is flooding for folks who live close to the water. Thankfully I am not in that group.
Stay safe.
The predicted rainfall from the storm over the Southeast: 6-10 inches in the Florida and Mississippi Panhandles, 4-6 in the Uplands of South Carolina and SW North Carolina and NE Georgia, and 4-6 along the coasts of North and South Carolina.
re: #71 Teukka
At times, this vision of the future with wingnuts crawling on all fours, babbling incoherently and smearing themselves with feces pops into my head.
Well, it’s always projection with Republicans, so there’s a pretty good chance that a lot of Pizzagaters have eaten babies or had sex with children…
re: #73 Renaissance_Man
I have a vision of an alternate one, where the police accost us on the street and demand where we fit into the Hivite power structure, and cart away those who don’t follow the state-mandated propaganda and don’t know what that is.
The Hivites (Hebrew: Hivim, חוים) were one group of descendants of Canaan, son of Ham, according to the Table of Nations in Genesis 10 (10:17). A variety of proposals have been made, but beyond the references in the Bible to Hivites in the land of Canaan, no consensus has been reached about their precise historical identity.
(more) en.wikipedia.org
re: #68 Eclectic Cyborg
I think…I think I’m kind of happy I don’t know what the fuck that person is talking about.
I’m kinda thinking that person may not know what they are talking about.
I think there was some discussion of that tweet this morning and part of the discussion bordered on implanted traumatic memories and the like. Who knows.
re: #77 ObserverArt
I’m kinda thinking that person may not know what they are talking about.
I think there was some discussion of that tweet this morning and part of the discussion bordered on implanted traumatic memories and the like. Who knows.
That was me. It was about Satanic Ritual Abuse, nowadays known as Ritual Abuse. Bad shit.
LOL
I wonder if Aliens, upon landing near a car-filled freeway, will think car transport trucks are pregnant life forms. pic.twitter.com/RTaABglprA
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 25, 2018
Two bits for SF fans here:
1) The Expanse was dropped by SyFi Network but Amazon has picked it up so there will be at least a 4th season of the Rocinante and her intrepid crew telling the story James S.A. Corey’s series.
2) For the second year, Clipping has a science fiction song that has been nominated for a Hugo award as a dramatic short form. I’ve paged the song, here. Check it out, it’s well worth your time.
re: #78 Teukka
That was me. It was about Satanic Ritual Abuse, nowadays known as Ritual Abuse. Bad shit.
Since that was primarily driven by fearful religious conservatives, it would not surprise me if the same groups of people (or maybe the same people) also went all-in on the spirit cooking of children at a sex ring in a DC pizzeria that had no basement …
re: #82 Anymouse 🌹
Since that was primarily driven by fearful religious conservatives, it would not surprise me if the same groups of people (or maybe the same people) also went all-in on the spirit cooking of children at a sex ring in a DC pizzeria that had no basement …
The scary part is that many … “researchers” … involved in the SRA and RA scams are still referred to by some legitimate Child Sexual Abuse researchers who don’t know what the “researchers” were up to in the past.
re: #80 William Lewis
Two bits for SF fans here:
1) The Expanse was dropped by SyFi Network but Amazon has picked it up so there will be at least a 4th season of the Rocinante and her intrepid crew telling the story James S.A. Corey’s series.
2) For the second year, Clipping has a science fiction song that has been nominated for a Hugo award as a dramatic short form. I’ve paged the song, here. Check it out, it’s well worth your time.
And Clipping’s entire album was nominated for the Hugo last year! And “The Deep” is really amazing, so I’m probably going to have to get that whole album now…
New Page Posted - Just look at the prison sentences that were handed out.
‘People’s Grand Jury’ Ringleaders Facing Prison Time After Threats to Officials
re: #80 William Lewis
Two bits for SF fans here:
1) The Expanse was dropped by SyFi Network but Amazon has picked it up so there will be at least a 4th season of the Rocinante and her intrepid crew telling the story James S.A. Corey’s series.
2) For the second year, Clipping has a science fiction song that has been nominated for a Hugo award as a dramatic short form. I’ve paged the song, here. Check it out, it’s well worth your time.
Great song, thanks for the link.
Regarding the Expanse (whose Amazon announcement had me literally jumping with joy first thing in the morning), i’m hoping it wasn’t a slip of the tongue/misquote when Bezos mentioned that “It will be a Prime original in the coming seasons.”
Seasons, as in plural.
Especially since the original plan was apparently for seven seasons to cover the events of the books (the last of which should be coming out by the end of next year assuming no delays - of which there was only one for 7 books, all of which are recommended BTW).
Also in case you were wondering just how dedicated the show’s fans are, the “Save the Expanse” fan campaign included social media efforts, airplane fliers, cakes and literally launching a small model of the Roci (the ship featured in the series) into space:
re: #85 Cheechako
New Page Posted - Just look at the prison sentences that were handed out.
‘People’s Grand Jury’ Ringleaders Facing Prison Time After Threats to Officials
They’ll have a nice long time to think about their choices in life… .
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹
Buried in the second to last paragraph of the original article:
“The group appears to follow the doctrine of the sovereign citizen’s movement. That movement holds that people are only answerable to common law and that the U.S government is illegitimate.”
re: #85 Cheechako
New Page Posted - Just look at the prison sentences that were handed out.
‘People’s Grand Jury’ Ringleaders Facing Prison Time After Threats to Officials
I wonder if they got those long sentences because they were sovereign citizen types.
re: #79 Anymouse 🌹
LOL
I wonder if Aliens, upon landing near a car-filled freeway, will think car transport trucks are pregnant life forms. pic.twitter.com/RTaABglprA
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) May 25, 2018
When aliens arrive they will ignore Trump and other fatcats. Instead they will immediately contact high powered lawyers and file defamation suits against various fringe media and conspiracy theorists for false allegations of kidnapping, cattle rustling; airspace, immigration, and broadcast violations, etc.
We’re saddened by the passing of astronaut Alan Bean. The fourth person to walk on the Moon, he spent 10+ hours on the lunar surface during Apollo 12. Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II & devoted his retirement to painting. Family release: https://t.co/bX8eXNQlSq pic.twitter.com/NJPQULjGlw
— NASA (@NASA) May 26, 2018
Just noticed I used the word “fun” in two consecutive headlines. I must be craving fun these days for some reason.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Just noticed I used the word “fun” in two consecutive headlines. I must be craving fun these days for some reason.
Aren’t we all…..
re: #78 Teukka
That was me. It was about Satanic Ritual Abuse, nowadays known as Ritual Abuse. Bad shit.
I remember the hysteria Wayne Satz and Geraldo spread about the McMartin Preschool here in Los Angeles. It spread like wildfire all over the area with more allegations each day until it came out that the so-called psychiatrist interviewing the kids asking them to point on the doll where they were touched was not only unlicensed, she was Satz’s mistress and they were colluding all along to pump up the news ratings at KABC. When Ira Reiner took over as DA for Los Angeles County he exposed what they were doing and put a stopper on it.
re: #92 Charles Johnson
Just noticed I used the word “fun” in two consecutive headlines. I must be craving fun these days for some reason.
(bats a beach ball into the comments)
re: #85 Cheechako
New Page Posted - Just look at the prison sentences that were handed out.
‘People’s Grand Jury’ Ringleaders Facing Prison Time After Threats to Officials
Hurray! These assholes need to be stepped on HARD. Like many other RWNJ radicals they do not oppose authority, per se, but seek to substitute their own in a new feudalism.
re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
When aliens arrive they will ignore Trump and other fatcats. Instead they will immediately contact high powered lawyers and file defamation suits against various fringe media and conspiracy theorists for false allegations of kidnapping, cattle rustling; airspace, immigration, and broadcast violations, etc.
Oh some might sue all right, but others might just be wary of visiting for fear of the opposite….
YouTube
(clip from Babylon 5 Season 1)
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹
Or further back … to Nixon and his aide Roger Ailes’s for “GOP TV”
Gingrich is really the one who pushed and popularized the scorched earth approach - no compromise, demonize opponents, load your words - words like ‘sick, perverted, evil’ over any and all policy differences. He showed the GOP that their base were hungry for an all-out war, take no prisoners style based on personally destroying your opposition for hints of corruption while being thoroughly corrupt yourself. You could say any damn thing you wanted, no matter how untrue, and as long as you never backed down in the face of being proven wrong, the GOP base would believe YOU over the truth.
The success of this method really led to the launching of Fox News.
Gingrich is sort of like the Anti-John the Baptist for Trump’s AntiChrist. He paved the way and showed that the base was ready for and would reward that kind of behavior.
Sure, folks like LBJ were ruthless sons of bitches in private. Gingrich showed that, in the GOP at least, you could be a ruthless son of a bitch publicly, and still get elected.
re: #80 William Lewis
Two bits for SF fans here:
1) The Expanse was dropped by SyFi Network but Amazon has picked it up so there will be at least a 4th season of the Rocinante and her intrepid crew telling the story James S.A. Corey’s series.
2) For the second year, Clipping has a science fiction song that has been nominated for a Hugo award as a dramatic short form. I’ve paged the song, here. Check it out, it’s well worth your time.
YAY!!
Ugh. Severe thunderstorms Sunday night though Monday night. I guess we find out whether the temporary repair to my roof is actually waterproof… .
The Weather Channel’s prediction on tornadoes is in the range of 30% up and down the Great Plains (and the landfalling area of Tropical Storm Alberto). (Their TOR:CON index is the percentage chance under the given conditions a tornado will touch down within a fifty-mile radius of a particular point)
re: #94 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember the hysteria Wayne Satz and Geraldo spread about the McMartin Preschool here in Los Angeles. It spread like wildfire all over the area with more allegations each day until it came out that the so-called psychiatrist interviewing the kids asking them to point on the doll where they were touched was not only unlicensed, she was Satz’s mistress and they were colluding all along to pump up the news ratings at KABC. When Ira Reiner took over as DA for Los Angeles County he exposed what they were doing and put a stopper on it.
And yet, there are still a considerable number of people out there who would/will take the DA’s exposure of the bullshit as proof positive that the “Ritual Abuse” was real, and the fact that an official would kill the investigation merely confirming how widespread the “conspiracy” “actually” was/is.
The SRA Panic was always never about reality….
So Trump is going with the red-savages approach to American history.
Figures.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹
Ugh. Severe thunderstorms Sunday night though Monday night. I guess we find out whether the temporary repair to my roof is actually waterproof… .
The Weather Channel’s prediction on tornadoes is in the range of 30% up and down the Great Plains (and the landfalling area of Tropical Storm Alberto). (Their TOR:CON index is the percentage chance under the given conditions a tornado will touch down within a fifty-mile radius of a particular point)
We are getting swamped here in Columbus right now. Heavy rain…my street is a lake. I bet there is all types of flash flooding around Columbus right now.
re: #101 Jay C
And yet, there are still a considerable number of people out there who would/will take the DA’s exposure of the bullshit as proof positive that the “Ritual Abuse” was real, and the fact that an official would kill the investigation merely confirming how widespread the “conspiracy” “actually” was/is.
The SRA Panic was always never about reality….
Absolutely, Jay! Just look at the number of numbnutz who still repeat the Pizzagate bullshit!
re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹
Absolutely, Jay! Just look at the number of numbnutz who still repeat the Pizzagate bullshit!
Probably a large percentage of which are the same people.
re: #47 Backwoods_Sleuth
He blames democrats for the evil that he does - he is pure evil - as are the henchmen and women.
Perhaps the mass exit from Ireland in the potato famine will now be reversed with a mass return to Ireland in the 21st century.
re: #67 dangerman
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
re: #107 A Mom Anon
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
Doubt it. I think she’s tired of his act and the very public humiliation (Stormy Daniels), etc.
re: #107 A Mom Anon
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
This is an unusual situation to be sure.
I would think Melania could escape easily if that was the case, but I don’t know. I would also think the Secret Service would put a stop to such a thing.
Alternative theory: If she’s his spy handler, has she been recalled by the SVR for a debrief or consultations?
re: #107 A Mom Anon
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
Even if that were proven true the same people who endlessly trashed Barack and Michelle would give Trump pass after pass. They would probably spin it favorably for Trump by alleging that’s what a real man does…and that makes me sick to my stomach!
For Denver-area denizens of LGF:
The blue-eyed, blonde-haired beauty Stormy Daniels is making her way to Denver June 1-2! pic.twitter.com/VHuGo6ltLJ
— The Diamond Cabaret (@DiamondDenver) May 26, 2018
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹
For Denver-area denizens of LGF:
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Fresh from Stormy receiving the Key To The City from West Hollywood!
re: #107 A Mom Anon
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
If that were true, he would have already tweeted something about accusing a Democrat of spousal abuse.
I just turned on my hail-pummeled air conditioner. That was a mistake. It sounds like a misfiring Harley.
re: #109 Anymouse 🌹
I doubt we’ll ever know for sure, hell she could have taken the kid and went for a school’s out vacation too. It’s just weird no one has seen FLOTUS in over 2 weeks. That’s what raises my spidey senses.
re: #115 A Mom Anon
I doubt we’ll ever know for sure, hell she could have taken the kid and went for a school’s out vacation too. It’s just weird no one has seen FLOTUS in over 2 weeks. That’s what raises my spidey senses.
She never wanted to be First Lady, evidence of her husband’s affairs are all over the news every day, her husband is the most vile example of humanity, and she just had a surgery which (if it’s what I think it is) is probably still pretty painful. There’s nothing nefarious here - she’s just sick of this shit.
re: #115 A Mom Anon
I doubt we’ll ever know for sure, hell she could have taken the kid and went for a school’s out vacation too. It’s just weird no one has seen FLOTUS in over 2 weeks. That’s what raises my spidey senses.
I think the most likely answer is that her condition was not as benign , and/or the procedure didn’t go as well, and/or the recovery wasn’t as smooth as the press releases suggested. Just how bad it was/is, there’s no knowing.
re: #116 Renaissance_Man
What surgery?
I am sorry I do not follow the current presidential family.
I found it on google. Kidney surgery is major in anyone’s book.
Here’s a survey worth torpedoing… . looks really official.
“Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹
After appropriately answering the questions (not his fever dreams), and making sure that the name, zip, and E-mail were all fake, it takes you to a “campaign donation” page for Trump.
re: #118 PhillyPretzel
I am sorry I do not follow the current presidential family.
Ha!! This is world class shade! And probably great for you mental health too.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹
Here’s a survey worth torpedoing… . looks really official.
“Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”
That reminds me of those BS “Fake News Awards” that went nowhere awhile back.
re: #121 JordanRules
I do not follow them because it would endanger mental health. Reading about DT destroys grey matter.
Laugh break:
Me *swallows pride*
Baby lion: holy shit— andrewsnotdeadʸᵉᵗ (@AndrewsNotFunny) April 17, 2018
Homemade chicken tenders (flour, chili powder, paprika, garlic powder) and oven fried potatoes (provencal herbs) . Yum!
re: #118 PhillyPretzel
What surgery?
I am sorry I do not follow the current presidential family.
The surgery is an embolization, which can be used to treat a variety of kidney conditions. The White House put out that the condition was benign before the procedure began.
Essentially, a catheter is threaded up the femoral artery to the kidney in question, and blood vessels to the affected area are blocked. This causes blood flow to that area to cease and the affected area to die.
Various medical sites I’ve looked at about this (caution, I am not a doctor, and I don’t play one on TV) say recovery can be swift or could take up to a week.
Considering this is the First Lady, I imagine Walter Reed would err on the side of caution to ensure things are going well. That said, we are well past a week.
re: #116 Renaissance_Man
With this presidential mess it’s just hard to believe anything that comes out of this administration. I don’t wish harm on anyone, I hope she’s ok and I hope my spidey senses are wrong.
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹
Here’s a survey worth torpedoing… . looks really official.
“Mainstream Media Accountability Survey”
Eddie Munster using blowme@aol.com has completed the survey
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Eddie Munster using blowme@aol.com has completed the survey
The poor schmuck who has that E-mail address is going to hate you if he or she finds out who did it.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹
The poor schmuck who has that E-mail address is going to hate you if he or she finds out who did it.
I feel no pity for anyone still using an AOL email address for serious activity
re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I feel no pity for anyone still using an AOL email address for serious activity
My son does, as do a couple friends in Wyoming.
OK, the Mets are down 17-6 heading into the 8th.
I’m gonna walk the dogs
re: #127 Anymouse 🌹
The surgery is an embolization, which can be used to treat a variety of kidney conditions. The White House put out that the condition was benign before the procedure began.
Essentially, a catheter is threaded up the femoral artery to the kidney in question, and blood vessels to the affected area are blocked. This causes blood flow to that area to cease and the affected area to die.
Various medical sites I’ve looked at about this (caution, I am not a doctor, and I don’t play one on TV) say recovery can be swift or could take up to a week.
Considering this is the First Lady, I imagine Walter Reed would err on the side of caution to ensure things are going well. That said, we are well past a week.
‘Recovery’ is a broad term in medicine. I discharge people on day one after surgery and call them ‘recovered’, but I also know that they aren’t going to really feel like themselves for anywhere up to a few months. Even though embolisation is minimally invasive, it still hurts while the tissue dies, and she’s probably still peeing blood and not feeling awesome. Given the rest of the shit she’s in the middle of (her stepchildren are mobsters, and her husband is a degenerate human who is the world’s most hated individual), I think it’s totally normal that she’s out of the public eye.
John Gruber, after linking to The Guardian:
‘Weird, Odd, a Dumpster Fire’: Trump’s North Korea Summit Coin Ridiculed
Not only was this coin premature, not only does it get Kim’s title wrong, not only does it bestow upon Kim legitimacy he’s long sought but does not deserve, but worse than all that, the outer rim of text is set in Arial.
re: #138 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
John Gruber, after linking to The Guardian:
‘Weird, Odd, a Dumpster Fire’: Trump’s North Korea Summit Coin Ridiculed
Furthering the perception that nothing about these talks has been even remotely competent or well thought out.
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Eddie Munster using blowme@aol.com has completed the survey
Jacque Le Strap using mange.merde@gmail.com completed the survey.
re: #137 Joe Bacon 🌹
It can’t because it opened into the Twilight Zone.
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Comhghairdeas, Éire!: Ireland Votes To Legalize Abortion (Wonkette’s take on Ireland’s repeal of its draconian VIII Amendment, with a photo array of huge lines of women arriving in airports to return to vote, celebratory photographs, &c)
re: #115 A Mom Anon
I doubt we’ll ever know for sure, hell she could have taken the kid and went for a school’s out vacation too. It’s just weird no one has seen FLOTUS in over 2 weeks. That’s what raises my spidey senses.
Don’t her parents live in NY? Aren’t they the ones who look after the kid? She’s probably there.
Sadly you can’t recognize the greatest authoritarian regimes have come from the left w/ the Soviets & ChiComs as top dogs
The Progressive Left is actually a repressive orthodoxy enforcing mess wishing it could get its shit together enough to be decent totalitarians— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) May 26, 2018
Oh Jim, I musta hurt you real bad if this is the best you got. Your reveal is that you won’t even try to rebut the fact that Trump’s a wannabe strongman and you like that. You know it. I know it. You like it. We both know what that means. Own it, Jim. https://t.co/pJf4uvlMjf
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 26, 2018
re: #141 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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re: #130 Anymouse 🌹
I always give Rush Limbaugh’s email address. Never had a complaint.
I know you all feel you are still the radicals fighting the man
But you became the Wo/Man/etc a while ago and now you are busy stamping out any competing ideas
I’ve been fighting statist totalitarians my whole life, you lot are just the domestic version— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) May 26, 2018
You’ve clearly got a lot of beautiful ideas in your head, Jim. #cosplay #ninja #wondertwinpowers https://t.co/pD0mlieVYo
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 26, 2018
There is every possibility that Liverpool’s German goalkeeper, Loris Karius, will commit ritual seppuku on his return from Ukraine tonight.
Occasionally, a professional goalkeeper will have a “howler”- a mistake that results in an opponent scoring a goal- so dumb that it doesn’t seem possible. He had two today in the 3-1 loss to Real Madrid in the Campion’s Cup final. No bigger stage in European football.
You gotta watch this:
Poor guy. He’s only 24.
re: #140 Joe Bacon 🌹
Jacque Le Strap using mange.merde@gmail.com completed the survey.
I hope you folks are using a VPN when doing this.
We’re saddened by the passing of astronaut Alan Bean. The fourth person to walk on the Moon, he spent 10+ hours on the lunar surface during Apollo 12. Bean was spacecraft commander of Skylab Mission II & devoted his retirement to painting. Family release: https://t.co/bX8eXNQlSq pic.twitter.com/NJPQULjGlw
— NASA (@NASA) May 26, 2018
Only twelve men walked on the surface of the Moon. Only four of them are still alive. https://t.co/b0plvaugqr
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 27, 2018
Ahh. I hear rumbling. Classic summer Philly weather. Pop-corn storms.
re: #148 austin_blue
I work with a gal from Liverpool. She went outside and cussed up a storm. The c-word was used liberally.
re: #150 teleskiguy
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re: #152 teleskiguy
I work with a gal from Liverpool. She went outside and cussed up a storm. The c-word was used liberally.
On the first one I was all “What the fuck was that?”. On the second I was just laughing it was so awful. I feel for your friend. That town lives and dies for Liverpool and Everton. Everton fans mostly cry and drink a lot.
re: #153 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
R.I.P., Al. You and Pete were the most fun “landing party” to listen to—and I listened to all of them.
Of course, all we could do was listen—after you pointed the camera into the sun!///
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re: #162 Skip Intro
For a couple of bucks a month I use a VPN. Much easier to use than Tor.
I actually have Private Internet Access VPN, but I haven’t installed it on my machine yet as I built a new box - another of a long list of software I have to install.
re: #156 The Major
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re: #156 The Major
Please take care! Hoping everything will be OK!
re: #162 Skip Intro
For a couple of bucks a month I use a VPN. Much easier to use than Tor.
Sourceforge has some great deals. I got three years of Windscribe for…$23.95, I think.
re: #148 austin_blue
Good lord….those were bad….
re: #156 The Major
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re: #167 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
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My VPN service is free, using Psiphon. It does a good job of climbing over the Great Firewall of China. I also have a paid version of Lantern, which I sometimes use when Psiphon is having connectivity issues.
Tor does not work in China, as the GFWoC devs have figured out ways to make it useless. Using bridges works, but only for a while. I’m hoping the Substratum decentralized DNS service actually works out as promised.
re: #172 Anymouse 🌹
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Automatic blocking function: activated. pic.twitter.com/oD7IxHPJmk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2018
re: #107 A Mom Anon
I almost hate to say this, but seeing the kind of person her husband is, would it be out of line to wonder if she was beaten bad enough to end up in the hospital? I don’t want to think that shit, but I’ve been there and that’s where my head goes in these situations.
these days anything’s possible I guess.
though keeping that from leaking would be very hard to do.
re: #174 wheat-dogg
My VPN service is free, using Psiphon. It does a good job of climbing over the Great Firewall of China. I also have a paid version of Lantern, which I sometimes use when Psiphon is having connectivity issues.
Tor does not work in China, as the GFWoC devs have figured out ways to make it useless. Using bridges works, but only for a while. I’m hoping the Substratum decentralized DNS service actually works out as promised.
Hmm paid in cryptocurrency to run a node. I think I’d rather use my spare computing power to run BOINC science projects.
I just saw an advert on YouTube of someone (some entity) launching a cryptocurrency to trade international real estate. Of course, they want you to invest real Ameros to buy this cryptocurrency. They then use blockchains to figure out who owns what portions of properties.
I think I’ll just stick to cash.
re: #178 Charles Johnson
Not there to follow Twitter’s rules of decorum? That doesn’t sound like someone who wants to remain on Twitter very long… .
What with Mrs. FBW and The Younger Boy in Hawaii, and The Older Boy at work, Rango and I were left to our own devices - in my case LITERAL devices - I just got a bunch of 145 year old Elgin keywind watches - 1 watch and 6 bare nekkid movements. Most are in working order. Well, kinda. Each has its own issues, some minor, some major.
Anyhow, it was time to take a break, and Rango’d been bugging me for a while - I couldn’t walk around the house without him following me expectantly. So we went for a walk in Laurelwood Park/Sugarloaf Open Space.
The Buckeyes are all blooming. You can see how many there are - just look for the trees with the white spots
Along the trail, there’s a patch of Fairy Lanterns - aka Calochortus albus. I guess we know where one of our fellow Bay Area lizards got her handle…
And speaking of Bay Area lizards, there were a gazillion of them, skittering off the path as we approached. This is the only one who let us get close enough for a picture.
I caught this pic of a bumblebee, which had been running around and around the inside of this poppy - collecting pollen? And behind the poppy? Well, let’s just say “They seek him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere!”
And here’s my hiking buddy, near the peak, wondering whether we have to go as far to get back to the car. (Yep.)
re: #175 Joe Bacon 🌹
Tonight I was hungry for a taste of home so I made a Turkey Devonshire sandwich. I will atone by going to the gym for an hour tomorrow morning…
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re: #181 Anymouse 🌹
“My meaningless defiance is the only thing that gives meaning to my anonymous existence.”
re: #14 JordanRules
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Trump and his lies are having an effect.
More people think Mueller hasn’t gotten convictions than those who think he has (he has, and he’s gotten indictments too).
These journalists should absolutely name names here. Trump is lying that the source of the reporters’ statements doesn’t exist when everyone who was at that briefing knows the name of the senior administration official.
Name the name. And then call Trump out for lying - again.
Stop with the obfuscating and weasel word headlines or tweets that indicate Trump “misled”.
No. He lied. This administration doesn’t deserve any of the niceties or any benefit of doubt.
re: #181 Anymouse 🌹
Not there to follow Twitter’s rules of decorum? That doesn’t sound like someone who wants to remain on Twitter very long… .
I have come here to kick ass and chew bubblegum follow Twitter’s rules of decorum. And I’m all out of bubblegum Twitter’s all out of rules of decorum.
HA! (though it took me a second or so…)
re: #111 Anymouse 🌹
Diamond Cabaret. For a strip club, that place is pretty classy. They have bottle service minimums, $500, I think it is. I’ve never set foot in a strip club but I have lots of friends who have.
re: #178 Charles Johnson
And what are the odds that’s a Russia bot? At this point, I’d put that at 50/50.
re: #152 teleskiguy
I work with a gal from Liverpool. She went outside and cussed up a storm. The c-word was used liberally.
brits do that so well
don’t care if I’m broadbrushing
re: #180 Anymouse 🌹
Hmm paid in cryptocurrency to run a node. I think I’d rather use my spare computing power to run BOINC science projects.
I just saw an advert on YouTube of someone (some entity) launching a cryptocurrency to trade international real estate. Of course, they want you to invest real Ameros to buy this cryptocurrency. They then use blockchains to figure out who owns what portions of properties.
I think I’ll just stick to cash.
There are several projects proposing to record real estate transactions on blockchains. I doubt most will succeed, since they all require a person to enter the information with a computer correctly (no typos!) into the ledger. The principle is sound, but replacing
paper records made by fallible humans with blockchain entries made by fallible humans seems to be sideways progress. OTOH having an internationally viewable record of RE ownership would make transactions potentially more transparent.
The trick would be to convince local government entities to adopt the new blockchain method.
Some of the projects would allow investors in the RE to receive rental payments in the blockchain currency/token, which could then be converted into Bitcoin or localcash.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has yielded many indictments and convictions, but a recent poll shows most Americans believe President Trump’s pronouncement that the Russia probe is a ‘baseless witch hunt.” https://t.co/Sx4JQdIcuW
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 26, 2018
Fox rots the brain. Misinformation and agitprop works.
Trump repeats the lie enough and enough people believe it.
This is proof: https://t.co/zKfl7Lj89u— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 26, 2018
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Put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S. Catch and Release, Lottery and Chain must also go with it and we MUST continue building the WALL! DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING MS-13 THUGS.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2018
Let’s take a few moments to break down exactly why this Tweet is low, even for Trump. It’s quite simply the most evil, racist thing he’s said yet. https://t.co/gnKuW70Hs2
— Kelly Scaletta (@KellyScaletta) May 26, 2018
Donald Trump says ‘our ancestors tamed a continent’ and ‘we are not going to apologize for America’ https://t.co/6bJD8sgIZt pic.twitter.com/kpj3x4zLIl
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 25, 2018
“Our ancestors tamed a continent.” This is so fucking ahistorical and racist. He probably thinks Columbus was some great explorer and not a slaver and genocidal maniac. https://t.co/NM4uUV4pqn
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) May 27, 2018
Some U.S. history.
After impeachment, Andrew Johnson escaped Senate conviction by one vote, 150 years ago today: pic.twitter.com/nduLMXnFDL
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 27, 2018
re: #194 lawhawk
The news needs to talk about it more, but I also think Mueller needs a press team.
Trump unilaterally ended DACA. He can unilaterally restore it.
Trump created new policy of forced separation of children, including infants and toddlers, from their parents.
He can end it just the same.
He won’t. His bigot brigade base loves this inhumane treatment.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 26, 2018
re: #194 lawhawk
Truly we have become a confederacy of dunces.
re: #201 Belafon
The news needs to talk about it more, but I also think Mueller needs a press team.
You know who really needs to talk about it. The goddamned Democrats.
re: #204 teleskiguy
Must have been Britney………
re: #199 teleskiguy
Columbus never actually set foot in North America. He got as far as the Caribbean. His voyages did open door to other European expeditions to North America, including those settling in Roanoke, Jamestown, Plymouth, and ultimately what became the 13 colonies.
Trump’s ancestors are from Germany. They came long after the nation was settled. In fact, we have evidence that suggests his grandfather was here thanks to chain migration.
And North America was settled long before white men showed up (with their slaves in tow). Native Americans were here, and are still treated like second class citizens by Trump and other Americans.
re: #202 lawhawk
If the GOP Congress wanted to accomplish anything, they would put a bill together ending this and funding a wall. It would be a cynical move, but they don’t even care that much.
this police cruiser zooming thru my shot of Circus Liquor is the most appropriate photobomb ever pic.twitter.com/SU1tltoiT2
— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) May 27, 2018
re: #208 lawhawk
All truth.
I live ten miles from the akwasasne mohawk reservation in New York. Right on the border. The difference between how they are treated on the American side versus the Canadian side is astounding and eye opening
When subbing I have had students asked why natives “should be allowed in our (off the reservation) schools.”
I explained that their question is mighty small minded and that that idea is prejudice.
re: #199 teleskiguy
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re: #193 austin_blue
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Beautiful. Had to turn the sound off because of that idiot pretending to announce the game, but the goal itself was a delight.
re: #197 Unshaken Defiance
That moment when an older digital negative finally gets worked up like it should have been-B&W
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re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White
His ancestors did fuck all. Only one was even here before 1900, and that just barely.
re: #216 A Mom Anon
That’s really cool!
Honest to Ullr true. His surname Warren was my grandfather’s middle name. My mom and dad almost named me Warren! But my dad - somehow but not - knew I was his only son, so he named me after himself.
re: #214 William Lewis
Nice though in printing such a neg you’d probably have to do a bit of burning and dodging to get it to look a bit better to my eye. Especially along the under edge of that rail bridge track bed - still just a little dark to my eye.
Good observation, thanks.