A Tiny Desk Golden Oldie: Bill Frisell Reinvents the Songs of John Lennon
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Set List:
“Nowhere Man”
“In My Life”
“Strawberry Fields Forever”
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re: #196 Barefoot Grin
Speaking of Tusk, Lindsey Buckingham had a heart attack and underwent open-heart surgery yesterday. I took my 14yo to see him a couple of months ago. His voice was a bit ragged but he kicked ass on guitar.
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
Still looking for a source….
Look at all that shelf space behind him. That is an oldie.
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
Back at ya.
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
Well, I’m managing to do it without weed, but given it’s legal in CA now, I have been asking whether company policy still forbids using it during off hours (had to pee in a cup for the job).
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
Same here, but since weed is illegal here, booze.
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
Same.
re: #6 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, I’m managing to do it without weed, but given it’s legal in CA now, I have been asking whether company policy still forbids using it during off hours (had to pee in a cup for the job).
The question is whether they have asked you to pee in the cup since then.
re: #6 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, I’m managing to do it without weed, but given it’s legal in CA now, I have been asking whether company policy still forbids using it during off hours (had to pee in a cup for the job).
If the company is in any way associated with the federal government, it is still illegal.
I’ve been smoking some shake and keef of this stuff called Grapefruit tonight, I got a bunch of it (like, almost a half ounce) for free last month. I know a couple of growers. I’m a skier in Colorado, I mean, after all, d’fuck. Anyhoo, what were we talking about?
re: #11 teleskiguy
Some day soon, pot will be legal here and I will drastically reduce my booze intake. That some day will be a great day.
Weed is legal in Michigan but every little bumfuck backwater (like the “suburb of Detroit” that I live in) has its own NIMBY laws.
re: #1 Barefoot Grin
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I replied - He apparently suffered some vocal cord damage as a result. Hope he makes it all the way back.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
Weed is legal in Michigan but every little bumfuck backwater (like the “suburb of Detroit” that I live in) has its own NIMBY laws.
Colorado’s legal cannabis law has a NIMBY clause written into it, where municipalities can decide if they want weed stores or not. The town I live in has no weed stores because the town’s government has rejected weed stores. The nearest weed store is the next town over, about eight miles.
My favorite is the Aspen versus Vail thing where Aspen clearly wins. Aspen has weed stores, Vail does not.
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. Traveled through Mich. a time or three when I was a kid. Every town had different liquor laws. Shut down for any booze in one town, just traveled 10 minutes to the next and you could drink in the bar and get package too.
re: #16 plansbandc
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. Traveled through Mich. a time or three when I was a kid. Every town had different liquor laws. Shut down for any booze in one town, just traveled 10 minutes to the next and you could drink in the bar and get package too.
And die in a car full of kids on the way, like my friend’s 14 year old daughter.
re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t know how I could get through the trump years without you guys—and weed.
Can’t smoke or drink. But there is a vice I cannot resist!
OMG
Diana Ross is celebrating her 75th birthday with a performance at the #GRAMMYs 👑😍🎶 pic.twitter.com/xQeiFMpx1L
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) February 11, 2019
We tried the weed delivery service out of Oakland. It was excellent quality for the price (including taxes) and delivered in 20 minutes.
re: #16 plansbandc
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. Traveled through Mich. a time or three when I was a kid. Every town had different liquor laws. Shut down for any booze in one town, just traveled 10 minutes to the next and you could drink in the bar and get package too.
When I was a kid in Abilene, TX, the city was dry. The road I lived on led to a small town, Impact, completely inside the city. There was a liquor store there, that everyone went to. It made it hard to play in the street.
Outside of Rockwall, there’s a little town called Mobile City, that consists of a liquor store and a trailer park. It exists because, up until about 10 or so years ago, Rockwall was dry. It’s still the only place in the area you can buy hard liquor.
re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹
Two girl scouts were in the lodge at the ski area yesterday, made a killing.
re: #20 Single-handed sailor
We tried the weed delivery service out of Oakland. It was excellent quality for the price (including taxes) and delivered in 20 minutes.
That sounds so good!
re: #20 Single-handed sailor
We tried the weed delivery service out of Oakland. It was excellent quality for the price (including taxes) and delivered in 20 minutes.
So, call them and Domino’s at the same time, and the pizza should arrive just in time.
re: #20 Single-handed sailor
We tried the weed delivery service out of Oakland. It was excellent quality for the price (including taxes) and delivered in 20 minutes.
There’s none of that in the mountains that I know of. But there’s all kinds of weed delivery services up and down the Front Range corridor.
re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹
Can’t smoke or drink. But there is a vice I cannot resist!
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re: #21 Belafon
My dude tells the story of his motorcycling days through dry towns in Texas and Oklahoma. Crazy. And not that long ago.
I cannot smoke anything anymore, but I do enjoy edibles. Some day they well be legal here and that will be a great day.
re: #27 plansbandc
My dude tells the story of his motorcycling days through dry towns in Texas and Oklahoma. Crazy. And not that long ago.
There are still dry counties in the United States.
re: #24 Blind Frog Belly White
So, call them and Domino’s at the same time, and the pizza should arrive just in time.
You live in the bay area and eat Domino’s? Eeeeew.
re: #21 Belafon
When I was a kid in Abilene, TX, the city was dry. The road I lived on led to a small town, Impact, completely inside the city. There was a liquor store there, that everyone went to. It made it hard to play in the street.
Outside of Rockwall, there’s a little town called Mobile City, that consists of a liquor store and a trailer park. It exists because, up until about 10 or so years ago, Rockwall was dry. It’s still the only place in the area you can buy hard liquor.
The Austin Lounge Lizards - A Hundred Miles of Dry
re: #29 teleskiguy
There are still dry counties in the United States.
My mom lives in a dry town here in PA. No bars in town, but there is a beer distributor. And right outside the town limits is a cafe/bar with a good Friday fish platter.
re: #28 plansbandc
It hasn’t happened yet, but the inevitability is afoot… tubs of cannabis butter. I’ve seen tubs of cannabis butter. And you can make it mellow (Michelob Ultra) or heavy (shots of tequila).
re: #20 Single-handed sailor
We tried the weed delivery service out of Oakland. It was excellent quality for the price (including taxes) and delivered in 20 minutes.
re: #33 teleskiguy
The plan is to make enhanced herb butter and put it in and on everything. Dude and I will be much happier and far more well adjusted.
re: #30 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
You live in the bay area and eat Domino’s? Eeeeew.
“Jesus, Tom Cinnabar! I was only speculatin’ about a hypothesis!”
re: #29 teleskiguy
There are still dry counties in the United States.
Including the county that the Jack Daniel’s distillery is in…
We still have those Puritan roots fucking up society.
re: #18 Joe Bacon 🌹
My daughter is shipping me some in a few days.
GS cookies, that is. Weed would get both of us arrested and in the slammer.
Officially, weed is illegal in China. It’s classified as a narcotic, IIRC. But that doesn’t stop people from growing and using it.
re: #40 carey94tt
Latest addition to the family. Meet Martin
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The cuteness quotient is off the scale.
That now makes 5 dogs, 3 horses, 2 donkeys (miniature) and 2 birds.
Yep. You used up your full amount of cuteness right there!
re: #37 TedStriker
Including the county that the Jack Daniel’s distillery is in…
Texas wins the patchwork of bullshit liquor laws.
I see “The Expanse” series has made it to Prime…
re: #40 carey94tt
Latest addition to the family. Meet Martin
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The cuteness quotient is off the scale.
That now makes 5 dogs, 3 horses, 2 donkeys (miniature) and 2 birds.
Judging by the size of those paws, Big Boy potential is pretty high.
Happy New Puppy Day!
re: #40 carey94tt
Bernese Mountain Dog! Good lookin’ dogs, and a pretty laid-back even temperament with proper training.
re: #46 teleskiguy
Bernese Mountain Dog! Good lookin’ dogs, and a pretty laid-back even temperament with proper training.
Oh, man, my friend in LA has got a pair, Olive (95 pounds) and Gus (135 pounds). Wonderful dogs.
re: #45 makeitstop
We’ve had a Bernese before…best big dog ever. They love to sit on your feet.
re: #42 BlueGrl21
Texas wins the patchwork of bullshit liquor laws.
I find it funny that they mentioned Jones county. Some personal and Texas history. Jones county is north of Taylor County, where Abilene is located. Inside Jones county is the town of Anson. Anson Jones was the name of my elementary school, which was also the name of the last President of the Republic of Texas.
And this concludes this episode of Connections.
re: #47 makeitstop
Oh, man, my friend in LA has got a pair, Olive (95 pounds) and Gus (135 pounds). Wonderful dogs.
I have friends in Pennsylvania who always have a pair. When they lose the old one, they get a new puppy. Good guard dogs as well.
re: #47 makeitstop
Oh, man, my friend in LA has got a pair, Olive (95 pounds) and Gus (135 pounds). Wonderful dogs.
I worked for a boutique ski shop (I’m leaving the name of the shop nameless) in the Vail/Beaver Creek area for five years, and the owners have had Bernese Mountain Dogs hang out at their flagship store in Vail for decades. They never have to be on a leash, ever.
Not terribly interested in weed. Don’t care if other people partake, though. And as I get older, there’s always the possibility of medical use, so there’s that.
My preferred mind-altering drug is a glass of wine. Or a mixed drink once in a while.
I’m boring. ;)
re: #29 teleskiguy
Not only dry counties but dry municipalities as well. Back in Pennsylvania there are a chunk of counties that are dry but lots of boroughs/villages/townships that are dry.
When I moved to California and lived at my Grandmothers home in South Gate, the city did not allow taverns to sell wine or hard liquor. They could only serve beer.
re: #53 calochortus
Not terribly interested in weed. Don’t care if other people partake, though. And as I get older, there’s always the possibility of medical use, so there’s that.
My preferred mind-altering drug is a glass of wine. Or a mixed drink once in a while.
I’m boring. ;)
I haven’t smoked weed since 1985 — scratch that, I had some while visiting my son in Denver a couple of years ago. When I was younger, I didn’t give much thought about the effects of smoking on my lungs. Now, almost 35 years later, I take it into consideration. I haven’t tried edibles in ages.
re: #53 calochortus
Not terribly interested in weed. Don’t care if other people partake, though. And as I get older, there’s always the possibility of medical use, so there’s that.
My preferred mind-altering drug is a glass of wine. Or a mixed drink once in a while.
I’m boring. ;)
I’m all about the PCP/ketamine/nitrous oxide combination. Talk about *twisted*!!!
re: #13 The Vicious Babushka
Weed is legal in Michigan but every little bumfuck backwater (like the “suburb of Detroit” that I live in) has its own NIMBY laws.
My city (Mesa) won’t allow any dispensaries in the city. However, there are a number of county islands in the city, originally set up so the retirement communities wouldn’t have to pay city or school taxes. It turns out some of these county islands have developed corners with tiny shopping centers and office complexes. I still remember my surprise when the first dispensary went in, I couldn’t figure out how it was done until I whipped out a map and figured out it was a corner in a county island.
re: #54 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not only dry counties but dry municipalities as well. Back in Pennsylvania there are a chunk of counties that are dry but lots of boroughs/villages/townships that are dry.
When I moved to California and lived at my Grandmothers home in South Gate, the city did not allow taverns to sell wine or hard liquor. They could only serve beer.
In Washington, “tavern” is a technical term—they can only sell beer or wine. Only a “cocktail lounge” can serve hard liquor.
re: #53 calochortus
Not terribly interested in weed. Don’t care if other people partake, though. And as I get older, there’s always the possibility of medical use, so there’s that.
My preferred mind-altering drug is a glass of wine. Or a mixed drink once in a while.
I’m boring. ;)
Hah! I am truly boring: no alcohol, no tobacco (ever), no drugs ever (except the standard OTC or prescription), no weed. My “drug” of choice is caffeine.
re: #59 Hecuba’s daughter
Hah! I am truly boring: no alcohol, no tobacco (ever), no drugs ever (except the standard OTC or prescription), no weed. My “drug” of choice is caffeine.
You win!
re: #58 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
In Washington, “tavern” is a technical term—they can only sell beer or wine. Only a “cocktail lounge” can serve hard liquor.
If we want to get serious about selling alcohol then we need to simplify the language in the laws. We’ve already done it in real life. It’s called the *bar*. A place where you can buy alcoholic beverages.
re: #54 Joe Bacon 🌹
Not only dry counties but dry municipalities as well. Back in Pennsylvania there are a chunk of counties that are dry but lots of boroughs/villages/townships that are dry.
When I moved to California and lived at my Grandmothers home in South Gate, the city did not allow taverns to sell wine or hard liquor. They could only serve beer.
My stepson and his wife live in a wet city in a dry county in KY. I didn’t realize it until I saw the wet-dry map I just posted.
In China, there are no apparent restrictions on what liquor you can buy where. Age restrictions are loosely enforced, so it’s no big deal for 15-year-olds to buy and drink beer (it’s pretty weak here, anyway) but unlike American teens, they don’t feel compelled to party and get trashed on the weekends — even if they could. There is also a sharp delineation by gender here. More men typically drink beer and hard liquor (baijiu, for the most part) than women do. Wine is becoming more fashionable, OTOH, so it’s common to see both men and women partake at dinner parties. Bars, in the American sense, used to be uncommon, but since I’ve been here have become more prevalent.
re: #63 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The biggest problem here with teens and alcohol is most of America still requires a car to get around. Even my modest sized 40K suburb requires a car to just go to the store.
re: #64 Belafon
The biggest problem here with teens and alcohol is most of America still requires a car to get around. Even my modest sized 40K suburb requires a car to just go to the store.
That and the need to binge and get drunk rather than just enjoying a drink. Binge drinking on the weekends is apparently a much more common thing than when I was young, back in the Dark Ages.
re: #66 calochortus
That and the need to binge and get drunk rather than just enjoying a drink. Binge drinking on the weekends is apparently a much more common thing than when I was young, back in the Dark Ages.
It seems to been elevated to a kind of sport — who can get trashed the quickest. Alcohol poisoning cases are much more of a problem now than when I was in college, when the drinking age was still 18.
In other news, artist/photographer Nan Goldin led a “die-in” at the Guggenheim Museum and led a march to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday. The protest was over these institutions taking money from the Sackler family, which gave us Oxycontin and the opioid epidemic.
Here’s a video. I watched it all the way to the end, to the testimony of a heartbroken mom who lost her son to opioid overdose.
This almost five year old Instagram post of mine is kind of neat. Taken at the first ski area I ever skied at, out of bounds.
55 Beaver Creek
re: #70 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
New Data: Ultima Thule Surprisingly Flat
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Now that is very interesting seeing the nonsperical structure! Opens up a whole new set of questions as to how it formed!
re: #72 piratedan
accretion perhaps?
Maybe like some of Saturn’s ravioli moons. Scott Manley discusses it here:
re: #66 calochortus
That and the need to binge and get drunk rather than just enjoying a drink. Binge drinking on the weekends is apparently a much more common thing than when I was young, back in the Dark Ages.
I blame that on us turning alcohol into something special, something all-powerful, and something we must restrict. At that point, we’ve made it into something some people must have as a rite of passage, rather than something parents should teach their kids about.
re: #71 Joe Bacon 🌹
Now that is very interesting seeing the nonsperical structure! Opens up a whole new set of questions as to how it formed!
Two accretion discs with a combined spin center? They could have slowly orbited each other until they finally connected and fused (or at least formed a gravitic bond).
Not so hard to imagine, although two bodies matching speed and orbits is freakishly unlikely.
And yet, in the fullness of time, it has to be the only reasonable explanation.
Science!
AP Investigation: Half a dozen people in five different countries have been pursued by undercover operatives. What the six targets have in common: All have written about, researched, or sued the same Israeli spyware company. https://t.co/hs8zal9tD8
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 11, 2019
re: #75 austin_blue
Kind of like a the birth of a booger on a particularly bad pollen day, right??
Oh! A late nite Shit show…..
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I’m sure all will agree to support whomever the dem nominee is
Whether it is -
warren
sanders
Brown
klobuchar
Harris -
Or any other
Wouldn’t these folks agree ?
MrDane1982, Bravewriting, NotCapnAmerica, SallyAlbright, Patrickesque, NeeraTanden, CandiceAiston.
Be honest -— John Cusack (@johncusack) February 11, 2019
re: #1 Barefoot Grin
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Is that part of why Stevie fired him from the Mac again, or is that just coincidence?
Also, on another subject:
OT1H, defs @SenAmyKlobuchar. OTOH, this is literally what got @real_WHHarrison killed, even if medicine IS better 180 years later. We don’t need you taking unnecessary risks yet!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 11, 2019
re: #78 Dave In Austin
Oh! A late nite Shit show…..
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Too bad the Bernie Bros are trying to throw another election: they are just as fanatic and delusional as in 2016. I continue being concerned that with potentially 20 candidates running, the one with the most fanatic followers can win. And if these followers fail to get their candidate nominated, as they should, they will throw a fit and denounce the winner as a “corporatist stooge”.
— Cat 🍩🥀🍩 (@BeatlesCat) February 11, 2019
Vestibule?????? WTF??
oh my god pic.twitter.com/41cPFUqcbE
— i bless the rains down in Castamere (@Chinchillazllla) February 10, 2019
re: #24 Blind Frog Belly White
So, call them and Domino’s at the same time, and the pizza should arrive just in time.
Yeah, or just ask the deliveryman, he probably has some to sell…
re: #53 calochortus
Not terribly interested in weed. Don’t care if other people partake, though. And as I get older, there’s always the possibility of medical use, so there’s that.
My preferred mind-altering drug is a glass of wine. Or a mixed drink once in a while.
I’m boring. ;)
Weed used to be my drug of choice, but lately, If I smoke enough to move the needle at all, I wind up in a state of existential catatonia and often get a racing heart that makes me think I am on the verge of a seizure. Really kinda of dampens the enjoyment.
re: #79 Chrysicat
Is that part of why Stevie fired him from the Mac again, or is that just coincidence?
Also, on another subject:
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I did read that he sued based in part on his claim that he was fully fit to perform.
This seems to be a kinda Yelp for weed. Weedmaps
re: #82 Dave In Austin
Vestibule is a new one on me, but this Paul dude needs to STFU.
re: #89 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Vestibule is a new one on me, but this Paul dude needs to STFU.
I’m not an Ob/Gyn, but even I know the proper names for most if not all the female bits. And male bits too (and no, I’m not an Andrologist either).
One part of me is saying, “let the poor sod whip his ignorance out in public”, one part is embarrassed, and one part wonders if this is a part of a concerted effort to redefine reality.
re: #16 plansbandc
Somehow that doesn’t surprise me. Traveled through Mich. a time or three when I was a kid. Every town had different liquor laws. Shut down for any booze in one town, just traveled 10 minutes to the next and you could drink in the bar and get package too.
Good way to encourage drinking and driving. My town recently advanced civilization, defeating the Southern Baptists and finally allowed Sunday liquor sales. However Kentucky still won’t even legalize medical marijuana.
re: #82 Dave In Austin
Vestibule?????? WTF??
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That dude has been fighting a losing battle for 14 hours straight.
Just keep digging Paul.
Never stop digging.— Franklygoddamn (@goddamnedfrank) February 11, 2019
re: #49 Belafon
I find it funny that they mentioned Jones county. Some personal and Texas history. Jones county is north of Taylor County, where Abilene is located. Inside Jones county is the town of Anson. Anson Jones was the name of my elementary school, which was also the name of the last President of the Republic of Texas.
And this concludes this episode of Connections.
At least he was only a one-time traitor (to Mexico) if only because he didn’t live to 1861. Has there been any discussion about taking the Texian Rebels’ names off any of the things named for them, or am I very lucky that I’m not physically in the state, because the very act of suggesting it would still get me shot?
The best thing about @paulbullen mansplaining vaginas to gynaecologist @DrJenGunter is that, for all Paul’s self-proclaimed expertise, he spelled “certificate in editing” wrong on his bio @rebeccawatson pic.twitter.com/G7gZxeceZz
— Philippa 🏳️🌈 (@incurablehippie) February 10, 2019
re: #68 mmmirele
In other news, artist/photographer Nan Goldin led a “die-in” at the Guggenheim Museum and led a march to the Metropolitan Museum yesterday. The protest was over these institutions taking money from the Sackler family, which gave us Oxycontin and the opioid epidemic.
Here’s a video. I watched it all the way to the end, to the testimony of a heartbroken mom who lost her son to opioid overdose.
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The Sackler’s should be in prison, but with their money we’ll be lucky if they even get fined. Maybe they can get a class action suit to take all their blood money.
re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter
Too bad the Bernie Bros are trying to throw another election: they are just as fanatic and delusional as in 2016. I continue being concerned that with potentially 20 candidates running, the one with the most fanatic followers can win. And if these followers fail to get their candidate nominated, as they should, they will throw a fit and denounce the winner as a “corporatist stooge”.
Crossing my fingers and hoping that Bernie decides not to run for some reason.
re: #93 Chrysicat
At least he was only a one-time traitor (to Mexico) if only because he didn’t live to 1861. Has there been any discussion about taking the Texian Rebels’ names off any of the things named for them, or am I very lucky that I’m not physically in the state, because the very act of suggesting it would still get me shot?
And in hindsight, he’s still a lot less of a traitor than the ones who lasted to vote to secede from the US, because the country they’d pledged their loyalty to had already died when Santa Anna made himself dictator. That would be the type of “treason” we’d be looking at if heaven forbid Trump’s sidelining of Congress were upheld and THEN California and the other cannabis states pulled out.
We’ve slipped through the net people! He’s mansplaining mansplaining! 🤣
— Emma Jones (@fussytarts) February 11, 2019
re: #94 goddamnedfrank
I’ve found that people who insist on listing their academic credentials in their Twitter profile are either insufferably pedantic or are compensating for intellectual weaknesses. I mean, I have a degree from an Ivy League university, but the only time I even mention it is when I am applying for a job. I figure one proves his qualification in something by words and deeds, not by listing some abbreviations after his name.
re: #91 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Good way to encourage drinking and driving. My town recently advanced civilization, defeating the Southern Baptists and finally allowed Sunday liquor sales. However Kentucky still won’t even legalize medical marijuana.
I recall growing up in Indiana when the drinking age was 21 but 18 in neighboring Michigan, so yes, we were encouraged to drive the 30 miles into Michigan to drink.
Then we turned 19 and only had to drive 20 miles to get to Illinois, where the age was 19 for beer and wine.
I recall driving home with one eye closed because I was seeing double, and I was the most sober one of the bunch, the rest were half passed-out or puking.
This photo is right up there with photos from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
This stark photo taken this week in Knoxville tells a very different story about the economy pic.twitter.com/6Byw6LZljH
— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) February 10, 2019
Thailand has settled their constitutional crisis, it seems. The princess cannot run for prime minister.
Breaking: Thai princess Ubolratana disqualified from list of candidates for PM: Election Commission —@AFP
— Jerome Taylor (@JeromeTaylor) February 11, 2019
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall growing up in Indiana when the drinking age was 21 but 18 in neighboring Michigan, so yes, we were encouraged to drive the 30 miles into Michigan to drink.
Then we turned 19 and only had to drive 20 miles to get to Illinois, where the age was 19 for beer and wine.
I recall driving home with one eye closed because I was seeing double, and I was the most sober one of the bunch, the rest were half passed-out or puking.
Yeah, Champaign was 19 and just across Wright St. in Urbana it was 18.
Meanwhile, in the latest Brexit news, leading British politicians have their heads so far up their asses they can probably see out of their navels.
re: #106 Dr Lizardo
It will be interesting to see how that mess ends. I was hoping that May would hold another referendum but that doesn’t appear to be in the cards.
re: #107 Patricia Kayden
The mess will continue - it will not end.
Slowly the mess will decay… what will be left will be left.
This giant gold ring was dropped by a giant Viking in Essex
Maybe they should stick it in a fire and see if writing appears on it.
re: #109 freetoken
This giant gold ring was dropped by a giant Viking in Essex
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Maybe they should stick it in a fire and see if writing appears on it.
I’m sure they”ll find it belonged to Olaf Bigfingers…
Three minutes after Morning Joe reports that the president spends all his time watching cable news, Trump denies it.
— John Vreeland (@JohnMVreeland) February 11, 2019
re: #113 John Vreeland
If the news media were really controlled by the Deep State, they’d be using it to manipulate Trump into doing things he wouldn’t normally do.
re: #103 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This photo is right up there with photos from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
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Trump’s miracle economy y’all.
re: #113 John Vreeland
Three minutes after Morning Joe reports that the president spends all his time watching cable news, Trump denies it.
I didn’t do it and stop talking about my mother!
(Bill Cosby is a jerk but he had some awesome comedy routines back in the day)
re: #113 John Vreeland
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The mess he inherited? The people that believe him are fucking morons.
Orwell would be so proud
“Fact checkers have become Fake News.” @JesseBWatters So True!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2019
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Orwell would be so proud
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He would say “1984 was not a fucking operator’s manual, you twits!”
re: #35 plansbandc
The plan is to make enhanced herb butter and put it in and on everything. Dude and I will be much happier and far more well adjusted.
Reminds of a few years ago when we visited neighbors for a dinner with strong White Sangria. My wife loved the fruit, that had been soaked in some alcohol, so they gave her a bag of leftover fruit.
The next morning, I was running a disc golf tournament at my home. At about 8:30 am she came out told me she was tipsy because the fruit still had alcohol in it and she had eaten it for breakfast.
I told her to go inside and eat some food. She did. She ate the fried eggs I had not finished that morning, made with strong cannabutter.
She was tipsy and high before10 am without intending any of it.
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re: #117 Eventual Carrion
The mess he inherited? The people that believe him are fucking morons.
I can’t help but to notice he’s always the “hardest working”, he always always has the hyperbolic bullshit. Always.
Me thinks someone’s not having a Smiley Faced Monday. Than make me Happy.
re: #123 Dave In Austin
Me thinks someone’s not having a Smiley Faced Monday. Than make me Happy.
Yeah I guess the high of the 50% bs poll from Rass faded off quickly. He’s a fucking needy bastard who needs FNC to tell him how great he is and how he’s better than George Washingotn, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald McDonald combined.
re: #82 Dave In Austin
Vestibule?????? WTF??
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The WTF part should actually be the guy trying to mansplain to a woman that she is wrong about the use of “vulva” and that “vagina” can and should be used instead. LOL.
I taught my daughters “vulva.”
re: #77 Dave In Austin
Kind of like a the birth of a booger on a particularly bad pollen day, right??
The sneezing season started yesterday for me. Kimberly Clark was happy with my mass purchase of Kleenex…
re: #122 HappyWarrior
I can’t help but to notice he’s always the “hardest working”, he always always has the hyperbolic bullshit. Always.
His whole campaign and presidency has been nothing but a WWE smack down brag fest. All fake and braggadocios.
re: #122 HappyWarrior
I can’t help but to notice he’s always the “hardest working”, he always always has the hyperbolic bullshit. Always.
Idiot even steals that from James Brown.
re: #127 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, but at least they are legitimately hard working, tough and skilled, even if the wrestling is a work.
re: #113 John Vreeland
He’s a five year old you watch stealing from the cookie jar.
re: #120 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Speaking of tipsy, I’m giving this Chinese whisky a try. I saw it in the supermarket today next to Ballantine’s. Ballantine’s was priced at 298 yuan for 500 ml ($44) while this one retails for almost a tenth of that. Surprisingly, it is actually not bad. 40% alcohol by volume, and it is bottled in Qingdao, which is famous for the Tsingtao brewery. I am drinking it neat, and not getting any bad aftertaste or throat burn.
The English brand name is a clumsy play on the Chinese brand name “zhen ai” = distinguished affection or “be inclined to be distinguished.”
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Trump’s lying his ass off on Twitter this morning in a series of ranting tweets.
He’s lying about the wall, Democrats, the media, and his enemies generally.
He’s doing what he always does. He also projects like IMAX - claiming others are breaking the laws that he’s actually broken. When he talks about illegals, he doesn’t want people to remember that Trump’s golf resorts repeatedly hired undocumented workers and paid them wages far below what they should be paid given what they were being asked to do - and without benefits.
Trump businesses profit - which means Trump profited directly from the hiring of undocumented workers. This was a pervasive and ongoing issue until journalists started prodding the golf resorts and they started firing people.
Trump doesn’t mind illegals when he’s hiring them to maximize his profits. He just doesn’t want the competition, and is pandering to the white nationalist base concurrently.
It’s what he does.
re: #133 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Speaking of tipsy, I’m giving this Chinese whisky a try. I saw it in the supermarket today next to Ballantine’s. Ballantine’s was priced at 298 yuan for 500 ml ($44) while this one retails for almost a tenth of that. Surprisingly, it is actually not bad. 40% alcohol by volume, and it is bottled in Qingdao, which is famous for the Tsingtao brewery. I am drinking it neat, and not getting any bad aftertaste or throat burn.
The English brand name is a clumsy play on the Chinese brand name “zhen ai” = distinguished affection or “be inclined to be distinguished.”
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Everything alcoholic I drank in China in 2008 burned my throat. Everything.
So, last night were the BAFTAs in jolly ol’ Brexit-ridden UK. It was a celebration at Royal Albert Hall, and all the big names were there to celebrate the visual arts. Normally I don’t pay too much attention to awards shows… but this year was different.
Mom in law is good friends with the family of one of the screenwriters of the Spike Lee joint - BlacKkKlansman. They won for best adapted screenplay, and we’re over the moon for his achievement (Charlie Wachtel). We got to see a bunch of photos from the awards show with him rubbing shoulders (literally/figuratively) with all manner of entertainers and the Royals themselves.
re: #136 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)
Everything alcoholic I drank in China in 2008 burned my throat. Everything.
Liquor has come a long way in 10 years here. Red wine was hard to come by, other than the domestic brands (which are not bad, in fact). Now, imported wines are everywhere. I can pick up a decent label from Stellenbosch in South Africa called Two Oceans for about $10 at a local grocery. I had a Spanish red for dinner, and it was only $5. Nothing wonderful, but drinkable, like the French vin ordinaire.
Some pretty cool ideas on display here.
Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be amazed by the incredible product design magic show.pic.twitter.com/VyDfiJzgOE
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) February 11, 2019
Congress is trying to keep the shop open, at least.
Key lawmakers plan to meet Monday afternoon in a late-stage bid to avert a government shutdown, trying to revive talks that derailed over the weekend amid a dispute on immigration enforcement rules.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will attend the meeting, two congressional aides said.
Lawmakers had hoped to reach an agreement by midday Monday, a timeline they thought was sufficient to win House and Senate approval this week. But talks broke down over the weekend, leading to acrimonious finger-pointing and angry outbursts from President Trump.
To avert a partial shutdown set to begin Saturday, the House and Senate must pass identical spending bills that Trump would then need to sign into law.
re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth
Orwell would be so proud
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But he’s totally not watching TV.
re: #141 Mike Lamb
But he’s totally not watching TV.
Pretty they have cable there. Heaven probably has satellite, if he’s up there. //
re: #103 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This photo is right up there with photos from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
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Just makes ya be proud to be Merikan. USAUSA USA
Heh
Harvey Peblo, the boy wizard who is a thinly-veiled mouthpiece for the author’s political views pic.twitter.com/2HeuSYdLUq
— who pixelates the boatmen? (@pixelatedboat) February 10, 2019
re: #82 Dave In Austin
Vestibule?????? WTF??
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I love Dr. Jennifer Gunter. She does an excellent job explaining gyn problems. Often recommend her to patients.
re: #140 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Congress is trying to keep the shop open, at least.
If Congress wants to keep the shop open, they can pass a continuing resolution with a veto-proof majority and stop holding federal employees hostage in their dispute.
Yes, I’m feeling grumpy this morning. As usual for the last two years.
re: #142 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Pretty they have cable there. Heaven probably has satellite, if he’s up there. //
And hell surely has (an unending stream of infomercials).
re: #145 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This could be either really very good, or plain horrible.
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Though I am getting a real Bollywood feel from it, since Naomi Scott (Jasmine) is half-Indian.
I hope Will Smith makes his own character, and not a copy of Robin Williams’.
re: #149 Sea Mexican
I hope Will Smith makes his own character, and not a copy of Robin Williams’.
Depends on how much freedom Disney gave him.
I can’t wait for the live action Steamboat Willy.
re: #145 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This could be either really very good, or plain horrible.
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Though I am getting a real Bollywood feel from it, since Naomi Scott (Jasmine) is half-Indian.
I am expecting horrific though that bit about the Jasmine casting is a plus.
re: #151 Belafon
I can’t wait for the live action Steamboat Willy.
Five more years and any of us can make that one!
re: #154 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Starring Scarlett Johansson
Though Tilda Swinton as the antagonist will make it worthwhile.
re: #152 William Lewis
I am expecting horrific though that bit about the Jasmine casting is a plus.
The other actors at least have some vague connection to Arab culture.
re: #149 Sea Mexican
I hope Will Smith makes his own character, and not a copy of Robin Williams’.
He said he played it as an “homage” to Williams, but not I assume an imitation.
Woof. I was off twitter for the weekend. Had to go through and bock a ton of RWNJ and gun nuts. Ya’ll are crazy and need help. Seriously. Go talk to a therapist why you think you need your penile enhancement so badly. Normal men don’t need a gun to feel adequate.
— CongoJack (@Capt_CongoJack) February 11, 2019
El Paso’s GOP Mayor Dee Margo just told us President was “wrong” when he claimed El Paso one of America’s most dangerous cities before border barrier. CNN fact-checked this after SOTU. Data shows crime fell long before construction, flat after installation. pic.twitter.com/DPAJBkAWol
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 11, 2019
re: #133 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
I want to be The GENTGUY too.
I am so happy that young people can appreciate classical music!
Seriously, though, this old-timer learned a lot from this video. Sina is from Germany, and as she says in the video, her dad was in a Beatles tribute band. The backing tracks are his band, not the actual Beatles. Stick around to the end of the video, and you’ll see several teenagers covering Beatles tracks recorded when their grandparents were still young and foolish.
re: #145 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This could be either really very good, or plain horrible.
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Though I am getting a real Bollywood feel from it, since Naomi Scott (Jasmine) is half-Indian.
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 11, 2019
re: #30 A hollow voice says, Covfefe.
You live in the bay area and eat Domino’s? Eeeeew.
hey, domino’s is 8 dollar pizza, anywhere in the country. sometimes that’s all you need.
re: #161 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Sina will be 20 this year, judging from her bio page.
re: #40 carey94tt
Latest addition to the family. Meet Martin
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The cuteness quotient is off the scale.
That now makes 5 dogs, 3 horses, 2 donkeys (miniature) and 2 birds.
i love animals with people names. Martin is going to become an accountant.
Will be heading to El Paso very soon. Big speech on Border Security and much else tonight. Tremendous crowd! See you later!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 11, 2019
there will be a tremendous crowd, but it won’t be for him
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
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there will be a tremendous crowd, but it won’t be for him
Exactly. They will be at the “much else tonight.”
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
there will be a tremendous crowd, but it won’t be for him
“Listen to all of those people outside chanting my name! They’re all here for me!”
re: #134 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Trump’s lying his ass off on Twitter this morning in a series of ranting tweets.
He’s lying about the wall, Democrats, the media, and his enemies generally.
He’s doing what he always does. He also projects like IMAX - claiming others are breaking the laws that he’s actually broken. When he talks about illegals, he doesn’t want people to remember that Trump’s golf resorts repeatedly hired undocumented workers and paid them wages far below what they should be paid given what they were being asked to do - and without benefits.
Trump businesses profit - which means Trump profited directly from the hiring of undocumented workers. This was a pervasive and ongoing issue until journalists started prodding the golf resorts and they started firing people.
Trump doesn’t mind illegals when he’s hiring them to maximize his profits. He just doesn’t want the competition, and is pandering to the white nationalist base concurrently.
It’s what he does.
more than that
five disparate entities all with the same ‘problem’ all owned and managed by the same guy / org?
they more than ‘knew’. whether they set the scheme up themselves or not, they did it consciously. premeditated.
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
Going to one of the safest cities in the nation to rail that crime is out of control and that we need a wall.
El Paso crime rates dropped before the wall section was built there, and it leveled off after - showing that there’s no relationship between building a wall and crime.
Given most drugs are coming via ports of entry, the wall will have no effect.
Given most here illegally are on overstay visas, the wall will have no effect.
Trump keeps pushing a wall that a majority of the nation doesn’t want, and that support for the wall is strongest the furthest you are from an actual border.
re: #168 Belafon
“Listen to all of those people outside chanting my name! They’re all here for me!”
The sounds of billions of people calling your name…
re: #103 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
This photo is right up there with photos from the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.
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But, but, but…the economy is stronger than ever under Trump!
Why, there are job, jobs and more jobs.
So everyone, work two or three. You might make enough to just get by.
What, you want to get more than just get by, you want to get ahead or get over???
Not in Republican Trickle Down Land.
Now down on your knees and take what we give you…
re: #48 carey94tt
We’ve had a Bernese before…best big dog ever. They love to sit on your feet.
the folks next door at my last place had a part sheep dog/part bad drunken decision who was a lovely gal. And she also loved to stand on people feet and lean in for a dog hug. I always felt like she had me trapped and was going to try to sell me insurance.
Spreading E.Coli to own teh libz:
Fox News host says he hasn’t washed his hands in 10 years because germs are not real https://t.co/AQxzMvCqtZ pic.twitter.com/AFTnJirUa1
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) February 11, 2019
re: #174 Interesting Times
Spreading E.Coli to own teh libz:
Based on the source, he probably washes his hand every commercial break.
Newspaper drops syndicated comic strip after cartoon’s hidden “go f-ck yourself” to Trump https://t.co/3Oyh5gbu25 pic.twitter.com/7W59YesCNd
— The Hill (@thehill) February 11, 2019
The cartoon is Non Sequitur. The artist is Wiley Miller. The easter egg quip is Go Fuck Yourself Trump.
The full cartoon is here.
re: #170 lawhawk
Going to one of the safest cities in the nation to rail that crime is out of control and that we need a wall.
El Paso crime rates dropped before the wall section was built there, and it leveled off after - showing that there’s no relationship between building a wall and crime.
Given most drugs are coming via ports of entry, the wall will have no effect.
Given most here illegally are on overstay visas, the wall will have no effect.
Trump keeps pushing a wall that a majority of the nation doesn’t want, and that support for the wall is strongest the furthest you are from an actual border.
Trump’s hostility is toward people of color from south of our border; he doesn’t care about Europeans or Asians overstaying their visas.
re: #174 Interesting Times
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Well, I’d be wiling to bet he showers at least daily.
So, that makes him just another liar.
Unless he can demonstrate how he bathes without washing his hands
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump’s hostility is toward people of color from south of our border; he doesn’t care about Europeans or Asians overstaying their visas.
Although Miller might have problems with Asians….
re: #174 Interesting Times
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This explains a lot about Fox and Friends.
re: #173 steve_davis
Friend had two massive pit/boxer mixes. They showed their affection by sitting on your feet and leaning in. One of them mooed when he was happy.
Loved those big galoots.
re: #171 sagehen
The sounds of billions of people calling your name…
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How will this end?
“Is America Ready for a Single President?” The better question: is America ready for a homosexual president? If Cory Booker turns out to be gay, he is disqualified. Cannot have a man who engages in sexually deviant behavior in the White House. https://t.co/mIr90MDZTg @politicomag
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) February 10, 2019
re: #183 CongoJack
“Is America Ready for a Single President?” The better question: is America ready for a homosexual president? If Cory Booker turns out to be gay, he is disqualified. Cannot have a man who engages in sexually deviant behavior in the White House.
It is true that he will be automatically disqualified in the minds of millions of American voters.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is true that he will be automatically disqualified in the minds of millions of American voters.
The D will be a bigger issue.
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It is true that he will be automatically disqualified in the minds of millions of American voters.
True. Not sure it would matter electorally though - seeing as how even a fair number of the more moderate republican voters don’t mind homosexuality anymore I’m fairly sure none but a rounding error who would mind have voted blue in over fifty years now.
re: #186 Belafon
The D will be a bigger issue.
You say it as if those kinds of issues don’t simply compound on top of one another, sad as that is..
re: #183 CongoJack
So, serial adulterer Trump is adulated by the right wing yahoos and religious con artists like yourself, but Booker, is sexually deviant based on rumor & innuendo?
He leads a more righteous life than you - because his actions have benefited people. Yours benefit only yourself.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 11, 2019
re: #179 gwangung
Although Miller might have problems with Asians….
Trump certainly doesn’t — that was one area of disagreement with Bannon:
From washingtonpost.com:
— During their conversations, there were some moments on-air when Trump and Bannon disagreed. Though not many.
Last November, for instance, Trump said he was concerned that foreign students attending Ivy League schools have to return home because of U.S. immigration laws.
“We have to be careful of that, Steve. You know, we have to keep our talented people in this country,” Trump said. He paused. Bannon said, “Um.”
“I think you agree with that,” Trump said. “Do you agree with that?”—
re: #163 steve_davis
hey, domino’s is 8 dollar pizza, anywhere in the country. sometimes that’s all you need.
when i worked there, (and made the stuff) way way back when, it was $2.50 pizza
re: #188 Citizen K
You say it as if those kinds of issues don’t simply compound on top of one another, sad as that is..
The only reason I said that is that I doubt it will matter to Democrats, and to the Republicans that will be bothered, they already weren’t going to vote for the Democratic candidate.
I’m waiting for the news to come out that Bryan Fischer is gay. He sure spends more time thinking about gay men than, I think, even gay men do!
So how conservative is El Paso? Will Trump get a warm welcome there?
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
So how conservative is El Paso? Will Trump get a warm welcome there?
It’s Beto’s old district and his replacement was Latina lady Dem.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
So how conservative is El Paso? Will Trump get a warm welcome there?
Beto represented the district.
re: #192 Belafon
The only reason I said that is that I doubt it will matter to Democrats, and to the Republicans that will be bothered, they already weren’t going to vote for the Democratic candidate.
Agreed. Can’t see Booker being single as a deal breaker.
re: #193 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I’m waiting for the news to come out that Bryan Fischer is gay. He sure spends more time thinking about gay men than, I think, even gay men do!
I always laugh when I hear about the homosexual lifestyle.
re: #198 HappyWarrior
I always laugh when I hear about the homosexual lifestyle.
You mean the one where they get up, have breakfast, go to work, pick up the dry cleaning on the way home, etc.? Just like everyone else.
re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump’s hostility is toward people of color from south of our border; he doesn’t care about Europeans or Asians overstaying their visas.
the dems are not gonna just ‘give money for the wall’ right now
the r’s in the negotiations know this
as has been said here more than a few times, in general for any serious wall project, there will be planning, studies, feasibility, etc. we all know, not a chance
first, there would have to be direct questions and direct answers as to why a wall would be necessary (ie what exact and specific problems it would be addressing) and demonstrable proof that said wall would work to solve those specific problems.
and that discussion is never gonna happen
re: #174 Interesting Times
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re: #199 calochortus
You mean the one where they get up, have breakfast, go to work, pick up the dry cleaning on the way home, etc.? Just like everyone else.
Precisely.
re: #183 CongoJack
“Is America Ready for a Single President?” The better question: is America ready for a homosexual president? If Cory Booker turns out to be gay, he is disqualified. Cannot have a man who engages in sexually deviant behavior in the White House.
so bryan, you’re ok if he does it somewhere else?
or if it was a woman?
seriously though, you need to read your constitution
re: #188 Citizen K
You say it as if those kinds of issues don’t simply compound on top of one another, sad as that is..
Well thing is, no matter how deep the hatred runs they can still only not vote for him once. So since either will be a no-go anyway it doesn’t really matter.
Do I have to point out we’ve already had an unmarried president? Granted he didn’t do a great job, but we still had one. James Buchanan.
Bryan Fischer is an idiot.
People like him think God would rather have a child in an abusive home with opposite sex parents than a stable home with non-heterosexual parents. I can’t really say what God would want because I can’t speak for God but I don’t think he’d want a child in an abusive home in ANY circumstance.
I couldn’t care less if a President is single or straight or gay. What I care about is their ability to do the job and their character.
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
Psst. I think you meant “opposite sex parents” not “same sex” in your first sentence
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
Bryan Fischer is an idiot.
People like him think God would rather have a child in an abusive home with same sex parents than a stable home with non-heterosexual parents. I can’t really say what God would want because I can’t speak for God but I don’t think he’d want a child in an abusive home in ANY circumstance.
I couldn’t care less if a President is single or straight or gay. What I care about is their ability to do the job and their character.
What pisses me off is when religious orphanages claim it’s discriminatory to have laws that forbid refusing to let same sex couples adopt. Such bullshit.
re: #189 lawhawk
So, serial adulterer Trump is adulated by the right wing yahoos and religious con artists like yourself, but Booker, is sexually deviant based on rumor & innuendo?
He leads a more righteous life than you - because his actions have benefited people. Yours benefit only yourself.
lets go further, cause its more than that:
three times divorced
bears false witness
adulterer
philanderer
uses payoffs to silence
used bankruptcy laws and debt to con tenants and contractors out of their money
does not attend church
how can you support such a commandment abuser?
re: #26 Targetpractice
First you get the cookies, then you get the money, then you get the badges.
//
it eats the cookes in the tin, or else it gets the hose again.
re: #211 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
lets go further, cause its more than that:
three times divorced
bears false witness
adulterer
philanderer
uses payoffs to silence
used bankruptcy laws and debt to con tenants and contractors out of their money
does not attend churchhow can you support such a commandment abuser?
Easy to do if you hate the same people. And yeah I understand a lot of people think Trump isn’t personally homophobic like Pence is but he’s indifferent to LGBT discrimination. Same shit.
re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg
Bryan Fischer is an idiot.
People like him think God would rather have a child in an abusive home with same sex parents than a stable home with non-heterosexual parents. I can’t really say what God would want because I can’t speak for God but I don’t think he’d want a child in an abusive home in ANY circumstance.
I couldn’t care less if a President is single or straight or gay. What I care about is their ability to do the job and their character.
I’ll never know what god really wants because every time someone tries to tell me I lose my hearing.
re: #211 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
lets go further, cause its more than that:
three times divorced
bears false witness
adulterer
philanderer
uses payoffs to silence
used bankruptcy laws and debt to con tenants and contractors out of their money
does not attend churchhow can you support such a commandment abuser?
God uses flawed men. So there libtard!
re: #215 calochortus
God uses flawed men. So there libtard!
excellent. so we’re good with Corey then. Right?
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re: #216 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
excellent. so we’re good with Corey then. Right?
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Wrong flaw.
re: #209 calochortus
Psst. I think you meant “opposite sex parents” not “same sex” in your first sentence
I did. Good catch. Edited.
re: #182 Teukka
Every single B5 reference gets an automatic up-ding from me. Just sayin…
re: #217 calochortus
Wrong flaw.
Or party. TBH I don’t think Booker is gay. If he is, cool but I don’t think he is.
re: #194 Eclectic Cyborg
So how conservative is El Paso? Will Trump get a warm welcome there?
I would imagine the welcome could get very heated.
As I said last night, I hope there is no violence of any kind. I think we are at time now when any rally that is against Trump could be messed with by the crazies that Trump revs up. The fact that Beto and others are holding a counter-protest in the same city that Trump is holding a rally could get ugly.
I’ve had (and continue to have) long talks with God about homosexuality.
The fact is in, Jesus’ time, there was no such thing as a healthy, public same sex relationship. There’s also some question as to whether or not the scriptures that reference homosexuality are actually talking about it directly or using the term as a placeholder for perverse sexual behaviors. In addition, the English translation of the scriptures themselves is not flawless because there are some words and syntax from Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic that just don’t translate directly.
Obviously all of us know there are plenty of perverse sexual behaviors that are bad and have nothing to do with homosexuality.
So, I choose to follow Jesus’ command to love everyone and take care of them. I have a gender fluid niece who is going through a lot of crap right now and I’ve told her my home is a safe place for her. She will not be judged, she will not be insulted or demeaned. She’ll be clothed, fed, sheltered and respected.
Because I think that’s what Jesus would want me to do.
re: #200 plansbandc
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I shudder to think what deviance goes on with Bryan Fischer. No animal is safe, and probably not very many plants, either. https://t.co/LAAGUpJeO2
— Horsetronaut (((🐎))) (@chemoelectric) February 11, 2019
re: #204 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
so bryan, you’re ok if he does it somewhere else?
or if it was a woman?seriously though, you need to read your constitution
Constitution? Pfft.
Bryan goes by God’s Law don’tcha know. He can ignore man’s laws because God says so.
re: #223 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
The groundhog must be part of the Trump administration, then.
The groundhog was mistaken. It happens. Please do not insult rodents by implying they would support Trump.
re: #86 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Weed used to be my drug of choice, but lately, If I smoke enough to move the needle at all, I wind up in a state of existential catatonia and often get a racing heart that makes me think I am on the verge of a seizure. Really kinda of dampens the enjoyment.
ah yes. the racing heart. my last experience with weed. never again. several hours of concern that i was dying.
re: #213 HappyWarrior
Easy to do if you hate the same people. And yeah I understand a lot of people think Trump isn’t personally homophobic like Pence is but he’s indifferent to LGBT discrimination. Same shit.
But would it be a surprise if a guy like Trump, who treats women the way he does, likes to portray himself as a virile and athletic stud, tried to portray himself as a playboy his whole life is homophobic?
I wish I remembered who it was because I’d love to give proper credit, but awhile back someone on here made a joke that Bryan Fischer is a regular on gay hookup apps under the username FischerofMen which is just freaking brilliant.
re: #228 ObserverArt
But would it be a surprise if a guy like Trump, who treats women the way he does, likes to portray himself as a virile and athletic stud, tried to portray himself as a playboy his whole life is homophobic?
Not at all. He’s probably the “honest” gays are gross homophobic rather than the fake moral like Pence. Both are awful.
re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg
I wish I remembered who it was because I’d love to give proper credit, but awhile back someone on here made a joke that Bryan Fischer is a regular on gay hookup apps under the username FischerofMen which is just freaking brilliant.
Hahaha yeah I ain’t that creative. So it wasn’t me.
re: #206 calochortus
Do I have to point out we’ve already had an unmarried president? Granted he didn’t do a great job, but we still had one. James Buchanan.
Grover Cleveland was also a bachelor when he entered the White House his first term but married in 1886 while in office
re: #193 Sionainn, Warrior Mother
I’m waiting for the news to come out that Bryan Fischer is gay. He sure spends more time thinking about gay men than, I think, even gay men do!
and he loathes himself for his secret longings
re: #232 Hecuba’s daughter
Grover Cleveland was also a bachelor when he entered the White House his first term but married in 1886 while in office
Cleveland also had rumors of a child out of wedlock too.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
I’ve had (and continue to have) long talks with God about homosexuality.
Rome had an issue with homosexuality, but it mostly involved males who did not produce sons to defend the Republic.
But it is not a large wonder that this disdain was taken up by the Roman Catholic Church and many major denominations of Christianity.
The National Futures Association gave you a lifetime membership ban. You’re a fraudster and conman grifter, just like your idol - Trump.https://t.co/hJU7cgoUjZ
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 11, 2019
re: #234 HappyWarrior
Cleveland also had rumors of a child out of wedlock too.
“Hurray for Alice, Hurray for the kid. I voted for Cleveland and I’m glad I did.” Or something along those lines.
re: #237 calochortus
“Hurray for Alice, Hurray for the kid. I voted for Cleveland and I’m glad I did.” Or something along those lines.
Ma! Ma! Where’s my Pa!
Gone to the White House, ha ha ha!
re: #236 lawhawk
A massive lawsuit in federal court!!
Wikipedia is a community-run website. All J-Wohl has to do is get someone smarter than he is to edit his page.
Dumbass.
Also “false information” is probably stuff they don’t other people to know.
re: #234 HappyWarrior
Cleveland also had rumors of a child out of wedlock too.
That’s right. The GOP had a slogan: “Ma, ma — where’s my pa”, which the Dems countered with “He’s in the White House, ha, ha, ha”
(Too lazy to check on the exact wording!)
re: #239 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
A massive lawsuit in federal court!!
Wikipedia is a community-run website. All J-Wohl has to do is get someone smarter than he is to edit his page.
Dumbass.
Mom?
re: #234 HappyWarrior
Cleveland also had rumors of a child out of wedlock too.
“Ma, ma, where’s my pa?
Gone to the White House, ha ha ha”
So, here in local Ostrava news, a major building reconstruction is pretty much finished.
Here’s a little backstory: the building was originally intended to be the regional Communist Party HQ. Construction started in the Communist Era, but then the 1989 Revolution came, and of course, that was end of that. The building skeleton (it was referred to locally as the “Skelet”) was left standing while the local authorities figured out what the hell to do with it.
Well, the project is now done.
Here’s before:
and here’s a photogallery of the finished result:
Looks much better.
re: #241 lawhawk
Mom?
“Hey, ma! Can you sign into Wikipedia? They’re being mean to me again!”
“Too busy cooking dinner, dear. Wait a bit. Do you want mashed potatoes tonight?”
To bed I go. Later on, lizardim!
You all and your knowledge of 1884 Campaign slogans. Ha ha ha!
re: #248 HappyWarrior
You all and your knowledge of 1884 Campaign slogans. Ha ha ha!
We got some oooold lizards.
re: #225 ObserverArt
Constitution? Pfft.
Bryan goes by God’s Law don’tcha know. He can ignore man’s laws because God says so.
that’s not working out too well for a bunch of folks right now… //
re: #250 wrenchwench
We got some oooold lizards.
Hey! Just because we know 19th-Century political slogans doesn’t mean we were volunteers on the campaign!
Well, not quite…
*Pulls out calculator*
Yeah, that’s $1 per woman. https://t.co/SZbNr6Xbu4— Alexis Benveniste (@apbenven) February 11, 2019
Optimal packing. Dog conforms to case while sleeping. https://t.co/akLNg7YZSE pic.twitter.com/6ZIFyOVZfx
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) February 11, 2019
re: #252 Jay C
Hey! Just because we know 19th-Century political slogans doesn’t mean we were volunteers on the campaign!
Well, not quite…
On July 1 every year, I march through the streets chanting “FIFTY-FOUR FORTY OR FIGHT!!”
re: #245 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
“Hey, ma! Can you sign into Wikipedia? They’re being mean to me again!”
“Too busy cooking dinner, dear. Wait a bit. Do you wanted mashed potatoes tonight?”
re: #245 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
“Hey, ma! Can you sign into Wikipedia? They’re being mean to me again!”
“Too busy cooking dinner, dear. Wait a bit. Do you want mashed potatoes tonight?”
“And bring all those dirty dishes up from the basement. We will be getting ants!!”
re: #252 Jay C
Hey! Just because we know 19th-Century political slogans doesn’t mean we were volunteers on the campaign!
Well, not quite…
Being cold blooded has its upsides.
re: #253 The Vicious Babushka
Meanwhile, the GOP wants to slash SNAP funding, where each dollar of funding ends up generating $1.70. It’s one of the most efficient programs for economic growth and development - all while feeding a population, improving education outcomes, and reducing hunger.
In 2009, the peak year of the last recession, $50 billion in SNAP benefits were spent in local stores, generating about $85 billion in local economic activity, even as the overall economy was struggling.
The right is so eager to smear that they end up tripping over the own wires all the time.
Here, the Chief Political Analyist for Sinclair Broadcasting earnestly cites a *parody account* as supporting evidence for his bogus argument.
Misinformation spreads like this regularly. https://t.co/dzNBEkzJOd— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 11, 2019
re: #259 lawhawk
Meanwhile, the GOP wants to slash SNAP funding, where each dollar of funding ends up generating $1.70. It’s one of the most efficient programs for economic growth and development - all while feeding a population, improving education outcomes, and reducing hunger.
It’s also price support and spoilage reduction for farmers
re: #250 wrenchwench
We got some oooold lizards.
Grover’s widow, Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, died less than two years before I was born.
re: #262 sagehen
It’s also price support and spoilage reduction for farmers
And a very big chunk of Walmart’s grocery traffic.
re: #262 sagehen
It’s also price support and spoilage reduction for farmers
Yeah, but young bucks in Cadillacs buy t-bones with it, and we’ll-dressed welfare queens splurge on lobster, so bad.
re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg
So, I choose to follow Jesus’ command to love everyone and take care of them. I have a gender fluid niece who is going through a lot of crap right now and I’ve told her my home is a safe place for her. She will not be judged, she will not be insulted or demeaned. She’ll be clothed, fed, sheltered and respected.
Because I think that’s what Jesus would want me to do.
Good for you. This is the only thing that matters to her or to Jesus.
re: #256 TedStriker
Now I think of Michael Rappaport every time I read, “Hey, Ma!” thanks to those cat videos he did.
LOL.
re: #239 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
A massive lawsuit in federal court!!
Wikipedia is a community-run website. All J-Wohl has to do is get someone smarter than he is to edit his page.
Dumbass.
Also “false information” is probably stuff they don’t other people to know.
Heh, just went to Jacob A-Wohl’s wiki page. Seems like it is pretty factual to me!
Link just for the fun of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wohl
re: #263 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Grover’s widow, Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, died less than two years before I was born.
As you may know, President Tyler born 1790 and President from 1841-45 has living grandsons. Only two of my direct lines were in the US in that time.
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
Boris Epshteyn?
Why does that name sound familiar?
Oh yeah… because of this. He’s another one of Trump’s political hack advisers. And now he’s off at Sinclair doing the agitprop that he can’t directly do via the admin.
re: #109 freetoken
This giant gold ring was dropped by a giant Viking in Essex
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Maybe they should stick it in a fire and see if writing appears on it.
And here I was thinking you just try to make gold with it—not old enough to be the One Ring, after all…
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Good old Boris Epshteyn. Another of the Russian blockheads backing Trump shows his ass trying to one-up AOC. Trump sure could pick ‘em.
Give it up Boris, she is way out of your league.
Hey look who’s using the left-wing talking point verbatim pic.twitter.com/ysPumdJnEe
— The only Simpsons fan on this site (@agraybee) February 11, 2019
re: #204 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
so bryan, you’re ok if he does it somewhere else?
or if it was a woman?seriously though, you need to read your constitution
That Communist document is overridden by the Bible!
Because that is how these people think.
Seriously. Years ago a poli-sci class typed up copies of the Constitution and took them out on the street for people to read.
Two thirds didn’t recognize it. A third thought it was written by Communists.
Hmmm. That last number is approximately the number of people supporting Trump.
So, let us get this straight. It is “Anti-Semitism” to point out that the most powerful political moneybags in American politics are Zionists who put another nation’s interest (israel’s) over that of America ??????
re: #244 Dr Lizardo
There are a building like that in Garden Grove (Orange County), CA. They started building it probably in like 2006. Then the economy tanked. And for the last 11 years or so, it’s just sat there as nothing more than the steel skeleton of a building.
re: #277 jaunte
Thanks. If he’d just resist the urge to add the Zionists part, but that’s what makes him David Duke.
re: #258 wrenchwench
Hey Wrenchy:
Saw your comment in my post on the right
When’s your next 5k? Inquiring minds and all.
It’s not the walkers of tiny dogs you don’t want to finish behind, it’s the damn tiny dogs.
Once in a half marathon, a guy bouncing two basketballs simultaneously passed me and finished before me.
Three things to remember:
- We all get faster with practice. If you learn easy, light and smooth, fast is almost an automatic natural byproduct.
- Your legs/feet are the engine, like a bike or a car (gears aside). To go faster you spin the engine faster. You don’t change the ‘shape’ of the engine’s movements.
- You can. Half of running is the mental game of convincing yourself you can do what your body already knows it can.
re: #278 KGxvi
There are a building like that in Garden Grove (Orange County), CA. They started building it probably in like 2006. Then the economy tanked. And for the last 11 years or so, it’s just sat there as nothing more than the steel skeleton of a building.
When I first moved here to Ostrava in 2011, I was scratching my head wondering “What the hell is that? A parking garage or something?” I found out the history on it from some of my older students who’ve lived in Ostrava for most their adult lives.
I’m glad to see they did something useful with it; it should have a ‘day of open doors’ for the public by the end of this month or the beginning of next month. I’ll probably go check it out.
re: #273 jaunte
That last (visible) hashtag from Haley “what is happening to people” is precious… what happened, Ambassador, is the guy you worked for signaling to the racists and anti-semites and xenophobes and homo/transphobes that it is perfectly acceptable to let their freak flags fly
Here’s a DK diary about the kid who made the reddit post and went and got vaccinations on his own: dailykos.com. What’s really frightening about this is that meningitis is something that can end up infecting and killing college kids, among other things. I just cannot imagine a parent thinking they should send their child out in the world not protected.
re: #278 KGxvi
There are a building like that in Garden Grove (Orange County), CA. They started building it probably in like 2006. Then the economy tanked. And for the last 11 years or so, it’s just sat there as nothing more than the steel skeleton of a building.
There’s a building at the WTC that’s barely a stub because it hasn’t gotten funding/financing/interest to build until now - 2WTC. For a long time, 3WTC was about 10 stories tall because there wasn’t enough interest to build it out. That’s now done. 2WTC might now get built out despite not having an anchor tenant (Fox was the latest to consider the location, but they bailed).
re: #280 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
Sat., Feb. 16, 2019. That’s this year month week. It’s been cold, so I haven’t ‘trained’ much. It snowed yesterday. Melted upon contact. It’s sunny right now, but still in the 30s. I think I’m gonna go for a bit. What’s the worst that could happen? I’m gonna dress for an hour. It’ll take me an hour to prepare for an hour outside.
re: #280 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
P.S. Thanks!
74 degrees in Houston today. Looks like our winter is just about over.
Why didn’t I think of that pic.twitter.com/UMV8n4sI3Q
— Jules (@Julian_Epp) February 11, 2019
re: #289 The Vicious Babushka
Hell, I won’t even be out of debt by 38 let alone retiring.
Who is their target audience for this crap? Stupidly rich millenials?
Think how far ahead of the game Trump would be now if he had only retired at 38.
re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg
Hell, I won’t even be out of debt by 38 let alone retiring.
Who is their target audience for this crap? Stupidly rich millenials?
Temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
re: #290 Eclectic Cyborg
Hell, I won’t even be out of debt by 38 let alone retiring.
Who is their target audience for this crap? Stupidly rich millenials?
All you need is to take a job that pays in the high 6 figures! So simple!
#BREAKING Ninth Circuit affirms Fed’s authority to waive dozens of environmental laws to speed up construction of #borderwall in San Diego @CourthouseNews
— Bianca Bruno (@BiancaDBruno) February 11, 2019
Ugh.
just in time for lunch…
Analysis: Trump’s days of hard work generally begin at 11 a.m. — even in a busy week https://t.co/RdeNIEbax8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 11, 2019
LOL
“michael in florida” called into roger stone’s infowars show, complained about the gop tax bill raising his taxes, and then told roger stone he’s going to jail.
stone then demands that the caller tell them his full name and address. pic.twitter.com/XISNbXAPXY— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) February 11, 2019
Wow! I have nearly the same waking schedule as the #RezidentoftheUnitedStates! That’s…not good; I talk to doctors trying to get that fixed so I can follow a set calendar again!
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 11, 2019
For those who are interested, here’s an absolutely brutal summation of last night’s Grammy telecast. Brutal cuz it’s true.
What is music to you? To your heart? To your life?
Maybe it is this: Ecstasy and repetition. Identity and release. Music is the electric connection between your buzzing, happy, elated head and the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. Music is the way your heart thumps when the kick drum pushes the air of the old theatre. Music is your connection with the primeval memory of the rhythm of sweatshops and plantations, the high sigh of shtetl weddings, and the sand dances of Saharan ceremony.
Music is memory: Playground chants and first-love stares; tenth grade stargazing and skating on beer slick in sophomore dorm basement parties; evenings spent watching bleached-blonde-dyed Brits scratching the air and climbing imaginary ladders in smoky, blue-lit old vaudeville halls; nights passed sharing stale air with shimmering, sibilant, shrieking cowpunk Canadians in narrow booze cans in the gray hours before dawn; mornings spent mummified in sheets waiting for the record store to open. Music is that song in the car on the way home from Hebrew school, that song bursting into your ears on the 7 train on the way to your new job. Music is the mnemonics of melody, ecstasy and repetition, identity and release.
The Grammy telecast had nothing to do with any of that.
Worth the read.
re: #299 makeitstop
For those who are interested, here’s an absolutely brutal summation of last night’s Grammy telecast. Brutal cuz it’s true.
Worth the read.
That’s all pretty cool sounding, but for 80+% of the world, it’s none of that.
Counterpoint:
The Grammy telecast was, in fact, an AWESOME!! fashion show.
Beautiful, beautiful, clothing. And some pretty good dancing.
re: #301 sagehen
Counterpoint:
The Grammy telecast was, in fact, an AWESOME!! fashion show.
Beautiful, beautiful, clothing. And some pretty good dancing.
And Michelle Obama.
re: #301 sagehen
Counterpoint:
The Grammy telecast was, in fact, an AWESOME!! fashion show.
Beautiful, beautiful, clothing. And some pretty good dancing.
And Janelle Monae.
1. Eric Boehlert wrote an article about Elizabeth Warren, her run, and the press: dailykos.com. That alone is enough to read.
2. While I don’t really think Elizabeth Warren should move out of the Senate, a good thing about her run is that people are going to learn early about how the media is going to act this cycle. We can at least be a bit more prepared.
In his first two years as president, Trump used taxpayer money to make 281 promotional trips to businesses he still profits from. pic.twitter.com/pfnW2ocXSh
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 11, 2019
A rare split-sex cardinal, one half-male and one-half female, has been hanging out in the backyard of an Erie, Pa. couple. https://t.co/XC9XqLfG1i
— NYT Science (@NYTScience) February 11, 2019
Anyone else hate Hal Sparks on twitter… don’t mind him personally… hate his twitter.
re: #265 Jay C
Yeah, but young bucks in Cadillacs buy t-bones with it, and we’ll-dressed welfare queens splurge on lobster, so bad.
That’s why all the executives are quitting so they can live the good life of poverty.
re: #291 jaunte
Think how far ahead of the game
Trumpwe would be now if he had only retired at 38.
re: #284 Belafon
Here’s a DK diary about the kid who made the reddit post and went and got vaccinations on his own: dailykos.com. What’s really frightening about this is that meningitis is something that can end up infecting and killing college kids, among other things. I just cannot imagine a parent thinking they should send their child out in the world not protected.
We have to start charging parents who don’t vaccinate and cause the death or injury to their children or to others with this crime. Criminally negligent homicide comes to mind, for example.
Because there are enough Republicans in the Senate who wouldn’t convict-on-impeachment him for anything short of cutting PUTIN’S throat on live television, and the rest of us can do nothing to stop his running the country as #USALLC, a #TrumpOrg Subsidiary.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) February 11, 2019
Know what someone who works 9-5 and does this kind of thing daily?
Fired.
And POTUS isn’t 9-5. It’s a 24/7/365 thing. He is half-assing the job and when his incompetence isn’t sabotaging functioning govt, his indifference to doing the job is.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 11, 2019
Thread full of helpful information about what ICE is doing as we approach another shutdown over more and more funding to imprison everyone they can lay hands on:
ICE prisons are structures of racism and hate. We see walls & wire, cops turning over brown and black folks to ICE; detention is hidden so you don’t know how much they make, how ppl are mistreated. But hey, no more excuses. There’s a bounty of info about how this system runs: 1/
— Victoria Lopez (@vlotree) February 10, 2019
re: #306 The Vicious Babushka
THERE’S ONLY MALES AND FEMAILS!!!! IT’S SCIENCE!!! CHECKMATE, LIBTARD!!!
Although, to anyone who’s watched horror films, that bird kinda looks like something from Hitchcock’s “The Birds” - all bloodspattered.
re: #315 Blind Frog Belly White
Yeah, my first thought was “Wow, that’s a shady looking bird”
re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL
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John Kasich told everyone that Trump offered to let him run the country so that he could dick off his entire term and three years we get to pretend “Executive Time” and Trump’s pathetic work ethic is news.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) February 11, 2019
“John Kasich was never asked by me to be V.P.* Just arrived in Cleveland - will be a great two days!” Trump tweeted *in confirmation.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) February 11, 2019
Here is some carry-over from last night’s discussion.
As mentioned last night by me and others after VB brought it up, this is causing some problems for the new Muslim Congresswoman.
Newsweek - CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR SLAMMED FOR ‘STUNNINGLY ANTI-SEMITIC TWEET’
A Jewish advocacy organization has called out Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, characterizing a tweet she wrote about the pro-Israel lobby as “stunningly anti-Semitic.”
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnosota retweeted a post Sunday implying that she believed the Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), was paying American politicians to hold pro-Israel positions.
The American Jewish Committee promptly responded to Omar, also on Twitter, positing that: “Suggesting that a Jewish organization is buying off American politicians is both demonstrably false and stunningly anti-Semitic. American politicians are pro-Israel because Americans are.” The advocacy group also called on the congresswoman to apologize.
After the Opinions Editor at The Forward, Batya Ungar-Sargon, tweeted: “Would love to know who @IlhanMN thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, though I think I can guess. Bad form, Congresswoman. That’s the second anti-Semitic trope you’ve tweeted,” Batya Ungar-Sargon, Omar responded: “AIPAC!”
Neither Omar’s office in Minnesota nor in Washington immediately responde to Newsweek ‘s request for comment about the tweet, which appeared to invoke an old anti-Semitic stereotype portraying Jews as rich, and using their wealth to orchestrate political affairs.
Omar had retweeted the journalist Glenn Greenwald earlier Sunday, who had retweeted a news story about California GOP representative Kevin McCarthy promising action against Omar and the Democratic representative for Michigan, Rashida Tlaib, for alleged anti-Semitism. Omar had captioned Greenwald’s tweet with the comment: “It’s all about the Benjamins baby.”
The congresswoman drew opprobrium from pro-Israel social media users and praise from those who support her position on the BDS movement, which advocates a boycott of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.
…more at link…
And then this…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, as well as other Democratic leaders—criticized fellow Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar for what they said in a statement were “anti-Semitic comments” the freshman congresswoman made on Twitter Sunday.
“Anti-Semitism must be called out, confronted and condemned whenever it is encountered, without exception,” the statement released by Pelosi read.
It added, in part:
“We are and will always be strong supporters of Israel in Congress because we understand that our support is based on shared values and strategic interests. Legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share. But Congresswoman Omar’s use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel’s supporters is deeply offensive. We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.”
This story is developing and will be updated…
re: #153 ipsos
Five more years and any of us can make that one!
Unless another Mickey Mouse bill goes through Congress.
After all, who here really thinks US copyright term is actually finite? Disney will never let the Mouse go into the public domain, and what’s stopping them from having their hirelings in Congress act accordingly?
A personal note: I’ve been cigarette free for two years. Feeling good. [pats self on back]
re: #40 carey94tt
Congratulations on the adorable new addition!
Definitely no anti-Semitism going on here. No sirree. pic.twitter.com/LQVBN7cPyR
— Dan Murphy (@bungdan) February 11, 2019
re: #322 makeitstop
A personal note: I’ve been cigarette free for two years. Feeling good. [pats self on back]
re: #289 The Vicious Babushka
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you can’t ‘retire’ at 38 on travel points for the next 60+ years
you cant (well oughtnt) touch retirement funds till 59 1/2
so unless you’ve socked lots away in non-retirement funds…
that means enough to live on and enough to invest for growth…
unless you’;ve really downsized and changed your standard of living (which is fine)
this is just nonsense
these folks are going back to work 5 years maybe 10 or more.
re: #300 Belafon
That’s all pretty cool sounding, but for 80+% of the world, it’s none of that.
Music has never moved you?
You’ve never gotten off on a new release?
You have never remembered your past due to some song from that time?
re: #301 sagehen
Counterpoint:
The Grammy telecast was, in fact, an AWESOME!! fashion show.
Beautiful, beautiful, clothing. And some pretty good dancing.
So, your counterpoint is it really has nothing to do with the music? /
re: #304 Belafon
1. Eric Boehlert wrote an article about Elizabeth Warren, her run, and the press: dailykos.com. That alone is enough to read.
2. While I don’t really think Elizabeth Warren should move out of the Senate, a good thing about her run is that people are going to learn early about how the media is going to act this cycle. We can at least be a bit more prepared.
a nearly perfect quote:
the press no longer really cares what the facts
of her family backgroundare
re: #306 The Vicious Babushka
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Forward that image of the dual-sex cardinal and tweet to Benny Shapiro and to Bryan Fischer.
re: #326 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve
you can’t ‘retire’ at 38 on travel points for the next 60+ years
you cant (well oughtnt) touch retirement funds till 59 1/2
so unless you’ve socked lots away in non-retirement funds…that means enough to live on and enough to invest for growth…
unless you’;ve really downsided and changed your standard of living (which is fine)this is just nonsense
these folks are going back to work 5 years maybe 10 or more.
An acquaintance retired over 30 years ago — her goal was retirement before age 40 and she managed it. The husband did continue working, but it was more an avocation rather than a serious career. She had always been the primary breadwinner in the home. They moved to a much less expensive area of the country, downsized, and have lived very modestly ever since.
re: #322 makeitstop
A personal note: I’ve been cigarette free for two years. Feeling good. [pats self on back]
Good job! 13 years for me.
re: #330 ObserverArt
Forward that image of the dual-sex cardinal and tweet to Benny Shapiro and to Bryan Fischer.
These people believe that at one time here on earth everything was perfect. And then a woman ate a forbidden apple after being tempted by a talking snake. And after that everything became fucked up. Like that there bird. That bird is the result of sin just like all sexual “perversions” to these iron-age throwbacks.
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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Views: 243 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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Views: 504 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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Detroit Local Powers First EV Charging Road in North America The road, about a mile from Local 58's hall, uses rubber-coated copper inductive-charging coils buried under the asphalt that transfer power to a receiver pad attached to a car's underbelly, much like how a phone can be charged wirelessly. ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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