A Powerful New Song by Bruce Hornsby and Justin Vernon: “Cast-Off” (Lyric Video)
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Charlie Sykes used to follow me, but now he blocks me, probably because I criticized the Bulwark when they published one of those tiresome “liberals made us elect Trump” apologia.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2019
Don’t know if this was reported, I heard it on BBC World when I was running errands earlier:
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Hoping to limit the spread of hateful ideas attributed to the suspect accused of the Christchurch killings, New Zealand classified his so-called manifesto as “objectionable” on Saturday, making it a crime to possess or distribute it anywhere in the country.
“People who have downloaded this document, or printed it, should destroy any copies,” said David Shanks, the chief censor in New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs.
I have slightly mixed emotions. I do think that scholars of hate groups should be able to look at it, if only to separate out the shitposting. Also, as an American, the idea of having a “chief censor” gives me the willies. But I do understand why the NZ government is doing this.
re: #1 Charles Johnson
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Those are so exhausting. No one forced the right but themselves to embrace Trump. The refusal of the never Trump right to take any responsibility for why their ideology lent itself so easily to Trump is frankly why I hope after Trump they are discredited too. Rick Wilson makes me laugh but I really think most never Trump conservatives are so blinded by this idea that Trump “hijacked conservatism” rather than seeing that conservative ideology is part of the problem. This party was sending Steve King to Congress long before Trump and shocker he’s being a racist prick again, this time about Katrina victims.
re: #2 mmmirele
Don’t know if this was reported, I heard it on BBC World when I was running errands earlier:
I have slightly mixed emotions. I do think that scholars of hate groups should be able to look at it, if only to separate out the shitposting. Also, as an American, the idea of having a “chief censor” gives me the willies. But I do understand why the NZ government is doing this.
It’s definitely tough.
The Friday night dinner group included a Trumpster — among his political comments this evening were (paraphrasing):
1. The Mueller investigation was a total witch hunt.
2. Macron’s recent public remarks make Trump appear brilliant in contrast.
3. The Democrats are losing Jewish support.
re: #5 Hecuba’s daughter
The Friday night dinner group included a Trumpster — among his political comments this evening were (paraphrasing):
1. The Mueller investigation was a total witch hunt.
2. Macron’s recent public remarks make Trump appear brilliant in contrast.
3. The Democrats are losing Jewish support.
Your Trumper is an idiot, no offense. Republicans continue to act like American Jews only care about Israel which I’d argue is pretty damn Antisemitic in itself.
And considering that Trump denied the Russians interfered at all doesn’t vindicate him at all or that this was s witch hunt. Trump is a crook. Whether the Mueller Report recommends charges or not, he is and he’s going to be in litigation hell once he becomes former President because Barr won’t be able to protect him then.
re: #3 HappyWarrior
Those are so exhausting. No one forced the right but themselves to embrace Trump. The refusal of the never Trump right to take any responsibility for why their ideology lent itself so easily to Trump is frankly why I hope after Trump they are discredited too. Rick Wilson makes me laugh but I really think most never Trump conservatives are so blinded by this idea that Trump “hijacked conservatism” rather than seeing that conservative ideology is part of the problem. This party was sending Steve King to Congress long before Trump and shocker he’s being a racist prick again, this time about Katrina victims.
To be a conservative in this country is to never be held accountable for anything.
re: #6 HappyWarrior
Your Trumper is an idiot, no offense. Republicans continue to act like American Jews only care about Israel which I’d argue is pretty damn Antisemitic in itself.
I think he believes that the candidates boycotting the AIPAC annual meeting will lead to the Jewish community abandoning Democrats. My riposte to his comments was that I detested Netanyahu for over 20 years. Many Jews who deeply care about Israel have lost their enthusiasm for the direction that AIPAC membership has taken to support Trump and Netanyahu.
re: #8 Citizen K
To be a conservative in this country is to never be held accountable for anything.
Isn’t that the truth? I mean they can’t EVER admit to being on the wrong side of an issue. They seriously want to frame Civil Rights as them supporting it because there were Republicans who supported Civil Rights and Dems opposed. As far as I’m concerned, they forfeited that when they nominated Goldwater and embraced the Southern Strategy. I mean I’ll admkt, the left isn’t always right but goddamn I’ll take the left’s track record over the right in our history.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
I think he believes that the candidates boycotting the AIPAC annual meeting will lead to the Jewish community abandoning Democrats. My riposte to his comments was that I detested Netanyahu for over 20 years. Many Jews who deeply care about Israel have lost their enthusiasm for the direction that AIPAC membership has taken to support Trump and Netanyahu.
Exactly.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Isn’t that the truth? I mean they can’t EVER admit to being on the wrong side of an issue. They seriously want to frame Civil Rights as them supporting it because there were Republicans who supported Civil Rights and Dems opposed. As far as I’m concerned, they forfeited that when they nominated Goldwater and embraced the Southern Strategy. I mean I’ll admkt, the left isn’t always right but goddamn I’ll take the left’s track record over the right in our history.
I mean, the problem isn’t that they won’t ever admit to blame. That’s half expected. It’s that none of our supposed unbiased, objective observers in politics, the media, etc. ever lay blame on them when blame is due. It’s always somehow linked back to Dems and liberals being the forbidden god-banes of all politics and the root of all evil.
And in “sports not reported in America,” Friday was the 13th day of the Haru sumo basho in Osaka. Sumo is the national sport of Japan and the top prize is known as the “Emperor’s Cup.” In the Tokyo arena, there is a box for the emperor should he decide to come to matches. The current emperor has been known to stay away from matches if there’s scandal in sumo. (And yes, there has been scandal.)
So far, the yokozuna (highest ranking of sumo wrestlers) Hakuho is undefeated after 13 matches. Hakuho is 34 years old and probably getting close to thinking about retirement, but the way he just comes back from what looks like certain defeat is simply magical. He really is the Greatest of All Time as far as sumo goes.
Also, the sekiwake Takakeisho won his ninth match today. All he has to do is win one more match in convincing style (out of the two days left) and he should be promoted to ozeki, which is the second rank in the top tier of sumo. Today, he just pushed his opponent Takayasu out of the ring. It wasn’t great sumo, but it was “I am completely out of f*cks to give” sumo.
There are a number of people who post all the top ranked matches on YouTube. Those are just the bouts, not the ceremonial foot stomping, salt throwing, banner advertising (!) and suchlike. This guy Chris Gould picks only the top matches and shows some of the ceremony around the actual matches. Here’s today’s offering:
I would love to go to a day of sumo in Japan. But this year, probably the closest I’m going to get is being able to watch some sumo on TV in the evenings when I’m in Japan during the May basho.
re: #12 Citizen K
I mean, the problem isn’t that they won’t ever admit to blame. That’s half expected. It’s that none of our supposed unbiased, objective observers in politics, the media, etc. ever lay blame on them when blame is due. It’s always somehow linked back to Dems and liberals being the forbidden god-banes of all politics and the root of all evil.
I think that’s all part of the same thing. This idea that conservatism is a flawless ideology and liberalism is always wrong but I’ll tell you what gets me riled up is the lies on economics. We never were a purely capitalist society. The red-baiting is just race baiting because they know their base doesn’t want other people to get the same benefits they do.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
I think he believes that the candidates boycotting the AIPAC annual meeting will lead to the Jewish community abandoning Democrats. My riposte to his comments was that I detested Netanyahu for over 20 years. Many Jews who deeply care about Israel have lost their enthusiasm for the direction that AIPAC membership has taken to support Trump and Netanyahu.
I probably would have asked him if he thinks American Jews are so ignorant that they can’t tell the difference between Israel and Netanyahu, that you can support a country and yet oppose its leader.
re: #15 Targetpractice
I probably would have asked him if he thinks American Jews are so ignorant that they can’t tell the difference between Israel and Netanyahu, that you can support a country and yet oppose its leader.
It’s a form of bigotry. The Jewish version of “The Dem Plantation.” And yet they continue to be shocked why their party gets more white.
re: #14 HappyWarrior
I think that’s all part of the same thing. This idea that conservatism is a flawless ideology and liberalism is always wrong but I’ll tell you what gets me riled up is the lies on economics. We never were a purely capitalist society. The red-baiting is just race baiting because they know their base doesn’t want other people to get the same benefits they do.
Oh, I get that, it’s just that the idea of conservatism’s flawlessness seems to just be accepted writ large across the whole discourse, not just taken as gospel on the right. It seems like a fully baked in assumption even among the lefty side of the discourse until all too recently.
re: #17 Citizen K
Oh, I get that, it’s just that the idea of conservatism’s flawlessness seems to just be accepted writ large across the whole discourse, not just taken as gospel on the right. It seems like a fully baked in assumption even among the lefty side of the discourse until all too recently.
Honestly I’m proud to be a liberal. At the risk of sounding smug, the left has usually been right about the pressing issues of the day.
re: #17 Citizen K
Oh, I get that, it’s just that the idea of conservatism’s flawlessness seems to just be accepted writ large across the whole discourse, not just taken as gospel on the right. It seems like a fully baked in assumption even among the lefty side of the discourse until all too recently.
It’s the “it can only be failed…” fallacy, the idea that conservative ideals work if executed faithfully and in full, and the failure of them in practice is a matter of implementation.
For those looking at Pittsburgh ‘hygge’/’gemuchlichkeit’ …
The Cathedral of Learning:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.edu
Other buildings on the same 14 acre plot are:
Stephen Foster Memorial
en.wikipedia.org
(It looks like the Stephen Foster sculture was taken down:
en.wikipedia.org
post-gazette.com
)
Heinz Chapel
en.wikipedia.org
heinzchapel.pitt.edu
And the Log Cabin:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.edu
Across the Forbes Avenue to the south is Carnegie Museum
And Schenley Plaza
en.wikipedia.org
The “Dirty ‘O’” in Oakland mentioned earlier is several blocks west along Forbes Avenue.
theoriginalhotdogshop.com
Regarding the Nationality rooms in the Cathedral of Learning, here is some more information:
And here are the rooms.
(There is a short 2-3 minute video linked to the label of each room picture.)
Happy might find the Irish Room of interest. I must note that the door frame is fairly low. I had a class in it one time, and being tall, I smacked my head on the door frame more than once. It may have added to my dislike of the class.
Interesting note:
The last 30 seconds of this Movie clip were filmed in Schenley Plaza at the Carnegie Museum:
Edit - I was still editing this when it posted, not sure why. So I had to go back in and clean it up
re: #19 Targetpractice
It’s the “it can only be failed…” fallacy, the idea that conservative ideals work if executed faithfully and in full, and the failure of them in practice is a matter of implementation.
It’s just fucking exhausting. It’s part of the same acceptance that the GOP is by necessity the default for governance, and deserves power just by existence. Dems only ever get given a chance when the GOP fucks up significantly, and even then only ever given enough slack to fix things to some extent before the country says ‘Ok, you’ve had enough time, it’s the ‘real’ rulers turn again’.
re: #15 Targetpractice
I probably would have asked him if he thinks American Jews are so ignorant that they can’t tell the difference between Israel and Netanyahu, that you can support a country and yet oppose its leader.
Then they’d have to admit that opposing Trump doesn’t mean you hate America.
re: #20 ckkatz
For those looking at Pittsburgh ‘hygge’/’gemuchlichkeit’ …
The Cathedral of Learning:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.eduOther buildings on the same 14 acre plot are:
Stephen Foster Memorial
en.wikipedia.org(It looks like the Stephen Foster sculture was taken down:
en.wikipedia.org
post-gazette.com
)Heinz Chapel
en.wikipedia.org
heinzchapel.pitt.eduAnd the Log Cabin:
en.wikipedia.org
tour.pitt.eduAcross the Forbes Avenue to the south is Carnegie Museum
And Schenley Plaza
en.wikipedia.orgThe “Dirty ‘O’” in Oakland mentioned earlier is several blocks west along Forbes Avenue.
theoriginalhotdogshop.comRegarding the Nationality rooms in the Cathedral of Learning, here is some more information:
And here are the rooms.
(There is a short 2-3 minute video linked to the label of each room picture.)nationalityrooms.pitt.edu
I really want to explore more of Pittsburgh now that I know where my dad’s parents grew up? His dad’s grandfather had a blacksmith shop in Deutschtown. His mom’s grandfather’s father owned a tavern in Ross and there’s even a census designated place named after him there.
Happy might find the Irish Room of interest. I must note that the door frame is fairly low. I had a class in it one time, and being tall, I smacked my head on the door frame more than once. It may have added to my dislike of the class.[Embedded content]
Edit - I was still editing this when it posted, not sure why. So I had to go back in and clean it up
re: #19 Targetpractice
It’s the “it can only be failed…” fallacy, the idea that conservative ideals work if executed faithfully and in full, and the failure of them in practice is a matter of implementation.
They’re like diehard Socialists in that way.
Pitt Memories:
I remember marching with the SDS in 1974 demanding Foster’s statue removal.
Watching classic movies at Lawrence Hall.
Remembering the demolition of Forbes Field and seeing the University build new offices on the site. Except a little bit of the wall remained with a plaque where Bill Mazerowski made his famous 1960 World Series play.
The “O” which kept me fed during all night study sessions with the fries, dogs and subs.
Frankie Gustine’s restaurant with the greatest seafood I ever ate.
Litchfield Towers where I held court at 404 Tower C for 4 years.
The King’s Court Theater which ran Flesh Gordon for over 2 years and where one of the first Rocky Horror Midnight Shows began.
Beautiful Heinz Chapel.
There was a great Chinese place The House Of Chiang where I could feast on roast pork fried rice for the incredible price of 85¢.
Gus Miller’s News Stand on Forbes where you could get newspapers from all over the world.
Carnegie Museum with the dinosaur collection and wonderful cafeteria.
Hillman Library with thousands of rare volumes and original manuscripts.
and now I realize it’s 42 years since I graduated…
I either forgot or didn’t hear that Harry Reid is dealing with pancreatic cancer: dailykos.com.
Seth Abramson makes a good point in his tweet thread that is unrolled here, dailykos.com, that the special counsel’s office still had things to be done, including prosecuting Roger Stone, which will be conducted in November.
re: #17 Citizen K
Oh, I get that, it’s just that the idea of conservatism’s flawlessness seems to just be accepted writ large across the whole discourse, not just taken as gospel on the right. It seems like a fully baked in assumption even among the lefty side of the discourse until all too recently.
If you really think about it: Trump’s refusal to ever apologize or admit error is just a standard conservative behavior. On every issue across the board, they never reconsider their positions; they promote the same deceit and misconceptions on economics and health care year in and year out. The news media never calls them out on this.
re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹
Pitt Memories:
I remember marching with the SDS in 1974 demanding Foster’s statue removal.
Watching classic movies at Lawrence Hall.
Remembering the demolition of Forbes Field and seeing the University build new offices on the site. Except a little bit of the wall remained with a plaque where Bill Mazerowski made his famous 1960 World Series play.
The “O” which kept me fed during all night study sessions with the fries, dogs and subs.
Frankie Gustine’s restaurant with the greatest seafood I ever ate.
Litchfield Towers where I held court at 404 Tower C for 4 years.
The King’s Court Theater which ran Flesh Gordon for over 2 years and where one of the first Rocky Horror Midnight Shows began.
Beautiful Heinz Chapel.
There was a great Chinese place The House Of Chiang where I could feast on roast pork fried rice for the incredible price of 85¢.
Gus Miller’s News Stand on Forbes where you could get newspapers from all over the world.
Carnegie Museum with the dinosaur collection and wonderful cafeteria.
Hillman Library with thousands of rare volumes and original manuscripts.
and now I realize it’s 42 years since I graduated…
You graduated 40 years after my Dads Dad. He was a frat brother of a guy you and other Lizards may know named Eugene Curran Kelly. When my Dad’s father died. My cousin wrote him and he wrote back. Cool thing is that both Gene and my grandfather were both staunch liberals. I still contend that my Nana helped make him one. He came from a Republican family which amuses me given I don’t know of any of my immediate cousins or aunts or uncles who is. My Dad’s oldest sister is vehemently anti clerical.
re: #27 Belafon
I either forgot or didn’t hear that Harry Reid is dealing with pancreatic cancer: dailykos.com.
Yeah poor Harry may not have much time left.
re: #27 Belafon
I either forgot or didn’t hear that Harry Reid is dealing with pancreatic cancer: dailykos.com.
And they’ll attack his corpse mercilessly when he passes. Count on it. for the time being I think he’s standing his ground from what I’ve heard.
re: #22 Dave In Austin
Friday Nite Forge!
Dragon’s Breath Damascus Steel[Embedded content]
Interesting look. I’m not usually fond of modern pattern welding (aka damascus) as it is generally not as strong as a good mono forged billet with good tempering. Still it is a pretty piece and like exquisite craftsmanship always does, it makes me wish I could custom order the saber of my dreams :)
re: #30 HappyWarrior
You graduated 40 years after my Dads Dad. He was a frat brother of a guy you and other Lizards may know named Eugene Curran Kelly. When my Dad’s father died. My cousin wrote him and he wrote back. Cool thing is that both Gene and my grandfather were both staunch liberals. I still contend that my Nana helped make him one. He came from a Republican family which amuses me given I don’t know of any of my immediate cousins or aunts or uncles who is. My Dad’s oldest sister is vehemently anti clerical.
Happy I got a feeling I know who Mr. Gene Kelly from the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh is. What I never could figure out is why Pitt’s Film Club was named after another famous actor, Franklin Pangborn…
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
If you really think about it: Trump’s refusal to ever apologize or admit error is just a standard conservative behavior. On every issue across the board, they never reconsider their positions; they promote the same deceit and misconceptions on economics and health care year in and year out. The news media never calls them out on this.
Oh, definitely, it’s why I refuse to accept any attempt to brand Trump as somehow uniquely bad or anything. He is the logical extension of the GOP’s bad faith and the carte blanche constantly extended to them.
re: #32 Dave In Austin
And they’ll attack his corpse mercilessly when he passes. Count on it. for the time being I think he’s standing his ground from what I’ve heard.
He really grew on me. Reid after Daschle was defeated wasn’t my choice for Senate leader but he was able. Hope he continues to fight.
re: #21 Citizen K
It’s just fucking exhausting. It’s part of the same acceptance that the GOP is by necessity the default for governance, and deserves power just by existence. Dems only ever get given a chance when the GOP fucks up significantly, and even then only ever given enough slack to fix things to some extent before the country says ‘Ok, you’ve had enough time, it’s the ‘real’ rulers turn again’.
It’s because the GOP are the party of projection, so when they say that the DNC “buys” votes by “giving away” things, they’re really admitting that that’s the way they win elections. Tax cuts, deregulation, “cheap” health insurance, and endless promises of job creation that will come not through government spending but unleashing the “power of the free market.” All they do on the campaign trail is promise an endless cornucopia of goodies with no cost to voters.
re: #33 William Lewis
It’s art…. And this guy does some of the best. Some of the best I’ve seen have come out of Ukraine and Russia.
re: #34 Joe Bacon 🌹
Happy I got a feeling I know who Mr. Gene Kelly from the East Liberty area of Pittsburgh is. What I never could figure out is why Pitt’s Film Club was named after another famous actor, Franklin Pangborn…
Haha yeah I know. I don’t either. Gene is so iconic. My Nana danced with him. My Dad told me that his parents who were high school sweethearts saw Perry Como too before he got big. Nana also talked about her father being friends with Honus Wagner too. We still have tons of family in Pittsburgh.
Puppies!
P!nk vs Valentino Girl Power#FridayFeeling#PoppysPuppies pic.twitter.com/WyEeaMC8Tt
— Bubbagirl💙🌊 (@bubbagump324) March 22, 2019
re: #27 Belafon
I either forgot or didn’t hear that Harry Reid is dealing with pancreatic cancer: dailykos.com.
I personally know 4 people who were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the last couple years. Is it actually becoming more prevalent?
Hey just saw on Facebook that it’s Captain Kirk’s 88th birthday today…
Damn, I’m getting old…
re: #39 Dave In Austin
It’s art…. And this guy does some of the best. Some of the best I’ve seen have come out of Ukraine and Russia.
Oh, very much so. But as I have come to practice HEMA, I find I appreciate practical over artistic and swords are much bigger than that admittedly beautiful knife in the video.
re: #44 William Lewis
Oh, very much so. But as I have come to practice HEMA, I find I appreciate practical over artistic and swords are much bigger than that admittedly beautiful knife in the video.
Have you watched Alex Steel at all. They are working on a Cavalry saber right now. That’s been a fun ride.
re: #45 Dave In Austin
Have you watched Alex Steel at all. They are working on a Cavalry saber right now. That’s been a fun ride.
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I’ve seen a few episodes. It’s an interesting piece, though unlike any US saber I’ve run into. It’s more similar to a UK saber (Rifles Officer or Light Cavalry Officer) with a Wilkinson style blade. A three bar or stirrup type hilt would have been much simpler to make and more historically correct in the US.
They no longer have it in stock and I got mine used, but this is the best reproduction of an American saber ever produced. kultofathena.com. This was the 1906 production run of the 1860 light cavalry saber and the only significant difference is the hilt was steel since by then steel was cheaper than brass. Lovely blade, handles gloriously. It was the first time I really understood what “lively” could mean.
re: #26 Joe Bacon 🌹
Sorry, the mouse scrolling suddenly stopped. And it was a while before I was able to get it working again…
Ah yes, Litchfield Towers. Iirc, I was on the 6th floor of Tower C in 1975-76.
The ‘Towers’ were three circular 20-some story dormatories, A, B,and C. (Alpha Babbo and Comet?) In the 1960’s and 1970’s, the men lived on the lower floors. And to ‘protect’ them, the ladies were on the upper floors.
Of course, the power to the elevators tended to go out with alarming frequency. Which meant that the ladies, basically, had to plan for a whole day in order to minimize how many times they had to climb the 20-some flights of stairs to their room.
I am trying to remember where Frankie Gustines Restaurant was. (Iirc, he actually had 3 restaurants, 2 on Forbes and another on Fifth.) I think that it became Primanti’s back in the late 1970s or early 1980’s.
re: #47 ckkatz
Sorry, the mouse scrolling suddenly stopped. And it was a while before I was able to get it working again…
Ah yes, Litchfield Towers. Iirc, I was on the 6th floor of Tower C in 1975-76.
The ‘Towers’ were three circular 20-some story dormatories, A, B,and C. (Alpha Babbo and Comet?) In the 1960’s and 1970’s, the men lived on the lower floors. And to ‘protect’ them, the ladies were on the upper floors.
Of course, the power to the elevators tended to go out with alarming frequency. Which meant that the ladies, basically, had to plan for a whole day in order to minimize how many times they had to climb the 20-some flights of stairs to their room.
I am trying to remember where Frankie Gustines Restaurant was. (Iirc, he actually had 3 restaurants, 2 on Forbes and another on Fifth.) I think that it became Primanti’s back in the late 1970s or early 1980’s.
CK, maybe we ran into each other since I was on the 4th floor of C 1974-77. And they were called Ajax, Bab-0 and Comet!
Frankie Gustine’s was on the Forbes side by the King’s Court and then there was a Winky’s on Forbes as well. Originally the Winky’s had two connected store fronts but it never filled up that much and one of them was sold off and a bar took that space.
Remember that it took forever to buy the textbooks because there were only two checkers at the Pitt Book Store.
I still remember the worst meal I ever had at the Pitt Cafeteria and it was called “Beef A La Dutch” meat chunks smothered in pea soup. Everyone couldn’t eat it…so glad I had a fridge in my room and a GE Toaster Oven that heated up Swanson dinners that I could get at the Giant Eagle or A&P. Lost count of how many Swanson Chicken Dinners I ate…
I really hate lazy journobros who think making inherently deceptive status quo bullshit arguments is a substitute for genuine insight.
You mean THIS map? pic.twitter.com/195qxtgSP0
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 23, 2019
re: #24 HappyWarrior
I really want to explore more of Pittsburgh now that I know where my dad’s parents grew up? His dad’s grandfather had a blacksmith shop in Deutschtown. His mom’s grandfather’s father owned a tavern in Ross and there’s even a census designated place named after him there.
DeutscheTown/DutchTown, also known as East Allegheny is now part of the Lower NorthSide. Apparently it was one of the many small communities annexed into Pittsburgh around 1900.
visitpittsburgh.com
en.wikipedia.org
I believe that the Allegheny Brewing, Andy Warhol Museum and Aviary are located right by there. Until I read the wiki article I did not realize that Allegheny Commons Park really was originally a ‘commons’ grazing area. I had just thought that it was a cutsy name.
re: #48 Joe Bacon 🌹
CK, maybe we ran into each other since I was on the 4th floor of C 1974-77. And they were called Ajax, Bab-0 and Comet!
Frankie Gustine’s was on the Forbes side by the King’s Court and then there was a Winky’s on Forbes as well. Originally the Winky’s had two connected store fronts but it never filled up that much and one of them was sold off and a bar took that space.
Remember that it took forever to buy the textbooks because there were only two checkers at the Pitt Book Store.
I still remember the worst meal I ever had at the Pitt Cafeteria and it was called “Beef A La Dutch” meat chunks smothered in pea soup. Everyone couldn’t eat it…so glad I had a fridge in my room and a GE Toaster Oven that heated up Swanson dinners that I could get at the Giant Eagle or A&P. Lost count of how many Swanson Chicken Dinners I ate…
Swanson Surf ‘n Turf at Tulane in the mid-70’s:
A beef pot pie and a tuna pot pie. $1.78 at Schweggies. A quart of Dixie was an additional $1.25.
re: #38 Targetpractice
It’s because the GOP are the party of projection, so when they say that the DNC “buys” votes by “giving away” things, they’re really admitting that that’s the way they win elections. Tax cuts, deregulation, “cheap” health insurance, and endless promises of job creation that will come not through government spending but unleashing the “power of the free market.” All they do on the campaign trail is promise an endless cornucopia of goodies with no cost to voters.
The big difference being that the Republicans give things to their donors (that benefit nobody else at all, that in fact cost everybody else), and the Democrats give things to their voters (that also benefit people who didn’t vote for them, and only cost top-bracket taxpayers).
re: #48 Joe Bacon 🌹
CK, maybe we ran into each other since I was on the 4th floor of C 1974-77. And they were called Ajax, Bab-0 and Comet!
Frankie Gustine’s was on the Forbes side by the King’s Court and then there was a Winky’s on Forbes as well. Originally the Winky’s had two connected store fronts but it never filled up that much and one of them was sold off and a bar took that space.
Remember that it took forever to buy the textbooks because there were only two checkers at the Pitt Book Store.
I still remember the worst meal I ever had at the Pitt Cafeteria and it was called “Beef A La Dutch” meat chunks smothered in pea soup. Everyone couldn’t eat it…so glad I had a fridge in my room and a GE Toaster Oven that heated up Swanson dinners that I could get at the Giant Eagle or A&P. Lost count of how many Swanson Chicken Dinners I ate…
I suspect that we did run into each other. I was there 1972-1977. (Under the well known 5-Year college plan. Actually, when faced with the reality of a career looking at micro-tomed slides of pollywogs, I changed from a Biology major to an Economics major.)
Yes, you are correct, Tower A was Ajax. Do you remember a Stan Finegold? I believe that he lived on the 4th floor of Tower C.
I just did a google maps and it looks like Kings Court is now split between a T-Mobile and a Noodles and Company. So many memories of so much wasted time watching so many terrible movies at Kings Court. David Lawrence Hall generally had so many better movies.
Yup, Frankie Gustines appears to be where the Oakland Primanti’s now is.
Strangely, for some reason, I actually liked the Pitt Cafeteria. Heh, I remember one night I was eating dinner down there and looked up at the ceiling. Someone had removed the top waxed papers from the single slice butter patties and then thrown them onto the ceiling butterside up, where they stuck.
This diarist’s dad, a Fox news watcher, told the diarist that he likes what he has heard from Mayor Pete and might donate to his campaign: dailykos.com.
Another brilliant take from CNN
Moderate voters skeptical of Ocasio-Cortez
The moderate voters? Democrats who voted for Trump!!
Because the entirety of the “punk” aspect has been dropped as nostalgic technophiles just make media about how they think robots, neon, & eugenic transhumanism is cool & completely ignores the anti capitalist anti fascist aspect of what made any classic cyberpunk actually matter https://t.co/yk8CqSdPRQ
— Sniffles the bitch-cat (@MallowyGoodness) March 22, 2019
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
I really hate lazy journobros who think making inherently deceptive status quo bullshit arguments is a substitute for genuine insight.
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This is stupid to the point of being vulgar. I am up for real debate about this issue and virtually any other, but I have had my fill of the intellectually dishonest. If you want to act like acres of land vote and not people, then you probably shouldn’t be taken very seriously. https://t.co/CwxItCRhMb
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 22, 2019
re: #58 goddamnedfrank
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See also: The Robocop “reboot” that lost all the satire and played the whole damned thing straight, turning what was a hard-hitting satire and introspection into what it means to be human into a generic action film about a robot cop.
Season 2 of ‘The OA’ on Netflix is intense. If you were a bit lost in season 1, the end of s2e1 brings things into focus.
TFW someone buys that stupid thing I was ogling and removes the temptation to spend too much money. pic.twitter.com/xro9fKtDkh
— Devin Nunes’ Raging Bile Duct (@goddamnedfrank) March 23, 2019
re: #62 goddamnedfrank
So what was the stupid thing?
re: #59 DodgerFan1988
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“A system where this map isn’t enough to elect a Republican” really says it all. That the pro-EC argument is so bankrupt that it resorts to manipulative tactics to fool people into believing that a popular vote system would somehow be “unfair” to the GOP. Same with the constant repetition of “Elections would be decided by California and New York!”
Food for thought:
What a Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Look Like
Getting In Would Be the Easy Part
foreignaffairs.com
Executive summary: Just like Afghanistan, except in Spanish. Probably a bad idea.
I love my weather station. It says, “It’s raining cats and dogs” on the display. (0.67”/hr)
Returning to one of my favorite topics of late - the lotteries and what they mean:
The latest episode (s6e14) of My Lottery Dream Home features as winner… another poker player. The show did this last week too.
The “lottery” winner is a professional poker player, and they tried to make it sound in this episode that the guy winning at poker is him winning the lottery - the guy even said that.
He’s had a few good placings this year, winning $129,810 and $237,808 in two tournaments in Vegas last July. But his big winning was the previous year when he placed 6th in the 48th World Series of Poker, winning $1,675,000. (That’s not doxxing, btw, as the show is right up front with his identity and winning.)
Anyway, my first point is that this not that a lottery winning. All those poker revenues are his employment earnings. He’s a professional gamer and he plays a game that depends far more on skill than it does luck.
Nevertheless, HGTV passes this off as a lottery winning because… I guess they need warm bodies for a show.
Perhaps real lottery winners are becoming more shy about being public, while professional poker players, especially top ones, are already celebrities (at least to certain crowds.)
Or, perhaps the truth is settling in that winning $1M, which is what most lottery winners of large amount win (e.g., the second place prize in PowerBall and MegaMillions), isn’t that much money, after taxes, and the remaining share that a winner is willing to put into real estate doesn’t buy much of a house in many markets.
Especially for a show with “Dream Home” in the title.
Now getting back to the current episode: the winner and his partner decide to spend up to around $400k on a house. This for a young guy whose lifetime poker earnings are over $4.2M.
Sitting here in San Diego county I see that amount pop up on the show and all I could think is wow, that wouldn’t buy a back-yard around here.
Indeed, the winner is stated as coming from San Diego (though he was not born here). Picking to live in Las Vegas makes sense for a professional gambler, but still, I bet the difference in real estate prices has something to do with it.
“Dream Home” has rarely, especially this season, actually have people buy their dream homes. In the current episode the couple are intentionally looking for a place that needs a bit of work.
All of this reinforces my feeling that HGTV and their shows are really shallow facades, (and their Chicago house flipping show really did put up once a very tacky facade on a house as a “design” element), intended to cover up serious problems in the “American dream”, a well known marketing phrase that found root in American politics.
And this show also exposes how the myths around lottery winning are baseless. Almost all lottery winners win amounts that are not so big that they are truly “rich” by contemporary American material wealth metrics.
Only a couple of times, early in the show’s history, did they feature winners of large jackpots.
And besides the shyness of public exposure, the reason for this is that very few people ever win the big jackpots.
Anyway, $400k on a house is nothing here in California, and one would have to spend twice what the current episode winner ended up spending, to get the equivalent property here in San Diego county.
Global Poker Index Rankings - I had no idea that was a thing.
But with our obsession with all things gaming, I guess it’s not surprising.
One reason why MLDH may being doing shows out of Vegas could also be down to the housing crash there, and glut of housing stock on the market, a glut that has lasted since the crash.
Sitting in Pittsburgh where local news is reporting yet another policeman aquitted after shooting a young fleeing black kid in the back 3 times. Protests expected today. Very sad, and depressing on top of Trump people trying to drive a victory lap
re: #65 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Food for thought:
What a Military Intervention in Venezuela Would Look Like
Getting In Would Be the Easy Part
foreignaffairs.comExecutive summary: Just like Afghanistan, except in Spanish. Probably a bad idea.
It would really hurt our standing in South America if we invaded. That region already is rightfully skeptical towards us. And then Trump would make it worse by not allowing refugees from Venezuela into the country.
re: #73 HappyWarrior
It would really hurt our standing in South America if we invaded. That region already is rightfully skeptical towards us. And then Trump would make it worse by not allowing refugees from Venezuela into the country.
Trump’s lackeys would screw everything up. The military can only do so much. It would be a colossal drain on the nation’s finances for no perceptible advantage, strategically, economically or politically. Not that the USA hasn’t done boneheaded invasions before.
re: #29 Hecuba’s daughter
If you really think about it: Trump’s refusal to ever apologize or admit error is just a standard conservative behavior. On every issue across the board, they never reconsider their positions; they promote the same deceit and misconceptions on economics and health care year in and year out. The news media never calls them out on this.
and while they are constantly flipflopping to polar opposite positions they
- still claim they arent
- lie and say they never held the earlier position (even when there’s video)
re: #74 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Trump’s lackeys would screw everything up. The military can only do so much. It would be a colossal drain on the nation’s finances for no perceptible advantage, strategically, economically or politically. Not that the USA hasn’t done boneheaded invasions before.
Exactly. What amuses me is how Trump redbaits on Venezuela but likes DRPK but I think that’s because Kim charmed him. Little Rocket Man feels like ages ago.
re: #75 Man, DangerMan
and while they are constantly flipflopping to polar opposite positions they
- still claim they arent
- lie and say they never held the earlier position (even when there’s video)
My favorite was Romney having Obama point out to him that ACA was pretty much what Mitt passed in Massachusetts and Mitt said “Well it wasn’t intended for the whole country.” Mitt wanted and still wants to be seen as a huge right winger and win the right wingers hearts but he never did.
re: #13 mmmirele
And in “sports not reported in America,” Friday was the 13th day of the Haru sumo basho in Osaka. Sumo is the national sport of Japan and the top prize is known as the “Emperor’s Cup.” In the Tokyo arena, there is a box for the emperor should he decide to come to matches. The current emperor has been known to stay away from matches if there’s scandal in sumo. (And yes, there has been scandal.)
So far, the yokozuna (highest ranking of sumo wrestlers) Hakuho is undefeated after 13 matches. Hakuho is 34 years old and probably getting close to thinking about retirement, but the way he just comes back from what looks like certain defeat is simply magical. He really is the Greatest of All Time as far as sumo goes.
Also, the sekiwake Takakeisho won his ninth match today. All he has to do is win one more match in convincing style (out of the two days left) and he should be promoted to ozeki, which is the second rank in the top tier of sumo. Today, he just pushed his opponent Takayasu out of the ring. It wasn’t great sumo, but it was “I am completely out of f*cks to give” sumo.
There are a number of people who post all the top ranked matches on YouTube. Those are just the bouts, not the ceremonial foot stomping, salt throwing, banner advertising (!) and suchlike. This guy Chris Gould picks only the top matches and shows some of the ceremony around the actual matches. Here’s today’s offering:
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I would love to go to a day of sumo in Japan. But this year, probably the closest I’m going to get is being able to watch some sumo on TV in the evenings when I’m in Japan during the May basho.
okay, i just spent five minutes watching two guys go down in a three point stance and then get up to put more chalk on their hands. this is like baseball, if baseball was even less interesting.
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One of the better pieces of single family properties in the county just had its asking price slashed by $1M. It’s a real “dream home”, not a tract cracker box that gets passed off as McMansions. And My Lottery Dream Home only once, in its first season, had a winner who was given a tour of anything of this value.
There is a sales video of the marked-down property:
Thing is, and this gets to the heart of economic inequality in America, as near as I can tell the owner only pays $11k/yr property tax.
Yes, that’s right, just a few thousand dollars property tax on a property whose asking price started out (overpriced apparently) at $14.5M, now down to a paltry $10.2M .
Now the real estate listing hides the owner’s name (usually found through the property parcel number, but in this case the parcel number is left out of the listing and the usual Zillow link to the 3rd part property search company is not listed also), but I found it. The owner (estate, human is recently deceased) was probably a fine woman (according to the obituary), did charity work, etc.
But we ought not overlook that a few good works can’t make up for the loss of tax revenue to the county.
And the real problem is that for every philanthropist who can make use of tax laws to keep from paying taxes there are probably a room full of scum (e.g. Trump) who also use those taxes and couldn’t care a whit if the whole world burned.
So the goodness of any single person ought not be an excuse for our skewed tax laws that are hurting society as a whole.
Thread.
(THREAD) BREAKING NEWS: Mueller has sent a report to DOJ that DOJ is representing is “comprehensive” and will shortly be publicly summarized. A lot of the reporting surrounding this major event is *wrong*—so I’ll try to report things accurately. I hope you’ll read on and retweet. pic.twitter.com/vjt9JPhPNU
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) March 22, 2019
re: #80 freetoken
I thought California kept taxes at a certain rate based on sales price (the “value”) to keep taxes down on older people. When a property sells, the new owner then pays taxes on the new value.
I thought this was done so older people didn’t have to sell their house sure to high taxes.
re: #82 MsJ
Prop 13 sets the basic rate at 1%.
But in the property I discussed, the effective property tax rate is .1% !
The owner bought the property in 1972. It may have been intentionally underpriced even at that time. Because of Prop 13 the taxes simply could not rise as they ought to, “ought” because county services in San Diego have gone up in price like everything else since 1972.
I thought this was done so older people didn’t have to sell their house sure to high taxes.
That was the sales pitch. But as usual, the underlying social mechanism had to do with the changing California society and angst riddled old white folk.
re: #83 freetoken
That was the sales pitch. But as usual, the underlying social mechanism had to do with the changing California society and angst riddled old white folk.
Explain please.
re: #30 HappyWarrior
My run at Pitt was ‘81-86.
Movies at David Lawrence.
The remaining wall at Forbes Field - I worked in the library of one of the buildings built in that area. And I went and stepped on home plate whenever I went through the building built upon that spot.
“O” Fries were a staple, as was cheap pizza. And I also lived in Tower C for two years. A pie slice room to call my own.
re: #55 ckkatz
I suspect that we did run into each other. I was there 1972-1977. (Under the well known 5-Year college plan. Actually, when faced with the reality of a career looking at micro-tomed slides of pollywogs, I changed from a Biology major to an Economics major.)
Yes, you are correct, Tower A was Ajax. Do you remember a Stan Finegold? I believe that he lived on the 4th floor of Tower C.
I just did a google maps and it looks like Kings Court is now split between a T-Mobile and a Noodles and Company. So many memories of so much wasted time watching so many terrible movies at Kings Court. David Lawrence Hall generally had so many better movies.
Yup, Frankie Gustines appears to be where the Oakland Primanti’s now is.
Strangely, for some reason, I actually liked the Pitt Cafeteria. Heh, I remember one night I was eating dinner down there and looked up at the ceiling. Someone had removed the top waxed papers from the single slice butter patties and then thrown them onto the ceiling butterside up, where they stuck.
I was an Econ and History major. Still remember those disciples of Milton Friedman like Slessinger. I remember Mark Perlman fondly since he introduced me to Joseph Schumpeter.
re: #83 freetoken
Prop 13 sets the basic rate at 1%.
But in the property I discussed, the effective property tax rate is .1% !
The owner bought the property in 1972. It may have been intentionally underpriced even at that time. Because of Prop 13 the taxes simply could not rise as they ought to, “ought” because county services in San Diego have gone up in price like everything else since 1972.
That was the sales pitch. But as usual, the underlying social mechanism had to do with the changing California society and angst riddled old white folk.
What the Jarvis/Gann folks never made public was that the big winners of Prop 13 were the Bank of America and Pacific Bell who got a nice big tax cut on their properties that they still have today.
Oh, Jarvis promised that rents would go down by 1/3 if 13 passed. They didn’t which triggered the passing of rent control/stabilization in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Berkeley.
Trump and his minions think they dodged a bullet. I have a notion — only a recurring though — that Mueller delivered a bomb to AG Barr, who is now trying to figure out how to tell Trump in a way that doesn’t cause him to start World War III. Barr knows he works for a psycho.
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) March 23, 2019
re: #84 MsJ
Explain please.
California had been Republican, business type. Not Jesus-speak-in-tongues type, but the old fashioned midwestern transplantees.
As Los Angeles, the entire basin, became more and more Latino and black, and as San Francisco and the rest of the Bay area turned quite liberal (in the sense of anti-Vietnam war liberal), the suburban white retirees became the haven for the Republican party.
As California became more interested in social engineering, in the sense of spending taxes, the GOP was the anti-tax party.
The idea that rising property taxes would kick old folk out of their homes ignored the primary reason old folk run into financial trouble - a combination of inflation and medical care.
If the Prop13 backers really cared about old folk in the suburbs, the way to have addressed their financial concerns would have been to install some sort of tax refund for retirees who pay more than a certain percentage of their (retirement) income in property taxes.
The Prop13 backers included those who sold the idea that California was turning socialist, that taxes were being raised on the old folk in their homes to pay for those ******* in LA and the bay area.
When in reality the reason property taxes had to rise was because of the population boom and because of inflation.
Fixing property taxes at 1% in California is meaningless is the fight against inflation because the dollar decreases in value due to the entire US economy (in light of global trade too.)
In the end, all limiting property taxes has done is force the state and county to raise taxes other ways, such as on income and through use fees.
re: #74 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Trump’s lackeys would screw everything up. The military can only do so much. It would be a colossal drain on the nation’s finances for no perceptible advantage, strategically, economically or politically. Not that the USA hasn’t done boneheaded invasions before.
Iraq-invasion 2 Electric Bugaloo.
I’m sure the promises are already being written up that we’d be welcomed as saviors, oil revenues would pay for everything, and that it would cost the USA nothing while getting use massive goodwill from everyone in the world!
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re: #85 Feline Fearless Leader
My run at Pitt was ‘81-86.
Movies at David Lawrence.
The remaining wall at Forbes Field - I worked in the library of one of the buildings built in that area. And I went and stepped on home plate whenever I went through the building built upon that spot.
“O” Fries were a staple, as was cheap pizza. And I also lived in Tower C for two years. A pie slice room to call my own.
Posvar Hall aka Forbes Quadrangle? GSPIA Library?
Yes, the towers’ dorm rooms were indeed pie slices.
re: #91 ckkatz
Posvar Hall aka Forbes Quadrangle? GSPIA Library?
Yes, the towers’ dorm rooms were indeed pie slices.
Forbes Quadrangle* has home plate. I worked in the Business School Library after it moved into the “new” Mervis Hall over by the remaining piece of wall.
* - I care nothing about anything carrying the name “Posvar”. The way he and his cronies ran the university while I was there is one reason I don’t give them money. Combined with the two-faced way they dealt, and still deal, with their fraternity system.
I think a decent chunk of buildings I had classes in are gone since the hill above the Chemistry Building got worked over with the removal of Pitt Stadium and its replacement with the Convocation Center.
I did enjoy going to watch basketball games at the Field House. Not a big crowd, but could be properly raucous.
re: #86 Joe Bacon 🌹
I was an Econ and History major. Still remember those disciples of Milton Friedman like Slessinger. I remember Mark Perlman fondly since he introduced me to Joseph Schumpeter.
Hmm, having a hard time remembering all of the professors I took. Almost 50 years ago.
Rubin Slessinger of course. He had a PhD student who was a retired Chicago Police Captain.
David Gould - He was returning from a series of meetings strategizing on how to end the famines in East Africa when he died in the Lockerbie Pan Am plane crash. His death destroyed his family. A very sad time.
Joseph Eaton, who was born in Germany, fled to the United States, served in the American Army during World War 2 and then became a professor.
Robert Colodny - served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. In the 1960’s he was attacked by a Pa State legislator as a dangerous commie. The legislator lost that battle.
re: #92 Feline Fearless Leader
Forbes Quadrangle* has home plate. I worked in the Business School Library after it moved into the “new” Mervis Hall over by the remaining piece of wall.
* - I care nothing about anything carrying the name “Posvar”. The way he and his cronies ran the university while I was there is one reason I don’t give them money. Combined with the two-faced way they dealt, and still deal, with their fraternity system.
I think a decent chunk of buildings I had classes in are gone since the hill above the Chemistry Building got worked over with the removal of Pitt Stadium and its replacement with the Convocation Center.
I did enjoy going to watch basketball games at the Field House. Not a big crowd, but could be properly raucous.
Good Ol’Chancellor Wesley Posvar. He had huge bushy eyebrows. When half-time began during Pitt football games he would head down to the field. And all the students would start chanting “Wesley’s eyebrows”.
Football games were when we got raucous. Some of the folks in my group would go down to the computer rooms and collect the ‘punchies’ (chads). And then make sure to throw a cloud of them as soon as someone opened their coke or coffee to take a drink.
In the winter, when I was in ROTC, we would do morning runs on the Field House track.
Except when the basketball team was practicing. Then it was off limits.
However, it was open while the baseball team was practicing. I almost got beaned a couple of times during their practices.
No crazy Trump tweets this morning…should we be worried?
re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg
No crazy Trump tweets this morning…should we be worried?
I wouldn’t make much of it. I think if he were in the clear, he would be bragging. But I dunno.
re: #96 HappyWarrior
I wouldn’t make much of it. I think if he were in the clear, he would be bragging. But I dunno.
Someone should do a pattern analysis of his tweets to see if weekends are generally calmer than the weekdays. His Fox shows aren’t on Saturdays and Sundays, so does he have an incentive to get up.
re: #97 Belafon
Someone should do a pattern analysis of his tweets to see if weekends are generally calmer than the weekdays. His Fox shows aren’t on Saturdays and Sundays, so does he have an incentive to get up.
You’re right. He could still be asleep.
EPIC has filed a suit to get access to Mueller’s report based on FOIA.
Interesting historical tidbit…
John Mitchell was Nixon’s Attorney General. His wife was Martha Mitchell. She detested Nixon, knew a lot of reporters, and was quite happy to pass on leaks to them.
John Mitchell eventually shipped her back to California and had her watched by two security guards. The guards had orders to keep her isolated and not to let her near a phone.
When she heard about the Watergate arrests, she figured out what was going on and telephoned NYTimes reporter Helen Thomas. As the Martha Mitchell was talking to Thomas, Thomas heard Mitchell say something to the effect of “You just get away”. Then the phone went dead.
It turned out that one of the guards had ripped the phone out of the wall. Mitchell was then forcibly sedated for days.
The guard who ripped the phone from the wall was named Stephen King. He is currently Trump’s ambassador to The Czech Republic.
re: #101 ckkatz
Interesting historical tidbit…
John Mitchell was Nixon’s Attorney General. His wife was Martha Mitchell. She detested Nixon, knew a lot of reporters, and was quite happy to pass on leaks to them.
John Mitchell eventually shipped her back to California and had her watched by two security guards. The guards had orders to keep her isolated and not to let her near a phone.
When she heard about the Watergate arrests, she figured out what was going on and telephoned NYTimes reporter Helen Thomas. As the Martha Mitchell was talking to Thomas, Thomas heard Mitchell say something to the effect of “You just get away”. Then the phone went dead.
It turned out that one of the guards had ripped the phone out of the wall. Mitchell was then forcibly sedated for days.
The guard who ripped the phone from the wall was named Stephen King. He is currently Trump’s ambassador to The Czech Republic.
Trump isn’t draining the swamp. He’s returned old swamp monsters and added new ones.
re: #59 DodgerFan1988
This is stupid to the point of being vulgar. I am up for real debate about this issue and virtually any other, but I have had my fill of the intellectually dishonest. If you want to act like acres of land vote and not people, then you probably shouldn’t be taken very seriously.
What the map would look like if the area displayed was proportional to population and not just acreage:
I broke my 24 hour sabbatical from news because I’m weak, but…ugh.
Seems like despite the smart decision by Dems to get out in front of this and try not to cede the narrative, the GOP won out on it anyways and all I could see from it anywhere was how this was proof of Trump’s innocence, and how basically it was the worst thing in the history ever for Dems. And not just from Republicans but from anyone but the most stalwart Dems. Not even older folk, these people were young.
There doesn’t seem to be anything we can do to ever seize the day because the God of the Narrative forever treats the GOP voice as the only one that counts it seems.
That really does not sound like an investigation that’s wrapping up. https://t.co/wg5GN7NTj5
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 22, 2019
re: #85 Feline Fearless Leader
My run at Pitt was ‘81-86.
Movies at David Lawrence.
The remaining wall at Forbes Field - I worked in the library of one of the buildings built in that area. And I went and stepped on home plate whenever I went through the building built upon that spot.
“O” Fries were a staple, as was cheap pizza. And I also lived in Tower C for two years. A pie slice room to call my own.
Was Uncle Sams there off Forbes on Oakland Ave at that time? I worked for UPMC in Forbes tower (only a couple days a week when I had to go down to Pittsburgh, most days I worked from home). Uncle Sams was the next block down, they had real good hoagies.
Beyond Mueller, here are the 10 most pressing investigations into the president, his campaign staffers, and his inner circle. https://t.co/selkuIe2sD
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) March 12, 2019
re: #107 Belafon
Not “All ten” But “The most pressing ten.”
re: #104 Citizen K
I broke my 24 hour sabbatical from news because I’m weak, but…ugh.
Seems like despite the smart decision by Dems to get out in front of this and try not to cede the narrative, the GOP won out on it anyways and all I could see from it anywhere was how this was proof of Trump’s innocence, and how basically it was the worst thing in the history ever for Dems. And not just from Republicans but from anyone but the most stalwart Dems. Not even older folk, these people were young.
There doesn’t seem to be anything we can do to ever seize the day because the God of the Narrative forever treats the GOP voice as the only one that counts it seems.
And Tulsi lover Jimmy Dore joins the Republicans is proclaiming that the Russian investigation is a big nothingburger.
Berniebots and Jill Shills posting the same Republican propaganda.
Well, it’s confirmed. We’re witnessing the fall and collapse of the US.
“Thus far, not many are speaking out against her.” — except of course that Streisand is trending because many are speaking out against her.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 23, 2019
re: #108 Belafon
Not “All ten” But “The most pressing ten.”
Exactly. JFC.
Imagine the RWNJ mouth frothing if ten of Obamas people had been under active criminal investigation.
Brennan is trending too… apparently MAGAdolts en masse have received marching orders to call for his execution or something to that end.
re: #92 Feline Fearless Leader
Forbes Quadrangle* has home plate. I worked in the Business School Library after it moved into the “new” Mervis Hall over by the remaining piece of wall.
* - I care nothing about anything carrying the name “Posvar”. The way he and his cronies ran the university while I was there is one reason I don’t give them money. Combined with the two-faced way they dealt, and still deal, with their fraternity system.
I think a decent chunk of buildings I had classes in are gone since the hill above the Chemistry Building got worked over with the removal of Pitt Stadium and its replacement with the Convocation Center.
I did enjoy going to watch basketball games at the Field House. Not a big crowd, but could be properly raucous.
Yes I remember Sleazy Posvar and all those kids who got into Pitt because their parents got their State Senators to grant scholarships to them. Which is why I don’t give them a single penny either.
Remember when graduates voted for University Trustees. Then they took that vote away unless you gave $$$.
When I started Pitt in the fall of 73 tuition and board were both $480 a trimester. Now Tuition is $18,130 and board is $11,582 a year.
When I got out of Pitt I owed $8,250 in student loans.
No way could I go and wind up over $100K in debt…
This Batrachoseps shows what the true potential of salamanders tails can be!
Just look at that tail! 😲🦎😍#HERper #Herpetology #salamanders #datTail #fieldwork pic.twitter.com/EX9KHW0cSv— Annette Evans (@annetteNZevans) March 23, 2019
You can see the last couple millimeters by clicking the pic icon on the rt. of the blue bar at the bottom. Or maybe you could already see the whole thing, I dunno.
Entertainment news: I just saw the live-action version of Alita Battle Angel. I made sure I watched the anime version and read the manga first. I’m glad I did. The live-action version is OK, but I was thinking all through it, “Just because we have CGI and can put live human faces on mecha bodies does not mean we have to put live human faces on mecha bodies.”
Plus, the oversized eyes on Alita were just weird. They removed the expressiveness from her face. Big eyes are fine for anime — that’s the artistic style — but not for a living actor.
That said, it wasn’t a bad movie, but the anime version moved a lot faster.
A reminder that leading Brexiteer is part of the misbegotten clan that runs across borders:
I see the Manwhorian KKKandidate’s MAGAT stooges are staging celebration rallies at various Trump properties…
I’m re-upping old tweets not in an “I told you so” way, but because I’m tired of repeating myself, and I also need you to see that autocracy is predictable. Don’t look for saviors: think for yourselves. Independent thought + ability to speak freely is nothing to take for granted.
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 22, 2019
re: #108 Belafon
Not “All ten” But “The most pressing ten.”
The Trump scandal, to that I reply which one?
re: #97 Belafon
I have a “for fun” stats project going around his tweets, and decided to come out of my lurker status to respond.
There doesn’t appear to be any clear and meaningful trend between day of the week and number of tweets. Not without adding a bunch of restrictions on the data set at least (I checked everything since inauguration, and then everything since 1/1/18 ).
So, silence today might mean something interesting, or just an amazing coincidence.
I’m beginning to believe more and more that it’s it not going to be one person or entity that takes down Trump.
It’s only going to happen with a team effort where everyone involved is prepared to go all in.
re: #120 DaZoid
I have a “for fun” stats project going around his tweets, and decided to come out of my lurker status to respond.
There doesn’t appear to be any clear and meaningful trend between day of the week and number of tweets. Not without adding a bunch of restrictions on the data set at least (I checked everything since inauguration, and then everything since 1/1/18 ).
So, silence today might mean something interesting, or just an amazing coincidence.
If you analyzed the frequency of tweets against episodes of Fox & Friends, you’d probably find the correlation factor >= 0.95. Against news reports critical to Trump, probably 0.75 < r < 0.90.
Welcome, by the way. Did you bring donuts?
re: #118 Joe Bacon 🌹
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We have to accept that it can happen here, but that it will only happen here if we give into it happening here.
re: #121 wrenchwench
I’ve actually been here before - years ago… I’ve grown a lot since then :-)
re: #120 DaZoid
Welcome!! We do expect pizza for us all!
re: #118 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m re-upping old tweets not in an “I told you so” way, but because I’m tired of repeating myself, and I also need you to see that autocracy is predictable. Don’t look for saviors: think for yourselves. Independent thought + ability to speak freely is nothing to take for granted.
I have such a crush on Sarah K…I still fantasize about sitting up with her afterwards, smoking cigarettes and talking authoritarian politics
re: #125 DaZoid
I’ve actually been here before - years ago… I’ve grown a lot since then :-)
The you know about the Beer Rule.
re: #125 DaZoid
I’ve actually been here before - years ago… I’ve grown a lot since then :-)
You aren’t hatched until you comment. Or did you appear under a previous nic?
re: #120 DaZoid
Howdy, hatchling! Now that you’ve broken through that thick shell, why not come out and play more often? (Bringing doughnuts would be nice, but is not required.)
re: #106 Eventual Carrion
Was Uncle Sams there off Forbes on Oakland Ave at that time? I worked for UPMC in Forbes tower (only a couple days a week when I had to go down to Pittsburgh, most days I worked from home). Uncle Sams was the next block down, they had real good hoagies.
I think Uncle Sam’s opened while I was there, or a year or two afterwards. The Primanti’s in Oakland appeared as well next to King’s Court about that time as well IIRC. The “O” enlarged it’s footprint three times in 5 years too.
There was a little White Castle on the corner of Bouquet and Forbes when I was a freshman, but it was gone by ‘84. Place was about 20’ x 20’ — but sliders!
re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
::: pulling out the catapult :::
::: putting in a load of pineapple :::
::: cutting rope and sending it :::
re: #133 PhillyPretzel
::: pulling out the catapult :::
::: putting in a load of pineapple :::
::: cutting rope and sending it :::
received, waiting on the load of ham…
re: #132 Feline Fearless Leader
I think Uncle Sam’s opened while I was there, or a year or two afterwards. The Primanti’s in Oakland appeared as well next to King’s Court about that time as well IIRC. The “O” enlarged it’s footprint three times in 5 years too.
There was a little White Castle on the corner of Bouquet and Forbes when I was a freshman, but it was gone by ‘84. Place was about 20’ x 20’ — but sliders!
I remember it as White Tower and they made those burgers with 5 holes punched in them filled up with diced onions. White Tower was the big burger chain in Pittsburgh before McDonald’s came on the scene.
Now I remember George Aiken’s a chain with great rotisserie chicken. Isaly’s shops with the skyscraper cones and chip chopped ham. There was a Black Angus steakhouse too where I went to get a strip steak the last day I was at Pitt. And Poli’s in Squirrel Hill had wonderful seafood!
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sorry I do not have ham.
re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
received, waiting on the load of ham…
Must be Isaly’s Chip Chopped Ham…from Goldbelly!
re: #136 PhillyPretzel
Sorry I do not have ham.
Germans are fond of putting salami on pizza (not in combination with ham, though)
And although “Pepperoniwurst” has become a thing now, when I first got here (in the 80’s) a “Pepperoni” pizza meant one with pickled peppers on it. Not bad, but not at all what I was expecting.
re: #135 Joe Bacon 🌹
One of the better pizza places was over in Squirrel Hill. They didn’t deliver and were known for putting all the cheese over the toppings - so everything sort of looked just like a plain cheese pizza.
There was also Vincent’s over in North Versailles* as a place for pizza that there seemed to be a love/hate relationship with. High quality cheese that basically broke down into oil in the oven. Crust was black on the bottom. And you never ever ever ate the stuff cold.
* - A way to detect Pittsburghers is how the name of this town is pronounced. French speakers are advised not to look.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Way way back when I used to eat a lot of pizza (in college), sometimes I would get salami instead of pepperoni.
Now, one cured meat is like another. They all taste like chicken salt. It was just a change for change sake.
re: #137 Joe Bacon 🌹
Must be Isaly’s Chip Chopped Ham…from Goldbelly!
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In the 60’s we still had an Isalys in my hometown here in NW PA, great place. Ham sandwiches and ice cream, what more could you want. Sadly was gone early in the 70’s. Was always the stop when we went with mom into town for Saturday shopping trip.
re: #140 freetoken
Way way back when I used to eat a lot of pizza (in college), sometimes I would get salami instead of pepperoni.
Now, one cured meat is like another. They all taste like
chickensalt. It was just a change for change sake.
I developed a taste for pizza with Italian salsiccia, but you only get that at a proper Italian pizzeria.
With pizza, I like one protein, a veggie, & a wild card like extra or a different kind of cheese. So my favorite is spinach, pepperoni, & feta cheese.
re: #130 wrenchwench
I had a prior nic in the early days (wasn’t a big poster, but I did a few times).
Here’s some sourdough pizza for all.
The group of us in the dorm favored bacon, green peppers, and (sometimes) mushrooms as the combination.
re: #143 HappyWarrior
Mushrooms and onions is my favorite set of toppings.
re: #146 PhillyPretzel
Mushrooms and onions is my favorite set of toppings.
Yeah I like mushrooms and onions too. I like spicy sausage with onions.
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I developed a taste for pizza with Italian salsiccia, but you only get that at a proper Italian pizzeria.
I don’t eat pizza anymore, but when I did, if I saw that the vendor had “Italian sausage” on the menu then I would get that. Generally what was called “Italian sausage” was just a sweeter and more aromatic sausage than the American style sausage, which tended to be just meat with lots of black pepper.
re: #147 Joe Bacon 🌹
ROTFLMAO
Utah Outcasts warn us that Jim Bakker is now hawking freeze dried coffee!
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Does Tammy Fae cry on it to get it reconstituted?
re: #144 DaZoid
I had a prior nic in the early days (wasn’t a big poster, but I did a few times).
Here’s some sourdough pizza for all.
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Oh my, that’s beautiful.
Time for second breakfast.
re: #139 Feline Fearless Leader
… * - A way to detect Pittsburghers is how the name of this town is pronounced. French speakers are advised not to look.
There is a Marseilles and a Versailles in Illinois. I see you, and raise you.
re: #149 freetoken
I don’t eat pizza anymore, but when I did, if I saw that the vendor had “Italian sausage” on the menu then I would get that. Generally what was called “Italian sausage” was just a sweeter and more aromatic sausage than the American style sausage, which tended to be just meat with lots of black pepper.
“Italian” sausage varied by where you got it. Western PA has both hot and sweet varieties and the main ingredient I recall from it is the fennel seeds.
re: #152 retired cynic
There is a Marseilles and a Versailles in Illinois. I see you, and raise you.
Heh. Duquesne, Bouquet, and DuBois just to get things started.
in reality the entire IQ paradigm has been shown to be premised on absurd fallacies which only serve to legitimize, through a thin veneer of pseudo-scientific lingo, the racism and classism of elites, who are often among the most incompetent people alive https://t.co/RTYw1gFb83
— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) March 23, 2019
re: #152 retired cynic
There is a Marseilles and a Versailles in Illinois. I see you, and raise you.
Well yunz warsh up and then redd up your room.
re: #154 Feline Fearless Leader
Heh. Duquesne, Bouquet, and DuBois just to get things started.
Yep! We can’t even pronounce Berlin, or Detroit!
Actually, I think it is deliberate, just to put our stamp on things.
re: #153 Feline Fearless Leader
“Italian” sausage varied by where you got it. Western PA has both hot and sweet varieties and the main ingredient I recall from it is the fennel seeds.
Only spinach and mushrooms for me (will occasionally accept tomatoes and olives, if necessary).
In other news…
Yesterday, the Mississippi governor signed into law and George state senate passed a measure to ban abortion after a heartbeat can be heard (about 6 six). The Handmaid’s Tale is happening before our eyes as Trump reshapes the judiciary. pic.twitter.com/d9WpUPZS2j
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) March 23, 2019
The right-wing keeps winning and fucking winning far as destroying any sense of propriety, and we can’t do a fucking shit about it because the SCOTUS is a bomb waiting to happen every fucking time.
re: #155 DodgerFan1988
And it’s clear now that this is the reason the American religious right likes Jordan P., even though his own beliefs are hardly Christian.
Peterson has gotten praise from the likes of Albert Mohler, of course.
re: #156 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well yunz warsh up and then redd up your room.
My grandmother said warsh, and I have to be very careful, or things like that slip out, even 60 years later!
re: #158 Hecuba’s daughter
Only spinach and mushrooms for me (will occasionally accept tomatoes and olives, if necessary).
Mushrooms and banana peppers for me.
re: #153 Feline Fearless Leader
“Italian” sausage varied by where you got it. Western PA has both hot and sweet varieties and the main ingredient I recall from it is the fennel seeds.
The “Italian sausage” I would get always seemed to be heavy with fennel.
re: #160 freetoken
And it’s clear now that this is the reason the American religious right likes Jordan P., even though his own beliefs are hardly Christian.
Peterson has gotten praise from the likes of Albert Mohler, of course.
Isn’t Peterson once of the people who eventually tries to claim that the Fascists were socialists and thus the Nazis were left-wing? Amidst all his other pop-psych BS that makes the right-wing love him for being “edgy”?
re: #162 Eventual Carrion
Mushrooms and banana peppers for me.
BANANAS ON PIZZA!?!?!
oh, banana peppers. Never mind
re: #165 wrenchwench
I almost did that too.
re: #164 Feline Fearless Leader
Peterson markets his gimmick to the toxic males. Peterson makes it all sound sciency.
As he does with his racism, etc.
It’s the same noxious brew of the know-nothing right that has simmered in America the past century.
And don’t forget to wrap a gumband around your stack of bills!
re: #161 retired cynic
My grandmother said warsh, and I have to be very careful, or things like that slip out, even 60 years later!
It wasn’t until I was at college and had the “How to Speak Pittsburghese” booklet that I realized that my father said “slippy”. (Explanation: slippy = slippery)
He was from the Johnstown area originally. And we’d moved to near Pittsburgh from northeastern New York state right after I graduated high school. So Pitt was my real first exposure to that whole set of regional slang/dialect.
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hmm, interesting page but do not totally agree.
For instance I think Kennywood trumps Hershey Park once you get far enough west in the state.
re: #171 Joe Bacon 🌹
Thanks. I needed a reminder of Sheetz vs WaWa. My late cousin always ribbed me and my sister about Sheetz vs WaWa. My sister before she became a mom worked for WaWa.
re: #165 wrenchwench
BANANAS ON PIZZA!?!?!
oh, banana peppers. Never mind
Mmmm. Tiny pepperoni, hot Italian sausage and a ton of banana peppers. Mmmm.
Maybe onions and ‘shrooms (if fresh).
That is a pizza.
re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader
It wasn’t until I was at college and had the “How to Speak Pittsburghese” booklet that I realized that my father said “slippy”. (Explanation: slippy = slippery)
He was from the Johnstown area originally. And we’d moved to near Pittsburgh from northeastern New York state right after I graduated high school. So Pitt was my real first exposure to that whole set of regional slang/dialect.
Moms parents were from Johnstown and Dads from Pittsburgh. You couldn’t hear Western Pa in my grandmothers especially my dad’s mother but my mom’s Dad was you’ins to the end. Don’t know about my dads dad as I didn’t know him but as he left young and lived all around, I doubt it.
Not quite beer, but good enough for a welcome and an upding…!
re: #175 HappyWarrior
In Philly we have a street named Olney. Practically every person who comes to the city for the first time mispronounces it. In Philly we natives say “al knee.”
re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader
It wasn’t until I was at college and had the “How to Speak Pittsburghese” booklet that I realized that my father said “slippy”. (Explanation: slippy = slippery)
He was from the Johnstown area originally. And we’d moved to near Pittsburgh from northeastern New York state right after I graduated high school. So Pitt was my real first exposure to that whole set of regional slang/dialect.
I grew up in Bucks County, but a lot of my family grew up in the Centralia area so I got the yinz and other weirdness.
Sigh…yeah, the victory laps have all started. Because why not, the ‘narrative’ has validated them and proven that God King Trump is the most innocent, most persecuted, sacred creature ever. Forget that no real details have been released , the narrative is king, and all that’s left to prove is how much God and America hates you for being a Dem and a liberal.
Fuck it. I need to go back into hibernation.
re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader
It wasn’t until I was at college and had the “How to Speak Pittsburghese” booklet that I realized that my father said “slippy”. (Explanation: slippy = slippery)
He was from the Johnstown area originally. And we’d moved to near Pittsburgh from northeastern New York state right after I graduated high school. So Pitt was my real first exposure to that whole set of regional slang/dialect.
One of my daughters, when young, used to say things were slickery (slippery plus slick). Still hear myself saying it years later.
re: #177 PhillyPretzel
In Philly we have a street named Olney. Practically every person who comes to the city for the first time mispronounces it. In Philly we natives say “al knee.”
Town of Olney in Illinois, too! ALLnee.
re: #178 makeitstop
I grew up in Bucks County, but a lot of my family grew up in the Centralia area so I got the yinz and other weirdness.
And Centralia!
Many Pennsylvania and Virginia folks must have come to Illinois….
re: #183 retired cynic
And Centralia!
Many Pennsylvania and Virginia folks must have come to Illinois….
Lincoln’s father was born in Virginia and his grandfather in Pennsylvania.
re: #150 Feline Fearless Leader
Does Tammy Faye cry on it to get it reconstituted?
Kind of hard, since she’s been dead for more than a decade, but I get your gist.
Zombie Tammy Faye…that sounds like a band name.
re: #177 PhillyPretzel
In Philly we have a street named Olney. Practically every person who comes to the city for the first time mispronounces it. In Philly we natives say “al knee.”
re: #178 makeitstop
I grew up in Bucks County, but a lot of my family grew up in the Centralia area so I got the yinz and other weirdness.
I went to Philly in ‘76 for the big bicentennial celebration. We had some college friends from Philly and Jersey we hung out with.
It took a little time to get used to their speech for us Ohioans. First impression was they were faster and a little higher pitched.
And they were different from the Pittsburgh and Erie art students I met in college.
Even Ohio has three forms of dialect. Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.
re: #179 Citizen K
You’re certainly good at snatching defeat from the jaws of… nothing at all, since the people who’ve seen the report aren’t talking.
Of course the “no-Collusionists” (aka Repugs) are braying out what they’ve been braying all along. The rest of us are waiting for facts.
re: #184 HappyWarrior
Lincoln’s father was born in Virginia and his grandfather in Pennsylvania.
A little Kentucky in there. My family did mostly the Europe to Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois route.
re: #186 ObserverArt
I went to Philly in ‘76 for the big bicentennial celebration. We had some college friends from Philly and Jersey we hung out with.
It took a little time to get used to their speech for us Ohioans. First impression was they were faster and a little higher pitched.
And they were different from the Pittsburgh and Erie art students I met in college.
Even Ohio has three forms of dialect. Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.
For the first couple of years after I moved from Philly to NYC, all my New Yorker friends would make fun of my Philly accent and all my Philly friends would make fun of my NY accent.
I figure at that point my accent was probably from somewhere in central Jersey. I’ve since gone full on NY accent, so fugeddaboudit.
re: #187 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
You’re certainly good at snatching defeat from the jaws of… nothing at all, since the people who’ve seen the report aren’t talking.
Of course the “no-Collusionists” (aka Repugs) are braying out what they’ve been braying all along. The rest of us are waiting for facts.
They know that if they set up enough of a noise background, it will drown out the facts as they are announced (or leaked)
The Spin Doctors are convening right now and figuring how to make this report look as if it totally exonerates Trump in all instances and can be dismissed and ignored.
re: #187 A hollow voice says, Collusion!
You’re certainly good at snatching defeat from the jaws of… nothing at all, since the people who’ve seen the report aren’t talking.
Of course the “no-Collusionists” (aka Repugs) are braying out what they’ve been braying all along. The rest of us are waiting for facts.
Yeah, and the Trump and his cult don’t exactly have a stellar record as far as bragging about ‘successes’ that turn out to be anything but (tax cuts and North Korea chief among them).
Let them talk. Whistling past the graveyard, if you ask me.
re: #188 retired cynic
A little Kentucky in there. My family did mostly the Europe to Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois route.
Pretty much Europe to Western Pennsylvania to Virginia here. Though we do have one branch that stated in Cleveland. My Dad’s grandmother was born there but the family left when she was young but her mother’s siblings
descendants remained in the area. Met one of them via DNA testing. She can see a resemblance between her grandmother who she knew very well and my dad’s grandmother who died young. Unfortunately no photos of their father and mother respectively who were born in Glasgow to Irish parents from Fermanagh.
You can be sure Trump’s been briefed on it - so if the Mueller report exonerates him, wouldn’t he be crowing and boasting about it right now?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2019
re: #192 HappyWarrior
Pretty much Europe to Western Pennsylvania to Virginia here. Though we do have one branch that stated in Cleveland. My Dad’s grandmother was born there but the family left when she was young but her mother’s siblings
descendants remained in the area. Met one of them via DNA testing. She can see a resemblance between her grandmother who she knew very well and my dad’s grandmother who died young. Unfortunately no photos of their father and mother respectively who were born in Glasgow to Irish parents from Fermanagh.
All similar background: My maternal grandmother was sent from Croatia to Cleveland to marry some fellow they fixed her up with.
My paternal granddad and grandma came from the Hapsburg Empire as well, he from Slovakia, she from Bohemia, and they met and married in Iowa
Both families later moved to Gary, Indiana, where my parents met and married.
re: #189 makeitstop
For the first couple of years after I moved from Philly to NYC, all my New Yorker friends would make fun of my Philly accent and all my Philly friends would make fun of my NY accent.
I figure at that point my accent was probably from somewhere in central Jersey. I’ve since gone full on NY accent, so fugeddaboudit.
I remember the girlfriend of one of the Philly guys. She was from Jersey just across the river from Philly.
She had the greatest Jersey accent ever. She was maybe 5’ tall, Italian and cute. She had this high-pitched Jersey accent and we would find we’d be listening at her and not to her. And she liked to talk so we heard her a lot. It was hard to keep from smiling.
Sometimes her one friend would interpret for us.
We had a blast in only that way a bunch of 21 to 23 years olds could on a big national holiday in the city that kicked it all off.
re: #193 Charles Johnson
An interesting thought, actually. Now I’m still pretty sure nothing will come of it, but it would be all over Faux News by now (the report itself, that is) if it was good news for Trump Nation.
re: #194 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
All similar background: My maternal grandmother was sent from Croatia to Cleveland to marry some fellow they fixed her up with.
My paternal granddad and grandma came from the Hapsburg Empire as well, he from Slovakia, she from Bohemia, and they met and married in Iowa
Both families later moved to Gary, Indiana, where my parents met and married.
It’s actually remarkable how much goes back to Cambria County which is where Johnstown is. We knew my Moms parents were born there and their parents immigrated there but we had no idea that my dad’s parents each had a grandparent either born there or immigrate there.
re: #195 ObserverArt
She had the greatest Jersey accent ever. She was maybe 5’ tall, Italian and cute. She had this high-pitched Jersey accent and we would find we’d be listening at her and not to her. And she liked to talk so we heard her a lot. It was hard to keep from smiling.
I had a Jersey girlfriend like that. Really one of the nicest women I have ever been with but I just cwoudn’t staynd the way she twolked…it was oawfuhl…especially before cwoffee…
re: #195 ObserverArt
I remember the girlfriend of one of the Philly guys. She was from Jersey just across the river from Philly.
She had the greatest Jersey accent ever. She was maybe 5’ tall, Italian and cute. She had this high-pitched Jersey accent and we would find we’d be listening at her and not to her. And she liked to talk so we heard her a lot. It was hard to keep from smiling.
Sometimes her one friend would interpret for us.
We had a blast in only that way a bunch of 21 to 23 years olds could on a big national holiday in the city that kicked it all off.
That was a wild year, for sure. My band was pretty hot in the city bars then, and the perks were, umm, rewarding. Ah, youth.
I think it will disappoint those who wanted indictments of Trump intimates but it’s not going to totally clear Trump of wrongdoing either. Either way, my position is the same as it was months ago, Trump needs to go and he did everything to attack this investigation and discredit it.
Currently working on my citizenship application. The amount of information the government asks for is ungodly.
Got to get my fingerprints taken again, take the citizenship test and go to the swearing in ceremony before everything is official.
And I get to give Uncle Sam another $725 for the privilege.
re: #193 Charles Johnson
Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
You can be sure Trump’s been briefed on it - so if the Mueller report exonerates him, wouldn’t he be crowing and boasting about it right now?12:58 PM - Mar 23, 2019
Early feeling I get is that it shows at best he is running a loose, leaky and very borderline legal White House and just let everyone run wild because he liked his chaos.
In other words he just wanted the power and money and more or less signaled for his people to do what it takes. And maybe he didn’t want to know what they were doing, just let him know the results and benefits.
I still go back to about two months ago when Lawrence O’Donnell said one night someone from inside Rudy Giuliani’s circles the Mueller report was horrendous. I got the feeling then it was comprehensive and the horror was how out of control it all is.
So, Donny and gang are probably trying to figure out how to play it once everyone gets a feeling of the report. In other words, they have a lot of work to do to make him seem a legitimate president and worthy of keeping his office because it is grift city and open for business.
And the Democrats most likely are going to mine it for everything that shows why Trump is a danger to this country, straight to its core.
Next week they come out fighting.
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
Currently working on my citizenship application. The amount of information the government asks for is ungodly.
Got to get my fingerprints taken again, take the citizenship test and go to the swearing in ceremony before everything is official.
And I get to give Uncle Sam another $725 for the privilege.
Good luck. I’m surprised you want to join us after everything the Republicans have done to destroy this country, but I’ll never turn down a good person.
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
And please remember the most important part about being a United States citizen: Voting.
re: #201 Eclectic Cyborg
Currently working on my citizenship application. The amount of information the government asks for is ungodly.
Got to get my fingerprints taken again, take the citizenship test and go to the swearing in ceremony before everything is official.
And I get to give Uncle Sam another $725 for the privilege.
I’m excited for you. Great honor. I’ll never get the hostility towards immigrants. You guys want to be here. You’re here by choice. I’m here by happenstance.
re: #204 PhillyPretzel
And please remember the most important part about being a United States citizen: Voting.
That’s why I am trying to get my shit together now. Hopefully I can be made official before November 2020.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
I’m excited for you. Great honor. I’ll never get the hostility towards immigrants. You guys want to be here. You’re here by choice. I’m here by happenstance.
I have not lived in the USofA since the late 80’s but have not ever seriously considered giving up my citizenship.
re: #207 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have not lived in the USofA since the late 80’s but have not ever seriously considered giving up my citizenship.
I wouldn’t either. I like being an American. Yeah we’re flawed but this is home.
re: #203 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Good luck. I’m surprised you want to join us after everything the Republicans have done to destroy this country, but I’ll never turn down a good person.
I believe this country is greater than than a few asshole Republicans.
I believe in the ideals this country was founded on.
I believe I have a duty to the children in my life down here to help raise them properly and steer them away from hate.
I believe the vast majority of Americans are fundamentally good people.
I believe that now, more than ever, this country needs good people to dig in and commit to fighting.
re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg
I believe this country is greater than than a few asshole Republicans.
I believe in the ideals this country was founded on.
I believe I have a duty to the children in my life down here to help raise them properly and steer them away from hate.
I believe the vast majority of Americans are fundamentally good people.
I believe that now, more than ever, this country needs good people to dig in and commit to fighting.
Welcome to the family.
I think I might put my Stars and Stripes out this year. I haven’t flown it since the election, but you know what? Fuck those people. America is greater than a bunch of Republican creeps.
Dropping by to note
this probe has spawned many other probes and investigations going way past just Russia
And others that haven’t even got off the ground or seen the light of day let alone been reported or leaked
Mueller’s investigation is the start. The report is just one bit of progress as are all the indictment s and pleas
It’s years premature to think it all ends now with ” no collusion”
Trumpworld is gonna sweat every single day for a long time to come
PS I haven’t a clue what Mueller wrote. Guessing is folly especially since some release is imminent.
Still. I’m thinking it’s gonna be a road map of the past and an AAA triptik with highlighted routes for the future
This is an Albino Koala baby pic.twitter.com/2Z0hL7LQnF
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) March 23, 2019
Right wing Twitter is cheering and gloating as if they know what’s in the Mueller report.
But they don’t. They always do this, because these people are not smart.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 23, 2019
re: #204 PhillyPretzel
And please remember the most important part about being a United States citizen: Voting.
They will register you right there after you take the oath
re: #214 Charles Johnson
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I really hope there’s something that makes him and them lose their shit.
re: #215 Man, DangerMan
Yes. One of the things I wanted to do when my step-mom took her oath but I could not get off from work.
re: #218 PhillyPretzel
Yes. One of the things I wanted to do when my step-mom took her oath but I could not get off from work.
My sister’s roommate took the oath last Thursday
One more Democrat in North Carolina now
re: #146 PhillyPretzel
This right here. The perfect combo.
re: #217 HappyWarrior
I really hope there’s something that makes him and them lose their shit.
As someone said yesterday, it would be great if it said Trump didn’t do anything but the pee tape is real.
re: #219 Man, DangerMan
My sister’s roommate took the oath last Thursday
One more Democrat in North Carolina now
One less Republican by the same measure. So happy to have my declaration records for some of my family. Wish I could find the one for my surname’s bearer.
Is it likely the Republican Senators and Congresspeople will get access to the report before Democrats will?
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Honestly I do not know. My personal hope is that Nancy Pelosi and Company get it before anyone else.
re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg
Is it likely the Republican Senators and Congresspeople will get access to the report before Democrats will?
I was wondering that last night. As of now, Barr’s got it and I’ll assume a copy was sent to the White House.
My question is, if Barr’s not on the level, what’s to stop them from pulling all the most incriminating shit and sending it to Congress? How would they know?
re: #225 makeitstop
I was wondering that last night. As of now, Barr’s got it and I’ll assume a copy was sent to the White House.
My question is, if Barr’s not on the level, what’s to stop them from pulling all the most incriminating shit and sending it to Congress? How would they know?
Too many people have probably seen it and it would end up leaked anyway.
There was another important report released today. Counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally. And he never stopped staging these rallies. https://t.co/wNKzLT4JwV
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) March 22, 2019
re: #49 goddamnedfrank
I mean the way a Republican would win with this map would be to get more votes than the Democrat. https://t.co/2fKUU6NG7a
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 22, 2019
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s almost as if they think that they’re owed electoral victory no matter how small a segment of the population they cater to.
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
We allow trash to vote, why not also dirt?
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
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It’s A stupid argument. They just can’t accept that land doesn’t equal people.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
It’s A stupid argument. They just can’t accept that land doesn’t equal people.
I think that a lot of them know that, it just makes a good talking point and Internet meme…it is all about winning arguments. By shouting if necessary.
re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think that a lot of them know that, it just makes a good talking point and Internet meme…it is all about winning arguments. By shouting if necessary.
They know it but don’t accept it. Just like they don’t accept that they are much more into “safe spaces” and are just as if not more easily “triggered.”
re: #229 Blind Frog Belly White
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Alaska is not to scale. That would introduce more scary blue that might discredit the argument.
re: #230 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s almost as if they think that they’re owed electoral victory no matter how small a segment of the population they cater to.
Known as the divine right to rule.
re: #152 retired cynic
There is a Marseilles and a Versailles in Illinois. I see you, and raise you.
and a Bourbonnais (pronounced boar-bonus)
This is quite good. Guy takes quotes from famous people and makes comics out of them. This one illustrates a Stephen King quote…
More to the point, that tweet exposes the real reason behind their embrace of the EC - they don’t believe they can win the most votes anymore, but they don’t want to have to change their platform to win those votes. They’ll prattle on about ‘tyranny of the majority’ and ‘The Cities will choose dominate!’ and all, but really it’s that they don’t want to change to win a majority.
re: #239 Blind Frog Belly White
More to the point, that tweet exposes the real reason behind their embrace of the EC - they don’t believe they can win the most votes anymore, but they don’t want to have to change their platform to win those votes. They’ll prattle on about ‘tyranny of the majority’ and ‘The Cities will choose dominate!’ and all, but really it’s that they don’t want to change to win a majority.
Oh, I got a response to my “land doesn’t vote” comment yesterday. The responder said, “No, land doesn’t vote, but the people who control that land should get to decide what the government does with it.” Ugh, the stupid, it burns.
re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Oh, I got a response to my “land doesn’t vote” comment yesterday. The responder said, “No, land doesn’t vote, but the people who control that land should get to decide what the government does with it.” Ugh, the stupid, it burns.
So the government does own all the land?
re: #226 rhuarc
Too many people have probably seen it and it would end up leaked anyway.
I’m hoping that there’s a ‘safety’ copy somewhere, or that if an incomplete report is released under the guise of being complete, that Mueller’s staff would jump in to correct the record.
But I trust Barr and the rest of the cult leaders as far as I could throw them.
re: #241 Belafon
So the government does own all the land?
That, and apparently the responder didn’t realize that she was effectively saying that land should be allowed to vote. Like, if the majority of people in the country want to do a thing, it doesn’t matter because they don’t control enough land?
re: #186 ObserverArt
I went to Philly in ‘76 for the big bicentennial celebration. We had some college friends from Philly and Jersey we hung out with.
It took a little time to get used to their speech for us Ohioans. First impression was they were faster and a little higher pitched.
And they were different from the Pittsburgh and Erie art students I met in college.
Even Ohio has three forms of dialect. Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.
That last bit is what makes my eyes roll so far back into my head when certain white folks start whinging about “SPEAK ENGLISH!!11!!”
re: #240 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That reply reminds me of some of the folks in my area saying that primaries are not real elections. This is one of many reasons why the public schools should teach civics.
re: #184 HappyWarrior
Lincoln’s father was born in Virginia and his grandfather in Pennsylvania.
In Lincoln’s father’s day, Kentucky was part of Virginia.
re: #242 makeitstop
Rod Rosenstein has a copy. At least that is what I understand from WaPo.
re: #196 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
An interesting thought, actually. Now I’m still pretty sure nothing will come of it, but it would be all over Faux News by now (the report itself, that is) if it was good news for Trump Nation.
It will all be good news for trump according to Faux, no matter what the report says
re: #243 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That, and apparently the responder didn’t realize that she was effectively saying that land should be allowed to vote. Like, if the majority of people in the country want to do a thing, it doesn’t matter because they don’t control enough land?
Propertarians.
The thing is, the effects of what you do on your own land is not generally limited to your own land.
re: #247 PhillyPretzel
I’m guessing Mueller saved a copy. And, if he truly does have integrity, he will come forward if the fat orange tyrant and his merry band of traitors tries to change anything.
re: #186 ObserverArt
I went to Philly in ‘76 for the big bicentennial celebration. We had some college friends from Philly and Jersey we hung out with.
It took a little time to get used to their speech for us Ohioans. First impression was they were faster and a little higher pitched.
And they were different from the Pittsburgh and Erie art students I met in college.
Even Ohio has three forms of dialect. Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.
My view of it is that the area covered by each distinct dialect in America is proportional to the speed of transportation at the time that area was settled by white people. Thus, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore all have very distinct accents, but by the time you get to the midwest, for example, there’s a generalized “Minnesota/Wisconsin” accent, and California has essentially one accent.
re: #251 Blind Frog Belly White
Note - I’ almost certain that I’m not the first to think this, but I never read it anywhere. Seems obvious, though.
re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth
In Lincoln’s father’s day, Kentucky was part of Virginia.
Yeah but Thomas Lincoln was born in a part that is still Va. :)
re: #97 Belafon
Someone should do a pattern analysis of his tweets to see if weekends are generally calmer than the weekdays. His Fox shows aren’t on Saturdays and Sundays, so does he have an incentive to get up.
It’s sunny and dry and warm today in Florida. That’s why he’s not tweeting; he’s golfing.
re: #254 sagehen
It’s sunny and dry and warm today in Florida. That’s why he’s not tweeting; he’s golfing.
He’s probably used his 50th mulligan by now
re: #186 ObserverArt
Always amazed me that a couple hundred miles can change language use and speech styles.
We have an extreme case here on the Rhine, but that is a case of history; in the neighboring valley, the people speak a noticeably different dialect.
Then I came to read that nearly the entire population of all three villages in the valley were wiped out by the Black Plague in the 1600’s and the area was repopulated by settlers from other parts of Germany, who brought their dialects with them.
But it is noticeable to this day.
re: #255 Joe Bacon 🌹
He’s probably used his 50th mulligan by now
The absence of basic integrity in the man is depressing. He apparently cheats like a motherfucker, then crows about winning, even though everyone knows he cheats. That’s how he does EVERYTHING. Sadly, it keeps working for him, so why wouldn’t he?
re: #257 Blind Frog Belly White
The absence of basic integrity in the man is depressing. He apparently cheats like a motherfucker, then crows about winning, even though everyone knows he cheats. That’s how he does EVERYTHING. Sadly, it keeps working for him, so why wouldn’t he?
Even his wives aren’t safe from the cheating.
/half
tbh, I’m not too concerned about Barr, not while Nancy Smash has the power of the subpeona, she can call anyone to discuss anything. While the WH can play footsie with this shit for so long, all Nancy (or Cummings or Nadler or Waters) has to do is ask them to speak before the appropriate Congressional committee and all of this will be out there on the Congressional record and C-Span for anyone to read and watch.
re: #243 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That, and apparently the responder didn’t realize that she was effectively saying that land should be allowed to vote. Like, if the majority of people in the country want to do a thing, it doesn’t matter because they don’t control enough land?
It actually sounds more like the responder is effectively saying that only land owner votes should count.
re: #238 plansbandc
This is quite good. Guy takes quotes from famous people and makes comics out of them. This one illustrates a Stephen King quote…
Awesome. I hit the random button and got this.
re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth
It actually sounds more like the responder is effectively saying that only land owner votes should count.
Well, yes. Obviously land can’t actually vote.
Latest on Mueller report: Hill won’t get principal conclusions today
- Hill has been told virtually nothing other than letter from last night
- WH hasn’t been briefed yet
- Conclusions likely tomorrow
- Pelosi telling her caucus they want “underlying findings” publicly released pic.twitter.com/bjawb4vZ4n— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 23, 2019
Ample questions about what the Hill will see when Barr sends the principal conclusions to Hill as soon as tomorrow. It’s not expected to be the word-for-word conclusions copied from the Mueller report, but a distillation of the main takeaways from the report, per @LauraAJarrett
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 23, 2019
re: #251 Blind Frog Belly White
My view of it is that the area covered by each distinct dialect in America is proportional to the speed of transportation at the time that area was settled by white people. Thus, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore all have very distinct accents, but by the time you get to the midwest, for example, there’s a generalized “Minnesota/Wisconsin” accent, and California has essentially one accent.
“Americans think 100 years was a long time ago. Europeans think 100 miles is far away.”
re: #262 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Well, yes. Obviously land can’t actually vote.
Still remember how Paul Gann repeatedly said that only property owners should have the right to vote.
re: #266 Joe Bacon 🌹
Still remember how Paul Gann repeatedly said that only property owners should have the right to vote.
Like the founders intended, don’tcha know.
re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth
WH hasn’t been briefed. Who believes that?
WOW….massive turnout in London for a march to demand a NEW #Brexit vote.🇬🇧#PutItToThePeopleMarch#PeoplesVotepic.twitter.com/0QqRx9VycE
— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) March 23, 2019
When the report (or parts of it) becomes public, remember:
His report doesn’t include the stuff that got farmed out to other courts; especially cases that haven’t yet gone to verdict/sentencing.
The parts that overlap with ongoing counterintelligence investigation won’t be made public.
Grand jury testimony won’t be made public.
Extraordinary aerial footage of the #PeopesVoteMarch in central London today.
Via @BBCPolitics pic.twitter.com/h5z3hprAlX— James Melville (@JamesMelville) March 23, 2019
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I strongly suspect we can look forward to weeks, if not months, of Barr trying to slow-walk the release of this report.
heh
#recap A man compared scraped knees to period pain – 13 savage burns.https://t.co/zRq1QfGpLO pic.twitter.com/lf66mqkBjt
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 23, 2019
re: #272 Targetpractice
I strongly suspect we can look forward to weeks, if not months, of Barr trying to slow-walk the release of this report.
It will be leaked, but in selective and tactically premeditated doses
These goats on a slide is the start to your weekend that you didn’t know you needed. pic.twitter.com/REQaffwzDJ
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) March 23, 2019
re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #271 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m glad to see that people are getting out to protest, but it sure took them until the 11th hour to do it. I hope that they can make a difference. Things are so f’ed up now.
Other countries are probably having the same reaction to how we treat Trump and the house and senate republicans. We spend so much time laughing just to keep from crying about how horribly things are going.
re: #274 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It will be leaked, but in selective and tactically premeditated doses
Ayep. See yesterday, where we learned from an anonymous “DOJ official” that there would be no further indictments. Barr’s going to now bullshit us endlessly about how he just can’t release the full report because “national security” or “ongoing investigations,” yet we’ll get constant “leaks” from “DOJ officials,” “White House staff,” and “Congressional aides” about what it allegedly contains.
re: #277 Targetpractice
Ayep. See yesterday, where we learned from an anonymous “DOJ official” that there would be no further indictments. Barr’s going to now bullshit us endlessly about how he just can’t release the full report because “national security” or “ongoing investigations,” yet we’ll get constant “leaks” from “DOJ officials,” “White House staff,” and “Congressional aides” about what it allegedly contains.
If they really want to keep it a secret, they should give it to Marvel, who has managed to control all information about Endgame.
David Anderson at balloon-juice.com reminds us that today is the 9th anniversary of the ACA.
re: #277 Targetpractice
Ayep. See yesterday, where we learned from an anonymous “DOJ official” that there would be no further indictments. Barr’s going to now bullshit us endlessly about how he just can’t release the full report because “national security” or “ongoing investigations,” yet we’ll get constant “leaks” from “DOJ officials,” “White House staff,” and “Congressional aides” about what it allegedly contains.
Various sides will leak whatever fits their narrative, the DT wide will leak all the parts that sound unfounded, exonerating or at least harmless.
I assume Mueller was aware of this when he prepared the report. I trust he has a long game.
re: #279 Belafon
David Anderson at balloon-juice.com reminds us that today is the 9th anniversary of the ACA.
9 years already. Time flies.
re: #276 stpaulbear
I’m glad to see that people are getting out to protest, but it sure took them until the 11th hour to do it. I hope that they can make a difference. Things are so f’ed up now.
Other countries are probably having the same reaction to how we treat Trump and the house and senate republicans. We spend so much time laughing just to keep from crying about how horribly things are going.
The people probably thought they had representation in government that would do the right thing in the long run.
Even if their country had a lot of people that voted for the wrong thing.
Like here in the USA where we have representatives we think would figure out we voted for the wrong thing.
Everyone is waiting for someone to do the right thing.
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