An Exquisite Duet: Natalia Lafourcade and Omara Portuondo: “Tú Me Acostumbraste” (En Manos De Los Macorinos)

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OK, I admit it, I’ve gotten totally hooked on Natalia Lafourcade’s ethereal voice. I don’t speak Spanish well enough to understand the lyrics, but who cares? (Translation provided below…)

And the accompaniment by renowned Mexican guitar duo Los Macorinos — chef’s kiss! Music gets no better than this.

Natalia Lafourcade - Tú Me Acostumbraste (ft. Omara Portuondo) (en manos de Los Macorinos)
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Tú Me Acostumbraste (ft. Omara Portuondo) (en manos de Los Macorinos)

Tú me acostumbraste
a todas esas cosas,
y tú me enseñaste
que son maravillosas.

Sutil llegaste a mí
como la tentación,
llenando de inquietud
mi corazón.

Yo no concebía
cómo se quería
en tu mundo raro,
y por ti aprendí.

Por eso me pregunto
al ver que me olvidaste,
por qué no me enseñaste
cómo se vive sin ti.

English translation:

You Made Me Get Used To It

You made me get used
To all of those things
And you showed me
That they are wonderful

Subtly, you were like a temptation when you came into my life,
Filling my heart with restlessness

It was inconceivable to me how love would work
Inside your strange world, and because of you I learned how.

Now that I see that you have forgotten me, I ask myself
Why you did not teach me how to live without you

Now that I see that you have forgotten me, I ask myself
Why you did not teach me how to live without you
Now that I see that you have forgotten me, I ask myself
Why you did not teach me how to live without you
Now that I see that you have forgotten me, I ask myself
Why you did not teach me how to live without you

Music video by NataliaLafourcade performing Tú Me Acostumbraste. (C) 2017 Sony Music Entertainment México, S.A. de C.V.

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1
freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:41:14am

If only the Queen could throw them into the tower…

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking

Conservative leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are facing growing calls to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:48:37am

See, here’s a monarch who knows how to make a difference:

Thai king strips ex-PM Thakin Shinawatra of royal decorations

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has revoked royal decorations awarded to deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, citing his corruption conviction and “extremely inappropriate” flight from the country.

[…]

The monarchy is above politics in Thailand, but that tradition was tested last month when the king’s sister accepted the nomination to run for prime minister for another pro-Thaksin party.

The king swiftly declared Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi’s candidacy “inappropriate” and both the princess and the party were disqualified.

[…]

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:56:00am

Given that the author of this article has a track record of targeting Democrats I suspect he’s just a political hack, but he makes an assertion:

Photos show migrants being held in a makeshift facility under a bridge as Trump threatens to close the border entirely

A massive surge of undocumented immigrants have been entering the United States from Mexico, overwhelming law enforcement agencies attempting to stem the flow of border crossings.

[…]

Is there any data to support this allegation of a “massive surge”?

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:00:46pm

A much more reliable source (Texas Tribune):

What we know about undocumented migrants being housed underneath a bridge in El Paso

As the El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol continues to see a massive influx of undocumented migrants crossing the border, the agency has constructed a temporary camp under the city’s Paso Del Norte International Bridge to hold some of the migrants who are waiting to be processed.

Photos of the encampment show migrants milling around inside a makeshift shelter, surrounded by fencing and razor wire, that includes a large military tent. Border Patrol agents say it’s a temporary solution made necessary by a recent surge. On Monday alone, agents in the sector apprehended more than 1,000 migrants, and the sector’s 11 stations don’t have adequate space to house that many people.

[…]

At least in this corner of the country, there is no news of a “massive surge”.

Methinks the irregular nature of the movement of people simply put the El Paso branch of the DHS under stress.

Or, and I will not rule this out, the whole put-them-in-cages routine is a Trump PR trick to scare.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:01:24pm

re: #3 freetoken

Is there any data to support this allegation of a “massive surge”?

I have been reading reports of unprecedented numbers approaching the US border from various sources, I do have to ask what is behind it given that border crossings were on a downward trend.

But if there are truly more refugees and asylum seekers there than we can currently deal with, we need to put resources into holding facilities and not into fencing.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:04:31pm

re: #5 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Given what this Administration does and says, I’m not putting it past them to move resources around just to make sure everything looks like a crisis.

There are general reports that there is an increase in minors from Central America, fleeing violence.

If so, I say then they are refugees seeking asylum.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:06:06pm

I fear that the Trumpian nationalists are going to win a horrible victory here, in turning a mass of young escapees from violence into “illegal Mexicans”.

Now is not the time to let down our diligence in countering hateful narratives.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:07:49pm

re: #6 freetoken

Given what this Administration does and says, I’m not putting it past them to move resources around just to make sure everything looks like a crisis.

There are general reports that there is an increase in minors from Central America, fleeing violence.

If so, I say then they are refugees seeking asylum.

I wouldn’t believe any information from this administration. They will distort anything to fit their narrative.

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ckkatz  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:16:23pm

My understanding was that CBP used to process and release refugees immediately. And that now CBP is holding them for several days, collecting hundreds, then dumping them all at once.

Additionally, I believe that we are at the situation forecast by many on this site and elsewhere; That the administration having wasted its credibility, is not believed in any matter, anymore.

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Jay C  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:20:44pm

re: #1 freetoken

If only the Queen could throw them into the tower…

Boris Johnson and Michael Gove under fire on Vote Leave’s law-breaking

Conservative leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Michael Gove are facing growing calls to account for illegal behaviour by the official Vote Leave Brexit campaign.

Unfortunately, I have a feeling that no matter how many campaign-finance irregularities are exposed, it isn’t going to make much, if any, difference in the Brexit mess: I doubt whether these charges are going to result in any more folks going to jail than they would over here (i.e. none) - and the issues have long since moved on to more vital matters: i.e., WTF are they going to do now?

Mrs. May’s “Deal” - to which she is still clinging with what can only be described as a death-grip , was just rejected - for the third time - by a large majority in the Commons. So they are still (on what was supposed to be “Brexit Day”) dickering and dithering over what to do, and getting, apparently, exactly nowhere. Though the PM has suggested that she might have them vote on her Deal yet again….

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:27:18pm

The Pope is doing his anti-Trump thing again:

Pope says migration problems won’t be fixed by physical barriers

Pope Francis said on Saturday that problems of migration would never be resolved by physical barriers but instead required social justice and correcting the world’s economic imbalances.

[…]

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makeitstop  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:32:09pm

That song was lovely. Great music for a lazy Saturday.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:33:41pm

All this makes me worried that Trump is doing this whole thing for his ethno-nationalist backers:

DHS Secretary Nielsen describes “system-wide breakdown” at U.S.-Mexico border

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen requested that DHS employees volunteer to assist Customs and Border Patrol and ICE “in responding to the emergency at the southern border” in a letter on Wednesday, obtained by CNN.

Trump wants the system to “breakdown”. He’s looking for an excuse to go all xenophobic.

We’ve handled large groups of migrants before. If there is a systemic failure this time then it means that there is something rotten going on.

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plansbandc  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:36:59pm

Obviously a set up and everyone except for the border states will start believing it’s an emergency.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:38:45pm

I will not be surprised, if it looks like the Mueller report is about to go public, that Trump tries to pull some ugly stunt regarding migrants, aid to countries, etc.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:40:51pm

re: #13 freetoken

All this makes me worried that Trump is doing this whole thing for his ethno-nationalist backers:

DHS Secretary Nielsen describes “system-wide breakdown” at U.S.-Mexico border

Trump wants the system to “breakdown”. He’s looking for an excuse to go all xenophobic.

We’ve handled large groups of migrants before. If there is a systemic failure this time then it means that there is something rotten going on.

“I’m asking all Americans to accept a collapse of the economy to keep our country white the emergency at the border (that I created) contained.”

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:52:26pm

This is pretty cool. They found glass beads in fossilized fish that died at the end of the Crataceous, providing direct proof of the meteor impact that led to the end of the dinosaurs:

The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota.

Then, tiny glass beads began to fall like birdshot from the heavens. The rain of glass was so heavy it may have set fire to much of the vegetation on land. In the water, fish struggled to breathe as the beads clogged their gills.

The heaving sea turned into a 30-foot wall of water when it reached the mouth of a river, tossing hundreds, if not thousands, of fresh-water fish — sturgeon and paddlefish — onto a sand bar and temporarily reversing the flow of the river. Stranded by the receding water, the fish were pelted by glass beads up to 5 millimeters in diameter, some burying themselves inches deep in the mud. The torrent of rocks, like fine sand, and small glass beads continued for another 10 to 20 minutes before a second large wave inundated the shore and covered the fish with gravel, sand and fine sediment, sealing them from the world for 66 million years.

This unique, fossilized graveyard — fish stacked one atop another and mixed in with burned tree trunks, conifer branches, dead mammals, mosasaur bones, insects, the partial carcass of a Triceratops, marine microorganisms called dinoflagellates and snail-like marine cephalopods called ammonites — was unearthed by paleontologist Robert DePalma over the past six years in the Hell Creek Formation, not far from Bowman, North Dakota. The evidence confirms a suspicion that nagged at DePalma in his first digging season during the summer of 2013 — that this was a killing field laid down soon after the asteroid impact that eventually led to the extinction of all ground-dwelling dinosaurs. The impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period, the so-called K-T boundary, exterminated 75 percent of life on Earth.

h/t dailykos.com

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:52:51pm

Your mini-history lesson for the day:

What Is One Hour Martinizing?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:57:50pm

Dog damn it

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 30, 2019 • 12:59:58pm

re: #19 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

OMG. That is horrible.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:02:07pm

re: #19 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Dog damn it

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1. The teen was black because of course.

2. This happened in Georgia and that state has a Stand Your Ground law.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:04:02pm

re: #17 Belafon

Speaking of dinosaurs:

If a new study is correct, Sue, the Field Museum’s iconic T. rex and one of the world’s great natural history artifacts, has been surpassed and Chicago will now have to accept Second City status in apex predator skeletons too.

Billed by the museum as the world’s largest and most complete T. rex ever found, Sue is smaller in size and weight than Scotty, a T. rex from Saskatchewan, according to a new paper by a team led by Canadian scientists and just published in the journal The Anatomical Record.

The specimen was first discovered 28 years ago and was known to be a large T. rex, but the paper, years in the making, is the first full scientific description of it, and the first to specify the “largest” size.

Headlines in both the scientific and popular press hailed the news. “Paleontologists discover ‘Scotty,’ the world’s largest T. rex fossil: ‘The rex of rexes’,” said USA Today’s.

But hold on a minute, says the Field, which has made Sue a centerpiece of its collection since 2000 and just last December unveiled a new gallery designed especially for the 40-plus-foot-long, 90 percent-intact skeleton discovered in 1990 in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

“It’s sort of a tempest in a tea cup,” said Pete Makovicky, the Chicago museum’s lead curator of dinosaurs, when asked about the headlines tagging Scotty as the new size king. “When you look at it scientifically, you know, the two specimens are about the same size — or, we can say, statistically indistinguishable.”

In other words, the most you can say about Sue vs. Scotty is that we now have two very large, very long-lived T. rexes, argued Makovicky, because of certain imprecisions in measuring fossils and extrapolating the weight of a flesh-and-blood animal from bones that have turned to stone.

Also, he added, there’s a third big T. rex specimen at Museum of the Rockies in Montana that should be part of this grouping, too, since it has about the same femoral, or thigh-bone, circumference as the other two animals, a key measurement in estimating mass.

What’s most meaningful, scientifically, about Scotty’s size isn’t so much any superlative but the fact that we now have three T. rex specimens of about the same size, suggesting that the 40- to 42-foot-long and 20,000-pound range may have been the species’ topping-out point.

“We’re basically extending the range of what we know about T. rex,” said Ryan McKellar, curator of paleontology at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, which has a Scotty skeleton cast on display at its T. Rex Discovery Centre in Eastend, near where Scotty was found, and in May will unveil a second Scotty replica at its main museum in the capital city of Regina. “It gives us a more complete idea of how big these guys got.”

Scotty, like Sue, also exhibited significant evidence of injury on its bones, reinforcing the idea that T. rexes had to endure a lot to make it to maturity when they were alive some 67 million years ago.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:05:09pm

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

1. The teen was black because of course.

2. This happened in Georgia and that state has a Stand Your Ground law.

The guy , also black, fired on him from a balcony as the kid had headed back down the stairs. He’s already in custody.

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Teukka  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:07:34pm
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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:08:00pm

re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat

OK. Trying to figure out how t-rex size relates.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:10:11pm

re: #25 Belafon

Updated (IOW, me bad….)

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:16:01pm

PZed deconstructs Jordan Peterson:

Jordan Peterson’s Weird Biological Essentialism

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:23:41pm

re: #15 freetoken

I will not be surprised, if it looks like the Mueller report is about to go public, that Trump tries to pull some ugly stunt regarding migrants, aid to countries, etc.

He didn’t wait. Those stunts have been pulled.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:25:42pm

re: #19 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Dog damn it

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Another blood sacrifice to the Tree of Liberty, whose thirst is never quenched.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:26:55pm

re: #28 wrenchwench

He didn’t wait. Those stunts have been pulled.

I’m worried about worse stunts.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:28:57pm

re: #30 freetoken

I’m worried about worse stunts.

I hear mid-april is a good time to invade Venezuela.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:30:08pm

re: #30 freetoken

I’m worried about worse stunts.

Like Trump could possibly get any wo…

…oh, shit.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:30:55pm

re: #30 freetoken

I’m worried about worse stunts.

Me too, until he’s gone. He could crash the economy of the entire hemisphere world. And/or go to war against Russia, Cuba, and whoever else in Venezuela.

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:32:52pm

re: #13 freetoken

All this makes me worried that Trump is doing this whole thing for his ethno-nationalist backers:

DHS Secretary Nielsen describes “system-wide breakdown” at U.S.-Mexico border

Trump wants the system to “breakdown”. He’s looking for an excuse to go all xenophobic.

We’ve handled large groups of migrants before. If there is a systemic failure this time then it means that there is something rotten going on.

We always have to consider everything is a stage show with Trump. He loves his ratings for his ‘realities’ he writes and produces. He has to make his lies truthful in real life. Video.

He wouldn’t care at all about the people involved if he does gather them up over time so he can have these images of flocks of people.

They made the mistake of coming up here, aren’t they watching TV like Trump, that is the other audience for his shows?

You know that is how he thinks and everyone else goes along because he is Trump.

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Teukka  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:36:44pm

re: #30 freetoken

I’m worried about worse stunts.

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

Like Trump could possibly get any wo…

…oh, shit.

re: #33 wrenchwench

Me too, until he’s gone. He could crash the economy of the entire hemisphere world. And/or go to war against Russia, Cuba, and whoever else in Venezuela.

Yep. Or, say, Uncle Vova gets caught with his hand undeniably in the wrong cookie jar.
What is he prepared to do to try to escape?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:37:38pm
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Teukka  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:40:00pm

re: #36 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:40:46pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:41:52pm

re: #37 Teukka

“Back in the day” IE when we didn’t have a narcissistic maniac in the White House.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:44:26pm

re: #30 freetoken

I’m worried about worse stunts.

Yes. Invading Iran which is what Booby Nincompoopo wants us to do.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:44:42pm

re: #37 Teukka

Hi Teukka, thanks for turning us on to the three arrows guy. I like listening to his episodes.

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Teukka  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:46:24pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

Hi Teukka, thanks for turning us on to the three arrows guy. I like listening to his episodes.

You’re welcome. When I spot yummy chocolately stuff during my YouTube foraging, I will share :)

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Amory Blaine  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:48:12pm

re: #42 Teukka

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The Ghost of Quesos Past  Mar 30, 2019 • 1:53:13pm

re: #42 Teukka

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:00:20pm
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fern01  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:04:33pm

re: #8 Hecuba’s daughter

I wouldn’t believe any information from this administration. They will distort anything to fit their narrative.

It is hard to think of the US having a government that lies 99% of the time. The propaganda to generate fear and hate is never ending

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:07:12pm

Dear New York Times:

Please don’t send me a news alert about your paper kissing up to the Kardashians!

Joe B.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:09:27pm

Kick the turd out.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:19:00pm

After kicking the turd out, Imma need some new boots…

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:26:13pm

re: #45 wrenchwench

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Yikes!

He might have some closets in his closets.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:29:17pm

Heya Lizardim.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:31:23pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

Yikes!

He might have some closets in his closets.

Crippled Inside (Remastered 2010)

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:32:30pm

LOL
The People’s Front of Efficiency, or How To End Alt-Energy Factionalism
thedrive.com

Logic suggests its advocates should unite and conquer, but the narcissism of small differences demands that battery-electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell vehicle fans must denounce each other with histrionic polemic. Hades help the heretics whose outreach to non-early adopter communities leads them to pitch a tent big enough to accommodate other aligned allies like conventional hybrids, improved combustion and lower-carbon fuels on the one side, and mass transit and active transport (walking, cycling) on the other. [2]

A popular teaching on the battery-electric side of the divide is the Gospel of Efficiency, which scapegoats fuel cell vehicles owing to batteries’ higher efficiency at turning renewable electricity into motion. Turning fuel cells — not combustion engines, but fuel cells — into the Emmanuel Goldstein of transportation is a masterful sleight-of-hand: as we all know, batteries have never been at war with combustion. Batteries are at war with fuel cells. Batteries have always been at war with fuel cells.

Regrettably, the argument of efficiency, while airtight, is as flimsy as bubble wrap. The analysis itself shows why.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:39:52pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:41:18pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Some lightweight personalities are “harrowed” (1) all too easily and (2) on command like a first audition actor.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:42:26pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:42:35pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

And do not forget that the SDNY still has several ongoing investigations into said conman.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:44:08pm

re: #57 PhillyPretzel

And do not forget that the SDNY still has several ongoing investigations into said conman.

Couldn’t Barr interfere in those too?

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:45:35pm

How cute! (It’s Salamander Saturday)

oh….

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:46:58pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

How cute! (It’s Salamander Saturday)

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oh….

Glad pigs can’t do that.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:48:14pm

re: #60 Barefoot Grin

Glad pigs can’t do that.

Some BBQ sauce, though….that might work.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:48:45pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

Some BBQ sauce, though….that might work.

“Waiter, bring the antidote, stat!”

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:48:59pm

Bootyjudge is losing me, too:

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jaunte  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:49:01pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

Schiff could paraphrase Truman:

“I don’t give ‘em hell, I just ask for the truth and they think it’s hell.”

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:49:59pm

re: #64 jaunte

Schiff could paraphrase Truman:

I love this, because it’s true.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:52:34pm

re: #64 jaunte

Schiff could paraphrase Truman:

Trooper - Raise A Little Hell

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 2:58:08pm

Animated graphs could make me smarter.

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makeitstop  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:00:17pm

re: #56 Barefoot Grin

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I gotta say, I quite like Woke Axl.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:05:28pm
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Amory Blaine  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:11:10pm

re: #53 Unshaken Defiance

Heh

BEVs are the Robb Stark of Electric Mobility

We have a little meme going in our house, “Rob Stark, you’re the dumbest Stark of all”.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:13:46pm

re: #67 wrenchwench

Animated graphs could make me smarter.

You’d hope it would do so for many people, but a few of the comments already on that tweet suggest many people still don’t get it.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:14:32pm

Remember the cop who shot a black nurse who was lying on the ground with his hands up, a few years ago? He was set free. And people go out of their freaking minds when football players protest these shootings by taking a knee.

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:15:40pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

Some BBQ sauce, though….that might work.

If it has some vinegar in it, it’ll break that toxin down, no problem.

Go ahead, try it and let me know.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:16:01pm

re: #71 freetoken

You’d hope it would do so for many people, but a few of the comments already on that tweet suggest many people still don’t get it.

I never read the comments. Except here.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:17:12pm

re: #73 ObserverArt

If it has some vinegar in it, it’ll break that toxin down, no problem.

Go ahead, try it and let me know.

I was thinking BBQ instead of toxins, not ‘in addition’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:19:24pm

O_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:25:33pm
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jaunte  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:32:21pm

I doubt if anyone who had read David Cay Johnston’s book The Making of Donald Trump would ever think of voting for him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:37:42pm

why is the moron quoting the fake news NYT?

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Jay C  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:40:20pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

why is the moron quoting the fake news NYT?

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Because it’s Bret Stephens: Op-Ed apologetics for Trump’s BS policies (whether they are actually working or not) are never “fake news”….

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:40:25pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

why is the moron quoting the fake news NYT?

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Because his buddy Brett is kissing his ass on the Op-Ed page.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:40:36pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

why is the moron quoting the fake news NYT?

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“No cost to the US”? I guess Bret hasn’t been looking at the price at the gas pump lately.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:43:56pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:45:23pm

Better yet, remember last year when gas prices were trending down and the press was giving Donny credit for having created a glut in the market by conning Saudis? Amazing how, now that that glut has disappeared and he’s back to begging OPEC to increase production, the press doesn’t want to talk too much about gas prices.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:48:34pm
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jaunte  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:50:41pm

re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s already cost Qatar a billion dollars for bailing out Kushner.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:53:43pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But it had a nice music loop…

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Jay C  Mar 30, 2019 • 3:58:35pm

re: #63 freetoken

Much as I will also admit to a certain level of unimpressedness re Mayor Pete: he does touch on a serious point here. To beat Trump in 2020 (assuming we are still unfortunate enough to have him to run against) - the Democrats are going to have to have:

1. An attractive and viable slate of candidates, and
2. An attractive set of policies to run on.

And, even more unfortunately, harping on, or even bringing up, the “hate, ignorance and greed” basis of the Trump/GOP is probably going to be a sure loser as a national campaign theme. Not because it isn’t “true”*, but because one thing the modern RW has managed to inculcate as a fundamental political principle in its “base” is an near-all-pervasive sense of “victimization” - often epitomized by invoking the “disdain” displayed by “liberal elitists” for the concerns and “values” of “ordinary Americans”**, and equally often, exemplified by turning accusations of “prejudice” (racial, usually) into a false narrative of gratuitous insult: however well-grounded the charges may be.
We can always mock the RW knee-jerks of deeming accusations of “racism” as worse that racism itself, but the sad reality is, in a Presidential campaign, castigating Trump voters for their “ignorance” and/or “hate” is probably not a winning strategy. Especially given media biases.
That said, Buttigeig’s “economic anxiety” comment is still, IMO, stupid and wrong.

* IMO, anyway
** scare quotes deliberate

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:02:56pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is just wrong. On soooooo many levels. 20 minutes that ain’t cooked; nor is coming out that color from BAKING 20 mins. The only salt is from the ham and bechamel sauce. The potatoes would be crap with no oil nor seasoning. What evil person did this? The not so mild porn at the beginning, let’s not go there.

0/10

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:05:43pm

The never ending stream of butthurt from incel trekkies over the new series continues… and now flows over to the upcoming Picard series:

Star Trek Picard in Trouble? Rumor Rundown and Placement in Canon

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:16:25pm

re: #90 freetoken

The never ending stream of butthurt from incel trekkies over the new series continues… and now flows over to the upcoming Picard series:

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Video

I don’t know about any incel butthurt, but the new series is just bad. C’mon FTL travel by mushroom? That’s worse than when Voyager’s biological computers got sick due to some bacteria in Nelix’s cheese making. Discovery is more fantasy than sci-fi.

Hadn’t even heard there was supposed to be a Picard series, but if it features Patrick Stewart, how bad can it be.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:18:22pm

re: #91 danarchy

I don’t know about any incel butthurt, but the new series is just bad. C’mon FTL travel by mushroom? That’s worse than when Voyager’s biological computers got sick due to some bacteria in Nelix’s cheese making. Discovery is more fantasy than sci-fi.

Hadn’t even heard there was supposed to be a Picard series, but if it features Patrick Stewart, how bad can it be.

It can be bad, but anything featuring Patrick Stewart is worth watching, even if it is bad.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:20:04pm

re: #91 danarchy

I don’t know about any incel butthurt, but the new series is just bad. C’mon FTL travel by mushroom? That’s worse than when Voyager’s biological computers got sick due to some bacteria in Nelix’s cheese making. Discovery is more fantasy than sci-fi.

Hadn’t even heard there was supposed to be a Picard series, but if it features Patrick Stewart, how bad can it be.

Almost all that goes by the label “sci-fi” is really more fantasy, even religion, than anything to do with science and the real universe.

Some series are notoriously bad - Stargate, for example.

ST:D to me is no worse than the rest of Star Trek, all of the series of which relied on pretty much chucking out any real physics for the sake of the cowboys-in-space genre that it really is.

And regarding ST:D, what could be more of an homage to the 1960’s of TOS than magic mushrooms?

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:21:24pm

re: #90 freetoken

The never ending stream of butthurt from incel trekkies over the new series continues… and now flows over to the upcoming Picard series:

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How do you travel faster than light?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:22:01pm

re: #94 Belafon

How do you travel faster than light?

Very Carefully (tm).

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:22:25pm

re: #94 Belafon

How do you travel faster than light?

Magic mushrooms can get you high off the Earth.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:23:04pm

re: #93 freetoken

Almost all that goes by the label “sci-fi” is really more fantasy, even religion, than anything to do with science and the real universe.

Some series are notoriously bad - Stargate, for example.

ST:D to me is no worse than the rest of Star Trek, all of the series of which relied on pretty much chucking out any real physics for the sake of the cowboys-in-space genre that it really is.

And regarding ST:D, what could be more of a homage to the 1960’s of TOS than magic mushrooms?

Hey now. Don’t bad-mouth my Stargate. SG-1 is a classic and Atlantis is decent-ish, at least at the beginning. I’ll grant you that both series fell off the rails at the end, but that’s pretty typical of Sci-Fi Network shows.

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:24:37pm

re: #96 freetoken

Magic mushrooms can get you high off the Earth.

Maybe the series will end with Michael waking up at Starfleet academy after having a bad trip…

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:24:41pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Hey now. Don’t bad-mouth my Stargate. SG-1 is a classic and Atlantis is decent-ish, at least at the beginning. I’ll grant you that both series fell off the rails at the end, but that’s pretty typical of Sci-Fi Network shows.

They never explained how Teal’c could understand and speak English right from the start.

Indeed, most everyone in the galaxy appears to speak English.

And a lot of planets look vaguely like British Columbia.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:26:38pm

re: #99 freetoken

They never explained how Teal’c could understand and speak English right from the start.

Indeed, most everyone in the galaxy appears to speak English.

And a lot of planets look vaguely like British Columbia.

As opposed to Trek, where a lot of alien planets look like the Mojave Desert.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:27:16pm

re: #99 freetoken

They never explained how Teal’c could understand and speak English right from the start.

Indeed, most everyone in the galaxy appears to speak English.

And a lot of planets look vaguely like British Columbia.

The planets part they at least tried to explain. Something along the lines of the Goa’uld terraforming planets they conquered into something that was suitable for their hosts. The languages I never thought about, but to be fair, it’s not the biggest plot hole in sci-fi. I’m not saying it’s on the level of classic Star Trek, but I think Stargate gets an unfairly bad rap sometimes because it wasn’t a big-budget series.

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:28:35pm

re: #101 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The planets part they at least tried to explain. Something along the lines of the Goa’uld terraforming planets they conquered into something that was suitable for their hosts. The languages I never thought about, but to be fair, it’s not the biggest plot hole in sci-fi. I’m not saying it’s on the level of classic Star Trek, but I think Stargate gets an unfairly bad rap sometimes because it wasn’t a big-budget series.

I thought it was a huge budget and that was why it got cancelled.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:28:48pm

Stewart has some creative control on the series. It won’t suck.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:28:50pm

One thing I noticed about the remastered SG-1 on Amazon Prime is that there were dialogue changes even in the first episode.

For example, in the original, the reason Earth’s stargate could not reach other planets was stated as having to do with the expansion of the universe. Which is nonsense because the gravitational attraction in the galaxy is far far greater than the dark energy pushing on space.

In the remastered first episode, the scene with Carter giving the silly explanation is cut, and instead Carter’s voice is added to one of the transition shots, explaining that the movement of the stars inside the galaxy is the reason. (Still not good physics, but it’s a far better explanation.)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:29:56pm

re: #102 danarchy

I thought it was a huge budget and that was why it got cancelled.

I think it got that way in the end. It started off pretty successful, but then the storyline fell apart around Season 5 or 6, and when they brought in the Ori… Like, what the fuck, Sci-Fi Channel. Then they were spending more than the product was worth.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:30:18pm

re: #103 Eclectic Cyborg

Stewart has some creative control on the series. It won’t suck.

That’s what has me optimistic about the series, the fact that Sir Patrick would only come back if he had some measure of creative control. This isn’t simply another case of cutting a big enough check to entice an actor to come out of retirement for one last gig.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:32:47pm

re: #105 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I thought it was the escalating costs in the actors’ contracts, such as RDA, that made the series look expensive.

NBCU really messed up the SciFi channel with all their experimenting in changing shows, show times, show days, etc. And their ratings suffered badly. Yet I doubt any corporate execs were held accountable.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:33:49pm

Speaking of SciFi, I just finished Tiamats Wrath. That’s all eight Expanse novels, plus all the short fiction like Strange Dogs and Gods of Risk.
Expanse set a whole new level for TV/Streaming SciFi.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:34:15pm

re: #107 freetoken

I thought it was the escalating costs in the actors’ contracts, such as RDA, that made the series look expensive.

NBCU really messed up the SciFi channel with all their experimenting in changing shows, show times, show days, etc. And their ratings suffered badly. Yet I doubt any corporate execs were held accountable.

You could be right about that; admittedly, I never really dove deep into the reasons behind its cancellation. It explains why RDA got shuffled off shortly after Atlantis got spun up, though. And why they continued with Atlantis after SG-1 shuffled off its mortal coil.

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:37:46pm

re: #107 freetoken

I thought it was the escalating costs in the actors’ contracts, such as RDA, that made the series look expensive.

NBCU really messed up the SciFi channel with all their experimenting in changing shows, show times, show days, etc. And their ratings suffered badly. Yet I doubt any corporate execs were held accountable.

I am sure salaries had a lot to do with it, that’s what usually ends up killing long running tv series. Towards the end SG-1 was costing over 2 million dollars per episode to produce. For a show like the Bing Bang theory they can sustain that but SG-1 on a really good night only had a few million viewers.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:37:47pm

re: #109 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

RDA had a child so he wanted to stay in California, so I read somewhere. And as he got older he had feet problems so he didn’t want to do the action scenes.

RDA was very popular in his run on MacGyver, more so than stars in nearly all series these days. That was the 1980’s and RDA was a sex symbol of sorts, especially to the older female audience.

I also seem to remember reading somewhere that it was RDA’s involvement in the original pitch for SG-1 that got Showtime interested in producing it.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:41:44pm

Michael Shanks probably wanted a pretty good cut too.

Then again, he has expensive tastes. In women too, given who his partner was (the Sha’re in the TV series) and then his wife. Shanks was/is another sex symbol and sure enough found himself extremely attractive and exotic mates.

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Jay C  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:45:16pm

re: #100 Targetpractice

As opposed to Trek, where a lot of alien planets look like the Mojave Desert.

Used to be Rule #1 of TV SF (still may be): every planet in the Galaxy has a location that is an exact replica of the Vasquez Rocks of Southern California.

(Firefly being that last one I can recall: a note goof on IMDB was the road traffic accidentally included in a scene on a “desert planet”)

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:49:14pm

Elon Musk would like a word with any and all Directors looking to stick to genuine locations for SciFi.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:51:49pm

Anything using any technology other than solid or liquid fuel or nuclear power is fantasy. Any communication not bound by the speed of light is fantasy. And ion drives aren’t powerful enough to move anything large yet.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:52:42pm

I wish there were really good sci-fi series for the small screen.

Not the space-cowboy stuff.

One sub-genre avoided, perhaps due to cost of production, is setting a story in the far future, on Earth (no faster than light travel.)

There have been plenty of dystopian shows about the near future, but I’m talking about the far future, many centuries.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:52:57pm

re: #115 Belafon

Anything using any technology other than solid or liquid fuel or nuclear power is fantasy. Any communication not bound by the speed of light is fantasy. And ion drives aren’t powerful enough to move anything large yet.

Ion drives are immensely powerful… if you’re patient enough to give them time to act. That is their fundamental limitation. Unlike the ion drives of sci-fi fantasy, real-life ion drives provide a small impulse over a long duration. They are ideal for interplanetary or interstellar spaceflight. For short-range orbital changes? Ehh… not so much.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:55:52pm

re: #117 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ion drives are immensely powerful… if you’re patient enough to give them time to act. That is their fundamental limitation. Unlike the ion drives of sci-fi fantasy, real-life ion drives provide a small impulse over a long duration. They are ideal for interplanetary or interstellar spaceflight. For short-range orbital changes? Ehh… not so much.

Yeah, you’re more precise than I am. It’ll be great for the trip to the next inhabitable planet, as long as we plan for the religion that will develop on the ship as people start to think that earth is a legend and form their own creation story.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 4:57:17pm

re: #118 Belafon

Yeah, you’re more precise than I am. It’ll be great for the trip to the next inhabitable planet, as long as we plan for the religion that will develop on the ship as people start to think that earth is a legend and form their own creation story.

Using ion drives for that trip is possibly the only realistic way that it will happen, barring discovery of faster-than-light hyperspace technology.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:00:25pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:05:18pm
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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:08:10pm

The expected return on a PowerBall ticket tonight, after taxes here in California, is a bit over $.05 for a $2 ticket. Not a very good expected return.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:12:28pm

re: #122 freetoken

The expected return on a PowerBall ticket tonight, after taxes here in California, is a bit over $.05 for a $2 ticket. Not a very good expected return.

When California passed the Lotto initiative in 1984 it included a provision that all lotto winnings were exempt from state income taxes.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:12:52pm

re: #116 freetoken

I wish there were really good sci-fi series for the small screen.

Not the space-cowboy stuff.

One sub-genre avoided, perhaps due to cost of production, is setting a story in the far future, on Earth (no faster than light travel.)

There have been plenty of dystopian shows about the near future, but I’m talking about the far future, many centuries.

Altered Carbon is pretty decent, set in the far future and AFAIK there’s no FTL travel for matter, just information (and because humanity has essentially become a hybrid digital construct, consciousness.) It’s also dystopian af.

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:18:00pm
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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:23:19pm

re: #123 Joe Bacon 🌹

When California passed the Lotto initiative in 1984 it included a provision that all lotto winnings were exempt from state income taxes.

Yes, but the top federal tax is 37%.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:23:30pm
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Sea Mexican  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:25:26pm

I remember Natalia’s first hit on the radio:

Natalia Lafourcade - En el 2000 ((2da Version) (Video))

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Dave In Austin  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:26:02pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

Dog on the table… No No No.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:27:11pm
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Man, DangerMan  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:30:09pm

re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg

1. The teen was black because of course.

2. This happened in Georgia and that state has a Stand Your Ground law.

Shot from a balcony.
No threat

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:32:07pm

re: #131 Man, DangerMan

Shot from a balcony.
No threat

He was black, obviously he was a threat. Haven’t you heard black men gonna take yer wimminz?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:32:28pm

re: #126 freetoken

Yes, but the top federal tax is 37%.

Criswell Bacon predicts that if you would win the $40 million Powerball Jackpot you would be able to pay the $14.8 million in Federal Income Tax.

Oh don’t forget that nice juicy tax cut Trump signed that give you around $1 million in extra $$$!

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:33:11pm

re: #125 teleskiguy

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I think that is the first time I’ve seen anyone blame Trump for the increase because he’s fucked everything up and instead of discouraging the people they are encouraged to take advantage.

Stephen Miller isn’t going to like this.

Does Big Donny have a crude nickname for Frum? Probably one forthcoming.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:36:17pm

Got up to 80 today. Broke out the shorts and the air conditioner has been plugged in to get ready for a workout when the temperature hits the mid 80s.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:37:07pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon 🌹

Got up to 80 today. Broke out the shorts and the air conditioner has been plugged in to get ready for a workout when the temperature hits the mid 80s.

The high here was just above freezing, the low just below. Seems to be a trend for the next few days. Spring got off to a roaring start, but it seems to have missed a shift.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:40:49pm

re: #131 Man, DangerMan

Shot from a balcony.
No threat

Just as a samurai sword, once drawn, must not be returned to the scabbard without drawing blood, a gun, once drawn, must not be returned to the holster without shooting somebody.

A samurai of course will draw the blood from his own finger if necessary, but gun nuts won’t shoot themselves in the same situation.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:41:05pm

re: #128 Sea Mexican

I remember Natalia’s first hit on the radio:

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Video

I love that. Thanks.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:41:16pm

re: #135 Joe Bacon 🌹

Got up to 80 today. Broke out the shorts and the air conditioner has been plugged in to get ready for a workout when the temperature hits the mid 80s.

got up to 73 here in TheBackwoods.
Might have some snow in the morning.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:41:20pm

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:42:19pm

re: #136 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The high here was just above freezing, the low just below. Seems to be a trend for the next few days. Spring got off to a roaring start, but it seems to have missed a shift.

A little of that cold is coming down our way here in Columbus in a few hours. 28° tonight, 36° tomorrow, 23° Sunday/Monday overnight and back up to high 40s Monday. See-saw weather time.

It does look like we are going to have a Spring this year. It hasn’t jumped to 80° yet. We might actually have some 60s.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:45:28pm

re: #136 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The high here was just above freezing, the low just below. Seems to be a trend for the next few days. Spring got off to a roaring start, but it seems to have missed a shift.

It was really starting to warm up here in January—had to have the windows open. Then it turned really cold, snowed—twice—and the crap stuck around for two weeks, which never happens, and now it’s spring again. But climate change is a hoax.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:48:05pm

re: #142 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

It was really starting to warm up here in January—had to have the windows open. Then it turned really cold, snowed—twice—and the crap stuck around for two weeks, which never happens, and now it’s spring again. But climate change is a hoax.

Mother Nature seems to have forgotten how to double-clutch.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:53:09pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:57:27pm
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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 5:59:59pm

re: #2 freetoken

See, here’s a monarch who knows how to make a difference:

Thai king strips ex-PM Thakin Shinawatra of royal decorations

Unfortunately, in Thailand, the formerly Prime Minister is in self imposed exile because of a coup. And the King’s sister was running against the military junta backed party

Thailand’s a beautiful country, I was there last year. And you wouldn’t really know that the military Ian in charge on a daily basis, but it is

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:01:00pm

re: #145 wrenchwench

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And how dare they name Cassini’s Titan probe after Mrs. a-Huygens from The Carol Burnett Show?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:05:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:09:51pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:10:13pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:10:50pm

re: #24 Teukka

UC Berkeley alum, supposed expert on anti-govt extremism, will never mention anything about cartels, wahhabism, African warlords, etc.
Probably supports Macron in France. Can’t even admit that Q is a GROUP consisting of Military Intel, when she was referring to Q as “he.” Sexist.

My brother has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Q, yet he continually spouts standard Q theories (no Pizzagate though). Today he talked about Clapper and Brennan in orange suits and the Deep State and Obama’s criminality. Of course, he couldn’t get many words in edgewise over the very vocal objections from my sister and me. So the question is — where do these conspiracy theories originate?

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Cheechako  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:13:08pm

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

My brother has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Q, yet he continually spouts standard Q theories (no Pizzagate though). Today he talked about Clapper and Brennan in orange suits and the Deep State and Obama’s criminality. Of course, he couldn’t get many words in edgewise over the very vocal objections from my sister and me. So the question is — where do these conspiracy theories originate?

Ever surf the internet?

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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:16:05pm

So last night, while looking for something to watch, I came upon this ridiculous movie on Netflix called An Interview with God. I looked it up answer it’s apparently a “faith based movie” but I figured what the hell and hit play. There was one line that really bothered me (well two, actually…

The first was when the reporter asked the guy who claims to be god if he’s the only god and he answers “know many polytheists these days?” My first though was, aren’t there like a billion Hindus in the world? And this is supposed to be taking place in NYC, you’d think there’d be a few in that town. You’d also think that a journalist who had been in Iraq or Afghanistan would ask this god about the Quran. But he doesn’t because it’s blindly Christian(ist) in nature.

The second line that bothered me was when the journalist asks if an atheist can be a moral person and god says “yes, but you can also build your house on no foundation and just hope the earth doesn’t move.” Which just dismisses all sorts of history.

I would not recommend anyone waste their time on it. Hell, I didn’t even make it to the last twenty minutes or so.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:17:01pm

Hmmm?

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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:18:08pm

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

My brother has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Q, yet he continually spouts standard Q theories (no Pizzagate though). Today he talked about Clapper and Brennan in orange suits and the Deep State and Obama’s criminality. Of course, he couldn’t get many words in edgewise over the very vocal objections from my sister and me. So the question is — where do these conspiracy theories originate?

I get a shit ton of right wing memes in my explore tap on Instagram. Which is slightly annoying since I don’t follow any overtly political accounts… and if I did, they wouldn’t be wingnuts

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:23:50pm

re: #152 Cheechako

Ever surf the internet?

I once did a Google image search for Q Anon people using Q Anon believers as my search request. It is scary.

Google Images - Q Anon Believers

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:27:01pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:31:33pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:38:43pm

re: #153 KGxvi

So last night, while looking for something to watch, I came upon this ridiculous movie on Netflix called An Interview with God. I looked it up answer it’s apparently a “faith based movie” but I figured what the hell and hit play. There was one line that really bothered me (well two, actually…

The first was when the reporter asked the guy who claims to be god if he’s the only god and he answers “know many polytheists these days?” My first though was, aren’t there like a billion Hindus in the world? And this is supposed to be taking place in NYC, you’d think there’d be a few in that town. You’d also think that a journalist who had been in Iraq or Afghanistan would ask this god about the Quran. But he doesn’t because it’s blindly Christian(ist) in nature.

The second line that bothered me was when the journalist asks if an atheist can be a moral person and god says “yes, but you can also build your house on no foundation and just hope the earth doesn’t move.” Which just dismisses all sorts of history.

I would not recommend anyone waste their time on it. Hell, I didn’t even make it to the last twenty minutes or so.

Whoa, you just reminded me of a ‘play’ I saw on public TV, when it was on UHF in LA, in which God was a Puerto Rican sauna attendant. I can’t remember much else, but I’m pretty sure it was real. And real good. Funny.

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:38:49pm

This is actually some excellent nuanced analysis of the Rogan podcast.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:38:49pm

re: #158 Backwoods_Sleuth

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In Catland, wave function collapses you!

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:40:44pm

re: #155 KGxvi

I get a shit ton of right wing memes in my explore tap on Instagram. Which is slightly annoying since I don’t follow any overtly political accounts… and if I did, they wouldn’t be wingnuts

re: #152 Cheechako

Ever surf the internet?

So it actually comes down to: thousands of people out there decide to embellish the truth or speculate and their stories circulate the internet and eventually land in InfoWars or Limbaugh or Fox and get even wider distribution. Of course, some conspiracies may have been newly hatched in the troll factories of St. Petersburg and then pushed out to the world.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:43:00pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

Whoa, you just reminded me of a ‘play’ I saw on public TV, when it was on UHF in LA, in which God was a Puerto Rican sauna attendant. I can’t remember much else, but I’m pretty sure it was real. And real good. Funny.

It was a PBS Play “Steambath” will Bill Bixby, Valerie Perrine and José Peréz as God. Very controversial and many stations didn’t run it.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:43:44pm

re: #163 Joe Bacon 🌹

Aaand the Lizard wiki wins again.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:44:41pm

re: #156 ObserverArt

I once did a Google image search for Q Anon people using Q Anon believers as my search request. It is scary.

Google Images - Q Anon Believers

Art it’s scary because most of my brainwashed family believes the “Q” shit.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:46:33pm

re: #163 Joe Bacon 🌹

It was a PBS Play “Steambath” will Bill Bixby, Valerie Perrine and José Peréz as God. Very controversial and many stations didn’t run it.

Yes! Thank you!

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Dave In Austin  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:48:25pm

CrankShaft. The Germans have all the fun

Dangerous Biggest Crankshaft Forging Process in Metal Heavyweight Forging Factory Germany, US, China

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:48:45pm

Cynicism confirmed #643

DEA Never Checked If Its Massive Surveillance Operations Are Legal, Watchdog Says

The Drug Enforcement Administration skirted numerous legal checks on a trio of bulk data collection programs dating back to the early 1990s, according to an internal watchdog.

In a heavily redacted, 144-page report published Thursday, the Justice Department Inspector General revealed the administration failed to fully assess the legal basis for three massive international surveillance operations that ran largely unchecked from 1992 to 2013. Two of the programs remain active in some form today.

Under one initiative, which investigators called “Program A,” the administration used “non-target specific” subpoenas to force multiple telecom providers to provide metadata on every phone call made from the U.S. to as many as 116 countries with “a nexus to drugs.” Investigators found some companies also provided the officials with data on all calls made between those foreign countries.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:51:51pm

And Theresa May continues her Fuck Up Follies in Parliament

Conservative MPs from across the party are threatening to vote down any attempt by Theresa May to lead them into a snap election, warning it would split the Tories and exacerbate the Brexit crisis.

In a sign of the collapse in authority suffered by the prime minister, cabinet ministers are among those warning that there will be a serious campaign by Conservative MPs to vote against an election headed by May, a move she hinted at last week to break the Brexit deadlock.

The threat of an election immediately angered both pro-Brexit and pro-Remain MPs. May would need a two-thirds majority in the Commons to secure one, meaning a serious rebellion by Tories could block it. May would then be forced to secure an election by backing a no-confidence vote in her own government, which only requires a simple majority of MPs.

theguardian.com

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Skip Intro  Mar 30, 2019 • 6:57:20pm

This is the clearest explanation of the Brexit follies that I’ve seen.

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:00:09pm

re: #163 Joe Bacon 🌹

It was a PBS Play “Steambath” will Bill Bixby, Valerie Perrine and José Peréz as God. Very controversial and many stations didn’t run it.

Storyline

A surreal dark comedy featuring some recently dead folk finding themselves in Limbo, in this case a steamroom with an unlit exit. Morty, the Puerto Rican steamroom attendant, is actually God, who’s bored and wants to keep a few souls around for a time before consigning them to the afterlife. Written by Anonymous

[…]

Runtime: 30 min (6 episodes)

[…]

1983. I could have sworn it was earlier than that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:03:00pm

re: #151 Hecuba’s daughter

My brother has repeatedly denied knowing anything about Q, yet he continually spouts standard Q theories (no Pizzagate though). Today he talked about Clapper and Brennan in orange suits and the Deep State and Obama’s criminality. Of course, he couldn’t get many words in edgewise over the very vocal objections from my sister and me. So the question is — where do these conspiracy theories originate?

8chan

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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:03:32pm

re: #159 wrenchwench

I actually tend to like shows and movies where there are deities among us. Dogma, Lucifer, Preacher… it’s a genre that can be very well done. But this movie was just so hackily written

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:06:36pm

re: #173 KGxvi

Dogma is a stroke of genius. Masterful fantasy filmmaking. And seeing George Carlin in Catholic Priest robes…

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:09:19pm
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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:12:04pm

re: #174 teleskiguy

Dogma is a stroke of genius. Masterful fantasy filmmaking. And seeing George Carlin in Catholic Priest robes…

I was reading a thing the other day about why Dogma isn’t streaming. It’s fairly well documented that there was a nasty backlash against the movie among those with large sticks up their asses. So apparently Miramax or which ever studio worked with the Weinstein Company sold the rights to the Weinsteins themselves, and they still own the rights. And since this was the late 90s, there was no digital included in the deal

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:13:55pm

re: #173 KGxvi

I actually tend to like shows and movies where there are deities among us. Dogma, Lucifer, Preacher… it’s a genre that can be very well done. But this movie was just so hackily written

Did you ever see Angel Heart? Some great film work in my opinion. And it has an edge to it.

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:14:35pm

re: #176 KGxvi

I was reading a thing the other day about why Dogma isn’t streaming. It’s fairly well documented that there was a nasty backlash against the movie among those with large sticks up their asses. So apparently Miramax or which ever studio worked with the Weinstein Company sold the rights to the Weinsteins themselves, and they still own the rights. And since this was the late 90s, there was no digital included in the deal

That’s too bad. Dogma was endlessly creative. More people should see it.

Part of that weird renaissance in late 90s cinema. I can think of Dogma, Three Kings, Being John Malkovich…

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:16:12pm

One of my absolute favorite films from the 90s is Pleasantville. Such a simple premise, such a powerful story.

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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:17:39pm

re: #178 teleskiguy

Yeah, I think I saw it on The Ringer. They’ve been doing a Movies if 1999 thing and I was shocked how many great movies came out that year. There was actually a pretty incredibly run like 98-00 in film.

Hopefully after he’s done making the Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Kevin Smith can get the rights for Dogma

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KGxvi  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:17:59pm

re: #177 ObserverArt

Haven’t but I’ll look it up

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:22:44pm

re: #179 teleskiguy

One of my absolute favorite films from the 90s is Pleasantville. Such a simple premise, such a powerful story.

I love that movie. I told all kinds of people about it too, but few actually ever watched it. Its whole tone from the plot to the scenery to the story was so well constructed. Nice easy humor with a great point like you say,

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ObserverArt  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:27:23pm

re: #181 KGxvi

Haven’t but I’ll look it up

I think you will like it. It got great reviews, but I don’t think it crushed it at the theaters. Lisa Bonet may have been too risque going from Crosby daughter to steamy voodoo priestess and kept people away. But De Niro and Rourke in the 90s, what can be said?

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:27:52pm

re: #182 ObserverArt

My favorite moment has to be right at the end, when J.T. Walsh’s character (the Mayor of Pleasantville, and Mr. Walsh’s last cinematic performance before he died) suddenly turns to color in a fit of rage.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:35:12pm

re: #167 Dave In Austin

CrankShaft. The Germans have all the fun

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Mesmerizing. Heavy metal indeed. I’ve always been fascinated by this kind of process. Maybe I missed my calling.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:47:31pm
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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:51:49pm

re: #179 teleskiguy

One of my absolute favorite films from the 90s is Pleasantville. Such a simple premise, such a powerful story.

I showed it to my kids, and it became one of my middle son’s favorites. He shows it to his friends sometimes.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:52:59pm

re: #186 DodgerFan1988

Other than “Vote” not much. Those who support Trump don’t care because their one true god has told them not to.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:53:30pm

re: #186 DodgerFan1988

The sad truth is that the MAGATs love to see these children die because their skin is a darker shade.

And these same MAGATs will continue to eliminate a woman’s right to choose cause their Pulpit Pimp Preachers and Priests tell them that’s what Jesus commands.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 7:56:44pm

re: #94 Belafon

How do you travel faster than light?

Sorry. Trade secret.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:01:50pm

re: #94 Belafon

How do you travel faster than light?

Wormholes!

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:02:07pm

re: #94 Belafon

How do you travel faster than light?

re: #190 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Fundamentally you can’t.

Because you exhibit the phenomenon of mass.

Which means you can’t.

That’s the real reason.

Conceivably massless particles, as well as information, are not limited by the speed of light.

And space-time itself is not limited by the speed of light - see the expansion of the universe, currently underway, or the hypothesized inflation of the early universe, for examples.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:02:20pm

re: #190 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Sorry. Trade secret.

The real question is: Can you pull off ludicrous speed?

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:03:20pm

re: #191 Joe Bacon 🌹

Wormholes!

Bill and Ted’s phone booth!

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wrenchwench  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:04:41pm

re: #191 Joe Bacon 🌹

Wormholes!

A Wrinkle in Time.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:05:31pm

re: #146 KGxvi

Unfortunately, in Thailand, the formerly Prime Minister is in self imposed exile because of a coup. And the King’s sister was running against the military junta backed party

Thailand’s a beautiful country, I was there last year. And you wouldn’t really know that the military Ian in charge on a daily basis, but it is

Judging from the expat site I follow, the Thai government doesn’t seem capable of deciding whether allowing foreigners to live within Thai borders is a good idea or a bad one. The regulations for visas and residence permits seem to change on a weekly basis.

OTOH some of the farang living in Thailand would not really be welcome anywhere in the world, except perhaps the Trump cabinet or the GOP..

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:06:19pm

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:08:41pm

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:10:36pm

re: #177 ObserverArt

Did you ever see Angel Heart? Some great film work in my opinion. And it has an edge to it.

Then there is Wings of Desire” which proves that film ratings online are a crock.
8.1/10 - IMDb
98% - Rotten Tomatoes
79% - Metacritic
90% liked - google users

The ratings must be the end product of too many people going to art flix school.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:11:15pm

re: #197 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Still remember my first exposure to the IBM 360 in 1971 when this was the memory storage system with a maximum capacity of a whopping 400MB!

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retired cynic  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:12:38pm

re: #200 Joe Bacon 🌹

Yep. Hot stuff. They ran all of our computer courses at the U of Illinois on one.

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freetoken  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:14:14pm

British politics is now all fubar:

‘One Nation’ Tories form group to counter pro-Brexit leadership candidates

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:27:27pm

Nice. Weather Channel says it will go up to 85 tomorrow…

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teleskiguy  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:31:33pm

re: #203 Joe Bacon 🌹

Nice. Weather Channel says it will go up to 85 tomorrow…

I brushed snow off my car this morning. It was cooler today, snow barely softened up for skiing today.

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retired cynic  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:33:05pm

re: #204 teleskiguy

We were in the 30s, with wind and cold rain. I keep going out and measuring the daffodil sprouts…

My lettuce and spinach and chard have erupted, however, so there is hope.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:33:13pm

re: #200 Joe Bacon 🌹

Still remember my first exposure to the IBM 360 in 1971 when this was the memory storage system with a maximum capacity of a whopping 400MB!

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20 years earlier, there was Princeton’s IAS machine:

Those 20 tubes sticking out at you on the bottom (there are 20 more on the other side) are Williams tubes, which stored memory as constantly refreshed spots on a CRT screen. 5 KB all told. The whole computer had about the same throughput and memory as is dedicated to placing the cursor on the screen of your PC nowadays.

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retired cynic  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:35:53pm

re: #206 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

20 years earlier, there was Princeton’s IAS machine:

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Those 20 tubes sticking out at you on the bottom (there are 20 more on the other side) are Williams tubes, which stored memory as constantly refreshed spots on a CRT screen. 5 KB all told. The whole computer had about the same throughput and memory as is dedicated to placing the cursor on the screen of your PC nowadays.

Hm. Looks like a donut rack…

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:37:00pm

re: #192 freetoken

Fundamentally you can’t.

Because you exhibit the phenomenon of mass.

Which means you can’t.

That’s the real reason.

Conceivably massless particles, as well as information, are not limited by the speed of light.

And space-time itself is not limited by the speed of light - see the expansion of the universe, currently underway, or the hypothesized inflation of the early universe, for examples.

Which is why various speculative science proposals for FTL hinge on some other way to exceed c unconventionally, by monkeying around with space-time somehow. Practically speaking, they would require an energy source far beyond our current capabilities. One physics dude even worked out that the matter-anti-matter reactions in Star Trek’s warp drive would be insufficient to warp space-time enough to propel the ships at such incredible speeds (relative to the normal universe).

Massless particles would be photons, which actually do travel at the speed of light and never faster. Neutrinos were once believed to be massless, but in fact they are not. Their mass is so tiny that they move at very close to c, however. Tachyons are the hypothetical particles that travel faster than c (and never slower) and apparently also move backwards in time, but they are intrinsically impossible to detect with current technology.

But it is true that the “speed limit” of the universe only applies to particles with mass (aka inertia) moving through normal space-time. If we could, as they have in the Star Trek universe, manage to control inertia and therefore mass, perhaps we could make it easier to get to speeds close to c, but still not any faster than c.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:43:35pm

re: #208 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Star Trek and the various other space operas also avoid time dilation for the most part, for narrative reasons. And subspace techno-babble eliminates the lengthy communication delays (say, a few thousand YEARS) in communicating with Earth. The Expanse at least tries to address the problems created by lags in communication by radio or lasers.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 8:49:55pm

Measles is making a comeback in Hong Kong and Macau. It’s unclear why.

A group of pregnant Cathay Pacific flight attendants have said they will all take sick leave from Monday unless the Hong Kong-based airline improves its safeguards against the measles outbreak in the city.

The threat came after the carrier had to disinfect part of its corporate headquarters after an office worker became the 33rd person to catch the disease in Hong Kong, and the 13th airport and airline employee to be affected.

Vera Wu Yee-mei, chairwoman of the Cathay Pacific Airways Flight Attendants Union, said about 10 flight attendants, who had been transferred to ground duties in various departments at the company’s headquarters, were upset by what they viewed as insufficient measures to ensure staff safety.

scmp.com

I wonder if Patient Zero was someone flying in from the USA or some other part of the anti-vaxx world.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:09:56pm

re: #210 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Measles is making a comeback in Hong Kong and Macau. It’s unclear why.

scmp.com

I wonder if Patient Zero was someone flying in from the USA or some other part of the anti-vaxx world.

?? Don’t Hong Kong and Macau have a comprehensive vaccination program?So even if a traveler had measles, shouldn’t their citizens be protected? Or are there significant anti-vaxx proponents there too?

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:10:51pm

re: #210 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Measles is making a comeback in Hong Kong and Macau. It’s unclear why.

scmp.com

I wonder if Patient Zero was someone flying in from the USA or some other part of the anti-vaxx world.

The USA is one of the least likely places for an outbreak to spread from. First, we have some of the lowest measles infection rates in the world, that’s why it is such big news when there is an outbreak, and when they happen we are pretty good at containing the spread.

Anti-vaxxers suck but there are still relatively few of them, vaccination rates are well above 90% and measles was at one point pretty much eliminated in the US which is why it is troubling to see any cases much less the couple hundred we do get, but most regions of the world still see cases in the thousands or tens of thousands.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:17:57pm

re: #202 freetoken

British politics is now all fubar:

‘One Nation’ Tories form group to counter pro-Brexit leadership candidates

I see the Tory Hunger Games have begun. May the odds be ever in their favor.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:21:17pm

re: #211
Hecuba’s daughter

?? Don’t Hong Kong and Macau have a comprehensive vaccination program?So even if a traveler had measles, shouldn’t their citizens be protected? Or are there significant anti-vaxx proponents there too?

They do have very effective vaccination programs, which makes the number of infections worrisome. One of the employees even said she had been vaccinated against measles and had not traveled out of the country.

According to the SCMP report, the number of measles cases has doubled in HK since 2018, from 15 reported to more than 30 so far this year.

re: #212 danarchy

The USA is one of the least likely places for an outbreak to spread from. First, we have some of the lowest measles infection rates in the world, that’s why it is such big news when there is is an outbreak, and when they happen we are pretty good at containing the spread.

Anti-vaxxers suck but there are still relatively few of them, vaccination rates are well above 90% and measles was at one point pretty much eliminated in the US which is why it is troubling to see any cases much less the couple hundred we do get, but most regions of the world still see cases in the thousands or tens of thousands.

This is true. More likely, someone from Africa or another part of Asia may have entered HK and been Patient Zero. The situation does highlight how dangerous anti-vaxxers can be, though. They are encouraging people to forego a reliable preventive measure, which could potentially endanger them and the people around them.

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:30:20pm

re: #214 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

This is true. More likely, someone from Africa or another part of Asia may have entered HK and been Patient Zero. The situation does highlight how dangerous anti-vaxxers can be, though. They are encouraging people to forego a reliable preventive measure, which could potentially endanger them and the people around them.

Looked at the WHO info for 2018, it was a little surprising to see so many cases in the European region, but I suspect that is from a couple of eastern european countries.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:30:40pm

What a horribly grotesque piece of trash DC McAllister is.

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Belafon  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:35:59pm

All that is why I don’t care for the argument over what is true science fiction and fantasy. Even those books that claim to be true hard science fiction still have to invent something in order to advance the plot, such as the sails in Honor Harrington series, otherwise there would be no storyline.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:36:16pm

LOL, this is the tweet that set her off.

Now she’s flounced off twitter.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:41:20pm

re: #209 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Star Trek and the various other space operas also avoid time dilation for the most part, for narrative reasons. And subspace techno-babble eliminates the lengthy communication delays (say, a few thousand YEARS) in communicating with Earth. The Expanse at least tries to address the problems created by lags in communication by radio or lasers.

Basically warp drive is a form of Alcubierre drive, utilizing exotic materials that don’t exist (so far as we know) in conjunction with energized plasma to warp space-time, shortening it in front of the ship as it lengthens behind it. So that the ship itself exists in a pocket of “subspace,” not truly violating Einstein’s laws of relativity as it is space moving rather than the ship itself. By contrast, the impulse drive actually does move the ship as it is a form of plasma rocket, which can cause issues with time dilation if the ship moves at high impulse speeds for long periods of time.

/geek moment

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:54:38pm

re: #209 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Star Trek and the various other space operas also avoid time dilation for the most part, for narrative reasons. And subspace techno-babble eliminates the lengthy communication delays (say, a few thousand YEARS) in communicating with Earth. The Expanse at least tries to address the problems created by lags in communication by radio or lasers.

The Expanse it great just because it tries so hard to work within established relativistic physics for almost the entirety of the first two Seasons, no FTL and no artificial gravity. It also doesn’t even attempt to explain how the two exceptions work:

Click to Reveal

Those exceptions being the reactionless drive of the alien proto-molecule infested 433 Eros and physics of the Ring Gate it builds at the end of Season 2.

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uriel  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:55:13pm

re: #150 wrenchwench

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That guy’s awesome. His instagram is great- instagram.com

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 9:57:05pm

re: #220 goddamnedfrank

It was spooky alien science shit.

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:02:31pm

On the Moh-scale of scifi hardness, Trek is somewhere towards the middle. There’s usually an attempt to work within the boundaries of accepted science, with the occasional hand-wave (i.e. “technobabble”) to address crises. You can usually tell when the writers have just pulled something out of their asses because a Trekkie won’t even try to defend it.

Prominent example: Discovery’s “spore drive” and the “mycelial network.” No, just no.

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mmmirele  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:14:03pm

re: #216 goddamnedfrank

You know you’re a really awful person when Christine Teigen calls you out.

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:15:53pm
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:16:31pm

re: #224 mmmirele

You know you’re a really awful person when Christine Teigen calls you out.

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Who the hell is DC McAllister? And should I even care what she says?

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A hollow voice says, Oringes...  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:17:31pm

re: #214 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

They do have very effective vaccination programs, which makes the number of infections worrisome. One of the employees even said she had been vaccinated against measles and had not traveled out of the country.

According to the SCMP report, the number of measles cases has doubled in HK since 2018, from 15 reported to more than 30 so far this year.

I wonder if it’s time to start questioning the efficacy of the vaccine. Bad batch? Or did someone deliberately cut corners in production?

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:20:51pm

Got some meat world things to do. Also, it’s a nice day for a walk and taking some photos. See y’all in a bit!

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mmmirele  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:21:57pm

re: #225 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

I was all, “infected pipes? are they transmitting measles now?”

It turns out it’s impurities transferred in the process of getting the oil from the fields to the ships taking the oil for refining. The impurities include metals, other chemical compounds called oxygenates and cleaning agents. This is because our pipeline network is basically shared among all types of crude oils, some of which have more impurities than others. But other countries are turning away ships with this crude in it because the impurities can damage their refining equipment.

Apparently we don’t have the kind of relatively short supply chains present in other countries, and I got the impression that environmental regulations may have stopped the use of deepwater oil terminals. But that was not clear in the article.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:22:25pm

re: #218 goddamnedfrank

She’s still there.

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danarchy  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:24:21pm

re: #229 mmmirele

I was all, “infected pipes? are they transmitting measles now?”

It turns out it’s impurities transferred in the process of getting the oil from the fields to the ships taking the oil for refining.

Yeah I think contaminated would have been a better word choice.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:25:28pm

re: #230 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s still there.

A wingnut didn’t stick the flounce? Why, I never!! That’s absolutely unprecedented!

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Targetpractice  Mar 30, 2019 • 10:25:45pm

re: #226 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Who the hell is DC McAllister? And should I even care what she says?

Denise “DC” McAllister is one of those “this is a man’s world” sort of women that wingnut publications keep around to rant and rail at women for everything from being pro-choice to thinking that husbands should treat their wives as more than glorified house pets.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:01:01pm

re: #226 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Who the hell is DC McAllister? And should I even care what she says?

I have this same question.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:02:57pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:16:37pm

This is relevant to my interests …

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 30, 2019 • 11:56:43pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:20:42am

re: #235 goddamnedfrank

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Honestly I have no patience for this bullshit, “we’re almost good now so just have patience” argument. If you want the carrot you need to earn the carrot.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:52:57am

Some good news from this little corner of the world:

Vocal government critic and anti-corruption activist Zuzana Čaputová was set to become Slovakia’s first female president after near complete results showed her winning Saturday’s runoff election.

The environmental lawyer got 58.01% of the ballot after results from more than 90% of polling stations were counted, while the EU energy commissioner Maroš Šefčovič garnered 41.98, the Slovak statistics office said.

“No need to worry, all will be fine,” Čaputová had said on Facebook after the first results began rolling in.

Šefčovič, 52, the candidate of the ruling Smer-SD party, said he had called Čaputová, 45, to congratulate her and also planned to send flowers.

“The first female president of Slovakia deserves a bouquet,” he said.

Čaputová, a political novice who ran on a slogan of “Stand up to evil,” had earlier said the campaign showed “that values such as humanism, solidarity and truth are important to our society”.

theguardian.com

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:46:07am

Just finished The Highwaymen on Netflix. Highly recommend…..

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:11:44am

Shouldn’t they design and build a couple first?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:09:46am

re: #241 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

Shouldn’t they design and build a couple first?

The Secretary of the Air Force announced the service’s preferences for the three bases that will house the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider when it reaches operational service

This is all about the government’s biggest wealth redistribution scheme: military production and facilities.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:49:17am

re: #241 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

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Shouldn’t they design and build a couple first?

Funding issues. This will give the local graft a big incentive to get their pet congress-crooks on board with the program.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:51:59am

re: #243 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Funding issues. This will give the local graft a big incentive to get their pet congress-crooks on board with the program.

wealth redistribution. government-sponsored monopolies with no-bid, cost-plus contracts.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:00:09am

re: #230 GlutenFreeJesus

She’s still there.

And Alex Jones is still on Instagram, despite posting anti-semitic Propaganda there.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:36:45am

The right to bear arms is for whites only; sleeping black man executed for having a gun in his lap.

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jeffreyw  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:57:39am

Good morning!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:29:55am

Morning. I wonder how patient that titmouse was with the queue.

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jeffreyw  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:46:29am

Two squirrel protected feeders

no waiting*

*some caveats apply

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:03:13am

re: #203 Joe Bacon 🌹

Nice. Weather Channel says it will go up to 85 tomorrow…

I got up this morning to an inch of snow on the ground and 25°

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Feline Fearless Leader  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:05:02am

re: #249 jeffreyw

Only waiting at that feeder is being done by the hawk.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:05:55am

re: #223 Targetpractice

Star Trek IMO isn’t near the middle of the reality/fantasy spectrum… witness the broad use of telepathy (Vulcan mind meld), humanoid supremacy (human or human-like bipeds dominate nearly every encounter), the constant inability to simply beam a bomb onto the bridge of an enemy ship yet can beam a small team aboard, and how so many socially awkward and emotionally immature people can make it through the toughest military/scientific education system in the known universe (Star Fleet Academy).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:13:31am

re: #246 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The right to bear arms is for whites only; sleeping black man executed for having a gun in his lap.

Remember that after the Christchurch mosque shootings we did not see gun rights supporters reminding us that it would not have happened if those Muslims had all been properly armed…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:14:42am

re: #252 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Star Trek IMO isn’t near the middle of the reality/fantasy spectrum… witness the broad use of telepathy (Vulcan mind meld), humanoid supremacy (human or human-like bipeds dominate nearly every encounter), the constant inability to simply beam a bomb onto the bridge of an enemy ship yet can beam a small team aboard, and how so many socially awkward and emotionally immature people can make it through the toughest military/scientific education system in the known universe (Star Fleet Academy).

You know, one I’ve always wondered is why Starfleet doesn’t use replicators to replicate an AK-47 or a H&K G36 or something?

Borg adaptive shielding is great against energy weapons such as phasers. I imagine it would be utterly useless against projectile weapons.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:14:49am

re: #252 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Star Trek IMO isn’t near the middle of the reality/fantasy spectrum… witness the broad use of telepathy (Vulcan mind meld), humanoid supremacy (human or human-like bipeds dominate nearly every encounter), the constant inability to simply beam a bomb onto the bridge of an enemy ship yet can beam a small team aboard, and how so many socially awkward and emotionally immature people can make it through the toughest military/scientific education system in the known universe (Star Fleet Academy).

I re-watched the entire original series when Netflix re-issued it for its 50th anniversary, and one of the recurring themes was the danger of letting computers rule our daily lives and decision-making processes.

(sent from my iPhone)

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Sufficient unto the day...  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:21:31am

re: #254 Dr Lizardo

Captain Picard actually did take out a drone with a Tommy gun once…and given that physical objects form the most primitive weapon of any humanoid species, you would think that they would have adapted to that form of attack…

…if it were possible for their shielding to defend against them.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:22:08am

I’m gonna cry. (LOL no I’m not)

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MsJ  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:26:07am

re: #257 The Vicious Babushka

I’m gonna cry. (LOL no I’m not)

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Perpetual victim ensures continual, everlasting victimhood. Woe is she. 🤣🤣🤣

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:28:33am

re: #257 The Vicious Babushka

I’m gonna cry. (LOL no I’m not)

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If there is any justice in the world DC will wind up rolling pizza dough at a Papa Johns!

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:36:35am

I haven’t used my camera in months, and I’ve almost forgotten how to use it. Here’s one effort.

It’s spring!
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:39:51am

re: #255 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I re-watched the entire original series when Netflix re-issued it for its 50th anniversary, and one of the recurring themes was the danger of letting computers rule our daily lives and decision-making processes.

(sent from my iPhone)

I wonder if the current series’ focus on master computers (Section 31) and a bias against cybernetic implants is a reflection of that. It supposedly is set pre-Captain Kirk, but post Enterprise (the series). I won’t say more so as not to spoilerize it too much. Perhaps by Picard’s time (the Borg universe), humans had rejected over-reliance on computers.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:49:51am

re: #13 freetoken

Trump started his presidential campaign by attacking Mexicans and going xenophobic. Nothing has changed.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:52:05am

re: #197 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Was my first storage device. Became much easier to find the program I wanted to load once I invested in a cassette rec/player that had a counter.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 31, 2019 • 7:02:24am

re: #246 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The right to bear arms is for whites only; sleeping black man executed for having a gun in his lap.

We’re not even outraged anymore. And even if he didn’t have a gun, they would have shot him and gotten away with doing so.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 31, 2019 • 7:03:13am

re: #263 Eventual Carrion

Was my first storage device. Became much easier to find the program I wanted to load once I invested in a cassette rec/player that had a counter.

How far we have come. I remember being excited about having a floppy disk drive when I moved from Commodores to an Apple IIe, and then to a PC with a “ginormous” 10MB hard drive.

One JPEG from my Nikon D3300 is more than 10 MB in size. The NEF files are at least twice that.

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MsJ  Mar 31, 2019 • 7:03:20am
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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 7:18:21am

Morning!

Looks like Joe B. got into the news late yesterday for an awkward moment back in 2014 with a woman that was running for Nevada Lt. Governor.

Liz Warren is already out saying Joe needs to come clean.

Uck.

CNN - Former Nevada politician alleges Joe Biden kissed the back of her head in 2014, made her feel ‘uneasy, gross, and confused’

Washington (CNN)A former Nevada state assemblywoman said on Friday that former Vice President Joe Biden made her feel “uneasy, gross, and confused” in 2014 when, at a campaign rally in Nevada, she said he kissed her on the back of the head.

Lucy Flores wrote about her allegations in an essay for The Cut, an arm of New York magazine, saying the encounter with Biden occurred sidestage during a November 2014 event when she was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of the state. Biden does not recall any impropriety, a spokesman said.

The piece includes a photo of Biden and Flores, along with actress Eva Longoria, before the encounter Flores alleges took place.

“I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified,” Flores wrote, adding that she wondered why the then-vice president had come that close to her. “He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused.”

Flores continued: “I couldn’t move, and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me.”

Her account comes as Biden is considering a bid for president in 2020. He is expected to announce his decision as soon as April.

In a statement to CNN responding to Flores’ allegation, Bill Russo, a Biden spokesman, said, “Vice President Biden was pleased to support Lucy Flores’s candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada in 2014 and to speak on her behalf at a well-attended public event. Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes.

“But Vice President Biden believes that Ms. Flores has every right to share her own recollection and reflections, and that it is a change for better in our society that she has the opportunity to do so. He respects Ms. Flores as a strong and independent voice in our politics and wishes her only the best.”

Flores, in a phone interview with CNN on Friday night, said she decided to come forward because she felt Biden’s public interactions with women had not been properly scrutinized. Over the years, photos and video of Biden touching women at public events have garnered media attention, but much of Biden’s behavior in this regard has been downplayed or attributed to Biden’s personal approach. One such instance occurred at the swearing in of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in 2015, where Biden put his hands on Carter’s wife’s shoulders, leaned over and whispered something in her ear. Video of the incident was scrutinized on social media; Carter’s wife, Stephanie, later said she was not offended by the incident, according to Politico.

“For me, it was just that I was really disturbed by the fact that this was not being discussed,” Flores said. “That this part of his history and his behavior, given so much photographic evidence, given so many stories that had been written in the past and, frankly, I believe had not been taken very seriously. That were basically just almost like a joke. But this isn’t funny. When you’re on the receiving end of this behavior, it’s not funny at all.”

Biden’s spokesman Russo said the former vice president has always been a “champion for women.”

…more at link…

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MsJ  Mar 31, 2019 • 7:31:27am

Oy.

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ericblair  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:01:57am

re: #252 Rocky-in-Connecticut

Star Trek IMO isn’t near the middle of the reality/fantasy spectrum… witness the broad use of telepathy (Vulcan mind meld), humanoid supremacy (human or human-like bipeds dominate nearly every encounter), the constant inability to simply beam a bomb onto the bridge of an enemy ship yet can beam a small team aboard, and how so many socially awkward and emotionally immature people can make it through the toughest military/scientific education system in the known universe (Star Fleet Academy).

Unless you’re talking about really hard scifi, the writers almost never think through the implications of the technology they toss out. If you’re writing a series, you’re probably writing yourself into a corner by episode three if you actually think things through.

Then again, if you really did think through the implications you’d lose your audience almost immediately because the world would be impossible to understand. Imagine showing a run-of-the-mill modern teen movie to somebody from the 1930s, for example.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:05:15am
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:07:54am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:10:31am

Until a few minutes ago, I didn’t know I need this in my life.

BAND-MAIKO / 祇園町 “Gion-cho”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:10:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:12:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:14:36am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:18:53am

re: #265 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

How far we have come. I remember being excited about having a floppy disk drive when I moved from Commodores to an Apple IIe, and then to a PC with a “ginormous” 10MB hard drive.

One JPEG from my Nikon D3300 is more than 10 MB in size. The NEF files are at least twice that.

In 1978 I bought the second Fidelity Chess Challenger thinking it would give me a tough fight. First game set it at the highest level and thought it’s gonna be difficult to beat.

ismenio.com

Nope.

It was a pushover. Time and time again I beat it in less than 30 moves…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:19:17am
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retired cynic  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:20:34am

re: #264 Patricia Kayden

We’re not even outraged anymore.

I am. I am outraged.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:21:27am

re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth

You think Trump would have done that to Tirico if Tirico was white?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:25:03am

re: #278 retired cynic

I am. I am outraged.

Republicans aren’t

Neither are the Xtian Pulpit Pimps who bow down to kiss Trump’s ass.

They’re getting away with treason thanks to the mainstreaming of Ayn Rand’s objectivism which has totally corrupted our society.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:30:54am

It’s funny how they can bitch about filmmakers leaving their state while touting the power of the “free market” in the same breath.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:32:16am

re: #268 MsJ

I read that a bunch of times trying to understand how we were cutting aid the three Mexican counties, before I realized that it really said countries.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:32:36am

re: #272 Dr Lizardo

Until a few minutes ago, I didn’t know I need this in my life.

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Video

Japanese music never ceases to amaze — or confuse.

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:32:36am

re: #279 Eclectic Cyborg

You think Trump would have done that to Tirico if Tirico was white?

Yes.

Anything to win, just like he ran his campaign and now runs his administration.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:33:46am

re: #268 MsJ

Oy.

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19th Century Fox viewers are stupid enough to believe that Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua are Mexican countries…

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:33:48am

re: #272 Dr Lizardo

Until a few minutes ago, I didn’t know I need this in my life.

[Embedded content]

Video

Completely in Kyoto dialect—that’s something new to me.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:36:32am

re: #283 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

re: #286 Barefoot Grin

Always something new, which is refreshing.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:40:12am

re: #264 Patricia Kayden

We’re not even outraged anymore. And even if he didn’t have a gun, they would have shot him and gotten away with doing so.

As long as the cop says he thought the suspect was reaching for a gun, he’s in the clear. The courts have given cops way too much leeway to kill people.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:42:34am

re: #288 NO SMOCKING GUN!

As long as the cop says he thought the suspect was reaching for a gun, he’s in the clear. The courts have given cops way too much leeway to kill people.

THIS.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:43:26am

re: #268 MsJ

Oy.

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They didn’t want to confuse their poorly educated viewers, who have been trained like dogs to respond to “Mexico” but don’t know the names of any other countries and think “Central America” is Kansas.

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:43:35am

re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s going to be interesting to see how Biden handles this keeping in mind it is very similar to Al Franken and Al’s number one detractor, Senator Gillibrand is a competitor for the Democratic presidential candidacy should Joe announce a run.

There is going to be a lot of weight on Joe. He is getting tough comments from all directions on his past issues, is he too much a moderate for the new Democrats and now this in the Me Too era.

He has been a fighter, so will he fight or say he doesn’t need it?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:46:40am

re: #280 Joe Bacon 🌹

Republicans aren’t

Neither are the Xtian Pulpit Pimps who bow down to kiss Trump’s ass.

They’re getting away with treason thanks to the mainstreaming of Ayn Rand’s objectivism which has totally corrupted our society.

I so hated her “Atlas Shrugged” but then I read her in my 20’s and not my teens. The train accident did it for me. And Trump is a fan of her “The Fountainhead”. Her views have poisoned so many minds.

But the Xtian Pulpit Pimps and their congregations are getting what they want: a federal judiciary that supports their social and cultural and racial agenda. They are dictating his domestic policy. They aren’t bending to his will — he is bending to theirs.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:51:56am

re: #292 Hecuba’s daughter

I so hated her “Atlas Shrugged” but then I read her in my 20’s and not my teens. The train accident did it for me. And Trump is a fan of her “The Fountainhead”. Her views have poisoned so many minds.

But the Xtian Pulpit Pimps and their congregations are getting what they want: a federal judiciary that supports their social and cultural and racial agenda. They are dictating his domestic policy. They aren’t bending to his will — he is bending to theirs.

Precisely.

That is why I despise and absolutely hate churches. Instead of wasting time sleeping in a pew I go to the gym and work out. It’s more satisfying especially after the YMCA cut off 19th Century Fox from the TV monitors!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 8:59:14am

Jesse Lee Peterson once again makes an asshole of himself and X from the Utah Outcasts goes after him.

Jesse Lee Peterson on the Christchurch Shooting

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:00:01am

This is the cutest thing you will see all day:
Can you guess which one of these dancers is a boy?

ベジタリズム

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:05:43am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

This is the cutest thing you will see all day:
Can you guess which one of these dancers is a boy?

[Embedded content]

Video

Not a clue.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:10:19am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

Can you guess which one of these dancers is a boy?

Very amusing. Green?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:11:24am

re: #283 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Japanese music never ceases to amaze — or confuse.

As a fan of anime, you find out that there’s a whole lot of good music-even if you don’t understand Japanese - and of the best music comes out of video games to boot.

And in some cases, English songs wind up in anime:

Zeppeli accepted his fate + Ending “Roundabout”

Here’s some of my faves…
Wind’s Nocturne (from Lunar the Silver Spar)

Wind’s Nocturne.

Daybreak’s Bell (Gundam 00 1st season)

DAYBREAK’S BELL

Ash Like Snow (Gundam 00 2nd season)

Gundam 00 S1 Opening 2 [HD]

Take My Hands (from the movie Escaflowne), composed by Yoko Kano:

Escaflowne Original Sound Track - Take my hands

Cowboy Bebop series finale (also Yoko Kanno)

COWBOY BEBOP - END

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:11:46am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

This is the cutest thing you will see all day:
Can you guess which one of these dancers is a boy?

[Embedded content]

Really tough to tell. My best guess is purple.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:19:52am
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mmmirele  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:21:07am

re: #267 ObserverArt

Morning!

Looks like Joe B. got into the news late yesterday for an awkward moment back in 2014 with a woman that was running for Nevada Lt. Governor.

Liz Warren is already out saying Joe needs to come clean.

Uck.

CNN - Former Nevada politician alleges Joe Biden kissed the back of her head in 2014, made her feel ‘uneasy, gross, and confused’

Joe Biden has been stuck in my head since 1988 when he plagiarized a speech by UK Labour politician Neil Kinnock. I only learned yesterday that Biden found out about that speech because a political consultant was handing out cassette tapes of it. And then he went and plagiarized it, which took far more effort than it does to just look up something on the Internet and then copy and paste the whole paragraph today.

As to *why* I remembered? I studied British politics in undergrad and spent a lot of time going through microfiches of newspapers looking for party manifestos (political platforms) for the 1983 general election. When you spend that much time digging out that information, you’re going to remember a guy running for president (which Biden tried to do in 1988) who plagiarized a British pol’s speech.

I’m not putting down what the Nevada politician is saying here, just saying that Joe Biden has, for some of us, sat uneasily for decades.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:23:28am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:29:42am
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mmmirele  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:33:32am

re: #272 Dr Lizardo

Until a few minutes ago, I didn’t know I need this in my life.

[Embedded content]

Video

This is an April Fool video by a female rock band called “Band-Maid.” (Female rock band as opposed to “J-pop girl group” because these women can play their instruments and some have been professionally trained.) “Maiko” means “geisha in training” and the women are in traditional maiko dress and makeup. I guess this was filmed in Kyoto…according to what I found on the Interwebs, they’re singing in Kyoto dialect. And yes, from having been to Kyoto, it really is that kind of pretty and with really narrow streets. I’m going back to Kyoto in May.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:36:32am

I believe Biden will not run. He saw the media give him the Al Gore 2000 treatment with the Abrams fiasco.

He knows deep in his soul that if he runs the Corporate Press will whiz on him the same way they did to Al Gore in 2000.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:38:44am

re: #305 Joe Bacon 🌹

You are probably correct. The mass media will either dig up some dirt or make something up.

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A Cranky One  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:40:57am

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:42:38am

Which dancing Japanese kid is a boy?

/MgHW5kOCy6uFkwP/4vpFe0aUD27N6npxozmzG4w6QmNxkbBp/rWUg==

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A hollow voice says, Oringes...  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:43:00am

re: #306 PhillyPretzel

You are probably correct. The mass media will either dig up some dirt or make something up.

Someone is going to do that to every democratic candidate, so be prepared.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:45:22am

re: #309 A hollow voice says, Collusion!

Someone is going to do that to every democratic candidate, so be prepared.

Yes they will piss on every Democrat but we know from experience that these Presstitutes will really be out to kill Biden once and for all.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:45:44am

re: #309 A hollow voice says, Collusion!

It is the nature of the beast for that to happen.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:46:10am

re: #308 The Vicious Babushka

Pu3wiCpc1KzEyW/fSoc75XeKLEKsKP3IX5i85ZV2lDY=

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William Lewis  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:46:56am

Well foo. Got called off today. Combined with missing a day earlier in the week to being sick, this is not a good thing. My hours are slim enough as it is. Pity I can’t stomach lying about being a white male victim - I could use that wingnut welfare about now :D

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:47:35am
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jaunte  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:47:38am
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:49:55am
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jaunte  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:49:58am
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:53:37am

re: #317 jaunte

Yes there is a plan. The complete absence of one. Is it any wonder that the popular vote went toward HRC.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 9:59:03am

re: #318 PhillyPretzel

Yes there is a plan. The complete absence of one. Is it any wonder that the popular vote went toward HRC.

They will bring back high-risk pools to cover those with pre-existing conditions, which means a substantial increase in premiums for those who need coverage. When people cannot afford it, unless the state provides substantial subsidies for those of more modest means, people will be left without coverage and will die.

Of course, we are having a problem now through sky-high prescription costs. Those need to be brought under control. Wasn’t that one of Trump’s promises? But the only “Promises made, promises kept” that are relevant to him and his base are those that enrich the wealthy and denigrate minorities and immigrants.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:02:46am

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:03:45am

I’m always surprised by progress in OC, CA. Even when it’s very late.

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:11:05am

re: #320 Joe Bacon 🌹

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My youngest brother is a herpetologist (more obscurely, a batrachologist—amphibians without the reptiles) who once went to France, and in a restaurant, ordered the frog legs. He commented afterward, ‘I really wanted to sequence its tasty DNA!’

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:14:06am

re: #322 wrenchwench

My youngest brother is a herpetologist (more obscurely, a batrachologist—amphibians without the reptiles) who once went to France, and in a restaurant, ordered the frog legs. He commented afterward, ‘I really wanted to sequence its tasty DNA!’

Dad loved frogs legs, turtle soup and especially escargot. Oh I remember the STRONG STRONG GARLIC with the escargot!

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:16:02am

re: #323 Joe Bacon 🌹

Dad loved frogs legs, turtle soup and especially escargot. Oh I remember the STRONG STRONG GARLIC with the escargot!

I guess with enough garlic, one can get anything down. If it’s properly buttered.

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piratedan  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:16:45am

re: #298 Eric The Fruit Bat

agreed, in support here’s….

Gunslinger Girl OP

excerpt from The Delgado’s The Light Before We Land as the opening music

Kare Kano Opening HQ
from Kare Kano

Inuyasha Opening 1
Inuyasha season 1

Bleach - Opening 10 | Shojo S
Bleach season 10

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:25:09am

Doonesbury

April Fools at the White House

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:25:39am

If you don’t like little spiders, just look at that shiny gold ring and a speck of dust.

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:42:01am

Before I forget, happy Brain Injury Awareness month [March]. I almost forgot.

I miss Obdicut. I hope he’s well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:45:18am

re: #286 Barefoot Grin

Completely in Kyoto dialect—that’s something new to me.

I thought they meant Old, New and Little Mexico…

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makeitstop  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:46:47am

re: #328 wrenchwench

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Before I forget, happy Brain Injury Awareness month [March]. I almost forgot.

I miss Obdicut. I hope he’s well.

Still the only Lizard I’ve had the pleasure to meet in real life. I hope he’s doing well.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:54:08am

re: #330 makeitstop

Still the only Lizard I’ve had the pleasure to meet in real life. I hope he’s doing well.

All true, But we need Anymouse to return.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:55:50am

re: #331 I Would Prefer Not To

I miss him and many others too.

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 10:57:37am

OK, I came across a critter I find a little too unpleasant to post the tweet it appears in. I’ll give a link to its wiki, where the photo is smaller and not so bad, with the warning that it’s about one of these:

[…]

A further study subsequently recognised that the tip of the pedipalp in both ricinuleids and trigonotarbids ends in a similar small claw.

[…]

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:06:16am

Here’s a fight the DCCC needs to lose, and considering AOC has more clout than they do, I think they’re going to:

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:15:43am

David Crosby copy edits my gibberish

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:19:18am

re: #332 PhillyPretzel

I miss him and many others too.

yep — me too. Anymouse, please come back — and Kragar — and others. People do move on to other platforms and perhaps the Trump era is too wearing on all of us.

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mmmirele  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:23:33am

I suppose you all have heard about former state representative David Stringer, Republican of Prescott, AZ. The Phoenix New Times accidentally got a copy of an expunged court record that indicated Stringer had some issues with child porn and pedophilia back in 1983 in Maryland. (The Maryland custodian of the records was all, “hey, give that back!” and the New Times was all “aw hell naw.”)

This news initially came out in late January but it wasn’t until last Wednesday that Stringer took it upon himself to resign. Right after that, on Friday, it came out that the police report from 1983 said that Stringer was accused of paying boys for sex.

usatoday.com

Now Stringer is fighting back, as it were:

“More important than the unfairness to me is the denial of the right of my constituents to elect a State Representative of their choice,” Stringer wrote on Facebook. “The actions of the leadership of our state legislature in forcing me from office are deeply and shamefully offensive to free elections and democratic governance.”

Bowers, a Republican from Mesa, declined to respond Saturday morning. A spokesman said Bowers stands by his statement Friday calling Stringer’s behavior “absolutely appalling and sickening.”

usatoday.com

Rusty Bowers is the speaker of the House and he’s also one of my state representatives. Generally I disagree with his politics, but given that this evidence didn’t come out until Friday, Bowers did what he could to encourage Stringer to get the hell out.

Here’s my response to the execrable Stringer, who really needs to ditch that awful toupee he’s wearing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:23:51am

re: #336 Hecuba’s daughter

yep — me too. Anymouse, please come back — and Kragar — and others. People do move on to other platforms and perhaps the Trump era is too wearing on all of us.

I really found Anymouse to be a real brutha from anotha muthah…our personal lives seem to show a lot of parallels…

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:25:52am

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We’ve got a member of their tribe.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:34:53am
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:38:26am

re: #312 Eclectic Cyborg

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:40:54am

re: #340 Dave In Austin

Sen. Rick Scott becomes Trump point man on GOP health care policy

Grifters got to grift. Isn’t Rick Scott’s primary skill with health care in figuring out how to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from the public coffers?

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:41:19am

re: #340 Dave In Austin

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:43:58am

re: #340 Dave In Austin

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:48:19am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:57:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 11:59:40am

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:00:39pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:02:25pm

re: #348 gocart mozart

wonder how much crack went up in smoke to generate that project

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:02:50pm

Ahhh. Bob Ross. Nothing else needs to be said. :)

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:04:51pm

…

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William Lewis  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:06:55pm

So, not working today bummed me, so to cheer myself a bit, I decided to make spaghetti with marinara using about half of the ground elk I had. The sauce is simmering and the pasta just went into it’s pot. Much happiness was to be seen :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:06:58pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:09:06pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:09:55pm

re: #351 Dread Pirate Whitebeard

The State Department says the Trump administration will cut aid to the “Northern Triangle” Central American countries — but experts in the administration say this will make the number of undocumented immigrants go UP not down. 1/

The more refugees coming, the more grounds they have to continue the “emergency”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:10:55pm

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:13:01pm

re: #356 The Vicious Babushka

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

Alessandra Mussolini

You are a bastard

so was your granddad

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:14:17pm

re: #345 The Vicious Babushka

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Difference between Republicans and Democrats:

>>Rod Blagojevich, Illinois governor, sent to prison for 14 years for trying to “sell” a Senate seat to raise money for a political campaign, not to enrich himself.

>>Rick Scott defrauds taxpayers of millions, rewarded by a gubernatorial seat followed by a Senate seat.

Republicans do love these financial criminals. Stealing from the poor gives them a thrill.

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William Lewis  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:18:08pm

re: #356 The Vicious Babushka

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

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Heh. Well, it would have been better had he been executed in a prison like the common criminal he was but you live by the sword …

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:30:07pm

re: #356 The Vicious Babushka

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

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Yeah, we have to spare some thoughts for the REAL victims here…
After all, how much business did that gas-station owner lose because of those dangling corpses in his driveway….?///

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:31:13pm
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TedStriker  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:32:47pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

And also two of the biggest that were left out of that tweet: Star Trek (especially every one of the TV series, including Discovery) and Star Wars.

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plansbandc  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:36:34pm

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh the righteous tears.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:36:40pm

re: #356 The Vicious Babushka

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:40:02pm

Took my cat to the Cleopatra exhibit, and this happened

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Charles Johnson  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:40:35pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:40:53pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:41:48pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

SCI-FI HAS ALWAYS BEEN POLITICAL

Don’t forget how Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds did so much to show the world the power of broadcast media

Or the multiracial/multinational composition of the crew of Star Trek

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:43:06pm

re: #361 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s not that scifi has become “more political,” no more than comic books are suddenly becoming “political.” It’s that the people who are bitching about the politics are the ones who saw Robocop and thought it was nothing more than an action film.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:45:40pm

re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s not that scifi has become “more political,” no more than comic books are suddenly becoming “political.” It’s that the people who are bitching about the politics are the ones who saw Robocop and thought it was nothing more than an action film.

Starship Troopers was butchered as a film, but the novel contains long discourses about the nature of political power and the political franchise.

Not that I agree with Heinlein’s conclusions, but the militarized superstate he describes arose not as the result of a coup but because world governments collapsed at the end of WW3, leaving soldiers and POWs stranded wherever they were.

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:48:12pm

Obdicut was my favorite debate opponent. It was always smart and chill. Aminah would tease about Page debates going for days between us. Last December due to real-world stresses I ended my Twitter and removed all politics from my FB. The quality and kindness of those here kept me from walking away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:48:53pm

re: #371 Unshaken Defiance

Obdicut was my favorite debate opponent. It was always smart and chill. Aminah would tease about Page debates going for days between us. Last December due to real-world stresses I ended my Twitter and removed all politics from my FB. The quality and kindness of those here kept me from walking away here.

I delete most all political posts on FB and block people who get carried away with it.

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TedStriker  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:51:14pm

re: #369 Targetpractice

It’s not that scifi has become “more political,” no more than comic books are suddenly becoming “political.” It’s that the people who are bitching about the politics are the ones who saw Robocop and thought it was nothing more than an action film.

Exactly.

Robocop (the Paul Verhoeven original, not the remake) was, at its heart, a very keen satire of late-stage capitalism, from megacorp OCP buying and running the Detroit PD into the ground to all of the over-the-top in-movie products (the Cobra Assault Cannon [in reality, a heavily-modded Barrett M82 rifle], the 6000 SUX) to the in-movie TV show “I’ll Buy That for a Dollar!”

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:52:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:52:33pm

moron is back from cheating at the golf course…

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Unshaken Defiance  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:53:13pm

As intended.
Hate crimes increased 226% in places Trump held a campaign rally in 2016, study claims
businessinsider.com

According to a study done by University of North Texas professors Regina Branton and Valerie Martinez-Ebers, and PhD candidate Ayal Feinberg, the scientists found that Trump’s statements during the 2016 campaign “may encourage hate crimes” in the respective counties.

The study measured the correlation between counties that hosted a 2016 campaign rally and the crime rates in the months that followed. The scientists used the Anti-Defamation League’s map that measures acts of violence and compared the counties that hosted a rally with others that had similar characteristics, including minority population, location, and active hate groups.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:54:50pm

“You look at a decision to investigate a political rival. Who made it?”

how about the person who keeps yelling “LOCK HER UP!”?

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:55:11pm

re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron is back from cheating at the golf course…

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Let’s just ignore the hypocrisy of Donny happily capitalizing on every new “revelation” in the “Emailgate” investigation as well as demanding to this day for every Democrat he personally hates to be investigated for “crimes” he can’t even begin to prove.

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:56:48pm

re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth

[New Mexico has a new law that puts the state on the path to 100 percent carbon-free electricity. More in this week’s Clean Economy Weekly. bit.ly]

I finally went to the link and read. Then I clicked the link to the press release it was derived from. You’d think they would include a comment from the press release by the President:

“This legislation is a milestone for not just the state of New Mexico and the southwest, but all of the U.S., including tribal communities,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez. “I applaud the governor, lawmakers, and cabinet secretaries for their work. This is a gift for our children and children of New Mexico who are yet to be born. Clean energy is the future of our nation.”

That’s the President nearest to me. Almost always.

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Teukka  Mar 31, 2019 • 12:58:26pm

Speaking of WWIII, this should be a consideration to the Nuke’emm al, lett Cod zort ‘em owt! crowd…

What If We Detonated All Nuclear Bombs at Once?

All The Bombs – Soundtrack (2019)

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:04:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:05:48pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:07:41pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:09:20pm

re: #356 The Vicious Babushka

Benito’s granddaughter is mad, yo

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Uncle Buddy was wounded at Anzio. If he were still alive he’d tell her to go to hell.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:10:11pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:11:13pm

Remember Donny saying he was going to investigate Hillary when he was elected.

Hey, the tables turned. It happens.

Especially when you give the FBI clear reasons to begin investigations of you, your campaign and your early staff selections.

In other words, you did this to yourself Donny. Obama and Hillary were concerned about the election, the one you at the least knew was being screwed with by a foreign enemy. Why wouldn’t all of Washington want to check into you?

So, here is a suggestion. For an innocent man you make a lot of noise. How about you shut the fuck up.

The majority of America still hates you. We didn’t need The Mueller Report to know that.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:12:46pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:13:06pm

re: #370 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Starship Troopers was butchered as a film, but the novel contains long discourses about the nature of political power and the political franchise.

Not that I agree with Heinlein’s conclusions, but the militarized superstate he describes arose not as the result of a coup but because world governments collapsed at the end of WW3, leaving soldiers and POWs stranded wherever they were.

The irony is that the film itself was another social commentary piece by Paul Verhoeven, commenting on how such a fascist world as espoused by Heinlein would simply turn war into a meat grinder for the purpose of “killing fucking bugs.”

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Targetpractice  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:13:21pm

re: #385 Belafon

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Don’t you think he looks tired?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:13:36pm

Anymouse……

I don’t know what the heck happened there. I will say that working Weekend nites as I do, they have become extremely boring now since he was such a nite owl. This site dies at 11 now.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:16:33pm

re: #387 Belafon

And his pinned tweet for those who haven’t wondered over:

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:18:30pm

re: #349 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Mynah Birds - It’s My Time w)Rick James & Neil Young

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:20:52pm

re: #390 Dave In Austin

Anymouse……

I don’t know what the heck happened there. I will say that working Weekend nites as I do, they have become extremely boring now since he was such a nite owl. This site dies at 11 now.

Yep — during my frequent bouts of insomnia and late nights I could always count on him for thoughtful insights. Teleskiguy usually doesn’t hang for quite as late

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:20:54pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:23:50pm

re: #391 Belafon

And his pinned tweet for those who haven’t wondered over:

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Back when I used to go to FB, I saw one of my cousins yell at his brother because that brother had a daughter who (as an adult, or nearly so) was an out-of-the-closet atheist, in public and all.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:24:14pm

re: #394 gocart mozart

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:24:54pm

re: #386 ObserverArt

Remember Donny saying he was going to investigate Hillary when he was elected.

Hey, the tables turned. It happens.

Especially when you give the FBI clear reasons to begin investigations of you, your campaign and your early staff selections.

In other words, you did this to yourself Donny. Obama and Hillary were concerned about the election, the one you at the least knew was being screwed with by a foreign enemy. Why wouldn’t all of Washington want to check into you?

So, here is a suggestion. For an innocent man you make a lot of noise. How about you shut the fuck up.

The majority of America still hates you. We didn’t need The Mueller Report to know that.

SRSLY. Trump’s obsessive gibberings about the Mueller Report come across way less like the relief of an innocent man at being exonerated, than the hysterical gloating of a guilty one who’s gotten off on a technicality.
That Mueller’s investigation couldn’t (apparently) find a direct personal involvement by President Moron with Russian interference in the 2016 doesn’t make him one bit more credible, honest, or competent.
Which, IMO, is a point which ought to brought up at every opportunity.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:25:52pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:26:12pm

This gives details of the capture

Youtube Video

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:29:27pm

re: #395 wrenchwench

Back when I used to go to FB, I saw one of my cousins yell at his brother because that brother had a daughter who (as an adult, or nearly so) was an out-of-the-closet atheist, in public and all.

I have never been able to figure out why people that say they are strong in their Christian faith have such a problem with anyone claiming to be an atheist.

What is the problem, they are of no threat to you or your faith…unless they make you question your own faith and the everyone-in, safety-in-numbers aspect that bothers you because they are not following you?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:30:50pm

re: #397 Jay C

SRSLY. Trump’s obsessive gibberings about the Mueller Report come across way less like the relief of an innocent man at being exonerated, than the hysterical gloating of a guilty one who’s gotten off on a technicality.
That Mueller’s investigation couldn’t (apparently) find a direct personal involvement by President Moron with Russian interference in the 2016 doesn’t make him one bit more credible, honest, or competent.
Which, IMO, is a point which ought to brought up at every opportunity.

I won’t reference the Mueller report without seeing it. We know virtually nothing about it. The only legitimate speculation is that if it were really good for the GOP, it would be public knowledge at this point.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:30:58pm

re: #373 TedStriker

Exactly.

Robocop (the Paul Verhoeven original, not the remake) was, at its heart, a very keen satire of late-stage capitalism, from megacorp OCP buying and running the Detroit PD into the ground to all of the over-the-top in-movie products (the Cobra Assault Cannon, the 6000 SUX) to the in-movie TV show “I’ll Buy That for a Dollar!”

And that’s an update of “I’d buy that for a quarter!” from the TV game show in Kornbluth’s The Marching Morons.

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:31:39pm

re: #399 gocart mozart

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Heh. “The sawdust has finally run out of Caesar”

Good Fucking Riddance, and Alessandra Mussolini can take her gripes to Hell, and stay there with them.

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:33:05pm

She seems nice

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:36:02pm

re: #400 ObserverArt

I have never been able to figure out why people that say they are strong in their Christian faith have such a problem with anyone claiming to be an atheist.

What is the problem, they are of no threat to you or your faith…unless they make you question your own faith and the everyone-in, safety-in-numbers aspect that bothers you because they are not following you?

In most religions, fathers are supposed to control their daughters, especially when it comes to things seen as holy. And older brothers are supposed to keep younger brothers in line.

Fascism begins in the home.

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:36:37pm

re: #404 gocart mozart

She seems nice

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Arrogance must be a family trait.

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:37:40pm

re: #406 ObserverArt

Guess who she retweeted

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:43:07pm

re: #403 Jay C

Oddly enough, her father was a pretty good jazz musician. Go figure…

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:46:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:48:57pm

re: #409 gocart mozart

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and Denise’s week started off like this:

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:50:30pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:51:29pm

re: #367 wrenchwench

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:51:35pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:53:19pm

if my last name was Mussolini i might stay out of political discussions. That’s just me.

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:59:29pm

re: #414 I Would Prefer Not To

if my last name was Mussolini i might stay out of political discussions. That’s just me.

She is an Italian politician. And quite active at that. I think she is part of the European Parliament representing Italy though I am unfamiliar with how that all works. So, there is that.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 1:59:38pm

re: #414 I Would Prefer Not To

if my last name was Mussolini i might stay out of political discussions. That’s just me.

I dare her to say “But the trains.”

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:00:31pm
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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:03:38pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:06:43pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:10:03pm
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can't think of a decent username  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:10:39pm

re: #414 I Would Prefer Not To

if my last name was Mussolini i might stay out of political discussions. That’s just me.

Hitler’s family has their heads screwed on straight.

allthatsinteresting.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:16:13pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:17:28pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:19:20pm

re: #422 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Crisis on the border. Somebody grab his phone before he blames one of the Mexicos.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:23:22pm

re: #424 wrenchwench

Even without the phone he will still blame Mexico.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:32:19pm

Nothing gives me more pleasure than to see the Tories turning into a giant Alka Seltzer tablet and they’re plop plopping and fizz fizzing away!

theguardian.com

Theresa May’s government is on the verge of meltdown as cabinet ministers prepare to clash over whether to support plans for a softer Brexit and a possible lengthy delay before leaving the European Union.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:35:36pm

re: #425 PhillyPretzel

Even without the phone he will still blame Mexico.

and he will wrap himself with the bodies of the dead

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:38:09pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:38:45pm

For Brexit experts: If there is a no-deal Brexit, what happens to British citizens who currently live in other nations and EU citizens living in Britain, whose current residence was available because of EU membership? Will they be forced to leave their homes immediately?

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:39:36pm

re: #429 Hecuba’s daughter

One story floated today is that Germany will let UK residents in Germany remain there, at least for now.

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:39:44pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:41:22pm

she really is something

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:42:08pm

I wish I was blocked by Mussolini

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:42:52pm

re: #430 freetoken

One story floated today is that Germany will let UK residents in Germany remain there, at least for now.

I suspect there will be an EU-wide policy, to be carried out by each nation as fits their needs.

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:44:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:46:04pm
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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:48:04pm

My contemplation on Liz getting involved may come true:

Queen fears being dragged into Brexit chaos

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:51:06pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 31, 2019 • 2:54:11pm

re: #435 gocart mozart

Meanwhile, Mussolini’s granddaughter………..

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:00:47pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:03:28pm

In other election news…

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:05:45pm

Speaking of PowerBall:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:10:12pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:12:07pm

re: #436 Backwoods_Sleuth

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By which he means if they are dying they can always go to the ER, so they are “covered.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:13:07pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:14:45pm

re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That is the look my dog gives my when I pay attention to the other two dogs, or anybody else, for that matter.

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:15:39pm

re: #429 Hecuba’s daughter

For Brexit experts: If there is a no-deal Brexit, what happens to British citizens who currently live in other nations and EU citizens living in Britain, whose current residence was available because of EU membership? Will they be forced to leave their homes immediately?

Minor point, HD: ARE there really any “Brexit experts”?? “Cuz it seems like in the UK, nobody - from the most-disinterested civilian up to (and especially including) the political class and Government - has the least coherent idea of how to manage the process that its initiators in the Vote Leave movement assured them would be a cakewalk, and an unalloyed benefit….

But yeah, issues of “residence” and citizenship are just another one of the facets of the Brexit mess that were left to the last second to have to deal with. Despite their lofty rhetoric, a BIG component of the “Leave” movement was the prospect that the UK would finally be able to “control its borders”* - i.e. “chuck the bloody foreigners out” : that Brexit would leave large numbers of British citizens instantly “foreigners” in the countries where so many of them have moved seems not to have occurred to them.

My guess is that EU countries are probably going to give existing British ex-pats something of a break by simply making them re-apply for whatever residence status will apply going forward (probably no mass-exodus). But since a forced mass-exodus of “foreigners” seems to have been a fundamental theme of the Leave campaign - and one which they seem to be determined to promulgate - who knows?

*not unlike our own domestic Trumprrhoids’ attitudes about “illegals”

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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:17:59pm

re: #446 NO SMOCKING GUN!

That is the look my dog gives my when I pay attention to the other two dogs, or anybody else, for that matter.

Same for our two cats. Call either one sweetly and mention ‘kibble’ and everything, and he’ll pretend to be asleep, but say the name of the other one, and he’ll snap to attention.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:24:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:35:01pm
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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:40:53pm

Still waiting for leaders who are able to come out in public and discuss the issues that make people uncomfortable.

We may already be there in the LGBQT discussions.

But so much more needs to come out of the closet, so to speak.

Such as the theocratic urges of the religoius right. This needs to be a campaign issue.

Also: that Social Security really is about inter-generational obligation, and it most certainly is not about “savings”.

Also needs to be tackled: inherited wealth and capital gains. Why are the rich given preferential treatment?

And so on.

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:42:22pm

I’m waiting for a Democratic candidate to come right out on a public platform and say we need to address why so many Americans are still clinging to their guns and Bibles.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:43:48pm

re: #452 freetoken

I’m waiting for a Democratic candidate to come right out on a public platform and say we need to address why so many Americans are still clinging to their guns and Bibles.

BITTERLY CLINGING

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:45:10pm

re: #452 freetoken

I’m waiting for a Democratic candidate to come right out on a public platform and say we need to address why so many Americans are still clinging to their guns and Bibles.

I’ve attempted to have existential discussions with people before. Most people are not prepared mentally to have them. A candidate will get nothing from those types of conversations now other than they want to ban both religion and guns.

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plansbandc  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:47:39pm

I don’t think this is a Methodist Church. I think it’s a Republican Jesus Methodist Church. Clicky to read the sign.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:48:29pm
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harlequinade  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:50:10pm

re: #429 Hecuba’s daughter

For Brexit experts: If there is a no-deal Brexit, what happens to British citizens who currently live in other nations and EU citizens living in Britain, whose current residence was available because of EU membership? Will they be forced to leave their homes immediately?

As one of those, here’s what I can tell you from Denmark. A number of countries have said “even in the event of No Deal, we’ll look after you.” Portugal was the first to say “We’ve set aside millions to help you.” Most of the other countries has offered some form of residence program.

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:50:36pm

re: #454 Belafon

I’ve attempted to have existential discussions with people before. Most people are not prepared mentally to have them. A candidate will get nothing from those types of conversations now other than they want to ban both religion and guns.

But it’s still important to discuss these things publicly.

How did it come about that gay rights became an acceptable topic in politics? By shying away from it? No. Artist-led movements started to make the body politic uncomfortable, and from that a great deal of debate ensued (some of which is still going on.)

We need leaders who will bring to the public debate stage the real problems of the religious right trying to impose a fundamentalist Christianity. This is a legitimate topic for debate. Yes, a lot of people will whine. Good. They need to whine.

We have to not avoid the awkwardness.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:51:10pm

Here’s an interesting thought (based on something my son and his friends were discussing): Pick a story, and have the snap from Infinity War occur half-way through. Have half of the characters die, and make sure it’s not biased so that one is the only one left over. How would the story change? What would having a different set of characters remain do to the story?

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retired cynic  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:51:13pm

re: #385 Belafon

Well, I’m sure tired of him. Completely exhausted, as a matter of fact.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 3:58:30pm

re: #455 plansbandc

I don’t think this is a Methodist Church. I think it’s a Republican Jesus Methodist Church. Clicky to read the sign.

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Hahahaha. I get what they were going for but that is amusing.

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William Lewis  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:03:00pm

re: #441 wrenchwench

In other election news…

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There was a story in Analog of something like that in a future US. The story ended with a horrified comedian as president elect and later issues had letters complaining how impossible it was…

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gocart mozart  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:08:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:11:38pm

re: #462 William Lewis

There was a story in Analog of something like that in a future US. The story ended with a horrified comedian as president elect and later issues had letters complaining how impossible it was…

Veep’s Selina Meyer would also like a word…

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makeitstop  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:14:12pm

Another strategic fail by the Trump Cult.

Barr’s letter changed nothing.

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Teukka  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:20:13pm

One of the briefest videos on homeopathy I’ve seen…

How does homeopathy work?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:21:21pm

re: #466 Teukka

lol. That was short.

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:23:03pm

re: #465 makeitstop

Another strategic fail by the Trump Cult.

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Barr’s letter changed nothing.

I’m thinking it actually cost them.

By not getting a boost in ratings it says only his base bought it right off. I suspect those numbers to turn worse for Barr/Trump because of their stalling, etc. The more they hold off the worse it will get.

America wants to see The Mueller Report, they do not buy Trump is clean and there is no trust in him as president.

Barr is in a jam as are the Republican Senate. Jobs are at stake…and Mitch will soon be hearing it.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:25:54pm

re: #466 Teukka

One of the briefest videos on homeopathy I’ve seen…

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Video

The suspense was killing me. I probably needed some herbs.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:27:12pm

re: #465 makeitstop

Another strategic fail by the Trump Cult.

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Barr’s letter changed nothing.

I only partially hate to poke this, but remember how many people here declared Trump the president in 2020 because of Barr’s summary?

We really have to watch thinking that this site represents the country.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:29:14pm

Fuck Bernie. If you didn’t need any more reasons not to vote for this prick.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:29:47pm

re: #470 Belafon

I only partially hate to poke this, but remember how many people here declared Trump the president in 2020 because of Barr’s summary?

We really have to watch thinking that this site represents the country.

i said at the time that the full report would come out sooner or later—probably sooner—and the greater the discrepancy between it and what Barr claimed, the worse it’s going to look.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:31:55pm

‘On the Media’ is ripping Trump new anuses tonight. No one there was fooled by the Barr Memo.

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:35:38pm

re: #470 Belafon

I only partially hate to poke this, but remember how many people here declared Trump the president in 2020 because of Barr’s summary?

We really have to watch thinking that this site represents the country.

How many people HERE? At LGF? Probably a minimal number, if any. This site isn’t exactly a stronghold of Trump-apologists…..

That said, the “Total Exoneration” meme is one that should be vigorously combatted at every opportunity

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mmmirele  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:45:55pm

At 11:30 Japan Standard Time Monday (which works out to 10:30 pm EDT/7:30 pm PDT tonight), the Japanese government will announce the name of the new era that will come in after the current emperor, Akihito, abdicates on April 30 and his son Naruhito takes the throne. This is important because a lot of legal documents are still dated in imperial eras even though the Japanese use Western calendars.

The current era is called “Heisei,” which means “peace everywhere.” The era of Hirohito was called “Showa” and, in fact, in Japan, Hirohito is not referred to Hirohito as such, but as Emperor Showa. (Showa means “radiant Japan” and pretty much fit the imperial aspirations of pre-World War II Japan.)

cnn.com

A survey conducted by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. found that 21 percent of those survey picked “sai” or “disaster” as the kanji to describe the Heisei era. People were thinking of several devastating earthquakes that hit Japan over the last 30 years, as well as the sarin attack in 1995. A runner up was “hen” or “change.” That seems to apply as well.

nippon.com

From a political standpoint, I have to wonder what Abe’s government is going to pick, since Abe is pretty much on record as wanting to pull Japan out from under the treaty that ended World War II and limits the country to a Self-Defense Force. I’m thinking a “peace everywhere” type of era isn’t going to happen. But I could be wrong.

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Teukka  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:47:28pm

re: #475 mmmirele

At 11:30 Japan Standard Time Monday (which works out to 10:30 pm EDT/7:30 pm PDT tonight), the Japanese government will announce the name of the new era that will come in after the current emperor, Akihito, abdicates on April 30 and his son Naruhito takes the throne. This is important because a lot of legal documents are still dated in imperial eras even though the Japanese use Western calendars.

The current era is called “Heisei,” which means “peace everywhere.” The era of Hirohito was called “Showa” and, in fact, in Japan, Hirohito is not referred to Hirohito as such, but as Emperor Showa. (Showa means “radiant Japan” and pretty much fit the imperial aspirations of pre-World War II Japan.)

cnn.com

A survey conducted by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. found that 21 percent of those survey picked “sai” or “disaster” as the kanji to describe the Heisei era. People were thinking of several devastating earthquakes that hit Japan over the last 30 years, as well as the sarin attack in 1995. A runner up was “hen” or “change.” That seems to apply as well.

nippon.com

From a political standpoint, I have to wonder what Abe’s government is going to pick, since Abe is pretty much on record as wanting to pull Japan out from under the treaty that ended World War II and limits the country to a Self-Defense Force. I’m thinking a “peace everywhere” type of era isn’t going to happen. But I could be wrong.

What’s “Meh.” in Japanese?
*walks into corner, puts dunce cap on*

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Skip Intro  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:47:50pm

re: #455 plansbandc

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:49:40pm

re: #475 mmmirele

Trump is forcing a number of countries to reconsider their own military standing. And you have to be able to project some force; defense will only work up to a point.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:50:24pm

re: #477 Skip Intro

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That’s from some country song that was old when they played it on Hee Haw.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:50:29pm

re: #477 Skip Intro

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F-ing, SC is a great name.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:52:54pm

re: #475 mmmirele

At 11:30 Japan Standard Time Monday (which works out to 10:30 pm EDT/7:30 pm PDT tonight), the Japanese government will announce the name of the new era that will come in after the current emperor, Akihito, abdicates on April 30 and his son Naruhito takes the throne. This is important because a lot of legal documents are still dated in imperial eras even though the Japanese use Western calendars.

The current era is called “Heisei,” which means “peace everywhere.” The era of Hirohito was called “Showa” and, in fact, in Japan, Hirohito is not referred to Hirohito as such, but as Emperor Showa. (Showa means “radiant Japan” and pretty much fit the imperial aspirations of pre-World War II Japan.)

cnn.com

A survey conducted by Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. found that 21 percent of those survey picked “sai” or “disaster” as the kanji to describe the Heisei era. People were thinking of several devastating earthquakes that hit Japan over the last 30 years, as well as the sarin attack in 1995. A runner up was “hen” or “change.” That seems to apply as well.

nippon.com

From a political standpoint, I have to wonder what Abe’s government is going to pick, since Abe is pretty much on record as wanting to pull Japan out from under the treaty that ended World War II and limits the country to a Self-Defense Force. I’m thinking a “peace everywhere” type of era isn’t going to happen. But I could be wrong.

May I suggest reviving “Eijanaika”?

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Citizen K  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:53:03pm

re: #480 Belafon

F-ing, SC is a great name.

You can’t go wrong with Crystal Methodists either, their services are pretty addicting I hear.

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 4:54:21pm

re: #475 mmmirele

When I was in Japan it was not uncommon to have dates expressed in “Heisei”.

The new name may be a government choice, but a lot of behind the scenes maneuvering between cliques has to be going on, not the least of which are those how are part of Naruhito’s inner circle.

re: #476 Teukka

What’s “Meh.” in Japanese?
*walks into corner, puts dunce cap on*

たぶんね is what I’d propose. Sort of means “maybe?”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:00:28pm

moron is still mad

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:03:23pm

re: #484 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron is still mad

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Gotta love it when the President makes thinly veiled threats.

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Jay C  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:05:13pm

re: #477 Skip Intro

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Looks like something you would see on an episode of Young Sheldon …

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:05:58pm

Indoor temperature hit 86 in my apartment so the air conditioner got its’ first workout this year…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:05:59pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:07:25pm

I appreciate the friend who brought me some fresh Maytag Blue Cheese wedges. So good!

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:10:34pm

re: #483 freetoken

When I was in Japan it was not uncommon to have dates expressed in “Heisei”.

The new name may be a government choice, but a lot of behind the scenes maneuvering between cliques has to be going on, not the least of which are those how are part of Naruhito’s inner circle.

たぶんね is what I’d propose. Sort of means “maybe?”

Sorry, I meant to post something, but it was dumb. Something along the lines of 女性天皇って何が悪い？or “what’s wrong with a woman emperor?”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:11:32pm

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:12:40pm

For all of our concerns about the serious things in life, what I find perhaps more maddening is that a great share of our fellow Americans would rather just escape into a pallid nothingness….

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:13:32pm

re: #484 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron is still mad

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Trump isn’t a Christian, but a lot of his followers are Christianists, and they should be called out on it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:15:01pm

re: #492 freetoken

Still remember the 2003 California Recall when Oprah let her pal Arnold come on her show and lie thru his teeth. And she refused to let Gray Davis come on to defend himself.

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retired cynic  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:15:09pm

Trump Opens His Mouth, Shoots Himself in the Foot

I hadn’t seen that we had caught this here: “Trump claims Mueller probe “would not have happened” if Barr had always been AG”

We’ve gone so far down the rabbit hole with Trump that those kind of statements are taken for granted and don’t even shock us anymore. That is a snapshot of a country in trouble.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:17:07pm

re: #495 retired cynic

No this is following the same pattern of other empires that fell. Overextension of military commitments and government indifference to internal problems.

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:17:57pm

The goal of AppleTV as a network service is obviously to keep eyes on Apple, so Oprah with her millions and millions of followers (something that has always escaped me) being added as some sort of channel ( and I don’t know what that really means anymore) is a plus.

But for what, in the end?

Netflix just offered me another free trial, for a month. So I took them up on it, but will cancel before being billed. I’m still on the 99cents a-month-for-a-year Hulu promotion but I’ve not watched anything on Hulu in over a month.

I’d rather watch the free (with annoying adverts) videos on Youtube from people who I find enlightening.

The vacuousness of Oprah is echoed throughout our circuses, to which we flee to escape reality.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:19:33pm

Chuck Todd is such a tool…just lets Barrasso spew this shit and smiles the entire time

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ObserverArt  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:19:51pm

re: #480 Belafon

F-ing, SC is a great name.

As is Cyrstal Meth-odist Church.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:21:59pm

re: #497 freetoken

I read an article this morning that basically said that Apple entering the streaming service world shows that we’re reaching a real saturation point on services, and we’ll probably start seeing some aggregation soon. What’s the point of paying for just what you want if just what you want costs as much as the original, especially since they’re now requiring internet access, which are also owned by content providers, and can set the rate not on usage, but on how much they can get away with? The writer did argue that we need to separate internet from content providers and treat the internet as a utility.

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:24:28pm

re: #498 Backwoods_Sleuth

MTP is so lame.

Consider this tweet today:

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:24:32pm

Here’s an interesting story: Africa is planting trees, hoping to do 6000 miles, from coast to coast:

A decade in and roughly 15% underway, the initiative is already bringing life back to Africa’s degraded landscapes at an unprecedented scale, providing food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions who live along its path.

The Wall promises to be a compelling solution to the many urgent threats not only facing the African Continent, but the global community as a whole - notably climate change, drought, famine, conflict and migration.

Once complete, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on the planet, 3 times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.

h/t dailykos.com

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Dave In Austin  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:26:07pm

There’s French Bullies avail. in the DC area.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:26:22pm

Some more encouraging news:

The second tweet is a report of an attempt by the GOP to undo the damage Trump is causing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:26:41pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:30:12pm

re: #501 freetoken

MTP is so lame.

Consider this tweet today:

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Did you expect Chuck U and the Press The Meat gang to tell any truth at all?

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Dread Pirate Whitebeard  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:32:09pm

So now pilots will have a handy little indicator to tell them that their plane is trying to kill them.

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:35:13pm
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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:35:59pm

Certainly no one is surprised, are they?

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:37:40pm

LOLWUT
(In private tags because NSFW and also WTFF)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:40:23pm

re: #510 The Vicious Babushka

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freetoken  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:42:26pm

Wisconsin, home of nutty “Sheriff” Clarke, Birch Society, Joe McCarthy , and the winner of the third largest ever lottery jackpot… and still lots of bigots:

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Teukka  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:48:52pm

So, I got this one on my suggested videos on YouTube:

Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm - (Part 1/3) Smarter Every Day 213

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:52:11pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:52:31pm

re: #497 freetoken

The goal of AppleTV as a network service is obviously to keep eyes on Apple, so Oprah with her millions and millions of followers (something that has always escaped me) being added as some sort of channel ( and I don’t know what that really means anymore) is a plus.

But for what, in the end?

Netflix just offered me another free trial, for a month. So I took them up on it, but will cancel before being billed. I’m still on the 99cents a-month-for-a-year Hulu promotion but I’ve not watched anything on Hulu in over a month.

I’d rather watch the free (with annoying adverts) videos on Youtube from people who I find enlightening.

The vacuousness of Oprah is echoed throughout our circuses, to which we flee to escape reality.

‘All the money in the world’s spent on feeling good’

Start at 2:15 for more details:

Fool For A Cigarette/Feelin’ Good - Ry Cooder

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teleskiguy  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:53:30pm

re: #510 The Vicious Babushka

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Old Liberal  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:54:55pm

re: #514 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Apparently we liberals are getting more than our share. Doing what we can to make life better.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:55:53pm

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William Lewis  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:57:35pm

re: #514 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Wikileaks trying to ratfuck America again.

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Belafon  Mar 31, 2019 • 5:58:42pm

re: #518 Joe Bacon 🌹

[Embedded content]

The Trump White House isn’t secure enough to be proud of their little wieners.

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jaunte  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:00:49pm

re: #514 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who will harness this vast young army with free time in 2020

Straight up GRU psychological warfare.

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Mar 31, 2019 • 6:45:23pm

re: #513 Teukka

Destin is one of the best YouTubers I follow. Usually, he’s doing gee-whiz science/engineering stuff, like imaging the shock waves from the tip of a bullwhip or filming arrows with a high-speed camera, but every once in a while he does something like this three-parter that provide a real public service. He’s a religious dude who keeps his faith on the down-low on his videos, which I respect, too.

His real job is as a weapons and defense expert with the DoD, IIRC.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 1, 2019 • 5:47:10am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

Really tough to tell. My best guess is purple.

I was leaning towards purple, but switched to red towards the end.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 1, 2019 • 6:42:59am

re: #366 Charles Johnson

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There’s a guy at my favorite bar just like that.


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