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Perpetual chaos, who could have thought that one up?
They’ve done a documentary on Molly Ivins! Well, it ought to be a series!
Romney falsely claims ACA “only applies to 25% of the population”; Chuck Todd fails to correct him. https://t.co/3k52rNmc07
— Denise Oliver-Velez (@Deoliver47) April 7, 2019
Here’s something that has gotten almost no coverage here in the US:
Air strikes in battle for Libyan capital as US withdraws troops
In another sign of the worsening situation on the ground, a contingent of US forces supporting the US Africa Command evacuated Libya for security reasons, a US statement said. It gave no details.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
“Even more trickier”? Is Toad channeling Trump now?
Mitt is getting way too liberal for the GOP, he better watch it.
He’s gone from singling out 47% to 25% now. I guess that is progress.
re: #3 Patricia Kayden
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You can always count on Chuck U Todd to kiss Romney’s ass.
there it is:
….I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, will become Acting Secretary for @DHSgov. I have confidence that Kevin will do a great job!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2019
re: #6 Skip Intro
“Even more trickier”? Is Toad channeling Trump now?
He’s just asking questions on a TV show. Chuck doesn’t want to disappoint anyone so he can get them on that show.
So, he’ll just point his pen at us and say he doesn’t have enough time, this could go on (and be a long debate which we will never have).
re: #12 Targetpractice
Let the whitewash commence!
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…and another investigation and visit to congress probably begins.
Another Acting Secretary.
Anyone notice a pattern here?
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Even if the 25% was true, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE?
The usual amount: The GOP playing the “Those undeserving bastards are stealing your tax dollars!” BS intended to serve as an excuse for the heartless shit they want to make happen. The idea is that if “only” 1/4 of the population is inconvenienced, then the other 3/4 somehow benefit from the ACA being repealed.
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
There is a revolving door for WH staff. And DT is running the gov’t like a reality show.
Breaking: The Ice Queen of family separation is separating from the Trump crime family. https://t.co/WEX71TbNUj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2019
Now that she is being shown the door, Secretary Kirstjen @SecNielsen has learned the lesson of working for Trump: Even if you destroy your reputation to serve him, he will offer you NO loyalty. He never has, he never will. If he thinks he’ll get applause 4 it, he’ll execute you.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) April 7, 2019
She ought to be taking up a new position…in Leavenworth…
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another Acting Secretary.
Anyone notice a pattern here?
A cheap TV reality show with one star and his family and everyone else as a bit part used by the star for whatever he wishes.
Yeah, seems that way.
Russia’s doggedly defiant producer of asbestos — a product banned as a killer by more than 60 countries — thinks it has perhaps finally found the perfect figure to rehabilitate its product’s deeply stained image: President Trump. https://t.co/o3FW5W0w7L
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) April 7, 2019
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Now we watch as every “bad” decision made in the past 2 years on immigration will be portrayed as either her decision or her idea that she sold Donny on, the entire “crisis” due to her “failure” to properly execute his will.
re: #21 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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Trump probably: Clean asbestos, it’ll be great. Best insulation ever, I bet you didn’t know that. And it’s green, it comes from the earth like coal.
re: #23 ObserverArt
Trump probably: Clean asbestos, it’ll be great. Best insulation ever, I bet you didn’t know that. And it’s green, it comes from the earth like coal.
it’s an all-natural product, I can tell you…
re: #15 Targetpractice
The usual amount: The GOP playing the “Those undeserving bastards are stealing your tax dollars!” BS intended to serve as an excuse for the heartless shit they want to make happen. The idea is that if “only” 1/4 of the population is inconvenienced, then the other 3/4 somehow benefit from the ACA being repealed.
today’s sermon in large part about how many Christians don’t realize that Christ’s statement in Lazarus’ house that “there will be poor always” is a deuteronomical call to arms against poverty, and not some right-wing rationalization to resigning ourselves to do nothing.
re: #23 ObserverArt
Trump probably: Clean asbestos, it’ll be great. Best insulation ever, I bet you didn’t know that. And it’s green, it comes from the earth like coal.
Let’s ask my Dad about “clean asbestos”.
OOPS, you can’t. He died from asbestos-related cancer!
re: #25 steve_davis
today’s sermon in large part about how many Christians don’t realize that Christ’s statement in Lazarus’ house that “there will be poor always” is a deuteronomical call to arms against poverty, and not some right-wing rationalization to resigning ourselves to do nothing.
Doesn’t matter.
The overwhelming majority of Christians went to church today to hear sermons praising Gawd’s Anointed King.
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another Acting Secretary.
Anyone notice a pattern here?
Is there any legal time limit for how long someone can be in an “Acting” role?
I worry we’ll soon have an entire cabinet of unconfirmed, unaccountable “Acting” secretaries.
I love this headline! It sounds like a movie tag line:
“Exhumed after 4000 years”
From the Western Star (Corner Brook, NL) 1902-11-19. pic.twitter.com/R44cDKlxhe— Tombstones and Tea (@TombstonesTea) April 7, 2019
Nielsen has blood on her hands. Her actions will have consequences for decades. She is an utterly terrible person.
re: #23 ObserverArt
Trump probably: Clean asbestos, it’ll be great. Best insulation ever, I bet you didn’t know that. And it’s green, it comes from the earth like coal.
“That’s why, Mr. President, we’ve installed asbestos insulation in the White House bedroom walls, and are installing coal ovens in your room right now.”
re: #30 plansbandc
Nielsen has blood on her hands. Her actions will have consequences for decades. She is an utterly terrible person.
And her replacement is going to be even worse.
Rachel will have to buy a new monitor for her set.
Top Trump Departures
Flynn
Walsh
Comey
Dubke
Shaub
McFarland
Corralo
Spicer
Priebus
Mooch
Bannon
Gorka
Icahn
Price
Powell
Manigault
McCabe
Porter
Raffel
Hicks
Cohn
Tillerson
McMaster
Shulkin
Anton
Bossert
Pruitt
Short
Haley
Sessions
Kelly
Ayers
Zinke
Mattis
Shine
McMahon
Nielsen— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 7, 2019
For those of you in Maryland:
Michael E. Busch, a gregarious former coach and high school teacher who became the longest-serving House of Delegates speaker in Maryland history, died Sunday after a short bout with pneumonia. He was 72.
Busch died at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, where he had been placed Saturday on a ventilator to help him breathe. A statement Sunday morning from his office said Busch had made the decision to use the ventilator, but that his condition took a turn Sunday for the worse.
Just nominate Stephen Miller. After noms for Cain’t and Moore, there’s only one way to top those.
Or Sheriff Arpaio
Or Sheriff Ruckus
No shit, Sherlock!
Herman Cain says he may not survive vetting process for Federal Reserve Board https://t.co/rj5zTRZTLh pic.twitter.com/6LixJ6UzDC
— The Hill (@thehill) April 7, 2019
re: #30 plansbandc
Nielsen has blood on her hands. Her actions will have consequences for decades. She is an utterly terrible person.
There will be consequences for generations, not just decades.
I wonder what parting gift Orange Foolius gave to Reichstag Barbie?
re: #34 Joe Bacon 🌹
Rachel will have to buy a new monitor for her set.
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She had commented, a while back, about needing more wall space for her ever-expanding list of Trump Administration departures: it looks like she is going to need one the size of the Vietnam Memorial…..
re: #37 Joe Bacon 🌹
In an interview with @jaketapper on #CNNSOTU, @larry_kudlow discusses the allegations of sexual harassment against Trump’s Fed pick Herman Cain https://t.co/AbzJElbbj2
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 7, 2019
re: #37 Joe Bacon 🌹
No shit, Sherlock!
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That would be a shame. Lucky for Trump he has a deep bench of idiots to choose from. I wonder if Lou Dobbs would take the job if he could keep his Fox show?
re: #21 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
Wind mills cause cancer, but asbestos will MRGA!
The irony here is Stephen Miller doesn’t have a shadow https://t.co/IcgtXvuakq
— Dusty Giebel (@DustinGiebel) April 7, 2019
re: #38 unproven innocence
re: #30 plansbandc
Nielsen has blood on her hands. Her actions will have consequences for decades. She is an utterly terrible person.
There will be consequences for generations, not just decades.
But if it slows/reduces/eliminates the number of “illegal immigrants”* in the country, all said policies will be deemed a smashing success by a disgracefully large number of people.
An unfortunately, I have the feeling that the Administration is probably planning to double down on its anti-immigration stance (the “NO VACANCY” policy), and enforce it with even harsher methods than at present.
*i.e., anyone non-white wanting to come in.
WH official tells me Nielsen resigned. But clearly Trump was unhappy with her for many months. Our @JDiamond1 has obtained her resignation letter.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 7, 2019
Nielsen was not planning to resign when she walked into her meeting with Trump today, but she was prepared for the possibility. Here is her resignation letter, per a source close to Nielsen: pic.twitter.com/ElyTiwbYuR
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) April 7, 2019
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
Miller not only has no shadow…he casts no reflection in a mirror, either!
re: #14 Joe Bacon 🌹
Another Acting Secretary.
Anyone notice a pattern here?
“I sort of like ‘acting,’ ” Trump said. “It gives me more flexibility; do you understand that? I like ‘acting.’ “
So said the asshole on January 6.
re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
She got the fucking date wrong in her letter. Smh.
re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Trump is unhappy with everybody he appoints. Maybe he’s just really bad at this.
Keep your gums healthy:
Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer’s and other diseases
Researchers are reporting new findings on how bacteria involved in gum disease can travel throughout the body, exuding toxins connected with Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and aspiration pneumonia. They detected evidence of the bacteria in brain samples from people with Alzheimer’s and used mice to show that the bacterium can find its way from the mouth to the brain.
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re: #23 ObserverArt
Trump probably: Clean asbestos, it’ll be great. Best insulation ever, I bet you didn’t know that. And it’s green, it comes from the earth like coal.
Did a Russian Asbestos Company Put Trump’s Face on Their Product?
A Russian asbestos producer shared a photograph of their product to social media with a seal of Donald Trump’s face and the text “Approved by Donald Trump”.
re: #51 Skip Intro
Trump is unhappy with everybody he appoints. Maybe he’s just really bad at this.
No, it’s because the people he appoints tell him he can’t do all the authoritarian shit he wants to do and that’s not what he wants to hear.
“He often felt lectured to by Ms. Nielsen, the people familiar with the discussions said.”
She must have tried to tell him, like, facts and stuff. He doesn’t like that. https://t.co/qUzQwMR5Vq— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 7, 2019
re: #47 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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If that IS the text of Neilsen’s resignation latter, it’s blatantly obvious that she didn’t just dash it off on the spot after a WH confab. That sort of content-free document has had to been composed beforehand….
ADD: didn’t see: resigning AS OF TODAY (4/7)???
ADD 2: “April 7, 2018”?? Maybe this letter HAS been on file for a while….
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2019
Caucuses are undemocratic.
Washington Dems are ditching theirs.
Good. https://t.co/IZv5OPEFPA— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 7, 2019
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
Even if the 25% was true, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE?
So roughly 80 MILLION people. Yeah, drop in the bucket.
This is why I refer to that evil thing as Reichstag Barbie!
Kirstjen Nielsen cannot deny that she is familiar with the number 1488, & its implications.
3+ months BEFORE issuing that number, falsely, as the count for separated children, her dptmnt was forced to address whether or not they had used 1488 coded language in another document. pic.twitter.com/KfmuXwnxDq— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) March 6, 2019
re: #56 Jay C
If that IS the text of Neilsen’s resignation latter, it’s blatantly obvious that she didn’t just dash it off on the spot after a WH confab. That sort of content-free document has had to been composed beforehand….
ADD: didn’t see: resigning AS OF TODAY (4/7)???
As per the letter, technically last year…lol
re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg
She got the fucking date wrong in her letter. Smh.
yeah, I was gonna say “she left a year ago???”
Possible replacements for Kirstjen Nielsen…
- Tomi Lahren
- Dean Cain
- An AR-15
- A Golden Swastika
- A Hefty bag full of shit (or Scott Baio)
- The curly hair gun girl wearing a beige leotard holding an AR-15
- Satan
- A Papa Johns pizza
- Lou Dobbs
- Kid Rock— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 7, 2019
re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth
yeah, I was gonna say “she left a year ago???”
Actually she did leave a year ago, and what everyone has been watching the past year has been a simulacrum.
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Breaking: The Ice Queen of family separation is separating from the Trump crime family.
I understand that Trump actually did this face to face. Is this the first time he’s fired one of his minions that way? Interesting that he chose to do it in person with a woman. I think he probably enjoyed seeing her disappointment immediately.
And my friend Liz’s viral media phenom continues (the nurse who adopted the abandoned baby)—coming up on ABC News.
Want a feel good moment? Watch it!
re: #65 Dizzy
I understand that Trump actually did this face to face. Is this the first time he’s fired one of his minions that way? Interesting that he chose to do it in person with a woman. I think he probably enjoyed seeing her disappointment immediately.
That and he’s afraid of men.
Just had a Qanon weirdo come at me babbling that Nielsen is actually going to Gitmo where she’s going to oversee military tribunals that will get rid of all Trump’s enemies and the media and the left. So we have that to look forward to.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 7, 2019
re: #59 Eventual Carrion
So roughly 80 MILLION people. Yeah, drop in the bucket.
None of them are named Romney so who gives a shit?
re: #69 Charles Johnson
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I can’t wait for the day to come when these Qwazy Qs fantasies blow up in their faces when Trump and his cronies get arrested…
re: #66 BeachDem
And my friend Liz’s viral media phenom continues (the nurse who adopted the abandoned baby)—coming up on ABC News.
Want a feel good moment? Watch it!
I know I’ve mentioned this story before, but I am still astounded at the massive coverage it’s been getting—the Google News listing (and that’s not even all the coverage)
Just amazing when a feel-good story like this takes off.
This is fine pic.twitter.com/lFayzmqZ0t
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) April 7, 2019
re: #76 Blind Frog Belly White
Nice touch with the flames.
Whoa. “If you simply opened the borders you’d have people from Vietnam, and China, and Mexico, and Latin America coming in.” 😬 https://t.co/FBChY0WgWW pic.twitter.com/1Xqo0ygqM4
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) April 7, 2019
Gah. I just saw something that said, “We need to return to the ideals of our founders”, and I immediately thought, “Suffrage and slave pussy for the white guys! Everyone else can go fuck themselves!”
But that’s probably not what they meant.
Probably.
re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bernie is not only not useful, he’s becoming a useful idiot.
Maybe his quote is being taken out of context. I guess once people pour over the transcripts we’ll know more.
Sounds like a shark attack right by me in Kohala. Body in water, helicopter tried to net the person, ‘large tiger shark’ seen circling and drug the body under. Still hasn’t been recovered.
WHITE HOUSE: “We expect no disruption, as the difference between Kirstjen Nielsen being Secretary of Homeland Security and a mint stuck to the bottom of Ivanka’s handbag being Secretary of Homeland Security is indiscernible.” https://t.co/5yxSlB9NHY
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) April 7, 2019
Date corrected
Haven’t checked to see if all text is the same
NEW: DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation letter: “I can say with confidence our homeland is safer today than when I joined the Administration. We have taken unprecedented action to protect Americans.” https://t.co/ebi9CmhULm pic.twitter.com/gCbBfqDqEL
— ABC News (@ABC) April 7, 2019
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m concerned that we may end up looking back on Nielsen’s tenure as sort of a golden age, esp. if Stephen Fucking Miller has anything to do with it.
Pretty sure my cousin is a Qanon nutter. I’m scared to find out for sure.
re: #66 BeachDem
And my friend Liz’s viral media phenom continues (the nurse who adopted the abandoned baby)—coming up on ABC News.
Want a feel good moment? Watch it!
I saw it linked checking my email on Yahoo/Att email’s log in page, linked to some publication, but it is in heavy circulation. As it should be.
re: #86 plansbandc
Pretty sure my cousin is a Qanon nutter. I’m scared to find out for sure.
“The fact that nothing I’ve predicted has come true has only made me more sure I’m right!!!”
Trump attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar hours after a supporter was charged with threatening to kill her
vox.com
Trump delivered his disparaging remarks against Omar just hours after police in New York charged a man for threatening to assault and murder her.
Patrick Carlineo Jr., an avowed Trump supporter, was arrested Friday for calling Omar’s office and delivering an expletive-filled rant that included violent threats against the elected official.
“Do you work for the Muslim Brotherhood? Why are you working for her, she’s a fucking terrorist? I’ll put a bullet in her fucking skull,” Carlineo allegedly told staffers, according to the criminal complaint filed by the US Attorney’s Office in the Western District of New York.
re: #80 Blind Frog Belly White
Gah. I just saw something that said, “We need to return to the ideals of our founders”, and I immediately thought, “Suffrage and slave pussy for the white guys! Everyone else can go fuck themselves!”
But that’s probably not what they meant.
Probably.
And Clarence Thomas would only cast 3/5 of a vote in the Supreme Court.
re: #90 Blind Frog Belly White
Non sequitur.
Fat fastball, low-speed middle of the plate…hanging…
You know sometimes you just have questions.
re: #94 Joe Bacon 🌹
And Clarence Thomas would only cast 3/5 of a vote in the Supreme Court.
And he’d only get that because he’s “one of the good ones”.
Stumble across a song that I heard long ago and then we get……………………
The Full Album. Big Star- #1 Record (1972)
Damn
re: #63 Joe Bacon 🌹
The curly hair gun girl wearing a beige leotard holding an AR-15
That…could possibly be the worst of the lot.
re: #98 nines09
Stumble across a song that I heard long ago and then we get……………………
The Full Album. Big Star- #1 Record (1972)
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“I never go far
Without a little Big Star”
The ‘Mats at perhaps finest moment…
re: #98 nines09
was always more of a Raspberries guy myself, but they helped usher in the golden age of Power Pop which is possibly my most favorite genre musically…..
Despite my intense interest in all things space-related, then and now, I had never heard of this 1962 movie before someone posted about it on the Apollo/Saturn FB page today.
re: #101 piratedan
was always more of a Raspberries guy myself, but they helped usher in the golden age of Power Pop which is possibly my most favorite genre musically…..
Cleveland pop!
re: #98 nines09
Stumble across a song that I heard long ago and then we get……………………
The Full Album. Big Star- #1 Record (1972)
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Upding so many times! (but only one counts)
re: #97 Skip Intro
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Not quite accurate. The real Brexit is May standing at an open door saying she can’t find the exit.
Well, I went out and stood in front of a church this afternoon with a sign calling out their pastor, who is on record as saying that women who have abortions should be executed. Turns out I fucked up. The pastor is in Salt Lake City, harassing the Mormons who go to General Conference. But I did get to yell at some of the people who came out to talk to me. I made it absolutely clear that I absolutely favor the lives of the women already born and living and I was just not going to give an inch to their “what about the unborn women?” cant.
I don’t think they liked me calling them a cult, but when FOUR OF THEM, at SEPARATE TIMES, came out and told me that “fetus” means “baby,” I think I’m justified in calling them a cult.* I think and hope they were startled when I shouted several times, “Jesus save us from your professional followers!” when they tried browbeating me. And of course I’m angry! Those people want to force women to be pregnant against their will! The piece de resistance was they told me I was going to hell. Good! If Calvin’s god (the one these people worship) is the one in charge, I WANT to go to hell. I would rather go to hell than worship an evil being like that, who, according to their own teachings, condemns people to hell before they’re even born!
There will probably be a video of Angry Me. I was also very angry some times when picketing the Scientologists, so just because I was angry with the pro-life church doesn’t mean I am angry with God. I’m just angry at their stupidity and, well, cultishness.
*I mean, seriously, it was the same wording and everything. It was creepy as hell.
re: #100 William Lewis
re: #101 piratedan
Totally forgotten in my feeble mind.
Then you hear a song, dig and boom.
I have so many rattling around, forgot more than I remember.
When I think about it I was, as you of a certain age was also, exposed to genius on a daily basis.
May I never stop remembering.
re: #107 nines09
Totally forgotten in my feeble mind.
Then you hear a song, dig and boom.
I have so many rattling around, forgot more than I remember.
When I think about it I was, as you of a certain age was also, exposed to genius on a daily basis.
May I never stop remembering.
Every night I tell myself I am the cosmos….
re: #106 mmmirele
Your witness to the reality of the Gospel gives me hope that some will hear and learn. I am glad you share your story with us.
Today’s lection was on John’s version of the woman anointing Jesus; they certainly played Judas’ role perfectly.
Trump now wants to go “in a tougher direction” on immigration. Umm:
— Federal officials may need two years to identify thousands of immigrant children separated from their families
— Separating children from parents produces “toxic stress” that pediatricians compare to torture pic.twitter.com/DQcJLrG4Hu— Tim O’Brien (@TimOBrien) April 7, 2019
Trump/Miller is officially calling for children to be tortured more, because the current torture isn’t ‘deterrent’ enough.
Only In Australia pic.twitter.com/dyom2WcDA8
— WTF!? (@wtfvids_) April 2, 2019
Meanwhile International Criminal Court prosecutors are finding it more difficult to travel to the U.S.
re: #102 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Despite my intense interest in all things space-related, then and now, I had never heard of this 1962 movie before someone posted about it on the Apollo/Saturn FB page today.
While you’re checking out obscure spaceflight movies, have you seen Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)? Filmed in 1929 (as a “serious” science fiction film, and I’ve always been fond of it.
And there’s Meliès’ A Trip to the Moon, which everyone should see.
Trump’s base on immigration already skeptical of McAleenan as DHS Sec.
That took no time. https://t.co/CwiASKUc26— Hamed Aleaziz (@Haleaziz) April 7, 2019
Now that Kevin McAleenan is the new acting DHS secretary, a reminder that McAleenan has repeatedly called for continued aid to Northern Triangle countries as key to solving the migrant crisis, putting him directly at odds with Trump’s decision to cut aid:https://t.co/NvoOyXSDp0 pic.twitter.com/tHEQC5XWKV
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 7, 2019
re: #112 jaunte
Meanwhile International Criminal Court prosecutors are finding it more difficult to travel to the U.S.
I’d rather see former Trump appointees find it difficult to escape ICC arrest.
re: #117 William Lewis
Like all cult leaders, Trump’s solution to disagreement is to shut out the outside world.
This is the Nielsen joke. Y’all can stop looking. https://t.co/DSMnutzK73
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) April 7, 2019
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
And yet, you still have folk willing to work in Trump’s administration only to be discarded when they out serve their usefulness to his agenda.
re: #119 jaunte
Note: that’s not the Congressman.
Still clever, though.
Never, ever forget. https://t.co/o0cjt8GBir
— Cristian Farias (@cristianafarias) April 7, 2019
This from WaPo is key. Stephen Miller killed Trump’s pick for ICE, because, as one official notes, Miller keeps blaming others for the failure of his “tougher” policies.
Miller keeps reaffirming Trump’s “hard-line instincts.” Result: Nothing But Fail.https://t.co/VVUdUCPMVG pic.twitter.com/NNqBusNezb— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 7, 2019
re: #123 jaunte
If Karma bit Steven Miller in the ass he would get off on that and beg for more.
re: #111 Dave In Austin
So I took my WTF to the internet — if anyone cares, it’s a frilled agama. (It was featured in Jurassic Park, although I don’t remember it. I’m not sure I ever watched JP from beginning to end, though.)
Trump administration nearly doubles H-2B guest visa program, which brings many Mexican workers https://t.co/9SVTKbjyTW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 7, 2019
H-2B, is that the pay-a-bribe visa?
Source close to the President to me just now: “[@realDonaldTrump] knows DHS does things that aren’t related to border security, but he couldn’t care less about any of them right now.” https://t.co/h9leKrK5yq
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 7, 2019
Damnit, do I have to teach everyone?
Glöm inte heller de extremister som använde sig av bilden av Ebba’s lemlästade kropp, mot hennes föräldrars vilja.
När det kommer till kritan är de exakt samma skrot och korn som idioten som körde lastbilen den där dagen. Glöm inte det heller.— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 7, 2019
And here is where the new stuff drizzled in *sigh*
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— Marcus Adriano Birro (@BirroMarcus) April 7, 2019
“Holy, what disgusting man you are.”
“?”
Vad du kallar “omoraliskt användande” har effekter.
Som t.ex. att det motiverar extremister på andra sidan till illdåd, för att “ge igen”.
Vilket mer än sannolikt är syftet med det “omoraliska användandet”, att piska upp hat. Hänt mer än en gång i historien att det /1— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 7, 2019
“Comparing immoral users of image with mass murder is disgusting.”
av hat. I fallet IS mot “otrogna”, i fallet med extremister på andra sidan mot muslimer och invandrare, i historiska fall icke-ariska, judar och andra “Untermensch” (och vi har inte blivit av med dem helt än).
Extremism är hotet, oavsett om de är kristna, judar, muslimer, /3— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 7, 2019
för de hatberoende att sätta igång och begå illdåd.
Ju snarare man inser just detta, att i grund och botten är extremister oavsett ytlig sort samma skrot och korn, bara på olika stadier, ju lättare har man att stå emot och komma åt problemet. /5— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 7, 2019
Lär man sig inte av historien är man dömd att återupprepa den.
Hoppas bara att någon gång tillräckligt många lär sig för att slippa se de som sov på historielektionen upprepa historien. /SLUT— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 8, 2019
What you call “immoral use” has effects. Such as it justifying extremists on the other side to commit atrocities, to ’ avenge ‘. Which more than likely is the purpose of the “immoral use”, to whip up hatred. Happened more than once in history that it/1
the trick was used. The Problem is that hate blinds and destroys judgement. You see things like threats that aren’t even close to being there, and act against the threats you think are there. With The right horrific results. An extremist is basically a person who is dependent /2
of hatred. In The case of ICE against “infidels”, in the case of extremists on the other side against Muslims and immigrants, in historical cases non-Aryan, Jews and other “Untermensch” (and we have not gotten rid of them completely yet). Extremism is the threat, whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, /3
Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, Swedes, immigrants or even Pastafarians. They have the very same capacity for atrocities, just the right excuse to start missing. Which is where the “immoral usage” of Ebba’s image comes in. It forms part of the apology /4
for those hate-addicted to get started and commit atrocities. The more you realize just that, basically extremists regardless of the superficial kind of the same scrap and barley, only at different stages, the easier it is to resist and deal with the problem. /5
Plus lots of other bonus effects, such as being able to see how some sorts of tricks pop up again and again through at least centuries in history (know myself some tricks that have been in use for 700 years, at least). And the vast majority of times have innocent blood flowed. /6
If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. I just Hope that some time enough people learn to avoid thhat those who slept in the history lesson repeating history /FIN
re: #126 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
It’s the Pay A Bribe, Do The Work and Now Get Out Visa.
If this were a TWILIGHT ZONE episode, Kirstjen Nielsen would wake up in a small cage with Latin American children on the outside watching her.
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) April 7, 2019
re: #127 Dread Pirate Union AFL-CIO
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Of course he doesn’t care, because none of those responsibilities translate into votes from his nativist base.
re: #109 William Lewis
Your witness to the reality of the Gospel gives me hope that some will hear and learn. I am glad you share your story with us.
Today’s lection was on John’s version of the woman anointing Jesus; they certainly played Judas’ role perfectly.
Thank you—this was unexpected. I didn’t see it as a Gospel thing, I see it as standing up for women. These people had the *gall* to haul out Dred Scott v. Sanford and try to use it to say that there should be no abortion. Well, there’s a category difference between a zygote/embryo/fetus and an already here, already living and breathing person. And those people would also enslave women to pregnancy and childbirth, which can be dangerous, even fatal to women.
Oh, and their pastor? He’s trying this dodge that he’s not advocating the killing of women who have had abortions. No, that’s for the state to do. But he sure as heck will advocate for laws calling for execution of women who commit murder (in his mind) by having abortions. He’s such a poseur. He has no problem with going to open mic at the Phoenix city council meeting and call on the council to make Phoenix a “sanctuary city for the unborn.” He and his fellows were talking about how wonderful it was that they spoke truth to the city council. *shakes head* It was during open mic, where anyone has three minutes to get out what’s on their mind, whether it’s about noisy neighbors, potholes, dogs running loose, or, in this case, going to a city they don’t live in to preach at the council.
Nielsen will go down in history as presiding over an exceptionally cruel regime that separated families and violated human rights. I welcome her resignation and believe she should be held accountable for the abuses that happened under her watch. https://t.co/tDuz3wq328
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) April 8, 2019
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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She oversaw the policies that her boss either ordered she put in place or signed off on. Let’s not act as though the camp commandant just came up with the whole thing on her own.
Why isn’t Claire Grady the acting secretary? See 6 U.S.C. §113(g). https://t.co/EcTtAhHPz3
— Anne Joseph O’Connell (@AJosephOConnell) April 7, 2019
Exactly. As you know, I didn’t think the Dodd Frank or AG Succession Act language was enough to exclude the Vacancies Act in those kerfuffles. But here the statute explicitly excludes the Vacancies Act.
— Anne Joseph O’Connell (@AJosephOConnell) April 7, 2019
re: #128 Teukka
*groans*
Därför att bilden av Ebba’s lemlästade kropp används medvetet för att piska upp hat i folk till den milda grad att de begår illdåd själva.vi kommer aldrig komma någonvart om vi inte inser stegen i radikaliseringsprocessen och motverkar dem.Inklusive bland våra egna.
— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) April 8, 2019
“How is it even nearby equivalent?”
“Because the image of Ebba’s mutilated body is deliberately used to whip up hatred in people to the mild extent that they commit atrocities themselves. We will never get anywhere if we do not realize the steps of the radicalization process and counteract them. Including among our own.”
re: #128 Teukka
Damnit, do I have to teach everyone?
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What you call “immoral use” has effects. Such as it justifying extremists on the other side to commit atrocities, to ’ avenge ‘. Which more than likely is the purpose of the “immoral use”, to whip up hatred. Happened more than once in history that it/1
the trick was used. The Problem is that hate blinds and destroys judgement. You see things like threats that aren’t even close to being there, and act against the threats you think are there. With The right horrific results. An extremist is basically a person who is dependent /2
of hatred. In The case of ICE against “infidels”, in the case of extremists on the other side against Muslims and immigrants, in historical cases non-Aryan, Jews and other “Untermensch” (and we have not gotten rid of them completely yet). Extremism is the threat, whether Christians, Jews, Muslims, /3
Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, Swedes, immigrants or even Pastafarians. They have the very same capacity for atrocities, just the right excuse to start missing. Which is where the “immoral usage” of Ebba’s image comes in. It forms part of the apology /4
for those hate-addicted to get started and commit atrocities. The more you realize just that, basically extremists regardless of the superficial kind of the same scrap and barley, only at different stages, the easier it is to resist and deal with the problem. /5
Plus lots of other bonus effects, such as being able to see how some sorts of tricks pop up again and again through at least centuries in history (know myself some tricks that have been in use for 700 years, at least). And the vast majority of times have innocent blood flowed. /6
If you do not learn from history, you are doomed to repeat it. I just Hope that some time enough people learn to avoid thhat those who slept in the history lesson repeating history /FIN
I agree, but “the same scrap and barley?”
re: #137 A hollow voice says, Oringes…
I agree, but “the same scrap and barley?”
From “samma skrot och korn” (lit: “same scrap and barley”), meaning roughly same nuts and bolts that make them tick.
Forgive me, it’s 2:33 am local, and I do not have nearly enough caffeine in my system…
*grumbles and sips some cold coffee*
re: #134 Targetpractice
She oversaw the policies that her boss either ordered she put in place or signed off on. Let’s not act as though the camp commandant just came up with the whole thing on her own.
However “just following orders” is not a defense.
Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis | @BillGertz @FreeBeacon https://t.co/WUfUVQfzUl pic.twitter.com/wIPDx3OL3I
— RealClearDefense (@RCDefense) April 8, 2019
Direct link to article from Washington Free Beacon (believe it or not)
Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis
FBI spied on contacts between Russian nationalists and Charlottesville rally organizers
re: #139 A hollow voice says, Oringes…
However “just following orders” is not a defense.
It’s a mutual thing here: She’s a monster, but she worked for a monster. Best we might argue is a matter of degree.
re: #140 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Direct link to article from Washington Free Beacon (believe it or not)
Russian Group Offered Paramilitary Training to U.S. Neo-Nazis
FBI spied on contacts between Russian nationalists and Charlottesville rally organizers
The “Partizan” outfit?
In recent Oval meeting, Trump told aides that Stephen Miller was in charge of all immigration initiatives. Miller is often critical of Nielsen, questioning whether she is tough enough to the president. Miller was behind ouster of ICE director pick. https://t.co/pWuUjlmJAi
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) April 7, 2019
Convince me they are not looking for ways to murder migrants and get away with it.
How things have changed. Why back when I was a kid if someone said there were Russians in America training Americans to fight against Americans it would have been a huge thing. Huge!
re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because of course it’d be him. Miller is the one that wants a legitimate purge of the non-whites in this country.
‘My mom Sandy, depending on the day, was beaten for being too pretty, too ugly, too smart, too dumb.’ — @RepPressley opened up about her mother being abused while taking a stand for #VAWA pic.twitter.com/n8xfibcQbU
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) April 5, 2019
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Convince me they are not looking for ways to murder migrants and get away with it.
Migrants nothing. Immigration is being used as a proxy for brown people in general.
re: #147 Citizen K
Because of course it’d be him. Miller is the one that wants a legitimate purge of the non-whites in this country.
Miller is such a fool. He’s Jewish, he does not even realize that the same people who want the non-whites gone also want the Jews gone. Or he thinks he’ll be given a pass. That’s not what happened in Germany.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Convince me they are not looking for ways to murder migrants and get away with it.
They are getting away with murdering migrants right now and the MAGATS cheer as another one is killed.
re: #150 mmmirele
Miller is such a fool. He’s Jewish, he does not even realize that the same people who want the non-whites gone also want the Jews gone. Or he thinks he’ll be given a pass. That’s not what happened in Germany.
It doesn’t matter. His hate blinds him to his own vulnerability. He thinks he’s inoculated by being one of the ‘good ones’.
Dear #MAGA folks & Stephen Miller: ICYMI, the @realDonaldTrump Administration is expanding by 30,000 the number of foreign workers coming into our country.
Also, Trump is trying to eliminate the law that guarantees preexisting conditions coverage. https://t.co/FoEpTiPVgB— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) April 8, 2019
re: #113 A hollow voice says, Oringes…
While you’re checking out obscure spaceflight movies, have you seen Fritz Lang’s Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond)? Filmed in 1929 (as a “serious” science fiction film, and I’ve always been fond of it.
And there’s Meliès’ A Trip to the Moon, which everyone should see.
Very familiar with Frau im Mond. It was a significant milestone in spaceflight history because it was really the first time the public had been exposed to serious, and technically valid, ideas about spaceflight. Hermann Oberth, author of the crucially influential pamphlet The Rocket into Planetary Space, was an advisor on the film.
re: #19 Joe Bacon 🌹
She ought to be taking up a new position…in Leavenworth…
If only. Sadly, she won’t be held responsible for separating families (some permanently).
re: #98 nines09
Stumble across a song that I heard long ago and then we get……………………
The Full Album. Big Star- #1 Record (1972)
Damn
I found out about Big Star early enough to pick up used original promo copies of their first two albums. They’re both great records.
re: #152 Citizen K
It doesn’t matter. His hate blinds him to his own vulnerability. He thinks he’s inoculated by being one of the ‘good ones’.
Never forget that sick freak’s BFF is Richard Spencer.
re: #142 Teukka
The “Partizan” outfit?
Yup. Partizan outfit. How many times have they popped up by now?
re: #153 ObserverArt
aye, I knew that half the band was stolen from The Choir and the band previous I believe was Cyrus Eyrie and while Bonfanti, Bryson and Smalley had been in various incarnations of the Cleveland scene, Carmen was something of the Boy Wonder, killer pipes, musically gifted and he swooned the ladies.
Like everyone else feels about that band that speaks to them, it feels like they were taking the songs directly from my own inner dialogue…
naturally everyone’s own band varies :-)
POLL: Best term to describe #StephenMiller
(If your preferred choice is missing, please add it in the comments.)— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) April 7, 2019
re: #152 Citizen K
It doesn’t matter. His hate blinds him to his own vulnerability. He thinks he’s inoculated by being one of the ‘good ones’.
It could just as well be that he thinks that Jews are considered “white” enough to be spared. After all, his boss has a Jewish son-in-law and his daughter converted, and he frequently proclaims a love of Israel as a Jewish state. He could truly believe that the only beef that the wingnuts have is with “foreigners” and he as an American Jew is totally safe.
Best of luck to Kirstjen Nielsen. I’m not sure where you’ll get hired with a resume that includes “locking kids in cages.” I’m kidding, good luck at Fox News.
— Chelsea Handler (@chelseahandler) April 8, 2019
re: #163 Targetpractice
It could just as well be that he thinks that Jews are considered “white” enough to be spared. After all, his boss has a Jewish son-in-law and his daughter converted, and he frequently proclaims a love of Israel as a Jewish state. He could truly believe that the only beef that the wingnuts have is with “foreigners” and he as an American Jew is totally safe.
He’s delusional. It doesn’t take much digging in Trump’s right wing support to get down to Rothschilds, hook-nose Jews and the rest of the hateful anti-Semitic propaganda.
re: #106 mmmirele
Well, I went out and stood in front of a church this afternoon with a sign calling out their pastor, who is on record as saying that women who have abortions should be executed. Turns out I fucked up. The pastor is in Salt Lake City, harassing the Mormons who go to General Conference. But I did get to yell at some of the people who came out to talk to me. I made it absolutely clear that I absolutely favor the lives of the women already born and living and I was just not going to give an inch to their “what about the unborn women?” cant.
I don’t think they liked me calling them a cult, but when FOUR OF THEM, at SEPARATE TIMES, came out and told me that “fetus” means “baby,” I think I’m justified in calling them a cult.* I think and hope they were startled when I shouted several times, “Jesus save us from your professional followers!” when they tried browbeating me. And of course I’m angry! Those people want to force women to be pregnant against their will! The piece de resistance was they told me I was going to hell. Good! If Calvin’s god (the one these people worship) is the one in charge, I WANT to go to hell. I would rather go to hell than worship an evil being like that, who, according to their own teachings, condemns people to hell before they’re even born!
There will probably be a video of Angry Me. I was also very angry some times when picketing the Scientologists, so just because I was angry with the pro-life church doesn’t mean I am angry with God. I’m just angry at their stupidity and, well, cultishness.
*I mean, seriously, it was the same wording and everything. It was creepy as hell.
GOOD FOR YOU. Seriously. We all need to be angry about this. These people are trying to drag women and society in general back into a very dark time.
When it comes to bunnies, @Chris_Meloni & @pattonoswalt believe in safety first.#SeeHappy WEDNESDAYS at 10/9c on @SYFY. pic.twitter.com/XbCqxmfiRU
— Happy! (@HappySYFY) April 6, 2019
This is deeply twisted. An “increasingly agitated” Trump wanted to fire Nielsen, but when Border Patrol fired tear gas on migrants, that appeared to have strengthened her position internally:https://t.co/XRoZQEb4Ot pic.twitter.com/TfWOYxJt1U
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 8, 2019
My friend was talking to me and he said, “Why is Andrew Sullivan still a thing at all? I mean, for fuck’s sake.”
So I’m just passing along my friend’s question because it seems pretty damned reasonable to me.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2019
— 🇺🇸Douglas Reid🇺🇸 (@dougreid_music) April 8, 2019
.@CBP has been waiting to highlight big migrant numbers for days in a presser scheduled for Monday. Nielsen leaving threw that off. Crazy times in US immigration policy making/enforcing world and no reason to think it will improve now. In fact signals point to more dysfunction https://t.co/DcVoGsOHtH
— lomikriel (@lomikriel) April 8, 2019
“Jewish Republicans” cheering at the prospect of our country closing its doors to asylum seekers must have really short term memories. https://t.co/pKYJOINifb
— Andy Kindler (@AndyKindler) April 7, 2019
re: #166 Charles Johnson
GOOD FOR YOU. Seriously. We all need to be angry about this. These people are trying to drag women and society in general back into a very dark time.
Thank you, Charles. I really respect your opinion and this means a lot to me.
Dude, have you ever been to Wyoming? https://t.co/NRZZFKRk3C
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 8, 2019
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Convince me they are not looking for ways to murder migrants and get away with it.
Not me. That’s exactly what they want to do. Ann Coulter even told them how. Invade Mexico.
re: #173 Romantic Heretic
So, he fired Himmler and put Rudolph Heydrich in charge.
Wonderful.
I don’t think the new guy will last long. The hardliners are really pissed about his selection.
re: #175 teleskiguy
Trump is repeating what Miller probably told him, that the “country is full.” IIRC, it’s a talking point among nativists that there is no more room in the USA for people of a certain kind, because otherwise White Culture will be diluted or even eliminated.
I live in the inner mountain west. I’ve driven the lonely highways of Montana and Nevada, Wyoming, northern Arizona. The country is not full. In very many places surrounding my house for 500 miles in every direction, there’s a whole lot of nothing, bare expanses of land, rugged mountains, no houses or stores. There’s a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Utah where there are no gas stations.
re: #180 Targetpractice
He’ll really only be a puppet, because it will be Miller calling the shots.
A puppet of the head puppet. It’s puppets all the way down.
Possible replacements for Kirstjen Nielsen…
- Tomi Lahren
- Dean Cain
- An AR-15
- A Golden Swastika
- A Hefty bag full of shit (or Scott Baio)
- The curly hair gun girl wearing a beige leotard holding an AR-15
- Satan
- A Papa Johns pizza
- Lou Dobbs
- Kid Rock— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) April 7, 2019
re: #181 teleskiguy
I live in the inner mountain west. I’ve driven the lonely highways of Montana and Nevada, Wyoming, northern Arizona. The country is not full. In very many places surrounding my house for 500 miles in every direction, there’s a whole lot of nothing, bare expanses of land, rugged mountains, no houses or stores. There’s a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Utah where there are no gas stations.
You want to see a country that’s “full”? Come to China. Try traveling anywhere on a national holiday, when the entire population is trying to go home or go sightseeing — at the same time!
re: #183 Patricia Kayden
Many people are telling me Satan turned down the job, because signing an NDA was too much for him.
This isn’t the sort of government you expect to see in a functioning democracy where there is accountability and loyalty. This is the sort of government you expect to see a third world kleptocracy, where the few competent people are constantly in danger of being unseated by power-hungry bastards looking to empower themselves by destroying others.
re: #186 Targetpractice
This isn’t the sort of government you expect to see in a functioning democracy where there is accountability and loyalty. This is the sort of government you expect to see a third world kleptocracy, where the few competent people are constantly in danger of being unseated by power-hungry bastards looking to empower themselves by destroying others.
Basically, Game of Thrones, but without the beheadings and supernatural murders (so far).
re: #185 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Many people are telling me Satan turned down the job, because signing an NDA was too much for him.
Nah, he’s a lawful evil man of wealth and taste. Of course he would not get along with the chaotic neutral and chaotic evil thugs of this administration…
re: #179 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam
Trump is repeating what Miller probably told him, that the “country is full.” IIRC, it’s a talking point among nativists that there is no more room in the USA for people of a certain kind, because otherwise White Culture will be diluted or even eliminated.
Conservatives trying to control women by limiting their life choices to being mothers is all part of this too.
They lie so much, they don’t bother keeping track of what they say. They don’t care. https://t.co/v5Ph3yCJnK
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) April 8, 2019
re: #189 jaunte
Conservatives trying to control women by limiting their life choices to being mothers is all part of this too.
Yes. They want the kind of control and social stratification seen in The Handmaid’s Tale.
Time to head to the office. I can access LGF from there, too.
you’re gonna be waiting a long fucken time pic.twitter.com/lN6ps6P7Wa
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2019
re: #181 teleskiguy
I live in the inner mountain west. I’ve driven the lonely highways of Montana and Nevada, Wyoming, northern Arizona. The country is not full. In very many places surrounding my house for 500 miles in every direction, there’s a whole lot of nothing, bare expanses of land, rugged mountains, no houses or stores. There’s a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Utah where there are no gas stations.
I drove a friend from Boston down I-15 in Utah once. He couldn’t believe how empty it was. What I told him then and I’ll repeat now is: yes, it’s empty, but there are water issues in the Intermountain West. We have to be careful about just putting people there willy nilly because the land isn’t really able to support a lot of people without careful resource planning.
re: #181 teleskiguy
I live in the inner mountain west. I’ve driven the lonely highways of Montana and Nevada, Wyoming, northern Arizona. The country is not full. In very many places surrounding my house for 500 miles in every direction, there’s a whole lot of nothing, bare expanses of land, rugged mountains, no houses or stores. There’s a 150 mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Utah where there are no gas stations.
I’ve wondered how many people got stuck on that stretch in Utah because they just assumed there would be a gas station. I’ve done a few reasonably long drives…Phoenix to San Antonio, and Phoenix to Denver, and there is always a gas station every 60 to 70 miles. Driving that stretch in Utah is basically like driving through a Mars landscape, with the same amount of rest stops.
re: #194 mmmirele
I drove a friend from Boston down I-15 in Utah once. He couldn’t believe how empty it was. What I told him then and I’ll repeat now is: yes, it’s empty, but there are water issues in the Intermountain West. We have to be careful about just putting people there willy nilly because the land isn’t really able to support a lot of people without careful resource planning.
St. George. Las Vegas. Hell, even metro Phoenix. Those places shouldn’t even be there. But we wily humans, man…
In wrestling news, Kofi Kingston is the new WWE champion tonight. He’s not the first colored world champion but the ones who came before him were of the lighter skinned variety like Dwayne Johnson and Roman Reigns.
Here’s Kofi:
His victory is overdue but noteworthy nevertheless. Also, he and I were born on the exact same day. Pretty cool.
Also, the crowd was going fucking nuts for him during most of the match, so that’s a good sign.
St. George, Utah. They’ve been building golf courses and retirement castles there for a number of years. It’s very arid there, nine inches of precipitation annually. We humans are not good at thinking things through like water management ahead of time.
re: #196 teleskiguy
I keep thinking that I would love to retire to Bisbee, AZ, but one word stops me cold: water.
I can live with winter if that means never dying of thirst.
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
In wrestling news, Kofi Kingston is the new WWE champion tonight. He’s not the first colored world champion but the ones who came before him were of the lighter skinned variety like Dwayne Johnson and Roman Reigns.
Here’s Kofi:
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His victory is overdue but noteworthy nevertheless. Also, he and I were born on the exact same day. Pretty cool.
Also, the crowd was going fucking nuts for him during most of the match, so that’s a good sign.
He is also the first unquestionably black WWE champion. While there have been other top-tier belts and other champions of color (The Rock is half-black, half-Samoan and his Samoan heritage often superseded his black heritage in promotion), Kofi is the first Black wrestler to hold the championship, the one with the longest lineage in the company.
Calling all Jedi. There were some real Sith at last night’s party. In case anyone missed what side we play on, next year we will be making a point of everyone knowing: Actual dark side players are NOT welcome, will NOT EVER be tolerated. Much love & respect to @PinkRocketship.❤️ https://t.co/IENUWJfzjV
— Yuri’s Night (@YurisNight) April 8, 2019
Interesting detail: “Among those pushing the president to remove Nielsen was national security adviser John Bolton, who repeatedly told the president he did not think she was the right fit for the job” via @NickMiroff @jdawsey1 https://t.co/jfbfPRRaEX
— Greg Jaffe (@GregJaffe) April 8, 2019
re: #200 Citizen K
He is also the first unquestionably black WWE champion. While there have been other top-tier belts and other champions of color (The Rock is half-black, half-Samoan and his Samoan heritage often superseded his black heritage in promotion), Kofi is the first Black wrestler to hold the championship, the one with the longest lineage in the company.
I haven’t watched wrestling in forever, but didn’t Booker T have the championship for a while back in the 2000’s?
If this were a TWILIGHT ZONE episode, Kirstjen Nielsen would wake up in a small cage with Latin American children on the outside watching her.
— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) April 7, 2019
re: #204 danarchy
I haven’t watched wrestling in forever, but didn’t Booker T have the championship for a while back in the 2000’s?
He had the WCW belt when the company still existed, and he had the ‘World Heavyweight Championship’, which was the WCW belt revived with an arrested lineage, for a while in the mid ’00s. He never held the WWE Title proper. Mark Henry also held the WHC belt in 2011, but again, that was a splinter belt, not THE WWE Title.
Well, shit. pic.twitter.com/c0g1gycolV
— Dan Kaminsky (@dakami) April 7, 2019
re: #197 Eclectic Cyborg
re: #204 danarchy
I haven’t watched wrestling in forever, but didn’t Booker T have the championship for a while back in the 2000’s?
Yes, I forgot about that. Booker T was the World Heavyweight Champion for about four months in late 2006. He also held the world title in WCW for awhile, as did another black wrestler named Ron Simmons.
Also, Citizen K is right. The title Booker won in ‘06 was NOT the same one Kofi won tonight.
I count myself lucky. I don’t have to deal with moronic family members.
(I cut them loose long ago)
Anyone successfully reach out to loved ones on this topic? Hoping to simply open a line of communication and then slowly go from there. Avoiding putting them on the defensive, making them feel stupid, using phrases like “do your research”, etc…
— Emily Calandrelli (@TheSpaceGal) April 8, 2019
re: #209 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Find a cemetery dating back to the 1800s and count the number of graves for children aged 0-12. Heck, even graves since 1900.
People had gazilions of kids back then to ensure at least one or two survived childhood.
Really beautiful post-sunset with wind-sculpted clouds and a lovely crescent Moon. https://t.co/8ALq42n285 pic.twitter.com/3Pzf8QU5kS
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) April 8, 2019
As a trained investigator, I’m just going to go on record now saying that anonymous NYT op-ed was LOADED with commas and em dashes.
And so is this resignation letter. https://t.co/6KM1huiO0i https://t.co/GTdYRzumSd— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 7, 2019
Uh… our country is not actually “full,” Gramps. You may be thinking of your diaper. https://t.co/zdUzpbHG1z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 8, 2019
This makes me wonder if the first resignation letter we saw, dated last year, was the draft, using last years ‘almost resignation’ letter as a template
And: pic.twitter.com/VBUm1Ghd7g
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) April 8, 2019
re: #195 Mike Lamb
I’ve wondered how many people got stuck on that stretch in Utah because they just assumed there would be a gas station. I’ve done a few reasonably long drives…Phoenix to San Antonio, and Phoenix to Denver, and there is always a gas station every 60 to 70 miles. Driving that stretch in Utah is basically like driving through a Mars landscape, with the same amount of rest stops.
It is also one of the most beautiful stretches of interstate in the country. Lots of stunning vistas of canyon country right off the highway.
Interesting thread George Conway has assemble concerning the appointment of the Acting Secretary of DHS
Looks like Trump’s latest effort to circumvent the vacancies act isn’t even arguably legal. But he has made lawbreakers of so many of his administration’s officials, he has no reason to think he won’t get away with it. https://t.co/EKd6tHnYZE
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 8, 2019
re: #215 teleskiguy
reminds me that one of my favorite stretches of highway is from the Denver Metro Area through to Grand Junction, stunning vistas to be enjoyed that I’m sure you’re very familiar with :-)
although there are many great views even on the interstates, I would say that the drive down the Columbia River Gorge on I84(?) from Portland thru to The Dalles is exquisite to experience (with Multinomah falls, literally right off the Interstate) and down I81 thru the heart of the Shenandoah is also quite awesome imho.
re: #212 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
“threats and hazards” like asylum-seeking children and their parents.
Well, so Zedushka and I were watching “Crazy Rich Asians” on Netflix and we got to the bao scene…
Z jumps up and yells I WANT KREPLACH RIGHT NOW! And he went to heat up the ones in the fridge.
I mean EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD has some kind of dumpling comfort food. Even the super ultra hyper obscene rich.
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Well, so Zedushka and I were watching “Crazy Rich Asians” on Netflix and we got to the bao scene…
Z jumps up and yells I WANT KREPLACH RIGHT NOW! And he went to heat up the ones in the fridge.
I mean EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD has some kind of dumpling comfort food. Even the super ultra hyper obscene rich.
Back home it was pierogis every Friday smothered in butter and grilled diced onions…
re: #217 piratedan
[…]
although there are many great views even on the interstates, I would say that the drive down the Columbia River Gorge on I84(?) from Portland thru to The Dalles is exquisite to experience (with Multinomah falls, literally right off the Interstate)[…]
…driving along at sea level with an 11,000 ft. mountain on the right, with its toes under the freeway.
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Well, so Zedushka and I were watching “Crazy Rich Asians” on Netflix and we got to the bao scene…
Z jumps up and yells I WANT KREPLACH RIGHT NOW! And he went to heat up the ones in the fridge.
I mean EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD has some kind of dumpling comfort food. Even the super ultra hyper obscene rich.
Local greasy spoon makes an exquisite chicken dumpling soup. Nom nom nom!
re: #217 piratedan
reminds me that one of my favorite stretches of highway is from the Denver Metro Area through to Grand Junction, stunning vistas to be enjoyed that I’m sure you’re very familiar with :-)
First drove that stretch of highway when I was 15. :)
Here’s something for you metal workers and tech fans.
This incredible compilation of seamless metal engineering by the Beijing Jingdiao Group will give you an idea of what a very tight mechanical tolerance looks like [videos: https://t.co/dANzZExKpy] pic.twitter.com/crmKjoAikW
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 7, 2019
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Well, so Zedushka and I were watching “Crazy Rich Asians” on Netflix and we got to the bao scene…
Z jumps up and yells I WANT KREPLACH RIGHT NOW! And he went to heat up the ones in the fridge.
I mean EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD has some kind of dumpling comfort food. Even the super ultra hyper obscene rich.
It’s probably why that Pixar short film, Bao, was such a hit.
Falcon Heavy’s 27 Merlin engines generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, making it the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two pic.twitter.com/0LGaLgdi13
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 7, 2019
Starhopper just lifted off & hit tether limits! pic.twitter.com/eByJsq2jiw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 6, 2019
That single Raptor engine looks pretty powerful.
Floundering uncontrollably. Trump literally made this same threat a few days ago and withdrew it.
Just nothing but incompetence, chaos, empty threats, impotent rage, and failure everywhere. https://t.co/umsASKekSa— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 8, 2019
So, Trump’s threatening to tank OUR economy if Mexico doesn’t stop the asylum seekers.
Great.
Our country isn’t full
BUT
The White House is full of RepubliKKKlan Racists!
re: #219 The Vicious Babushka
Well, so Zedushka and I were watching “Crazy Rich Asians” on Netflix and we got to the bao scene…
Z jumps up and yells I WANT KREPLACH RIGHT NOW! And he went to heat up the ones in the fridge.
I mean EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD has some kind of dumpling comfort food. Even the super ultra hyper obscene rich.
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