The Not-A-Muslim-Ban-Muslim-Ban continues to strand families across the globe but you can help by staying in your air conditioned office and writing even one article about it. Produced by Razan Ghalayini with Julie Levitsky. Edited by Andrew Mendelson.
My prediction: They will produce a 4 page “summary” of the #IPCC 6th assessment report, a couple years before we have a chance to actually see it.
Their summary will TOTALLY exonerate CO2 of ANY role in climate change… https://t.co/OKoJEEwW4o— Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) April 12, 2019
re: #1 Teukka
I know this is satire, but it’s terrifyingly possible that Mann is right about this.
Just a normal anti Ilhan death threat
Your seat is ready for you…. pic.twitter.com/Ax6rF6kCLq
— 🕔Kornfed🕔 (@f961854) April 12, 2019
Got CL’ed downstairs.
re: #377 Romantic Heretic
Such people like nice, clear cut answers to everything. ‘The Great Intelligence wills it’ is nice and perfect.
Of course asking them what evidence there is of that Great Intelligence and what forces it used to create life will get a response of, “LALALALALALALA! I can’t hear you!”
But they’ll be the first to tell you they were ‘trained in science’.
There’s a reason Scientists are mostly liberal and engineers are far more likely to be conservative. Science is about uncertainty, about embracing the knowledge that even a p value below 0.05 doesn’t mean you’re not wrong.
A LOT of people are more uncomfortable with uncertainty than they are with being wrong.
I was discussing this with a friend who’s a biblical literalist, who told me his worldview was on rock solid ground because it came from God. I told him there is no God, and that the only thing one can be certain of is one’s own existence, and that we can each only infer that reality is in fact real. But if we treat it as though it were, it responds appropriately, so it’s a reasonable working hypothesis. He couldn’t understand how I could possibly tolerate that much uncertainty. He needed the certainty of a deity for the world to make sense to him.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
I know this is satire, but it’s terrifyingly possible that Mann is right about this.
The difference between the Mueller Report and a climate science report is that eventually the truth will out; science ignores whatever you believe; it continues according to the laws of nature and we cannot repeal the ones we don’t like.
re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White
Got CL’ed downstairs.
But they’ll be the first to tell you they were ‘trained in science’.
There’s a reason Scientists are mostly liberal and engineers are far more likely to be conservative. Science is about uncertainty, about embracing the knowledge that even a p value below 0.05 doesn’t mean you’re not wrong.
A LOT of people are more uncomfortable with uncertainty than they are with being wrong.
I was discussing this with a friend who’s a biblical literalist, who told me his worldview was on rock solid ground because it came from God. I told him there is no God, and that the only thing one can be certain of is one’s own existence, and that we can each only infer that reality is in fact real. But if we treat it as though it were, it responds appropriately, so it’s a reasonable working hypothesis. He couldn’t understand how I could possibly tolerate that much uncertainty. He needed the certainty of a deity for the world to make sense to him.
A deity, unless it’s a cruel one, makes the universe make even less sense to me.
re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White
Got CL’ed downstairs.
But they’ll be the first to tell you they were ‘trained in science’.
There’s a reason Scientists are mostly liberal and engineers are far more likely to be conservative. Science is about uncertainty, about embracing the knowledge that even a p value below 0.05 doesn’t mean you’re not wrong.
A LOT of people are more uncomfortable with uncertainty than they are with being wrong.
I was discussing this with a friend who’s a biblical literalist, who told me his worldview was on rock solid ground because it came from God. I told him there is no God, and that the only thing one can be certain of is one’s own existence, and that we can each only infer that reality is in fact real. But if we treat it as though it were, it responds appropriately, so it’s a reasonable working hypothesis. He couldn’t understand how I could possibly tolerate that much uncertainty. He needed the certainty of a deity for the world to make sense to him.
And I answered you…downstairs…with this:
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Uncertainty is every day. Ask your friend if he knows what is coming next as far as his health, the weather, what others are going to ask of him, what accident he may be facing in the future, etc.?
It is all uncertain…and his God isn’t going to let him know either.
So what certainty does his intelligent God bring him? None.
He is basing everything on faith and faith has no certainty, only a hope. And everyone, believers or not, have hopes.
“If someone comes to the U.S., we’ll take them to a sanctuary city filled with decent people who won’t cage or deport them.”
Doesn’t seem like the guy who likes to brag about reducing border crossings has really thought this one through.— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 12, 2019
All religion is second hand, or more hands, removed information. Everything you think you know about your religion was taught to you by someone else contemporary.
How did they learn it to teach it to you?
It is all second and actually way more hands removed than two. You heard nothing and saw nothing yourself. It’s just what other people maybe saw and mostly just what they say that other people before them heard or saw or told them.
Even say you personally witnessed a “miracle”. Unless you critically evaluate and proved it then you don’t know there’s not a “normal” scientific explanation. Or maybe you were fooled by someone…hoaxed/punked.
Virtually all religion is an appeal to apparent authority. And not even that good authority.
Generation upon generation of interpretations of a questionable and multiple times translated and edited and reorganized book. Those interpretations and translations themselves were argued about and evolved over time.
and so the segue:
Most politics is the same way. People don’t “know” much. They heard or were told, or a friend said, or they read a web site, got an email, heard part of a speech or other questionable source… facebook, twitter, etc.
And so it’s all second or more hands, skewed, interpreted, and selectively so. They do not research or do critical thinking or analysis. Just second hand so-and-so said-so.
It all becomes a meaningless cult like following.
And that’s because the thought process is the problem, not just the gullibility. It’s due to the fundamental lack of desire to learn and know. There is no cure for this.
The polarization now (i wrote this in 2016) is just one particular example.
This is more than willful ignorance. It’s willfully being led by the nose manipulation or simply tell me what to think and I will.
re: #386 ObserverArt
Uncertainty is every day. Ask your friend if he knows what is coming next as far as his health, the weather, what others are going to ask of him, what accident he may be facing in the future, etc.
It is all uncertain…and his God isn’t going to let him know either.
So what certainty does his intelligent God bring him? None.
He is basing everything on faith and faith has no certainty, only a hope. And everyone, believers or not, have hopes.
In his case, he has certainty in the sense that he is absolutely certain that the god of the literal bible exists and that everything the bible - that is the KJV - is literally true. His certainty comes not from being right, but from choosing to believe, with no possibility of error.
He’s CERTAIN that he’s right. But being certain does not imply being right. He can’t tolerate the absence of such a bedrock, even though objectively it’s a choice on his part.
I haven’t talked to him in maybe 10 years, but we did talk a lot then (or type a lot, really). He struck me as a man who was too intelligent for his own beliefs. That is, a simpler mind than his could have simply accepted that his belief is a BELIEF. For him, it had to be THE ONE POSSIBLE TRUTH. He’d try to argue based on “the impossibility of any alternative”, but it was nonsense, because he had now way to disprove anything beyond “the bible tells me so”. And I think that wasn’t completely acceptable to him, but he’d learned to simply restate the whole ‘impossibility’ thing without any shred of proof.
You know who’s picking up the tab for law enforcement to investigate all these death threats against AOC and Omar and Tlaib right?
Our tax dollars at work…
re: #12 Blind Frog Belly White
Shorter version: one can be absolutely sure of something that’s absolutely wrong.
I’m more uncomfortable with the possibility of being certain while being wrong than I am of being right but being uncertain.
Others are more uncomfortable with the possibility of being uncertain.
Y’all, those taxes and financial records are going to end up in the hands of Democrats. They are leaving NO stone unturned. This is one of the reasons why Trump is freaking out. https://t.co/YDcJyazFqn
— Ale (@aliasvaughn) April 12, 2019
re: #13 Eclectic Cyborg
You know who’s picking up the tab for law enforcement to investigate all these death threats against AOC and Omar and Tlaib right?
Our tax dollars at work…
Best use they ever made of it, if it takes a racist psycho or two off the street.
The world needed a thoughtful, complex feature about the trauma of reporting on war and how it often leads to mental health struggles and addiction but instead we got this https://t.co/21y9iLS09o pic.twitter.com/LLLzdjJizE
— Sulome Anderson (@SulomeAnderson) April 12, 2019
re: #17 PhillyPretzel
I don’t know if Mazars has any protection from a subpoena.
re: #19 jaunte
I don’t know if Mazars has any protection from a subpoena.
Didn’t they already say that they will comply if they are served a subpoena?
The Trump family has been too sloppy over the years to get away with everything they were tying to get away with.
re: #20 freetoken
Didn’t they already say that they will comply if they are served a subpoena?
Yep, they just needed a note from the doctor.
re: #19 jaunte
I don’t know if Mazars has any protection from a subpoena.
IIRC, they responded to a request for documents by saying they were busy collecting them and preserving them, and they would be happy to turn them over in response to a subpoena.
re: #21 jaunte
The Trump family has been too sloppy over the years to get away with everything they were tying to get away with.
And yet they continue to get away with it.
re: #20 freetoken
Didn’t they already say that they will comply if they are served a subpoena?
Yep. Someone termed it a ‘friendly subpoena’ or some such - ie, a matter of procedure.
They get the subpoena, they comply.
Was talking to husband about the sanctuary city thing…Houston is one.
I told him:
1. Houston took in thousands of refugees from New Orleans and from Harvey. We know how to feed, clothe, and care for multitudes.
2. We can process any paperwork better here. We have more people.
3. Finding Spanish speakers is not an issue.
4. I’d rather they were safe with us.
Send them over.
re: #26 BlueGrl21
Philly can handle that type of situation too. It would not be much of a problem.
the reality is that this would be fine because most of these people are desperate refugees, but in the president’s head they are dangerous criminals that he would sic on American cities that largely do not vote for him in the hopes that violent crimes would increase https://t.co/5UgUYbI33c
— Adam Szachacz (@Wallzers) April 12, 2019
re: #27 PhillyPretzel
Philly can handle that type of situation too. It would not be much of a problem.
NYC wouldn’t break a sweat.
re: #28 jaunte
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Fox News would send out multiple correspondents looking for any crime committed by the transplanted migrants. It would be disgusting.
re: #29 makeitstop
NYC wouldn’t break a sweat.
Dallas wouldn’t, but a good portion of the rest of the Metroplex would. That would cause Allred to lose his seat next year.
re: #27 PhillyPretzel
Philly can handle that type of situation too. It would not be much of a problem.
Does Trump know that most of the large northern American cities and others like Houston, as BlueGirl21 pointed out, are sanctuary cities?
Most of the people that would support others like them, from the countries they came from too, are already there and ready to help the transition.
Those cities are mostly Democratic and progressive too.
So, where is the punishment?
It’s just Trump doing another demonstration to his base and pissing off people that may have voted for him who are learning about the monster he is. Politically it is stupid and may actually be damaging to the fat orange one.
re: #15 jaunte
Y’all, those taxes and financial records are going to end up in the hands of Democrats. They are leaving NO stone unturned. This is one of the reasons why Trump is freaking out.
Kyle Griffin
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings is moving to issue a subpoena to obtain 10 years of Trump’s financial records from accounting firm Mazars USA.
my daily reminder:
- the accountant-client relationship enjoys a kind of limited confidentiality (nothing that would help in this situation)
- there is no privilege as with lawyers and clients
- there is no sanctity as with confessions and other religious interactions
and unless they’ve done something so knowingly and horribly wrong that they want to keep those records buried, Mazars isn’t gonna want to pay their lawyers to fight this
re: #21 jaunte
The Trump family has been too sloppy over the years to get away with everything they were tying to get away with.
The ability with an umbrella is a tell.
re: #7 Belafon
A deity, unless it’s a cruel one, makes the universe make even less sense to me.
Exactly my position. If you believe in a deity that intervenes in daily human life, then you have to try to explain a lot of bad shit that happens to good people, and good shit that happens to bad people. Or you have to throw up your hands and say, “It’s a mystery! Trust in God’s Plan!”
But, you know, looking at the world, I’m thinking…
To me the universe makes more sense without anyone in charge. Or maybe there IS a god, but it doesn’t get involved in daily life. But in any case, I can’t bring myself to believe any of it - god, creation, afterlife, heaven, hell, whatever - even when I’d really, really like to be able to. When we lost Zeena, and before that Rhyo, I really, REALLY wanted to believe that one day we’d be together again. When Dad died last month, I really, REALLY wanted to believe he was with Mom someplace where they were healthy and happy and together again.
But I can’t do it. It doesn’t make any sense to me. And, really, I don’t want it to.
re: #32 Belafon
Dallas wouldn’t, but a good portion of the rest of the Metroplex would. That would cause Allred to lose his seat next year.
Houston would not flinch. We are so used to taking in large groups of displaced people it would be nothing.
re: #19 jaunte
I don’t know if Mazars has any protection from a subpoena.
well if you’re gonna do it in one line….
re: #36 Blind Frog Belly White
BTW, just to be clear, this is MY view and I don’t require anyone to agree with me.
re: #28 jaunte
the reality is that this would be fine because most of these people are desperate refugees, but in the president’s head they are dangerous criminals that he would sic on American cities that largely do not vote for him in the hopes that violent crimes would increase
i would love to see all these ‘sanctuary cities’ start tweeting directly to the president:
Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
re: #41 Blind Frog Belly White
BTW, just to be clear, this is MY view and I don’t require anyone to agree with me.
you’ll never get a religion off the ground with that attitude //
The idea is that by releasing them they will all commit vicious crimes AND they’ll all go on welfare, destroying the budgets of the places they’re released. This is 100% pure Steven Miller thought and Trump loves it.
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Secret Sevice: A male subject operating an electronic wheelchair-type scooter lit his outer jacket on fire while sitting along Pennsylvania Ave. outside the North Fence Line. Uniformed Division Officers immediately responded, extinguished the fire and rendered first aid.
— Eamon Javers (@EamonJavers) April 12, 2019
re: #42 Man, DangerMan
folks like you are why i maintain hope that the arc of the moral universe does not waver
I read a column today that said news agencies that simply passed along the whole ‘punishment’ idea needed to consider how this is supposed to be a punishment. And the author’s right.
Most Sanctuary Cities are that way because they already have a lot of undocumented immigrants, and in their experience, they have been a net positive to the community. So how does it “punish” the Sanctuary Cities?
By the same token, immigrants would find themselves in a city with lots of other folks like them, where the local population welcomes them. So how does it punish the immigrants?
It only makes sense if you really do believe that “illegal aliens” are all raping, murdering MS13 members here to steal our jobs while living on welfare.
re: #42 Man, DangerMan
folks like you are why i maintain hope that the arc of the moral universe does not waver
You would not believe the infrastructure we have in place to deal with this type of crisis.
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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re: #44 Man, DangerMan
you’ll never get a religion off the ground with that attitude //
Makes the Inquisition easy and painless, though -
“DO YOU REPENT OF YOUR HERESY?!?”
“NO!!”
“Right! Off you go then.”
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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re: #26 BlueGrl21
Was talking to husband about the sanctuary city thing…Houston is one.
I told him:
1. Houston took in thousands of refugees from New Orleans and from Harvey. We know how to feed, clothe, and care for multitudes.
2. We can process any paperwork better here. We have more people.
3. Finding Spanish speakers is not an issue.
4. I’d rather they were safe with us.
Send them over.
I welcome them too. I’d love for these people to strengthen our cities and communities and show why Miller and Trump are xenophobic garbage whose xenophobic bs will end up screwing rural red America in the long run.
re: #45 Skip Intro
The idea is that by releasing them they will all commit vicious crimes AND they’ll all go on welfare, destroying the budgets of the places they’re released. This is 100% pure Steven Miller thought and Trump loves it.
well they certainly can commit crimes
they cant qualify for welfare
the undocumented did in fact used to qualify for WIC benefits. i dont know if that’s still the case or if wic has been axed yet
Got the taxes done today. Super early for me :D Ended up pretty much like last year.
So is Kirstjen the one spilling to Jake Tapper?
Probs.
re: #55 Amory Blaine
Got the taxes done today. Super early for me :D Ended up pretty much like last year.
Me too!! April 15 is the usual day for me, except when it’s April 16 or 17! And often I don’t start the forms until the day they are due. I filed federal on Tuesday and state today. Even though it cost money, I used TurboTax for state for the first time this year. Previously, I used the free state portal but decided to be lazy and do the simplest approach this year.
So, what might have happened in Jacksonville Beach this morning?
The school’s principal sent a note to parents about the incident, but it did not mention the two loaded guns or the ski mask. https://t.co/Xbyb8L7w2m
— News4JAX (@wjxt4) April 12, 2019
Police said the teen gave him a series of bogus names before he was eventually identified as 16-year-old Derrick L. Conner, who is not a student at the school or from Jacksonville Beach.
Conner was apparently dropped off in the area, though his intentions remain unclear. Police said the teen would not speak with investigators beyond providing fake names.
Conner was arrested on two counts of possession of a firearm on school property, one count of possession of a firearm by a delinquent juvenile and a count of giving a false name to police
Statement sent to parents by the school:
Today, our school safety officer approached a suspicious person who was walking on 1st Avenue. Upon investigation, the officer handcuffed him and he was taken to the police station for further questioning. This is a police matter. Please know our campus is safe and the security procedures in place were followed by all. We are so fortunate to have our Jacksonville Beach Police department on our campus and we so appreciate their diligence in keeping our students safe.
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Ah the pwning of a superconservative…
I posted a picture of empty land and said “Not a Full Country” and this guy says-
…. turn em loose in the middle of the desert…let them start building a city.
So I said-They did that already. Worked out pretty well the place was called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles. Aka Los Angeles, aka City of Angels for the Spanish language impaired.
Also a lot of northern cities have half-empty or even empty neighborhoods due to white and black flight to the suburbs. Baltimore and Detroit are bulldozing blocks of empty houses. My city has several blocks of abandoned factories that could be razed and turned into places for new housing or even converted, And my city is a mid-sized Midwestern city in a now red state..
Plus, once people get settled, many will just go wherever there’s work, family, whatever. Indeed that’s what happened to most immigrants between 1876 and 1924. As long as you were law-abiding, willing to work, an immigrant could come and stay here. If you wanted to vote, stay 5 years, take an oath of allegiance and that was it. Indeed, back then a lot of the nationalization was based in the states.
So the cities will not be as stressed as Trumpkins think after a short period.
That’s the only possible redemption they see from their complicity. Telling the law breaking stories. Although still anonymously, so….
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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re: #60 Unshaken Defiance
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Ah the pwning of a superconservative…
I posted a picture of empty land and said “Not a Full Country” and this guy says-So I said-They did that already. Worked out pretty well the place was called El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles. Aka Los Angeles, aka City of Angels for the Spanish language impaired.
With varying degrees and types of ‘cooperation’ with the people who were already there.
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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“This is sort of like asking a traffic cop to decide who should be given orders of protection.”https://t.co/K4KljNFRpf
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) April 12, 2019
The Party of Family Values.
He’s been married five times and is introducing this bill to teach women about the sanctity of the family, morality, and personal responsibility. https://t.co/84SSv5gsBg
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) April 12, 2019
re: #61 CarolJ
And even in the “big cities”, there are some blocks nearly abandoned due to suburbanization and because not enough people stay long enough to be profitable with rentals alone.
This shows once again the Trump’s Queens mentality. Never having been much beyond the circles of his bitter mentality in more than one way, he has no idea how big this country really is and how ridiculous this thing really is. We have miles and miles of nothing between urban oases, and some cities who have emptied out a long time ago.
Yes, he might try to refuse funds for temporary help, but if we can get the trifecta, and probably could get the trifecta-we can promise those states the needed funds. Also, once people can move on their own, they tend to disburse to whatever there’s opportunity.
Also, the cities are browner and blacker and more diverse than it was during the Mariel boatlift. The people most freaked out absconded towards the exurbs long ago. Those migrants won’t be coming out there unless it’s to work, so there won’t be the panic he thinks there will be.
They talk if people who want Sanctuary would be upset if a few more faces not speaking English show up as neighbors. Doesn’t bother me in the slightest.
re: #68 HappyWarrior
More sand in the gears, courtesy of our racist Executive Branch.
We had these in the USSR. They were called gulags and eventually legal residents and citizens ended up there too. https://t.co/jkIKUytjQx
— Larisa Alexandrovna (@larisa_a) April 12, 2019
re: #70 jaunte
More sand in the gears, courtesy of our racist Executive Branch.
He has no empathy at all for people who want to come here. I wish they had kicked out his grandfather when they had the chance.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
You are not the only one saying that.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Didn’t Germany refuse to take him back because he refused military service?
re: #71 jaunte
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This is just so insane. Make it easier to come here legally rather than this fucked up shit out of an authoritarian’S playbook.
re: #74 jaunte
Didn’t Germany refuse to take him back because he refused military service?
I’m not sure. That would be a Trump thing to do.
re: #67 teleskiguy
Why do these right wing assholes always look like giant thumbs?
re: #66 jaunte
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The guys who can use “I feared for my life!” as a defense against virtually any criminal charge…are being tasked with determining if an asylum seeker truly fears for their safety.
FFS.
re: #73 PhillyPretzel
You are not the only one saying that.
He’s so vile Philly. Anyhow, Trump loves to crap on these people. It angers me so much he’s crapping on people who simply want the same for their families that ours did. And for what? To appease a bigoted base that knows nothing about immigration law or why people are fleeing their homes.
re: #71 jaunte
Maybe, the halfwits in the administration have been reading some Solzhenitsyn and completely missing the point.
re: #74 jaunte
Didn’t Germany refuse to take him back because he refused military service?
It was Bavaria, and yes, they kicked him out
re: #61 CarolJ
Also a lot of northern cities have half-empty or even empty neighborhoods due to white and black flight to the suburbs. Baltimore and Detroit are bulldozing blocks of empty houses. My city has several blocks of abandoned factories that could be razed and turned into places for new housing or even converted, And my city is a mid-sized Midwestern city in a now red state..
Plus, once people get settled, many will just go wherever there’s work, family, whatever. Indeed that’s what happened to most immigrants between 1876 and 1924. As long as you were law-abiding, willing to work, an immigrant could come and stay here. If you wanted to vote, stay 5 years, take an oath of allegiance and that was it. Indeed, back then a lot of the nationalization was based in the states.
So the cities will not be as stressed as Trumpkins think after a short period.
Well, even aside from the faux pas of using “Trumpkins” and “think” in the same sentence….
Isn’t the whole deal with “sanctuary cities” simply a matter of their refusing - on a municipal level - to cooperate with draconian Federal dragnets or citizenship-inspection dictates? I realize that reducing public issues to simpleminded caricature is only typical for the Trump Admin, but “sanctuary city” is not, AFAICT, necessarily a synonym for “law-enforcement-free zone”. Except, of course, to the Bigot Base…
re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Maybe, the halfwits in the administration have been reading some Solzhenitsyn and completely missing the point.
Stephen Miller thinks Amon Goeth was the good guy in Schindler’s List.
re: #46 Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire
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re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Maybe, the halfwits in the administration have been reading some Solzhenitsyn and completely missing the point.
Like Gen. Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove:
“Boy, I wish WE had one of those Doomsday Machines!”
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re: #57 Stanley Sea
So is Kirstjen the one spilling to Jake Tapper?
Probs.
What is being spilled…I may have missed something earlier???
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
It was Bavaria, and yes, they kicked him out
Ah for once I’m happy not to be Bavarian. My Germans are from Hesse and Baden. I am sad to say though, I think I may have discovered my father’s grand aunt being a member of a nativist group which is odd considering her parents and older brothers and sister including Dad’s grandfather were from Germany and her husband was an Italian immigrant but I googled Daughters of America and didn’t look good.
re: #86 Michele1
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OOPS! Forgot that as a hatchling I can’t read private messages for a couple of weeks.
re: #91 Michele1
OOPS! Forgot that as a hatchling I can’t read private messages for a couple of weeks.
Ha it was just me calling you hatchling and wishing you the best on a new beginning. Slainte.
re: #87 ObserverArt
What is being spilled…I may have missed something earlier???
The thing where Trump told now-Acting Secretary of DHS McAleenan, then head of CPB that he should just stop letting anyone in, and if he got in legal trouble for doing it Trump would pardon him.
This is apparently after Nielsen ‘convinced’ Trump not to close the border yet.
re: #86 Michele1
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re: #91 Michele1
OOPS! Forgot that as a hatchling I can’t read private messages for a couple of weeks.
You can just assume that everyone posting a private message is saying something nice to/about you.
Nativism is I think one of the most ugly traits. We’ve all been newcomers once in our lives. Whether it’s a new school, state, country, etc. I think there is something to moving around making you more open minded.
re: #95 calochortus
You can just assume that everyone posting a private message is saying something nice to/about you.
Which I was, I promise :).
re: #86 Michele1
Welcome back, hatchling. Or something. Anyway, welcome Michele!!
re: #78 Targetpractice
The guys who can use “I feared for my life!” as a defense against virtually any criminal charge…are being tasked with determining if an asylum seeker truly fears for their safety.
FFS.
Been saying it for years: reactionaries are trying to change the country’s understanding who gets to use lethal force and get away with it, and who gets to die without questions being asked.
Hence why “supporting the 2nd Amendment” involves simultaneously stretching the legal definition of when lethal force can be argued to be legitimate while maintaining a cultural definition of “what kinds of people are inherently threatening.” Hence why “government” shouldn’t be trusted and people should arm themselves to fight it…but any specific instance of police violence (or ICE violence, or prison abuse) can be excused because the subject deserved the harm.
At the bottom of everything, the only real rule is that the rules do no apply equally…and the law must be fitted to ensure that the right kind of people are not inconvenienced (even when they do horrible shit that is immoral) and the wrong kind of people are given no breaks.
re: #93 Blind Frog Belly White
The thing where Trump told now-Acting Secretary of DHS McAleenan, then head of CPB that he should just stop letting anyone in, and if he got in legal trouble for doing it Trump would pardon him.
This is apparently after Nielsen ‘convinced’ Trump not to close the border yet.
Thanks. I did catch a bit of that but didn’t attribute it.
re: #91 Michele1
OOPS! Forgot that as a hatchling I can’t read private messages for a couple of weeks.
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OOPS.
re: #99 The Ghost of Quesos Past
Right. If Trayvon Martin were white, then he would have been within his rights to accost and even assault some guy stalking him, especially someone brown like Zimmerman, and Z would be in jail for murder.
re: #100 ObserverArt
And if he listens to Trump, he, and any officers who follow that, should just tattoo “Sucker” on their forehead. Trump will take the benefits of their law-breaking and leave them out to dry. Not to mention that they lose their pension benefits, jobs and anything else after they go to prison-or even before. That’s not even depending on a criminal conviction-civil findings that you disobeyed the law will be sufficient.
Trump won’t lift a finger to help them with that either, even with the pardon (which he will somehow “forget”) to issue, like he forgot with Manafort and Cohen and Assange and other people he used up.
I dunno if anyone’s posted this yet, but this is the sort of thing you’d expect to see in The Onion - a “mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle” for the county Sheriff.
We’re thrilled that our LESO program, in our Vehicle and Asset Management division, was able to supply @GreeneSheriff with this mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle (MRAP) for the agency’s use. 📷: @GreeneSun pic.twitter.com/NHKOTpcZIn
— TN Department of General Services (@TennDGS) April 11, 2019
re: #102 Blind Frog Belly White
Right. If Trayvon Martin were white, then he would have been within his rights to accost and even assault some guy stalking him, especially someone brown like Zimmerman, and Z would be in jail for murder.
If he were a white kid and Zimmerman still Hispanic, people like Dobbs and Tucker would be insisting it was war on whites.
re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White
It is the first time I am seeing it.
re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White
I dunno if anyone’s posted this yet, but this is the sort of thing you’d expect to see in The Onion - a “mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle” for the county Sheriff.
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Look out chocolate…
re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White
I dunno if anyone’s posted this yet, but this is the sort of thing you’d expect to see in The Onion - a “mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle” for the county Sheriff.
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They have money for that but not quality education and health care.
re: #104 Blind Frog Belly White
Ratio on that one…….
re: #106 PhillyPretzel
It is the first time I am seeing it.
Funny how so called anti big government conservatives don’t seem to dgaf about this.
OK, the image on the right is spectacular
More photos from yesterday’s Falcon Heavy launch and landing → https://t.co/095WHX44BX pic.twitter.com/4kDM3mp8Oi
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 12, 2019
re: #108 HappyWarrior
They have money for that but not quality education and health care.
My monies on a very, very high opioid problem in the area. This is how we deal with it. Tanks….
re: #112 Dave In Austin
PA has an opioid problem too.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
My monies on a very, very high opioid problem in the area. This is how we deal with it. Tanks….
Yep.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
My monies on a very, very high opioid problem in the area. This is how we deal with it. Tanks….
Tanks, but no tanks.
re: #108 HappyWarrior
They have money for that but not quality education and health care.
We had a sheriff here in Columbus (Franklin County) that had an armored personnel vehicle some time back, may have even been one of the first in America. He caught all kinds of hell about that. I think they retired it when the next Democrat sheriff came along. Yeah, of course he was a Republican.
Check up and 1st shots…#Poppyspuppies pic.twitter.com/ggb6OH9MaZ
— Bubbagirl💙🌊 (@bubbagump324) April 12, 2019
re: #117 Dave In Austin
That is a sweet picture.
15 1/2 hours in. Art Bell just interviewed General Jameson who is it on the hunt for Jack Frost.
Art Bell 48 Hour Parody Marathon at https://t.co/56CJ3Y67Mm pic.twitter.com/jekj3MakTs— 𝙋𝙝𝙞𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙚 (@realphilhendrie) April 12, 2019
re: #116 ObserverArt
We had a sheriff here in Columbus (Franklin County) that had an armored personnel vehicle some time back, may have even been one of the first in America. He caught all kinds of hell about that. I think they retired it when the next Democrat sheriff came along. Yeah, of course he was a Republican.
Fiscal conservatism y’all.
re: #111 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
OK, the image on the right is spectacular
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All those nozzles look pretty much the same. I’d say they have the fuel burn pretty well nailed.
Probably a ton of engine management systems making sure the fuel mixture, flow, and all that good stuff are managed to get that kind of a result. Just like the efficiency with the burning of fuel in a modern car engine.
re: #112 Dave In Austin
My monies on a very, very high opioid problem in the area. This is how we deal with it. Tanks….
It’s not like they fucking GROW the stuff there….
Maybe they’re planning to do a no-knock raid on the local Rite-Aid.
re: #96 HappyWarrior
Nativism is I think one of the most ugly traits. We’ve all been newcomers once in our lives. Whether it’s a new school, state, country, etc. I think there is something to moving around making you more open minded.
This Mark Twain quote gets a lot of play but it’s rock solid wisdom: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
I grew up the only child of teenage mom whose shotgun marriage to my dad only lasted a couple of years in the 1970s in suburban New Jersey. There were a lot of downsides, and I could have ended up in a lot of bad places in life if not for winning the lottery of having loving grandparents who helped raise me and were able to take me on a lot of travel. Nothing influenced me as much as experiencing a large chunk of North America and a lot of foreign countries and cultures as a child and teenager.
re: #123 Ferdinand
This Mark Twain quote gets a lot of play but it’s rock solid wisdom: “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
I grew up the only child of teenage mom whose shotgun marriage to my dad only lasted a couple of years in the 1970s in suburban New Jersey. There were a lot of downsides, and I could have ended up in a lot of bad places in life if not for winning the lottery of having loving grandparents who helped raise me and were able to take me on a lot of travel. Nothing influenced me as much as experiencing a large chunk of North America and a lot of foreign countries and cultures as a child and teenager.
I really think there’s a lot of truth to what Twain said. I’ve traveled frequently and although I struggle with foreign language, I always try to learn more about the local culture whether it’s food, music, etc.
JFC
WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
re: #122 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s not like they fucking GROW the stuff there….
Maybe they’re planning to do a no-knock raid on the local Rite-Aid.
If anything, it is to protect them from a methed-out big ass bubba in a bar fight over his woman and her new friend.
I still remember many a year ago, my one friend played drums for a country rock/western band. There was a fight that broke out at the bar way in back away from the stage which was up front by the main entrance.
The local cops came rushing in, they were only a couple blocks away on the same street. I remember three of them trying to bring down the big guy that was drunk and upset. He threw all three cops off him and literally drug two of them out the door. He was leavin’!
Paddy wagon and more cops showed up and took him away for a night or two. But it took a lot of guys to control the man mountain.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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Not only is this going to encourage more threats against Omar but that video is EXTREMELY DISRESPECTFUL to the victims of 9/11 and their families. Needlessly exploitative.
FUCK TRUMP
re: #124 HappyWarrior
I’m still hoping to pick up my first real foreign language skills, even at 50. Oddly enough I’m pretty much down to a real dive in to either of my high school language class languages - German or Spanish. I’ve mucked about with bits of Greek and Latin over the years, mostly their influence on English, and have your average dojo student’s understanding of Japanese. Learning a language for real, though, feels refreshingly badass to me at midlife. Heh.
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
DT cannot leave anyone alone. He always has to poke his business in where it does not belong.
re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth
JFC
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Maybe my concern is misplaced about someone on the left assassinating deplorables — it will be the “good people on both sides” who will decide to murder some on our side. Israel never recovered from the assassination of Rabin. When the racists and anti-Semites murder Democrats, or Jews, or African Americans, or Muslims, it’s a one-off crime that doesn’t need to be investigated further. Only the individual murderer (if even that) is charged and the evil that supports these crimes continues unabated. After all there is no white nationalist terrorism in this nation.
Spoiler alert for @LindseyGrahamSC: It was something to do with the 16 Trump associates having 102 contacts with Russians and all of them lying about it. https://t.co/aMTFGPdfX2
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) April 12, 2019
re: #61 CarolJ
Also a lot of northern cities have half-empty or even empty neighborhoods due to white and black flight to the suburbs. Baltimore and Detroit are bulldozing blocks of empty houses. My city has several blocks of abandoned factories that could be razed and turned into places for new housing or even converted, And my city is a mid-sized Midwestern city in a now red state..
Plus, once people get settled, many will just go wherever there’s work, family, whatever. Indeed that’s what happened to most immigrants between 1876 and 1924. As long as you were law-abiding, willing to work, an immigrant could come and stay here. If you wanted to vote, stay 5 years, take an oath of allegiance and that was it. Indeed, back then a lot of the nationalization was based in the states.
So the cities will not be as stressed as Trumpkins think after a short period.
I was thinking this exact thing this afternoon while unwillingly listening to Rush.
re: #129 PhillyPretzel
…He always has to poke his business in where it does not belong.
I think one of his ex wives said that in a deposition. ///
re: #127 Eclectic Cyborg
“Fuck Trump” should be inserted into the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance etc.
re: #128 Ferdinand
I’m still hoping to pick up my first real foreign language skills, even at 50. Oddly enough I’m pretty much down to a real dive in to either of my high school language class languages - German or Spanish. I’ve mucked about with bits of Greek and Latin over the years, mostly their influence on English, and have your average dojo student’s understanding of Japanese. Learning a language for real, though, feels refreshingly badass to me at midlife. Heh.
I want to brush up on the French that I learned in high school & college, so I’m watching Disney movies with the French language option. It’s a bit tricky since the DVD’s are Region 1 so it’s Canadian French.
A federal judge rebukes President Trump’s attacks on the courts and compares them to the segregationist era https://t.co/61LTTXMbU5 pic.twitter.com/bKjEYWMCze
— CNN (@CNN) April 12, 2019
re: #135 The Vicious Babushka
I want to brush up on the French that I learned in high school & college, so I’m watching Disney movies with the French language option. It’s a bit tricky since the DVD’s are Region 1 so it’s Canadian French.
Good idea! My wife has some French skills still and does similar enough stuff sometimes. Now it seems less weird to me. Heh. :)
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
Where the heck is Graham at? That looks like the basement of my old high school.
The baby has left the barn. 🍼 Elombe the okapi calf can now be seen in the Lost Forest. Born in January, Elombe—whose name means “brave one” in the Lingala language—is affectionately known as “Eli” & is the 2nd surviving okapi born here in less than 2 years. #EndExtinction pic.twitter.com/cZ1Jipwc4o
— San Diego Zoo (@sandiegozoo) April 12, 2019
re: #135 The Vicious Babushka
I want to brush up on the French that I learned in high school & college, so I’m watching Disney movies with the French language option. It’s a bit tricky since the DVD’s are Region 1 so it’s Canadian French.
I worked a long time with a Québécois. She spoke to one of the French mechanics on the race team all the time and he used to say she spoke a more correct French than he did, and he was from France. It was fun listening to her, she had a great voice to go with the language.
re: #134 EPR-radar
“Fuck Trump” should be inserted into the national anthem, the pledge of allegiance etc.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all…and fuck Trump!!”
Yeah, I can get with that. ;)
re: #140 wrenchwench
“Hey, what’s that animal over there with the stripey legs?”
“Okapi.”
“A copy of what?”
re: #141 ObserverArt
I worked a long time with a Québécois. She spoke to one of the French mechanics on the race team all the time and he used to say she spoke a more correct French than he did, and he was from France. It was fun listening to her, she had a great voice to go with the language.
Yeah, Quebec French and France French are very different. There are some French who strongly dislike the Qubecois and vice versa because of this.
re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all…and fuck Trump!!”
Yeah, I can get with that. ;)
How about we use it to replace the “under god” part?
Both ends against the middle.
Inside the Russian effort to target Sanders supporters — and help elect Trump
After Bernie Sanders lost his primary campaign for president against Hillary Clinton in 2016, a Twitter account called Red Louisiana News reached out to his supporters to help sway the general election. “Conscious Bernie Sanders supporters already moving towards the best candidate Trump! #Feel the Bern #Vote Trump 2016,” the account tweeted.
The tweet was not actually from Louisiana, according to an analysis by Clemson University researchers. Instead, it was one of thousands of accounts identified as based in Russia, part of a cloaked effort to persuade supporters of the Vermont senator to elect Trump. “Bernie Sanders says his message resonates with Republicans,” said another Russian tweet.
re: #144 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, Quebec French and France French are very different. There are some French who strongly dislike the Qubecois and vice versa because of this.
And she was from Old Quebec too! That I think is about as Québécois as one can get.
She mentioned there was not a lot of love between them and the French.
Or, the rest of Canada! ; )
re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all…and fuck Trump!!”Yeah, I can get with that. ;)
Lets go with the 1923 version.
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all…. Also Fuck Trump
re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White
How about we use it to replace the “under god” part?
Okay:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, fuck Trump, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all…and !!”
re: #147 ObserverArt
And she was from Old Quebec too! That I think is about as Québécois as one can get.
She mentioned there was not a lot of love between them and the French.
Or, the rest of Canada! ; )
Yeah…the rest of Canada and Quebec have had a love/hate relationship for years. There’s long been a secessionist movement in Quebec and there was a referendum in that province in 1995 in which “Stay” won out but some of the resentment is warranted. Quebec likes to act bigger and more important than they actually are.
Years ago, near one of the main roads entering Quebec City there was a sign that said “Welcome to the National Capital”. However, Quebec is NOT the Canadian capital, Ottawa, Ontario is. Quebec is only a provincial capital.
The larger areas in Quebec tend to have separate Francophone and Anglophone communities that regularly clash with each other. It’s a long and complex (albeit fascinating) history when you dig into it.
good fucking grief.
I’m not an expert on climate science, but I know enough to expose someone pretending to be an expert.
FWIW, I designed and installed my home’s self sustaining energy system and I am more knowledgeable about alternative energy than any other elected official in Washington DC.— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 12, 2019
let me tell you though that he had no freaking idea how to properly install a septic system
as for designing and installing a self-sustaining energy system for his home, he ain’t all that special or unique in this county. (Hint: it’s not rocket science, just expensive.)
he is such an embarrassment
Good analogy!
Summoning a Home Economics teacher to Congress to testify as an expert on Fed policy is very much like calling Political Scientist John Kerry to Congress to testify as an expert on climate science. https://t.co/CP1Upc2cfw— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 12, 2019
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, FUCK TRUMP, and to the Republic for which it stands, FUCK TRUMP again, one Nation under God (who is not motherfucking TRUMP), indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. FUCK that LYING PIGFUCKING MOTHERFUCKER TRUMP with a backhoe.”
But it doesn’t scan well.
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
“FWIW, I designed and installed my home’s self sustaining energy system and I am more knowledgeable about alternative energy than any other elected official in Washington DC.”
Wow, fucking arrogant much?
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief.
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let me tell you though that he had no freaking idea how to properly install a septic system
as for designing and installing a self-sustaining energy system for his home, he ain’t all that special or unique in this county. (Hint: it’s not rocket science, just expensive.)
I find it funny that you think you can practice politics without a political science degree yet want to question others about their expertise.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) April 12, 2019
Nothing says the weekend like kittens in hats. pic.twitter.com/7cWZuMptyf
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) April 12, 2019
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ahh. They are perfect. :)
re: #157 Backwoods_Sleuth
Makes going out and adopting a kitty so tempting!
Please take a moment out of your day to appreciate the simple beauty, elegance and natural grace of the kangaroo. pic.twitter.com/cKxN9IApTv
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) April 12, 2019
he meant to do that…was practicing all week…
Speechless. https://t.co/OohWjnQx41
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) April 12, 2019
IT WAS A JOKE, YOU LIBTURDS…
re: #85 Blind Frog Belly White
Like Gen. Buck Turgidson in Dr. Strangelove:
“Boy, I wish WE had one of those Doomsday Machines!”
Starts in 1/2 an hour on TCM, followed by “Being There.” A Peter Sellers fest, or something more esoteric…
Republicans are taking Ilhan @IlhanMN Omar’s comments on 9/11 out of context to smear her. Meanwhile, when 9/11 actually happened, Trump bragged that the destruction of the Twin Towers made his building the tallest in Lower Manhattan. Any response from @GOP? pic.twitter.com/7oREsUUOtB
— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) April 12, 2019
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
She didn’t trivialize 9/11, she pointed out that Islamoohobes like yourself use 9/11 to smear all Muslims. And over the past 24 hours, you and your pals have proved her right.
On a side note, the guy who trivialized 9/11 was Trump when he bragged about having a taller building. https://t.co/Ylb7pgiA8p— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 12, 2019
heh
My [38M] girlfriend [32F] of 3 years owns a pornstore/strip club. I want her to sell it before I propose. pic.twitter.com/nNxBllCSRO
— relationships.txt (@redditships) April 12, 2019
re: #166 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
What Ole_Jimbo was quote tweeting:
I took a look at @LeaderHoyer’s Twitter feed. Not a single word about the death threats and abuse and bad-faith attacks against his freshman colleague @IlhanMN. But he was happy to dunk on her in front of AIPAC.
Shameful.— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 11, 2019
re: #67 teleskiguy
The Party of Family Values.
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That asshole was married FIVE FUCKING TIMES???????
The longest human tunnel traveled through by a dog skateboarder is 30 people and was achieved by Otto the Skateboarding Bulldog in Lima, Peru, on November 8 2015. 👏😱 pic.twitter.com/51x9Wa7y74
— ANDREW ALBERTT (@ANDREW1ALBERTT) April 7, 2019
The president of George Mason University has now agreed to attend an April 16 town hall on sexual assault, organized by students outraged that the school just hired Brett Kavanaugh to teach classes. https://t.co/9BjvVeV8Yc
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 12, 2019
re: #173 Dave In Austin
No thanks.
snopes.com
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Notta. It’s always projection with these assholes. Always.
Enough is enough. No more silence, with NY Post and now Trump taking Ilhan’s words out of context to incite violence toward her, it’s time for more Dems to speak up. Clearly the GOP is fine with this shameful stunt, but we cannot stand by.
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 12, 2019
oh, and the moron-in-chief has that selectively edited video as a pinned tweet.
re: #46 Bubblehead II
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Was looking at this image again with a colleague today, and it’s just so odd! Okay Twitterverse: other examples of Adam and Eve receiving tools after being booted out of Paradise? And….GO!
From the wonderful and quirky Carrow Psalter, W.34:https://t.co/znW8KP1mPJ pic.twitter.com/NYZXhMKvd0— Walters Manuscripts (@MedievalMss) April 12, 2019
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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jeebus…I actually know what those two tools are: a dibble and a seed drill.
Oh my gosh… I was videoing this baby having a bad dream, and watch what his sister does!! 😍😍 pic.twitter.com/A83Ce1rRIK
— Back To Nature (@backt0nature) April 11, 2019
He loves inciting threats and violence against politicians who cross him. The truth is Omar is more opposed to religious extremism than he is. She didn’t dismiss 9/11. She correctly said it shouldn’t be used to smear all Muslims and guess what, it shouldn’t and that was the message of the last Republican Potus before Trump as wrong as he was in the military response to 911.
From the Kaiser Permanente Shipyard Boat Ramp in Washington state, looking across the #columbiariver to Portland, OR. High water. Check out the sign! Haha not #lowwater #VanWA #couve #springrunoff #whereidrive #inmyElement #Hondaelement pic.twitter.com/6e7QRtkWjM
— Nancy Pettit (@NancyPettit) April 12, 2019
This is what some of the MAGAts are saying about Assange
— Fabiola (@Fabiola19529079) April 12, 2019
re: #179 nicdanger
That account is dead to me. I would ask you to repost that message to me under my new nic if you would please. Also post it in the clear. I am a “hatcling” and am prevented from reading private messages for the next 2 weeks. Which is kinda weird. I can post a private message, but can’t read the reply’s :-).
re: #185 gocart mozart
This is what some of the MAGAts are saying about Assange
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Something tells me that prick is going to be forced to attend Uncle Vlad’s Polonium Tea Party!
lots of Nunes jokes…
Cows escape their pasture, take a brisk walk through the streets of Miami Lakes https://t.co/oLzQAn75dL pic.twitter.com/VTWNTvQavm
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) April 12, 2019
re: #86 Michele1
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You seem…familiar
If they ask about pizza, be careful
You just posted Wattsup. That’s the scientific-discussion equivalent of Godwinning the thread and just about everyone knows it.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) April 13, 2019
I just ordered a pizza with ham, bell peppers, and *pineapple* from the local pizza truck and none of you can do a goddamned thing about it.
re: #193 teleskiguy
I just ordered a pizza with ham, bell peppers, and *pineapple* from the local pizza truck and none of you can do a goddamned thing about it.
Save me a slice
The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 13, 2019
Damn. There’s a collector’s item.
“South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” limited to 5000 copies worldwide. The double color vinyl features two of the four main characters; #1-2500 will feature characters Cartman and Kenny and #2501-5000 will feature Kyle and Stan. Available tomorrow exclusively at #RecordStoreDay pic.twitter.com/Y2WA67vZ1l
— South Park (@SouthPark) April 13, 2019
‘North by Northwest’ (1959) // ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ (2019) pic.twitter.com/O5L1t9fWpy
— Dharma Bhagalia (@Kloppholic) April 12, 2019
re: #189 wrenchwench
Sherman didn’t get the same recognition as Tom Lehrer did, and his life was cut short.
Here’s a clip that made the rounds on the Dr. Demento show in the day:
re: #190 Man, DangerMan
New in town?
You seem…familiarIf they ask about pizza, be careful
I brought a can of pineapple. I understand they like pineapple. :-)
re: #193 teleskiguy
I just ordered a pizza with ham, bell peppers, and *pineapple* from the local pizza truck and none of you can do a goddamned thing about it.
Be that way, then….
re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief.
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let me tell you though that he had no freaking idea how to properly install a septic system
as for designing and installing a self-sustaining energy system for his home, he ain’t all that special or unique in this county. (Hint: it’s not rocket science, just expensive.)
What’s a self sustaining energy system? Did he create the first perpetual motion machine?
re: #199 Eric The Fruit Bat
Sherman didn’t get the same recognition as Tom Lehrer did, and his life was cut short.
Here’s a clip that made the rounds on the Dr. Demento show in the day:
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He shall live forever on vinyl and electrons:
re: #202 Jay C
If you’re ever in town, the pies from the food trailer are really good.
re: #205 teleskiguy
If you’re ever in town, the pies from the food trailer are really good.
According to Yelp, they are closed on Monday.
Bizarre….
re: #207 Eric The Fruit Bat
According to Yelp, they are closed on Monday.
Bizarre….
Makes sense. It’s just the two people running it, gotta take a day off.
re: #204 wrenchwench
He shall live forever on vinyl and electrons:
Ah-yup. I remember the first commercial on TV when I was young that had Alan Sherman doing the commercial for a board set from Milton Bradley that was loosely based on Camp Grenada.
re: #207 Eric The Fruit Bat
According to Yelp, they are closed on Monday.
Bizarre….
Not really. Many Mom and Pop shops are closed Sunday and Monday instead of the traditional Sat/Sun. My hairdresser is one.
re: #210 Michele1
Not really. Many Mom and Pop shops are closed Sunday and Monday instead of the traditional Sat/Sun. My hairdresser is one.
Saturdays tend to be big business days when everyone else is off, so….
re: #209 Eric The Fruit Bat
Ah-yup. I remember the first commercial on TV when I was young that had Alan Sherman doing the commercial for a board set from Milton Bradley that was loosely based on Camp Grenada.
I could do this all day.
re: #210 Michele1
Many Mom and Pop shops are closed Sunday and Monday instead of the traditional Sat/Sun.
Up in my neck of the woods the mom & pop retailers would usually have Saturday closing at 1 PM and they would be closed on Sunday.
Looks like every area has their own sabbath….
re: #21 jaunte
The Trump family has been too sloppy over the years to get away with everything they were tying to get away with.
No, they were just clean enough to get away with everything they were getting away with until Donald decided he needed to play president. Then they opened up a whole new level of interest and investigation into their dealings.
re: #199 Eric The Fruit Bat
Sherman didn’t get the same recognition as Tom Lehrer did, and his life was cut short.
Here’s a clip that made the rounds on the Dr. Demento show in the day:
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I have all of his music
We played it hundrrds of times growing up
I sing his stuff all the time
re: #200 Michele1
I brought a can of pineapple. I understand they like pineapple. :-)
We tolerate them
re: #214 KGxvi
No, they were just clean enough to get away with everything they were getting away with until Donald decided he needed to play president. Then they opened up a whole new level of interest and investigation into their dealings.
Ding
re: #215 Man, DangerMan
I have all of his music
We played it hundrrds of times growing up
I sing his stuff all the time
You had to be lucky to catch stuff on TV back then. We used to wait all year for a rerun.
the boid was delicious, he tasted just swell….
re: #213 Eric The Fruit Bat
Up in my neck of the woods the mom & pop retailers would usually have Saturday closing at 1 PM and they would be closed on Sunday.
Looks like every area has their own sabbath….
in my neck of TheBackwoods, most businesses (and local government offices) are closed Wednesday afternoon, Saturday afternoon, and all day Sunday.
re: #215 Man, DangerMan
I have all of his music
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re: #186 Michele1
That account is dead to me. I would ask you to repost that message to me under my new nic if you would please. Also post it in the clear. I am a “hatcling” and am prevented from reading private messages for the next 2 weeks. Which is kinda weird. I can post a private message, but can’t read the reply’s :-).
Got it,here ya are: “Well done my friend.You have much to be proud of.I can’t imagine the courage it has taken you to become who you are and be happy !”
re: #218 wrenchwench
You had to be lucky to catch stuff on TV back then. We used to wait all year for a rerun.
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uh, holy shit https://t.co/jRxwiM9s2a
— Patrick Klepek (@patrickklepek) April 12, 2019
This thread: https://t.co/0AkhBxVJ3Z
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) April 12, 2019
re: #86 Michele1
Transferred your subscription over to the shiny new name, and you’re good to go!
re: #222 nicdanger
Got it,here ya are: “Well done my friend.You have much to be proud of.I can’t imagine the courage it has taken you to become who you are and be happy !”
Thank You.
In outright contradiction, a White House official has a name. https://t.co/9YUUdTZUw5
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 12, 2019
re: #227 Charles Johnson
Transferred your subscription over to the shiny new name, and you’re good to go!
Thank you Charles.
re: #221 Eric The Fruit Bat
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JUST IN: Federal investigation finds rampant sexual harassment at company led by Trump nominee: report https://t.co/Rl2YzaOaNN pic.twitter.com/Rk3S8HjveV
— The Hill (@thehill) April 13, 2019
lolwut? pic.twitter.com/1PP4jhIEv6
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2019
I actually feel a little flattered that these numbskulls are still circulating conspiracy theories about me so long after I told them to fuck off.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2019
There’s so much funk in this it makes George Clinton pass tf out.
#NowPlaying Louis Cole > Time > Real Life (feat. Brad Mehldau) https://t.co/0f47DAov0l
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 13, 2019
re: #234 teleskiguy
There’s so much funk in this it makes George Clinton pass tf out.
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Killer track. The whole album is insanely great.
re: #235 Charles Johnson
Killer track. The whole album is insanely great.
Louis Cole is one of those musicians where I’m like, is dude actually a robot?
Hey, there’s a real shock! The corrupt, sycophantic right wing media thinks Trump is great and co-signs all his demented conspiracy theories. Is this a new thing? https://t.co/67tAY6cdaY
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 13, 2019
re: #232 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
And, Myers has been heavily lobbying for a number of years that NOAA (he’s nominated to lead) should not publicly disperse weather forecasts. That they should merely put out raw data. So private ventures (like his AccuWeather) can sell their forecast products
re: #238 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
And, Myers has been heavily lobbying for a number of years that NOAA (he’s nominated to lead) should not publicly disperse weather forecasts. That they should merely put out raw data. So private ventures (like his AccuWeather) can sell their forecast products
Where AccuWeather uses the government provided raw data, of course.
Socialize the costs, privatize the profits, just like Pro$perity Go$pel Je$u$ preached.
and it was all in some vain hope he could build Trump Tower Tripoli. What a weird pattern huh? https://t.co/hCgf8Rk11E
— Zeddediah Springfield (@Zeddary) April 13, 2019
Interesting bit per Maddow:
A member of Mueller’s team, Aaron Zelinsky, was shifted to the DC district as a Special Asst Prosecutor.
He worked on the Papadopoulos case and previously worked on organized crime matters
Implication: Mueller team may be traveling w their cases— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) April 13, 2019
re: #233 Charles Johnson
Even after almost 10 years they still can’t get you off their minds.
re: #236 teleskiguy
Louis Cole is one of those musicians where I’m like, is dude actually a robot?
Cole may not be a robot, but he is a fucking machine.
I told her she was not allowed to hump my blanket. pic.twitter.com/hbCxNdALgc
— Blue Heron Farm (@BlueHeronFarmTX) April 13, 2019
#TechCrunch spoke to one of the hackers… through an encrypted chat late Friday.
“We hacked more than 1,000 sites,” said the hacker. “Now we are structuring all the data, and soon they will be sold. I think something else will publish from the list of hacked government sites.” https://t.co/UfRCAeTyBH— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 13, 2019
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Eleven-year-old ordered deported without her family
“I don’t want to leave my mom,” Laura said Thursday. “I want to stay with her.”https://t.co/VBLQSbHxVH— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 12, 2019
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
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re: #247 goddamnedfrank
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re: #193 teleskiguy
I just ordered a pizza with ham, bell peppers, and *pineapple* from the local pizza truck and none of you can do a goddamned thing about it.
We can wince.
It’s not a bug, it’s a feature
— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) April 13, 2019
re: #249 teleskiguy
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May the cone go soon and the big smile stay forever! https://t.co/0KY4pqTBQs
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 13, 2019
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
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Ben Shapiro’s Twitter feed was the single most visited feed of the Quebec mosque shooter https://t.co/oQFG4whOES
— David Klion🔥 (@DavidKlion) April 13, 2019
What Lil’ Ben is whining about
VVV
The President is inciting violence against a sitting Congresswoman—and an entire group of Americans based on their religion. It’s disgusting. It’s shameful. And any elected leader who refuses to condemn it shares responsibility for it.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) April 13, 2019
U.S. president promises ‘swift and vigorous response’ to any attempt to charge Washington and its allies after court rejects investigation of possible American war crimes in Afghanistanhttps://t.co/5FO9OyHQQ1
Well, we’re back from two weeks in the UK and I was completely off-grid except for UK newspapers.
It was nice not having to get Drumpfed in the face 24/7.
We went to Duxford and saw an amazing display of airplanes. We went to the Tower of London, met some ravens and the Ravenmaster, and saw some ridiculously over-the-top jewelry. We saw a beautifully curated Picasso exhibit.
Then up to Edinburgh for a harp festival. Great music, great beer, a visit to the Surgeon’s Museum, where I learned about all of the arcane ways people can, and do, die. It’s amazing any of us have a peaceful death.
Oh, and by the way, if you think our system of government is just a complete disaster right now, you should see what is going on in the UK. It really is poultry in a hailstorm.
At this point the House of Commons couldn’t agree that food, clothing, and shelter are necessary for a decent life. Theresa May is just a ghost of a political corpse, desperately shuttling between Brussels and London, and getting the shit beat out of her by all sides.
All in all, watching a government even more dysfunctional than ours was oddly… calming.
We can move the needle, going forward, and make things better. Right now, the UK can’t.
Belly full of cheap frozen pizza and beer.
Mets win in Atlanta, and I got to watch on TV
Life is good in the cave by the river
Way to prove again to the Courts that your fake emergency declaration was a politically motivated stunt and flagrant abuse of power.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) April 13, 2019
re: #265 goddamnedfrank
If the Radical Left Democrats all of a sudden don’t want the Illegal Migrants in their Sanctuary Cities (no more open arms), why should others be expected to take them into their communities? Go home and come into our Country legally and through a system of Merit!
Who said we don’t want them in our sanctuary cities?
(Not that they’d necessarily stay there — relatives, friends, community members… but I expect we can spring for bus fare to get them where they want to go.)
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
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Chelsea Manning went to prison. Reality Winner is still in prison. Whether rightly or wrongly, they did it better than Eddie “Ron Paul’s The Shit” Snowden did, and now Eddie’s living the structured life in Russia, happily being a useful idiot for Putin.
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 13, 2019
The mockingbird that moved a couple blocks away two months ago is back tonight. If I had a Benjamin 5mm and thermal scope I’d take that motherfucker out tonight.
Striking this close to home, this personally, feels less like the straw that breaks the camel’s back and more like the last pin stuck in the bull’s hide before it goes into full total rampage mode. Some people may have overplayed their hand(s).
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) April 13, 2019
re: #271 Teukka
Forgot the responses to JMS’ twees:
What it sounds like is that they are trying to do as much damage as they can while the ability to retaliate is down. Either that, or they are trying to dare us into cyberwar.
— Catfish ‘n Cod (@catfishncod) April 13, 2019
Not sure I understand your point.
— Paul (@VisitorPaul) April 13, 2019
Ya think? Trump has a tendency to fly off the handle. In this case he just might go thermonuclear and order a counteract.
— Albert J Rawlek (@AJRawlek) April 13, 2019
I worked for a Russian for 2 years, this very much reads the way he spoke. Especially when he had come back from visits to “Motherland” and not thought/spoken in English for weeks on end.
— Adam Paulauski (@At0mXII) April 13, 2019
re: #264 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Belly full of cheap frozen pizza and beer.
Mets win in Atlanta, and I got to watch on TV
Life is good in the cave by the river
Hell, it was even a better day than I thought
#Mets won#Nationals lost#Braves lost#Yankees lost
It was a great day in baseball! #LGM— MetsAvenue (@MetsAvenue) April 13, 2019
re: #266 A hollow voice says, Oringes…
Who said we don’t want them in our sanctuary cities?
(Not that they’d necessarily stay there — relatives, friends, community members… but I expect we can spring for bus fare to get them where they want to go.)
Would they be counted in the census? Thus increasing our number of Congressional seats?
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