A Message From Stonekettle Station: Thanks, but It Was Never About That
For this Memorial Day, an eloquent piece from Jim Wright: Thanks, But It Was Never About That.
No quote from the article; just go read the whole thing, please.
For this Memorial Day, an eloquent piece from Jim Wright: Thanks, But It Was Never About That.
No quote from the article; just go read the whole thing, please.
HOLY SHIT.
The defense names BEN SHAPIRO as a motivation for Kiyomi’s radical right wing views.
I’m losing track of how many violent white supremacists @benshapiro has helped radicalize. pic.twitter.com/uSob96ovxa— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) May 25, 2019
facts dont care about your feelings, ben.
— saeen (@saeen90_) May 26, 2019
I mean, what are the repercussions? There are US senators who are advising law breakers to ignore subpoenas and court rulings. It’s a clear signal as any that you won’t get any blowback if you belong to the right party. Hell, you may even get a fashion shot in the @nytimes!
— President “I AM EXTREMELY CALM” (@realworldrj) May 27, 2019
Memorial Day: Remembering those who served alongside…https://t.co/QyzZlBwtYf #DearMishu #Loyalty #MemorialDay pic.twitter.com/sBlJHFPIEl
— 👓 DearMishu, Advice Columnist ❤️ (@DearMishuDear) May 27, 2019
It’s currently 3 am in Japan so expect a tweet storm in the next two hours or so.
I’m shocked…anyone else shocked?
Japan literally made up a sumo competition for Trump to participate in—just to feed his ego.
That’s Grade A diplomacy, @MofaJapan_en https://t.co/zFtlfT1zYQ— Aki Peritz (@AkiPeritz) May 27, 2019
There’s a good NPR article on the US Army Tweet yesterday “How has service impacted you” blowing up in their faces… One bit that pissed me off the worst:
Many women responded with stories of sexual harassment and assault while serving in the military. One wrote of suffering from depression and anxiety, and said she “still can’t deal well with loud noises. I was assaulted by one of my superiors. When I reported him, with witnesses to corroborate my story, nothing happened to him. Nothing. A year later, he stole a laptop and was then demoted. I’m worth less than a laptop.”
U.S. Army
✔
@USArmy
* May 23, 2019
Replying to @USArmy
How has serving impacted you?schmox
@IvoryGazelle
Depression, anxiety, still can’t deal well with loud noises. I was assaulted by one of my superiors. When I reported him, with witnesses to corroborate my story, nothing happened to him. Nothing. A year later, he stole a laptop and was then demoted. I’m worth less than a laptop.3,437
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SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. (AP) - Proponents of creating a 51st state held a bake sale to raise money for their cause.
The Spokesman-Review reports that supporters of the proposed Christian Conservative state, which would span parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, raised money by auctioning pies and other desserts.
The Liberty State Gala drew about 200 people in the city of Spokane Valley on Thursday evening.
Speakers included Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, a Spokane Valley Republican who has championed the Liberty State movement.
Shea spoke of the cultural and political differences between eastern and western Washington, denied the existence of global warming, and claimed the United States is “a Christian nation” under siege by atheists and Communists.
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
Shea is a straight-up lunatic - he’s little more than a domestic terrorist-in-waiting. He’s just itching for an excuse to commit mass murder.
This is why we are a global laughingstock. Pompeo is going around the world saying Iran must meet 12 demands. Trump says that just have to get rid of nuclear weapons (which they already had). What a disaster. https://t.co/XAowW9zhKe
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 27, 2019
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. (AP) - Proponents of creating a 51st state held a bake sale to raise money for their cause.
The Spokesman-Review reports that supporters of the proposed Christian Conservative state, which would span parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, raised money by auctioning pies and other desserts.
The Liberty State Gala drew about 200 people in the city of Spokane Valley on Thursday evening.
Speakers included Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, a Spokane Valley Republican who has championed the Liberty State movement.
Shea spoke of the cultural and political differences between eastern and western Washington, denied the existence of global warming, and claimed the United States is “a Christian nation” under siege by atheists and Communists.
We could give them Johnston Atoll if they promised to leave…
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
So they want YellowStone as well?
Fuck them
How did I not realize until now that bullshit Hope Hicks story in the NYT was Habermans handiwork.
re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s just like with Tillerson. Trump repeatedly kneecapping his own SoS.
I can’t tell you how many servicemen/women have told me that they hate being told “Thank you for your service.”
re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg
SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. (AP) - Proponents of creating a 51st state held a bake sale to raise money for their cause.
The Spokesman-Review reports that supporters of the proposed Christian Conservative state, which would span parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, raised money by auctioning pies and other desserts.
The Liberty State Gala drew about 200 people in the city of Spokane Valley on Thursday evening.
Speakers included Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, a Spokane Valley Republican who has championed the Liberty State movement.
Shea spoke of the cultural and political differences between eastern and western Washington, denied the existence of global warming, and claimed the United States is “a Christian nation” under siege by atheists and Communists.
Little-known fact: Some state constitutions, like AL, establish the concepts of treason and sedition against the state government. Someone might want to mention that to Rep. Shea.
I’m thinking Mr. Malice should probably invest in a dictionary. pic.twitter.com/lJFVIIMWRm
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2019
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Mr Malice should go back to school and learn the language.
Although, when it comes to crassly commercializing a solemn day, it’s hard to top Easter Cokes and 9/11 Cokes. pic.twitter.com/h8BjFrZYdu
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 27, 2019
From the looks of this chart, it would appear that the new Parliament has made a move toward the center.
Here is an even better graphic description of the composition of the new 🇪🇺 Parliament as compared with the old. A stronger center is the key change. pic.twitter.com/v6HNU7DzI6
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) May 27, 2019
Might not help much, but it’s not the swing to the right that was being posited earlier.
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
I despise it, though I usually grin and bear it. I will sometimes talk about it to those who mean well.
re: #23 William Lewis
I despise it, though I usually grin and bear it. I will sometimes talk about it to those who mean well.
Is there a more appropriate way to acknowledge veterans in public? Or is it better to not acknowledge them at all?
re: #22 makeitstop
Yeah…..looks like the big far-right tsunami everyone was talking about turned out to be more of a ripple than anything else. Granted Le Pen and Farage did well, and of course, Orban’s Fidesz Party came out of it as expected (IOW, they performed to expectations) but let’s also remember the Greens did tremendously well. Here in Czech Republic, the Pirate Party did very well indeed, almost superseding the main center-right party here (they came in only a fraction of a percentage behind).
As for the main center-left party here - they didn’t even cross the 5% threshold. They’re almost effectively finished as a political institution here, as the center-left populist governing party has pretty much taken their place, their platform and their voter base.
re: #16 Ace Rothstein
I can’t tell you how many servicemen/women have told me that they hate being told “Thank you for your service.”
None other than Rush Limbaugh once told me that in person. I had attended a symposium on the Vietnam War at Texas Tech. Since I was still in the Guard at the time, I had worn my class B uniform. Limbaugh was on campus for some kind of conservative grift and I happened to encounter him outside the student union. To his credit, I suppose, he recognized my VN service ribbon and thanked me for my service. I forebore to say, “Ok, but where the fuck were you?” and instead gave some kind of polite fluff response and went on my way.
re: #27 austin_blue
It’s amazing that it doesn’t slide off the plate!
I’m trying to figure out why my pics turn sideways when I post from my phone.
Even when I turn the phone sideways the pic is the same!
re: #29 jeffreyw
Right back at ya
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I ate mine before I could take a photo - BBQ shredded beef on a roll with Red Potato salad.
And a Fat Tire to wash it all down. There may or may not be a nap in my future
If there was a goat in Game 6 1986, it was John McNamara https://t.co/eIw4wgfY4m
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) May 27, 2019
This is the Atlas Moth, the largest moth in the world. The wingtips resemble snake heads pic.twitter.com/n5yKndz9ns
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) May 27, 2019
“Existential Subpoena,” the new album from Hope Hicks, on NYT Records.#AlbumTitle pic.twitter.com/jIXcuWX7ap
— Found Band Names Я Us (@FoundNames) May 27, 2019
“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!”
— Merchant of Venice, I. iii. https://t.co/tvTwypw96C— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 27, 2019
What happen to the belief in the Eternal Life? And why does the Pope believe in the devil? And why is the church riddled with criminal sex conduct? Why? https://t.co/Y2GZdLw5lI
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) May 27, 2019
re: #35 gocart mozart
Shakespeare is alive and still relevant.
Here ya’ go.
Don’t Say ‘Thank You For Your Service’ This Monday
“I hope you’re having a meaningful day.”
That might be one of the better things to say to a veteran this Monday. You should probably avoid the common refrain, “Thank you for your service,” according to someone who should know.
“On Memorial Day, the veteran you’re talking to may be going through a bit of melancholy remembering people who died over the years,” says Navy veteran Luke Visconti, who also co-founded the website DiversityInc, which wrote about the subject recently.
As most people are aware (or should be), Memorial Day and Veterans Day serve different purposes.
Veterans Day is to honor the service of people who have worn the uniforms of the armed forces. Memorial Day is intended to remember those who died while serving.
Visconti encourages those who want to say supportive words to a veteran to recognize “that the person may have friends who died in combat.”
As far as saying thank you goes, “I don’t need to be thanked for my service,” he tells NPR’s Michel Martin. “I think it’s become kind of a platitude, toss-away thing to say.”
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there a more appropriate way to acknowledge veterans in public?
Vote for Democrats.
An unproven Trump/Epstein rape theory and the origins of pizzagate. Read with a dose of salt
Oh, I wonder how the topic of abductions was approached with @realDonaldTrump came up…https://t.co/yjgRFYuYcD
— random facts girl. (@soychicka) May 27, 2019
Read the Stonekettle post. I think the whole standout for me was the kid subconsciously admitting his hero worship was as much about shitting on liberals as it was thanking Stonekettle.
The other “oh, yeah” moment was that the people who scream the loudest at you for not genuflecting before anyone in a uniform (or badge) are usually the ones who never once entertained the idea of actually enlisting.
My neighbor up the street was in the Marines, but IIRC, he said he was basically in the motor pool the whole time. He admitted the “Thank you for your service” groveling is a mixed bag for him, because he fixed jeeps the whole time he was in.
I would post this on my FB feed, but I would imagine it would only people make angry at me. I’ve got one guy who’s a vet and a deacon; we’re in an online study group and get along great, but I can’t imagine he’s happy with the GOP and religion criticisms I post.
I think that’s what always upsets me the most: most Americans these days feel that if you’re not on the ground in tears, kissing the feet of every military person and cop you meet, you’re basically Al-Queda.
Merger of Fiat Chrysler and Renault would create world’s largest manufacturer of unwanted cars.
— DPRK News Service (@DPRK_News) May 27, 2019
re: #28 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
None other than Rush Limbaugh once told me that in person. I had attended a symposium on the Vietnam War at Texas Tech. Since I was still in the Guard at the time, I had worn my class B uniform. Limbaugh was on campus for some kind of conservative grift and I happened to encounter him outside the student union. To his credit, I suppose, he recognized my VN service ribbon and thanked me for my service. I forebore to say, “Ok, but where the fuck were you?” and instead gave some kind of polite fluff response and went on my way.
Disgusting people like Rush get away with far too much when they deal with members of polite society. I probably would have responded similarly and the memory of that encounter would always sting a little.
It’s funny because it’s true
Of all of the John Sidney McCain III daughters in the world, Meghan is not even in the top two.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 27, 2019
re: #46 gocart mozart
Irony dies again and again and again https://t.co/AhDKnHVJbe
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 27, 2019
Stonekettle points out that this essay is not actually a Memorial Day message.
re: #48 jaunte
It is something he had to get off his chest.
Meghan is not even one of John McCain’s better daughters. She’s like the Stephen Baldwin of John McCain daughters.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 27, 2019
re: #21 Romantic Heretic
That was an excellent article.
As Bill Mauldin noted, “The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.”
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more at: brainyquote.com
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there a more appropriate way to acknowledge veterans in public? Or is it better to not acknowledge them at all?
“Welcome home.”
re: #21 Romantic Heretic
That was an excellent article.
As Bill Mauldin noted, “The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.”
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A cousin of mine was a John Birch member and a true believer. He volunteered for Vietnam.
Now he is a Methodist minister working in the peace movement.
re: #24 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there a more appropriate way to acknowledge veterans in public? Or is it better to not acknowledge them at all?
I prefer not, though I sometimes ask for it by wearing my hat with insignia on it. Its fun when someone recognizes both the MI badge and my Wobbly pin :)
Damn straight. Who the f*ck is Dan Gainor? 😂
— Earth Mama🌹#Bernie2020 (@LauraIsABerner) May 27, 2019
You’re just mad because @SenSanders actually made money in real estate, unlike #Brokeahontas Trump.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) May 27, 2019
Right - didn’t mean to imply it was written for Memorial Day specifically, but that’s today and it is a message.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2019
O_o
“Netanyahu’s comments made the impression he asked Trump to tweet in order to use it in his domestic political crisis…”
Important thread. #collusion https://t.co/xjr43ib6vE— Laffy (@GottaLaff) May 27, 2019
Their stupidity and treasonous impulses know no bounds. My dad served during the Korean War. For this?? https://t.co/mZG6uBSmyx
— rosanne cash (@rosannecash) May 27, 2019
re: #51 sagehen
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more at: brainyquote.com
“I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You’re power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
Ow, oh no, no, no, no, no
Look at the shoes you’re filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
And I don’t want to hear no more.”
re: #60 Eclectic Cyborg
“I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
You’re power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I always thought he was singing “eat that bread”
(Excuse while I kiss this guy)
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
“U.S. President and North Korean Dictator take turns dunking on former Vice President.”
My wife and I are back from the Memorial Day Parade and Gold Star Family luncheon (held at the American Legion).
Each of the Gold Star Mothers (and me) were asked to lay wreaths representing each of the wars from the Civil War to present in the war monument park in the centre of Chicopee. (I was asked to lay a wreath for the fallen of the Vietnam War.)
City and state government officials were present at the remembrance at the end of the parade route, along with the commanders of Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee and the National Guard Armory at Worcester (he was the keynote speaker).
Beer at the American Legion was on the house for Gold Star Mothers (and me).
The city veterans affairs officer spoke with me before the event at the American Legion post, noting in the past they only included Gold Star Mothers, but this year wanted to be more inclusive (hence the contact with me).
A particularly sad moment was when I was introduced to a very elderly woman, who had just become a Gold Star Mother. Her fifty-eight year old reservist son (my age) was recently killed in Afghanistan.
re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth
From an FB friend:
What might be the response from the public if Bill Clinton had said that he and Saddam Hussein were in agreement about Bush Sr.?
Video: Watch what emotional Dwight Eisenhower says to Walter Cronkite of CBS News when he returns to cemetery in France 20 years after D-Day (5 mins.):https://t.co/GbmHUPqgkL
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) May 27, 2019
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ike was absolutely right. We must find peace.
re: #66 PhillyPretzel
Ike was absolutely right. We must find peace.
I actually remember watching that interview
What happen to the belief in the Eternal Life? And why does the Pope believe in the devil? And why is the church riddled with criminal sex conduct? Why? https://t.co/Y2GZdLw5lI
— Tommy Chong (@tommychong) May 27, 2019
It’s “You’re”, and there should be a comma after “lost”.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 27, 2019
May your lost Tommy someday return to you. True love never dies.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 27, 2019
I think that shut him up, or maybe he muted me.
This anti-science crackpot is leading the Trump gang’s “climate review panel.”https://t.co/2HX2KgfCeA pic.twitter.com/CXd5FPX3sT
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2019
Lots of fun today with Spectrum going down. Using my T-Mobile backup for a bit…
re: #70 Joe Bacon 🌹
It is funny because we have only spectrum where I live. And it is god awful. Like the company i work for has the wifi go down all times throughout the day randomly.
And they lost a lawsuit with new York state for this area. They are just not good.
re: #69 Charles Johnson
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Yes, CO2 is just so wrongly treated. I call on Mr Happer to show us how mistreated it is by breathing in as much of it as he can.
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If only you were as concerned about Trump shitting on your father and his legacy more than @amyklobuchar respectfully relaying your father’s words about Trump you might not be a disgraceful daughter.
— James Toupin (@Jamestoupin) May 27, 2019
Does anybody really wanna remind Meghan that she got her start as a “celebrity” by blogging about her dad’s presidential campaign? That without his coattails to ride, she would still be someone whose name elicited a response of “Who?”
good fucking grief
Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be ble to vote for you. I, on the other hand, was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform, which had tremendous support, and helped fix the bad 1994 Bill!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2019
….Super Predator was the term associated with the 1994 Crime Bill that Sleepy Joe Biden was so heavily involved in passing. That was a dark period in American History, but has Sleepy Joe apologized? No!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2019
re: #69 Charles Johnson
Where do Republicans dig up these people? Demonising carbon dioxide is as bad as Hitler?
*blink*
The “comrade” has quite a little ratio going pic.twitter.com/LBHWDolbaT
— Philos Sophia (@Philos_Sofia) May 27, 2019
re: #52 sagehen
“Welcome home.”
I’d probably shake the hand of a person who ever said that to me.
In response to “thank you for your service” my response is generally “thank you for allowing me to do so.”
A lifelong racist who got sued for refusing to rent to black tenants, called Nazis very fine people, and took out full page ads demanding the execution of the Central Park Five after they had been exonerated by DNA evidence is telling black people who they can and can’t vote for. https://t.co/oKcSaNNzsf
— Andrew Wortman (@AmoneyResists) May 27, 2019
In 1989, you spent $85,000 to take out full page ads calling to execute 5 African-American teenagers who were falsely accused of a gruesome crime. After they were exonerated with DNA evidence, you doubled-down on that outrageous stance in October 2016. So maybe sit this one out. https://t.co/JzONk8h1br
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) May 27, 2019
re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth
good fucking grief
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Since when the fuck does this guy speak for African Americans?
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re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg
Since when the fuck does this guy speak for African Americans?
/
Ever since Kanye and Kim became his BFF experts on justice reform
So Connor Reid flocked his account because he got ratio’d on his antichoice tweet. I love the way folks dish it out but absolutely can’t take it.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 27, 2019
FTR, I’d never have figured it out if I hadn’t still had the thread from that tweet up when I had to reload the page, because I hadn’t finished reading his reaming yet. Because I’d never have sought out his opinion on anything.
Uh-HUH. And you had the opinion the #CentralPark5 WERE super-predators even though you may or may not have ever used the actual TERM. You STILL want them in the gas chamber. I’m white, so I can’t claim authority, but I suspect that’s even worse than what Biden did.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 27, 2019
Somewhere in America, Bernie Sanders is fuming that Trump stole his only real hope of winning over POC voters.
Yesterday’s reporting on WWLP Springfield on the Vietnam War candlelight remembrance in Chicopee (0:52)
wwlp.com
I’m sure Donny can show us his deep care for POC voters by demonstrating that he spoke out against the ‘94 Crime Bill when it was actually being written/voted upon.
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I’m seriously tempted to dive into the physics of this. Very cool! https://t.co/MYnbSsHBGb
— Mika McKinnon (@mikamckinnon) May 27, 2019
re: #69 Charles Johnson
These are when I get my fantasies about locking these people in a room with car exhaust being pumped in, and then ask them how calm they will remain. And then point out the plants that are also in the room.
re: #88 Targetpractice
I’m sure Donny can show us his deep care for POC voters by demonstrating that he spoke out against the ‘94 Crime Bill when it was actually being written/voted upon.
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That was after he was convicted of banning African-Americans from his buildings, I guess.
re: #80 retired cynic
But we’re in purgatory, at the bottom of the stairs and must get through the eating cats to get to heaven.
re: #92 Belafon
But we’re in purgatory, at the bottom of the stairs and must get through the eating cats to get to heaven.
nobody said it was gonna be easy
re: #79 Backwoods_Sleuth
He deleted it. lol
re: #95 GlutenFreeJesus
He deleted it. lol
he must have spelled something wrong, here’s the replacement tweet:
Anyone associated with the 1994 Crime Bill will not have a chance of being elected. In particular, African Americans will not be able to vote for you. I, on the other hand, was responsible for Criminal Justice Reform, which had tremendous support, & helped fix the bad 1994 Bill!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2019
re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth
he must have spelled something wrong, here’s the replacement tweet:
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ah!
“ble” is now “able”
that fix happened faster than the Bidan/Biden one
It might be good for Dems to remind the public that the passage of time has blunted people’s memories of just how things were in 1994. The precipitous drop in overall crime since the 90s has lulled people into this belief that such was an inevitability, that such bills in the 90s were written purely to oppress POC rather than address what was (at the time) seen as a very real “war” on crime. Before he was “America’s Mayor,” Rudy was the guy who ran around telling people he’d “cleaned up” NYC, a city that was practically synonymous with crime for decades.
Films like Robocop in the 80s and Demolition Man (released the year prior to the bill’s passage) predicted a future where crime and anarchy would only continue to rise and cops would find themselves on the losing side. It was the decade of the Columbine shooting, the North Hollywood Shootout, the World Trade Center Bombing, the OKC bombing, and other acts that had the nation convinced that shit was only going to get worse. But then 9/11 happened, the nation decided that foreign terrorists were the existential threat to America, and the 90s became that period of milk and honey by comparison. Now you practically sound like you’re talking about the bombing of Pearl Harbor when you talk about events from the 90s.
re: #70 Joe Bacon 🌹
Lots of fun today with Spectrum going down. Using my T-Mobile backup for a bit…
Yeah, we had all kinds of problems with the Spectrum today. They rolled out some new thing and I had to spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone with 8 different people just to get it turned back on.
As part of the process, Spectrum INSISTED on shipping me a new modem. Even though I have my own modem. Because I found out after paying for 300MB internet for 2 years that the modem they foisted on me only went up to 72MB.
Shitty, shitty company.
Fun fact about researching Nazis on Facebook?
Facebook sorts “like” pages according to when something was liked.
So you can literally look and see their progression from liking Fox to liking Breitbart/@benshapiro to liking pages associated with nazis & the extreme right.— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) May 27, 2019
re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m shocked…anyone else shocked?
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They didn’t make up a whole contest. The Natsu basho is held every May and the Emperor’s Cup is regularly awarded. The Trump award was an added “bonus.” But a 40 pound trophy ain’t worth shit to a rikishi (sumo wrestler), his beya or the sumo association. What matters is cold hard ca$$$$h. And that’s what they got with the Emperor’s Cup.
That’s one of the advantages of being a malignant narcissist - nothing that happens to other people ever bothers you. https://t.co/b3OkUaO6VZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2019
re: #71 nowherenorth2
It is funny because we have only spectrum where I live. And it is god awful. Like the company i work for has the wifi go down all times throughout the day randomly.
And they lost a lawsuit with new York state for this area. They are just not good.
What ticks me off is that we have no choice in our building. It’s Spectrum or nothing. Sure do wish I had something called competition when it came to broadband…
re: #102 Charles Johnson
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A nuclear-armed country with ambitions of becoming a regional power resumes missile tests after assurances they would cease in order to pursue “peace” - Donny wholeheartedly trusts them.
A country without nuclear weapons that all the experts agree was complying with a carefully-negotiated multinational agreement in order to receive sanctions relief and economic assistance - Donny shreds the US-side of said agreement, imposes new sanctions, and wants to go to war with them.
Gee, I can’t see the difference in these situations…///////
Not Ryan, and not even PoC, so this may be unacceptable white-knighting (and if it is, Ryan, please DM me or even publicly tell me off), but it’s not like the types of cards accepted—particularly the ones accepted in states that are still CONTROLLED by Rs rather than>>>
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 27, 2019
THAT is quite literally a POLL TAX, which I KNOW is forbidden by the Civil Rights Act (though that’s moot as the whole thing will be declared unconstitutional next summer), and which I THINK is actually banned by the #24A. You’re committing federal crimes to require that.
— (((Chrysi Cat))) (@chrysicat) May 27, 2019
re: #105 Chrysicat
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Not to mention that Repubs make sure to impose increasingly more draconian requirements just to obtain those IDs, demanding documentation that can cost money to obtain just to pay for the privilege of carrying one of those IDs.
re: #106 Targetpractice
Not to mention that Repubs make sure to impose increasingly more draconian requirements just to obtain those IDs, demanding documentation that can cost money to obtain just to pay for the privilege of carrying one of those IDs.
and closing DMVs in many counties in states where people don’t have access to transportation to a distant office
re: #98 Targetpractice
It might be good for Dems to remind the public that the passage of time has blunted people’s memories of just how things were in 1994. The precipitous drop in overall crime since the 90s has lulled people into this belief that such was an inevitability, that such bills in the 90s were written purely to oppress POC rather than address what was (at the time) seen as a very real “war” on crime. Before he was “America’s Mayor,” Rudy was the guy who ran around telling people he’d “cleaned up” NYC, a city that was practically synonymous with crime for decades.
NYC murders
1990 2245
1991 2154
1992 1995
1993 1946
1994 1561
1995 1177
1994 is when NYC began vigorously enforcing gun control. Our murder rate has dropped drastically since then
2011 515
2012 414
2013 332
2014 328
2015 352
2016 335
2017 290
re: #51 sagehen
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read more at: brainyquote.com
There is nothing so terrible as a battle lost, except a battle won. - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Waterloo
And could we use another Eisenhower about now.
what the fuck is this https://t.co/MPJd78HYub
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 27, 2019
re: #111 Charles Johnson
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those methods may be out there, but they won’t be easily available or accessible or affordable.
or legal in caveman states
re: #111 Charles Johnson
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This is seriously AP’s argument? “Yeah, RvW being overturned would likely mean bans on abortion across the country. But hey, at least you have more ways of avoiding pregnancy!”
You know, as though Repubs aren’t presently engaged in a long-term plan to clamp down on all social progress for women since the beginning of the 20th century.
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
those methods may be out there, but they won’t be easily available or accessible or affordable.
or legal in caveman states
See also: “Religious freedom” laws aimed at allowing pharmacists and doctors to refuse to prescribe most of the safest methods of contraception because “It makes the baby Jesus cry!”
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
those methods may be out there, but they won’t be easily available or accessible or affordable.
or legal in caveman states
Even if Roe v Wade gets overturned, the way most state laws are written, it’s the doctors who will be sent to prison, not their patients!
The reaction would be more like:
1. How did a fetus get here?
2. Where is its mother?
3. This makes no sense
4. Are we in a simulation and they are just fucking with us now?— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 27, 2019
re: #116 gocart mozart
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here’s a thought experiment: let’s replace “fetus” with, oh, say, “guinea worm”…
crap…he’s coming back…
I will be making two stops this morning in Japan to visit with our Great Military, then a quick stop in Alaska and back to D.C. Meetings with Prime Minister Abe went very well, and getting to spend time with the new Emperor and Empress of Japan was a great honor!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 27, 2019
re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m sorry, General. But we’ve wasted the time your men bought with their lives.
(Cries)
Misogyny is a dangerous and underestimated aspect of violent extremism. Very often, it serves as the equivalent of a “gateway drug.” https://t.co/mxGIfHABwm
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) May 27, 2019
What the Associated Press doesn’t seem to grasp is that the GOP showed their hand by putting these bills out there. Even if the bills gets slapped down, they have long-term plans that involve more than just banning abortion. There are women currently sitting in prison cells in states across the country for suffering miscarriages, ranging from taking pills characterized as “abortificants” to “refusing a C-section.” We have Republicans who have actually stood up and declared that women who use birth control pills have “millions of babies” embedded in their wombs. And we’ve efforts at both the state and federal level to impose various laws that will allow the gatekeepers to most legal methods of contraception to refuse to prescribe/sell such because of “religious views.”
So please, spare us this “Well, at least things are better now…” because Republicans recognize such and they want badly to remove all that. When they bluntly tell women that if they want to avoid pregnancy, they just avoid sex all together, they’re not just being brain-dead troglodytes. THEY ARE TELLING YOU THE WAY THEY WANT THINGS TO BE!
re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth
Ever since Kanye and Kim became his BFF experts on justice reform
Kanye’s a dipshit publicity hound, but Kim has been putting her money and time where her mouth is:
Wonkette: Kim Kardashian Has Helped Free 17 Prisoners In 90 Days, What Have You Done?
re: #110 Romantic Heretic
There is nothing so terrible as a battle lost, except a battle won. - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Waterloo
And could we use another Eisenhower about now.
The Trumpers aren’t ready for the reality of war, they just think it’s a fantasy game.
“Thank you for your Service” makes me extremely uncomfortable. For one, I was a peacetime enlistment at the end of the “SteelPot Army” (mid-70’s after VN). I never saw deployment and my overseas duty was Alaska.
I gave nothing where a lot more gave all.
I also shirk from any form of praise which is a character defect I don’t understand. It makes me physically ill.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
Here’s one of the many ways that this story is embarrassingly dumb. https://t.co/Sz6W0JY586 pic.twitter.com/mWB0DW79fR
— Jonathan M. Katz✍🏻 (@KatzOnEarth) May 27, 2019
This #MemorialDay let’s not forget that white supremacists in this country specifically targeted black veterans for violence and lynchings. https://t.co/hBJGduRI1r @eji_org #BlackHistoryEveryday #BlackHistory365
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 27, 2019
re: #86 Targetpractice
Sanders voted for the Crime bill.
re: #127 VaughnIAM
Sanders voted for the Crime bill.
Ayep, but he got a pass because “He didn’t support the bill.” That he insisted he was only voting for the Violence Against Women Act and the Assault Weapon Ban (both parts of the bill) is supposed to be why he’s totally cool with POC voters, while anybody else associated with the bill is a racist.
Only these four senators did not vote for it:
NAYs —-4
Durenberger (R-MN)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hatfield (R-OR)
Simon (D-IL)
Trump: John McCain sucks!
Meghan: Crickets!
Klobuchar: Trump sucks!
Meghan McCain: How dare you! The only people allowed to talk about John McCain is me and Donald Trump.
🤦♂️— Chilal (@cwyyell) May 27, 2019
Little sanity break
“How’s my hair? Roxbury good?” Now with added soundtrack, thank you @cmcg1313 and @tierno158 🔊 pic.twitter.com/aAAt8L31sR
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) May 25, 2019
re: #124 Dave In Austin
“Thank you for your Service” makes me extremely uncomfortable. For one, I was a peacetime enlistment at the end of the “SteelPot Army” (mid-70’s after VN). I never saw deployment and my overseas duty was Alaska.
I gave nothing where a lot more gave all.
I also shirk from any form of praise which is a character defect I don’t understand. It makes me physically ill.
The phrase goes “all gave some, some gave all.”
I joined in 1978. My service could be characterised as Cold War steaming. The thing about the Cold War was both sides of that thought it could go hot at any time. And even though that was allegedly “cold,” there were flare-ups such as our intervention in Bosnia and the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon which went bad.
The military serves as a deterrent (at least when its used correctly). You still need people for that deterrence, who are aware that at any time they could be in or near combat.
I don’t care for praise. I did the job I volunteered to do.
Weather is crap at home. A line of thunderstorms in the Nebraska Panhandle moving toward my town. Tornadoes are being generated from storms in the area (there is one in Julesburg, Colo. moving into Nebraska right now).
Severe thunderstorm watch and flash flood warning up for my town now.
forecast.weather.gov
…SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHWESTERN BOX BUTTE…SCOTTS
BLUFF…NORTHWESTERN MORRILL…NORTHEASTERN BANNER AND SOUTHEASTERN
SIOUX COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM MDT…At 543 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Morrill to Scottsbluff to near Wildcat Hills
State Recreation Area to near Harrisburg. Movement was northeast at
25 mph.Nickel size hail and wind gusts up to 50 mph will be possible with
these storms.Locations impacted include…
Scottsbluff, Gering, Mitchell, Bayard, Terrytown, Morrill, Minatare,
Wildcat Hills State Recreation Area, Stegall, Angora, Wildcat Hills
Campground, Hubbard Hill, Harrisburg, Lake Minatare, Lake Minatare
Campground, Chimney Rock State Park, Scotts Bluff National Monument,
Kilpatrick Lake, Moomaws Corner and Scottsbluff Airport.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹
Keep an eye to the sky and be careful.
re: #133 Anymouse 🌹
When do you start west again?
The offer stands: coffee and/or a meal on me if you’d like to stop near Rochester!
Son will be 19 at end of August, and is just now showing signs that he wants to get his drivers license (On 3rd permit, the other 2 expired). Before he and my wife were leaving tonight for a drive I noticed the difference between my wife and my approach to our driving lessons.
As just an example I have heard when they are heading out. Wife to son, “We will go up here to Jen’s house and take a left up to Hamburg road. Take a right there and go past that kid you went to that senior party at, you know his name, by that subdivision with the big church parking lot, …” She goes step by step.
Me when going out driving with the boy. I get in the passenger seat and say, “Take me to <some destination>”. No directions, just get me there. Then he has to think of his route. I comment on his driving during the drive, but HOW to get there is up to him.
Probably better to use the word appalled. Who is going to believe you were shocked? https://t.co/42R1Bb3eJ1
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 27, 2019
re: #69 Charles Johnson
He sees “concentration of Co2” and goes right for the Godwin.
re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They’re shocked, SHOCKED to discover that Donny and Bibi are joined at the hip.
Pregnant women hold pro-choice gathering at Ohio Statehouse https://t.co/IJKxBVMwki
A group of pregnant women had a message for Ohio lawmakers, and it was written in bright pink on their stomachs. “My pregnancy is my choice,” pic.twitter.com/sYuYjmzke9— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) May 27, 2019
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
Douchecanoe responds:
Evidently these chose to have babies therefore they have nothing to complain about.
— Tom French (@pappawtjf) May 27, 2019
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
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someone obviously unfamiliar with the concept of “choice”.
Thread.
Don’t be drinking anything. https://t.co/4U0BRNkRS7— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) May 28, 2019
Meghan, you really suck at the job of being a John McCain daughter. https://t.co/IgS5mHKA5D
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 28, 2019
I’m really of two minds when it comes to praise for my military service.
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re: #142 Anymouse 🌹
Douchecanoe responds:
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Pregnant women being pro-choice is confusing to them.
re: #148 Belafon
Pregnant women being pro-choice is confusing to them.
As long as they’re barefoot and pregnant, they don’t care.
— 🇺🇸 Mike 🇺🇸 (@cmikegoodwin) May 27, 2019
re: #148 Belafon
Pregnant women being pro-choice is confusing to them.
In their minds, the only choice that matters is whether or not to have sex. And even that is something they privately think should be regulated.
re: #150 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
— 🇺🇸 Mike 🇺🇸 (@cmikegoodwin) May 27, 2019
The Tortoise and the Hairball.
re: #150 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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Well, I guess that means impeachment is off the table altogether. I mean, we wouldn’t want to go through with it and then have it fail, right?
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Duncan Hunter defends accused war criminal Trump might pardon, says he also photographed bodies https://t.co/JnHDI0Klxg pic.twitter.com/K6ruIKlpSn
— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2019
I believe there will be an impeachment bill coming out of the House. As I’ve posted many times, I think the House will wait to produce such a bill until all the current House investigations are completed. These investigations will produce all the material facts that will be needed to go forward with impeachment. There’s only one shot at impeachment and all the ducks need to be lined up along with iron-clad evidence to go forward.
I want the House impeachment bill to go to the Senate. Force every one of the 100 Senators to vote on it. Put every Senator on the record. Make them make a stand before next fall’s election.
Then the public will have their chance to display their opinion.
re: #152 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Tortoise and the Hairball.
I know there are people here surprised at this. There have to be.
his required daily dose of adoration…
Can’t wait to see you all soon! https://t.co/KKAw4hqqx5
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 28, 2019
re: #153 Targetpractice
Well, I guess that means impeachment is off the table altogether. I mean, we wouldn’t want to go through with it and then have it fail, right?
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Trump won the popular vote, remember.
Hank Aaron on whether he would visit White House: ‘There’s nobody there I want to see’ https://t.co/6l3hJAqGgt
— Brian McCarthy (@iancarty123) May 27, 2019
Elon Musk says “Hyperloop” tunnel is now just a normal car tunnel because “this is simple and just works”.https://t.co/gc8QzrjGEb pic.twitter.com/Qb4g1k7GGX
— Jalopnik (@Jalopnik) May 25, 2019
TV news coverage in #Japan at this hour dominated by the stabbing attack in Kawasaki. pic.twitter.com/buFJiYEySh
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 28, 2019
Media reports say some of the students stabbed are from Caritas Gakuen, a Catholic school established by missionary sisters of charity from Quebec in #Canada.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 28, 2019
The stabbings took place at a bus stop for the private school, adjacent to a park in Kawasaki. #Japan
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) May 28, 2019
OT:
1957 (IMDB): The Three Faces of Eve
A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
Stars: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, …
Ms Woodward as the patient.
1976 (IMDB): Sybil
A young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.
Stars: Joanne Woodward, Sally Field, …
Ms Woodward as the doctor, Ms Field as her patient.
Today (5m46s on youtube): Woman conjures multiple personalities during extraordinary interview | 60 Minutes Australia
Jeni Haynes is a remarkable woman. She can present as a four-year-old girl named ‘Symphony’, an eight-year-old boy known as ‘Little Ricky’ or a protective teenager who goes by ‘Muscles’. They are just some of her more than 2000 personalities.
Yesterday (41m24s on youtube): Woman with 2,500 personalities says they saved her from shocking child abuse | 60 Minutes Australia
The inspiring story of the Aussie woman with over 2000 personalities. How her brain conjured up the different characters to protect her from abuse, and even more incredibly, how they all worked together to bring an evil monster to justice.
re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Did you also piss on them, Duncan? I mean, since we were once told that that was totally patriotic and in no way disrespectful.
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re: #154 Backwoods_Sleuth
Duncan Hunter defends accused war criminal Trump might pardon, says he also photographed bodies https://t.co/JnHDI0Klxg pic.twitter.com/K6ruIKlpSn
— The Hill (@thehill) May 28, 2019
“Hey, Mrs. Lincoln didn’t like the play either.” (If John Wilkes Booth had survived to stand trial.)
My Memorial Days are in sync now. Seventy-five years ago at 1410 hrs Zulu, the Decatur Deb fell in flames over Magdeburg.
re: #150 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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Just reading that Hill article demonstrates how solid the evidence will have to be to change public opinion to force the Senate to go on with impeachment.
Remember, public opinion on Nixon’s impeachment changed almost over-night.
“We all know why we’re here,” said Rabbit. “I have asked my friend Eeyore to propose a Rissolution. Now then, Eeyore.”
“Don’t Bustle me,” said Eeyore, getting up. “Don’t now-then me.” He coughed in an important way. “What-nots and Etceteras.” ~A.A.Milne #EuropeanElectionResults pic.twitter.com/tC3kFHsE9M— A.A.Milne (@A_AMilne) May 27, 2019
re: #160 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
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People buy beans they’re assured are “magic” from guy who has continually failed to prove such, shocked to discover that they’ve bought ordinary beans. Film at 11.
re: #167 Cheechako
Just reading that Hill article demonstrates how solid the evidence will have to be to change public opinion to force the Senate to go on with impeachment.
Remember, public opinion on Nixon’s impeachment changed almost over-night.
Nixon was also in the first year of his second term when the clock on impeachment began ticking. We’re now almost six months into the third year of Trump’s. By the time we reach the point where Nixon had to resign in disgrace, we’ll be voting on whether to give Donny another four years. Particularly if people are really hoping that he will have his Saturday Night Massacre moment that so galvanizes the populace that their support of impeachment will…oh, wait, match what it is now.
When Duncan Hunter is your character witness … you definitely don’t deserve to be pardoned https://t.co/LsBi7CfD7T
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) May 27, 2019
re: #169 Targetpractice
People buy beans they’re assured are “magic” from guy who has continually failed to prove such, shocked to discover that they’ve bought ordinary beans. Film at 11.
I like Musk for this reason: He tries, and sometimes he fails. The biggest thing killing companies to me is that they don’t really try the big things unless they are so big, a monopoly, no one can punish them for failing.
re: #166 Decatur Deb
I’ll light a candle tonight when I get home from work.
re: #173 William Lewis
I’ll light a candle tonight when I get home from work.
Forget the candle, raise a glass or 7. Three crew got out and survived a year of POW.
re: #174 Decatur Deb
Forget the candle, raise a glass or 7. Three crew got out and survived a year of POW.
Both then.
The greatest con of our time was when barn owls discovered that they could just scrape out a lint screen, throw a beak on it and call it their baby. pic.twitter.com/xDx0HYRVOt
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) May 25, 2019
just a few counties SE of mouse’s place:
The greatest structure I have ever seen. Near Imperial NE. #COwx pic.twitter.com/D13GONCcYS
— Michael Charnick (@charnick_wx) May 28, 2019
— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) May 28, 2019
meanwhile in Arkansas:
CRAWFORD COUNTY PLEASE DO NOT FROLIC IN THE SNAKE-FILLED BILGEWATER https://t.co/OnN5vz30yT
— Will Watson (@will_watson) May 28, 2019
Dear lord. The Trumps gave the Japanese emperor and his wife autographed pictures of themselves. The lack of self-awareness from these two (well, his lack, her blind obedience) is just astounding. The Trumps have always been more Soprano than redneck. Never more than here. https://t.co/Lwdg6qRfuG
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) May 27, 2019
re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m totally willing to believe that the viola and pen were staff suggestions, while the pictures were totally his idea.
re: #181 Targetpractice
I’m totally willing to believe that the viola and pen were staff suggestions, while the pictures were totally his idea.
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that he has no idea what a viola is
re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think it’s a pretty safe bet that he has no idea what a viola is
“I knew her. She was a waitress at a place down the road. Is she in agreement with this exchange?”
As is this one about the Statue is Liberty that ran a few days ago in the Washington Post: https://t.co/UZpv1wyr7Q
— Mira Jacob (@mirajacob) May 27, 2019
re: #183 Eventual Carrion
“I knew her. She was a waitress at a place down the road. Is she in agreement with this exchange?”
Of course he doesn’t know her. It was only one night and the agreement was that she would never talk about it. $25K is nothing.
re: #184 gocart mozart
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Unclear on the concept:
White Supremacist Converts To Islam, Kills Neo-Nazi Roommates For Blasphemy
A white supremacist in Florida converts to the religion of peace, and immediately kills his neo-Nazi roommates for blasphemy.
Devon Arthurs, a former neo-Nazi, is under arrest after he converted to Islam and then killed his neo-Nazi roommates because they showed disrespect for his new found faith.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that 18-year-old Devon Arthurs is accused by police of killing two of his roommates, 22-year-old Jeremy Himmelman and 18-year-old Andrew Oneschuk, after they mocked Islam and Arthurs’s decision to become a Muslim.
According to reports, police say Arthurs told them that he shot his roommates “because they ‘disrespected’ his Muslim faith.”
He then took hostages at a local smoke shop and was eventually arrested with no further injuries.
As if Arthurs’s story was not bizarre enough already, a third roommate, who found the two roommates Arthurs had killed, is also under arrest after neo-Nazi propaganda and explosives were found inside the apartment’s first-floor garage.
re: #111 Charles Johnson
The AP is getting absolutely lit up over that story.
re: #187 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Unclear on the concept:
White Supremacist Converts To Islam, Kills Neo-Nazi Roommates For BlasphemyHe then took hostages at a local smoke shop and was eventually arrested with no further injuries.
I thought I had heard about that. It’s been two years. I wonder what’s happened to him.
Wow. Military vets who use medical marijuana — legally in their states — say they’re at risk of losing benefits because of harsh federal laws. https://t.co/eirntdDGmc by @owermohle
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) May 27, 2019
re: #189 Belafon
I thought I had heard about that. It’s been two years. I wonder what’s happened to him.
A judge ordered another mental evaluation just last month. He had initially been found not competent to stand trial and was sent to a state mental hospital.
More doctors to evaluate accused double murderer with neo-Nazi ties in Tampa
re: #111 Charles Johnson
I will not re-tweet or link to ANY @AP posting while this irresponsible and ignorant piece stays up. That may not seem like a big deal to a large publication, but if enough people do it, it could be a real problem.
RT if you agree to join me. #WeWontGoBack pic.twitter.com/8h1oohvBBg— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) May 27, 2019
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Aw, hell no…does that ass need another yacht?
Having completed “just under 1 mile” of privately-funded wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, “We Build The Wall,” a GoFundMe effort raising money for a border wall, triumphantly kept up its requests for dough.
“WE DID IT!!! First privately funded wall is nearly complete!” the project’s leader, Air Force veteran and triple amputee Brian Kolfage wrote on his Facebook page Monday. “DONATE NOW to fund more walls! We have many more projects lined up!”
re: #195 Joe Bacon 🌹
Didn’t that jackass get kicked off Gofundme? Or is this a different jackass?
re: #194 ipsos
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re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Didn’t that jackass get kicked off Gofundme? Or is this a different jackass?
It’s jackasses all the way down.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Didn’t that jackass get kicked off Gofundme? Or is this a different jackass?
He got kicked off, started a website, and people donated there.
re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg
Didn’t that jackass get kicked off Gofundme? Or is this a different jackass?
Yes he did. He moved his “campaign” to a privately-owned Website.
From Talking Points Memo:
The wall itself stands on property owned by American Eagle Brick Co. near the border of El Paso, Texas and New Mexico. It was built by Fisher Industries, which is owned by Republican donor and frequent Fox News guest Tommy Fisher, and to which President Donald Trump has reportedly frequently urged the military and DHS officials to reward a federal wall construction contract.
“Why wouldn’t we allow it?,” American Eagle Brick Co. co-owner Jeff Allen told the El Paso Times. “We have dealt with illegals coming across. We have been attacked by illegals coming across. We have been burglarized by illegals. We have drug traffickers coming through here and anyone who is against this is against America.”
re: #197 Anymouse 🌹
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re: #197 Anymouse 🌹
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Yet again you attempt to add legitimacy to this administrations assault upon our intelligence community and the rule of law by stating Barr is somehow “professionalizing” it. The only thing he’s professionalizing is obstruction of justice and tyranny. https://t.co/Ginxc2iCo0
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) May 28, 2019
re: #203 ipsos
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I’m off to bed. Long drive tomorrow. Catch y’all later.
re: #206 Anymouse 🌹
I’m off to bed. Long drive tomorrow. Catch y’all later.
You’re sleeping on the same schedule as the rest of us Staters. How can that be?
From last thread:
re: #199 Decatur Deb
Heh. I was saving “D-Day Dodgers” until 6 JUN. There’s a very clear version by the Ian Campbell folk group.
Oops! I’ll look forward to that posting. I invite you to add a bit on the underlying story for the tl;dr crowd.
re: #208 Dread Pirate Union Local 13
I’m busy watching the Mets lose to the Dodgers
Spent a nice day driving to Canada and then enjoying dinner at a family restaurant with my son & 7 of his 10 kids. They were very well behaved and any grandparent would be proud of them!
Babushka has a lead foot. We got pulled over on I-94 when a Michigan State Trooper clocked li’l ol’ me going 87 mph. He was surprised to find an elderly white couple pedal to the metal on what was essentially an empty road. Zedushka growled at him “We haven’t had a ticket in 30 years!”
After running my DL & license plate through the system and verifying there are no outstanding warrants he let us go with a warning. After that I set my cruise control at 3 mph over the limit.
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Spent a nice day driving to Canada and then enjoying dinner at a family restaurant with my son & 7 of his 10 kids. They were very well behaved and any grandparent would be proud of them!
Babushka has a lead foot. We got pulled over on I-94 when a Michigan State Trooper clocked li’l ol’ me going 87 mph. He was surprised to find an elderly white couple pedal to the metal on what was essentially an empty road. Zedushka growled at him “We haven’t had a ticket in 30 years!”
After running my DL & license plate through the system and verifying there are no outstanding warrants he let us go with a warning. After that I set my cruise control at 3 mph over the limit.
I audibly cheer people on who are my parents age or older and drive faster than me, especially since I drive +5. It’s so much better than running up on someone driving 15 miles below the speed limit.
re: #204 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Good lord.
What the fuck is going on at the Times?
Are there any sane media outlets left anymore?
re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg
Good lord.
What the fuck is going on at the Times?
Are there any sane media outlets left anymore?
The Times will do anything to keep Trump in office because that’s where the big bucks are!
re: #174 Decatur Deb
Forget the candle, raise a glass or 7. Three crew got out and survived a year of POW.
It will be Goslings Black Seal Rum, quite shortly. To those that made it back. And to those that did not.
Just finished the reading Randall Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”.
Which reminded me of the anecdotes in Belton Cooper’s “Death Traps”, his reminisces of commanding a tank repair unit in the 3rd Armored Division during World War 2.
Which reminded of Chemi Shalev’s stories from the Yom Kippur War from the HaAretz article “Talking to the Dead in the Yom Kippur War”…
A book on the World War II USAAF that might be of interest if you have not already read it:
Deadly Sky: The American Combat Airman in World War II
by John C. McManus (Author)
It talks about the human elements faced in the brutal grinding air war in World War 2.
re: #211 The Vicious Babushka
Spent a nice day driving to Canada and then enjoying dinner at a family restaurant with my son & 7 of his 10 kids. They were very well behaved and any grandparent would be proud of them!
Babushka has a lead foot. We got pulled over on I-94 when a Michigan State Trooper clocked li’l ol’ me going 87 mph. He was surprised to find an elderly white couple pedal to the metal on what was essentially an empty road. Zedushka growled at him “We haven’t had a ticket in 30 years!”
After running my DL & license plate through the system and verifying there are no outstanding warrants he let us go with a warning. After that I set my cruise control at 3 mph over the limit.
You are fortunate to not have been driving in Virginia. 20 mph over, or 80 mph no matter what the speed limit almost always result in a criminal (misdemeanor at the level of a dui ) as well as traffic charge.
CVN-81 & 82 were ordered in Jan. With EM Cats. Steel starts getting cut in 2023 & 2027.
Returning to steam Cats would require a complete redesign of the Ford-class carriers
Trump in 2017: “I said what system are you going to be–’Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said no you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.” https://t.co/5BhBWwOfjf
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 28, 2019
re: #220 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
CVN-81 & 82 were ordered in Jan. With EM Cats. Steel starts getting cut in 2023 & 2027.
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As a former nuke electrician on an aircraft carrier, I am of the opinion that electric catapults would make way more sense.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I lived in that neighborhood with my wife and 7-month-old child for a year. When I carried my kid on my back, being stabbed from behind was actually a worry I had.