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Bruce Hornsby and Chris Thile play “Resting Place” on our June 8, 2019 show.
Website: http://www.brucehornsby.com/
More from this week’s show: https://www.livefromhere.org/shows/2019/06/08/bruce-hornsby-the-milk-carton-kids-mike-yard-sara-watkins
Two of the best in the business. Chris Thile is a freaking alien.
From downstairs: “Can you believe liberals would…?”
“No, I can’t. Because it’s bullshit. Oh, and congratulations.”
RE: The conservative friend of mine who turned the photo of his one day old granddaughter into anti-abortion attack.
He doesn’t consider me liberal (admittedly, I’m more center right, with left leanings on certain issues [pot legalization, environmental protection, affordable healthcare]), though he and I have clashed on abortion before so maybe that was targeted at me in a way.
re: #3 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
From downstairs: “Can you believe liberals would…?”
“No, I can’t. Because it’s bullshit. Oh, and congratulations.”
Ha ha ha! That is beautiful. I might have done it if I was prepared to respond to the inevitable blowback, but I just didn’t want to spend my entire lunch break (I’m doing some OT today at work) arguing on Facebook.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Ha ha ha! That is beautiful. I might have done it if I was prepared to respond to the inevitable blowback, but I just didn’t want to spend my entire lunch break (I’m doing some OT today at work) arguing on Facebook.
No need to respond. The statement stands alone. You could add a “have a nice day” to it.
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Ha ha ha! That is beautiful. I might have done it if I was prepared to respond to the inevitable blowback, but I just didn’t want to spend my entire lunch break (I’m doing some OT today at work) arguing on Facebook.
You have a block button, I believe. Also a mute button.
Someone needs to stuff his cell phone into a golf course hole and make him search for it. He is unhinged.
To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018
re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg
Ha ha ha! That is beautiful. I might have done it if I was prepared to respond to the inevitable blowback, but I just didn’t want to spend my entire lunch break (I’m doing some OT today at work) arguing on Facebook.
Yesterday I got sick at work, had to go to Urgent Care. Bad enough $¢ientologi$t$ are right outside of Kaiser Urgent Care on Sunset Blvd. They know better that to waste my time since I always ask them about Xenu.
Coming home, get out of the Subway station and 2 women are there with a loudspeaker uttering Jay-Zuss shit. One of them approaches me, sticks a leaflet with a picture of Trump and Jesus hand in hand.
It was time for some Tongue-Fu.
I said, “Oh so they’re walking hand in hand. Nice to see that Trump and JC are gay!”
The look on the shrew’s face—Priceless as she utters, “How dare you blaspheme the Son of Gawd and his Chosen King for America”.
My reply, “If they’re holding hands and giving each other kissy faces, you ought to say Trump is Gawd’s anointed Queen”.
Oh I scored a direct hit with that as she said, “You’re one of them Gawdless Marxists”.
My reply, “Yes. I’ve been a faithful follower of Zeppo all my life”.
Didn’t stop that fool from screaming at me, I continued to use my Tongue-Fu techniques to get her to totally melt down.
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Speaking of “demented words of violence and death”… Jesus, man, can you even hear yourself these days?
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Someone needs to stuff his cell phone into a golf course hole and make him search for it. He is unhinged.
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Tweet is from about a year ago. But your point stands.
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
Coming home, get out of the Subway station and 2 women are there with a loudspeaker uttering Jay-Zuss shit. One of them approaches me, sticks a leaflet with a picture of Trump and Jesus hand in hand.
I’ve been seeing a few of those types in Long Beach lately, usually railing against the “homosexual agenda” and how we are all going to hell. And I always wonder if they have any idea where they are and who their audience is in this town.
Oh look… the president of the United States sees fit to interfere in the internal politics of another nation
LONDON needs a new mayor ASAP. Khan is a disaster - will only get worse! https://t.co/n7qKI3BbD2
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2019
At least he’s consistent on the idea of nations interfering in the internal politics of others…
re: #12 KGxvi
I’ve been seeing a few of those types in Long Beach lately, usually railing against the “homosexual agenda” and how we are all going to hell. And I always wonder if they have any idea where they are and who their audience is in this town.
They foam at the mouth so much they need to have a set of rabies shots!
re: #11 Eclectic Cyborg
Tweet is from about a year ago. But your point stands.
Hm. I missed the date on that. Thank you for the correction.
Oh, Milo!
Your new hairdo is faaahhhbbbuuullllooouuuusss!— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) June 15, 2019
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
You should record one of these interactions and upload it to YouTube.
re: #17 Anymouse 🌹
You should record one of these interactions and upload it to YouTube.
Of course I didn’t have my phone on me…But that is just sooooooo tempting!
when the whore moos, the bombs will drop
Trump pretty much hates everyone named Khan, doesn’t he?
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re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump pretty much hates everyone named Khan, doesn’t he?
/
He never got over Botany Bay.
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump pretty much hates everyone named Khan, doesn’t he?
/
Yeah but he loves the Klan.
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump pretty much hates everyone named Khan, doesn’t he?
/
in turnberry did donnie trump a stately pleasure course decree
where cash, the sacred river, ran
through bank accounts measureless to man
into a sunless hole
re: #24 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Except instead of Coleridge’s opium induced dream, it’s the orange shit-goblin’s adderall induced delusions that are destroying the world.
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
So if Pete Buttigieg was elected President, I’m sure she’d also consider him “anointed by God.” /s
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
So if Pete Buttigieg was elected President, I’m sure she’d also consider him “anointed by God.” /s
Or Obama was anointed by Allah.
O.J. Simpson makes his Twitter debut with a video in which he says he’s got “a little gettin’ even to do.” https://t.co/rV7QAwMoNR
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2019
I have no words.
This fawn mistook a practice target for their mother. My heart just hurts.
When did we lose our way? pic.twitter.com/QmFLMFjhre— Loving nature (@L0vingnature) June 15, 2019
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
So if Pete Buttigieg was elected President, I’m sure she’d also consider him “anointed by God.” /s
Well now sometimes old god just lets people make a bad pick, for example Saul. See old god was agin even having a king but whatevs the people wanted one so they picked a bad one. But then old god decided a king was a good idea after all so he anointed David who slaughtered tens of thousands, killed to cover up his raiding and theft, then fucked a devoted mans wife and set the man up to be killed. Sounds like the anointed drumpf.
I don’t know. https://t.co/fYcLxHFWph
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 15, 2019
Ex-Defense Sec. Panetta on Pres. Trump’s foreign political dirt comments: “He’s a national security threat in the sense that when he says things like that, he is inviting…adversaries to find ways to be able to directly influence our election process.” https://t.co/zJK1CydtCL pic.twitter.com/dL4HokWo7o
— CNN (@CNN) June 15, 2019
I’ve read the “Help Wanted” ads to recruit workers for this PRIVATE camp.
The one prerequisite is that they are “able to take down a child.” “One must be able to grab, pull, push & subdue a teen or infant with the full weight of one’s body.” Verbatim.
It is our Niño Guantanamo.— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) June 15, 2019
— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) June 15, 2019
That Congressional leaders regardless of party condone State-sponsored child imprisonment, interstate transport, neglect, abuse and death is a pox upon both their Houses.
Entrenched in their gated enclaves on high they sit, where the echos of innocents’ cries cannot touch them.— Scott Linnen (@ScottLinnen) June 15, 2019
Blockbuster story buried in this NYT report.
Pentagon, intelligence officials fear they cannot trust Trump enough to brief him fully on new US cyber operation against Russia for fear he will “countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials” as he did before with Russians. pic.twitter.com/BgSF3zi8nm— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 15, 2019
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
RE: The conservative friend of mine who turned the photo of his one day old granddaughter into anti-abortion attack.
He doesn’t consider me liberal (admittedly, I’m more center right, with left leanings on certain issues [pot legalization, environmental protection, affordable healthcare]), though he and I have clashed on abortion before so maybe that was targeted at me in a way.
You could inform him that
1) he’s woefully misinformed about what liberals believe; and
2) it’s conservatives who would be happy to let the child die next week if it needs surgery the parents can’t afford. Or in 2 or 3 years if it turns out to have asthma or diabetes or a peanut allergy or any of a thousand other conditions that uninsured people just have to die from.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
So if Pete Buttigieg was elected President, I’m sure she’d also consider him “anointed by God.” /s
Just like she respected Obama when he was “anointed by God (and 53% of American voters)”
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re: #13 KGxvi
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if the Mayor of London was a white guy, you wouldn’t be making such a big deal about this.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) June 15, 2019
yep and i love it. it was fine when the democrats did this at Marthas vinyeard though right? hypocrites.
— Amazonjude232 (@amazonjude232) June 15, 2019
???
A United Airlines flight skidded off a runway at Newark Liberty International Airport, according to the FAA. https://t.co/XmGOmxUMqX
— CNN (@CNN) June 15, 2019
Youtuber Holy Koolaid is in Florida to protest/monitor the MASA conference.
He uploaded the following video today, which includes clips of prior statements from these people:
Youtube may take this video down because the bots are very bad at distinguishing between promoting and critiquing.
Anyway, this is the end goal of those who go down the religious right path and don’t turn from it.
re: #24 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
in turnberry did donnie trump a stately pleasure course decree
where cash, the sacred river, ran
through bank accounts measureless to man
into a sunless hole
Ha! My late husband loved that original, and used to wonder at length what it might have been if not truncated….
re: #41 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Youtuber Holy Koolaid is in Florida to protest/monitor the MASA conference.
He uploaded the following video today, which includes clips of prior statements from these people:
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Youtube may take this video down because the bots are very bad at distinguishing between promoting and critiquing.
Anyway, this is the end goal of those who go down the religious right path and don’t turn from it.
Note it’s YouTube atheists (and other people) organising protests against this, not any church at all. No church of any denomination I am aware of has condemned this.
re: #43 Anymouse 🌹
You didn’t know Obama own’s Martha’s Vineyard? /s
My assumption is that he doesn’t realize that Martha’s Vineyard is the name of an island and just thinks it’s a resort owned by some Democrat named Martha.
JUST IN: Fox News is staging fights at Impeach Trump rally in Los Angeles with bogus CNN reporter and paid actors pretending to get in fights on camera to discredit the actual rally participants. https://t.co/dKxr55QcK8
— Max Howroute▫️ (@howroute) June 15, 2019
re: #46 DodgerFan1988
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“This is obviously a false flag! Soros paid that guy to lie that he works for Fox News to smear them! NO WAY WOULD FOX DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!”
re: #48 Targetpractice
“This is obviously a false flag! Soros paid that guy to lie that he works for Fox News to smear them! NO WAY WOULD FOX DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!”
CNN should sue.
re: #49 Anymouse 🌹
CNN should sue.
They certainly seem to have cause to, when they have this asshole on camera insisting he works for CNN while flashing a Newscorp press badge.
We’re Starting to Figure Out Why There Are Mysterious Holes in The Antarctic Sea Ice
The crust of floating ice that forms over Antarctica’s Weddell Sea every winter is home to a baffling mystery. Every now and again, a huge hole will appear, exposing the dark, icy waters below.
Why do the holes appear in some years and not others? Why do they appear at all? It’s never really been clear - but now, through a combination of floating robots, satellite imagery, and seals wearing little hats, scientists are beginning to figure it out.
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re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The seals are drilling holes in the ice with their little hats? /s
re: #52 Anymouse 🌹
The seals are drilling holes in the ice with their little hats? /s
Naaah, that would never work.
It’s the walruses: drilling the holes with much bigger hats.
re: #53 Jay C
Naaah, that would never work.
It’s the walruses: drilling the holes with much bigger hats.
Narwhals for the win
If I had spent a couple million years evolving a sleek low-drag, high-speed, hunter-killer profile and some asshole glued a party hat to my head, I’d be pissed.
I have a feeling you wouldn’t be saying jack shit if Sadiq Khan was a white man with an anglo name. https://t.co/yXtdYCmZjH
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 15, 2019
re: #38 Ace-o-aces
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Part of the problem. The other part is that they have extremely tight gun control there so the fascist right makes a big deal about “knife crime”. And to be sure, the English police would have a conniption at my swords ;)
re: #55 Decatur Deb
If I had spent a couple million years evolving a sleek low-drag, high-speed, hunter-killer profile and some asshole glued a party hat to my head, I’d be pissed.
Shouldn’t have evolved the cute goggly eyes, then.
re: #58 Barefoot Grin
Shouldn’t have evolved the cute goggly eyes, then.
Last thing a Weddell Sea octopus sees.
re: #59 Decatur Deb
Last thing a Weddell Sea octopus sees.
[Leaves a trial of ink as he heads off to google Weddell Sea octopus….]
re: #60 Barefoot Grin
[Leaves a trial of ink as he heads off to google Weddell Sea octopus….]
Could help with the search terms. Don’t know crap about Antarctic predators.
re: #61 Decatur Deb
Could help with the search terms. Don’t know crap about Antarctic predators.
Me either, though feeling of kinship with cold-water mammals through assumed protective layer of blubber.
re: #26 Anymouse 🌹
So if Pete Buttigieg was elected President, I’m sure she’d also consider him “anointed by God.” /s
These are the same assholes who STILL are hard core birthers who believe Obama is a Muslim Marxist and Michell is a transvestite. I’ve come to the breaking point with these Xtian assholes and from now on they will be on the receiving end of my Tongue-Fu!
re: #61 Decatur Deb
Could help with the search terms. Don’t know crap about Antarctic predators.
sharks and killer whales.
Seals, OTOH, are penguin predators
re: #48 Targetpractice
“This is obviously a false flag! Soros paid that guy to lie that he works for Fox News to smear them! NO WAY WOULD FOX DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!!!”
Reminds me of Alt-Right trolls and Russian operatives with fake social media accounts, posing as black people and posting offensive and racist comments about whites, so the conservatives in the media can point to that and smear the black community.
re: #63 Joe Bacon 🌹
These are the same assholes who STILL are hard core birthers who believe Obama is a Muslim Marxist and Michell is a transvestite. I’ve come to the breaking point with these Xtian assholes and from now on they will be on the receiving end of my Tongue-Fu!
For those racist imbeciles who claim Michelle Obama is male, who do they believe are the parents of Malia and Sasha?
re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter
For those racist imbeciles who claim Michelle Obama is male, who do they believe are the parents of Malia and Sasha?
I’m sure they have some nasty story made up.
asshat
He is a national disgrace who is destroying the City of London! https://t.co/l3qcUS17jh
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 15, 2019
re: #56 teleskiguy
Thread, three tweets:
Trump is trying to control the replies to his tweet because he can’t block me and my essays annoy him. This is hilarious and kinda sad. You’re the president man. Act like it bro.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 15, 2019
re: #57 William Lewis
Part of the problem. The other part is that they have extremely tight gun control there so the fascist right makes a big deal about “knife crime”. And to be sure, the English police would have a conniption at my swords ;)
While ignoring the fact that in a mass-kinfe attack, most of the people attacked survive it.
re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth
Look at all the people who can’t afford to visit London who now claim they don’t want to.
re: #74 jaunte
Visiting London is like visiting New York City or Singapore. Expensive as fuck
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re: #74 jaunte
Look at all the people who can’t afford to visit London who now claim they don’t want to.
I love visiting London because it’s like a world tour in just one place
LOL (video, 0:39), a dog letting a woman know who was really the driving force behind her graduation.
🎥 | Viral 🔥 video de “Tarzan” el famoso perro del Colegio de Mayagüez, que mordió el diploma de una joven recién graduada del Recinto. @PuertoRicoPosts pic.twitter.com/E03DcLOvQn
— Yarim Correa 🇵🇷🇺🇸🇦🇷 (@YarimCorrea) June 15, 2019
re: #75 Joe Bacon 🌹
Tomorrow is Father’s Day.
This is the last pic I have of my Dad before he passed away.
He was livid about Dumbya stealing the Presidency from Al Gore. If Dad were still alive he’d be out marching to impeach Trump.
You’re in a better place, Dad.
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Hurrah for your dad.
good fucking grief
I enjoyed my interview with @GStephanopoulos on @abcnews. So funny to watch the Fake News Media try to dissect & distort every word in as negative a way as possible. It will be aired on Sunday night at 8:00 P.M., and is called, “President Trump: 30 Hours” (which is somewhat….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
…..the first 2 1/2 years of his Presidency, including the fact that we have one of the best Economies in the history of our Country. It is called Earned Media. In any event, enjoy the show!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
“Earned Media”…gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹
Yesterday I got sick at work, had to go to Urgent Care. Bad enough $¢ientologi$t$ are right outside of Kaiser Urgent Care on Sunset Blvd. They know better that to waste my time since I always ask them about Xenu.
Coming home, get out of the Subway station and 2 women are there with a loudspeaker uttering Jay-Zuss shit. One of them approaches me, sticks a leaflet with a picture of Trump and Jesus hand in hand.
It was time for some Tongue-Fu.
I said, “Oh so they’re walking hand in hand. Nice to see that Trump and JC are gay!”
The look on the shrew’s face—Priceless as she utters, “How dare you blaspheme the Son of Gawd and his Chosen King for America”.
My reply, “If they’re holding hands and giving each other kissy faces, you ought to say Trump is Gawd’s anointed Queen”.
Oh I scored a direct hit with that as she said, “You’re one of them Gawdless Marxists”.
My reply, “Yes. I’ve been a faithful follower of Zeppo all my life”.
Didn’t stop that fool from screaming at me, I continued to use my Tongue-Fu techniques to get her to totally melt down.
had to do that once myself not long ago. thought it might be a precursor to a heart attack. No, just turned out the cardiologist needed to pay for some new garden furniture, and I was the mark.
re: #13 KGxvi
Oh look… the president of the United States sees fit to interfere in the internal politics of another nation
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At least he’s consistent on the idea of nations interfering in the internal politics of others…
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love visiting London because it’s like a world tour in just one place
Great way to describe it!
re: #22 I Would Prefer Not To
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ah, I should have known someone would have already taken the time….!
re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth
So he’s a deadbeat. Not there wasn’t plenty of information out there before. https://t.co/83BsRiDnQF
— Wakandan War Dog (@Kennymack1971) June 16, 2019
It’s not like he would bother to actually PAY for publicity.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Probably when we mistook this jackass for our president….
re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth
I love visiting London because it’s like a world tour in just one place
I used to feel that way about San Francisco. I think that’s gone now.
Not again. Maybe you should get some sleep, gramps. https://t.co/BGTArkXfQk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2019
re: #13 KGxvi
Nice to see him retweeting a British White Supremacist.
Co-sign. https://t.co/FUQBEolKah
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2019
re: #86 jaunte
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It’s not like he would bother to actually PAY for publicity.
Hey the prick still didn’t pay the School Board for the cost of his 2016 rally in my home town. And when the local paper (which worships the ground Republicans pee on) “interviewed” town residents—every one of them tried to outdo the other in kissing Trump’s ass!
re: #73 Anymouse 🌹
While ignoring the fact that in a mass-kinfe attack, most of the people attacked survive it.
Kind of like Cris Rock says: if you’re in a mass knife fight and more than 3 people die ahead of you, you pretty much deserve it. “Hmmm…..someone got stabbed with a knife……and now……someone else…..someone……else.” It’s kind of like that episode from PBS Mystery where twins are going around killing people, and the one brother launches a hammer attack on the upper floor of a business. We see this mass stampede of feet coming down the stairs. “He’s got a hammer you fucking wankers. Just stop him!!” I was screaming at the t.v.
“Earned Media.” Which is basically “toe the party line or I’ll put you out of business with the full force of the federal government.” We have a wannabe totalitarian president*. https://t.co/LBOtehUjal
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 16, 2019
A group is collecting social media posts of police officers showing racism, other forms of bigotry (anti-gay, attacking particular religious groups, &c) in an effort to show how this sort of thing undermines trust in police departments.
re: #91 Charles Johnson
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When I saw that, live, my hair stood on end. I could not believe someone would be that overtly fascistic in this day and age. Hah. Little did I know.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹
LOL (video, 0:39), a dog letting a woman know who was really the driving force behind her graduation.
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yeah, and that muzzle grip is what kills people. they can maintain it even after death.
re: #92 Joe Bacon 🌹
Hey the prick still didn’t pay the School Board for the cost of his 2016 rally in my home town. And when the local paper (which worships the ground Republicans pee on) “interviewed” town residents—every one of them tried to outdo the other in kissing Trump’s ass!
I suppose there’s no possibility that the DT worshipping paper selected only DT worshippers to interview.
re: #88 stpaulbear
I used to feel that way about San Francisco. I think that’s gone now.
I love SF, but it’s too small for that. Which only becomes clear after you see other places. It still has clusters of people from all over.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
A group is collecting social media posts of police officers showing racism, other forms of bigotry (anti-gay, attacking particular religious groups, &c) in an effort to show how this sort of thing undermines trust in police departments.
I heard an NPR story about that today. It was not a surprise, but still infuriating.
re: #96 retired cynic
When I saw that, live, my hair stood on end. I could not believe someone would be that overtly fascistic in this day and age. Hah. Little did I know.
One of the gaslighting techniques of conservatives is to claim “you can’t call someone a Nazi unless they belonged to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party in the Thirties and Forties.”
Nazi ideology was here before WW2 of course. It never went away.
It doesn’t make my hair stand on end. Like it or not, this has been a part of the USA since the middle of the XX Century.
He deleted the original for some weird-ass reason.
Not again. Maybe you should get some sleep, gramps. https://t.co/USqS4QHeHx
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2019
re: #91 Charles Johnson
He deleted the tweet retweeting Laura Ingraham’s Nazi replacement theory.
Autocrats use the weakness of the opposition as a pretext for further abuses. This is why impeachment proceedings are essential, by the way. It’s not just moral hazard or politics. Every delay is a green light.
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) June 15, 2019
As for what to do when the Senate won’t convict?
1/ I couldn’t agree more. Impeaching Trump is a win-win for D’s…that is, if they can stay unified and on message. They need to say the following every single day: “Republicans have a choice- to either vote to stand up for the rule of law or to stand with a lawless President
— Craig Smardan (@CraigSmardan) May 21, 2019
I don’t buy for one hot minute that impeachment will “help” trump. It will give him nothing he isn’t getting already (shovelfuls of cash from GOP dark-money donors, frothing base) and can only damage him the more evidence comes out.
The president* of the US is completely nuts. Sleep tight. https://t.co/4w3a3xUKwX
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2019
At this point Trump is daring America every single day to do something about him.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 16, 2019
re: #106 Charles Johnson
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…..ALSO, NOT TRUE! Anything goes with our Corrupt News Media today. They will do, or say, whatever it takes, with not even the slightest thought of consequence! These are true cowards and without doubt, THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
I’m confused, what is the act of treason? That they ran the story and exposed our increased attacks on Russia … or that they reported something he does not think is accurate? https://t.co/iR1ntsJZku
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) June 16, 2019
I think its that he sees an act against Russia as treason. Which says something we already knew.
Just kidding, he has no idea what he’s saying.— jay (@random__name) June 16, 2019
This will be used as propaganda when the robot uprising comes.
pic.twitter.com/2BTXJP3hQc— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 15, 2019
re: #44 Anymouse 🌹
Note it’s YouTube atheists (and other people) organising protests against this, not any church at all. No church of any denomination I am aware of has condemned this.
Yup. It reminds me of when the first protests against Scientology happened, they were done by Usenet free speech nuts, which included a lot of atheists, agnostics, rationalists, etc., and some of us who were just free speech nuts. The other churches were completely and utterly afraid to confront the “cult of greed and power.” They would call Scientology a cult because Scn’s beliefs didn’t align with theirs, hence cult. Not because of Scientology’s behavior. And that was telling.
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
The act of treason apparently is defending our country against Russia.
Stress Break
Very subdued game of ‘King of the Hill’
Dog on a Dog on a Dog pic.twitter.com/9CgUUo4XVB
— Harlow and Sage (@harlowandsage) June 15, 2019
Colorado crosses the billion dollar mark in marijuana tax revenues https://t.co/TgZouQNCDi
— Al Anderson (@arawis) June 16, 2019
I wonder how long it will take Texas to come around.
re: #116 jaunte
I wonder how long it will take Texas to come around.
Illinois just did, and we are counting on that sort of revenue eventually coming on line.
re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think these two paragraphs in the NYT story put him over the edge:
Two administration officials said they believed Mr. Trump had not been briefed in any detail about the steps to place “implants” — software code that can be used for surveillance or attack — inside the Russian grid.
Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials, as he did in 2017 when he mentioned a sensitive operation in Syria to the Russian foreign minister.
re: #117 retired cynic
The powers that be here really HATE property taxes.
This is worth a read. A straight man and woman went to the Pittsburgh Pride parade sporting “free dad hugs” and “free mom hugs” shirts.
They were swamped by hundreds of people getting hugs, a huge number of which were LGBT+ people who had been disowned by parents or other family members.
His story is of righteous outrage and sadness.
That’s rich - this particular DOJ demanding the committee to follow rules.
— Phoebe (@Phoebeinbklyn) June 15, 2019
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
This is worth a read. A straight man and woman went to the Pittsburgh Pride parade sporting “free dad hugs” and “free mom hugs” shirts.
They were swamped by hundreds of people getting hugs, a huge number of which were LGBT+ people who had been disowned by parents or other family members.
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His story is of righteous outrage and sadness.
OMG, I love that. Would do that.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
I can’t imagine abandoning your own child like that.
re: #124 jaunte
I can’t imagine abandoning your own child like that.
Most of my family has abandoned my sister, condemning her for being a lesbian. (They are from “mainline” Protestant churches.) The exceptions are my mother and me.
They have also abandoned me over my lack of religious faith (excepting my mother and sister and one cousin).
The issue is when someone exists around you, who’s very existence challenges your deeply-held ideas, it is much easier to reject the person rather than the idea.
Get rid of the person, and you can hold on to your position (LGBT are an affront to God, atheists cannot be happy without God, &c).
In the case of religious belief, YouTuber DarkMatter2525 made a video about this, but it really applies to anyone who does not fit into your particular view about a group.
(video, 6:59)
re: #124 jaunte
So fucking heartless. I’m convinced. Christopher Hitchens subtitles his book “God Is Not Great” ‘How Religion Poisons Everything.’
I know there are Lizards who are among the faithful, and they actually practice what their holy books preach. God love you!
But I can’t abide by what I know religion to be, which is population control and a way to close people’s minds off to the wonders of the universe.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹
This is worth a read. A straight man and woman went to the Pittsburgh Pride parade sporting “free dad hugs” and “free mom hugs” shirts.
They were swamped by hundreds of people getting hugs, a huge number of which were LGBT+ people who had been disowned by parents or other family members.
His story is of righteous outrage and sadness.
Shit. I started crying even before I clicked into the story. I haven’t been to Twin City Pride for about 10 years. I’ve been thinking I should go this year. I was out to my parents and they were OK with it, but I was afraid to tell them until I was in my 30’s. When you out yourself to someone, you sometimes have to go into it thinking that this may be the last time you ever see them…
When you’re alone pic.twitter.com/Rl1xXWH2iw
— Jesus Chrysler (@JesusChrysler15) June 15, 2019
Bernie speech-writer thinks a speech he wrote was the most profound since the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
What a narcissistic lunatic. pic.twitter.com/2yiXIcSEKq— Alex Katz 🙈 (@Alex__Katz) June 16, 2019
How did we miss this?? Mitch McConnell’s Ties to Russian Oil Money by @TheDemCoalition https://t.co/xKiY3F8fP9
— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) June 16, 2019
re: #124 jaunte
I can’t imagine abandoning your own child like that.
When my grade school-to-high school best friend’s older brother came out in 1975, the mother said to her daughter, ‘Before this, I never understood abandoning your own child. Now I do.’ But she didn’t, she became supportive of her son, and so did my friend, his sister. Not immediately, though.
re: #127 stpaulbear
Shit. I started crying even before I clicked into the story. I haven’t been to Twin City Pride for about 10 years. I’ve been thinking I should go this year. I was out to my parents and they were OK with it, but I was afraid to tell them until I was in my 30’s. When you out yourself to someone, you sometimes have to go into it thinking that this may be the last time you ever see them…
Panhandle Pride here in Nebraska is holding its “parade” (a potluck lunch) on July 27.
Maybe I should go to it with one of those “dad hugs” shirts.
re: #124 jaunte
I can’t imagine abandoning your own child like that.
There were multiple instances when I was a teen of parents throwing their gay and lesbian kids out of their homes and cutting them off. Also if a white girl got pregnant by a black boy. The town gossips would pass that around like wildfire.
As for me, Mom and Dad stood by me when I fell in love with a black girl. But the rest of my family didn’t so I know what it’s like to be disowned. You wind up building a life of your own and move on…
Protesters Want to Fly Baby Trump Balloon During the President’s Fourth of July Address in Washington (goes to the Washington Post)
Women, it’s leadership time.
Stop hiding. Stop questioning if you’re good enough. Stop worrying about outcome.
Be bold. Own what you know. Go for your dreams.
These fucktards have no conscience. Stop shirking your power.
Step up your game.
We’ve got a planet to save.— Kelly Carlin (@kelly_carlin) May 29, 2019
re: #105 Interesting Times
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I don’t buy for one hot minute that impeachment will “help” trump. It will give him nothing he isn’t getting already (shovelfuls of cash from GOP dark-money donors, frothing base) and can only damage him the more evidence comes out.
That is especially true if they do more than just the obstruction of justice issues. If they tack on emoluments and abuse of power/office with things like declaring national emergencies where none exist.
#MostUnderratedBeatlesSong While My Guitar Gently Weeps. It inspired my novel, so I’m biased. https://t.co/xFrBnApVs3 Plus @GeorgeHarrison was a genius.
— yntbe (@yntbe) June 16, 2019
re: #137 I Would Prefer Not To
I’m not sure there’s actually a Beatles song I don’t like, so I’m not sure if I could even answer that question.
re: #138 KGxvi
I’m not sure there’s actually a Beatles song I don’t like, so I’m not sure if I could even answer that question.
Octopus Garden? But yeah, the Beatles wrote tons of excellent songs.
Happy Father’s Day everyone!
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re: #102 Anymouse 🌹
One of the gaslighting techniques of conservatives is to claim “you can’t call someone a Nazi unless they belonged to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party in the Thirties and Forties.”
Nazi ideology was here before WW2 of course. It never went away.
It doesn’t make my hair stand on end. Like it or not, this has been a part of the USA since the middle of the XX Century.
Longer than that.
No one should be shocked at Trump admitting it’s ok for Russia to interfere in our elections. Trump has colluded w/ the Russians for years & YES they helped him get elected. I told you so. I insist Trump must be impeached. Finally, more Dems calling for an impeachment inquiry.
— Maxine Waters (@RepMaxineWaters) June 15, 2019
re: #140 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
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Tool….. and not the Band
Future career….
Apology accepted. I wish you the best with your new album and future career. https://t.co/arvwi4eP3x
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) June 16, 2019
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹
Also, your comments apply to the Trumpers, who I find really can’t stand it when I correct their (false and idiotic) memes on Facebook.
They would rather ignore reality than anything else. And anyone who wants to challenge them is immediately threatened, because, well, I guess I’m threatening.
re: #137 I Would Prefer Not To
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I don’t think any Beatles songs are underrated. All their albums went to #1 and we’re still worshiping them 50 years since their last album came out.
One Beatle fact that surprises me was that the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane 45 stalled out at #2 on the charts. It’s certainly not underrated now, but it was a bit too much for a lot of the teen fans buying 45s at the time.
I’ve Got A Feeling might be an underrated song from the Let It Be album. That album was seen as kind of a swan song after Abbey Road.
Somebody needs lots of cars to haul building supplies:
Centerbeams are cars designed for carrying bundled building supplies including dimensional lumber, wallboard, and fence posts. They are essentially bulkhead flatcars that have been reinforced by a longitudinal I-beam truss down the center of the railcar. Along with adding strength to the railcar, the center truss helps protect cargo from damage caused by loads moving during transit. Due to their design, the railcars must be loaded symmetrically, with half of the payload on one side of the partition and half on the other.
I want to emphasize:
NONE of these events HAVE to occur at Trump properties.
Trump doesn’t HAVE to golf at his own courses.
His campaign doesn’t HAVE to rent offices at his property.
Nobody is FORCING him to visit Mar a Lago.
Other venues are available.
It’s all a grift. https://t.co/nUMpa1HdXk— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) June 15, 2019
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹
My dad is gone now, but had I come out to him, he would’ve disowned me. No question. My mother is more pinko than I am, and I think she would be OK with it, but it’s just not something that’s probably ever going to happen. Most of the rest of my family and friends know.
re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Oh for fuck’s sake.
re: #145 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Also, your comments apply to the Trumpers, who I find really can’t stand it when I correct their (false and idiotic) memes on Facebook.
They would rather ignore reality than anything else. And anyone who wants to challenge them is immediately threatened, because, well, I guess I’m threatening.
Well, you are a Love-Child /s
(2:37, did you appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show?”)
re: #116 jaunte
I wonder how long it will take Texas to come around.
I think bills were proposed in the last couple of sessions. I think they will soonish, they just have to figure out how to get the revenue without giving up incarcerating and killing black people.
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Intruder Barricades Himself in Closet of Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s Campaign Office: NYPD (NBC, Channel 4, New York City)
An intruder broke into Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez campaign office in Jackson Heights on Saturday and barricaded himself in a closet, police said.
The NYPD said the person was emotionally disturbed and not related to the congresswoman.
“It appears to have been a coincidence that this happened in our building,” said Corbin Trent, spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez. “We are glad that it was resolved peacefully.”
The man held up a fire extinguisher, then locked himself in a janitor’s closet, police said.
Snopes has tracked the source of the made-up quote by HM Queen Elizabeth about Trump being some sort of wonderful person.
You’ll be unsurprised to learn it came from 4chan, then was propagated by right-wing blogs, then by Trump himself, then to the big leagues at FOX.
Photoshop of another photoshop over at Wonkette (programming note: is it possible to embed a Disqus image here?)
Why Dad Was Never Again Allowed to Be in Charge of Playtime
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re: #152 Belafon
Executive Order to decriminalize and removal from the class 1 narcotics list, a month before the election.
LOL, from the Webcomic “Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal”:
re: #137 I Would Prefer Not To
Here’s my favourite version of that song. It’s a cover but features guitar and backing vocals from Harrison himself:
The city of Durham, North Carolina, became especially notable as a focus for action against segregated restaurants and hotels, including Howard Johnson’s. On 12 August 1962, attorney and civil rights activist Floyd McKissick initiated the first of multiple rallies and demonstrations against segregated establishments in Durham, including the Howard Johnson’s restaurant on Chapel Hill Boulevard,[17] culminating in multiple protests on 18-20 May 1963 resulting in mass arrests as well as an eventual rapprochement with the city government. Future senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, while a student at the University of Chicago in 1962, helped organize a picket of a Howard Johnson’s location in Cicero, Illinois, during his time as a student activist for CORE.
re: #152 Belafon
Marijuana decriminalisation failed to make the 2018 ballot in Nebraska. The effort is on for 2020.
Currently the penalty here is a misdemeanour for possession of one ounce or less, subject to a maximum $300 fine and a judge may (but is not required to) order a drug education course.
I always get a little frumpy around Father’s Day. I never expected to be almost 38 and not have kids (sidenote: fuck infertility). I do have some kids in my life that are important to me but it’s not the same as being a dad, you know?
I do have a great relationship with my old man though so at least there’s that.
Still, what I wouldn’t give to have one of my own…
This essay is f.l.a.w.e.d.
Tries to explain why #Impeachment is unwise. But KEY premise is wrong.
1. How key?
Author calls it “the biggest lesson of the Clinton impeachment.”
2. How wrong?
Author says public approval for Clinton was 35%. That was his DISAPPROVAL percentage! pic.twitter.com/BAQ9hZwYbc— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) June 15, 2019
re: #146 stpaulbear
I don’t think any Beatles songs are underrated. All their albums went to #1 and we’re still worshiping them 50 years since their last album came out.
One Beatle fact that surprises me was that the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane 45 stalled out at #2 on the charts. It’s certainly not underrated now, but it was a bit too much for a lot of the teen fans buying 45s at the time.
I’ve Got A Feeling might be an underrated song from the Let It Be album. That album was seen as kind of a swan song after Abbey Road.
I love “I’ve Got a Feeling”, it’s my favorite song on Let it Be. Dig a Pony is another good one on that album, overlooked.
Of course the problem with finding underrated Beatles songs is most of them are highly rated…
I have the perception that many people think Martha My Dear is a silly throwaway; but I think it’s amazing, one of Paul’s finest pop songs with a great arrangement to boot.
Amen. pic.twitter.com/0vwohBPomP
— Steve Schale (@steveschale) June 16, 2019
Sunday is Father’s Day (regrettably I am estranged from my son).
Monday is my VA tests for every female hormone which can be tested for (other than a pregnancy test).
“We’re sorry Mr. Anymouse, you’re really a woman.” /s
re: #146 stpaulbear
I don’t think any Beatles songs are underrated. All their albums went to #1 and we’re still worshiping them 50 years since their last album came out.
One Beatle fact that surprises me was that the Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane 45 stalled out at #2 on the charts. It’s certainly not underrated now, but it was a bit too much for a lot of the teen fans buying 45s at the time.
I’ve Got A Feeling might be an underrated song from the Let It Be album. That album was seen as kind of a swan song after Abbey Road.
A Wild Fact I Saw on Twitter: All of the Beatles-as-phenomenon from the debut record to the last concert on the roof took place in just six years.
Just got up to speed on the shitshow in Phoenix with the cops threatening to basically execute a family over a fucking dollar store doll.
What a mess. This shit is why I get angry with people who are like “You have to thank cops for their service” every time one comes with half a mile of you.
I always felt “Hey, Bulldog” is an underrated song, but it seems to have picked great appreciation over the years.
re: #164 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
And why should we believe a writer (even if he didn’t lie about the approval ratings of Bill Clinton) who has made a cottage industry attacking Bill Clinton, ever since Clinton was President?
re: #146 stpaulbear
Rather, I’d say after about Rubber Soul/ Revolver timeframe, they went downhill. Certainly a lot of interesting experiments are there, but the clean pure pop of the early albums I enjoy more. YMMV and all that.
re: #172 William Lewis
Rather, I’d say after about Rubber Soul/ Revolver timeframe, they went downhill. Certainly a lot of interesting experiments are there, but the clean pure pop of the early albums I enjoy more. YMMV and all that.
LOL, yes. Yes, it will.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m horrified how calm we are about this child abuse. It’s as if we’re too exhausted to even march. Democrats in the House need to haul the DHS Acting Secretary for questioning. Enough is enough.
re: #175 Patricia Kayden
I’m horrified how calm we are about this child abuse. It’s as if we’re too exhausted to even march. Democrats in the House need to haul the DHS Acting Secretary for questioning. Enough is enough.
They have, and really blew his hair back. Nothing happened!
The whole edifice has to come down.
This harkens back to the worst days of the pre-Iraq buildup tying Saddam to 9/11. Inexcusable for Pompeo to do this without any evidence. https://t.co/4u340FtgzO
— Ilan Goldenberg (@ilangoldenberg) June 15, 2019
re: #176 retired cynic
They have, and really blew his hair back. Nothing happened!
The whole edifice has to come down.
One chamber of Congress is very limited in what they can do without cooperation of the other one. It’s going to need a lot of citizens to back it.
re: #176 retired cynic
That’s depressing to hear. At least there was outrage when the Abu Ghraib photos were released. Feels like there is not much of an outcry about the mistreatment of migrant children.
Current mood: pic.twitter.com/YoeVziVsjR
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) June 16, 2019
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
That’s depressing to hear. At least there was outrage when the Abu Ghraib photos were released. Feels like there is not much of an outcry about the mistreatment of migrant children.
This is what makes me even angrier. The right doesn’t give a fuck and they call you “triggered” when you get upset about kiddie concentration camps.
After a 4-year-old took doll from store, video shows Phoenix police pulling gun on parents https://t.co/O5MM5qd1po
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 15, 2019
No wonder conservatives support the human rights violations of migrant babies, when they also support civil rights violations of American black babies.
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
That’s depressing to hear. At least there was outrage when the Abu Ghraib photos were released. Feels like there is not much of an outcry about the mistreatment of migrant children.
Conservatives have been demonising migrants all my life. There has never been a time when they have not. It goes all the way back to the Know-Nothing Party (which can directly trace to today’s conservatives).
They do not believe that migrants have rights under the Constitution (never mind the Constitution references people rather than citizens).
It is why they want a citizenship question in the Census. It is why they caterwaul about “sanctuary cities.” They literally do not view migrants as people, and never have.
A significant portion of conservatives would welcome ethnic cleansing (and say as much on social media).
Regarding the oil tankers hit in the Gulf of Oman and the growing risks of a US-Iran war, this quote from @AliVaez is spot on 👇. https://t.co/qSc3w4t7B7 pic.twitter.com/aR1CnzITBl
— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) June 13, 2019
Important thread on Iran and Trump’s strategic incoherence by @brett_mcgurk, a long-time Middle East hand, NSC official, and senior diplomat for Bush, Obama, and Trump.
Read it and weep 👇 https://t.co/uUEB5paMj9— Colin Kahl (@ColinKahl) June 14, 2019
re: #179 Patricia Kayden
That’s depressing to hear. At least there was outrage when the Abu Ghraib photos were released. Feels like there is not much of an outcry about the mistreatment of migrant children.
How many conservatives were outraged? The number is likely a rounding error close to zero.
re: #182 DodgerFan1988
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I’ve seen the video.
Easily a half-dozen cops over-aggressively responding to a shoplifting call.
I’ve seen more calm, low key single officer responses to about a dozen fast food joint armed robbery alarm calls on LivePD in the last month
Steven Anderson is a wingnut Baptist preacher who has called for executing LGBT+ people and liberals.
(No church denomination has condemned his rhetoric.)
He created a new Baptist church organisation which supports his views, and more churches are joining it.
Telltale is a former Jehovah’s Witness member disowned by his family when he came out as an atheist. He assesses religious groups using the so-called BITE model (a scoring system used to determine if a religious group or leader is a cult).
His video assessing Steven Anderson’s organisation is worth viewing. (Mr. Anderson broke off from another Baptist organisation.)
Video, 19:46. It’s worth the commitment of a third of an hour to watch.
Again, no church, none, has called out his hateful rhetoric calling for executions of LGBT+, liberals, &c. Individual Christians will, but no church. (Silence is assent.)
He is proud of being banned from many countries for his speech.
A brief story from the world of international finance that didn’t get a lot of attention, especially with tensions between Turkey and the US over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian air-defense system.
Moody’s cut Turkey’s sovereign credit rating deeper into “junk” territory on Friday, saying the risk of a balance of payments crisis continued to rise, and with it the risk of a government default.
Moody’s downgraded the rating to B1 from Ba3 and maintained a negative outlook. It cut the rating to Ba3 from Ba2 in August last year.
This hits Turkey’s already tottering economy even harder, because if the rating is in the “speculative” zone, large institutional investors, things like pension funds, cannot invest in the country’s bonds.
re: #188 Dr Lizardo
A brief story from the world of international finance that didn’t get a lot of attention, especially with tensions between Turkey and the US over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian air-defense system.
This hits Turkey’s already tottering economy even harder, because if the rating is in the “speculative” zone, large institutional investors, things like pension funds, cannot invest in the country’s bonds.
Hmm, Turkey is run by religious conservatives. Surprised I am not that conservatism fails in economics in every country where it is applied.
re: #169 Mattand
Just got up to speed on the shitshow in Phoenix with the cops threatening to basically execute a family over a fucking dollar store doll.
What a mess. This shit is why I get angry with people who are like “You have to thank cops for their service” every time one comes with half a mile of you.
I don’t know if this got posted here, but this is from one of our local TV stations and points out that the police report doesn’t even begin to match what the bystanders recorded on their phones.
My brother, who is generally pro-police (or at least not as suspicious I am as to law enforcement motives), was fairly disgusted about this incident. We also had a discussion about how the Mesa PD rank and file voted 95 percent “no confidence” in the chief because the chief wants them to stop beating up on detained persons. The chief doesn’t have their back. *growl*
Black people are a minority here in Maricopa County at around five percent of the population (215,000 out of 4.4 million). By contrast, nearly a third of the county is either Hispanic or Latino, or to put it a different way, a quarter of the county is of Mexican heritage, with a good minority of hispanohablantes (Spanish speakers) from elsewhere. We all know about former Sheriff Joe and his thing about oppressing brown people, but the cops also have it out for black people as well. (I would also suspect that they hold bigoted thoughts about our Native population, too.)
As for “Martha My Dear,” it’s definitely worth a listen. Such a lovely song, it’s timeless.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹
Hmm, Turkey is run by religious conservatives. Surprised I am not that conservatism fails in economics in every country where it is applied.
Conservative in terms of religious practices — but is that at all relevant in terms of their economic policies?
re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter
Conservative in terms of religious practices — but is that at all relevant in terms of their economic policies?
They are conservative in political outlook as well. The AKP is formed in the tradition of Ottoman Empire conservatives.
re: #164 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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I came to the conclusion yesterday that impeachment is never going to happen. With the glacial pace that things are moving in the House, the idea that they’ll even commence impeachment hearings before fall arrives is farfetched. And the fall and winter look set to see back-to-back “crises” (debt ceiling & sequestration) manufactured by Repubs looking to boost their chances next year by looking “tough” via threatening to default on the nation’s debts unless the Dems knuckle under to cuts to domestic spending (perhaps even the usual demands for “entitlement reform”).
So we get into next spring and the party leadership will not hear anything of impeachment because…well, it would take away from the attention on the primaries. The summer? Spooling up for the convention and that final push in the fall, when we need to unify behind our nominee and give them our full support. Nancy does have a plan…and the plan is the same as it is every 2 years: Run down the clock until the next election.
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹
Steven Anderson is a wingnut Baptist preacher who has called for executing LGBT+ people and liberals.
(No church denomination has condemned his rhetoric.)
He created a new Baptist church organisation which supports his views, and more churches are joining it.
Telltale is a former Jehovah’s Witness member disowned by his family when he came out as an atheist. He assesses religious groups using the so-called BITE model (a scoring system used to determine if a religious group or leader is a cult).
His video assessing Steven Anderson’s organisation is worth viewing. (Mr. Anderson broke off from another Baptist organisation.)
Video, 19:46. It’s worth the commitment of a third of an hour to watch.
Again, no church, none, has called out his hateful rhetoric calling for executions of LGBT+, liberals, &c. Individual Christians will, but no church. (Silence is assent.)
He is proud of being banned from many countries for his speech.
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Anderson is an Independent Fundamental Baptist. It’s not a denomination, and each church tends to group itself around the colleges that their preachers went to. So there’s a Hyles-Anderson faction, a Golden State faction, etc. The IFB church near my house is aligned with Faith Baptist Bible College and Seminary, for example.
Anderson went to Hyles-Anderson (not a relation) College for a couple of years but broke away because he didn’t agree with some of Jack Hyles and Jack Schaap’s doctrines. (Schaap is currently cooling his heels in a federal prison after being convicted of violating the Mann Act.) He started “Faithful Word Baptist Church” over in Tempe over a decade ago and first came to everyone’s attention when one of FWBC’s members wanted to carry a firearm into an Obama event in 2009.
This “New IFB” is closer to being more of a denomination headed up by Anderson than being a grouping of Independent Fundamental Baptist churches. A lot of the men running NIFB churches are products of either training under Anderson or under one of his chief acolytes, like Roger Jimenez of Sacramento. The pastors I’ve watched all seem to share Anderson’s penchant for screaming at people while preaching.
Other things they share that are NOT your standard IFB fare: they’re seriously anti-semitic and they don’t believe in a pre-Tribulation Rapture. Either of those will get you kicked out of any loose IFB association. Less surprising is their vocal anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion and anti-feminism stands. I remember watching an Anderson sermon where he told the women he’d better not hear them saying “Amen,” because that was only for the men.
I honestly don’t know how long this “The New IFB” is going to last. Anderson is a hothead and if you cross him or disagree with him on something that is a precious doctrine to him, he will kick you out. He gave notorious young earth creationist and convicted sovereign citizen Kent Hovind the left foot of fellowship after the latter divorced his first wife in early 2016.
A friend of mine asked me the other day if I would go to Faithful Word with him and film while he taunted Anderson. I told him “absolutely not—they pack heat.” The other reason is I visited there once (because Hovind was there) so I’m a known quantity. But seriously, y’all know I picket churches. The only way I will go near FWBC is if I am wearing body armor and with police protection. That’s how much these people unnerve me.
As for other churches speaking out against them, frankly, I kind of understand them not wanting to give this blowhard any more attention than he’s already getting. What HAS bugged me about this week’s coverage is the press has not linked up Anderson with Grayson Fitts, the former detective in Knoxville and pastor of “All Scripture Baptist Church”, and Patrick Boyle of the Orlando church that’s sponsoring the “Make America Straight Again” conference. They’re all part of the New IFB.
My personal opinion? The New IFB is a cult of personality, with Anderson at the head. And each one of those churches are part of what I call “little cults everywhere,” high control organizations of a religious nature. They’re a scary bunch.
re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth
This fawn mistook a practice target for their mother. My heart just hurts.
When did we lose our way?
In our part of the world, deer have to be culled as they are a blight on the landscape and destroy forests. But the hunting is not done during the breeding and fawning season
re: #194 mmmirele
The problem with not calling them out (that is, other churches) is the same problem with the claim you should not call out crackpots.
The point of calling them out (not an individual, but a church organisation) is as a vaccination, so others who might not have heard the NIFB’s ideas are inoculated against them.
If churches are claiming this or that group is “no true Christians (tm)” then those groups should be calling it out.
In the meantime, the NIFB grows.
re: #38 Ace-o-aces
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if the Mayor of London was a white guy, you wouldn’t be making such a big deal about this.
It has more to do with critical statements the mayor made, but the fact that they came from a dark-skinned fellow with an Asiatic-sounding name does not help…
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In our part of the world, deer have to be culled as they are a blight on the landscape and destroy forests. But the hunting is not done during the breeding and fawning season
“Blight on the landscape?”
Deer in the USA are hunted primarily because their natural predators have been wiped out, coupled with agriculture providing much more food stock for them.
Here the big hunting seasons are for deer, elk, antelope, and Canada geese.
re: #196 Anymouse 🌹
Well, I plan to ask the bloodthirsty wannabe killers of women who get abortions tomorrow what they think about LGBTQ people. I suspect I’m going to find out that they’re just as hateful as the NIFB, but that they’ve chosen to concentrate their ire on women who have abortions.
I’m also going to ask if they think Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) should be executed because she had a willing, voluntary abortion. Rep. Jayapal wrote about her abortion earlier this week in the NYTimes. The answer to that one is yes, I just want to get them on video admitting it.
re: #198 Anymouse 🌹
“Blight on the landscape?”
Deer in the USA are hunted primarily because their natural predators have been wiped out, coupled with agriculture providing much more food stock for them.
Yes, for the same reason, no natural predators and they overbreed. Canada geese have also become an invasive species in Germany and are hunted as well.
re: #199 mmmirele
If you get that video, putting it up on YouTube would be good.
Yay. The National Weather Service ordered a smiting by severe thunderstorms starting in the morning, through Tuesday.
re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you smote it!
Or smited it. Or it was smitten.
I just closed up the windows in anticipation of being smitten by the Weather Service.
By the way, we found a new air conditioner on our porch this morning. (Actually, my wife bought one on-line to replace our air conditioner which was smitten by hail last year and destroyed.)
This thing is a lot heavier than our old one. I’m (dammit, my computer switched to a Portuguese keyboard and an apostrophe became a tilde) going to have to get one of my neighbours to help me install it.
smote
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹
Or smited it. Or it was smitten.
I just closed up the windows in anticipation of being smitten by the Weather Service.
By the way, we found a new air conditioner on our porch this morning. (Actually, my wife bought one on-line to replace our air conditioner which was smitten by hail last year and destroyed.)
This thing is a lot heavier than our old one. I’m (dammit, my computer switched to a Portuguese keyboard and an apostrophe became a tilde) going to have to get one of my neighbours to help me install it.
our lives continue to parallel, I get a new (used) washing machine tomorrow to replace the one that smote itself.
Must also recruit neighbo(u)r to assist in installation.
re: #209 Anymouse 🌹
So the National Weather Service smote my air conditioner last year, and in the future continuous conjugation, “will be smiting” us for the next several days.
Yes, and by next week you will have been smitten repeatedly.
re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, and by next week you will have been smitten repeatedly.
And to all this, my wife asked “well what about the pluperfect form of smite.”
She’s behind the times, since pluperfect is now called “past perfect” (happened in the past, already completed).
So our air conditioner (already destroyed) “was smitten.”
re: #211 Anymouse 🌹
I could also say “it was smit.”
“To dismiss his role as “Tariff Man” as simple protectionism misses the point. For Trump, trade is essential to his message of grievance politics in a White House that deploys the language of an insurgent opposition movement.” https://t.co/2QruL8NOxZ
— CSIS (@CSIS) June 15, 2019
Dmitry Adamsky discusses theocratization of Russia’s military and foreign policy establishment:https://t.co/ZrRCwNJa7q
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) June 16, 2019
Why is the House not passing resolutions disapproving of Trump taking emoluments?
— David Waldman-1, LLC™ (@KagroX) June 15, 2019
re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you are a smut smiter?
I smite grammar errors in smut.
I guess you could say I’m smitten by smut.
re: #219 Dread Pirate
Dmitry Adamsky discusses theocratization of Russia’s military and foreign policy establishment
You also see why Putin is such a hero to our Fundamenalist Christians: autocratic, oligarchic and theocratic. Only thing they would disagree on is that they prefer Fundamentalist Protestantism over Russian Orthodoxy.
‘Morning all.
Been spending a good bit of time on reddit, doing a freestyle ethnology of the rising generation. These are the people we’re relying on to save civilization. Sort of makes me want to ban the Internet. And computers. And moveable type.
re: #223 Decatur Deb
‘Morning all.
Been spending a good bit of time on reddit, doing a freestyle ethnology of the rising generation. These are the people we’re relying on to save civilization. Sort of makes me want to ban the Internet. And computers. And moveable type.
If we’re having to rely on Reddit neckbeards, gamers and edgelords, all I can say is, civilization’s had a good run.
Mad Max dystopia, here we come!
re: #224 Dr Lizardo
Been looking around for the Bright Young Things. I think /r/frontpage might be it for us.
re: #225 Decatur Deb
Been looking around for the Bright Young Things. I think /r/frontpage might be it for us.
Pretty much. There’s some interesting communities, to be sure, like r/UnresolvedMysteries and whatnot, but there’s a lot of crap too.
re: #226 Dr Lizardo
Pretty much. There’s some interesting communities, to be sure, like r/UnresolvedMysteries and whatnot, but there’s a lot of crap too.
It’s the simple power of the tools. We’ve discovered a live grenade in our crib and dropped the pin to the floor.
A solid read on Right Wing ‘accelerationism’ from the @ADL - and what it means on and offline:https://t.co/inMofS1tRt
— Nicole Matejic (@NicoleMatejic) June 16, 2019
re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
You also see why Putin is such a hero to our Fundamenalist Christians: autocratic, oligarchic and theocratic. Only thing they would disagree on is that they prefer Fundamentalist Protestantism over Russian Orthodoxy.
YouTuber Prophet of Zod (a former politically-conservative Christian, now a politically-liberal atheist) discusses that in a video about the brohaha over the “Arthur” episode that Christians hounded off the air on PBS in Alabama (and it wasn’t just fundamentalists, but Christians from across the spectrum of their faith).
The clip in question is roughly ten seconds out of the whole show.
The video is titled “Do Christians want Tolerance or Dominance”
He notes that in the PBS episode in question, the children of Mr. Rathburn’s class first think he is marrying a rather severe woman, but in the episode it turns out that she is his sister.
That led to his favourite comment from social media, that Alabama Christians were upset that Mr. Rathburn wasn’t marrying his sister.
re: #228 Teukka
A useful dive into that idea—and a useful definition of it, but there is nothing especially WS or RW about this apocalyptic hunger. As the article states, it rose from the Left, and is easy to find on Antifa/Black Bloc fringes. An answer that is about as bad or worse is the rebound of a truly frightened and violence-hugging Center. We do not want the 82ABN Division directing traffic in our towns.
re: #230 Decatur Deb
A useful dive into that idea—and a useful definition of it, but there is nothing especially WS or RW about this apocalyptic hunger. As the article states, it rose from the Left, and is easy to find on Antifa/Black Bloc fringes. An answer that is about as bad or worse is the rebound of a truly frightened and violence-hugging Center. We do not want the 82ABN Division directing traffic in our towns.
In a sense, it was also the idea promoted by Susan Sarandon. (Of course, she would not be a victim since she is wealthy enough to protect herself.)
re: #231 Anymouse 🌹
In a sense, it was also the idea promoted by Susan Sarandon. (Of course, she would not be a victim since she is wealthy enough to protect herself.)
Yeah—that would be the dilute Berniac distillation.
re: #219 Dread Pirate
Dmitry Adamsky discusses theocratization of Russia’s military and foreign policy establishment:trib.al
From the article,
In Russia, each of the three components of the nuclear force structure—air, land, and sea—has its own patron saint. Icons adorn the walls of the sanctified headquarters, the command posts, and even the nuclear weapons platforms.
Nice to see we’re getting Warhammer 40K ahead of schedule.
re: #233 ericblair
From the article,
Nice to see we’re getting Warhammer 40K ahead of schedule.
While I’m thinking of the 82nd Airborne:
re: #234 Decatur Deb
While I’m thinking of the 82nd Airborne:
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And Saint Elmo, patron of sailors (and by extension, the Navy).
re: #8 Anymouse 🌹
Someone needs to stuff his cell phone into a golf course hole and make him search for it. He is unhinged.
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No other leader on the planet has spoken of other countries senior politicians in this fashion. Unhinged ain’t the half of it.
As for twitter - anyone else bullying and abusing in this fashion would be permanently banned. The sooner this ridiculous form of communication goes bankrupt the better.
Nice to see you anymouse.
re: #235 Anymouse 🌹
And Saint Elmo, patron of sailors (and by extension, the Navy).
Used to celebrate St. Barbara’s Day with our (nuc) artillery units in SETAF.
re: #228 Teukka
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So the right wing is losing its grip on on the white patriarchal society and thus wants to burn it down? (The equivalent of taking their ball and going home, except at a civilization destroying level.)
re: #57 William Lewis
Part of the problem. The other part is that they have extremely tight gun control there so the fascist right makes a big deal about “knife crime”. And to be sure, the English police would have a conniption at my swords ;)
And trump is trying to pretend other countries have the mass killing issues we see in US cities every other day.
I lived in London for a short while. Felt safer there than anywhere else I have lived.
re: #240 Feline Fearless Leader
So the right wing is losing its grip on on the white patriarchal society and thus wants to burn it down? (The equivalent of taking their ball and going home, except at a civilization destroying level.)
Our intention is to disrupt the empire… to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks, to make it hard to carry out its bloody functioning against the people of the world, to join the world struggle to attack from the inside.
—Weatherman: Prairie Fire 1974
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
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They wouldn’t use regular enlists, they would use Blackwater (or whatever they are known as this week).
re: #195 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In our part of the world, deer have to be culled as they are a blight on the landscape and destroy forests. But the hunting is not done during the breeding and fawning season
DC-Metro (DMV) area it is the same, kinda. All natural predator have been eliminated and human habitation generates a huge amount of forest edge. Deer proliferate, then starve in the winter. They wander through my neighborhood in family groups with just about zero fear of human. And, they eat my Hostas and other plants.
re: #244 Colère Tueur de Lapin
DC-Metro (DMV) area it is the same, kinda. All natural predator have been eliminated and human habitation generates a huge amount of forest edge. Deer proliferate, then starve in the winter. They wander through my neighborhood in family groups with just about zero fear of human. And, they eat my Hostas and other plants.
During the season, Daughter1 sits in a tree stand with a laptop editing Other People’s Novels. When one of our small Alabama deer wanders into range, she kills it for her family. She is not a hunter, she is a predator.
re: #243 Eventual Carrion
They wouldn’t use regular enlists, they would use Blackwater (or whatever they are known as this week).
We are devolving to a feudal aristocracy with mercenaries with no allegiance but obey doing the fighting. No, we haven’t gone far down the path, but the whole idea of a standing army was to avoid mercs and militia. We’ll end up breaking up into smaller groups than the US unless there is a reunification of ideals. And, I don’t really see that coming, currently.
re: #245 Decatur Deb
During the season, Daughter1 sits in a tree stand with a laptop editing Other People’s Novels. When one of our small Alabama deer wanders into range, she kills it for her family. She is not a hunter, she is a predator.
You call it what it is. Tree stands are not hunting; stalking is hunting.
re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin
We are devolving to a feudal aristocracy with mercenaries with no allegiance but obey doing the fighting. No, we haven’t gone far down the path, but the whole idea of a standing army was to avoid mercs and militia. We’ll end up breaking up into smaller groups than the US unless there is a reunification of ideals. And, I don’t really see that coming, currently.
In 1968 our history class was taught by a quiet young instructor who said the darkest answer. We were all mucking about with black armbands, marches and sit-ins, and one of us directly challenged him: “Do you support the draft?”
Mr. T: “Yes. Never give the generals an Army they can trust.”
re: #247 Colère Tueur de Lapin
You call it what it is. Tree stands are not hunting; stalking is hunting.
Her husband decks out in camo and sprinkles himself with doe piss to gallumph through a different field. Her kill ratio is about 10:1.
re: #249 Decatur Deb
Her husband decks out in camo and sprinkles himself with doe piss to gallumph through a different field. Her kill ratio is about 10:1.
Deer are better stalkers than people. They’re also not evolved to be wary of creatures above them.
re: #234 Decatur Deb
While I’m thinking of the 82nd Airborne:
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Speaking of:
Saint Adrian of Nicomedia is the patron saint of arms dealers (for real).
re: #252 jeffreyw
Bring me a bucket!
re: #250 Colère Tueur de Lapin
Deer are better stalkers than people. They’re also not evolved to be wary of creatures above them.
Deer are running through our neighborhood. When the I-696 highway came through in the ‘80’s somebody thought it would be a good idea to create a “nature preserve” on the overpass. I am surprised that we don’t see more roadkill in the subdivision.
Exclusive: We found the youngest known child separated from his parents at the border under President Trump. He was only 4 months old. Meet him and his family in the next episode of #TheWeeklyNYT on @fxnetworks and @hulu. https://t.co/dybmMRxOtV
— The Weekly (@TheWeekly) June 14, 2019
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
Deer are running through our neighborhood. When the I-696 highway came through in the ‘80’s somebody thought it would be a good idea to create a “nature preserve” on the overpass. I am surprised that we don’t see more roadkill in the subdivision.
Mine, too. See them many mornings on our walk.
I see that four people were shot and killed in West Des Moines. Boy is that mayor going to get a nasty tweet from dear leader.
re: #257 Old Liberal
I see that four people were shot and killed in West Des Moines. Boy is that mayor going to get a nasty tweet from dear leader.
Only if he’s not Republican. If he’s Republican, carry on.
re: #258 MsJ
Only if he’s not Republican. If he’s Republican, carry on.
At least they weren’t stabbed.
JFC this fucker really wants to be “President For Life” and all the pathetic Trumporrhoids think it’s so great that he’s “triggering the Libs”
…..news is that at the end of 6 years, after America has been made GREAT again and I leave the beautiful White House (do you think the people would demand that I stay longer? KEEP AMERICA GREAT), both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of business & be forever gone!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
This doesn’t pass the smell test. Another “innocent cop” victimized. Glad the police investigate the police. //
re: #262 Eventual Carrion
So basically reviving Charlie Manson’s plan
Or William Pierce’s. Or a hybrid of them both.
Dotard’s definition of “The Truth” is “Flattering Stuff About Me That I Want To Hear” not “Facts That Can Be Proven”
WATCH: Trump on 2020 polling he doesn’t like: “”I like the truth. I’m actually a very honest guy.” https://t.co/mM183lRitj pic.twitter.com/hSH39bZiwF
— The Hill (@thehill) June 16, 2019
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
Honest? Just from the load of that comment I will need a backhoe to clear the mess.
re: #147 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Somebody needs lots of cars to haul building supplies:
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Thanks for that.
From an old railroader
re: #228 Teukka
These are dangerous people. The police should be investigating and arresting these people before they can kill innocent people. And it won’t only be religious and racial minorities who will be killed.
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
He’s not triggering me. I’m pretty confident that if the voters come out in mass in November 2020 like they did for the midterms, Republicans can’t steal that election. He barely won the last time around despite the Russian interference.
re: #264 The Vicious Babushka
He’s honest in the same way Manson was non-violent.
re: #260 The Vicious Babushka
JFC this fucker really wants to be “President For Life” and all the pathetic Trumporrhoids think it’s so great that he’s “triggering the Libs”
Nothing is stopping this waste of skin to file suits against those media companies that he thinks are lying.
Someone should just tweet back to him “Then what’s stopping you from suing NYT and WaPo?”……
too subtle?
Happy Father’s day. Good to see that you have time to kill.
— yntbe (@yntbe) June 16, 2019
If Abu Ghraib happened today Trump would tweet pictures of himself with the soldiers who were responsible for the torture and the conservative media would continue to gush about how awesome he is.
re: #272 I Would Prefer Not To
too subtle?
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Man, there are some epic replies on that tweet.
Happy Fathers day to all you Dads out there.
Heh.
When You Ask a Photographer Friend to Babysit Your Cat…
Hit the link for the images.
re: #275 Rightwingconspirator
Beautiful cat. Those pictures are great.
My other fun Dad Fact is this email, which I feel compelled to occasionally repost, and which is far better than anything I’ve ever written https://t.co/AC1Czzoteo
— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) June 16, 2019
The Emperor’s new polls
— Hand & Leg Washer (@goddamnedfrank) June 16, 2019
re: #267 Patricia Kayden
These are dangerous people. The police should be investigating and arresting these people before they can kill innocent people. And it won’t only be religious and racial minorities who will be killed.
Pardon my cynicism, but hell will freeze over before law enforcement or even the intelligence community will get the cojones to even look into their activities…
Was actually home last evening and decided to watch “Bad Times At The El Royale”, a 2018 film about which I knew nothing. Spoilers below..
Given that it’s the 50th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca murders, this might not be surprising — but the film was a very bizarre surreal take on the Manson cult, with a guest appearance by an FBI agent working for Hoover. The violence was almost on par with a Quentin Tarantino film, but the public should be seeing the real thing later this summer.
re: #268 Patricia Kayden
He’s not triggering me. I’m pretty confident that if the voters come out in mass in November 2020 like they did for the midterms, Republicans can’t steal that election. He barely won the last time around despite the Russian interference.
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
—Joseph Stalin
When things seem screwed in a horribly new way, there is HST to offer consoling perspective:
“The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to get the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72
Seventy Fucking Two.
re: #275 Rightwingconspirator
Happy Fathers day to all you Dads out there.
Heh.
When You Ask a Photographer Friend to Babysit Your Cat…Hit the link for the images.
When I was cat sitting for my neighbors I took my camera over there and got some nice pictures of their cats since they had a nice large window that allowed very good light into the apartment.
This was one of them.
re: #272 I Would Prefer Not To
too subtle?
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I remember how all the Honeybaked Ham and Pioneer Chicken stores closed after their major investor/owner got away with murder…
re: #175 Patricia Kayden
I’m horrified how calm we are about this child abuse. It’s as if we’re too exhausted to even march. Democrats in the House need to haul the DHS Acting Secretary for questioning. Enough is enough.
Here is the problem, as I see it. In the past year 50000+ unaccompanied minors have come across the border(yeah, that problem hasn’t gone away it has just been overwhelmed by family units). They are minors so you can’t just give them a court appearance date and send them on their way, you have to either place them with a foster family or find a family member in the US to place them with and in the mean time you have to keep them in a group setting. These places don’t need to be shut down, they need independent oversight and/or congressional oversight.
The foster care system is already pretty overwhelmed in this country, I can’t imagine increasing the number of foster kids by 20%(most of whom may not speak english) can be easy.
There is no likely god, and Hunter Thompson is his prophet:
“It is difficult for the ordinary voter to come to grips with the notion that a truly evil man, a truthless monster with the brains of a king rat and the soul of a cockroach, is about to be sworn in as the president of the United States for the next four years… . And he will bring his gang in with him, a mean network of lawyers and salesmen and pimps who will loot the national treasury, warp the laws, mock the rules and stay awake 22 hours a day looking for at least one reason to declare war, officially, on some hapless tribe in the Sahara or heathen fanatic like the Ayatollah Khomeini.”
That was 1969.
Jesus answered Barron’s prayer. https://t.co/7mErF7NRld
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 16, 2019
More wildlife for the garden!!! After the four new moth species this morning, now a slow worm (Anguis fragilis) appeared when moving soil!!! pic.twitter.com/aQch6fqzlN
— Germán Orizaola (@GOrizaola) June 16, 2019
Looks like a Finless Land Fish to me.
The President suggesting his followers not respect an election if he loses (in addition to once again calling the press the enemy of the people) is a serious & impeachable offense. Can’t shrug these off @SpeakerPelosi. & shameless @HouseGOP @SenateGOP will remain silent.
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) June 16, 2019
he is such a horrible person
Happy Father’s Day to all, including my worst and most vicious critics, of which there are fewer and fewer. This is a FANTASTIC time to be an American! KEEP AMERICA GREAT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
re: #178 Belafon
One chamber of Congress is very limited in what they can do without cooperation of the other one. It’s going to need a lot of citizens to back it.
The system is built to foster consensus. But it really only works when the parties - and the people they represent - are willing to work towards any sort of consensus.
re: #293 KGxvi
The system is built to foster consensus. But it really only works when the parties - and the people they represent - are willing to work towards any sort of consensus.
100 times this. The GOP is not willing to work toward any type of consensus. They are corrupt to the core.
Russian TV siding with Iran over the oil tanker attacks; anchor accuses US of trying to provoke war, says the Gulf “is stuffed with US Tomahawks. The Americans have their finger on the trigger. All they needed was an excuse to start a war. An excuse has now been engineered.” pic.twitter.com/yJZl6Gw9p1
— Steve Rosenberg (@BBCSteveR) June 16, 2019
re: #288 Decatur Deb
There is no likely god, and Hunter Thompson is his prophet:
That was 1969.
Was the ayatollah a known entity in 1969? Wasn’t he in Paris?
Was j
re: #293 KGxvi
The system is built to foster consensus. But it really only works when the parties - and the people they represent - are willing to work towards any sort of consensus.
As John Cole put it, how do you go out to dinner with someone when you suggest Italian and they suggest anthrax and tire rims.
re: #282 sagehen
“It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”
—Joseph Stalin
Which is one of the reasons why we have observers when they tally votes, why we have auditing capabilities, and why we have exit polls.
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
I always get a little frumpy around Father’s Day. I never expected to be almost 38 and not have kids (sidenote: fuck infertility). I do have some kids in my life that are important to me but it’s not the same as being a dad, you know?
I do have a great relationship with my old man though so at least there’s that.
Still, what I wouldn’t give to have one of my own…
Husband and I never expected to be 42 & 43 when we had our one and only. Yeah, the infertility battle is a painful one that some of us don’t win. We were blessed, and still astonished and grateful for it.
Hugs and hopes for you.
re: #298 KGxvi
Which is one of the reasons why we have observers when they tally votes, why we have auditing capabilities, and why we have exit polls.
And how do you tally what people voted vs what the machines counted? It’s not like the old days when the polling place judges counted votes by hand or when there were simple mechanical voting machines. Once you have computers involved, there is always the opportunity for mischief or incompetent coding.
re: #296 Old Liberal
Was the ayatollah a known entity in 1969? Wasn’t he in Paris?
Was j
en.wikipedia.org
Khomeini spent more than 14 years in exile, mostly in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf. Initially, he was sent to Turkey on 4 November 1964 where he stayed in Bursa in the home of Colonel Ali Cetiner of the Turkish Military Intelligence. In October 1965, after less than a year, he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until 1978, when he was expelled by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein. By this time discontent with the Shah was becoming intense and Khomeini visited Neauphle-le-Château, a suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa on 6 October 1978.
O_o
In ABC interview, Trump claims “yes I did” read the Mueller report 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/T232VpxD9a
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 16, 2019
re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He read the pop-up book version of Barr’s summary of the report.
moron
.@GStephanopoulos: “If you answer these questions to me now, why not answer them to Robert Mueller under oath?”
Trump: “Because they were looking to get us for lies, for slight misstatements. I looked at what happened to people and it was very unfair” https://t.co/cW37doR77Z pic.twitter.com/d8YdHUgXcP— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019
re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Well that’s another lie to add to the daily tally — who on earth really believes he read even one page of the report?
re: #304 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The only morons are those who believe him. He knows exactly what he is doing — and he’s gotten away with it so far.
I can’t even imagine a scenario where the FBI would do this to a presidential candidate right before the election. Wait a minute… https://t.co/5s0xai9yHU
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) June 16, 2019
re: #301 sagehen
en.wikipedia.org
Khomeini spent more than 14 years in exile, mostly in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf. Initially, he was sent to Turkey on 4 November 1964 where he stayed in Bursa in the home of Colonel Ali Cetiner of the Turkish Military Intelligence. In October 1965, after less than a year, he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until 1978, when he was expelled by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein. By this time discontent with the Shah was becoming intense and Khomeini visited Neauphle-le-Château, a suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa on 6 October 1978.
Then indeed HS Thompson was a prophet.
Pompeo’s sales pitch is followed by @SenTomCotton, who unambiguously calls for “a retaliatory military strike against the Islamic Republic of Iran.” #DrumsOfWar pic.twitter.com/qx4sLaCojl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 16, 2019
Sadly we are breathing easier down here in South America. What horrific monsters are the powerful in america and their ignorant and violent sycophants.
The President has 5 kids.
He’s spending Father’s Day attacking the press and kissing his own ass.
re: #311 Eclectic Cyborg
The President has 4 kids.
He’s spending Father’s Day attacking the press and kissing his own ass.
5 kids. And none probably want to be with him.
re: #312 Hecuba’s daughter
5 kids.
Ah, yes. Apparently I pulled a Donald and forgot about Tiffany.
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re: #296 Old Liberal
Was the ayatollah a known entity in 1969? Wasn’t he in Paris?
Was j
He was stirring up the Thursday prayers for years via the daring new medium—cassette tapes.
Could the UN kick us out if we start yet another illegal war?
re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth
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— Stephanie (@thesesaul) June 16, 2019
We all need to practice screaming bullshit.
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
Could the UN kick us out if we start yet another illegal war?
No. And they wouldn’t want to, it would collapse the whole thing.
It’s up to us (as it always is).
re: #308 Old Liberal
Then indeed HS Thompson was a prophet.
I could be off by a decade, if the HST quote was directed at Reagan rather than Nixon. Sounds more like his opinion of RN, though.
re: #300 Hecuba’s daughter
And how do you tally what people voted vs what the machines counted? It’s not like the old days when the polling place judges counted votes by hand or when there were simple mechanical voting machines. Once you have computers involved, there is always the opportunity for mischief or incompetent coding.
Baper ballots. Can be recounted by hand if there’s a question.
re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg
I always get a little frumpy around Father’s Day. I never expected to be almost 38 and not have kids (sidenote: fuck infertility). I do have some kids in my life that are important to me but it’s not the same as being a dad, you know?
I do have a great relationship with my old man though so at least there’s that.
Still, what I wouldn’t give to have one of my own…
I’m ambivalent toward’s Father’s Day.
Posted a pic of my Dad who would be out marching in the streets to impeach Trump if he and Mom had not crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
On the other hand I was never able to get close to my son. Every time I tried I was turned away by his mother who told me repeatedly that I was merely a platinum AMEX card for her to draw cash out of. She is still one of the Pulpit Pimps working for Trinity Broadcasting and she indoctrinated my son into Right Wing Jesus shtick. So he went into the Marines to kill those “Sand N-Words” in Iraq and he wound up killed.
And his mother flaunts that he died for Jesus…
So today I go to the gym and then go for a meal to get my mind ready for work tomorrow.
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
Could the UN kick us out if we start yet another illegal war?
They could certainly ask the Security Council to vote on it. We know how that’d go.
🐑 @ABQpolice were on a special mission at the @ABQsunport today: https://t.co/eLhg9G2hj8
— KOB 4 (@KOB4) June 16, 2019
re: #320 A hollow voice says, Inpeach…
I can only answer for Philadelphia and how the votes are counted. The machines we have use a cash register type of roll of paper to print out the results of the day’s vote. There is also a black cartridge that is rushed to voting headquarters by the police. So from one machine there are two registers of the vote. There is also the record books where the Minority Inspector (me for the 53-11) writes in the names of those who voted. There is also the book that the clerk asks those who are voting in person to sign. Absentee and Provisional ballots are counted by hand at voting headquarters. So just from one division there are several records of who voted. So if someone “plays around with the computers” there are paper backups.
In New York, we have paper ballots with optical scan bubbles, so a hand recount is possible if anybody questions the computer tally.
Paper records can have errors too. It’s not always a given that the computer is wrong.
re: #322 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m ambivalent toward’s Father’s Day.
Posted a pic of my Dad who would be out marching in the streets to impeach Trump if he and Mom had not crossed the Rainbow Bridge.
On the other hand I was never able to get close to my son. Every time I tried I was turned away by his mother who told me repeatedly that I was merely a platinum AMEX card for her to draw cash out of. She is still one of the Pulpit Pimps working for Trinity Broadcasting and she indoctrinated my son into Right Wing Jesus shtick. So he went into the Marines to kill those “Sand N-Words” in Iraq and he wound up killed.
And his mother flaunts that he died for Jesus…
So today I go to the gym and then go for a meal to get my mind ready for work tomorrow.
My son always waits until late to message me so he can avoid talking. Don’t know why, my daughters are close to me. But as long as he is happy, I’ll play whatever role however he wants it. He doesn’t owe me anything is how I look at it.
re: #326 sagehen
In New York, we have paper ballots with optical scan bubbles, so a hand recount is possible if anybody questions the computer tally.
Same here in Illinois. At least, my area of it!
I was just thinking about Trumps “anyone but me” comment.
Do you think Russia might actually crash our economy if he lost?
re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg
I was just thinking about Trumps “anyone but me” comment.
Do you think Russia might actually crash our economy if he lost?
I think people are getting carried away with Russia’s actual capabilities. We do minimal trade with Russia, We have more than 10 times Russia’s GDP. If Russia tried some sort of cyber attack to mess with our markets we could bury them and Putin is already losing popularity in Russia.
re: #329 retired cynic
Same here in Illinois. At least, my area of it!
My area of Illinois is machine but with paper backup so you can verify what you selected, though no guarantee that vote is registered properly but a paper recount is possible. That’s not true in all states; some have no such paper backup.
re: #330 Eclectic Cyborg
I was just thinking about Trumps “anyone but me” comment.
Do you think Russia might actually crash our economy if he lost?
What makes you think they won’t crash it while he’s in office? They probably are encouraging his tariff policy that is leading to lost markets, perhaps permanently lost markets. Putin’s goal is to restore Russia’s lost glory (though its ultimate result is to accelerate China’s grab at power) and he doesn’t care how much damage he inflicts throughout the world.
re: #325 PhillyPretzel
We sign in and are handed a giant, machine-readable card (sometimes two — we’re initiative-happy). We use a pen to fill in little arrows to point to what we’re voting for. So we too have a paper backup.
re: #319 Decatur Deb
I could be off by a decade, if the HST quote was directed at Reagan rather than Nixon. Sounds more like his opinion of RN, though.
The last sentence didn’t seem like Nixon — we were already involved in a massive war draining our resources and there was no reason to be considering conflict elsewhere.
The American people are being miserably failed by its media.
This tweet by the WaPo is simply atrocious. https://t.co/IsO6jAkLKs— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) June 16, 2019
re: #336 Patricia Kayden
“Donald Trump is facing an existential question: Whether or not to serve for a third term.”
love this absolute legend pic.twitter.com/X1lnwOfVkS
— general strike (@sedgjm) April 27, 2019
JUST IN: Israel renames Golan Heights settlement after President Trump https://t.co/R1mHpLnJaA pic.twitter.com/3HBYuNysgF
— The Hill (@thehill) June 16, 2019
re: #340 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Bibi will do anything to get Trump to go to war with Iran.
re: #340 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
Jesus Christ, I thought that was the Onion.
re: #342 The Vicious Babushka
שייס הויפן
My Google Translate suggests there may be a spelling error there.
“shift pile”
lol
re: #345 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
That is what I got too. Maybe google is wrong.
re: #344 Eclectic Cyborg
Jesus Christ, I thought that was the Onion.
The Onion would run a piece about Bibi turning the Gaza Strip into the Trump Gaza Plaza.
re: #326 sagehen
In New York, we have paper ballots with optical scan bubbles, so a hand recount is possible if anybody questions the computer tally.
That’s what we have in MD.
re: #340 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
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Thank you PM @Netanyahu and the State of Israel for this great honor!🇺🇸🇮🇱 https://t.co/OUcf6s98UX
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 16, 2019
blech
re: #339 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
I love the way the sea lion just falls away.
‘Be ashamed’: Anthony Scaramucci’s wife deletes tweet after Soledad O’Brien opens a can of whoop ass on herhttps://t.co/yjJf6N7UEZ pic.twitter.com/8wklejIVzY
— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 16, 2019
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