Of the teeming herd of Democrats running for president, more than a few could direct their ambitions elsewhere…like maybe to the Senate where they could actually make a difference? Or one of those crazy mud races, if they insist on making a mess of things.
If this is Trudeau throwing shade, well played Canada.
Well played. https://t.co/qb3mTzaMVU— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) June 20, 2019
INT - Command center. Two HIGH RANKING OFFICERS are sitting in front of a display of monitors showing various scenes of military activity and news reports on Iran. OFFICER 1 has his head cupped in his hands and OFFICER 2 is staring ahead blankly.
OFFICER 1
Oh my god, is that dumb bastard EVER going to talk to us before running his mouth on Twitter?
OFFICER 2
Is that a rhetorical question?
OFFICER 1
He seriously thinks we can completely blow up Iran overnight. Can you believe that?
OFFICER 2
Yes. Yes, I can.
OFFICER 1
Like, holy shit, man. Holy fucking shit. I remember W. The guy was a few beers short of a six pack but Trump…that crazy motherfucker isn’t even near the convenience store! Do yo have any idea how hard it is to explain military strategy to someone with the knowledge level of a six year old??
[OFFICER 2 nods]
OFFICER 1
You seem surprisingly not pissed off about this, why is that?
OFFICER 2
Simple. I used to like serving. I used to enjoy what I did, but I haven’t enjoyed it since that orange asshole became President. I have six months left to go until I can take retirement. After that, I’m out of here. Of course, I’m pissed off but at this point all I can do is just count down the days.
OFFICER 1
I mean really, how many letters did we send to the White House stating how important it was that we be consulted before he tweets things about Foreign policy?
OFFICER 2
Apparently not enough.
OFFICER 1
When he first got elected I went to go talk to him, tried to play nice. He would barely say a word to me unless I told him who I voted for in the last election. Finally, I just lied and said I voted for him. He said, “thank you” or something and walked away and I’ve seen him exactly two times since. I sometimes saw President Obama multiple times in ONE DAY.
OFFICER 2
Well, at least you’re on vacation next week.
OFFICER 1
Yes and thank God for that.
[A JUNIOR OFFICER approaches OFFICER 1 and OFFICER 2]
JUNIOR OFFICER
Guys, he’s saying stupid shit about Iran again.
OFFICER 1 (head in hands)
Motherfucker.
OFFICER 2
(staring at the ceiling) I’m being punished for something I did in a past life, aren’t I?
NEW: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked ICE from making civil immigration arrests inside courthouses in the state (they can still make criminal arrests or arrest people already in custody) https://t.co/Oq8O9vqACc pic.twitter.com/dP1N0Lb7VQ
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) June 20, 2019
An investigation reveals that hundreds of police officers around the country belong to racist Facebook groups.https://t.co/MhUY584Iq1 pic.twitter.com/nvtpLUSYQo
— The Root (@TheRoot) June 15, 2019
The Philadelphia Police Department has pulled 72 officers off their regular duties over offensive social media posts — which ranged from racist memes, to posts celebrating violence, to Islamophobic messages. https://t.co/alpBlsPDht
— NPR (@NPR) June 20, 2019
Some of those that work forces,
are the same that burn crosses.
re: #4 DodgerFan1988
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Some of those that work forces,
are the same that burn crosses.
And they pretend to be honorable and noble. And the ones who don’t do this know it goes on and do nothing fuck the whole lot of them
So we know that a lot of rain has fallen over Ohio this week. But just how many gallons of water does this add up to? We crunched the numbers taking an average rainfall of 3.5 inches - that is 2.7 trillion gallons! That averages to 233 thousand gallons per person in Ohio! pic.twitter.com/CXxv6GXVa5
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) June 20, 2019
the 24-hour gauge total at 7 am today was 2.60”.
That made 6.86” for the 7-day total and an even 11” so far in June.
Rain is also in the forecast every day until next Wednesday.
re: #4 DodgerFan1988
Make no mistake, these officers views spill out on to the streets and how they interact with the community they are supposed to protect and serve.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) June 20, 2019
A couple of thunderstorms have already rolled through here today. Generally damp and sticky outside and I’m glad I ran out and did my errands in the morning between storms.
I have visitors coming in this afternoon from New York state. Not the best driving conditions and I expect the late afternoon traffic will be even worse due to the weather.
re: #1 jaunte
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He coughed into his hand-shaking hand.
He is trolling germaphobe Trump hard. https://t.co/XqdjHkNlsk— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) June 20, 2019
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some parts of the world getting drenched while others wilt away under drought.
I seem to recall some people who told us this would happen…
re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth
All that water has to go somewhere.
Somewhere is downstream.
Ohio River flows in to the Mississippi, which has been above flood stage for much of the year. The Big Muddy has been above high water level in Louisiana for 225+ days in a row (and counting).
In other words, the higher the water level, the faster it goes, and the more concern placed on flood control systems not designed to handle these kinds of events for the duration experienced.
re: #11 lawhawk
All that water has to go somewhere.
Somewhere is downstream.
Ohio River flows in to the Mississippi, which has been above flood stage for much of the year. The Big Muddy has been above high water level in Louisiana for 225+ days in a row (and counting).
In other words, the higher the water level, the faster it goes, and the more concern placed on flood control systems not designed to handle these kinds of events for the duration experienced.
Exactly. That is going to slow down the ability of the Illinois River (which is where I live, and it’s a lot closer now than it usually is!) to drain, and it is VERY high, just off record levels at this point.
Roy Moore is my all-time favorite Republican.
Roy Moore announces bid for U.S. Senate seat
Updated 2:26 PM; Today 10:28 AM
al.com
Amazing how @JoeBiden consistently refuses to read the fucking room. Of course your old segregationist colleague didn’t call you “boy,” you’re white. You’re so horny to be seen as able to work with anyone that it’s becoming impossible to trust your judgement and perception.
— Frank thee Goddamned (@goddamnedfrank) June 20, 2019
Derp of the day. https://t.co/KpbtrwmVNw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
re: #13 Decatur Deb
Roy Moore is my all-time favorite Republican.
Roy Moore announces bid for U.S. Senate seat
Updated 2:26 PM; Today 10:28 AM
Haven’t seen any of his poll numbers yet but I’m certain he’s into the teens.
*oldie but a goodie
re: #16 Kilroy was here
Haven’t seen any of his poll numbers yet but I’m certain he’s into the teens.
*oldie but a goodie
Everything old is new again! Oh frabjous day!!
re: #12 retired cynic
It’s at least a month before the Army Corps will even consider closing the Bonnet Carre spillway, and they just avoided having to open the Morganza spillway.
Bonnet Carre has been open a record number of days this year, and the river has been above high water for a record number of days as well.
41% of the US drains into/through the Mississippi. So, all that rain up along the Ohio will make its way into the mix soon enough.
This is America.
America has reached the point where ‘You shouldn’t complain about the concentration camps, because the hidden military torture camp I helped run was far worse’ is a hot take someone can have. https://t.co/mkjyH2i6Be
— Dominic Tarason (@DominicTarason) June 18, 2019
re: #19 Hecuba’s daughter
O frabjous day?
Jabberwocky, though I think Opus or someone from Bloom County uses a mangled version as an expression of joy.
re: #7 lawhawk
Make no mistake, these officers views spill out on to the streets and how they interact with the community they are supposed to protect and serve.
make no other mistake. everyone else on the various forces have always known who these people are
re: #21 Decatur Deb
Jabberwocky, though I think Opus or someone from Bloom County uses a mangled version.
Sorry — meant to say did you mean “O frabjous day” — there is a frumious Bandersnatch but not frumptious …
re: #21 Decatur Deb
Jabberwocky, though I think Opus or someone from Bloom County uses a mangled version.
re: #23 Hecuba’s daughter
Sorry — meant to say did you mean “O frabjous day” — there is a frumious Bandersnatch but not frumptious …
Ooops — you meant that Bloom County uses this mangled term — I understand!
re: #13 Decatur Deb
Roy Moore is my all-time favorite Republican.
Roy Moore announces bid for U.S. Senate seat
Updated 2:26 PM; Today 10:28 AM
al.com
the R’s hope he might eke out a win, though i think they know he’s gonna lose
as i said downstairs, their problem is party before everything.
that includes morality and basic human decency
and that leads to absurdity like this - better an accused pedophile than a democrat
re: #20 NO SMOCKING GUN!
This is America.
America has reached the point where ‘You shouldn’t complain about the concentration camps, because the hidden military torture camp I helped run was far worse’ is a hot take someone can have.
ive seen zebras up close.
a zebra is not a horse.
stop talking about horses.
why do you keep talking about horses?
re: #24 Joe Bacon 🌹
We still haven’t reached Peak Stupid!
They are particularly upset about Good Omens because it shows something resembling a gay romance between an angel and a demon.
re: #26 DangerMan
the R’s hope he might eke out a win, though i think they know he’s gonna lose
as i said downstairs, their problem is party before everything.
that includes morality and basic human decencyand that leads to absurdity like this - better an accused pedophile than a democrat
Moore still has to get through the GOP primary—could cost me a secondborn.
re: #16 Kilroy was here
Haven’t seen any of his poll numbers yet but I’m certain he’s into the teens.
*oldie but a goodie
Apply 10 Commandments Monument directly to forehead.
re: #18 lawhawk
It’s at least a month before the Army Corps will even consider closing the Bonnet Carre spillway, and they just avoided having to open the Morganza spillway.
Bonnet Carre has been open a record number of days this year, and the river has been above high water for a record number of days as well.
41% of the US drains into/through the Mississippi. So, all that rain up along the Ohio will make its way into the mix soon enough.
Yep. We have had a lot of rain here in NW PA and it is all coming down river. I can literally put a boat in the river just 500 yards from my house here and end up in the Gulf of Mexico.
Shenango river to where Mahoning river and Beaver river all meet, and down to the Ohio river, into the Mississippi river and on to the gulf.
re: #29 Decatur Deb
Moore still has to get through the GOP primary—could cost me a secondborn.
Hopefully there will be multiple candidates to split the “still clinging to a shred of decency” vote.
re: #34 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Hopefully there will be multiple candidates to split the “still clinging to a shred of decency” vote.
Yup. Sessions is making noises, the old Auburn football coach is in, and a couple plausible wallflowers.
re: #32 Kilroy was here
Can’t we just drop a house on him?
I want a house dropped on any GOP Senate candidate from Alabama. They may not all be child predators but they are all evil. Hmmm — maybe that’s too limiting. Perhaps most GOP members of the Senate need a house dropped on them.
Roy Moore has now been thrown out of 3 courts. The Alabama Supreme Court in 2003. The Alabama Supreme Court in 2016. And the Gadsden Mall Food Court in 1980.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 16, 2017
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) June 20, 2019
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
re: #16 Kilroy was here
Haven’t seen any of his poll numbers yet but I’m certain he’s into the teens.
*oldie but a goodie
*rimshot*
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
Doubt there’s been a time the whole country was on the rails at once. Maybe late 1941, and it wasn’t all pretty.
re: #4 DodgerFan1988
Some of those that work forces,
are the same that burn crosses.
I’ve been thinking about police, ICE, CPB and other important organizations like this. We will never be able to get rid of most of the corruption just by making new laws. We are going to have to encourage people on the left to join these groups in large numbers and stay in for a long time, to the point where they make their way into leadership positions. It’s the only real way to fix some of them.
A Democratic administration will need to hold existing CPB and ICE members to account for their actions, but that’s a slightly different thing.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
November 8, 1994
The Gingrich Revolution.
The need for clickbait and the need to avoid the truth, all in one place:
Obama voters explain what drew them to Trump
I wonder how hard CNN had to look for those people.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
November 4, 2008.
CILLIZZA
Perfect. I am now deceased. https://t.co/NpQ5B8zzA8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 20, 2019
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
August 5, 1987
Abolition of the Fairness Doctrine.
re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced there’s an exact point at which this country started going off the rails.
I’m also convinced it was well before November 8, 2016.
November 22, 1963.
re: #44 A Three Hour Tour
November 8, 1994
The Gingrich Revolution.
March 31, 1877, when Union troops withdrew from the South, ending Reconstruction and handing victory to the white supremacists.
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour auctioned off 120 guitars at Christie’s today, and his white Fender Stratocaster - serial number #0001, arguably the first Strat ever built, pulled down over $1.8 million dollars. This is the guitar in question:
Many of his guitars pulled down record-setting numbers, including a Martin acoustic that went for over a million (surpassing the amount paid for one of Eric Clapton’s acoustics), and a Les Paul Gold Top set a new record amount for a Les Paul at $447,000.
I was lucky enough to have been invited by a Christie’s member to view the collection on Monday, and I was astounded at the number and quality of the guitars up for auction.
And good on Gilmour - he donated all of the proceeds to various charities.
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
August 5, 1987
Abolition of the Fairness Doctrine.
Note that Congress attempted to pre-empt the FCC decision by codifying the Fairness Doctrine but Reagan vetoed the bill. Conservatives had been gunning for the Fairness Doctrine since it was created, but not liberals. Objective and balanced presentations seem to favor liberals.
re: #50 William Lewis
November 22, 1963.
That was another one that popped into my head. The day white people realized their control had an end-by date if they didn’t do something.
Edit: Wrong date. I’m thinking of the VRA/CRA dates.
re: #51 NO SMOCKING GUN!
July 2, 1964 - enactment of the Civil Rights Act.
re: #52 makeitstop
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour auctioned off 120 guitars at Christie’s today, and his white Fender Stratocaster - serial number #0001, arguably the first Strat ever built, pulled down over $1.8 million dollars.
Here’s a link to a story about the auction on Guitar.com.
re: #12 retired cynic
Exactly. That is going to slow down the ability of the Illinois River (which is where I live, and it’s a lot closer now than it usually is!) to drain, and it is VERY high, just off record levels at this point.
Same over here on the other side of the Mississippi. The North Platte River is out of its banks in several places around me, when it’s usually very low this time of year.
Further downstream, the Platte River is normally near-dry this time of year, but is also very high.
All that water has to go somewhere, and it usually goes into the Missouri River. That’s also very high (the eastern part of the state is still flooded).
Elections have consequences, and in this case it means depriving women access to health care.
Federal appeals court says new Trump administration rules imposing additional hurdles for women seeking abortions can take effect while the government appeals decisions that blocked them. https://t.co/175UbQDWjX
— ABC News (@ABC) June 20, 2019
re: #58 Anymouse 🌹
The Missouri causes me trouble, as well, because it dumps into the Mississippi below the Illinois, and doesn’t let the Illinois drain. That’s how we lost our home in 1993.
NRA’s second in command, Christopher Cox, has been suspended because it’s suspected that he was part of a coup attempt: dailykos.com.
Wonderful graphic: Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Center!
re: #61 Belafon
NRA’s second in command, Christopher Cox, has been suspended because it’s suspected that he was part of a coup attempt: dailykos.com.
They’re going through the same stuff they did in the Seventies, but this time with more grift.
re: #59 lawhawk
Elections have consequences, and in this case it means depriving women access to health care.
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Elections do have consequences and the Bernie fanatics, to this day, won’t accept any responsibility for their refusal to back Clinton and the dire consequences we are facing daily because of the election of Trump. Of course, if the EC could have been amended out of existence, we wouldn’t be in this position in the first place.
re: #49 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Oooh. THAT’s a good one. Hadn’t thought about that.
re: #55 lawhawk
July 2, 1964 - enactment of the Civil Rights Act.
We probably should date the current polarization of party politics as being set in motion July 26, 1948, when Truman commenced the integration of the armed forces. The Dixiecrat party and Strom Thurmond for President followed that fall.
Whether that amounts to the country “coming off the rails” or “finally thinking about getting on the rails” is perhaps a philosophical puzzle.
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
They’re going through the same stuff they did in the Seventies, but this time with more grift.
But they survived the Seventies and were transformed into the malignant organization that we have faced over the past 4 decades.
re: #18 lawhawk
It’s at least a month before the Army Corps will even consider closing the Bonnet Carre spillway, and they just avoided having to open the Morganza spillway.
Bonnet Carre has been open a record number of days this year, and the river has been above high water for a record number of days as well.
41% of the US drains into/through the Mississippi. So, all that rain up along the Ohio will make its way into the mix soon enough.
All that rain we’re getting is going their way as well. Though the Sandhills absorb water very well, we have way too much water, and snowmelt in Wyoming means they are opening their dams on the river.
re: #61 Belafon
NRA’s second in command, Christopher Cox, has been suspended because it’s suspected that he was part of a coup attempt: dailykos.com.
Womp womp
The government’s case just came crashing down in the prosecution of former special operations chief Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher. Gallagher is facing life in prison for shooting civilians, including a school-age girl, and knifing to death a captured ISIS fighter receiving medical treatment in Iraq in 2017. Gallagher also faces obstruction of justice charges for allegedly attempting to intimidate troops reporting his crimes.
During the prosecution’s case, SO1 Corey Scott was called to testify for the government. As a primary prosecution witness, the expectation was that Scott would provide a first-hand account of Gallagher’s stabbing the ISIS fighter. Scott, who happened to have been granted immunity, threw prosecutors quite the curveball. Instead of delivering damning testimony against Gallagher, Scott testified that it was he himself who’d actually been responsible for the prisoner’s death. Scott said in court that he put his thumb over the injured fighter’s breathing tube, causing him to die.
“I knew he was going to die anyway,” Scott said. “I wanted to save him from waking up to what had happened next.”
Following the proceedings, Scott was reportedly observed talking and joking with Gallagher.
re: #70 NO SMOCKING GUN!
“NRA’s second in command, Christopher Cox, has been suspended because it’s suspected that he was part of a coup attempt.”
I guess that’s what he gets for not….
…sticking to his guns.”
YEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
re: #72 lawhawk
That is awful, but MAN that dude has some stones on him to not only attempt but manage to pull off something like that.
Can they revoke his immunity?
re: #74 Eclectic Cyborg
That is awful, but MAN that dude has some stones on him to not only attempt but manage to pull off something like that.
Can they revoke his immunity?
If they can, they can prosecute him for murder (since he admitted it in court).
Aren’t immunity deals contingent on telling the truth throughout the prosecution?
Roger Stone might go to jail bc he magnified a post at *LarouchePac* regurgitating his defense garbage about CrowdStrike. pic.twitter.com/XaV4PbjuSd
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 20, 2019
re: #67 uncah91
We probably should date the current polarization of party politics as being set in motion July 26, 1948, when Truman commenced the integration of the armed forces. The Dixiecrat party and Strom Thurmond for President followed that fall.
Whether that amounts to the country “coming off the rails” or “finally thinking about getting on the rails” is perhaps a philosophical puzzle.
It certainly signaled the Solid South segregationists that they would eventually not be welcome in the Democratic Party. The switch took a while, 20 years or more, mostly because the liberal wing of the Republican Party (Rockefeller, Dewey, etc.) was loathe to take in the orphaned segregationists. The conservative Taft wing continued to harbor extreme isolationists and left-over pro-fascists, however. These were naturally also racists, and they built their strength through the 50s, finally taking over the GOP completely in 1964 and’68. Financial support from the Hunt brothers, fronted by their young model-turned-lawyer Phyllis Schlafly, was a major factor in this transformation.
Support from the infamous China Lobby, seldom mentioned today, also helped with the right wing transformation of the GOP. For example, Anna Chennault, virtual head of the China Lobby for many years, was the go-between in Nixon’s treasonous plot to sabotage the Vietnam peace talks during the ‘68 campaign.
re: #78 lawhawk
Oh please let this happen. PLEASE.
re: #35 Decatur Deb
Yup. Sessions is making noises, the old Auburn football coach is in, and a couple plausible wallflowers.
Per wikipedia, these are the declared candidates:
Stanley Adair, businessman
Bradley Byrne, U.S. Representative for Alabama’s 1st congressional district
John Merrill, Alabama Secretary of State
Arnold Mooney, state representative
Roy Moore, former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, former candidate for governor in 2006 and 2010, accused child molester and nominee for U.S. Senate in 2017
Tommy Tuberville, former Auburn Tigers football head coach
I don’t know much (anything) about Alabama politics, but that seems like a wide enough field, with enough plausible candidates, for Moore to fuck things up again.
So I check out CNN website and it’s all about some drone shot down by Iran…
We’ve come a long way since Carter’s presidency was derailed by a failed hostage rescue.
Now the warhawks rally behind a failing idiot of a President, just because war is a good thing, I guess.
re: #81 KGxvi
And someone has since taken out the “accused child molester” part.
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I check out CNN website and it’s all about some drone shot down by Iran…
We’ve come a long way since Carter’s presidency was derailed by a failed hostage rescue.
Now the warhawks rally behind a failing idiot of a President, just because war is a good thing, I guess.
It’s great for ratings.
so, this happened overnight:
Sometimes it rains, and sometimes it rains so much that the flooding takes out the rain gauge. Lewis County was one of several counties in flash flood warnings last evening. Thanks to our partners at @kymesonet for the update. https://t.co/orkZaqU7Zy
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) June 20, 2019
re: #82 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So I check out CNN website and it’s all about some drone shot down by Iran…
We’ve come a long way since Carter’s presidency was derailed by a failed hostage rescue.
Now the warhawks rally behind a failing idiot of a President, just because war is a good thing, I guess.
Well, even the most hawkish Democrat still thinks negotiations are the best first option.
We lost a drone.
That’s what drones are FOR. So we don’t have to risk human crew. Yet every article and tweet mentions the COST of the drone. Like that’s a thing.
What’s the cost of P-8’s human aircrew?
Drones are cheap given the alternative and COST is a stupid argument.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2019
re: #77 Mescalero09
Hello all.
The Marcus King Band
The Warren Haynes groove in a younger form.Sponsors then Marcus and Company.
Sweet.
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That kid’s good.
Not sure if this was posted already, but…
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Peace Cross war memorial on public land outside Washington, D.C., can stand, determining in a 7-2 decision that it does not violate the Constitution.
Residents of Prince George’s County, Maryland and the American Humanist Association (AHA) had sued to have the cross taken down, and the American Legion, whose symbol is also on the memorial, intervened to defend it. While the residents and AHA claimed that a cross memorial on public land violated the Constitution, the Court determined that factors, including the history of the memorial, support the idea that it is not religious in nature.
“For nearly a century, the Bladensburg Cross has expressed the community’s grief at the loss of the young men who perished, its thanks for their sacrifice, and its dedication to the ideals for which they fought,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the court’s opinion. Alito noted that while this particular cross does not serve a religious purpose, removing it because it is a cross would be a religiously charged action.
“It has become a prominent community landmark, and its removal or radical alteration at this date would be seen by many not as a neutral act but as the manifestation of ‘a hostility toward religion that has no place in our Establishment Clause traditions,’” he wrote, quoting Justice Breyer’s concurrence in the 2005 decision in Van Orden v. Perry.
The court’s decision reverses the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that the cross was unconstitutional.
RBG and Sotomayor were the NAYs.
re: #87 Anymouse 🌹
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funny how “cost” doesn’t cause any concern for these people when it comes to missiles…
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
funny how “cost” doesn’t cause any concern for these people when it comes to missiles…
Most RWNJs don’t have a clue how much military stuff costs. They just know it looks cool and makes big booms.
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
It certainly signaled the Solid South segregationists that they would eventually not be welcome in the Democratic Party. The switch took a while, 20 years or more, mostly because the liberal wing of the Republican Party (Rockefeller, Dewey, etc.) was loathe to take in the orphaned segregationists. The conservative Taft wing continued to harbor extreme isolationists and left-over pro-fascists, however. These were naturally also racists, and they built their strength through the 50s, finally taking over the GOP completely in 1964 and’68. Financial support from the Hunt brothers, fronted by their young model-turned-lawyer Phyllis Schlafly, was a major factor in this transformation.
Support from the infamous China Lobby, seldom mentioned today, also helped with the right wing transformation of the GOP. For example, Anna Chennault, virtual head of the China Lobby for many years, was the go-between in Nixon’s treasonous plot to sabotage the Vietnam peace talks during the ‘68 campaign.
I’m mostly of the belief that Nixon was attempting to use the southern conservatives but wasn’t necessarily in league with them. He opened the door because he realized it was his best chance to get the electoral college votes necessary in 1968. But both Nixon and Ford were willing and able to flip them the bird. Reagan paid them lip service but was also able to straddle the line on social war issues (he talked a good game on things like abortion but still appointed O’Connor and Kennedy). I think they really came into their own, as a force, late in the GWB administration as many of the other factions within the Republican coalition opted out. Now, they’re basically all that’s left.
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
funny how “cost” doesn’t cause any concern for these people when it comes to missiles…
Or invasions.
re: #92 KGxvi
It’s also worth noting that in 1968, the deep south states went for neither Nixon nor Humphrey and instead for Wallace.
re: #89 Eclectic Cyborg
Probably the simplest solution would have been for the public land to be sold to a private entity (such as the American Legion), ending the Establishment Clause question.
There was no way Christians would want their mark on public property to go away though. (Never mind all the people in other faiths or none who also lost their lives in service of the country.)
re: #8 Feline Fearless Leader
A couple of thunderstorms have already rolled through here today. Generally damp and sticky outside and I’m glad I ran out and did my errands in the morning between storms.
I have visitors coming in this afternoon from New York state. Not the best driving conditions and I expect the late afternoon traffic will be even worse due to the weather.
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from that photo, i’m guessing that when visitors show up you disappear, and then sometimes are found in the closet behind all the rows of shoes.
re: #94 KGxvi
It’s also worth noting that in 1968, the deep south states went for neither Nixon nor Humphrey and instead for Wallace.
Economic anxiety
Twenty-four hour news cycles don’t help the polity either.
CNN: Iran shoots down US drone: Live updates.
So, as mentioned earlier Wal-Mart got fined $282 million for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
For the 2018 fiscal year, Wal-Mart made $1.29 BILLION in profit.
Which means, if you do the math, this penalty represents about 22% of the money Wal-Mart made last year.
But even AFTER the penalty, Wal-Mart is still left with OVER $1 Billion in profit.
Why follow rules when you can get stupidly rich and pay to break them all?
Peter the cocker spaniel has an unusual condition. When he gets excited, he freezes, and falls on his back. The temporary paralysis is similar to that of Mytonic goats, which have been dubbed “fainting goats.”
In a video shared on ViralHog, Peter’s owners are walking him while he sniffs around. But as he steadily gets more excitable, he starts to tremble, then keels over.
“Oh there he goes,” his owner says as his legs seize up and he rolls onto his back. “Oh my goodness, Peter.”
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Bibi is stirring the pot of war.
In the last 24 hours, Iran has intensified its aggression against the United States and against all of us. I repeat my call for all peace-loving countries to stand by the United States in its effort to stop Iranians’ aggression. Israel stands by the United States on this. pic.twitter.com/dansjewMrU
— PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) June 20, 2019
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s still 22% of a lot of people’s lost dividends.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹
Probably the simplest solution would have been for the public land to be sold to a private entity (such as the American Legion), ending the Establishment Clause question.
There was no way Christians would want their mark on public property to go away though. (Never mind all the people in other faiths or none who also lost their lives in service of the country.)
Apparently the land was previously owned by the American Legion and was acquired by the local government in the early 60s.
Also this is one of those cases where almost everyone wrote an opinion. Alito’s opinion is the majority but only with respect to certain sections. Breyer, Kagan, and Kavanaugh all wrote concurring opinions regarding different elements.
re: #103 Belafon
That’s still 22% of a lot of people’s lost dividends.
I suppose that depends on how you view it as a stockholder. The company still made a billion dollars, so that fine only comes out of this quarter (and they’ll still make a profit).
re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth
funny how “cost” doesn’t cause any concern for these people when it comes to missiles…
- budgets
- deficits
- national debt
Let’s not forget that Northrop-Grumman’s product got shot down. We must protect their shareholders in this trying time.
— has read the Mueller Report📕📗 (@ClutcherOPearls) June 20, 2019
re: #92 KGxvi
I’m mostly of the belief that Nixon was attempting to use the southern conservatives but wasn’t necessarily in league with them. He opened the door because he realized it was his best chance to get the electoral college votes necessary in 1968. But both Nixon and Ford were willing and able to flip them the bird. Reagan paid them lip service but was also able to straddle the line on social war issues (he talked a good game on things like abortion but still appointed O’Connor and Kennedy). I think they really came into their own, as a force, late in the GWB administration as many of the other factions within the Republican coalition opted out. Now, they’re basically all that’s left.
Except for Texas, Humphrey was completely shut out of the old Solid South in the ‘68 election. Wallace carried the 5 deep south states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas; with Nixon carrying the others and running a close second in the deep south. Republican strategists took note.
koch bros
weird times - trump has not just pushed the overton window - he’s twisted the dial a whole quarter revolution
trumpy types now support a number of positions that are anathema to regular republicans and corporate democrats, but weirdly line up with progressive positions - altho the trumpykins often have typically stupid reasons for them
- they are dead set against what they term “globalism”, especially in its “free” trade and multinational corporation friendly manifestations like nafta and tpp
- they officially hate the kochs, because they are - of course - “globalists”, specifically citing their promotion of free trade and “open borders”. and because the kochs are giving money to - gasp! - democrats. democrats who are favorable to free trade. corporate democrats
- after decades of cluelessness, they have finally twigged to the fact that corporations are impoverishing them by not only shipping their jobs off to other countries, but also by exploiting undocumented labor. of course, they simultaneously believe that “mexicans are taking our jobs” and “illegal aliens all come here to live on welfare”. but isn’t believing in two contradictory ideas at the same time orwell’s “doublethink”?
- they’ve repudiated the iraq war and become isolationists. the bush’s were “globalists”. mcconnell is a “globalist”. even ryan morphed from a tea party darling into a hated “globalist”. in fact, they are opposed to most republican senators and congresspersons - “globalists!!”
so, really, the opposition to progressivism has morphed into two mutually hostile camps - corporate republicans and democrats, friendly to “holding down corporate labor costs” and maintaining and expanding american military and political dominance overseas, and
a bunch of racist morons who want to stay out of foreign wars, and oppose the destruction of american jobs by corporations -
but because of their rabidly racist obsessions
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
So, as mentioned earlier Wal-Mart got fined $282 million for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
For the 2018 fiscal year, Wal-Mart made $1.29 BILLION in profit.
Which means, if you do the math, this penalty represents about 22% of the money Wal-Mart made last year.
But even AFTER the penalty, Wal-Mart is still left with OVER $1 Billion in profit.
Why follow rules when you can get stupidly rich and pay to break them all?
like i said last thread:
heard at the board meeting “300million? how much you got on ya?”
AOC on the handling of the Iran situation: “I think they’re trying to goad us into a military conflict that’s completely irresponsible right now.” pic.twitter.com/LdgTwxQuJw
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 20, 2019
Netflix has responded to the wingnut Christian petition not to make any more episodes of Amazon’s “Good Omens.”
ok we promise not to make any more https://t.co/TRPux36kcX
— Netflix UK & Ireland (@NetflixUK) June 20, 2019
bwahahahahahahaaaaa
TAPPER: Roy Moore said he doesn’t think Muslims should be allowed to serve in Congress. Why?
ROY MOORE SPOX TED CROCKETT: Because you have to swear on the Bible
TAPPER: You don’t actually have to swear on a Christian Bible
TED CROCKETT: … … 😲 pic.twitter.com/TC8i3LbOUE— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 20, 2019
re: #105 Anymouse 🌹
I suppose that depends on how you view it as a stockholder. The company still made a billion dollars, so that fine only comes out of this quarter (and they’ll still make a profit).
raise a couple of prices
blame it on tariffs
not even a blip on the radar
Normal person: Because you’re a child molester. https://t.co/2gC0CTF4ep
— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) June 20, 2019
re: #102 Anymouse 🌹
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Oh yes, I’m sure our Allies will come running to help us on this one. Just like they did with Iraq.
Oh, wait…
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
bwahahahahahahaaaaa
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Hee hee. I wish we could get a sample and unravel this guy’s genetic history. Classic telegraph pole family tree there.
re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth
Roy Moore lecturing someone on morality is like Stormy Daniels lecturing someone on the importance of being celibate.
re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth
bwahahahahahahaaaaa
Douchecanoe says “I’m an elected official, and I had to swear in on the Bible three times.”
I was an elected official too, Dingus, and I took my affirmation on copies of the US and state constitutions.
Since I checked out CNN headlines this caught my eye:
Senators receive classified briefing on UFO sightings
However, the original title that is buried in the page source:
UFO sightings: Top Dem on Senate intel committee, senators briefed
How strange.
re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg
Roy Moore lecturing someone on morality is like Stormy Daniels lecturing someone on the important of being celibate.
Well, in response to Sarah Huckabee Sanders saying she wanted to be remembered for her transparency, Stormy Daniels clapped back with “I want to be remembered for being a virgin.”
These crazy sons of bitches are going to kill us all. https://t.co/1Chjw9cuML
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2019
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
Time for a remake of “The Day After.”
re: #117 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Hee hee. I wish we could get a sample and unravel this guy’s genetic history. Classic telegraph pole family tree there.
Telegraph pole is kind of a best case there. Loops seems likely to me.
re: #109 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
Most American populism has had a severe racist component.
re: #123 Anymouse 🌹
Time for a remake of “The Day After.”
Mhmm. By the team behind “Chernobyl”… Or a remake of “The War Game”, “Threads” and “The Day After” rolled into one.
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
— Admiral Josh Painter, “The Hunt for Red October”
Iran calls drone flight a “very dangerous and provocative act,” urges international community to demand US end unlawful acts. Tehran shot down a US drone that it claims was in its airspace. Washington says it was over international waters. https://t.co/Kn5fo8QYZl
— The Associated Press (@AP) June 20, 2019
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
End of all humanity is pretty decisive.
The meteor cannot come soon enough. https://t.co/32igxsNyRc
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2019
re: #126 Belafon
Most American populism has had a severe racist component.
very true
populism and progressivism were both around in this country in the 19th century
the sin of progressivism is condescension
the sin of populism is racism
re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth
“Conditions for decisive results.”
What an inventive way of saying “kill us all”.
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
No truer signs that we are at the end of capitalism than the need to mix things like this. How many more types of food innovation are there?
re: #125 makeitstop
What must it be like to be so loaded that you have no problem dropping almost $4 mil on a guitar?
Wow.
re: #134 Belafon
No truer signs that we are at the end of capitalism than the need to mix things like this. How many more types of food innovation are there?
Deep fried?
re: #119 Anymouse 🌹
Douchecanoe says “I’m an elected official, and I had to swear in on the Bible three times.”
I was an elected official too, Dingus, and I took my affirmation on copies of the US and state constitutions.
That whole ‘choice’ thing throws them every time.
Well, here you have it, straight from the horse’s ass:
What’s Really Going on with Iran? (Rush Limbaugh via Freep)
RUSH: So I got an interesting email. “Mr. Limbaugh, what do you think or who do you think is really stirring up this business with Iran?” It’s a good question, ‘cause you know who’s buddy-buddy with Iran and who has been over there attempting to undermine Trump administration on policy with Iran is none other than John Kerry — the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
I think that his daughter married some Revolutionary Guard assassin or something, some such thing. His daughter married somebody from over there. The foreign minister’s third cousin, I don’t know what, but there’s some family tie now. And of course, the Iran deal in the Obama administration was one of their great things, they believe, and Trump has come in and has summarily ripped it apart and backed out of it, which has cost the Iranians 150 (what was it?) billion dollars or million dollars, whatever we dropped on the tarmac there.So they’re ticked as they can be over sanctions and Trump’s relegating them to this secondary status, and the fact that John Kerry (you can put Obama in this sentence or not) has been actively advising the Iranians on how to deal with Trump…
Mr. Wright responding to Nancy Pelosi:
Not a responsible adversary?
Are you fucking kidding? Have you seen who’s running OUR government?
Seriously. Just … goddamn. https://t.co/TPoQZuTODF— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2019
re: #138 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
John Kerrys daughter is married to an Iranian Doctor whose parents (one of whom is also a doctor) are based in Los Angeles.
Weather radio just went off … a tornado watch is now in effect at Tumbleweed Terrace.
More water for the Mississippi River.
re: #109 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
re: #138 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Well, here you have it, straight from the horse’s ass:
What’s Really Going on with Iran? (Rush Limbaugh via Freep)
Snopes blasted this bullshit in 2015. But then snopes isn’t reliable say the morons
re: #126 Belafon
Most American populism has had a severe racist component.
I suspect most forms of populism has a strong racist component. It’s inherent in the “us vs them” mentality of populism.
re: #142 Old Liberal
Snopes blasted this bullshit in 2015. But then snopes isn’t reliable say the morons
That’s because facts have a liberal bias.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹
Mr. Wright responding to Nancy Pelosi:
I think he’s reading it wrong. If Hillary had been in the White House, Pelosi would have asked her to not escelate the situation. What’s she’s done now is ask for help in keeping Trump in line.
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
John Kerrys daughter is married to an Iranian Doctor whose parents (one of whom is also a doctor) are based in Los Angeles.
He’s not an Iranian doctor. He’s born in the US. He’s an American doctor.
re: #146 Old Liberal
He’s not an Iranian doctor. He’s born in the US. He’s an American doctor.
He is. My bad. In fact he’s a neurosurgeon who’s involved in some interesting work.
Smack.
I don’t think the person who repeatedly tried to pressure his 3 decades younger co-star into sleeping with him, publicly shame her on set when she refused to and insist the director add unnecessary sex scenes between us should be flapping his gums about feminism. https://t.co/7kfb8sZvD2
— Haley Webb (@thehaleywebb) June 20, 2019
re: #142 Old Liberal
Snopes blasted this bullshit in 2015. But then snopes isn’t reliable say the morons
So it’s bullshit rather than horse shit. I stand corrected.
re: #147 Eclectic Cyborg
He is. My bad. In fact he’s a neurosurgeon who’s involved in some interesting work.
He should sue Limbaugh, that fat old junkie could get him killed.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
What must it be like to be so loaded that you have no problem dropping almost $4 mil on a guitar?
Wow.
I cannot even imagine. I’ve spent what I considered to be a lot of money for a couple of guitars, and what I spent is a fraction of a sliver of a tiny piece of a fragment of $4 mil.
re: #151 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He should sue Limbaugh, that fat old junkie could get him killed.
Yeah, this right here:
the haughty John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
I think that his daughter married some Revolutionary Guard assassin or something, some such thing. His daughter married somebody from over there. The foreign minister’s third cousin, I don’t know what, but there’s some family tie now.
That sounds like textbook defamation. Also, I’m fairly certain that Dr Nahed wouldn’t qualify as a public person under these circumstances. Then again, I’m pretty sure that qualifies as actual fucking malice anyway.
re: #152 makeitstop
I cannot even imagine. I’ve spent what I considered to be a lot of money for a couple of guitars, and what I spent is a fraction of a sliver of a tiny piece of a fragment of $4 mil.
MrBWS has an Alvarez Yairi that he’s had for more than 50 years.
One of his cousins in Cincinnati does guitar repair. Gonna cost about $500 to put it back to good condition (the Yairi and MrBWS have been through a lot of trauma together through the decades).
re: #150 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeouch! That’s gotta hurt.
Kevin Sorbo went full-metal wingnut some time ago.
Today I asked a Holocaust survivor about those who say not to politicize it by comparing it to now. She replied:
“What’s wrong with being political? When are you gonna speak up for something? What are you gonna wait for? How long? You can always find an excuse not to speak up.”— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) January 23, 2018
Of these 250 children, 15 had the flu.
A sick 2 year old had detained teens caring for him.
The children were eating uncooked frozen food. They hadn’t bathed or worn clean clothes in weeks.
This is a violation of the Flores agreement and the human rights of these children. https://t.co/59k7kqvoly— Hispanic Caucus (@HispanicCaucus) June 20, 2019
We don’t even treat the Guantanamo Bay prisoners this way.
re: #151 NO SMOCKING GUN!
He should sue Limbaugh, that fat old junkie could get him killed.
Limbaugh on the stand: “It was performance art, hyperbole for effect. No rational person would actually believe it.”
Plaintiff’s attorney: “But we’re talking about your audience, Mr. Limbaugh.”
jesus fucking christ https://t.co/8YRy863plq
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 20, 2019
re: #148 Anymouse 🌹
Smack.
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She wasi in the movie “Single in South Beach” with Sorbo, which is available to watch on Amazon Prime. I just watched the trailer, and it looks pretty bad, so I won’t be watching it.
re: #144 Anymouse 🌹
That’s because facts have a liberal bias.
Note my earlier comments about the Fairness Doctrine. It didn’t allow liberals to monopolize programming either but they didn’t have a problem with it. Conservatives campaigned against it for decades and treated its abolition as a monumental triumph.
It’s like bloody bloody murder all over the place. https://t.co/I2W101Z8T6
— 🔥 Wicked 🔥 (@WickedMyst) June 20, 2019
re: #157 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Limbaugh on the stand: “It was performance art, hyperbole for effect. No rational person would actually believe it.”
Plaintiff’s attorney: “But we’re talking about your audience, Mr. Limbaugh.”
Calling a nonpublic person an “assassin”, in a context indicating that he meant it literally, is defamation per se. And Limbaugh has deep pockets.
re: #139 Anymouse 🌹
Perhaps by “adversary” Pelosi meant Trump?
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
What must it be like to be so loaded that you have no problem dropping almost $4 mil on a guitar?
Wow.
My father collects guitars. His mother gave him his first guitar - a Guild acoustic - in the 1950s, he still has it but it’s not playable, needs a lot of work. First guitar he bought for himself was after him and my mother got married in 1980, a brand new Gibson Les Paul Custom, $4,000. That’s $12,430 in today’s dollars. Yeah, he had to take out a friggin’ big bank loan just to make that happen (he put my grandfather’s property in Morrison, CO up as collateral). Since then he’s amassed about a dozen instruments. His and her Fender Stratocasters (my mother is left handed, the guitars complement each other perfectly), a Parker Fly, a Gretsch G6120, a Paul Reed Smith SE, Fender Telecaster, both six and 12 string Gibson Acoustic Guitars (made in Bozeman, MT), and his most expensive guitar, a Cordoba nylon string Spanish acoustic, that’s the one he plays the most often these days. He even gave me one of his guitars for my 18th birthday, a Gibson SG. Add all that up and it’s still a *very tiny percentage* of what people were paying for David Gilmour’s guitars today.
re: #161 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Note my earlier comments about the Fairness Doctrine. It didn’t allow liberals to monopolize programming either but they didn’t have a problem with it. Conservatives campaigned against it for decades and treated its abolition as a monumental triumph.
It made Limbaugh and the rest of hate talk radio possible, so for them it was.
Phrasing …
Asked what he’ll do differently now versus his 2017 Senate bid, Roy Moore says: “I would like to make more personal contact with people.”
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 20, 2019
re: #159 Anymouse 🌹
Politico and Daily Mail. Not unexpected.
Maybe only that the Daily Caller, Gateway Pundit, InfoWars and Breitbart aren’t included.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are particularly upset about Good Omens because it shows something resembling a gay romance between an angel and a demon.
How is what they’re doing not censorship? If you don’t lie a specific show, just don’t watch it. Simple.
A panel of the 9th Circuit allowed the domestic gag rule to go into effect, prohibiting clinics that provide or refer patients for abortions from receiving federal funding under Title X. PP is appealing.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are particularly upset about Good Omens because it shows something resembling a gay romance between an angel and a demon.
It’s a bromance of sorts, but never struck me as being a strongly gay overtone to it.
re: #165 teleskiguy
My dad has a nice Guild.
I have many memories of being in my bedroom as a little boy and hearing my dad playing it downstairs.
Not too long ago, my Dad asked my brother and I which of his belongings of his we would like after he passes away. I REALLY wanted that Guild and so did my brother but there were a couple of other things I really wanted too so, in the end, I decided to let my brother have the guitar.
He better not try to sell that damn thing without calling me first, though!
re: #171 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Interesting. The 9th is usually pretty Liberal leaning, isn’t it?
Severe thunderstorm warning just popped off on the weather radio for the NW corner of my county.
The storm is moving east, so it should pass a bit north of us. It is expected to produce “all types of severe weather, including extremely large hail, damaging straight-line winds, and the possibility of tornadoes.” Here we go… .
wunderground.com (NEXRAD radar from Cheyenne, Wyo.)
re: #169 I Would Prefer Not To
Great News.
We can once again use this….
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WELL, SHIT https://t.co/RIx0Yc7nwF
— Roy Moore’s Horse (@RoyMooresHorse) June 20, 2019
NOT GREAT https://t.co/oO11Ww2Ccl
— Roy Moore’s Horse (@RoyMooresHorse) June 20, 2019
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are particularly upset about Good Omens because it shows something resembling a gay romance between an angel and a demon.
The Amazon Prime gang must be laughing their asses off. The superstition lobbyists will realize (though not acknowledge) their mistake and shift their efforts soon enough though.
re: #152 makeitstop
I cannot even imagine. I’ve spent what I considered to be a lot of money for a couple of guitars, and what I spent is a fraction of a sliver of a tiny piece of a fragment of $4 mil.
“Hmmm, should I get the highly rated boutique pickups for $200 apiece or the probably just as good Bill Lawrence for $75 apiece?” These are some of the questions I’ve asked myself.
re: #48 Belafon
Yours is also good.
this isn’t far from the truth. it wasn’t the revolution that did it. It was the disappearance of earmarks in congress. when democrats and republicans couldn’t grease the palms of opposing party congressmen, politics became a blood sport with no modifiers.
“Feeling cute now, might murder you later, idk.” pic.twitter.com/aeygu6Qwug
— DAILY KITTEN (@DAILY_KITTEN_) June 20, 2019
Forgot. Tomorrow is my birthday.
SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHO IS THIS OLD FART IN MY MIRROR? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU GODDAMN PUNKS!
I now return you to your regular programming.
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Happy early Birthday,
At least youv’e gotten wiser as you’ve gotten older.
Right??
/
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Forgot. Tomorrow is my birthday.
SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHO IS THIS OLD FART IN MY MIRROR? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU GODDAMN PUNKS!
I now return you to your regular programming.
“Old man, look at my life, I’m a lot like you were…54 and there’s so much more….”
Happy Birthday a day early!
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Happy early Birthday,
At least youv’e gotten wiser as you’ve gotten older.
Right??
/
Much wiser. I used to be a Republican.
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Forgot. Tomorrow is my birthday.
SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHO IS THIS OLD FART IN MY MIRROR? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU GODDAMN PUNKS!
I now return you to your regular programming.
mine’s on Monday.
You’ll still be older than me.
barely…
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
mine’s on Monday.
You’ll still be older than me.
barely…
Mine’s on Tuesday. I’ve got a fresh Medicare card in my wallet.
re: #173 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s in my father’s will, I’m getting the guitars. EEK!
sigh
Trump nominates former Brett Kavanaugh clerk for federal judge in Kentucky https://t.co/I6fPog4Y8o
— Enquirer (@Enquirer) June 20, 2019
Current (last year) photo
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This is Ron. He reserved the fountain for his pool party this evening but nobody showed up. Still hoping they’re on their way. 13/10 sit tight Ron i’m coming pic.twitter.com/B91qAYXi10
— WeRateDogs™ 🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 19, 2019
you were gone for 30 whole seconds what was he supposed to do? https://t.co/4D35hZgar4
— WeRateDogs™ 🏳️🌈 (@dog_rates) June 20, 2019
re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Yesterday I was sitting with our dog on “her” sofa (as opposed to the new one that we are trying to keep her off) watching TV. I turned off the TV to go run an errand. As i was leaving the TV came back on again. Somehow she either grabbed the remote with her mouth and turned it back on or laid her head on it in just such a way. I just left.
Three different stories about the NRA have dropped today. Wonkette deals with them:
Between embezzlement allegations, outright theft allegations, and Ackerman McQueen threatening to pull the plug on NRA TV (and putting Dana Loesch out of a job), I would think the membership of that organisation would be livid at how their money was spent.
Instead I suspect they’ll blame it on liberals.
re: #192 Barefoot Grin
Yesterday I was sitting with our dog on “her” sofa (as opposed to the new one that we are trying to keep her off) watching TV. I turned off the TV to go run an errand. As i was leaving the TV came back on again. Somehow she either grabbed the remote with her mouth and turned it back on or laid her head on it in just such a way. I just left.
always best…
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Forgot. Tomorrow is my birthday.
SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHO IS THIS OLD FART IN MY MIRROR? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU GODDAMN PUNKS!
I now return you to your regular programming.
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
mine’s on Monday.
You’ll still be older than me.
barely…
You’ll have to share Shiplord Kriel’s cake then.
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I hope you’ve planned some quality yelling at clouds time.
W and Reagan judges on the panel …
NEW: Ninth Circuit says Trump’s gag rule that bans Title X recipients from performing or supporting abortion as a method of family planning can go into effect for now. https://t.co/5PrnXOmNNH
— Bloomberg Law (@BLaw) June 20, 2019
re: #181 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Forgot. Tomorrow is my birthday.
SEVENTY FUCKING YEARS OLD! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? WHO IS THIS OLD FART IN MY MIRROR? GET OFF MY LAWN YOU GODDAMN PUNKS!
I now return you to your regular programming.
Happy Birthday!
Never stop chasing the sun.
Some more fake outrage (and blatant falsehood) from the right.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL TO COVER UP GEORGE WASHINGTON MURAL
There’s plans in the works to cover a mural of George Washington from the halls of George Washington High School in San Francisco due to complaints that it’s offensive and demeaning to Native Americans and African Americans.
The San Francisco school board is expected to decide next week whether to cover the image or paint over it, but there’s no plans among top officials to leave the imagery in the open for students to view, according to several Bay Area news reports.
Front Page uses this image to illustrate the story:
OH HAI LIZARDIA from beautiful Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
We’re on our way to Wilkes-Barre for our granddaughter’s Bat Mitzvah.
We experienced intense rainstorms all along the Ohio Turnpike. Then once we left the Turnpike at Youngstown we got an emergency text message YOU HAVE ENTERED A FLASH FLOOD AREA.
We were hoping to get at least as far as Bloomburg but I was getting really fatigued so we turned in at a Holiday Inn Express.
She definitely has the look down pic.twitter.com/Q6QjuE1RTu
— Frank thee Goddamned (@goddamnedfrank) June 20, 2019
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI LIZARDIA from beautiful Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
We’re on our way to Wilkes-Barre for our granddaughter’s Bat Mitzvah.
We experienced intense rainstorms all along the Ohio Turnpike. Then once we left the Turnpike at Youngstown we got an emergency text message YOU HAVE ENTERED A FLASH FLOOD AREA.
We were hoping to get at least as far as Bloomburg but I was getting really fatigued so we turned in at a Holiday Inn Express.
and now you can claim to be an expert in any field of your choice!
11 Republican state senators fled Oregon to deny Democrats a quorum for cap-and-trade legislation.
The governor sent state troopers to bring them back. https://t.co/8NpROsM3NS— Bloomberg Environment (@environment) June 20, 2019
Okay. That’s it. I’m going for Chinese food.
You guys stay here. If I’m not back by dawn, I’m not coming back.— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) June 20, 2019
Trump 2020 senior campaign official @marc_lotter says Mexico is paying for a “virtual wall” pic.twitter.com/NVDWdSkpfj
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) June 20, 2019
I’m guessing that’s like the invisible planes that the moron keeps bragging about.
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
Ilse, I hardly recognized ya.
“fuck the police” pic.twitter.com/x2Euh7FQ2T
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) June 20, 2019
One donor paid $17,000,000 to help Kavanaugh lie his way onto the Court. Shouldn’t we know who that was? … and what business he or she has before the Court? https://t.co/yUvMXzyerQ
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) June 20, 2019
re: #203 goddamnedfrank
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Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost says the description of immigration facilities as “concentration camps” is “offensive
To who?
re: #205 Anymouse 🌹
11 Republican state senators fled Oregon to deny Democrats a quorum for cap-and-trade legislation.
The governor sent state troopers to bring them back. ]
Keeps getting better:
Oregon Republican senator threatens state troopers, warns them to ‘come heavily armed’
oregonlive.com
re: #169 I Would Prefer Not To
Great News.
We can once again use this….
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Also worth following this Twitter account:
WELL, SHIT https://t.co/RIx0Yc7nwF
— Roy Moore’s Horse (@RoyMooresHorse) June 20, 2019
Poor Sassy.
Wypipo really piss me off.
And I’m one of the bastards.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
When making public statements:
“Is it true?”
“Is it useful?”
“Will it be predictably misused?”
Confirms RNC is paying Hicks’s legal fees pic.twitter.com/9WSA948GSb
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) June 20, 2019
We have half the money. Need the rest funded.
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 20, 2019
re: #219 gocart mozart
Commandeer and nationalize a film studio.
Early 2020.
After months of grueling, shocking impeachment hearings and rancorous debate, public opinion miraculously forces the GOP to turn against Trump. He’s impeached, convicted and removed from office.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
In his first statement as new president of the US, Mike Pence announces that the Lord Almighty has bestowed a terrible responsibility on him, declares martial law and begins a nightmarish rule of theocracy that destroys the world economy, incites war and unrest in the US …
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
…and across the globe, and ushers in a new Dark Age that lasts for 50 years.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
— A bad dream I had last night.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
re: #221 Charles Johnson
50 years? Dream darker.
re: #221 Charles Johnson
So you’re saying you no longer favor impeachment?
Look, no hands! 👏
A robot named Bumble became the first #Astrobee robot to fly under its own power in space recently. During tests, the free-flying robot system will help perform routine work alongside astronauts aboard the @Space_Station. More: https://t.co/VcYDicqhhM pic.twitter.com/hBHyQ0rcMV— NASA (@NASA) June 20, 2019
Exactly what the nazis said.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 20, 2019
Rare to find someone straight up admit to being a Nazi.
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) June 21, 2019
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
You want to take a scenic ride to Wilkes Barre look at US 220 East at the bottom of Snow Shoe. It’s your next downhill from Clearfield. Just about 35 or so miles east. Add about an hour or so if you take 220 to US 15 north to US 6 to WBS. I think you might enjoy it if you are sight seeing and not hurried. Most of the heavy rain is hopefully done through there.
Have fun.
You will not be spared, for the hour of truth has come. pic.twitter.com/PJwx2BxYHu
— Black Metal Cats (@evilbmcats) June 20, 2019
What if “the racist bone” is not kept in the body, but is instead worn like an amulet around the neck and rubbed like a magic charm when politically useful? https://t.co/FjqxwWV5by
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) June 20, 2019
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
OH HAI LIZARDIA from beautiful Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
We’re on our way to Wilkes-Barre for our granddaughter’s Bat Mitzvah.
We experienced intense rainstorms all along the Ohio Turnpike. Then once we left the Turnpike at Youngstown we got an emergency text message YOU HAVE ENTERED A FLASH FLOOD AREA.
We were hoping to get at least as far as Bloomburg but I was getting really fatigued so we turned in at a Holiday Inn Express.
In the unlikely event you take the alternate route home - up 81 to Syracuse, Thruway to Buffalo, QEW/403/401/402 across southwest Ontario - there’s a kosher meal on us here in Rochester, at your choice of the one kosher restaurant in town, assuming it’s open.
(Which is still one more kosher restaurant than Scranton, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo combined.)
As Anymouse can now testify, we treat visiting Lizards royally here in these parts!
We will not be taking opinions on who is or isn’t a rabbi from neo-Nazis at this time. 👎
Check out our exhibit on women rabbis to learn more about how women have transformed Jewish life with their leadership.
https://t.co/Ae3VJwzqMj pic.twitter.com/sJIWaEzO5v— Jewish Women’s Archive (@jwaonline) June 20, 2019
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) June 21, 2019
re: #229 i(m)p(each)sos
In the unlikely event you take the alternate route home - up 81 to Syracuse, Thruway to Buffalo, QEW/403/401/402 across southwest Ontario - there’s a kosher meal on us here in Rochester, at your choice of the one kosher restaurant in town, assuming it’s open.
(Which is still one more kosher restaurant than Scranton, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo combined.)
As Anymouse can now testify, we treat visiting Lizards royally here in these parts!
LOL We are going up 81 to Wilkes-Barre. Haven’t thought about taking the Canadian route back but I know the 401/402 like I know the back of my hand!
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
mine’s on Monday.
You’ll still be older than me.
barely…
Ha. I’m older than both of ya!
re: #214 Decatur Deb
Keeps getting better:
Oregon Republican senator threatens state troopers, warns them to ‘come heavily armed’
oregonlive.com
This whole idea of putting the carbon offset into a referendum is nothing but a delaying tactic by the Republicans in Oregon.
If a majority of the state supported the Republicans, they would be the majority in the House and Senate.
More fiscal conservatism: We’ll spend a bunch of money on a pointless referendum rather than doing the job we were elected to do. If they think this is so bad, it’s their job to convince the voters and their colleagues why it’s bad.
Governing is hard (which is why conservatives are so bad at it).
re: #226 Mescalero09
You want to take a scenic ride to Wilkes Barre look at US 220 East at the bottom of Snow Shoe. It’s your next downhill from Clearfield. Just about 35 or so miles east. Add about an hour or so if you take 220 to US 15 north to US 6 to WBS. I think you might enjoy it if you are sight seeing and not hurried. Most of the heavy rain is hopefully done through there.
Have fun.
Or, rather than 15 north to pick up 6, either 287 (wave at me 4 miles up it) or 14 after it splits from 15. Or just stay on 220 to 6. Central North PA is beautiful.
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