An Amazing Tiny Desk Concert: Betty Who

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Watch Betty Who play “Taste”, “Friend Like Me” and “I Remember” at the Tiny Desk.

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June 26, 2019 | Josh Rogosin — One of my favorite things about Tiny Desk concerts is that artists are often inspired to experiment. Betty Who was in town recently for a three-night residency at D.C.’s famed 9:30 Club where her sound was larger than life. The subwoofers cranked out backing tracks you could feel in your gut and dancers flanked the pop star, punctuating every pulsating beat. But she began her Tiny Desk performance with only her cello and her voice — the first time she’s ever accompanied one of her original songs with the instrument. She grew up in Sydney, Australia, and started playing at the age of four (just like Yo-Yo Ma). Maybe it had something to do with her mom being in the room, but emotions ran high for the charismatic and chatty singer. “I didn’t want to be the girl who played cello and sang,” she told the crowd gathered to watch. “‘Cause that girl feels really far away from ass-out, sparkle-covered pop-star me.”

Betty Who’s third LP, Betty, falls squarely in the Roséwave, sun’s-out, buns-out pop genre. When all the studio production is stripped away, what’s left are intricate melodies that soar through Betty’s impressive vocal range and relatable lyrics. As the audio engineer for the Tiny Desk concert series, I’m always curious how the vocals will translate without the aid of pitch correction and tons of effects you hear on the album. I’m a sucker for great melody and Betty Who’s raw vocal performance at her Tiny Desk had me in a state of aural ecstasy.

Adding to the jazzy vibe of the intimate performance are Betty’s touring musicians, Myla Bocage on keys and Ian Barnett on the drum pad. Jemila Dunham is in full-on beast-mode on bass.

Betty Who says she dreamed of having a Tiny Desk concert ever since she was a teenager. She chose to end hers by asking everyone to sing along to the track, “I Remember.” The melody worms its way into my ear, whisking me off to summer in my mind’s eye. Poolside. Glass of rosé in hand. Later, I’m jumping up and down at the club in perfect sync with new-found friends. Everyone’s screaming along to the words as I realize I’m not sun-kissed, I’m sunburned. Never mind, it’s time to sing:

Dancing under the stars

Kissing you in the dark

I remember your love, oh

Never giving you up, giving you up, oh

SET LIST
Taste
Friend Like Me
I Remember

MUSICIANS
Betty Who: lead vocals, cello; Ian Barnett: drums; Jemila Dunham: bass; Myla Bocage: keys

CREDITS
Producers: Josh Rogosin, Morgan Noelle Smith; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Beck Harlan, Maia Stern, Jeremiah Rhodes; Production Assistant: Paul Georgoulis; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Photo: Shuran Huang/NPR

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stpaulbear  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:29:45pm

Betty Rolling Stones
Betty Beatles
Betty Kinks

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Belafon  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:31:47pm

I forgot to include a link to the story of the kid in the previous thread who is about to age out of foster care: kfor.com.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:32:12pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:53:00pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:54:57pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:55:44pm

EPR-radar, I used a comment of yours downstairs for a tweet.

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MsJ  Jul 3, 2019 • 8:56:45pm

When you need a little reinforcement that humanity doesn’t completely suck.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:13:23pm
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Belafon  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:16:51pm

re: #8 Dread Pirate

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Because they, like us, know it’s a middle-finger salute.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:18:11pm

Dude. This slow motion train wreck is fuckin’ surreal.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:18:12pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

EPR-Radar, I used a comment of yours downstairs for a tweet.

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Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot — none were struck down by lightning though they committed greater evil than our fuhrer has accomplished to date. I would suggest that means that any G-d that may exist may actually not be involved in human affairs; that we are left to solve our problems ourselves

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MsJ  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:18:36pm
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MsJ  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:21:12pm

O. M. G. There are many recipes here.

🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:21:22pm

MAD Magazine folded today.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:23:19pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

MAD Magazine folded today.

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A sign of the coming apocalypse?

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:27:12pm

My family took road trips to the midwest twice a year for years - once during Christmas and once in the summer - to visit our relatives in the midwest. My father had a subscription to MAD and he would save the issues and deploy them on me during these road trips. I spent many hours in the back seat of my family’s car reading that rag, and cracking the fuck up. I remember one time when we were getting gas in Murdo or North Platte, I can’t remember, and the latest issue of MAD was in the newsstand. My father bought it and gave it to me. It was the OJ issue. I lost that thing, wish I still had it.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:31:01pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Hey, I found the cover!!!

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:38:07pm
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sagehen  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:39:31pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

My family took road trips to the midwest twice a year for years - once during Christmas and once in the summer - to visit our relatives in the midwest. My father had a subscription to MAD and he would save the issues and deploy them on me during these road trips. I spent many hours in the back seat of my family’s car reading that rag, and cracking the fuck up. I remember one time when we were getting gas in Murdo or North Platte, I can’t remember, and the latest issue of MAD was in the newsstand. My father bought it and gave it to me. It was the OJ issue. I lost that thing, wish I still had it.

On my family’s road trips, we played word games.

This was in the days before seat belt laws; we’d pack the back of the station wagon in such a way as to have a space suitable for the winning child to lie down until the next winner was declared.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:41:04pm

My father would NOT allow Mad Magazine in our house.

So I bought the National Lampoon every month.

Now both are gone.

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MsJ  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:42:11pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 3, 2019 • 9:48:12pm

Not a good night to get TWO flat tires. Stupid pothole I missed that was between the left turn lane and forward lane. BAM. BAM. I thought, ouch, poor baby, you’ll be ok, and kept on turning through the arrow. Then my TPMS started screaming at me. Dammit. At least there was a not-busy parking lot right there, so I pulled in and backed up into a space (always try to do this if you need a tow). As soon as I got out of the car, I could hear the two right tires hissing at me in disapproval. Ugh. Sidewall damage on both. RIP.

Tesla roadside assistance, here I come. They were pretty great actually. The guy tried to find loaner 20” wheels (Yeah, stupid me had to get the performance version of the Model 3), and could only track one down. So the only other option was a tow truck. The tow came in about 45 minutes. Eh. Whatever. It is what it is. The guy knew exactly what to do, and he was great. Got me up on the flatbed in no time. Ended up getting towed home so I could replace the two flats with two of the winter wheels/tires I have. Thank goodness for that.

I guess I’ll find out tomorrow how the car will react to having two different size wheels on it. lol

Of course, it being me, this had to happen on a holiday. I haven’t had a flat in more than 10 years. Go big or go home I guess! Have to get by until next Wednesday for two new tires. Discount Tire thankfully makes things easy online.

Cost of the tow? $0. But I tipped the driver $20. It’s all I had on me. At first he refused, but I insisted. Tires on the other hand. Anyone have a spare arm and leg? I got the road hazard this time.

I need a drink. :)

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:03:44pm
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Kilroy was here  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:08:24pm

From the last thread..

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Targetpractice  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:11:42pm

It’s sad that, at age 35, I’m already having “Kids these days” moments. Case in point, seeing a 20-something complain about the cost of bottled water from a hotel market. It’s not that he’s complaining about the cost, which would be dumb by itself to anyone who’s ever stayed in a hotel/flown on a plane/gone to a tourist trap/etc. It’s not that he balked when I told him there was a 7-11 just 15 minutes walk down the street. It’s that he’s staying at a hotel which not only includes full kitchen set-ups in their basic rooms, but also comes with glassware which means he could just do as millions of Americans did for decades and drink a glass of water from the tap.

And I see this on almost a daily basis, people come in and buy overpriced bottles of water while bitching to me about how “expensive” ($3/bottle) they are. Which only makes it more hilarious when so many of these same drama queens will drink water from the big water jug put next to the coffee station…which comes from the damned tap.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:21:53pm

I’ll put this here, on this here Independence Day 2019.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:32:17pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

I’ve served tourists for work pretty much my entire adult life. The endless pit of stupidity with some of these people is truly endless.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:37:59pm

re: #6 teleskiguy

Accuweather is forecasting heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon, with showers and thunderstorms in the evening.

And hot. And humid.

Blecch.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:41:46pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

Here in Czech Republic, a 2 liter bottle of store-brand soda water is 22 cents. Yep…..$0.22.

Then again, it’s been widely noted that drinking tap water here probably isn’t a good idea - there’s lots of contamination in the water supply, the result of decades of heavy industry.

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sagehen  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:42:47pm

re: #27 teleskiguy

I’ve served tourists for work pretty much my entire adult life. The endless pit of stupidity with some of these people is truly endless.

And yet the stupidity displayed by these tourists here in the US… pales in comparison to the stupidity displayed by American tourists in foreign countries.

There’s a good reasons young Americans put maple leaf patches on their backpacks before buying a Eurailpass. Why we practice our Canadian accents, and study up on Canadian geography and culture before even boarding the plane.

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sagehen  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:43:32pm

re: #28 Dr Lizardo

Accuweather is forecasting heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon, with showers and thunderstorms in the evening.

And hot. And humid.

Blecch.

If Trump and Pence are both struck by lightning, that would make Nancy president.

Let us pray.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:43:46pm

re: #28 Dr Lizardo

Accuweather is forecasting heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon, with showers and thunderstorms in the evening.

And hot. And humid.

Blecch.

Perfect weather for YUGE RECORD BREAKING CROWDS THE LIKES OF WHICH HUMANKIND HAS NEVER SEEN! BIGLY!

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:47:00pm

re: #32 teleskiguy

Perfect weather for YUGE RECORD BREAKING CROWDS THE LIKES OF WHICH HUMANKIND HAS NEVER SEEN! BIGLY!

Watching Trump rage against the weather on Twitter would be the funniest thing ever. Quite literally “old man yells at clouds”.

Heh.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:47:10pm

Please assure me that the ticket does NOT look like this.

PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS A FAKE TICKET! PLEASE!
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:47:20pm

Trouble in his Brazilian paradise.

Outcry after reports Brazil plans to investigate Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)

Federal police reportedly asked money laundering unit to investigate the ‘financial activities’ of the US journalist

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:48:33pm

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹

Trouble in his Brazilian paradise.

Outcry after reports Brazil plans to investigate Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)

Criswell Bacon has been predicting that Goofball Glenn was going to get kicked out of Brazil and he’ll hightail it to Moscow!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:51:20pm

re: #28 Dr Lizardo

Accuweather is forecasting heavy thunderstorms in the afternoon, with showers and thunderstorms in the evening.

And hot. And humid.

Blecch.

Oh, I can imagine Orange Foolius locking himself in the bathroom while he sings this!

Don’t Rain On My Parade - Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl 1968

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:52:08pm

re: #26 teleskiguy

I’ll put this here, on this here Independence Day 2019.

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Our nation lost so much when he was assassinated. It was a bleak year in a decade that started with so much promise but was filled with so much violence and despair — and some glimmers of hope.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:52:25pm

Why are there more guns in this country as opposed to other countries? Because of dudes like this.

apologies to Lizards who collect guns and don’t threaten to kill locals, you know who you are

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:52:31pm

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹

Trouble in his Brazilian paradise.

Outcry after reports Brazil plans to investigate Glenn Greenwald (The Guardian)

re: #36 Joe Bacon 🌹

How long before Greewald hightails it out of Brazil? I figure it’ll be in the next month or so. If he’s smart, he’ll get the hell outta there before being investigated turns out to be the least of his worries.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:55:28pm

re: #37 Joe Bacon 🌹

I honestly don’t know if rain/thunderstorms is “typical weather” for Washington D.C. in early July; I grew up in L.A., where the 4th of July was almost invariably warm and sunny. Hell, the weather was usually perfect even up in the Portland, OR area on July 4th.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 10:56:35pm

I have probably a couple dozen pairs of skis that I’ve collected over the years. It’s nostalgia more than anything. I can imagine gun collecting on the same plane. But there comes a time when you’ve got several dozen firearms and many thousands of rounds of ammunition *and* you’re spoutin’ off on social media that you’d like to shoot a bunch of people…

FUCK THE SECOND AMENDMENT!

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Targetpractice  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:01:39pm

For anybody who cares, Jim Zogby has a sad:

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TedStriker  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:06:09pm

re: #43 Targetpractice

For anybody who cares, Jim Zogby has a sad:

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Good…fuck Bernie and fuck Zogby.

Bernie’s as much an egomaniac as Trump is, he’s just much more urbane at it, cloaking it in his brand of populist socialism.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:06:18pm

re: #43 Targetpractice

For anybody who cares, Jim Zogby has a sad:

In that thread, on people bashing Joe Biden over busing:

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:06:52pm

Bootleg stuff on Twitter of Umphrey’s McGee playing tonight in Anaheim.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:17:47pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

MAD Magazine folded today.

I am profoundly sad to hear that after 67 years, MAD Magazine is ceasing publication. I can’t begin to describe the impact it had on me as a young kid - it’s pretty much the reason I turned out weird. Goodbye to one of the all-time greatest American institutions.

The refused to take advertising money in order to guarantee their independence of expression. That ideal was not lost on me even as a kid and is still with me today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:19:37pm

re: #20 Joe Bacon 🌹

My father would NOT allow Mad Magazine in our house.

So I bought the National Lampoon every month.

Now both are gone.

Both of those magazines, (along with the Firesign Theater & Monty Python) greatly influenced my sense of humor and satire as a kid/teenager.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:21:45pm

re: #14 teleskiguy

MAD Magazine folded today.

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Facebook

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:22:05pm

So I’m seeing that the U.S. Treasury yield curve is inverted, and has been inverted for the last quarter. That’s usually considered a reliable warning klaxon that a recession is on the way.

If you believe the signals coming out of the bond market, it might be time to start counting down until our next recession.

As of this week, the U.S. Treasury yield curve has now been inverted for a full quarter—an incredibly dull-sounding turn of events that happens to be an unusually reliable warning sign that an economic downturn is on the way. The yield curve has flipped prior to each of the last seven official recessions over the past 50 years, without a single false-alarm during that stretch. If securities could talk, in other words, they’d be screaming bloody murder about trouble ahead.

When finance types say that the yield curve is “inverted,” what they really mean is that the typical order of the debt markets that prevails when the economy is healthy has been turned on its head. Usually, long-term U.S. government bonds offer higher yields than short-term ones, because buyers demand higher interest rates in return for locking up their money for greater periods of time. There are a few reasons why this is the case, but a big one is that the longer it takes to get repaid, the more risk there is that inflation will eat up your investment.

slate.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:25:06pm

Al Jaffee is still alive. He’s 98 years old.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:28:32pm

Al Jaffee is a southerner.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:29:18pm

Stephen Colbert is a southerner.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:32:51pm

Even though it’s a bit early, it is already July 4th here in Europe, so Happy 4th of July, everyone.

And this friendly reminder……

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:34:52pm

Bill Hicks was a southerner.

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sagehen  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:41:01pm

re: #48 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Both of those magazines, (along with the Firesign Theater & Monty Python) greatly influenced my sense of humor and satire as a kid/teenager.

This is why we like you.

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:41:57pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:51:21pm

The weather is about to smite us.

wunderground.com (NEXRAD radar from Cheyenne)

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Targetpractice  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:52:53pm

Oh the humanity!

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:54:56pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:56:13pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:58:02pm

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

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teleskiguy  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:58:49pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 3, 2019 • 11:58:49pm

The guy running against Maxine Waters is involved in a lover’s quarrel on Twitter with the woman who wants to run against Nancy Pelosi (both Rs).

This guy’s pinned tweet kicks both homeless people and hits racist dogwhistles. Daily Double for a conservative.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:02:32am

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

How long before Greewald hightails it out of Brazil? I figure it’ll be in the next month or so. If he’s smart, he’ll get the hell outta there before being investigated turns out to be the least of his worries.

Knowing something about Brazil, I have always thought that GG’s tenure there was not as secure as his hubris apparently led him to believe. This became critical after Bolsonaro was elected, yet GG still dawdles, sublimely convinced that bad stuff only happens to little people, especially little people who are not friends of Putin.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:02:36am

“Doing cocaine and sleeping with Proud Boys”?

Talk about living the dream…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:03:17am

re: #65 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Knowing something about Brazil, I have always thought that GG’s tenure there was not as secure as his hubris apparently led him to believe. This became critical after Bolsonaro was elected, yet GG still dawdles, sublimely convinced that bad stuff only happens to little people, especially little people who are not friends of Putin.

The fate of a useful idiot once they cease being useful

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:04:39am

re: #51 teleskiguy

Al Jaffee is still alive. He’s 98 years old.

Al Jaffee has been a prominent cartoonist for my entire lifetime, which is saying something. I have followed him for about 60 years.

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teleskiguy  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:04:53am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:08:34am

I wonder if someone will manage to bring an actual Sherman tank to Cheetolini’s big show later today.

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ckkatz  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:09:05am

re: #41 Dr Lizardo

I honestly don’t know if rain/thunderstorms is “typical weather” for Washington D.C. in early July; I grew up in L.A., where the 4th of July was almost invariably warm and sunny. Hell, the weather was usually perfect even up in the Portland, OR area on July 4th.

Yes evening thunderstorms is a quite common summer pattern in the DC region. A microburst in one Fairfax County neighborhood Tuesday night shut down 16 different blocks by knocking down trees and power wires. The total for the rest of the County was 1 block.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:12:18am

Rain is coming down really hard here now, with one helluva lighting show.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:12:57am

re: #70 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I wonder if someone will manage to bring an actual Sherman tank to Cheetolini’s big show later today.

Brand new Sherman, same old Georgia…

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Scout  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:19:39am

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

That’s geo-blocked in Japan.

Just an FYI.

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teleskiguy  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:21:06am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:22:32am

Glenn is putting into practice his original plan: To attack Brazilian institutions and then pose as a victim telling the world that he is being persecuted by an authoritarian and oppressive government. Modes operandi known and operated by the defeated left.

There is so much wrong there.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:26:04am

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:29:01am

LOL:

My favorite editorial of the week is in today’s New York Times and written by Michelle Goldberg.

Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock, but at least he’s humiliating John Bolton in the process.

The bully finally gets to learn what being the victim feels like. That’s Schadenfreudealicious.

It is particularity enjoyable that Tucker Carlson (Trump’s new shoe shiner) referred to Bolton as a “bureaucratic tapeworm.” I am certain that Bolton thinks Carlson is an intellectual lightweight - Hell, Dirt Janochek thinks Tucker Carlson is a mental lightweight and Dirt still points at the words when he reads something. So, being replaced in North Korea by boy child Carlson - that’s gotta sting.

And then Trump keeps calling him Mike. I guess that’s because John is so hard to spell what with that silent h.

I admit it. I’m enjoying it. I just wish they’d let me throw a pie in his face before he inevitably goes to jail for Trump.

I Just Love This (goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon)

Be Sociable, Share!

Sure thing, Ms. Bankston.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:38:02am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 1:10:31am

The Coins of No Nation (goes to The Baffler)

They go after Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency offering, Libra, along with its aging userbase.

Facebook’s white paper on Libra positions Facebook as a saviour to the more than a billion people with no banking access, claiming this is the root cause of poverty.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 4, 2019 • 1:17:22am

re: #53 teleskiguy

Stephen Colbert is a southerner.

Hunter Thompson was a southerner.
I live in the South.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 1:17:31am

Another line of thunderstorms is rapidly building and approaching. Another pounding en route.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 1:29:17am

Smiting round two under way. Lots of lightning again.

wunderground.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 2:17:54am

re: #81 Decatur Deb

Hunter Thompson was a southerner.
I live in the South.

not to mention Samuel Clemens

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 2:20:26am

Punked:

North Korea has accused the US of being “hell-bent on hostile acts”, despite a recent agreement between the two countries to resume nuclear talks.

Pyongyang’s delegation to the United Nations said on Wednesday that the US was “obsessed with sanctions”.

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Chrysicat  Jul 4, 2019 • 2:22:57am

(In response to the post about 12 hours ago about looking for alternate realities)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 2:24:21am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹

The Coins of No Nation (goes to The Baffler)

They go after Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency offering, Libra, along with its aging userbase.

Facebook’s white paper on Libra positions Facebook as a saviour to the more than a billion people with no banking access, claiming this is the root cause of poverty.

It offers them a chance to monitor and manipulate our lives in ways that were heretofore impossible

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Decatur Deb  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:10:09am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

not to mention Samuel Clemens

I never think of Missouri as “South”, though it is below the M-D line. More like No Man’s Land.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:12:34am

re: #88 Decatur Deb

I never think of Missouri as “South”, though it is below the M-D line. More like No Man’s Land.

With their abortion laws and politicians, it’s more like “No Woman’s Land.” (It is above the Mason-Dixon line except for the Bootheel: the southern boundary of Missouri is that line.)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:16:16am

The thunderstorms have passed. The whole Nebraska Panhandle (except the southernmost counties) are under a flood warning now. Yay.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:31:57am

NONE of what’s been going on is ‘governing’ in any sense of the word

it’s not ‘brilliance’, or an individual style, or ‘just his way’

it’s chaos, caused by incompetence and ignorance and fueled by evil.

my flag flies today for the nation i thought we were and hope to be again

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:36:59am

The Big Island of Hawai’i is threatened by what would be Tropical Depression Barbara by the time it gets there (if it doesn’t dissipate first):

nhc.noaa.gov

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:37:13am

re: #91 DangerMan

NONE of what’s been going on is ‘governing’ in any sense of the word

it’s not ‘brilliance’, or an individual style, or ‘just his way’

it’s chaos, caused by incompetence and ignorance and fueled by evil.

my flag flies today for the nation i thought we were and hope to be again

and I still cannot believe how he is being allowed to get away with it.

It is more than him, it is the GOP and the fawning press. I will stop short of calling them enemies of the people, but I will not call them responsible journalists.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:42:08am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and I still cannot believe how he is being allowed to get away with it.

It is more than him, it is the GOP and the fawning press. I will stop short of calling them enemies of the people, but I will not call them responsible journalists.

And all those who voted for him, and the tens of millions who bought decades of conservative framing “both sides are the same.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:46:24am

Professional blowhard Christian apologist Josh Feuerstein is upset about Toy Story 4, calling it “propaganda.” (Goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for adult four-letter words with magic power over conservative Christians, 12:26)

Josh Feuerstein Thinks Toy Story 4 is Propaganda

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:51:43am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹

And all those who voted for him, and the tens of millions who bought decades of conservative framing “both sides are the same.”

lots of progressives bought the “no difference between Trump and Hillary” riff that was being botted about

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 3:56:48am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

lots of progressives bought the “no difference between Trump and Hillary” riff that was being botted about

Yup. Trump was not subjected to a sustained thirty year attack against here financed by people like the Scafies and the Arkansas Project. Trump got to call it in day after day to Morning Joe.

(Joe Scarborough, another so-called Never Trumper, hasn’t apologised for his part in creating Trump as a normal candidate.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:01:51am

re: #97 Anymouse 🌹

Yup. Trump was not subjected to a sustained thirty year attack against here financed by people like the Scafies and the Arkansas Project. Trump got to call it in day after day to Morning Joe.

(Joe Scarborough, another so-called Never Trumper, hasn’t apologised for his part in creating Trump as a normal candidate.)

We live in a country where a long record of public service is a distinct disadvantage.

People were fed up with politicians and politics as usual and DT was able to sell himself successfully as the anti-politician with no record of public service (an only a patchy and largely one-sided record of his private undertakings)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:03:58am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

We live in a country where a long record of public service is a distinct disadvantage.

People were fed up with politicians and politics as usual and DT was able to sell himself successfully as the anti-politician with no record of public service (an only a patchy and largely one-sided record of his private undertakings)

The only public service that seems to matter to a large portion of the electorate is military service. That’s a bad trend.

There is nothing wrong with military service (says the veteran), but as the “only” metric that is dangerous.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:05:38am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:07:43am

re: #100 MsJ

That happened a couple weeks ago, on June 19.

npr.org

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:07:43am

re: #100 MsJ

How was I unaware of this? I read all the time? Did I just forget? This is significant. I’d think I’d remember.

I’m starting to doubt my own memory.

Getting old sucks.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:09:44am

re: #102 MsJ

How was I unaware of this? I read all the time? Did I just forget? This is significant. I’d think I’d remember.

I’m starting to doubt my own memory.

Getting old sucks.

The firehose of bulkshyte that comes out of the administration, it’s hard to keep up. It’s not your memory.

From the NPR article I linked in #101:

“I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from human rights commitments,” Haley told the media. “On the contrary, we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”

The move comes as little surprise from an administration that frequently has lambasted the 47-member body for a gamut of perceived failures — particularly the dubious rights records of many of its member countries, as well as what Haley has repeatedly called the council’s “chronic bias against Israel.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:14:18am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹

The only public service that seems to matter to a large portion of the electorate is military service. That’s a bad trend.

There is nothing wrong with military service (says the veteran), but as the “only” metric that is dangerous.

Look what they did to Kerry’s military record.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:19:28am

re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Max Cleland would like a word as well….

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:20:32am

The Nautilus is broadcasting live though it’s the middle of the night where they are at. They’re doing another marathon session apparently.

Anyway, here’s a gnarly crab with a shrimp behind it that’s living life dangerously:

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:25:32am

re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #105 A Mom Anon

They’re not “true” military personnel (they are liberals).

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:29:50am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:36:18am

re: #108 MsJ

Figured that was coming. He started out as a Libertarian.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:38:46am

Decapod porn:

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A Mom Anon  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:38:48am

re: #108 MsJ

I just read this and while I appreciate his epiphany, this is still full of OMGBOTHSIDESBROKEEVERYHING! And he’s “independent “ too! He’s patting himself on the back just fine on his own, I’ll hold off on joining in for now. Let’s see what the actual fuck he DOES about all this besides quitting the GOP and chastising both sides.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:40:21am

re: #111 A Mom Anon

I just read this and while I appreciate his epiphany, this is still full of OMGBOTHSIDESBROKEEVERYHING! And he’s “independent “ too! He’s patting himself on the back just fine on his own, I’ll hold off on joining in for now. Let’s see what the actual fuck he DOES about all this besides quitting the GOP and chastising both sides.

Yup. His voting record going forward is what matters, not his words.

And that bothsiderist crap is still crap.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:47:33am

Thunderstorms likely all day in Washington.

forecast.weather.gov

Rain all week. Trump will be miserable if he can’t get out to his golf courses on our time.

There will be a shytesplosion on Twitter.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:50:01am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and I still cannot believe how he is being allowed to get away with it.

It is more than him, it is the GOP and the fawning press. I will stop short of calling them enemies of the people, but I will not call them responsible journalists.

for the R’s it’s power before everything
for the press/media it’s money before everything

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:50:57am

This is interesting - they come across these fish who are all spiraled up. This is not a still frame of a fish that is just flipping over during swimming, it’s really just floating around like this:

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:51:46am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

lots of progressives bought the “no difference between Trump and Hillary” riff that was being botted about

and many people who now have seen what can happen and know this admin is a pure shit show still seem willing to do it again

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 4:53:22am

Burboun is now flowing into the river after the Jim Beam fire.
greenwichtime.com

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:00:00am

re: #111 A Mom Anon

I just read this and while I appreciate his epiphany, this is still full of OMGBOTHSIDESBROKEEVERYHING! And he’s “independent “ too! He’s patting himself on the back just fine on his own, I’ll hold off on joining in for now. Let’s see what the actual fuck he DOES about all this besides quitting the GOP and chastising both sides.

He’ll always be a dickhead to me. His voting record shows that.

Just because you see the light doesn’t mean I’ll forgive and forget. I’ll never forgive any of them… Not one… Who spent years going on and on about how evil Dems are, etc. etc. etc. to now be never trump, because every one of those fuck nuts will be right back at it when a Dem is back in office (assuming we actually have real elections again).

Fuck every last one of them until the day they die. And piss on their graves for all eternity.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:07:01am

re: #114 DangerMan

for the R’s it’s power before everything
for the press/media it’s money before everything

it is all at the level of celebrity journalism, and that is all about access

withoutaccess they lose their jobs

but actually reporting on what trump does and calling him out on his lies and distortions would endanger access

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:07:55am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹

Burboun is now flowing into the river after the Jim Beam fire.
greenwichtime.com

Willie Nelson - Whiskey River

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Dave In Austin  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:12:54am

...

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Dave In Austin  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:15:04am

I don’t understand this but when I load pics from my iPhone, they post upside down.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:15:10am

this is just so pathetic

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b.d.  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:16:44am

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is just so pathetic

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lol, I can’t wait to see Aircraft One

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:17:42am

re: #124 b.d.

lol, I can’t wait to see Aircraft One

me too

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:21:14am

re: #122 Dave In Austin

I don’t understand this but when I load pics from my iPhone, they post upside down.

hold the phone upside down while loading

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:22:02am

re: #124 b.d.

lol, I can’t wait to see Aircraft One

Is he going to fetch the Wright Flyer out of the Smithsonian?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:22:09am

re: #122 Dave In Austin

I don’t understand this but when I load pics from my iPhone, they post upside down.

Turn your phone over when you take them.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:25:12am

re: #76 Anymouse 🌹

There is so much wrong there.

[Embedded content]

Glenn will jump sooner rather than later. The Brazilian justice system works differently than ours and more like the European systems - they will arrest and hold you sooner rather than later.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:26:20am

Ken Ham thinks libraries are too dangerous for kids.

(Yeah, he’s on about Teh Geyh, but kids can also read books that debunk Christianity in them.)

Goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for banishing invocations against religious people involving four-letter words, 15:02)

Ken Ham Thinks Libraries Are Becoming Too Dangerous For Kids

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Danack  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:27:49am

re: #124 b.d.

lol, I can’t wait to see Aircraft One

It does have cool music: Youtube Video

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Dave In Austin  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:29:20am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

hold the phone upside down while loading

I tried that……………..
(Dumbshit emoji)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:32:28am
134
jeffreyw  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:34:51am

Good morning!

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:41:07am
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Old Liberal  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:43:31am

re: #99 Anymouse 🌹

The only public service that seems to matter to a large portion of the electorate is military service. That’s a bad trend.

There is nothing wrong with military service (says the veteran), but as the “only” metric that is dangerous.

Yes they worship military service except when it’s Cheney or drumpf or on and on. In short, they’re full of shit. John Kerry? Max Clelland? Tammy Duckwirth? John McCain?

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Belafon  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:48:42am

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

I posted that video a couple of weeks ago when my son first showed it to me. We’re waiting. It’s currently being shown in Japan as it’s being produced. It’s by the guy who made Michiko & Hatchin and Cowboy Bebop, and takes place in the Bebop universe.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:49:04am
139
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:51:47am

now he’s retweeting other people’s Airing of Grievances…

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:52:08am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:53:21am

re: #139 Backwoods_Sleuth

now he’s retweeting other people’s Airing of Grievances…

You cannot be a victim and a victor at the same time.

You can either choose to win or accept your status as a loser.

The secret is that if you stop making excuses, you will no longer have to

Because the GOP acted so reasonably after 2008 and 2012.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:57:55am
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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 5:58:16am

re: #42 teleskiguy

I have probably a couple dozen pairs of skis that I’ve collected over the years. It’s nostalgia more than anything. I can imagine gun collecting on the same plane. But there comes a time when you’ve got several dozen firearms and many thousands of rounds of ammunition *and* you’re spoutin’ off on social media that you’d like to shoot a bunch of people…

FUCK THE SECOND AMENDMENT!

It’s all about the “*and*”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:01:45am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:07:45am

He’s still a Republican and hasn’t apologised for his part in building Movement Conservative, but his digs are funny.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:08:42am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:10:47am

re: #145 Anymouse 🌹

If the lawyer admit to a lack of understanding of the situation, why is this not de facto proof that (s)he has no legal argument worth considering? The law deals in facts not opinions. In theory.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:13:50am

hahahahahaaa

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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:15:53am

James Earl Jones reads Frederick Douglass

“What to the Slave is 4th of July” Frederick Douglass Speech

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:16:48am

re: #136 Old Liberal

Yes they worship military service except when it’s Cheney or drumpf or on and on. In short, they’re full of shit. John Kerry? Max Clelland? Tammy Duckwirth? John McCain?

They’ve always been full of shyte, particularly when they whatabout any spending to say “whatabout our homeless veterans.”

I can personally testify they do not give a shit about homeless veterans.

I’m pretty sure none of the people who spit on me or threw stuff at me (particularly pennies) were liberals.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:19:17am

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahaaa

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:24:22am

he’s not staying very long at his party…

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BigPapa  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:24:50am

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹

The Big Island of Hawai’i is threatened by what would be Tropical Depression Barbara by the time it gets there (if it doesn’t dissipate first):

nhc.noaa.gov

Sooner or later we’re gonna roll snake eyes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:31:58am

re: #153 BigPapa

Sooner or later we’re gonna roll snake eyes.

Well, if Nebraska can be hit by the remnants of hurricanes (Ike, which we had to dodge several hundred miles when we were going home to Oklahoma), I guess Hawai’i out in the ocean isn’t really safe.

We’re a bigger target though, even though we’re inland. We don’t normally get landfalling hurricanes though.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:32:04am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

he’s not staying very long at his party…

He’s staying for the flyover

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:32:35am

re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He’s staying for the flyover

Which is cancelled due to low ceilings and visibility.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:34:59am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

he’s not staying very long at his party…

He doesn’t care about anything but the association/attribution that this boondoggle will bring from him. And, a little Nuremberg rally cheering is always good for a dictator wannabe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:35:42am

re: #157 Colère Tueur de Lapin

He doesn’t care about anything but the association/attribution that this boondoggle will bring from him. And, a little Nuremberg rally cheering is always good for a dictator wannabe.

He needs a different kind of Nuremberg…

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:35:42am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹

Which is cancelled due to low ceilings and visibility.

Already canceled?

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:36:04am

re: #138 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

Are they still on the flatbeds?

That’s like trailering your Harley to bike week

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:36:49am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He needs a different kind of Nuremberg…

And a trip to gallows afterwards. Nah, jail is vastly preferable for the like of him.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:38:42am

re: #159 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Already canceled?

Yup. The Blue Angels noped out a couple days ago due to the weather. The ceilings and visibility will be so poor that they cannot safely do their manoevres over a city.

blueangels.navy.mil

According to their schedule, Kansas City seems to be back on (Trump had them cancel it for his own Orangepalooza.)

‘Murica:

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b.d.  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:40:20am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

he’s not staying very long at his party…

The SOB is going to have an hour long speech?

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:41:37am

re: #14 teleskiguy

MAD Magazine folded today.

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That totally sucks

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:45:12am

re: #155 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He’s staying for the flyover combover

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:45:53am

re: #163 b.d.

The SOB is going to have an hour long speech sundowning episode?

FTFY.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:46:15am

Wait for it … the press with “Today’s the day Donald Trump became presidential.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:46:30am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:47:39am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:50:47am

re: #163 b.d.

The SOB is going to have an hour long speech?

Stand by for whatever his prepared remarks are to his stump hate rally.

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b.d.  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:52:14am

re: #170 Anymouse 🌹

Stand by for whatever his prepared remarks are to his stump hate rally.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:52:48am

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Smack. Damn right, Mr. Wright.

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steve_davis  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:56:58am

re: #106 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Nautilus is broadcasting live though it’s the middle of the night where they are at. They’re doing another marathon session apparently.

Anyway, here’s a gnarly crab with a shrimp behind it that’s living life dangerously:

[Embedded content]

i salute our ancestors. I personally would never have looked at either that crab or the shrimp and thought, “Yep! That’s going in the pot!”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:57:21am
175
Barefoot Grin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:57:32am

Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” speech is being spread across social media sites, and a great speech it is. It’s also bringing out the army of “he was a Republican, donchaknow!” idiots.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:58:33am

re: #173 steve_davis

i salute our ancestors. I personally would never have looked at either that crab or the shrimp and thought, “Yep! That’s going in the pot!”

Hunger does quite a lot for the imagination and inventiveness.

Also, another point (beyond improving nutrition) that the discovery of fire and cooking has brought us.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 6:58:52am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:02:04am

really, stop whatever you are doing and watch this

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:04:04am

Trump’s popularity in Nebraska continues to fall, according to Morning Consult.

From his +25 victory in the election here, he is now at +1.

We are officially a swing state.
morningconsult.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:04:24am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:04:30am

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

That cat is a great jumper.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:05:09am

re: #181 PhillyPretzel

That cat is a great jumper.

beautiful form and stuck that landing!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:06:31am

re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth

Russia’s state TV panel laughs at the excitement of @FoxNews anchors gushing about Trump’s parade: “Two tanks is all they’ve got! Their paint is peeling, their uniforms are wrinkled! Trump should have asked our Defense Ministry to teach them how to organize military parades.”

Russia’s military would never flip off their C-in-C like that…

But again, parades with tanks and weaponry are not as big a part of the American tradition.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:10:46am

re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Russia’s military would never flip off their C-in-C like that…

But again, parades with tanks and weaponry are not as big a part of the American tradition.

Honestly, I have to say, when it comes to that sort of parade, the Russians are the absolute masters.

Russian Army Parade, Victory Day 2019 Парад Победы (the fun really starts at the 30:00 mark)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:12:07am
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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:16:19am

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

really, stop whatever you are doing and watch this

[Embedded content]

A cat that is quite secure in its coolness.

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danarchy  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:16:23am

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹

That happened a couple weeks ago, on June 19.

npr.org

Couple weeks and a year…

That’s a 2018 story. Niki Haley hasn’t been ambassador since October of last year.

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steve_davis  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:17:22am

re: #176 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Hunger does quite a lot for the imagination and inventiveness.

Also, another point (beyond improving nutrition) that the discovery of fire and cooking has brought us.

Just imagine the reaction of the first person to suck meat out of the legs of that first crab: “Holy shit. I could easily sell these frozen in a bag for 13.99.”

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:18:04am

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s missing a stain in the diaper.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:18:09am

So, the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld now has a newly discovered species of jumping spider named in his honor.

A Queensland Museum arachnologist has helped identify five new species of tiny brushed jumping spiders the size of a grain of rice.

The group includes a spider named after Karl Lagerfeld. Arachnologist Danilo Harms, said the spider had a distinct look that was reminiscent of the late fashion designer.

“Jotus karllagerfeldi is a black and white spider which we looked at and instantly thought of Karl Lagerfeld and his signature look, as the spider has large black eyes, which reminded us of sunglasses and its black and white front legs were reminiscent of Lagerfeld’s kent collar,” he said.

theguardian.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:18:18am

re: #187 danarchy

Couple weeks and a year…

That’s a 2018 story. Niki Haley hasn’t been ambassador since October of last year.

You’re correct. Maybe I should put my bifocals on.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:20:46am

re: #191 Anymouse 🌹

::: pulling out the readers :::
Ahh Now I can see the screen although there are some things one rather not see.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:23:21am

re: #129 Feline Fearless Leader

Glenn will jump sooner rather than later. The Brazilian justice system works differently than ours and more like the European systems - they will arrest and hold you sooner rather than later.

Shame. And right after his significant other bought his way into the government.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:24:58am
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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:25:14am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹

He who? I didn’t see any tears.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:27:47am
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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:28:15am

re: #152 Backwoods_Sleuth

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he’s not staying very long at his party…

Having to pay people to show up is expensive. They can only afford an hour or so.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:28:42am

re: #14 teleskiguy

That’s too bad. Haven’t read it in years but it will be missed as it had an outsize influence on our culture.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:29:38am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

Another reason not to shop at Hobby Lobby. There are other craft shops in Philly.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:31:46am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

Christians are going to turn this into a Christian state if they have to do it at gunpoint.

That wouldn’t be the first time for a lot of nations.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:33:20am

re: #190 Dr Lizardo

So, the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld now has a newly discovered species of jumping spider named in his honor.

theguardian.com

Ugh. That guy was such an asshole.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:34:28am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does the LATIMES extend the same courtesy to other religious groups? That ad is disgusting on so many levels and insulting to non-Christians.

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BigPapa  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:34:59am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:35:50am

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

They sell full page ads. If you have the money you can buy one.

I suspect their editorial policy allows for religious advertisements as long as the advert does not call for violence, etc.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:37:35am

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

Does the LATIMES extend the same courtesy to other religious groups? That ad is disgusting on so many levels and insulting to non-Christians.

I presume they would if they ponied up the money.

On another note, there is no proclamation for Independence day on the White House proclamations page.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:41:38am

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹

According to this site: gaebler.com

So at $865 per column inch, figure out how many column inches are in a full page and you get an estimate for the cost of a full page.

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Old Liberal  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:44:00am

re: #179 Anymouse 🌹

Trump’s popularity in Nebraska continues to fall, according to Morning Consult.

From his +25 victory in the election here, he is now at +1.

We are officially a swing state.
morningconsult.com

Do you think there is a reasonable chance Nebraska would go for Warren, for example?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:44:08am

re: #206 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

According to this site: gaebler.com

So at $865 per column inch, figure out how many column inches are in a full page and you get an estimate for the cost of a full page.

132 column inches in a full-page ad (broadsheet). So that’d be $114,180 bucks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:45:32am

re: #208 Dr Lizardo

Yes though I suspect there is a discount.

An old rate I found in the search said $38k for a full page b/w content.

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danarchy  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:45:37am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹

Yup. The Blue Angels noped out a couple days ago due to the weather. The ceilings and visibility will be so poor that they cannot safely do their manoevres over a city.

blueangels.navy.mil

According to their schedule, Kansas City seems to be back on (Trump had them cancel it for his own Orangepalooza.)

I’ve seen a couple tweets to that effect in the past couple days, but I haven’t seen any official statement. As of this morning I am still seeing them listed on schedules for a flyover in most articles. Don’t think they are actually doing a show.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:47:14am

re: #207 Old Liberal

Do you think there is a reasonable chance Nebraska would go for Warren, for example?

I think Nebraska is one of those states that carves up their electoral college votes by district. Warren could win some (2?????) in the Omaha area. If only we had an expert here at LGF, someone on the ground that could tell us about local politics (and water). Maybe in an alternative universe……

update In 2008, Barack Obama won Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District (Omaha and its suburbs), gaining a Democratic electoral vote in that state for the first time since 1964.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:47:46am

re: #210 danarchy

I’ve seen a couple tweets to that effect in the past couple days, but I haven’t seen any official statement. As of this morning I am still seeing them listed on schedules for a flyover in most articles. Don’t think they are actually doing a show.

The weather is better than what had been forecasted. We’ll have to see.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:48:03am

re: #207 Old Liberal

Do you think there is a reasonable chance Nebraska would go for Warren, for example?

I don’t know. I do know a whole bunch of farmers and ranchers are pissed Trump ruined the sale of their crops and cattle.

They might not go for Warren, Harris, et. al., but some might. And a lot might stay home (well, figuratively since we have mail-in ballots).

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Old Liberal  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:48:31am

re: #202 Patricia Kayden

Does the LATIMES extend the same courtesy to other religious groups? That ad is disgusting on so many levels and insulting to non-Christians.

“Today on the 243rd anniversary of the Declaration we bring you a slogan first created in the 1950s”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:50:26am

re: #212 MsJ

The weather is better than what had been forecasted. We’ll have to see.

weather conditions will deteriorate as the day goes on.
significant afternoon heating will make the atmosphere increasingly unstable.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:50:27am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

I think Nebraska is one of those states that carves up their electoral college votes by district. Warren could win some (2?????) in the Omaha area. If only we had an expert here at LGF, someone on the ground that could tell us about local politics (and water). Maybe in an alternative universe……

Yes, we carve up our electoral votes.

If a Democratic candidate took NE2 (Omaha) as Obama did in 2008 (before the GOP gerrymandered a bunch of my rural district into it), that would be great. If they also took Lincoln (NE1), that would give the Democrats four out of five of our electoral votes.

I’m on the ground here in NE3, which would vote for R-Asteroid. That said, a lot of people are pissed at both Trump and FOX.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:52:15am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

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There was an actual time when Otis Chandler insisted on telling the truth in the Los Angeles Times. Then they gave him the boot and kicked him out in the mid 80s.

Since Otis got the boot, this is what I expect to see from a Republican propaganda rag whose emblem for years was supporting “True Industrial Freedom”, i.e. no labor unions…

I quit reading the Lies Angeles Times after they joined forces with the Screw York Times and Washington Post to attack Gary Webb and lie about North and the Neocons flooding South Central Los Angeles with Contra Cocaine.

They destroyed the man who exposed it—Gary Webb and they drove him to suicide.

That’s when I began to turn on the liars in the mainstream press and when they endlessly kissed Slappy Thomas’ ass to get that crook on the Court that’s when I realized they’re all cogs in the Republican Bullshit Machine.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:52:31am

re: #214 Old Liberal

“Today on the 243rd anniversary of the Declaration we bring you a slogan first created in the 1950s”

The Founders would appeal to Providence, but also knew that to do things and change things took forethought, planning, and then action. No simply sitting back and saying “In God We Trust”.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:52:45am

Here is the local forecast for Philly. Possible thunderstorms this afternoon.
forecast.weather.gov

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:55:04am

re: #214 Old Liberal

“Today on the 243rd anniversary of the Declaration we bring you a slogan first created in the 1950s”

Sure is amazing that a business that imports a lot of cheap Chinese crap loves to talk the Jesus talk while they walk the Ayn Rand Walk just like the overwhelming majority of American Xtians do.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:55:28am

My simple response to those angry at Nike over the flag shoe.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 7:56:45am

re: #219 PhillyPretzel

Here is the local forecast for Philly. Possible thunderstorms this afternoon.
forecast.weather.gov

We’re still under a Flash Flood Watch, with thunderstorms slated all week.

forecast.weather.gov

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:07:21am

re: #221

My simple response to those angry at Nike over the flag shoe.

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OMG! At one time I owned several domain names related to “sole stickers,” which were to be worn on the soles of your shoes as an insult. I love this! Wish I had the time to do the real thing.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:07:57am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

weather conditions will deteriorate as the day goes on.
significant afternoon heating will make the atmosphere increasingly unstable.

Why does that make me happy?

I hate this world we live in now.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:08:47am

re: #216 Anymouse 🌹

Yes, we carve up our electoral votes.

If a Democratic candidate took NE2 (Omaha) as Obama did in 2008 (before the GOP gerrymandered a bunch of my rural district into it), that would be great. If they also took Lincoln (NE1), that would give the Democrats four out of five of our electoral votes.

I’m on the ground here in NE3, which would vote for R-Asteroid. That said, a lot of people are pissed at both Trump and FOX.

Why Fox?

I love that so much.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:09:34am

Hobby Lobby didn’t just do it to the LA Times.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:10:27am

re: #225 MsJ

Why Fox?

I love that so much.

Because FOX mislead them into believing tariffs would be good for selling crops.

FOX made the mistake of hurting their viewers’ wallets.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:11:41am

re: #227 Anymouse 🌹

Because FOX mislead them into believing tariffs would be good for selling crops.

FOX made the mistake of hurting their viewers’ wallets.

That’s especially good news. Thank you!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:12:27am

re: #156 Anymouse 🌹

Which is cancelled due to low ceilings and visibility.

Oh. He will demand it.

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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:12:44am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹

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I thought it was Canada who burned down the White House.

(or are we relying on the technicality that Canada wasn’t its own country yet at the time?)

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retired cynic  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:12:52am

re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

not to mention Samuel Clemens

Umm, he was born in Florida, but Florida, Missouri. Not a southerner. (Probably already picked up, so excuse the lateness!)

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:13:36am

re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹

A quick yahoo search brought up this list:
search.yahoo.com

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Citizen K  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:15:18am

re: #146 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:16:23am

re: #224 MsJ

Why does that make me happy?

I hate this world we live in now.

They’re predicting rainfall in any one thunderstorm from two to five inches due to slow movement. Yay floods.

The last infrastructure project I pushed on the village board was buying proper road gravel for our dirt streets and paying a construction company to run a proper road grader to spread it out over town. (The village would always buy crushed cement, which is crap for roads.)

Road gravel is many times more expensive than crushed cement, but actually works to keep your streets from washing out.

Despite all the rain, our streets have held up.

They used to be a constant headache in board meetings with people complaining about how awful the streets were.

Eight truckloads of road gravel were necessary for all our streets.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:18:07am

re: #230 sagehen

I thought it was Canada who burned down the White House.

(or are we relying on the technicality that Canada wasn’t its own country yet at the time?)

No, it was British troops that burned down Washington D.C.

en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:19:07am

re: #230 sagehen

I thought it was Canada who burned down the White House.

(or are we relying on the technicality that Canada wasn’t its own country yet at the time?)

Canada was part of British North America, and as noted above, it was British troops who retaliated for our burning the capital of York.

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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:21:08am

re: #185 Anymouse 🌹

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Thank you Britain for the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, the Who, the Clash, XTC, etc.

Also for Idris Elba, Patrick Stewart, and Monty Python.

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:21:15am

re: #229 GlutenFreeJesus

Oh. He will demand it.

He can demand it in one hand and shit in the other; only one will be fulfilled.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:24:36am

re: #195 MsJ

He who? I didn’t see any tears.

I agree. He just seems aggrieved that everyone doesn’t praise him; that he can be nice to people if they worship at his feet.

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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:26:58am

re: #217 Joe Bacon 🌹

They destroyed the man who exposed it—Gary Webb and they drove him to suicide.

They say it was suicide. I have my doubts when it’s a story about a guy who commits suicide by shooting himself in the back of the head. Twice.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:33:36am

re: #211 I Would Prefer Not To

I think Nebraska is one of those states that carves up their electoral college votes by district. Warren could win some (2?????) in the Omaha area. If only we had an expert here at LGF, someone on the ground that could tell us about local politics (and water). Maybe in an alternative universe……

update In 2008, Barack Obama won Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District (Omaha and its suburbs), gaining a Democratic electoral vote in that state for the first time since 1964.

I’m not a fan of dividing electoral votes by district. As happens in so many GOP run states, thanks to gerrymandering, the Democratic candidate could win a majority of votes but get only 30-40% of electoral votes. This process can transform each state into a mini-representative of the electoral college.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:33:52am

re: #236 Anymouse 🌹

Canada was part of British North America, and as noted above, it was British troops who retaliated for our burning the capital of York.

York is part of what is now Toronto.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:34:57am

In the Burning of Washington, the battle which immediately preceded it was considered one of the worst defeats in the American military’s history.

Battle of Bladensburg (goes to Wikipedia)

President Madison put a general in charge via patronage for the defence of DC. That guy pretty much threw away every tactical advantage he had in the battle against the British.

The US troops consisted primarily of DC and Maryland state militias, which were poorly equipped and armed, along with 420 Marines, Navy, and Army.

The USA outnumbered the British about 3 to two, and in artillery 18 pieces to 3 pieces.

By fleeing Bladensburg, that left the path open to Washington.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:36:21am

re: #239 Hecuba’s daughter

I agree. He just seems aggrieved that everyone doesn’t praise him; that he can be nice to people if they worship at his feet.

Thanks. I thought I missed something.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:41:27am

re: #243 Anymouse 🌹

It is noteworthy in the Battle of Bladensburg that African-American troops which were part of the American defence were the only ones not to run away.

That was specifically noted to President Madison.

Just before the battle Commodore Barney, on being asked by President James Madison “…if his negroes would not run on the approach of the British?” replied: “No Sir…they don’t know how to run; they will die by their guns first.” The Commodore was correct, the men did not run; one such man was young sailor Harry Jones (no.35), apparently a free black. Jones was wounded in the final action at Bladensburg, and remained a patient at the Naval Hospital Washington DC for nearly two months

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:42:44am

This should be a good time.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:43:43am

So, looks like Ostrava will be getting a new concert hall by 2024. The winner of the architectural competition for the new Ostrava concert hall was from the design studio of Steven Holl Architects of New York. Six of the seven jurors voted for the winning design.

Here’s a photogallery visualization - I know exactly where this is; I go by the building at least twice a week. Looks cool.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:43:57am

re: #246 MsJ

This should be a good time.

For varying definitions of “good.”

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:45:33am
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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:45:53am

Will is on the ground in DC today. I’m leaving his TL up in another tab all day today.

Another positive.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:47:07am

re: #250 MsJ

Will is on the ground in DC today. I’m leaving his TL up in another tab all day today.

Another positive.

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Speaking of suspended accounts, Twitter keeps telling me to refer to the “open report” for VB but I have no idea how to access the “open report”

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:51:27am

re: #251 The Pie Overlord!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:51:45am

re: #244 MsJ

Thanks. I thought I missed something.

his lips started to quiver and his eyes were welling up…his handlers got him out of the room posthaste.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:52:47am

re: #252 MsJ

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:52:54am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

his lips started to quiver and his eyes were welling up…his handlers got him out of the room posthaste.

I watched again and I still don’t see it.

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danarchy  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:53:51am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

his lips started to quiver and his eyes were welling up…his handlers got him out of the room posthaste.

Yeah, not seeing it

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:54:10am

re: #246 MsJ

This should be a good time.

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well, the FBI said there were indications that there would be terrorist activity today…

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Belafon  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:55:17am

re: #246 MsJ

This should be a good time.

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Someone needs to project the final scenes from The Wave followed by parts of Captain America: The Winter Soldier just to finish it off.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:56:27am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

well, the FBI said there were indications that there would be terrorist activity today…

That thread has a whole bunch of people complaining about “violent leftist attacks in Portland.”

I presume that was Andy Ngo’s terrible skin peel photo lifted from Teen Vogue?

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:56:51am
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wrenchwench  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:57:10am

re: #256 danarchy

Yeah, not seeing it

I saw it, and heard a quaver (or something) in his voice.

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:58:12am

Arm wrestling challenge declined!

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:58:41am

And, as usual, here’s my annual posting of my melancholy favorite for the day…

X - 4th of July

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:58:45am

re: #254 The Pie Overlord!

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:59:10am

Has anyone else noticed that almost all of the “Antifa” accounts on Twitter seem to be right-wing trolls?

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:59:24am

re: #260 William Lewis

And it is a great pity that those who call themselves Christians cannot do that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 8:59:56am

re: #259 Anymouse 🌹

That thread has a whole bunch of people complaining about “violent leftist attacks in Portland.”

I presume that was Andy Ngo’s terrible skin peel photo lifted from Teen Vogue?

also gave Andy a sex change in the process…

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wrenchwench  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:00:39am

re: #262 jaunte

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Arm wrestling challenge declined!

Mr. Red Hat is having a hard time getting his tiny thumb under his belt.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:02:31am

re: #268 wrenchwench

I think he had way too many hambergers. (Did I spell it the way DT would?)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:03:12am

re: #269 PhillyPretzel

I think he had way too many hambergers. (Did I spell it the way DT would?)

hamberders, IIRC

but I really don’t care…

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:05:29am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:05:53am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

It does not matter. I am enjoying my new A/C unit in my living room and I will be watching a season of Downton Abbey after I finish Pride and Prejudice (1995).

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wrenchwench  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:06:10am

re: #269 PhillyPretzel

I think he had way too many hambergers. (Did I spell it the way DT would?)

I think they can’t improve his diet while they’re working on his behavior and his meds. Too many variables for a man with his temperament.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:07:09am

re: #273 wrenchwench

Lots of variables.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:09:45am

re: #272 PhillyPretzel

It does not matter. I am enjoying my new A/C unit in my living room and I will be watching either a season of Downton Abbey after I finish Pride and Prejudice (1995).

I just started Downton Abbey on Prime…only just finished Season 1 Episode 3, so I have a ways to go to catch up.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:10:29am

re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hope you are enjoying it.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:11:26am

re: #273 wrenchwench

I think they can’t improve his diet while they’re working on his behavior and his meds. Too many variables for a man with his temperament.

He could do what I’ve been doing. I had to start off small about two months ago, but now I’m up to 100 pushups a day, 100 situps a day and everyday (time permitting, of course) I take a 10 km walk.

My pants are starting to fall off, LOL.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:11:27am

re: #276 PhillyPretzel

I hope you are enjoying it.

when the Turkish guy dropped dead in Mary’s bed…LOL!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:13:18am

Well, I’m off to bed. Enjoy your Independence Day. Don’t let the Trumps get you down.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:15:26am

OOOOH.

Oldboy - Official UK Trailer HD

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:16:41am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kemal Pamuk. The young man Theo James who played him got a lot of fame and some more roles for his appearance.

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wrenchwench  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:17:13am

re: #277 Dr Lizardo

He could do what I’ve been doing. I had to start off small about two months ago, but now I’m up to 100 pushups a day, 100 situps a day and everyday (time permitting, of course) I take a 10 km walk.

My pants are starting to fall off, LOL.

Great! Has it altered your enjoyment of food?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:26:05am

re: #282 wrenchwench

Great! Has it altered your enjoyment of food?

I just stopped eating so much frozen pizzas and started cooking more of my own things.

I was eating waaaay too many frozen convenience foods and I have little doubt that was getting me fat. I did eliminate milk from my diet (a rather mild lactose intolerance, though cheese presents no problems) and I’m drinking almond milk now (well, of course, here in Europe it has to be called “almond drink”, LOL). I can get it fairly inexpensively from Lidl - it’s a store brand from their bio/organic/gluten-free range of products, which is expanding as younger Czechs in particular are seeking more healthy lifestyles.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:26:47am

re: #247 Dr Lizardo

So, looks like Ostrava will be getting a new concert hall by 2024. The winner of the architectural competition for the new Ostrava concert hall was from the design studio of Steven Holl Architects of New York. Six of the seven jurors voted for the winning design.

Here’s a photogallery visualization - I know exactly where this is; I go by the building at least twice a week. Looks cool.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

Looks almost like a Klingon D7 battle cruiser parked on top of it. :-)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:28:01am

re: #283 Dr Lizardo

avoiding frozen convenience foods puts you a huge step ahead since you are cutting out excess sodium intake as well as reducing empty carbs and bad fats.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:34:20am

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

avoiding frozen convenience foods puts you a huge step ahead since you are cutting out excess sodium intake as well as reducing empty carbs and bad fats.

I just ate a Hot Pocket. :p

Quoting a character from a Heinlein book: Weight will go up or down as it will, and not as you or I would have it.

My wife’s weight changed dramatically after her near-fatal car accident. While she was in a coma, her weight went up twenty-five pounds. She went from about 130# to 250# before it leveled off (before I met her).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:34:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:35:41am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:37:06am

Another Protestant sex criminal:

Modesty Preaching Baptist Teacher Arrested for Sexually-Assaulting Underage Boy (goes to The Friendly Atheist)

It is noteworthy that far more Protestants are caught up in these crimes, but Catholics get the best press.

Her husband is the pastor of her church; the school is associated with it. He is not accused of anything.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:39:52am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

He wrote in that tweet:

All I saw was pandering.

When you don’t like the candidate or party, you call it pandering.

Politics includes appealing to potential voters on issues they care about.

Republicans NEVER call banning abortion, making Christianity the state religion, guns for everyone, &c pandering. Nope. That’s not pandering.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:41:15am

re: #277 Dr Lizardo

He could do what I’ve been doing. I had to start off small about two months ago, but now I’m up to 100 pushups a day, 100 situps a day and everyday (time permitting, of course) I take a 10 km walk.

My pants are starting to fall off, LOL.

I’m down 40 lbs from the start of the year and am hoping to lose another 30 by the end of it. Besides beginning to slide into pre-diabetes I got misdiagnosed with a heart condition that I never had. I do have essential hypertension but a substitute cardiologist apparently misread an old echo report instead of actually going by any of the old or new imaging and slapped “severe concentric left ventricular hypertrophy” on my file. Rare case where a misdiagnosis led to a good outcome because it gave me the motivation I needed. Anyway I aced the treadmill stress test two days ago, my regular cardiologist cleared me for strenuous exercise and apologized for the fuckup.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:42:10am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:43:31am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

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John Hughes  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:45:15am

re: #71 ckkatz

It can rain on the 14th of July. The soldiers and crowd just suck it up.

ina.fr

actu.orange.fr

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:46:34am

re: #277 Dr Lizardo

He could do what I’ve been doing. I had to start off small about two months ago, but now I’m up to 100 pushups a day, 100 situps a day and everyday (time permitting, of course) I take a 10 km walk.

My pants are starting to fall off, LOL.

If your pants fall off, that qualifies you to be a non-commentator at Wonkette, since they don’t allow pants. /s

My pants are also getting loose, which is concerning for two reasons:

a) My exercise consists of lifting a coffee cup or cigarette
2) I weigh 115# this morning.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:48:07am

re: #291 goddamnedfrank

For me, it was just a simple thing. My girlfriend jokingly said, “You have bigger boobs than me.” I know she was joking - I could tell by the tone of her voice and that’s her sense of humor - but I went and looked at myself in the mirror and said, “Well, shit….she’s right. I’d better ditch a few kilos before I end up looking like Jabba the Hutt or Rush Limbaugh or something.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:50:36am

re: #296 Dr Lizardo

For me, it was just a simple thing. My girlfriend jokingly said, “You have bigger boobs than me.” I know she was joking - I could tell by the tone of her voice and that’s her sense of humor - but I went and looked at myself in the mirror and said, “Well, shit….she’s right. I’d better ditch a few kils before I end up looking like Jabba the Hutt or Rush Limbaugh or something.”

Boobz libelz.

That said, my wife points out that with my particular medical issue, men tend to grow them the same size as direct relative women in their families.

I’m not looking forward to DD boobz on my manly frame.

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:53:21am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Well that’s special. Nothing against you Backwoods_Sleuth and not even against the dogs and those trying to help them…

But…

How about the scared children in cages?

It says an awful lot about our nation that dogs get more aid than children stolen from their parents. Are we really that inured to their pain already?

And I know that Boarder Patrol & ICE wouldn’t let them in but to have a group near there try in front of cameras would have been nice, wouldn’t it? Perhaps it’s for the best that I live on the northern edge of the country instead and have no way to get there but it frustrates me to no end.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:53:56am

Holee shit. Check this out!

And… Wait for it.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:54:42am

re: #298 William Lewis

Well that’s special. Nothing against you Backwoods_Sleuth and not even against the dogs and those trying to help them…

But…

How about the scared children in cages?

It says an awful lot about our nation that dogs get more aid than children stolen from their parents. Are we really that inured to their pain already?

And I know that Boarder Patrol & ICE wouldn’t let them in but to have a group near there try in front of cameras would have been nice, wouldn’t it? Perhaps it’s for the best that I live on the northern edge of the country instead and have no way to get there but it frustrates me to no end.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:55:54am

I have a host of baby birds chirping loudly for food in my attic.

That’s never happened before: I presume part of my house was damaged from the two tornadoes last year which allowed birds this Spring access to my attic to build nests. Apparently when the roof of my house was replaced the roofers didn’t see it.

I won’t bother them, but in Autumn I think I will have the upper part of my house inspected to ensure there is no hole or other access to my attic.

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retired cynic  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:56:27am

re: #300 MsJ

As they say, love isn’t pie. You don’t divide it up. (Of course, pie is love!)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:57:58am

re: #298 William Lewis

Well that’s special. Nothing against you Backwoods_Sleuth and not even against the dogs and those trying to help them…

But…

How about the scared children in cages?

It says an awful lot about our nation that dogs get more aid than children stolen from their parents. Are we really that inured to their pain already?

And I know that Boarder Patrol & ICE wouldn’t let them in but to have a group near there try in front of cameras would have been nice, wouldn’t it? Perhaps it’s for the best that I live on the northern edge of the country instead and have no way to get there but it frustrates me to no end.

Don’t know about you, but I can multi-task.
My empathy level is endless.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:58:40am

re: #302 retired cynic

As they say, love isn’t pie. You don’t divide it up. (Of course, pie is love!)

Viscous Babushka would probably approve of that message.

That would also make a good E-mail tagline.

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 9:59:56am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:01:09am

Posted a Page…

I had some thoughts after hearing/reading a couple things. The nature of the economy is that where jobs are changes constantly, and people struggle to keep up.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:01:46am

re: #302 retired cynic

As they say, love isn’t pie. You don’t divide it up. (Of course, pie is love!)

“Build the pie higher!”

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:02:31am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:03:21am

Really, has it gotten to the point where we are allowed to only focus on ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY? And that ONE THING does not match the particular THING OF OUR CHOICE?

Guess we should all just give the fuck up then since we can’t please every single freaking demographic choice…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:05:06am

re: #308 jaunte

LOL Trumpapalooza gets rained out.

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:05:16am

I’m focused solely on the proper ethnicity of a Disney fish-princess.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:05:27am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

Really, has it gotten to the point where we are allowed to only focus on ONE THING and ONE THING ONLY? And that ONE THING does not match the particular THING OF OUR CHOICE?

Guess we should all just give the fuck up then since we can’t please every single freaking demographic choice…

No. Not at all. Not when shit is continually being thrown at us.

That’s exactly what Republicans want.

No. Absolutely no.

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BigPapa  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:06:29am

The Chuccubus had his filthy paws in the Census question:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:07:06am

re: #312 MsJ

No. Not at all. Not when shit is continually being thrown at us.

That’s exactly what Republicans want.

No. Absolutely no.

It just sucks that the ONE THING I CAN DO TONIGHT is being dismissed as NOT GOOD ENOUGH because it apparently is meaningless because there is something more worthy of my attention.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:07:35am

re: #311 jaunte

I’m focused solely on the proper ethnicity of a Disney fish-princess.

This one?

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:07:36am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

We can and should concentrate on more than one thing. The problem is how many that don’t. You do. I certainly try to as well. But I know too many around me who do only care about the equivalent of those dogs in the shelters while saying that the kids deserve what they get. So, as I said before, it’s not about you or them, it just acted as a trigger for me.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:08:36am

re: #197 MsJ

Having to pay people to show up is expensive. They can only afford an hour or so.

He paid 130k for an hour….

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:09:05am

re: #317 DangerMan

Two minutes, tops.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:09:44am

re: #316 William Lewis

We can and should concentrate on more than one thing. The problem is how many that don’t. You do. I certainly try to as well. But I know too many around me who do only care about the equivalent of those dogs in the shelters while saying that the kids deserve what they get. So, as I said before, it’s not about you or them, it just acted as a trigger for me.

And your comment was a HUGE TRIGGER for me.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:10:12am

re: #305 jaunte

Unfortunately it’s flight will be now higher than two feet off the ground.
By order of the FAA

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:10:48am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Crawling Baby Trump.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:10:53am

re: #208 Dr Lizardo

132 column inches in a full-page ad (broadsheet). So that’d be $114,180 bucks.

It’s not a lot of $. But who’s really reading it.? What’s the point?

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William Lewis  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:11:21am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

And your comment was a HUGE TRIGGER for me.

For which, I apologize.

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retired cynic  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:11:47am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Unfortunately it’s flight will be now higher than two feet off the ground.
By order of the FAA

Get it in every photo of the crowd on the mall. Right in front of the Washington Monument, and so DT has to look at it.

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:12:25am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:12:47am

here’s an owl…

re: #323 William Lewis

For which, I apologize.

thank you

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:12:56am

The VFW collected three thousand or so people’s signatures thanking us for our service on Independence Day.

heroes.vfw.org

I appreciate the gesture I suppose, but Independence Day is for America, Americans (all of us), and the ideals the nation is supposed to stand for in the world, even though we often fall short of the lofty goal we’ve set for ourselves.

I’m not a “hero” even if the VFW puts it that way. I was in harm’s way when the world’s situation warranted it, but so many people who have never been near a military base have also been heroic, whether they are doctors, teachers, farmers, police officers, mechanics, &c.

“Hero” does not equal “veteran.”

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:14:56am
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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:15:14am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Unfortunately it’s flight will be now higher than two feet off the ground.
By order of the FAA

Or should be. Otherwise some MAGAt will stab it like last time.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:16:08am

re: #322 DangerMan

It’s not a lot of $. But who’s really reading it.? What’s the point?

Who knows? If that’s how Hobby Lobby wants to spend their $$$ (that and buying “Biblical antiquities”), well…..it’s their money.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:16:46am

I don’t know about you, but I’m full up to the top with the FB memes and posts that say, “Why are we spending money/caring about X, when Y is still a problem!”, largely posted by people who don’t want to do anything about X OR Y.

This year Y is usually “Homeless Veterans”, and X is asylum-seeking families.

These memes aren’t designed to make you care about homeless veterans. No, they’re designed to shame you for caring about asylum-seeking families.

So, you know, since they won’t let people into the concentration camps to help the people inside, and they won’t accept donations, it’s not like comforting animals in shelters - where they WILL let you in, and which WILL accept donations - is taking anything away from the children and families in detention.

We CAN walk down the street and chew gum.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:16:54am

re: #328 jaunte

LOL

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jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:18:00am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:19:19am

re: #333 jaunte

[Embedded content]

But they’ll be in the shot on TV.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:22:25am

re: #333 jaunte

Confirming they are just there as penis replacements for Trump.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:23:05am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:23:07am

re: #331 Blind Frog Belly White

I don’t know about you, but I’m full up to the top with the FB memes and posts that say, “Why are we spending money/caring about X, when Y is still a problem!”, largely posted by people who don’t want to do anything about X OR Y.

This year Y is usually “Homeless Veterans”, and X is asylum-seeking families.

These memes aren’t designed to make you care about homeless veterans. No, they’re designed to shame you for caring about asylum-seeking families.

So, you know, since they won’t let people into the concentration camps to help the people inside, and the won’t accept donations, it’s not like comforting animals in shelters - where they WILL let you in, and which WILL accept donations - is taking anything away from the children and families in detention.

We CAN walk down the street and chew gum.

Those sorts of statements and memes are almost always from conservatives.

The homeless vet meme in particular I frequently heard as a homeless vet.

They don’t actually want to do anything about homeless vets, they just want to deflect from whatever it is they think liberals want to “waste” money on.

Conservatives have also been bashing foreign aid for decades, claiming “we have homeless vets.” Foreign aid is a tiny percentage of the budget.

All it is, is deflection to change the topic because they do not have valid arguments and so the only tool they have is deflection.

If they actually cared about veteran homelessness in the wealthiest country in the history of civilisation, they could solve it tomorrow with a tax-payer funded home for every homeless vet.

When I was homeless, I was spit on and had things thrown at me.

No conservative ever said to me “it’s a national dishonour you’re homeless; let me call my rep and demand my taxes be used to help you and your comrades-in-arms.”

Conservatives are consummate liars, because lying is how they hold up their conservative religion.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:25:04am

re: #333 jaunte

Precisely what I said above.

Propaganda.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:25:59am

re: #333 jaunte

Didn’t take long for Twitter to ban that anti-conservative comment.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:26:51am

re: #304 Anymouse 🌹

***Viscous*** Babushka would probably approve of that message.

That would also make a good E-mail tagline.

Um, erm

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:28:47am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

here’s an owl…

A left hand drive owl

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:29:44am

re: #330 Dr Lizardo

Who knows? If that’s how Hobby Lobby wants to spend their $$$ ( that and buying “Biblical antiquities”), well…..it’s their money.

Buying stolen artifacts. That’s what they are filling their Bible Museum with.

Apparently somewhere Jesus said, “Blessed are the fences, for they shall fill up museums for profits.”

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:30:28am

re: #318 jaunte

Two minutes, tops.

..paid for, not lasted

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:30:34am

re: #337 Anymouse 🌹

There’s a lot of effort on the Right directed at excusing doing nothing about problems that afflict various people in society, whether it’s victim blaming - “They CHOOSE to be homeless so they can do drugs!” - or redirection shaming - “No money for Illegals while there homeless veterans!” - or ridiculing people who DO care - “virtue signalling”.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:31:59am

re: #340 DangerMan

Um, erm

Grrrr. I am not sticky like molasses.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:32:02am

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹

Didn’t take long for Twitter to ban that anti-conservative comment.

More likely user deleted

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:33:08am

re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White

There’s a lot of effort on the Right directed at excusing doing nothing about problems that afflict various people in society, whether it’s victim blaming - “They CHOOSE to be homeless so they can do drugs!” - or redirection shaming - “No money for Illegals while there homeless veterans!” - or ridiculing people who DO care - “virtue signalling”.

That’s been going on all my life.

I’d like to see a Democratic candidate put out a plan for veteran homelessness. Not because I think it’s the most important issue, but simply to take that club away from the Republicans.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:33:48am

re: #328 jaunte

[Embedded content]

The public essentially locked out of the Lincoln memorial on Independence day

Yay america

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:34:29am

re: #345 The Pie Overlord!

Grrrr. I am not sticky like molasses.

Too much rum this morning. I’m sorry, my sticky Lady.

I meant vivacious. /s

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:36:03am

Felt a long roller

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:36:13am

EARTHQUAKE!!!

Feels like a solid 5

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:36:32am

re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White

There’s a lot of effort on the Right directed at excusing doing nothing about problems that afflict various people in society, whether it’s victim blaming - “They CHOOSE to be homeless so they can do drugs!” - or redirection shaming - “No money for Illegals while there homeless veterans!” - or ridiculing people who DO care - “virtue signalling”.

And then budgeting actual money for none of them

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:37:39am

re: #350 Rightwingconspirator

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

Check for cracks in your homes. And be safe.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:38:08am

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:38:09am

What’s the over/under on how long it takes Trump to start attacking Democrats in his speech at this totally not a campaign event today?

I’ll put my money on 15 seconds.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:38:55am

I made lemon buttermilk waffles. They were meh. These are the best waffles.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:39:17am

re: #354 Rightwingconspirator

It had a problem loading.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:40:16am

re: #357 PhillyPretzel

Overloaded maybe? Searles valley, way north of us here, prelim 6.6

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Charles Johnson  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:40:34am
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mmmirele  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:40:39am

re: #200 Anymouse 🌹

Christians are going to turn this into a Christian state if they have to do it at gunpoint.

That wouldn’t be the first time for a lot of nations.

Yeah, I told the people at the church I picket that if they ever get their hands on real power, I will be locked and loaded. And I HATE having guns in my house.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:41:00am

re: #356 The Pie Overlord!

I made lemon buttermilk waffles. They were meh. These are the best waffles.

Flax meal? Hmmm.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:41:32am

These eating competition events are disgusting.

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:41:45am

The aquarium is still standing which averts my real nightmare scenario.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:42:37am

re: #351 goddamnedfrank

EARTHQUAKE!!!

Feels like a solid 5

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:43:18am

re: #364 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Happy 4th of July

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:43:58am

Greets and saluts on this 4th of July. Just saw USGS reporting a 6.6 in SoCal - outside Barstow/Death Valley. Stay safe California lizards!

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:44:00am

re: #363 goddamnedfrank

My 100-gallon showtank survived the Northridge quake. But the stand was sprung and had to go. Lucky

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:44:48am

Guess the Old Gods are displeased with Trump that they want to deprive his “parade” an audience with attention focused elsewhere.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:45:03am
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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:45:28am

re: #366 lawhawk

When it feels like a long roller, the earth moved some distance away. The sharper, the closer, especially that first booming shove. This had no P wave I could feel.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:45:40am
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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:47:24am

re: #342 Anymouse 🌹

Buying stolen artifacts. That’s what they are filling their Bible Museum with.

Apparently somewhere Jesus said, “Blessed are the fences, for they shall fill up museums for profits.”

The artifacts aren’t all stolen; a significant percentage are forgeries.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:47:31am

re: #360 mmmirele

Yeah, I told the people at the church I picket that if they ever get their hands on real power, I will be locked and loaded. And I HATE having guns in my house.

I have one in mine, but I’m not interested in going out and looking for trouble. I would rather never use it other than kill defenseless skeet.

—- —-

The farmer next door to my home is out this morning with a disc harrow working his fields.

For a lot of people on Independence Day, this is a work day.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:47:36am

re: #371 The Pie Overlord!

It might actually rain on DT’s parade. The Metro DC area is under a Flash Flood Watch.
weather.gov

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:47:50am

re: #370 Rightwingconspirator

Only quake I ever experienced was the one that happened in VA some years back and was felt up here in NYC metro area. I thought it was a construction accident at the WTC until everyone realized it was a quake. That’s about as close as I want to get to ‘em.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:48:57am

re: #372 sagehen

The artifacts aren’t all stolen; a significant percentage are forgeries.

There is an entire industry in the Middle East manufacturing bogus “antiquities”

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:49:49am

re: #359 Charles Johnson

Shit, that’s pretty good-sized. Damn.

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Patricia Kayden  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:50:02am

re: #313 BigPapa

Unfortunately when the President himself is a White Supremacist, news like this doesn’t even cause the batting of eyelids. It’s par for the course for this administration.

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:50:33am

re: #330 Dr Lizardo

Who knows? If that’s how Hobby Lobby wants to spend their $$$ (that and buying “Biblical antiquities”), well…..it’s their money.

They got caught dealing in stolen antiquities. They had to pay a fine.

Those involved should have gone to jail.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:50:35am

re: #375 lawhawk

Only quake I ever experienced was the one that happened in VA some years back and was felt up here in NYC metro area. I thought it was a construction accident at the WTC until everyone realized it was a quake. That’s about as close as I want to get to ‘em.

The only quake I ever experienced was in Ponca City, Oklahoma. (That was before the fracking boom in Oklahoma.)

It turns out there is a poorly-understood fault which runs through the state. In that quake, a number of buildings downtown were damaged; my 1914 Royal office typewriter went dancing across my desk, and several items in our house were thrown from shelves or jumbled in cabinets.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:50:47am

re: #375 lawhawk

Only quake I ever experienced was the one that happened in VA some years back and was felt up here in NYC metro area. I thought it was a construction accident at the WTC until everyone realized it was a quake. That’s about as close as I want to get to ‘em.

I experienced an earthquake about 10 years ago while visiting my daughter in Safed, Israel. I thought it was a heavy truck driving by, and my daughter was like ‘LOL look out the window, you see any big trucks?” (her house was at the top of a steep hill)

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:51:21am

I’ll bet they felt that earthquake up in Lancaster and Palmdale.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:52:04am

re: #378 Patricia Kayden

Unfortunately when the President himself is a White Supremacist, news like this doesn’t even cause the batting of eyelids. It’s par for the course for this administration.

Why is Chuckubus having any input on the census?

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:52:36am

re: #383 Anymouse 🌹

Good question.

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sagehen  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:53:04am

re: #347 Anymouse 🌹

That’s been going on all my life.

I’d like to see a Democratic candidate put out a plan for veteran homelessness. Not because I think it’s the most important issue, but simply to take that club away from the Republicans.

Our most recent Democratic First and Second ladies did have a plan and an organization (Joining Forces).

militarytimes.com

washingtonpost.com

They spent 5 years working on it, made significant progress in reducing veteran homelessness, getting jobs for vets and their spouses, etc.

But of course… it was an Obama thing, so Trump ended the program.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:53:17am

That was one long rolling quake.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:54:06am

re: #377 Dr Lizardo

Shit, that’s pretty good-sized. Damn.

Fortunately, that’s really a sparse area. Hot, dry, and bonus points for the earthquake, Trump country such as it is in California. Rural /desolate
google.com

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Sionainn, Warrior Mother  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:54:10am

re: #382 Dr Lizardo

I’ll bet they felt that earthquake up in Lancaster and Palmdale.

Felt it in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was a very long roller. It seemed to go on for a long time. Checking with a friend who lives in Ridgecrest, which is near the epicenter, but haven’t heard back yet.

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jeffreyw  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:54:44am

Too hot to sit outside to eat it but it was grilled out on the patio. Weather Underground says it’s 90 degrees - feels like 111.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:54:59am

re: #388 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

yeah that was the longest roller I’ve felt in a while and I’m by long beach

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:56:07am

re: #379 lawhawk

They got caught dealing in stolen antiquities. They had to pay a fine.

Those involved should have gone to jail.

“We should have exercised more oversight and carefully questioned how the acquisitions were handled,” Hobby Lobby President Steve Green said in the statement. “Hobby Lobby has cooperated with the government throughout its investigation, and with the announcement of today’s settlement agreement, is pleased the matter has been resolved.”

Read: We got caught, and rather our board go to jail, we’ll cooperate.

At least the stolen antiquities were returned. That’s the important part.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:56:18am

I’ll bet they are scrambling at Edwards AF base, where they test so many aircraft and have a huge facility.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:57:25am
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mmmirele  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:58:05am

re: #372 sagehen

The artifacts aren’t all stolen; a significant percentage are forgeries.

There’s been a kerfuffle over one of the “suppliers” to the Bible Museum, a papyrologist named Dirk Obbink. This came out about 10 days ago

thedailybeast.com

The early manuscript community has been in an uproar since. One thing I read in reddit r/AcademicBiblical is a suggestion by scholar Roberta Mazza that the interest in cartonnages (mummy masks) by some Evangelicals is a possibility that deconstructing a mummy mask could be used as a way to “wash”* papyrus. Because cartonnages were made out of old papyrus. *However*, the making of cartonnages apparently stopped a couple of decades before Jesus was born, so this would be kind of difficult. But it’s something to be aware of.

I probably should do a page with the latest discussions.

* The mask is placed in a water solution to separate the papyrus pieces. The “washing” here would be like money laundering.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:58:28am

KTLA livestream.

ktla.com

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Dragonomics  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:58:35am

Like with most earthquakes I didn’t realize this was one while experiencing it. This time my back door kept swinging open and closed, a slight wiggle really, and I thought, what the hell is wrong with this thing, and then bolted it shut. End of earthquake.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:58:47am

I still believe there are a lot of good people in this country.

It’s just that the assholes tend to have the larger megaphones.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:59:13am

re: #393 The Pie Overlord!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 4, 2019 • 10:59:37am

I know trump doesn’t give a shit, but the optics of a VIP area on Independence day are really bad. Hope this comes up when he brags about the event.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:01:43am

i wonder how many fundies are watching the handmaid’s tale and rooting for gilead

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:03:16am

re: #390 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

yeah that was the longest roller I’ve felt in a while and I’m by long beach

I was in Seattle for the 6.8 Nisqualy quake. That one was even longer, a good 45 seconds of me being acutely goddamned aware that I was inside an unreinforced brick building built in 1906.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:04:52am

re: #390 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

yeah that was the longest roller I’ve felt in a while and I’m by long beach

There were two earthquakes of equal magnitude recently.

The one in California just now:
earthquake.usgs.gov

and one off the coast of British Columbia on the Juan de Fuca plate boundary
earthquake.usgs.gov

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:06:01am
404
MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:10:03am

OMFG.

“Lori Loughlin is living in a dream world,” said Larry Levine, of Wall Street Prison Consultants, told The Mercury News. “She doesn’t have a grasp on the reality about how these federal prosecutions work.”

Levine, an ex-con who made a business out of coaching clients on how to navigate prison life, reportedly represents three people out of Southern California. Two pleaded guilty, while a third is still working out a deal with prosecutors — which may involve ongoing cooperation. He said Loughlin had a “grand opportunity” to accept a plea deal. He also argued that her apparent unwillingness will play a role at sentencing.

Wall Street Prison Consultants. FML.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:10:58am

i pay nearly a grand and a half each year for the earthquake insurance here in norcal

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Belafon  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:12:53am

re: #346 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

More likely user deleted

Here’s the replacement:

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:15:39am

This hasn’t broken yet in the US media, but this is a translation from a story which just broke here in Czech media:

Ukrainian intelligence services seized one of the possible suspects in the case of shooting down a Malaysian boeing from MH17, a former air defense commander of the city of Snihna, which they had transported to Kiev during the insurgency operation. The BBC’s Ukrainian newsroom said on its website today. It was at the city of Snižne that in July 2014 civilian boeing was shot down. All 298 people on board were killed.

lidovky.cz

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:20:31am

::: Watching the last season of Downton Abbey. :::

409
Charles Johnson  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:22:07am
410
Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:22:55am

Can’t we just declare Independence from Trump and be done with it?

//

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:23:31am

re: #375 lawhawk

Only quake I ever experienced was the one that happened in VA some years back and was felt up here in NYC metro area. I thought it was a construction accident at the WTC until everyone realized it was a quake. That’s about as close as I want to get to ‘em.

Was that the one which cracked the Washington Monument?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:23:57am

re: #410 Eclectic Cyborg

Can’t we just declare Independence from Trump and be done with it?

//

No snark tags required for that question.

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MsJ  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:25:30am
414
jaunte  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:26:52am

re: #413 MsJ

Needs a tinfoil visor.

415
PhillyPretzel  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:27:20am

re: #413 MsJ

::: eyeroll :::
There are some weirdos out there.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:28:43am

re: #413 MsJ

Looks like it’s about time for The Great Disappointment, 2019 edition.

en.wikipedia.org

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:30:26am

re: #403 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Michele Fiore. Wingnut playmate of the month.

How in Yffin hell did she get approved by Las Vegas as mayor pro-tempore?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:30:35am

re: #409 Charles Johnson

Go, heavy thunderstorms, go! Is a freak cyclone too much to ask?

If a house falls on trump who gets the slippers?

419
Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:31:12am

It was fun at Venice Beach walking past the annual muscle contest when the quake hit. All those folks jiggling more than usual…

420
Teukka  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:32:41am

re: #418 I Would Prefer Not To

If a house falls on trump who gets the slippers?

re: #409 Charles Johnson

Go, heavy thunderstorms, go! Is a freak cyclone too much to ask?

Sweet meteor o’ Death? Just a small one?

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Sionainn, Warrior Mother  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:34:34am

re: #417 Anymouse 🌹

Michele Fiore. Wingnut playmate of the month.

How in Yffin hell did she get approved by Las Vegas as mayor pro-tempore?

Because she is on the fucking city council. I did NOT vote for her.

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:35:34am

re: #411 Anymouse 🌹

The one and the same.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:36:02am

re: #413 MsJ

[Embedded content]

Including several insane relatives who insist Obama, Hillary, Bill and Chelsea will be arrested and sent to Guantanamo tonight…

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lawhawk  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:38:03am
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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:38:23am

re: #373 Anymouse 🌹

I have one in mine, but I’m not interested in going out and looking for trouble. I would rather never use it other than kill defenseless skeet.

—- —-

The farmer next door to my home is out this morning with a disc harrow working his fields.

For a lot of people on Independence Day, this is a work day.

self employed people don’t get ‘vacations’ or days off

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:40:59am

re: #418 I Would Prefer Not To

If a house falls on trump who gets the slippers?

Ivanka, or whatever designer she ripped them off from.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:42:06am

re: #356 The Pie Overlord!

I made lemon buttermilk waffles. They were meh. These are the best waffles.

looks like a good recipe
and a peeve of mine
there’s 1/4 cup flax meal in the recipe
why name it after that ingredient?
it’s not even ‘featured’. it’s just there.

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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:45:41am

re: #389 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Too hot to sit outside to eat it but it was grilled out on the patio. Weather Underground says it’s 90 degrees - feels like 111.

we’re looking at realfeel of 100
still

italian marinated chicken legs and thighs outside on the charcoal grill
mustard roasted potatoes and onions (inside)
local bbq joint cole slaw
3 bean salad (today’s guest entrance fee)
a chardonnay on ice

oh yeah, mom (who is 91) is making an apricot cake for which vanilla bean ice cream awaits

tanks a lot. flyover that!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:47:03am

re: #421 Sionainn, Warrior Mother

Because she is on the fucking city council. I did NOT vote for her.

You’re forgiven for the dipshittery of your city council, Ms. Sionainn.

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gocart mozart  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:47:50am
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DangerMan  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:48:17am

re: #399 I Would Prefer Not To

I know trump doesn’t give a shit, but the optics of a VIP area on Independence day are really bad. Hope this comes up when he brags about the event.

re: #348 DangerMan

The public essentially locked out of the Lincoln memorial on Independence day

Yay america

et al, upthread

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 4, 2019 • 11:49:06am

re: #368 lawhawk

Guess the Old Gods are displeased with Trump that they want to deprive his “parade” an audience with attention focused elsewhere.

Losing the Mandate of Heaven (as if he had ever earned it…).

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 4, 2019 • 12:48:44pm

re: #399 I Would Prefer Not To

I know trump doesn’t give a shit, but the optics of a VIP area on Independence day are really bad. Hope this comes up when he brags about the event.

The image of the Lincoln memorial fenced off on Independence Day should drive that point home. Unfortunately, it won’t in the magat’s hearts.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Jul 4, 2019 • 2:24:53pm

re: #419 Joe Bacon 🌹

It was fun at Venice Beach walking past the annual muscle contest when the quake hit. All those folks jiggling more than usual…

Didn’t feel it at ALL in Inglewood. As a tourist, I was rather disappointed!


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