An Awesome New Lyric/Music Video Hand-Drawn by Jacob Collier, Featuring JoJo: “It Don’t Matter”

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The fourth and final single of Djesse Vol. 2 – featuring the unbelievable voice of JoJo, and a myriad of funky Jacobs.

Video notated, directed & edited by Jacob Collier.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:05:46pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:08:11pm

re: #1 jaunte

Just one question: Is that the Harry Turtledove the author?

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Kilroy was here  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:08:51pm

re: #2 PhillyPretzel

Just one question: Is that the Harry Turtledove the author?

Yes

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:09:31pm

re: #2 PhillyPretzel

Yes.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:10:07pm

re: #3 Kilroy was here

Thanks. I agree with him. :)

re: #4 jaunte

Again Thanks.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:12:31pm

re: #5 PhillyPretzel

When I happened to run across his Twitter feed and followed him, he actually thanked me for following. I thanked him for all the alternative history.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:13:13pm

For some reason I’ve been reading a lot of alternative history since 2016.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:16:00pm

CL’ed
I’m watching this white lady lost her shit over a half-human, half-fish creature.
FYI random white lady, Disney did make a white Princess Tiana. She was called “Cinderella.”

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:17:37pm

Princess Conniptia

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:21:39pm
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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:25:28pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:26:20pm

re: #6 jaunte

When I happened to run across his Twitter feed and followed him, he actually thanked me for following. I thanked him for all the alternative history.

Now I need to see if my library has his books. Love that tweet. It’s good when famous people publicize their disdain for that awful man in the White House. Those with a public following shouldn’t remain silent.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:27:46pm

Even though Princess Tiana was specifically African-American, Prince Naveen was racially ambiguous (Middle Eastern? South Asian?). Why did Disney do this? Because that other character, the white girl, was interested in him, which she could not be if he was a Blackity Black man, not even if he was King T’challa!

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:31:18pm

re: #11 jaunte

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Memory hole needed fed.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:31:46pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:31:50pm

re: #7 jaunte

For some reason I’ve been reading a lot of alternative history since 2016.

too much of has been catching up with us

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:36:15pm

re: #16 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

In this timeline an alien virus is eating the brains of the formerly “conservative.”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:37:42pm

re: #17 jaunte

In this timeline an alien virus is eating the brains of the formerly “conservative.”

i’m finding it harder and harder to tell the difference btw handmaid’s tale and fox news

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:39:09pm

I’m pretty certain that statistic isn’t all as rosy as he thinks it is.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:42:47pm

re: #17 jaunte

In this timeline an alien virus is eating the brains of the formerly “conservative.”

Actually, it may be the case that “conservative” amygdalae are affected by high CO2 concentrations at the current level even though most people are affected at a somewhat higher level.

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:44:05pm

re: #10 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Until a few years ago POC children, if they wanted a doll to play with, had little choice other than to have a white, blue-eyed doll.

Ben Dreyfuss
✔
@bendreyfuss
I’ve never cared about anything as much as racist white people care about the race of fictional characters.

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MsJ  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:49:32pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

CL’ed
I’m watching this white lady lost her shit over a half-human, half-fish creature.
FYI random white lady, Disney did make a white Princess Tiana. She was called “Cinderella.”

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There are others doing the exact same thing.

I think they’re ratfuckers. Not all of them but I don’t think they’re all real.

This is divide and conquer. Split everyone on everything. It’s Russian ratfucking 101.

Just my two cents.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:51:15pm

re: #22 MsJ

What if they remade Rocky the Flying Squirrel, but Boris and Natasha were from Texas?

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:51:48pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s no way that’s even remotely accurate.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:53:31pm

There were 27.8 million foreign-born workers in the labor force as of January 2018.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:53:51pm

re: #24 Ace Rothstein

There’s no way that’s even remotely accurate.

I’m thinking that it’s total jobs, but doesn’t say that lots of people have more than one job.

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Old Liberal  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:53:57pm

Pretty good take on little mermaid from Beau

Let’s talk about what we can learn from a black Little Mermaid….

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Skip Intro  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:54:29pm

re: #24 Ace Rothstein

From a right wing “news” site.

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:54:57pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Or how many retirement-age people are working (like my parents).

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:57:15pm

h/t Juanita Jean

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Ace Rothstein  Jul 5, 2019 • 4:57:55pm

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, remember that “statistic” that right-wingers used to scream about during the Obama years? 95 MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT WORKING!!!! Well, if that tweet from Trump is true, then 172 MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT WORKING!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:00:28pm

re: #29 Ace Rothstein

Or how many retirement-age people are working (like my parents).

and high school kids

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Stanley Sea  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:02:04pm

re: #27 Old Liberal

Ok, beyond his take, the Curious George ether scene on his hat is great.

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Stanley Sea  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:05:55pm

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:08:51pm

re: #25 Ace Rothstein

There were 27.8 million foreign-born workers in the labor force as of January 2018.

My wife is one. She doesn’t want to become a citizen because she will lose benefits owed her from her home country, and because she always feels that America may give her a reason to flee with our sons. So there’s that….

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mmmirele  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:09:14pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

CL’ed
I’m watching this white lady lost her shit over a half-human, half-fish creature.
FYI random white lady, Disney did make a white Princess Tiana. She was called “Cinderella.”

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Sea Mexican  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:19:04pm

re: #36 mmmirele

Aren’t we rehashing the same controversy that we had with Heimdall?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:23:43pm
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gwangung  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:23:53pm

re: #37 Sea Mexican

Aren’t we rehashing the same controversy that we had with Heimdall?

Among other things. Sigh.

(Even worse, since, if you do even a smidgen of textural analysis, there’s no support for Ariel to be white given Disney drew from several geographic areas to make the characters for MERMAID).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:25:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:27:55pm

WHAT PLACES has he seen???

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:29:06pm

re: #30 retired cynic

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h/t Juanita Jean

Then I found this, and I must make it:

How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie by John Scalzi (photos worth it)

whatever.scalzi.com

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mmmirele  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:32:37pm

re: #37 Sea Mexican

Aren’t we rehashing the same controversy that we had with Heimdall?

YES. And it’s stupid. Idris Elba was the BEST Heimdall and you can fight me over it.

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Sea Mexican  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:36:54pm

re: #43 mmmirele

YES. And it’s stupid. Idris Elba was the BEST Heimdall and you can fight me over it.

I agree with you.

And I don’t have any intention on fighting.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:38:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:38:38pm

re: #45 Dread Pirate

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Decatur Deb  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:43:20pm

re: #22 MsJ

There are others doing the exact same thing.

I think they’re ratfuckers. Not all of them but I don’t think they’re all real.

This is divide and conquer. Split everyone on everything. It’s Russian ratfucking 101.

Just my two cents.

We have kids in cages, and we’re talking about the hair color of a fucking cartoon.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:44:13pm

re: #47 Decatur Deb

We have kids in cages, and we’re THEY ARE talking about the hair color of a fucking cartoon.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:47:50pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

More fool the Dem/lib/prog who answers. Besides, I’m still confused about the sex lives of the Teletubbies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:48:44pm

re: #49 Decatur Deb

More fool the Dem/lib/prog who answers. Besides, I’m still confused about the sex lives of the Teletubbies.

the purple one carries a purse…

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:50:02pm

re: #49 Decatur Deb

Pansexual telepaths, of course.

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DangerMan  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:50:29pm

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

WHAT PLACES has he seen???

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They never ask the obvious follow up question

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sagehen  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:50:31pm

re: #31 Ace Rothstein

Also, remember that “statistic” that right-wingers used to scream about during the Obama years? 95 MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT WORKING!!!! Well, if that tweet from Trump is true, then 172 MILLION PEOPLE ARE NOT WORKING!!!

Also, the monthly job creation numbers from BLS during the Obama years were LIES! ALL LIES! But the same numbers, from the agency, derived from the same methodology, are now PROOF OF THE PRESIDENT’S GREATNESS!

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:53:05pm

re: #49 Decatur Deb

Doctor Who - The Master Watches Teletubbies [Episode: The Sound of Drums]

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DangerMan  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:56:28pm

re: #36 mmmirele

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This is completely DUMB. Just because Ariel was white in one movie does not mean she can’t be a person of color in another. Ariel is FICTIONAL. F - I - C - T - I - O - N - A - L. It’s not like making a movie about Harriet Tubman and casting a white woman. DUUUUMB

Fictional characters die and come back to life
Then there’s cartoon physics
Animals talk, act like people , interact with people. Bugs wears gloves.
Ariel’s a mermaid

These people are crackpots

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Targetpractice  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:58:58pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Judges tend to look very darkly upon defendants repeatedly lying to their face, particularly when they then admit they lied…before asking to be given a chance to concoct a new lie. I imagine the final straw was not only admitting that months of insistence that the case had to be decided before June 30th was in fact total horseshit, but then compounding that by asking the court to find a way to just bump up the schedule so they could get this back before the SCOTUS bench in time to add the question back to the census.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 5:59:55pm

BURN!!!

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:01:26pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

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BURN!!!

snork!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:04:40pm

yeppers

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Targetpractice  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:06:18pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

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yeppers

The monsters were here all along, they just hid very well. All Trump did was tell them it was okay to remove the masks.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:07:25pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

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yeppers

When the Republicans take away her Social Security and Medicare she’ll continue to be stupid enough to blame Obama,

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:08:12pm

re: #61 Joe Bacon 🌹

When the Republicans take away her Social Security and Medicare she’ll continue to be stupid enough to blame Obama,

and blame the socialists, too

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:09:48pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s the Miami I remember.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:09:57pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:10:15pm
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A Mom Anon  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:10:51pm

re: #59 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am seriously all out of can’ts and evens. We’re doomed. What in the actual FUCK?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:12:27pm

re: #66 A Mom Anon

I am seriously all out of can’ts and evens. We’re doomed. What in the actual FUCK?

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:12:43pm

Hey now, got a Joy Reid retweet on the theocracy thing.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:13:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:13:59pm

re: #69 jaunte

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ALL THE UPDINGS!!!

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:15:01pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

ALL THE UPDINGS!!!

If that doesn’t go viral then we are doomed.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:16:52pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is truly a thing of beauty. I love it so.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:17:27pm
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DangerMan  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:17:36pm
Talking to reporters on the White House lawn before departing for a long weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., the president said the Trump Organization has implemented “strict” hiring rules since reporting by the Daily News and other outlets revealed dozens of undocumented immigrants worked at several of the company’s locations

But Sandra Diaz, a previously undocumented immigrant from Costa Rica who worked as a housekeeper at Trump’s Bedminster club between 2010 and 2013, says she knows of at least six undocumented workers who are currently employed at the Trump Winery in Charlotteville, Va.

Admits their previous hiring practices sucked (as if it nwasnt deliberate)

Oh and he’s lying anyway

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Targetpractice  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:18:16pm

The effort to portray Trump voters as anything other than racists was already a monumental task, but clips like that pretty much make it impossible. Now “socialism” is being spun as encapsulating the concept of the “race traitor,” that any white guy who isn’t a Trumper is in reality secretly hating himself for being white. How in the holy fuck do you expect to go “back to normal” when millions of the people you think you can work with genuinely believe you hate your own damned skin color?

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DangerMan  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:18:57pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

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A realization I’ve come to about myself, after some hard lessons: I’m not always stupid.

Just sometimes.

Yer human

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:19:34pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

I’m in the most of the time camp

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gwangung  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:21:41pm

re: #71 Belafon

If that doesn’t go viral then we are doomed.

Shared five or six times already on my Facebook feed…

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Decatur Deb  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:35:49pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

The monsters were here all along, they just hid very well. All Trump did was tell them it was okay to remove the masks.

Admitting there seems to be more of them than I expected. No rest for the weary, then.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:37:16pm
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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:41:24pm
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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:44:00pm

re: #81 jaunte

seems like months

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 6:51:06pm

re: #81 jaunte

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Of of the great debates is whether you should stay in your position in government to try to keep it from falling into ruin or do you leave. The problem is, that unless sufficient numbers of people leave that it disables government at all levels (including in places like ICE and CPB), leaving just allows someone corrupt to do the job unimpeded.

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wrenchwench  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:01:45pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:08:05pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

Stand by for the keening cri de Wingnut threatening another boycott against Wal*Mart. How’s their boycott going against Dick’s Sporting Goods going?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:09:20pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

Hey now, got a Joy Reid retweet on the theocracy thing.

Congradumalashuns, Mr. Johnson. You’ve arrived. /s

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:11:18pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

and blame the socialists, too

Conservatives have been banging the “socialist” drum so long, it now means anything and everything to conservatives they don’t like.

Part of that was reflected in David French’s article in the National Review decrying younger voters looking into socialistic ideas and lamenting the fall of the Republic or some such codswallop.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:16:07pm

Storms north of Denver moving NE, storms south of Torrington, Wyo. moving SE. That’s not really good for us here.

wunderground.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:22:01pm

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹

It’s part of denying the death-of-God process that is underway.

Early in the 20th century, the backlash against modernism included equating socialism with godlessness.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:22:09pm

local radar shows nothing. It may rain here but who cares?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:23:50pm

re: #27 Old Liberal

Pretty good take on little mermaid from Beau

Maybe that ought to be tweeted at the woman who’s going on about “Ariel is WhItE!”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:24:42pm

re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s part of denying the death-of-God process that is underway.

Early in the 20th century, the backlash against modernism included equating socialism with godlessness.

Despite the guy who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance was both a socialist and a minister.

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retired cynic  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:24:54pm

re: #91 Anymouse 🌹

Maybe that ought to be tweeted at the woman who’s going on about “Ariel is WhItE!”

just make her weirder … who needs it?

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:26:43pm

re: #93 retired cynic

It would be a world-changer if we could figure out how to get people to open up to new information.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:27:23pm

re: #92 Anymouse 🌹

Girl. Not guy. Important to remember.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:28:38pm

Like: showing some little black girls they can fantasize about being a mermaid princess won’t subtract anything from your own fantasy about being a mermaid princess.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:29:24pm

re: #90 William Lewis

local radar shows nothing. It may rain here but who cares?

We have enough flooding already, and the Nebraska Panhandle never floods except right along the North Platte River.

What’s coming at us from the northwest looks pretty bad if it holds together.
wunderground.com

(NEXRAD from Rapid City, SD. My county is at the extreme SE corner of the radar plot, shown as a tiny sliver.)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:31:08pm

re: #95 William Lewis

Girl. Not guy. Important to remember.

Francis Bellamy was in fact a guy.

en.wikipedia.org

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Cheechako  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:32:52pm

Very hot up here in Alaska. Yesterday, Anchorage reached 90!! 5 degrees above the old record. Here in Juneau, it was 87 at the Cheechako homestead today. Plus it’s very smokey from the interior and Yukon wild-fires. This warm weather is expected for at least another week. No A/C’s or lawn sprinklers available anywhere in town!

Here’s how hot it’s been:

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:46:52pm

Boo-boo at Horseshoe Curve today:

Derailment info at Horseshoe Curve, PA. 7/5/2019 8:40pm edt.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:49:34pm

re: #99 Cheechako

Very warm in the upper latitudes this year.

Sea ice melt is at record in many places. By the end of this month there’s a good chance we’ll see some record low sea ice volume in the Arctic.

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jaunte  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:52:08pm

re: #99 Cheechako

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 7:54:59pm

Programming note to Mr. Johnson:

I plugged my church sanctuary story to all the imaginary people who live in my E-mail list, along with the closed atheist discussion group I run on behalf of Intertel.

(I don’t always bash religion, not even in that group. I think these churches and others are practicing what they preach in loving thy neighbour and providing for the weak and powerless.)

If you see a surge in logins from international locations, that could be part of the reason.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:03:03pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹

Thank you.

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William Lewis  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:04:27pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹

IOW I’ll go oops.

Sorry.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:11:06pm

re: #105 William Lewis

IOW I’ll go oops.

Sorry.

Z’alright.

Rev. Bellamy was somewhat of a complicated character. For example, he supported the idea of racial quotas for immigrants while he was a preacher.

After he was forced out of the pulpit for preaching against what he perceived as the evils of capitalism, he moved from Massachusetts to Florida.

He then stopped going to church, because of the massive amounts of racism he saw there at the end of the XIX Century. (He didn’t stop being a Christian, he just refused to attend Florida churches.)

He was somewhat a fatalist in our society achieving equality for all. In describing the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance during the Second Red Scare, he said:

It began as an intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from the Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the Constitution… with the meaning of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people…

The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the ‘republic for which it stands’. …And what does that last thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation - the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove. To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches. And its future?

Just here arose the temptation of the historic slogan of the French Revolution which meant so much to Jefferson and his friends, ‘Liberty, equality, fraternity’. No, that would be too fanciful, too many thousands of years off in realization. But we as a nation do stand square on the doctrine of liberty and justice for all…

Thousands of years is somewhat depressing.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:20:50pm

EARTHQUAKE

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:21:12pm

Here we go again Ridgecrest

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:21:41pm

THIS IS A BIG ONE!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:23:31pm

re: #107 Joe Bacon 🌹

EARTHQUAKE

Hope everything is okay where you are.

Time to write a citizen’s shake map report to USGS.
earthquake.usgs.gov (reporting page)

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:25:39pm

That seemed stronger and still long lasting. Yikes

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:27:34pm

7.1. Friend in in Hermosa beach is feeling it good. Shit. Joe. Be safe.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:29:13pm

I can’t get the USGS. Spinning wheel

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:29:53pm

re: #112 GlutenFreeJesus

7.1. Friend in in Hermosa beach is feeling it good. Shit. Joe. Be safe.

USGS is reporting it as magnitude 5.0 and intensity of VII. (They just upgraded it.)

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Charles Johnson  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:33:58pm

Whoa, major shaking there. 7.1, near Ridgecrest. That one went on long enough to be scary.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:34:24pm

re: #113 Rightwingconspirator

I can’t get the USGS. Spinning wheel

I can get them but they’re a bit slow to respond.

I guess you need a dial telephone DSL connexion. /s

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:35:18pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Reminds me of the Landers quake.

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Sionainn, Warrior Mother  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:36:19pm

I missed it running to the store and my kids dealt with it! Gah!!!

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:38:02pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:38:24pm

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Comes on the heels of yesterday’s 6.4 in the same area.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:39:37pm

Severe thunderstorm watch for my county dropped by NWS.

Latest radar shows severe thunderstorms moving into my county from that line in South Dakota. It is swinging into a thunderstorm train traveling west-to-east stretching from my county seat back to Cheyenne, Wyo. The other line moving from Denver is now pounding Fort Collins, with Aspen under a severe thunderstorm warning.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:40:41pm

earthquake.usgs.gov

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:45:39pm

100% guaranteed that someone Trump is looking at to head DOE is currently using a map of recent quake epicenters and active volcanoes to plan where to build nuclear power stations.

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mmmirele  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:47:36pm

My brother said yesterday afternoon that another large earthquake was going to hit and very soon. He’s right. But yesterday and today’s quakes do nothing obvious to relieve the pressure on the San Andreas fault.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:50:44pm

re: #124 mmmirele

My brother said yesterday afternoon that another large earthquake was going to hit and very soon. He’s right. But yesterday and today’s quakes do nothing obvious to relieve the pressure on the San Andreas fault.

Geology was never my field of study. Why do these quakes not relieve the pressure? Does that mean a larger quake is on its way?

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:52:20pm

re: #123 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

100% guaranteed that someone Trump is looking at to head DOE is currently using a map of recent quake epicenters and active volcanoes to plan where to build detonate nuclear power stations weapons to create beachfront property.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:52:23pm

re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter

Geology was never my field of study. Why do these quakes not relieve the pressure? Does that mean a larger quake is on its way?

The quake in question is not on the San Andreas Fault.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:55:47pm

re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter

This quake and its predecessors yesterday are on the very southeastern portion of the Sierra Nevada mountains. They are southeast of the sequoia forests, which are at the high elevations on the west (wet side) of the mountain slopes.

The east side is all desert, and the batholith that forms the Sierra Nevada rises sharply, creating valleys on the east side that are settling.

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:56:08pm

re: #83 Belafon

One of the great debates is whether you should stay in your position in government to try to keep it from falling into ruin or do you leave. The problem is, that unless sufficient numbers of people leave that it disables government at all levels (including in places like ICE and CPB), leaving just allows someone corrupt to do the job unimpeded.

If you have any kind of self-respect, you cannot be a part of any organization that has no respect for human rights. If you stay, you are a person who has no respect for human rights. That’s a QED.

If you leave and are replaced by someone who has no respect for human rights, you have done a righteous thing, and eventually, in a righteous world, your replacement will end up in prison.

Sadly, we do not, at the moment, appear to live in a righteous world. We appear to live in a fascist America.

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mmmirele  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:59:03pm

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹

The quake in question is not on the San Andreas Fault.

This, it’s not on the San Andreas fault. It’s on a different fault. And no idea if the most recent quake is going to be the last.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 8:59:17pm

Huge amounts of lightning around my house, as several rotating thunderstorms have formed within a few miles.

No thunderstorm warnings from the NWS though.

Standing by to lose my electricity.

wunderground.com

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:02:16pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹

spc.noaa.gov

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:02:33pm

re: #99 Cheechako

Very hot up here in Alaska. Yesterday, Anchorage reached 90!! 5 degrees above the old record. Here in Juneau, it was 87 at the Cheechako homestead today. Plus it’s very smokey from the interior and Yukon wild-fires. This warm weather is expected for at least another week. No A/C’s or lawn sprinklers available anywhere in town!

Here’s how hot it’s been:

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When Anchorage is the three degrees cooler than Austin on the 4th of July, we’ve got a BIG problem.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:05:41pm

re: #132 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

spc.noaa.gov

I guess that explains our weather.

Now the radar is showing some supercells moving east-to-west, with a new one formed just east of town, and another one smiting the intersection of US-385 and NE-92 (eight miles away) a second time.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:06:29pm

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹

Here’s the discussion that is more relevant to you:

Severe Thunderstorms producing mainly large hail were occurring along the Interstate 25 corridor south of Fort Collins, and also southeast of Colorado Springs at 0320Z. Latest objective analysis depicts moderate instability in the immediate downstream environment and a favorably sheared environment, therefore some severe risk is likely to persist beyond the scheduled expiration of the watch at 04Z. Current expectations are for the threat to remain relatively confined to areas immediately downstream of the current strong convection and, with increasing CINH developing with time, a new watch is not planned.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:07:31pm

Hope everyone in SoCal is safe. 7.1. That’s a higher magnitude than the Northridge earthquake in 1994.

You know what’s really scary? The possibility of a megathrust earthquake along Cascadia, while Fuckface Von Clownstick is president*.

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Kilroy was here  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:08:38pm

BREAKING NEWS - 7.1 magnitude earthquake reported near Los Angeles | ABC News
Live KABC earthquake info

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:09:02pm

re: #136 teleskiguy

It was revised down to 6.9, I think.

It’s out at NWS China Lake, a mostly deserted area because it is after all a weapons test facility. The town of Ridgecrest, which exists mostly to service the base, may have some damage.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:09:04pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:10:04pm

re: #135 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Thanks. That explains why they didn’t introduce a new watch when the last one expired, though they did for the counties around me in Nebraska and Colorado.

In the meantime, we are watching personally as that supercell to our east has swung directly toward our town and is still intensifying.

There was a radar-indicated tornado in Fort Collins (which is under a severe thunderstorm warning).

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:10:09pm

re: #138 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It was revised down to 6.9, I think.

That’s still very slightly higher than in 1994, which was 6.8.

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Kilroy was here  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:12:24pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

That’s still very slightly higher than in 1994, which was 6.8.

I think it is still being called a 7.1 (just now on TV at the “Shaker Map”)

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Targetpractice  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:12:56pm

Courtesy of the late Robin Williams:

Robin Williams On Living In California and Earthquakes

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LadyBehir  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:13:21pm

When I first saw it listed it was a 6.9. Now it is a 7.1.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:16:28pm

re: #136 teleskiguy

You know what’s really scary? The possibility of a megathrust earthquake along Cascadia, while Fuckface Von Clownstick is president*.

I have to apologize for this. It’s weapons grade nightmare fuel.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:17:04pm

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹

The quake in question is not on the San Andreas Fault.

Thank you!

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:17:37pm

Here’s something fun.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:18:39pm

The centre of the supercell which formed east of us has stalled about a mile northwest of town. We are getting the crap pounded out of us. The house is shaking from the thunder.

Come on, 105 year-old house. Hold together. You already survived (mostly) two tornadoes last year.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:18:48pm

CBS is saying it was initially rated a 7.1, downgraded to 6.9, and re-evaluated and bumped back up to 7.1.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:20:03pm

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹

Come on, 105 year-old house. Hold together. You already survived (mostly) two tornadoes last year.

Sounds like a great track record. Sounds like the only thing that will destroy it is a wedge tornado or bombs.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:24:17pm

Been noticing mi madre has been playing with Twitter a tad more frequently.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:27:07pm

There is a long wind shear line between sides of this line from northeast of my town to north of Fort Collins, Colo.

The same storm just smote the intersection of US-385 and NE-92 for the fourth time (it keeps going back and forth across it). Someone really hates that spot.

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:29:52pm

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹

Someone really hates that spot.

I thought you were an atheist.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:30:20pm

The fore and after shocks outline a nice right angle:

They also indicate why the valleys are where they are… as the batholith rises different chunks of it move differently. Over millions of years the material that was on top of the rising mountains wears down and becomes the dust and sand that makes the surface, so the individual faults between the moving parts of the solid material underneath are obscured, but looking at the quakes (which in this case is the rising and falling of material under the surface) gives us a clue.

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:43:13pm

re: #129 austin_blue

If you have any kind of self-respect, you cannot be a part of any organization that has no respect for human rights. If you stay, you are a person who has no respect for human rights. That’s a QED.

If you leave and are replaced by someone who has no respect for human rights, you have done a righteous thing, and eventually, in a righteous world, your replacement will end up in prison.

Sadly, we do not, at the moment, appear to live in a righteous world. We appear to live in a fascist America.

To borrow from history: Did Schindler doe more or less damage with his actions than he would have done had he just up and said “I’m out”? I realize this is an extreme case, but it is an extreme example of the idea.

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:46:37pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:47:59pm
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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:48:34pm
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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:49:07pm

re: #127 Anymouse 🌹

The quake in question is not on the San Andreas Fault.

Well, it is, and it isn’t. The San Andreas Fault Complex (SAFC) runs from the north end of the Gulf of California to Point Reyes, north of San Fransisco. It is a strike/slip fault complex that trends to the NNW. That means it is that is grinding the western portion of Cali northward away from the static portion of Cali that is locked in to the Sierra Madre Craton (SMC).

However, that NNW movement has significant affects on the dirt between the SAFC and the SMC. The SMC is an immovable block of granite. It’s not going anywhere. Between it and the SAFC is a huge swath of California, specifically, the Central Valley between Bakersfield and Mount Shasta.

The area around China Lake has got a big ass fault on the east side of the valley where tension between the SAFC and SMC occasionally releases stress, independent of the SAFC. That’s what we are seeing.

Geologist out.

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:50:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:50:38pm

re: #153 teleskiguy

I thought you were an atheist.

I didn’t say God. It could be whoever runs HAARP. /s

The storm which smote us turned around and is coming back for seconds. The colours on the NEXRAD have moved into the extreme range.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:50:39pm

Man, I had Tweetbot open and had refreshed my feed right when the quake hit, and every single person I follow who’s anywhere near L.A. posted “EARTHQUAKE!” at the same moment. That was surreal. Hope everyone is OK.

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Belafon  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:55:52pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:55:56pm

re: #147 teleskiguy

Here’s something fun.

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Of course my mind soundtracks that with the Peanuts theme. I must be getting old. (Or old fashioned)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:57:00pm

Tomorrow’s smiting is already scheduled by the Storm Prediction Center: We’re in the area for the greatest probability of hail over 3/4 inches in diameter.

Image: 188.png

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:57:18pm

Everytime I look at images of what is east of the mountains, especially in California, something catches my eye. Most Americans never get to that part of the country, even when they come to California, as everyone goes to the coast.

But you never know what you find out there, such as this super-sekrit:

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 9:57:59pm

Decompressing. Am glad that they just finished the seismic reenforcement on my apartment building!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:05:59pm

re: #159 austin_blue

Did you catch the videos I’ve linked here, of Nick Zentner at CWU, as he describes the geology of the Northwest?

He’s very good at communicating complex topics to the lay crowd.

Anyway, I thought that subsidence and downfaulting is also a problem along the entire eastern side of the Sierra Nevada.

For those wanting more reading:
Structural Evolution of the East Sierra Valley System (Owens Valley and Vicinity), California: A Geologic and Geophysical Synthesis

Eastern California is a beautiful place, in its own dry, violent way.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:08:47pm
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sagehen  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:10:16pm

re: #129 austin_blue

If you have any kind of self-respect, you cannot be a part of any organization that has no respect for human rights. If you stay, you are a person who has no respect for human rights. That’s a QED.

If you leave and are replaced by someone who has no respect for human rights, you have done a righteous thing, and eventually, in a righteous world, your replacement will end up in prison.

Or, possibly, if you stay you are a person who is very slowly and methodically compiling evidence you’ll need later when you have enough documentation to do your Daniel Ellsberg impression.

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:11:51pm

re: #166 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Everytime I look at images of what is east of the mountains, especially in California, something catches my eye. Most Americans never get to that part of the country, even when they come to California, as everyone goes to the coast.

But you never know what you find out there, such as this super-sekrit:

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Looks like a Nike-Hercules site.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:15:04pm
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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:15:28pm

re: #168 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Did you catch the videos I’ve linked here, of Nick Zentner at CWU, as he describes the geology of the Northwest?

He’s very good at communicating complex topics to the lay crowd.

Anyway, I thought that subsidence and downfaulting is also a problem along the entire eastern side of the

For those wanting more reading:
Structural Evolution of the East Sierra Valley System (Owens Valley and Vicinity), California: A Geologic and Geophysical Synthesis

Eastern California is a beautiful place, in its own dry, violent way.

Yes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:16:38pm

re: #171 austin_blue

There’s still an active radar dome on the nearest peak.

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mmmirele  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:18:23pm

Marianne Williams is being (rightfully) attacked for her wootastic beliefs. (Kind of a thread.)

I jumped in and left my comment. Marianne Wooilliams knows NOTHING about depression. Herteachings are as dangerous as the ones from fundamentalist Protestant preachers who tell people to throw away their meds because God will cure them.

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MsJ  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:23:07pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:30:13pm

Aftershocks are still swarming. Red dots all over the earthquake map of the China Lake area.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:33:23pm

KTLA livestream.

ktla.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:37:12pm

OMG I got a downding!

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:38:39pm

re: #172 Dread Pirate

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The roof didn’t collapse. It was scary but not catastrophic. Lucky them.

It’s nature, people. It is the natural order of things. Strike/slip faults will occasionally snap and you’ll get an 8.1 earthquake. Dip/slip faults (like the Cascade, which should scare the shit out of you) could snap at greater than a 9 (10 times more powerful, it’s a logarithmic scale) , like the Aceh and Sendai quakes,

Then there are deep crustal quakes like the Madrid, Missouri quake that we really, to this day, do not understand. It occurred at the south edge of the granitic craton of the continent. The mechanism is still not understood.

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Sionainn, Warrior Mother  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:40:42pm

re: #175 mmmirele

Marianne Williams is being (rightfully) attacked for her wootastic beliefs. (Kind of a thread.)

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I jumped in and left my comment. Marianne Wooilliams knows NOTHING about depression. Herteachings are as dangerous as the ones from fundamentalist Protestant preachers who tell people to throw away their meds because God will cure them.

As a person who deals with depression and a daughter with depression, she can go fuck herself sideways with a sharp fork.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:41:33pm

re: #177 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Aftershocks are still swarming. Red dots all over the earthquake map of the China Lake area.

I just zoomed in the map and looked. Wow, that’s a lot of earthquakes.

I feel like I’m being left out after that one earthquake they had the other day on the Kansas-Nebraska line (no I don’t).

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teleskiguy  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:41:36pm

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Dread Pirate  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:42:30pm
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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:43:09pm

re: #174 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There’s still an active radar dome on the nearest peak.

Well, of course there is.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:47:25pm

re: #185 austin_blue

Well, of course there is.

One thing I marvel at is how whoever-is-in-charge keeps these things from being labeled on Google maps/Earth, when everything else seems to be tagged with a zillion photos.

Since your a geologist, here’s something that puzzles me: all around the western US are small volcanoes and fields of volcanoes and when I go read something that has been written about them it seems like many were active 20k-10k years ago, then stopped.

I find the timing of it all intriguing.

Do you know if the melting of glaciers (such as in the Sierra Nevada or lower Rockies) at the end of the last glaciation, could have caused enough rapid rebound… that somehow briefly caused a flurry of volcanic activity in this part of the world?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:47:37pm

Here a bone to chew on….. Vlads doing cleanup.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:48:05pm

The weather has cleared up here now. Interstate 80 must be horrible to be driving on though, with storms from Cheyenne, Wyo. in a line along the Interstate all the way off the east edge of my radar map.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:50:04pm

Jerry Lee Lewis -Whole Lotta Shakin Going On (Live 1964)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:52:23pm
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Decatur Deb  Jul 5, 2019 • 10:58:13pm

For those who must have something more contemporary:

Jerry Lee Lewis - Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On (2017)

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Scottish Dragon  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:10:05pm

re: #125 Hecuba’s daughter

Geology was never my field of study. Why do these quakes not relieve the pressure? Does that mean a larger quake is on its way?

Quakes can transfer strain, meaning that although you relieve it in one place, you may have contributed to strain building up even more somewhere else nearby.

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:10:27pm

re: #183 teleskiguy

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re: #183 teleskiguy

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The map is an excellent guide to where earthquakes occur, but it leaves out where inter-crustal events happen. Lisbon, well within the European craton, was destroyed by a quake in 1755. Charleston, SC was hit by a major quake in 1886. Boston was also hammered in 1755. New Madrid may have been the greatest earthquake ever to have hit the US in recorded history.

We have a pretty good understanding of what happens on the margins of plates. What happens inside plates is still something of a mystery.

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Scottish Dragon  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:13:57pm

re: #180 austin_blue

The roof didn’t collapse. It was scary but not catastrophic. Lucky them.

It’s nature, people. It is the natural order of things. Strike/slip faults will occasionally snap and you’ll get an 8.1 earthquake. Dip/slip faults (like the Cascade, which should scare the shit out of you) could snap at greater than a 9 (10 times more powerful, it’s a logarithmic scale) , like the Aceh and Sendai quakes,

Then there are deep crustal quakes like the Madrid, Missouri quake that we really, to this day, do not understand. It occurred at the south edge of the granitic craton of the continent. The mechanism is still not understood.

Some suspicion that the New Madrid area was weakened by a failed rift event, I think.

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Scottish Dragon  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:17:05pm

Found it:

The New Madrid seismic zone is located in the northern part of what has been called the Mississippi embayment. The Mississippi embayment is a broad trough filled with marine sedimentary rocks about 50-100 millions years old and river sediments less than 5 millions years old. The upper 30 meters of sediment within the embayment includes sand, silt, and clay deposited by the Mississippi, Ohio, St. Francis, and White Rivers and their tributaries over the past 60,000 years. Wisconsin valley train deposits formed during the glacial period from 10,000-60,000 years ago, and the Holocene meander belt deposits were laid down during the past 10,000 years.

The Mississippi embayment is underlain by Paleozoic sedimentary rocks up to 570 millions years old. The Paleozoic rocks are underlain by even older rocks that appear to have been deformed about 600 million years ago when the North American continent almost broke apart. During the process of continental rifting, a deep valley formed that is bounded by faults and known as the Reelfoot rift. The Reelfoot rift is identified today as a subsurface system of fractures and faults in the earth’s crust. New Madrid seismicity is spatially associated with the Reelfoot rift and may be produced by movement on old faults in response to compressive stress related to plate motions.

earthquake.usgs.gov

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:23:08pm

re: #186 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

One thing I marvel at is how whoever-is-in-charge keeps these things from being labeled on Google maps/Earth, when everything else seems to be tagged with a zillion photos.

Since your a geologist, here’s something that puzzles me: all around the western US are small volcanoes and fields of volcanoes and when I go read something that has been written about them it seems like many were active 20k-10k years ago, then stopped.

I find the timing of it all intriguing.

Do you know if the melting of glaciers (such as in the Sierra Nevada or lower Rockies) at the end of the last glaciation, could have caused enough rapid rebound… that somehow briefly caused a flurry of volcanic activity in this part of the world?

Oh, that volcanic activity is much older than that. Here’s a precis:

en.wikipedia.org

There has been very little, if any, volcanic activity in the US outside of the Cascades since white people started killing Native Americans for fun and profit.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:30:15pm

Douchecanoe Republican Oregon state senator Brian Boquist, he of the threats against the state police, now faces an official conduct hearing in the state senate Monday.

apnews.com

A Senate special committee on conduct will hold a hearing Monday over Boquist’s behavior. He has submitted several documents for the inquiry, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting a Georgia lawmaker’s First Amendment rights to free speech in the 1960s.

Boquist said in an interview with The Associated Press that state police had no authority to apprehend senators.

Hasn’t read his own state’s constitution and supreme court rulings. Sounds like a conservative, alright.

As for the federal Supreme Court, I don’t think that 1960’s ruling includes threatening state police on television.

The case to which he refers appears to be Bond v Floyd (1966).

law.cornell.edu

In that case, an African-American man and now Civil Rights icon, Julian Bond (D) endorsed on television an anti-Vietnam war and anti-draft position, which he claimed as both a pacifist and a second-class citizen under Jim Crow.

He was elected to the Georgia House, which then refused to seat him based on those statements. He challenged the state on the grounds of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court overturned the Georgia House’s decision (which voted 184-12 not to seat him because he endorsed the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Commitee’s position on the Vietnam War).

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:34:27pm

From the KCAL livestream, sounds like Trona, CA is in trouble. Water’s running out.

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austin_blue  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:41:23pm

Night, all, way past my bedtime, sweet scaly dreams.

Oh, and go Megan Rapinoe and Team USA this weekend! I want them to stick that World Cup Trophy right up Trump’s ass without ever darkening his fetid door. Many fine Americans would see that it was done.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:42:41pm

re: #196 austin_blue

Oh, that volcanic activity is much older that that. Here’s a precis:

en.wikipedia.org

There has been very little, if any, volcanic activity in the US outside of the Cascades since white people started killing Indians for fun and profit.

Yes, in the big picture, the subduction of the Farallon plate formed what we know of the western US today.

But even of the Coso fields, where there is so much seismic activity tonight, there were much more recent minor eruptions:

The Coso Volcanic Field shows stunning examples of volcanic activity, probably last active 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, but ash emission and small cone building episodes may be Holocene (>10,000 years) in age.

And in Imperial county, the Salton Buttes:

Most of the Buttes formed between 1,800 and 2,300 years ago, although Mullet Island may be 5,000 years older.[1] According to the Global Volcanism Program, Mullet Island formed 290 BCE ± 100 years, Obsidian Butte 10 AD ± 100 years and the other Buttes 210 AD ± 100 years.[44] If Mullet Island formed at the same time as the other Buttes, the eruption episode that formed the Salton Buttes lasted probably no more than 500 years.[45] Presently, fumarolic activity occurs at the Buttes from cracks in the volcanic rocks of the Salton Buttes[15] and seismic activity has been recorded from the geothermal field.

And in southern Arizona:

The San Francisco, Uinkaret, and Pinacate basaltic volcanic fields have hosted multiple eruption events in the past 10,000 years, and all have a high likelihood of future eruptions. But these basaltic volcanic fields display repose periods - the time between successive eruptions - on the order of several thousand years.

And so on.

Perhaps this is just normal frequency of eruptions for this planet?

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:48:14pm

re: #199 austin_blue

Or show up and then do the black power salute in front of him? It would have to be that, not the kneeling…Trump would LOVE for people to kneel in front of him, even if he is incapable of understanding WHY they’re doing it.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:48:23pm

re: #200 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Dr. Lucy Jones of CalTech was saying in her presser about an hour ago that the last 20 years or so in Southern California have been, to paraphrase, a seismically quiet period - unusually quiet if we look back at the geological record.

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Cheechako  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:53:29pm

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:56:05pm

re: #203 Cheechako

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

And its overdue.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 5, 2019 • 11:56:12pm

re: #203 Cheechako

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

I used to live in the PNW. That’s the one we always had at the back of our minds……the damage from such an event would be just a hair short of apocalyptic.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:03:33am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

From the KCAL livestream, sounds like Trona, CA is in trouble. Water’s running out.

[water operator hat]

When any sort of disaster strikes, the water operator’s first concern is to maintain pressure in the water system. If pressure goes too low, backflow from things like people leaving their garden hoses in buckets of water or such, breaks in water lines with stagnant water around them, &c means microbes can be drawn into the water system.

An earthquake is naturally a real challenge to a water system, though earthquake-prone areas like California tend to build resiliency into the underground water pipes so they don’t break.

Other things can knock water systems off-line though, from hurricanes and tornadoes to loss of electricity to a fire.

When a disaster strikes a public water system, the water operator has to ensure 1) there isn’t a mad rush on the water system [which lowers the pressure if it is not running] and 2) communicate to the public to be frugal with water. Additionally as a precaution, the water operator or city government can issue a mandatory boil water order (particularly if they are unsure about the integrity of the system).

[/hat]

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:11:20am

re: #204 NO SMOCKING GUN!

And its overdue.

Well, if Yellowstone goes (which is also claimed to be overdue), I probably won’t have to worry much.

As fast as the ash cloud would travel, I would have no time to escape, and I would be buried under about ten feet of ash in seconds.

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Targetpractice  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:12:40am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹

Well, if Yellowstone goes (which is also claimed to be overdue), I probably won’t have to worry much.

As fast as the ash cloud would travel, I would have no time to escape, and I would be buried under about ten feet of ash in seconds.

Way to stay positive.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:12:45am

re: #203 Cheechako

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

(edit: i owe anymouse a coke!)
The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

what about the old faithful apocalypse?

that would wipe out the whole west coast

(edit: i owe anymouse a coke!)

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Dread Pirate  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:13:57am

From the press conference, “Expect at least one 6.1 aftershock and about ten 5.1 aftershocks.”

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teleskiguy  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:15:13am

re: #209 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

what about the old faithful apocalypse?

that would wipe out the whole west coast

METEOR!

Bring it.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:16:50am

re: #208 Targetpractice

Way to stay positive.

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It’ll be quick at least.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:17:44am

re: #209 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

what about the old faithful apocalypse?

that would wipe out the whole west coast

(edit: i owe anymouse a coke!)

Well, next time we get together than. (::

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Cheechako  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:26:49am

re: #209 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Since I live right on top of The Ring of Fire, I do have earthquake insurance on the house. I don’t know off hand how much it costs, but I do know there’s a 20% deductible. If Cascadia goes, I don’t think I’d be able to collect any of it. The Country would be broke with an event of that size.

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teleskiguy  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:31:41am

Giphy

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:32:56am

re: #207 Anymouse 🌹

Well, if Yellowstone goes (which is also claimed to be overdue), I probably won’t have to worry much.

As fast as the ash cloud would travel, I would have no time to escape, and I would be buried under about ten feet of ash in seconds.

No need to worry. Yellowstone has only had three eruptions over the last two million years, and the next one might not happen for another 100,000 years. Cascadia, otoh, normally has a major subduction event every couple of centuries, and its now been 319 years since the last one.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:33:47am

And you can never get them to say “what policies.”

Because the answer is “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965” which spurred white flight from cities taking the tax base with it.

When you throw in the actual policies, it directly exposes the racism which is at the core of Movement Conservatism. Since that messes with their message “Democrats are the real racists and keep blacks on the Democratic Plantation” (itself a racist message, since I assume African-Americans can figure out which party has their interests in mind), they have to dodge the question “what policies?” and deflect.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:34:58am

re: #214 Cheechako

Since I live right on top of The Ring of Fire, I do have earthquake insurance on the house. I don’t know off hand how much it costs, but I do know there’s a 20% deductible. If Cascadia goes, I don’t think I’d be able to collect any of it. The Country would be broke with an event of that size.

I have tornado insurance on both my house and car, but tornadoes tend to be much less costly than continent-destroying earthquakes or volcanoes.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:52:19am

re: #212 Anymouse 🌹

It’ll be quick at least.

Proud Boys Rally Rocked by Sex, Cocaine Allegations

Just when I thought they had no redeeming social value, they go all HST on us.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:59:50am

The one day 2.5+ quake map shows an unusual amount of quakes east of the Sierra all the way up to Bridgeport.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:13:04am

re: #203 Cheechako

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

From that article:

Thanks to that work [studying Japanese tsunami records and Native American oral traditions], we now know that the Pacific Northwest has experienced forty-one subduction-zone earthquakes in the past ten thousand years. If you divide ten thousand by forty-one, you get two hundred and forty-three, which is Cascadia’s recurrence interval: the average amount of time that elapses between earthquakes. That timespan is dangerous both because it is too long—long enough for us to unwittingly build an entire civilization on top of our continent’s worst fault line—and because it is not long enough. Counting from the earthquake of 1700, we are now three hundred and fifteen years into a two-hundred-and-forty-three-year cycle.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:20:26am

I’d hate to be in Home Depot during a big quake.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:26:02am

re: #221 Anymouse 🌹

Here I will note that earthquake occurrences are not really “cycles”, and thus there is no real way to measure “overdue”.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:38:46am

re: #223 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Here I will note that earthquake occurrences are not really “cycles”, and thus there is no real way to measure “overdue”.

As they note in the article, 9 and 11 average to ten, so do other numbers equally spaced. Thus a “cycle” of ten, which could be 2 and 18 or 1 and 19 or any other combination.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:44:39am

YouTube

Seismograph cam

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:45:19am

President Trump Slaps Tariffs on Solar Panels in Major Blow to Renewable Energy (Tiime)

In the biggest blow he’s dealt to the renewable energy industry yet, President Donald Trump decided on Monday to slap tariffs on imported solar panels.

The U.S. will impose duties of as much as 30 percent on solar equipment made abroad, a move that threatens to handicap a $28 billion industry that relies on parts made abroad for 80 percent of its supply. Just the mere threat of tariffs has shaken solar developers in recent months, with some hoarding panels and others stalling projects in anticipation of higher costs. The Solar Energy Industries Association has projected tens of thousands of job losses in a sector that employed 260,000.

(more)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:54:45am

(photo of Steve Mnuchin and Louise Linton)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 1:56:41am

One for Cheechako:

Satanic Invocation in Alaska Alarms Local Christians (goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for adult language and concepts, 12:17)

Satanic Invocation in Alaska Alarms Local Christians

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:02:24am

Since I am looking through Google maps at eastern California I decided to follow, via Google street view, hwy 395 north from the recent earthquake activity.

All the way up to Olancha, where we see this: goo.gl

Now I have long drank Crystal Geyser as far as bottled water is concerned, and then when Trader Joe’s decided to rebrand CG with their own name I just bought that (it’s less expensive, though recently TJ raised the price per bottle 20% - thanks Trump for the rapid inflation).

Anyway, I knew that they bottled it in Olancha (it says so on the label), but I had always thought that Crystal Geyser was its own company, from up in Napa valley.

And that is where their original plant is (and where today they bottle the carbonated water): goo.gl

But when I went to the CG main US website, I read this:

Being family owned and operated - with no “big brother” corporate involvement - we have the independence to fulfill our philosophy. It also allows us to be a good citizen and partner in each of the seven communities where we bottle Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water. We actively participate in supporting our communities, from providing excellent local employment opportunities, to community sponsorships and college scholarships. All while protecting the natural surroundings, environments and habitats of our spring water sources.

Sounds all mom-and-pop-y.

But wait.

Even on that page, their opening paragraph notes they are owned by “CG Roxane LLC. Established in 1990 as an independent, family owned enterprise, …”

Well, it was “independent”.

But currently half the ownership of CG Roxane is held by a Japanese conglomerate called Otsuka, and their American subsidiary has on its website an page for CG: otsuka-america.com
complete with a Japanese CEO. (Note that large Japanese corporations tend to be composed of a great many small companies, each with its own president or CEO.)

And the other owner of CG Roxane, the “Roxane” part, is a mysterious French conglomerate Alma Group, itself a corporation wrapped in the Roxanne Group, i.e. SOCIETE EXPLOITATION SOURCES ROXANE. Here is just a little bit of information this company: societe.com

Anyway, the US subsidiary may claim to be all family owned an such… but it appears to be jointly owned by a Japanese conglomerate and a French private company.

Regarding the water I drink… it looks to come from the aquifer that is next to Owens Lake:

Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Lone Pine, California. Unlike most dry lakes in the Basin and Range Province that have been dry for thousands of years, Owens held significant water until 1913, when much of the Owens River was diverted into the Los Angeles Aqueduct, causing Owens Lake to desiccate by 1926.[2] Today, some of the flow of the river has been restored, and the lake now contains some water. Nevertheless, as of 2013, it is the largest single source of dust pollution in the United States.

The company claims the water comes from Olancha Peak, just to the west. But the reservoir was probably filled primarily from the Holocene wet periods and I have to wonder if CG’s wells are pumping water faster than the (now dry era) mountain runoff can replenish the local reservoir.

The water report for water from this location claims to have extremely clean water:

If you buy CG, or the relabeled “Trader Joe’s” brand (and the water is probably relabeled for other sellers too), water out here in the southwest, it probably comes from the above source and thus the above water report is of use to you. If you’re in another part of the country then you can check out water from the other CG sources: crystalgeyserasw.com

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:03:23am

re: #226 Anymouse 🌹

Why do people pick stupid hills to stand on?

Myself included.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:09:40am

I chased this particular rabbit (CG) out of curiosity from where my water really came, and why the price has jumped so much (for the TJ branding.)

And if you think I am being profligate in natural resources by drinking trucked in water - San Diego county has to import two thirds of its water anyway, and that comes from way up north anyway, or less so from the Colorado river, so even if I drink from the tap I am drinking imported water.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:12:33am

Also, this shows once again that fresh water supplies all around the world are being bottled up (pun intended) by private corporations.

Where I grew up the water supply was community controlled (and it was good too, from extremely deep wells.)

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Teukka  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:18:26am

And this is your #DailyGroaner

Q: What is the measure of resistance?
A: Partisan/square meter.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:19:21am

Another swarm of aftershocks the last quarter hour or so:

At the northwest end of that swarm is the Coso volcano field I wrote about earlier. It’s last eruption was a minor one about 10kya. It would be tragic, but also rather interesting, if these small quakes indicate that the field was going to burp again after all these years.

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Teukka  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:22:07am

re: #234 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Another swarm of aftershocks the last quarter hour or so:

[Embedded content]

At the northwest end of that swarm is the Coso volcano field I wrote about earlier. It’s last eruption was a minor one about 10kya. It would be tragic, but also rather interesting, if these small quakes indicate that the field was going to burp again after all these years.

And still not enough time passed to know if you’ve had the main course yet, or if these are just appetizer tremors.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:33:25am

re: #233 Teukka

Downdinged.
Blocked.
Reported.
Nuked from orbit.
Stolen to use on friends.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:34:40am

The three 4+ quakes just reported on the USGS map are one continuous quake on the seismograph.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:36:47am

re: #231 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I chased this particular rabbit (CG) out of curiosity from where my water really came, and why the price has jumped so much (for the TJ branding.)

And if you think I am being profligate in natural resources by drinking trucked in water - San Diego county has to import two thirds of its water anyway, and that comes from way up north anyway, or less so from the Colorado river, so even if I drink from the tap I am drinking imported water.

I drink imported water as well. The village wells are four blocks from my house south. /s

And our water is exceptionally clean, even the naturally-occurring arsenic and uranium.

I don’t drink out of the tap though, nor use cooking water from it. That’s why we have RO units in every building in town.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:41:46am

Haute!!!!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 2:45:03am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

You should have warned us first. Fortunately I wasn’t wearing my spectacles so the lenses didn’t explode and embed glass in my eyes.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:04:45am

Some nice music from a pair I’ve mentioned before…

The TWINS and the TROLLS (Original Story and Song) Harp Twins, Camille and Kennerly

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:05:28am

Top Ten reasons not to move to Alaska. (Cheechako’s might be different.) 7:13

Includes a bonus reason at the end which got him demonitised by YouTube.

Top 10 reasons NOT to move to Alaska. Stay till the end, please. Battle of Attu.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:08:34am

re: #241 Sufficient unto the day…

Listening now. They are quite good singers and harpists.

That identical twin gimmick would be tough for most people to copy by others as well.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:19:50am

re: #243 Anymouse 🌹

One thing I like is their wide variety, and I LOVE their video direction and costumes. They’ve covered Johnny Cash, Rihanna, Metallica, In the Hall of the Mountain King…

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:28:15am

re: #244 Sufficient unto the day…

One thing I like is their wide variety, and I LOVE their video direction and costumes. They’ve covered Johnny Cash, Rihanna, Metallica, In the Hall of the Mountain King…

I lurve YouTube’s algorithm. After that video, it suggested one on Sealand. (I guess that’s what happens when your computer is layered with paranoiaware and you have no social media accounts: YouTube cannot track what you watched and offer similar things.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:35:13am

re: #239 Dave In Austin

That picture is the stereotype of an aging hooker in the cheap district.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:46:36am

Youtube’s popular young mad scientist making the really neat ferrofluid:

Making ferrofluid from scratch

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:54:08am

Earthquakes, ferocious storms, record heat, Trump still in office: Yep, the Apocalypse is here.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 3:58:28am

re: #248 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Earthquakes, ferocious storms, record heat, Trump still in office: Yep, the Apocalypse is here.

We haven’t had a plague of frogs yet …

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BigPapa  Jul 6, 2019 • 4:03:31am

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹

We haven’t had a plague of frogs yet …

Well, Trump had 4 tanks at his Shitty Rally for America

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 6, 2019 • 4:32:26am

As I noted earlier, looking around Google maps in the deserts of California and one can come across all sorts of stuff.

Here we have a humble country abode:

With a multi-million dollar view (the front of the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada):

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Teukka  Jul 6, 2019 • 4:45:42am

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹

We haven’t had a plague of frogs yet …

Also, locusts…

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 4:52:52am

re: #250 BigPapa

Well, Trump had 4 tanks at his Shitty Rally for America

Close enough. They were green.

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jeffreyw  Jul 6, 2019 • 4:59:20am

Good morning!

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Sufficient unto the day...  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:04:33am

re: #252 Teukka

I mean, Trump is fat and disgusting like SOME frogs #notallfrogs and he consumes anything near him, so he’s basically a twofer on the Plague-O-Meter

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:06:05am

re: #254 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

“Yes, can i help you?”

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:07:23am

re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg

Um, yes, please don’t shite where we eat!

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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:08:44am

Greets and saluts from the sweltering NYC metro area.

Be safe West Coast lizards. 7.1 is no joke. That follows a 6.4 on July 4. The scary thing is that they could both be foreshocks of a bigger quake, or that the 7.1 is the main quake with more aftershocks to come. The latter is more likely than the former, but we don’t know for sure until we see the magnitudes of those quakes.

Scary stuff.

The thing about big quakes is that it relieves stresses in the areas in the vicinity of the quake but increases stresses beyond the vicinity - such that this is likely to increase risks of slippage at adjoining areas as stress builds in those areas.

The biggest quakes are like ringing a bell (and the earth is the bell). A big quake can set off quakes far afield through the deformation and stresses being transmitted through the different rocks/strata.

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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:13:54am

re: #215 teleskiguy

What a big beautitful blue eye. Shame you have only one.
I thought you were taller Snake.

Call me Plissken.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:28:17am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:30:42am

re: #260 Dave In Austin

He’s congratulating himself while retweeting another account he controls.

Jesus Christ.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:34:33am

re: #246 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That picture is the stereotype of an aging hooker in the cheap district.

I wonder if she was doing BJ’s in the Port-a-Pottys

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:36:03am

re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg

And it’s getting worse. I wonder if he gets through the end of the year without a major incident.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:37:33am

… deleted by author …

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:39:25am

Today’s smiting of my area (besides the probability of huge hail) will include the highest probability of tornadoes in the nation today, in NE Colorado and the southern Nebraska Panhandle. Yay.

Image: 188.png

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:45:28am

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:46:29am

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹

I was mistaken because I didn’t have my spectacles on. I do now. That really is Mr. Trump’s account. 🤐

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:49:17am

Shade in large doses…..

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Dave In Austin  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:51:16am

re: #267 Anymouse 🌹

I was mistaken because I didn’t have my spectacles on. I do now. That really is Mr. Trump’s account. 🤐

You speak with more respect than I. I refuse even the Mr.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:54:59am

GLAAD’s “Accelerating Acceptance Report” (a survey conducted on their behalf by Gallup) shows a drop in acceptance of LGBT+ individuals in the USA for the second year in a row, strongest amongst female 18-34 year-olds. Amongst young women the percentage of acceptance went from 64% to 52% in one year.

The survey focuses on non-LGBT+ persons’ opinions.

The most recent survey was conducted since Trump was elected, the previous one was previous to his election.

glaad.org

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:56:19am

re: #269 Dave In Austin

You speak with more respect than I. I refuse even the Mr.

Well, I suppose I could have used “Miss.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 5:57:24am
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Citizen K  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:00:47am

US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son’s funeral

A German-Iranian father who wanted to travel to the United States to attend his son’s funeral was denied a three-day visa because the US said he was using “fraud or willfully misrepresenting a material fact” to obtain it.

Dr. Seyed Shahram Iranbomy’s 20-year-old son Irman (pictured above) died in a car accident in the capital Washington on June 10. He had been studying at a university in the US where his mother also lives.

Iranbomy, a human rights and discrimination lawyer who runs his own law firm in Frankfurt, told DW that the US consulate said he was taking advantage of his son’s death to immigrate to the US.

[…]

“You’re using the death of your son to immigrate to America, you’re not telling the truth,” Iranbomy quoted the US consulate as saying. He said he was also told that he “did not have roots in Germany.”

Iranbomy was born in Iran but has German citizenship and has lived in the country for more than 40 years. “I am more German than Iranian,” he told DW. He said he was not interested in moving to the US.

Just…holy fucking shit. If even a percentage of this is true, it’s just fucking monstrous.

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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:03:59am
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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:04:39am
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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:05:15am

re: #272 Anymouse 🌹

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:05:42am

re: #273 Citizen K

Conservatism: Cruelty is the point.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:08:14am
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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:13:03am

re: #274 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

To the gop democrat=socialist=leftist=far left

There is no “moderation”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:13:57am

re: #276 lawhawk

From Trump’s tweet above (my emphasis):

Joe Biden is a reclamation project. Some things are just not salvageable. China and other countries that ripped us off for years are begging for him. He deserted our military, our law enforcement and our healthcare. Added more debt than all other Presidents combined. Won’t win!

Excuse me? When was Joe Biden the President of the United States?

Grover Norquist was right. All the GOP needed was a president who could hold a pen and sign their bills.

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:21:08am

re: #274 lawhawk

Democrats may find themselves with an uncomfortable choice next year — pick the mainstream Democrats with ideas that cannot be characterized as “socialism,” or go with younger, more dynamic candidates whose ideas veer left off the political cliff.

this is also how the never trumpers will do it:
- the entire democratic party lurched/shifted too far left
- political cliff
- etc
the whole thing based on a premise that’s a lie.

watch for this in various forms:

“We know Trump’s a shit show.
We’d have gladly gone with a democrat if they had’nt all in lock step moved so far left
Unfortunately that’s a bridge too far so we’re stuck with trump”

a feeble excuse, not a justification

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:23:21am

So the GOP gets to move so far right they’re almost out of the solar system but God forbid democrats move a few feet to the left. 🙄

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:25:16am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

That would show open-mindedness and G-d forbid that happen. /half

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jeffreyw  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:32:07am

re: #256 Eclectic Cyborg

“Yes, can i help you?”

I would like a table please. Bar seating here sucks.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:32:12am

re: #281 DangerMan

“Democrats forced me to vote for the racist.”

How many times did we hear that after the last election in endless Cletus Safaris which are still going on now?

The endless cri de butthurt from Republicans all my life has been “Democrats are socialists, they want open borders, they hate the military, they hate America.”

Younger people coming out of college saddled with decades of debt are seeing the results of Compassionate Conservatism®, and as such are not afraid of the “socialist boogeyman.”

There is a reason the Democratic Socialists of America are expanding by leaps and bounds. (The only state in the Union without a chapter is Wyoming, no surprise.)

As the Cold War continues to recede into history (and my military Cold War Certificate on my wall continues to yellow because the DOD used cheap paper because the GOP didn’t authorise sufficient funds for the certificates), their boogeyman also loses its power to incite fear.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:34:02am

re: #258 lawhawk

The scary thing is that they could both be foreshocks of a bigger quake, or that the 7.1 is the main quake with more aftershocks to come.

Hopefully, that 7.1 was the main quake in this sequence.

That being said, wasn’t the 2011 quake in Japan preceded by two very strong foreshocks? Now, granted, that was a subduction zone earthquake (IIRC), and that’s simply not possible on the type of faultline that we’re looking at it California.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:34:18am

re: #283 PhillyPretzel

That would show open-mindedness and G-d forbid that happen. /half

/billionth

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:35:34am

re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s part of denying the death-of-God process that is underway.

Early in the 20th century, the backlash against modernism included equating socialism with godlessness.

re: #273 Citizen K

US denies German-Iranian father visa needed to attend son’s funeral

Just…holy fucking shit. If even a percentage of this is true, it’s just fucking monstrous.

Every time I return to the US the agents are shittier and shittier to US citizens as well. Need to clean house

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Citizen K  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:36:02am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

So the GOP gets to move so far right they’re almost out of the solar system but God forbid democrats move a few feet to the left. 🙄

That’s because to the political press, the GOP are the true golden gods of governance and can literally do no wrong, the system must necessarily follow the GOP wherever it goes because they are literally our natural rulers. Dems meanwhile are forever illegitimate usurpers who no matter how hard they try can never be ‘real Americans’ because they’re too goddamn brown.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:37:59am

re: #276 lawhawk

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Citizen K  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:39:04am

re: #288 Old Liberal

Every time I return to the US the agents are shittier and shittier to US citizens as well. Need to clean house

Except this is exactly the world that our apparent true god-given leaders of the US want. They want an eternal “We’re Full, Fuck Off” sign around our entire country. And if a US citizen leaves the country for anything other than to politically bully other countries and demonstrating our almighty white superiority, then they’re clearly not sufficiently American and need to keep their pink ass out of ‘our’ country.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:40:16am

re: #290 Anymouse 🌹

Narrator: Yes, he IS nuts.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:40:22am

re: #288 Old Liberal

Every time I return to the US the agents are shittier and shittier to US citizens as well. Need to clean house

Every time I drive across the border in either direction between Montana and Saskatchewan or Michigan and Ontario I’ve noticed the same.

On my last trip to Massachusetts in May, I got a ton of crap from CBP at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan leaving the USA (even though it was only for a few days).

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:43:40am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹

Oh, I’m sure I’d get the third degree. I’ve been out of the USA since June 2001. That’s 18 years.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:44:09am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹

I wonder how different the experience would be if you wore a MAGA hat while crossing?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:50:37am

What I posted to the Intertel Yahoo Group “IntertelAtheists” promoting my post here about churches “walking the talk” in my article on the right hand column of Little Green Footballs if you are interested, behind the hide bar.

I’m the group owner on behalf of Intertel and it was my message, so I feel it is OK to post here. It was not bashing Christians, it was praise of those who are standing up for what they profess (well, there was one dig in there, but not against these churches).

Intertel is an international organisation, thus there is a bit of explanation for those unfamiliar in the group with USA terms.

Click to Reveal

For non-Americans, ICE stands for “Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.” ICE is only a recent creation, combining several former agencies and creating new powers, which was part of the so-called Patriot Act passed after the 2001 aeroplane attacks on New York, Shanksville PA, and Washington DC.

As an atheist, I tend to be incensed by the hypocrisy frequently on display by many denominations of Christian churches and their members, particularly when those churches or members promote political positions which are at odds with their Bible or their own church’s canon.

Jesus as depicted in the New Testament was mostly anti-political (although he did weigh in on the issue of taxes, saying basically “pay them” and told believers “when you pray, do it in secret,” both of which a lot of Christians are opposed to). He also had nothing to say about LGBT people or abortion, which is why so many Christians go digging in the Old Testament (despite claiming it was superseded by the New) to look for the verses which give them permission to hate the people they do. (Jesus also had something to say about hate, as in “don’t do that.”) He did have things to say about immigrants, as did the Old Testament (“welcome the foreigners around you”).

There are individual churches which occasionally try to uphold their own teachings. (My belief is they do this because they are good people, not because of their religion, which has the deaths of millions on its hands for being heretics or heathens, including each other.)

I also write political articles, and as frequently politics and religion clash (as Christians are trying to tear down our secular state which protects them too), I wrote one on the issue of Christian churches offering sanctuary to undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers who are being harassed by the US government. That form of harassment frequently comes in the form of threats to deport someone during asylum hearings due to missing a hearing, regardless of reason. (You were in the hospital? Too bad for you.)

Seeking political asylum is legal anytime and anywhere in the USA (not just the border) under US law, and the USA is a signatory nation to international treaties regarding the same. A person seeking asylum is not an “illegal alien” regardless of how many times certain confused people try that lie. This is why we have asylum courts, to weed out legitimate claims from false ones. Some churches are stepping up to shelter people being harassed when they are seeking political asylum.

So I am shamelessly plugging a Church and State article I wrote for the left-leaning political Website Little Green Footballs on the churches stepping in by committing civil disobedience in the name of their faith. As I write this, it is the top-featured article there.

The Churches Which Offer Sanctuary from ICE

These churches run a real risk of being raided or their leaders arrested, for the felony crime of “harbouring an alien.” As of now, ICE has not made such raids. A few churches here and there are standing up for the weak and powerless against the most powerful government in the history of humankind. Those churches are “walking the talk.”

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:54:22am

re: #293 Anymouse 🌹

Every time I drive across the border in either direction between Montana and Saskatchewan or Michigan and Ontario I’ve noticed the same.

On my last trip to Massachusetts in May, I got a ton of crap from CBP at the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan leaving the USA (even though it was only for a few days).

The last agent I had the misfortune to deal with accused me of trying to smuggle “animal products “ when I told her I had several alpaca scarves as presents. She wasn’t kidding.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:55:03am

re: #295 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder how different the experience would be if you wore a MAGA hat while crossing?

Would need moar gun rack in the Smart car. Better yet, ditch the Smart and do it in a Dodge Ram.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:57:25am

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

And add a Confederate flag for the full effect.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:57:47am

re: #297 Old Liberal

The last agent I had the misfortune to deal with accused me of trying to smuggle “animal products ” when I told her I had several alpaca scarves as presents. She wasn’t kidding.

???

cdc.gov

Alpaca scarves are not prohibited by law. (We have alpacas on a ranch a couple miles from town; they graze amongst the cattle, which is a weird sight.)

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William Lewis  Jul 6, 2019 • 6:59:50am

re: #171 austin_blue

Looks like a Nike-Hercules site.

Oh, sure. I was thinking SA-2 and couldn’t understand why … ;)

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:04:08am

The Dem response to anything Trump tweets should be: “Trump wants Klingons to invade the earth to aid in his satanic baby-eating death rituals!” Ok, not really. But why not respond to outlandishness with over the top outlandishness to make a point?

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:05:03am

re: #300 Anymouse 🌹

???

cdc.gov

Alpaca scarves are not prohibited by law. (We have alpacas on a ranch a couple miles from town; they graze amongst the cattle, which is a weird sight.)

She asked if I had gifts. I said several alpaca scarves. She said “what’s alpaca” I said “it’s a small llama”. At which point she got serious and said I was smuggling animal products. I tried to explain that alpaca wool and sheep’s wool are the same kind of thing but gave up after I got the look. She wrote an “A” on my doc which means Animal Smuggler or Asshole or A Plus Citizen, not sure. Walked through the next checkpoint and felt creeped out.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:08:11am

re: #303 Old Liberal

This is a case of less is more. The less information given to these people the better.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:11:44am

re: #304 PhillyPretzel

This is a case of less is more. The less information given to these people the better.

This. Don’t volunteer any information.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:16:15am

re: #299 Eclectic Cyborg

And add a Confederate flag for the full effect.

It would have to be a very tiny Confederate flag.

On a side note, the douchecanoe in the county seat who used to fly a ginormous (why is that word in Firefox’s dictionary but “douchecanoe” isn’t) Confederate battle flag took it down. The townspeople shamed him into taking it down. (Turns out public shaming works.)

He flies a Nebraska football “Huskers” flag now where the Confederate battle flag was.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:18:44am

re: #304 PhillyPretzel

This is a case of less is more. The less information given to these people the better.

Yup. My license plate number (87) always gets extra scrutiny at the border. I offer nothing but my registration papers and insurance papers and let them figure it out.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:19:46am

re: #305 Eclectic Cyborg

This. Don’t volunteer any information.

“What’s on your laptop?”

“Nothing but 300 GBytes of porn, sir.”

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:23:58am

re: #304 PhillyPretzel

They have always been dicks. 25 years ago I visited a friend’s Dojo in Tijuana. Went down had a nice time, slept over at my friend’s place. Crossed the border no problem in his car. In National city I got my car, loaded up my martial arts gear, all training stuff. No nunchucks, no blades. I drive up the inland route and they take me aside for a cursory car search. No illegal anything, I got detained for two hours.

7 tears ago I went out along the 8 in Arizona chasing thunderstorms for photography. I stopped at one on the checkpoints and everybody was being harsh. “Remove your sunglasses they demanded. Then upon seeing a camera bag, “If you take a picture here you go to jail”. I chose the wise path of subservient body language and answers.

As I finally drove off deep lasting anger began and remains, aimed at that agency and how they do things. It’s a wartime/crisis mentality and it’s dangerously exaggerated and misplace among border law enforcers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:28:32am

moron still hasn’t said anything about the earthquake

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:29:52am

CHP fun story. A shooting competition club was running near Piru, Ca. So the 3rd Saturday morning of each month about 100 or more shooters show up to compete and enjoy the day. Two of them ride-shared in an open jeep. They were late and got caught speeding.

CHP motor cop sees ammo boxes and canvas bags. Asks “what’s in the back?
The guy tells the truth.
“Several .45’s and a couple of thousand rounds of ammunition”
“Smartass” was the reply. 5 minutes later he signs his citation and drives to the range, no bag search.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:29:57am

oh dear…

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:31:23am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron still hasn’t said anything about the earthquake

He can’t quite figure out how to blame liberals, illegals or regulations for the earthquakes. Funny thing is that area is California Trump country.

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plansbandc  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:32:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:32:13am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:33:20am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron still hasn’t said anything about the earthquake

Nothing on the official White House proclamation and news page other than a post on July 3 about nominating people to “key posts.”

whitehouse.gov

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:35:04am

re: #315 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:35:27am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:36:58am

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron still hasn’t said anything about the earthquake

Didn’t he tweet out something about being briefed and he had it under control?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:40:19am

re: #319 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Didn’t he tweet out something about being briefed and he had it under control?

that was the earlier quake

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:40:29am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:40:42am

re: #319 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Didn’t he tweet out something about being briefed and he had it under control?

I think was the smaller earthquake on 7/4.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:41:00am

re: #318 Backwoods_Sleuth

Anna Navarro has become a heretic in the Conservative Religion. (This poster has as an avatar a Blue Star Family flag. I’m guessing “nah.”)

And “leftist liberal socialist?” For the conservative religion, such words have become banishing invocations for heretics and heathens.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:43:11am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:43:40am

re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth

And people in that thread are calling it “fake news.”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:47:26am

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

that was the earlier quake

Ah

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:49:18am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ll bet the same writer would loudly oppose even a 1¢ annual tax increase to help homeless vets (or any other homeless American).

Conservative lying is so transparent. Where was that schmuck when I was homeless? Conservatives constantly harp on liberals: “Well, why don’t you take in an ‘illegal’ into your home?”

Zero conservatives are willing to take homeless vets into their homes. We are cardboard cutouts for their bigotry.

My Libertarian Party wife walked the talk that Republican supporters lie about: she took me in (and married me). She also left the LP and became a Democrat.

Maybe that’s what GOP supporters who make that argument about homeless vets are really afraid of: A homeless vet if they took one in would make them into liberals.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 7:55:03am
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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:00:06am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

Congratulations on reaching 579,041 LGF karma points! Don’t spend them all in one place, as they can be redeemed for valuable prizes. See Mr. Johnson for details on that.

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:02:10am

re: #304 PhillyPretzel

This is a case of less is more. The less information given to these people the better.

I agree. But when they ask if you have any gifts and you’ve got a dozen scarves in your bag I don’t feel comfortable saying “no”. Of course each scarf cost $4.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:03:32am

re: #330 Old Liberal

I agree. But when they ask if you have any gifts and you’ve got a dozen scarves in your bag I don’t feel comfortable saying “no”. Of course each scarf cost $4.

“Do you have any gifts?”

“Yes sir, a dozen scarfs worth $4 each.”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:06:29am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

That cat is me trying to get out of bed.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:09:49am

Housepainters and the like are going to have a great Summer repair season. Heck, the shake map is a sales order map in process. There was daylight coming in that same spot at my place after Northridge. This of course in very minor.

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plansbandc  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:13:48am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

Edwin seems nice.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:19:00am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

A letter to the editor here in the Scottsbluff (Nebr) Star-Herald actually went after a forced-birthers (wow, and I didn’t write it).

starherald.com

Maybe we can flip Nebraska. Trump is at +1 here (he won in 2016 by +25).

morningconsult.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:22:32am

Wow, this is an awful rendition.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:23:43am

re: #336 Anymouse 🌹

Wow, this is an awful rendition.

[Embedded content]

Has more personality than the original (although it needs more kidneys).

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:24:37am

re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do we know where she is?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:25:52am

I WON THE STATE LOTTO!!!

(three free tickets)

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:27:15am

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹

Great. I am happy for you. Now all I have to do is win the lottery in my home state of PA.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:32:00am

re: #275 lawhawk

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wrenchwench  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:32:44am

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹

I WON THE STATE LOTTO!!!

(three free tickets)

I’m convinced I could win the lottery. I just keep forgetting to buy a ticket.

I’m convinced I would make a fantastic grandmother. I just forgot to have children.

It’s always the damn prerequisites.

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:33:59am

re: #342 wrenchwench

I’m convinced I could win the lottery. I just keep forgetting to buy a ticket.

I’m convinced I would make a fantastic grandmother. I just forgot to have children.

It’s always the damn prerequisites.

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:35:48am

re: #342 wrenchwench

I’m convinced I could win the lottery. I just keep forgetting to buy a ticket.

I’m convinced I would make a fantastic grandmother. I just forgot to have children.

It’s always the damn prerequisites.

I’d be a fantastic grandmother as well, except for the prerequisite of being a woman. /s

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wrenchwench  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:36:17am

re: #343 MsJ

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Microsoft needs to include emojis in their translator options.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:36:40am

re: #340 PhillyPretzel

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹

Great. I am happy for you. Now all I have to do is win the lottery in my home state of PA.

Our state lottery is over $10 million, and PowerBall is around $150 mil.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:38:43am

re: #346 Eric The Fruit Bat

PA lottery home page. Pick your game.
palottery.state.pa.us

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Anymouse 🌹  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:39:50am

re: #346 Eric The Fruit Bat

Our state lottery is over $10 million, and PowerBall is around $150 mil.

Our state lottery is at $104,000. (We don’t have enough people to create such large jackpots.)

I’m off to bed: I’m tired and the NWS has scheduled another smiting for us today.

forecast.weather.gov

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:42:02am

re: #348 Anymouse 🌹

The 3 H’s are in Philly. Hazy, Hot and Humid.
weather.gov

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mmmirele  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:43:26am

re: #203 Cheechako

Want to have nightmares tonight? Read this article about the potential Cascadia Earthquake. (If you value your sleep, you may be better off waiting until tomorrow.)

The Really Big One:
An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

One we never talk about is the Wasatch fault, which runs along the Wasatch Front mountain chain in Utah. It’s overdue for a shake, which will be bad when it happens, because much of inhabited Utah (between the Idaho border and south of Provo) is built on formerly dry lakebed. The former Lake Bonneville lapped the shores of the Wasatch Front until about 14,500 years ago, when it catastrophically emptied after a natural dam was washed away. When I lived in Utah, you could see the remnants of the old lakeshores, called “benches”, but building on the foothills has obscured them.

It’s going to be ugly when the Wasatch fault slips.

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wrenchwench  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:45:05am

re: #344 Anymouse 🌹

I’d be a fantastic grandmother as well, except for the prerequisite of being a woman. /s

[Embedded content]

Fortunately, there are no prerequisites for ‘grandmotherly.’ All you need is someone brave enough to wield the double-edged sword of calling you that. Helps if you act nice to little kids, as bait (for being called that), if you don’t sincerely enjoy it. Maybe you have to play with kids in a certain way to avoid ‘grandfatherly’. Or gain some weight. I don’t know the exact formula.

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:46:03am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:47:31am

re: #347 PhillyPretzel

Ours is michiganlottery.com

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Varek Raith  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:48:34am

Everyone in CA safe?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jul 6, 2019 • 8:54:58am
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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:01:11am

re: #286 Dr Lizardo

Hopefully, that 7.1 was the main quake in this sequence.

That being said, wasn’t the 2011 quake in Japan preceded by two very strong foreshocks? Now, granted, that was a subduction zone earthquake (IIRC), and that’s simply not possible on the type of faultline that we’re looking at it California.

My college geography class was a long time ago, but not sure how large a quake is possible on the fault that ruptured in CA this week. Our understanding of quakes and faults is still evolving.

The faults that ruptured run mostly parallel to the San Andreas fault, and pick up about 30% of the stress. The quakes appear to have triggered motion in two faults running perpendicular to each other.

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wrenchwench  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:06:06am

re: #356 lawhawk

My college geography class was a long time ago, but not sure how large a quake is possible on the fault that ruptured in CA this week. Our understanding of quakes and faults is still evolving.

The faults that ruptured run mostly parallel to the San Andreas fault, and pick up about 30% of the stress. The quakes appear to have triggered motion in two faults running perpendicular to each other.

You’re like the seismologists who take over the incoming calls after they kick out the CalTech sophomore pranksters who got there first and told all the journalists, ‘8.2! Epicenter in El Centro, half a kilometer from the surface! Bye!’

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:08:24am

re: #355 I Would Prefer Not To

In other words, Trump’s loony as a bedbug.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:13:18am

re: #355 I Would Prefer Not To

I am bookmarking this video for future reference. Thanks for posting it here.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:14:16am

re: #356 lawhawk

My college geography class was a long time ago, but not sure how large a quake is possible on the fault that ruptured in CA this week. Our understanding of quakes and faults is still evolving.

The faults that ruptured run mostly parallel to the San Andreas fault, and pick up about 30% of the stress. The quakes appear to have triggered motion in two faults running perpendicular to each other.

IIRC, the San Andreas can - in theory - produce up to an 8.3, though though anything bigger than that is considered extremely unlikely.

The 1857 Fort Tejon quake is estimated to have been around 7.9 and that was on the San Andreas; that’s the same estimated magnitude as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:16:51am

re: #356 lawhawk

And now I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s an earthquake fault that runs pretty much smack dab under downtown L.A. It starts in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium.

Not the Hayward Fault (that’s up in S.F.) but something like that?

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wrenchwench  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:20:13am

re: #361 Dr Lizardo

And now I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s an earthquake fault that runs pretty much smack dab under downtown L.A. It starts in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium.

Not the Hayward Fault (that’s up in S.F.) but something like that?

Which UC campus contains Your Fault, My Fault, and [Whatever the name of the U’s president was at the time]’s Fault. Is that UC Davis?

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mmmirele  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:21:35am

Evangelical Twitter is going crazy over Beth Moore, who will not state openly what her position is on LGBTQ+ people. As part of the “+” in LGBTQ+, under normal circumstances, I would press her, but I know that these Evangelicals just want to have something, anything, to destroy Moore’s teaching ministry, so I support her in telling these people to basically fuck off.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:23:01am

re: #361 Dr Lizardo

Puente Hills fault maybe.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:24:58am

re: #364 Rightwingconspirator

Puente Hills fault maybe.

That’s the one.

From Wikipedia:

The location of the fault directly below metropolitan Los Angeles leads it to be of great concern for the public, with various predicted scenarios in the event of an earthquake. If a similar earthquake were to happen today, the projected losses (determined from computer modeling) could be about $250 billion in property damage along with 3,000 to 18,000 deaths.

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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:28:03am

re: #360 Dr Lizardo

Was just reading that - that the size and magnitude quake may have an upper boundary in the San Andreas fault system as opposed to what we’ve seen in other subduction zones or even other slip-strike zones (San Andreas is a slip-strike zone):

Quake facts and fiction.
San Andreas Fault info.

There’s a low risk of a quake as high or higher than the 7.1, but it is a non-zero risk (5-10% of a main shock being recategorized as a foreshock, just as the 6.6 was on July 4). Odds are that aftershocks will occur that can and will reverberate through the region for weeks to come.

Another risk is that adjacent regions may experience quakes as the pressure is transmitted to those areas from the current quake zone. We’d see quakes propagate through the system until the stresses are redistributed.

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:31:09am

Earthquakes every 1-2 minutes.

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lawhawk  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:33:15am

re: #361 Dr Lizardo

And now I can’t remember the name of it, but there’s an earthquake fault that runs pretty much smack dab under downtown L.A. It starts in Elysian Park, near Dodger Stadium.

Not the Hayward Fault (that’s up in S.F.) but something like that?

There’s also the risk from blind thrust faults, which aren’t all mapped out or even known to scientists because they’re not visible from the surface and don’t become known until they rupture. In LA, there’s the Whittier and Northridge - both of which were not known until their respective quakes.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:34:43am

re: #366 lawhawk

Yeah, there’s definitely going to be aftershocks from this event - and they’ll continue for the foreseeable future.

All the new transplants to the L.A. area, who may come from parts of the US (or the world) where earthquakes are almost unheard of are going to be having some sleepless nights.

My ex-wife and I happened to be visiting my parents for Christmas in 2003…..and she got to experience the rumble from the San Simeon earthquake (12/22/03, magnitude 6.6). I thought she was going to jump out of her skin; she’d never been in an earthquake before. And even though the epicenter was far away, we still felt it.

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:38:49am

re: #369 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, there’s definitely going to be aftershocks from this event - and they’ll continue for the foreseeable future.

All the new transplants to the L.A. area, who may come from parts of the US (or the world) where earthquakes are almost unheard of are going to be having some sleepless nights.

My ex-wife and I happened to be visiting my parents for Christmas in 2003…..and she got to experience the rumble from the San Simeon earthquake (12/22/03, magnitude 6.6). I thought she was going to jump out of her skin; she’d never been in an earthquake before. And even though the epicenter was far away, we still felt it.

I was in a 5.6 a few years ago. In California. I had PTSD for months. I cried all the time for four months.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:42:19am

re: #370 MsJ

The ‘71 Sylmar quake got my mom smoking again. She’d quit less than one month before that one.

As soon as everything stopped shaking, she got in the car, calmly drove to a nearby convenience store, and bought two cartons of Winstons.

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sagehen  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:44:43am

re: #363 mmmirele

So if it’s a “rebellion against God” to “deny the anatomical makeup given to one by the Creator”…

is open-heart surgery a rebellion against God? How about kidney transplants or bone marrow transplants? Appendectomies? Insulin?

They’re mighty selective about which of the Creator’s decisions it’s ok or not ok to make one’s own decisions about accepting or resisting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:47:12am

scuffles are already breaking out

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:48:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:52:23am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:54:36am

re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth

That was a pretty big explosion. Gas leak?

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:55:27am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

scuffles are already breaking out

I’m curious about these antifa people and how many are provocateurs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:55:57am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

That was a pretty big explosion. Gas leak?

that’s what I’m seeing from various news sources…gas explosion

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Skip Intro  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:56:04am

re: #302 Barefoot Grin

The Dem response to anything Trump tweets should be: “Trump wants Klingons to invade the earth to aid in his satanic baby-eating death rituals!” Ok, not really. But why not respond to outlandishness with over the top outlandishness to make a point?

Because it only works for Trump.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:57:11am

re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth

that’s what I’m seeing from various news sources…gas explosion

Damn. That’s some pretty extensive damage too. Yeesh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:57:35am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

That was a pretty big explosion. Gas leak?

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 9:58:25am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:06:05am
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:07:59am

rofl

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:09:57am
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mmmirele  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:13:04am

re: #372 sagehen

So if it’s a “rebellion against God” to “deny the anatomical makeup given to one by the Creator”…

is open-heart surgery a rebellion against God? How about kidney transplants or bone marrow transplants? Appendectomies? Insulin?

They’re mighty selective about which of the Creator’s decisions it’s ok or not ok to make one’s own decisions about accepting or resisting.

They’re obsessed about sex, sexuality, gender, gender roles, etc. And they don’t separate among them very well, as you can see from that quote. He doesn’t understand asexuality. What I think he was trying to say was something like “not taking gender roles into consideration is destroying our society.” Or to put it a different way, “we have to keep the women down.”

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:13:33am

re: #376 Dr Lizardo

That was a pretty big explosion. Gas leak?

10 minutes from here

Our FD responding

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mmmirele  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:15:40am

re: #387 DangerMan

10 minutes from here

Our FD responding

Did you feel it? Yeah, I know, crazy question, but with it being that close, you might have gotten a rattle or two.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:15:46am

oh

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plansbandc  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:18:59am

Those two are some of the dumbest most useless grifting parasites on planet earth.

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:23:33am

re: #390 plansbandc

Those two are some of the dumbest most useless grifting parasites on planet earth.

I’m completely missing the point of what they’re doing. Are they friends? Frenemies? What?

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:26:16am

Loons.

Instagram

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Around the world there exists Transplanetary Undersea Tunnels that are large enough for submarines to pass through. One of these passages begins off the coast of California and ends up in the desert beneath China Lake. This is a highly advanced Deep State Secret Space Program facility where UFO and advanced weaponry is produced. Testimony from Secret Space Program Whistleblower William Tompkins and Emery Smith @emerysmith33 can confirm this.

One possible scenario for the earthquakes are that Earth Alliance members have destroyed Deep State facilities beneath the ground or that secret weapons testing has gone wrong.

Either way, significant damage has been done to this enormous underground base that is very famous in UFOlogy.

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:27:55am

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MsJ  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:28:22am

I hadn’t heard.

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Varek Raith  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:28:44am

re: #392 Rightwingconspirator

Loons.

[Embedded content]

*Innocently whistles*

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:29:58am

re: #394 MsJ

RIP Mr Johnson.

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DangerMan  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:31:26am

re: #388 mmmirele

Did you feel it? Yeah, I know, crazy question, but with it being that close, you might have gotten a rattle or two.

No. Close enough and I idntnhear it either.
I found out from lgf

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:32:10am
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Teddy's Person  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:37:51am

re: #398 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

It’s hard out there for soulless, human-like beings desperate to maintain the grift.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:38:20am
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PhillyPretzel  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:40:34am

OT lightning and thunder and of course heavy rain in Philly.

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Belafon  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:48:20am

re: #303 Old Liberal

She asked if I had gifts. I said several alpaca scarves. She said “what’s alpaca” I said “it’s a small llama”. At which point she got serious and said I was smuggling animal products. I tried to explain that alpaca wool and sheep’s wool are the same kind of thing but gave up after I got the look. She wrote an “A” on my doc which means Animal Smuggler or Asshole or A Plus Citizen, not sure. Walked through the next checkpoint and felt creeped out.

You told her what it was. Unless the definition of smuggling changed, in which case you’re doing it wrong.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:55:06am

Ridgecrest Presser-Red Cross reports 100+ in the shelter. Capacity 500. And the mayor has deep dark circles under her eyes. What a night. They have had looters up there. Um bad choice, that is gun and Trump country.

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 10:58:27am

re: #402 Belafon

You told her what it was. Unless the definition of smuggling changed, in which case you’re doing it wrong.

Technically I didn’t declare animal products on my little form. Because wool and leather. Had my own wool socks, Smartwool. Didn’t think about my leather belt from cow.

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Old Liberal  Jul 6, 2019 • 11:01:39am

re: #404 Old Liberal

Technically I didn’t declare animal products on my little form. Because wool and leather. Had my own wool socks, Smartwool. Didn’t think about my leather belt from cow.

When the theocrats take over my blended fabrics will be the end of me.

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austin_blue  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:26:40pm

re: #360 Dr Lizardo

IIRC, the San Andreas can - in theory - produce up to an 8.3, though though anything bigger than that is considered extremely unlikely.

The 1857 Fort Tejon quake is estimated to have been around 7.9 and that was on the San Andreas; that’s the same estimated magnitude as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Correct. The Cascadian Subduction Zone has an upper limit north of 11.

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Teukka  Jul 6, 2019 • 12:53:39pm

re: #406 austin_blue

Correct. The Cascadian Subduction Zone has an upper limit north of 11.

Anything north of 9.5 would be nightmarish… O.O


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