So Good: David Crosby & the Lighthouse Band: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert [VIDEO]

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Watch David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band play “What Are Their Names”, “Looks In Their Eyes”, “Other Half Rule” and “Woodstock” at the Tiny Desk.

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Aug. 7, 2019 | Colin Marshall — Moments before the first note at the Tiny Desk, David Crosby needed the mics rearranged: He asked that his microphone be positioned evenly with the rest of his bandmates, rather than in front of them, explaining that while his name is the one on the marquee, The Lighthouse Band has no hierarchy.

That band is an inter-generational ensemble, featuring Snarky Puppy bandleader and bassist Michael League, as well as guitarist Becca Stevens and keyboardist Michelle Willis, both accomplished singers and songwriters in their own right. They all first came together while the members were collaboratively writing and recording for Crosby’s 2016 album Lighthouse. Everybody sings in this band, trading lead vocals for harmonies and vice-versa in just about every combination.

If you follow him on Twitter, you know that Crosby hasn’t abandoned the political poetics that once helped buttress the movement in the ’60s and ’70s, referencing the shifting cultural sands with lines like, “It’s time to turn the tide / Boys, sit back and let the other half drive.” Connecting the present to the past, the quartet also brought along a rearrangement of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock” from a version Crosby recorded almost 50 years ago with Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young on Déjà Vu. (It’s also the final track on The Lighthouse Band’s 2018 album, Here If You Listen.)

SET LIST
“What Are Their Names”
“Looks In Their Eyes”
“Other Half Rule”
“Woodstock”

MUSICIANS
David Crosby: vocals; Michael League: guitar, vocals; Becca Stevens: vocals, guitar; Michelle Willis: keys, vocals

CREDITS
Producers: Colin Marshall, Kaylee Domzalski; Creative Director: Bob Boilen; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Noelle Smith, Kaylee Domzalski, Kara Frame; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Production Assistant: Paul Georgoulis; Photo: Cameron Pollack/NPR

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:27:14pm

re: #562 retired cynic

Un-fucking-believeable.

The police either didn’t intervene because:

a) The protestors are on federal property (I don’t know) and they would have no authority there and also be subject to arrest, or
b) They don’t care.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:33:05pm

More pictures at the story.

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stpaulbear  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:40:16pm

Van Dyke Parks was interviewed a long time ago for a (pretty good) documentary about The Byrds. He’s got a droll sense of humor and a very cynical view of the music business, but he’s been there for almost everything that happened in the 70’s in LA.

The Most Objectionable Character Terry Melcher Had Ever Met

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:40:37pm
Jose Bello, a 22-year-old college student and farmworker who was imprisoned for 89 days at the Mesa Verde Detention Center in Bakersfield, California, was released on Monday. The decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to hold Bello on $50,000 bail—a sum Bello could not possibly afford to pay himself—seemed closely tied to Bello’s reading of a poem titled “Dear America” at a public forum on California’s Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds (TRUTH) Act held on May 13 by the Kern County Board of Supervisors in Bakersfield. Two days after that reading, Bello was arrested by ICE agents and held until National Football League players Josh Norman of Washington and Demario Davis of the New Orleans Saints paid for his bail.

Norman released a statement through the ACLU saying, “Jose Bello was exercising a fundamental right that we pride ourselves on as Americans. If he was detained for reciting a peaceful poem then we should really ask ourselves, are our words truly free? This is America right? Where the 1st Amendment is freedom of speech unless I missed the memo somewhere. He was exercising that right.”
…
The football players who helped pay Bello’s bail are members of a group of players who banded together two years ago to point out American injustice and help in any way they could. The group is called Players Coalition.

dailykos.com

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:48:28pm

“dear president trump,

everything looks easy to the man who doesn’t have to do it himself. you fucking try and solve the hong kong problem “humanely”, asshole

p.s. - you’re fucking easy to manipulate, you dumbass child, didja know that??

thanks for nothing,

xi”

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:53:30pm

Tell it to the Vicious Babushka, snowflake.

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:54:24pm

re: #6 The Pie Overlord!

Tell it to the Vicious Babushka, snowflake.

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Yeah, but were they REALLY shadowbanned, whatever that is.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:57:06pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:57:28pm

re: #7 retired cynic

Yeah, but were they REALLY shadowbanned, whatever that is.

I think they mean Twitter has a SOOPER SEEKRIT FEATURE that allows people to think they are on Twitter & can even post Tweets, follow others, etc. but Twitter randomly takes away followers and also they can see their own Tweets but nobody else can.

Or something. It’s very convoluted, like the Qspiracy.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 7:58:11pm

re: #6 The Pie Overlord!

Tell it to the Vicious Babushka, snowflake.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:00:57pm

re: #4 Belafon

dailykos.com

Let’s face it—it’s really cool to do time over a poem, the kind of thing you tell the grandkids. Kenneth Rexroth was busted at 19 for holding a reading in the basement of a whorehouse where he worked.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:04:34pm

re: #7 retired cynic

Yeah, but were they REALLY shadowbanned, whatever that is.

Of course not. Conservatives are still going on about “bigotry against conservatives on social media” because they need anything they can to distract from the Orange Dumpster fire.

Maybe Matt Gaetz should chain himself to Twitter’s front door. That worked for Laura Loomer.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:06:22pm

re: #7 retired cynic

Yeah, but were they REALLY shadowbanned, whatever that is.

Shadow banning (also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting) is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community such that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.

By partly concealing, or making a user’s contributions invisible or less prominent to other members of the service, the hope may be that in the absence of reactions to their comments, the problematic or otherwise out-of-favour user will become bored or frustrated and leave the site, and that spammers and trolls will not create new accounts.

Shadowbanning has been around since the days of the first BBS groups.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:11:36pm

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🎃

All of the Republican nonsense over shadowbanning came from an inaccurate report in Vice in 2018 alleging several Republican accounts disappeared.

Their claim was refuted by numerous news outlets, but too late, the GOP had their new culture war. They spread it to their supporters, now they all claim they’re being shadowbanned (and hence the red X in conservative adherents to the conspiracy theory).

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:17:38pm

My last thought, as I head for bed: What the Heck Is Crab Rangoon Anyway?

Good read.

atlasobscura.com

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:26:29pm

re: #8 Belafon

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Fuck off Cornyn.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:28:42pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:33:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:33:59pm

I’m not one for attacking someone’s physical appearance, so I feel guilty about laughing at this and guiltier for sharing it (in response to Rep. Gaetz):

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:42:19pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Schatz is good at calling out shit and he’s right. Steve King was fine with every Republican in 2016. One even made him his campaign co-chair.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:42:45pm

No wonder The Onion is going out of business….
///
Katy gun store faces backlash over back-to-school sale sign

KATY, Texas (KTRK) — A gun store in Katy is facing backlash after what was posted on their marquee sign.
Michelle Simons, an ABC13 viewer, sent a photo of Boyert Shooting Center’s sign reading “Back to school sale August 13 through 18. Up to 50 percent off firearms.”

Boyert Shooting Center sent ABC13 the following statement:

“We have friends and family who are teachers and our way of reaching out and saying thank you is by offering a summer long promotion of discounted training courses, firearms and accessories. A lot of Texans are not aware, but it is now legal to conceal carry in some colleges, and for teachers in certain school districts to conceal carry as well. We are wrapping up the program that we have been running since the beginning of June, with a huge sale to benefit everyone.”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:43:13pm

re: #18 gocart mozart

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Yeah funny how we hear Bill Clinton blah blah but Epstein literally introduced Trump to his wife.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:43:43pm

re: #22 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

No wonder The Onion is going out of business….
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Katy gun store faces backlash over back-to-school sale sign

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I despise the gun industry so much. Sick ghouls.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:45:15pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:46:43pm

Thread, nine tweets, posted an hour ago in response to Matt Gaetz.

I’m not even on Twitter and I know what shadowbanning is (from my Eighties Commodore-64 BBS and a “twit bit” for accounts).

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:47:19pm

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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You’re not helping sigh.

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BigPapa  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:48:46pm

re: #27 HappyWarrior

You’re not helping sigh.

What’s more fookin Murican than Kamikaze Dogs?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:48:51pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Yeah funny how we hear Bill Clinton blah blah but Epstein literally introduced Trump to his wife.

It’s just sealioning and deflection.

If Clinton is suspected of anything, haul his ass in for an interview with the cops.

Everything has to be partisan with conservatives, even child rape.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 8:57:28pm

re: #29 Anymouse 🌹🎃

It’s just sealioning and deflection.

If Clinton is suspected of anything, haul his ass in for an interview with the cops.

Everything has to be partisan with conservatives, even child rape.

The Republican Bullshit Machine has poisoned millions of people’s minds about the Clintons ever since the early 90s. Listen to Hate Radio, Fox News, Rush, and the rest of them and they endlessly repeat that the Clintons are the source of all the evil in the world.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:02:04pm

re: #24 HappyWarrior

I despise the gun industry so much. Sick ghouls.

Sales of semi-auto rifles are going through the roof, apparently in anticipation of a ban attempt, despite Obama’s departure.

If you make a snack cake that proves to cause heart attacks, business is bad.

If your over-the-counter meds prove to be poisonous, business is bad….

If your hot selling car turns out to explode like a bomb, business is bad…..

If your assault rifles kill dozens in one incident, though, BUSINESS IS GREAT!

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:09:34pm

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Eerie parallels between that and Twitter dealing with Nazis.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:10:34pm

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:14:25pm

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

“Former Navy SEAL” is another phrase I would be happy to never read again.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:14:52pm

Morning Consult shows another two point drop for Donald Trump in Nebraska.

His approval is at -1. He won the election here with +25.

I really hope the Dems flip this state, and his coat tails drag Ben Sasse out with him.

morningconsult.com

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:17:08pm

re: #25 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Stalin’s Red Army beat them to it.
Anti-tank dog

Anti-tank dogs (Russian: собаки-истребители танков sobaki-istrebiteli tankov or противотанковые собаки protivotankovye sobaki; German: Panzerabwehrhunde or Hundeminen, “dog-mines”) were dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the Soviet and Russian military forces between 1930 and 1996 and used in 1941-1942 against German tanks in World War II. Although the original dog training routine was to leave the bomb and retreat so that the bomb would be detonated by the timer, this routine failed and was replaced by an impact detonation procedure which killed the dog in the process. The U.S. military trained anti-tank dogs in 1943 for use against fortifications, but never deployed them.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:32:02pm

Any idea you could think of for a lethal weapon, and some you couldn’t, was probably seriously pursued at some point in the last century, no matter how ridiculous, inhuman, ghastly, cruel, or depraved it might have been. This passage from the anti-tank dog article caught my eye:

William A. Prestre, a Swiss citizen living in Santa Fe, New Mexico, proposed using large dogs to kill Japanese soldiers. He convinced the military to lease an entire island in the Mississippi River to house the training facilities. There the army hoped to train as many as two million dogs. The idea was to begin island invasions with landing craft releasing thousands of dogs against the Japanese defenders, then followed up by troops as the Japanese defenders scattered in confusion. One of the biggest problems encountered was getting Japanese soldiers to train the dogs, as very few Japanese soldiers were being captured. Eventually, Japanese-American soldiers volunteered for the training. The biggest problem was the dogs, as they were either too docile, did not respond to training teaching them to rush across beaches, or were terrified by shellfire. After millions of dollars were spent, the program was abandoned.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:36:11pm

re: #37 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Any idea you could think of for a lethal weapon, and some you couldn’t, was probably seriously pursued at some point in the last century, no matter how ridiculous, inhuman, ghastly, cruel, or depraved it might have been. This passage from the anti-tank dog article caught my eye:

I imagine someone made money on that Department of War contract.

You can justify almost any crackpot idea to spend money on when there’s no brakes on the money supply.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:42:17pm

(video, 0:53, caution for a person being directly pepper-sprayed while videoing):

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Dread Pirate  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:43:05pm

I hope he threw salt over his shoulder

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Targetpractice  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:44:14pm

So, the attack dog is trained to go after…what? Anyone holding a gun? Anyone firing a gun? Because either of those scenarios precludes the whole “Good guy with a gun” business, unless you like the mental image of a German Shepard savaging an armed teacher while the gunman is on the other side of the school.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:55:35pm

Folks—tomorrow 850 AM have a followup with my main Dr to see if I need to have knee replacement surgery.

Good thoughts are appreciated!

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sagehen  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:56:18pm

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Morning Consult shows another two point drop for Donald Trump in Nebraska.

His approval is at -1. He won the election here with +25.

I really hope the Dems flip this state, and his coat tails drag Ben Sasse out with him.

morningconsult.com

Does Sasse have a legit opponent?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2019 • 9:57:49pm

Philadelphia shooting suspect is in custody.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:01:39pm

re: #43 sagehen

Does Sasse have a legit opponent?

Declared

Chris Janicek, businessman and candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018
Angie Philips, mental health advocate

Potential

Chris Beutler, former mayor of Lincoln
Sara Howard, state legislator
Steve Lathrop, state legislator
Adam Morfeld, state legislator

Mr. Beutler was turfed out as Lincoln mayor because he was extremely well-liked, so the Republican-majority city council put in term limits to get rid of him.

Chris Janicek lost the 2018 primary to Jane Raybould (she is now the state party chair)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:03:45pm

re: #44 Eclectic Cyborg

Philadelphia shooting suspect is in custody.

Stuff it, you AstroTurf shill.

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Dread Pirate  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:04:51pm

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter (Official Lyric Video)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:06:30pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:06:52pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:08:18pm

A pickup truck drove into a row of Jewish protesters demonstrating at the street entrance to an ICE detention center in Rhode Island on Wednesday night. It appears no one was seriously injured.

Protesters were then pepper-sprayed, according to people present at the protest.

Hundreds of Jewish protesters had gathered at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and dozens blocked the entrance to the center’s parking lot. The protest was the latest demonstration by Never Again Action, a new Jewish group protesting ICE and United States immigration policy by getting arrested at ICE detention facilities.

At around 9:45 p.m., according to video, an eyewitness and social media posts from the protest, a black pickup truck driving 10 to 15 miles per hour drove into a group of about 30 people who were sitting in a row and blocking the street that fed into the detention center’s parking lot.

jta.org

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:09:30pm

This is beyond fucked up

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:09:33pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:19:10pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Stuff it, you AstroTurf shill.

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Hey now, I have it on good authority that turning a gun on another human being is a sign of “mental illness.” And that it is wrong to “politicize” such tragedies because the “mentally ill” acted on their own and not due to outside influence.

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BigPapa  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:20:06pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

She’s amazing. Damn cretins.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:20:36pm

Just to change the subject a little: Spanish has a form of had - tubiera - whose purpose is to be used with if (si). For other cases you would use tubo/tube.

Probably the hardest thing to figure out is that Spanish has a bunch of words used when we only have one version.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:24:41pm

Looks like markets are falling pretty steeply in Asia, no doubt triggered by yesterday’s rout on the NYSE.

theguardian.com

That link notes some good news - the Dutch economy is humming along, set to grow by 1.4%. But with Germany slowing - and Italy almost certainly already in recession - that growth probably won’t be as good as it could’ve been under normal economic circumstances; the Dutch economy is export-driven.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:31:42pm

Dow futures currently +100. May not hold based on the Asian meltdown. ^VIX futures jumping to 25…

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:34:43pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

This is beyond fucked up

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:42:39pm

re: #57 Joe Bacon 🌹

Dow futures currently +100. May not hold based on the Asian meltdown. ^VIX futures jumping to 25…

I have no idea what VIX futures are, so I went to look up an explanation.

cfe.cboe.com

After reading the explanation, the answer was “you should stay out of the stock market because you don’t understand diddly.”

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:48:09pm

While the shooting was going on in Philadelphia, it was also going on in West Virginia:

1 dead, 3 injured after Hancock County incidents

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:55:59pm

Tax-avoiding Christians in Tasmania slapped with a $2million bill (goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for coarse language, 6:25)

Tasmanian Tax Avoiding Christians Slapped With a $2,000,000 Bill

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 10:58:26pm

West Virginia and Philadelphia: We’re now having simultaneous mass shootings.

Blood must flow on the altar of conservatism.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 14, 2019 • 11:03:32pm

Trump’s disapproval numbers are climbing - on a Fox News poll, no less.

President Trump’s disapproval rating has jumped to 56 percent in a Fox News survey released Wednesday, just one point shy of the record high in Fox News polling.

The survey found a 5 percentage point increase in Trump’s disapproval from last month. The only time his disapproval rating was higher, according to Fox News, was when it reached 57 percent in October 2017.

Forty-three percent of respondents said they approve of Trump’s job performance, down from 46 percent last month. The record low for Trump approval in Fox News’s polling is 38 percent, also from October of 2017.

Trump has the disapproval of a record number of men, at 53 percent, white men, 46 percent, and independents, 64 percent, according to the survey.

thehill.com

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austin_blue  Aug 14, 2019 • 11:09:23pm

re: #46 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Stuff it, you AstroTurf shill.

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I do not think this tweet will age well.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Aug 14, 2019 • 11:16:14pm

Tropical Storm Krosa is about to strike the southern end of the main island of Japan.

It has 55kt winds with gusts to 70kts.

After it crosses the island it is expected to turn between the Japanese and Chinese coasts, moving toward Sakhalin Island and remaining a tropical storm.

Image: wp1119.gif

No other tropical storms are being tracked anywhere on Earth (very quiet tropical storm season).


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