The Reign of Kindo Tears Up the Studio: “Human Convention” [VIDEO]

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‘Human Convention’
Written & Performed by The Reign Of Kindo:

Performed Live In Studio By:
Rocco Dellaneve - Keys & Vocals
Rodney Flood - Percussion & Vocals
Jeffrey Jarvis - Bass
Kendall Lantz - Drums
Amit Peled - Guitar
Joey Secchiaroli - Guitar & Vocals

Written By:
John Baab
Geraldo Castillo
Jeff Jarvis
Steven Padin
Danny PIzarro
Joey Secchiaroli

Video by Rogue Wave Cinema
Filmed & Edited by Stanton Hunter

Audio by Retrospace Audio
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Engineered & Mixed by Joey Secchiaroli

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426 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:21:23pm
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teleskiguy  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:26:58pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

“Supposebly.” That one kills me.

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b.d. (Lock Him Up!)  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:27:22pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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My et wife screws that up all the time.

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:28:53pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Yeah, that is one of the several that for me are particularly grating. Maybe a nice expresso will help calm me…

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b.d. (Lock Him Up!)  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:30:06pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

“Supposebly.” That one kills me.

The thing that totally messes with me is when people say “Trump is right” rather than saying “Trump is batsh*t insane but I can’t admit to that”

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:30:34pm

re: #3 b.d. (Lock Him Up!)

My et wife screws that up all the time.

Ha! Nice one!

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:31:09pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:31:15pm

re: #5 b.d. (Lock Him Up!)

The thing that totally messes with me is when people say “Trump is right” rather than saying “Trump is batsh*t insane but I can’t admit to that”

Yeah, it is such a weird mispronunciation!

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TedStriker  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:31:18pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Better than Peter Cetera…

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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:32:08pm
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nowherenorth2  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:35:22pm

re: #9 TedStriker

Gold jerry. Gold.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:38:58pm
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Ace Rothstein  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:39:02pm

“Irregardless.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:41:35pm

The GOP is a fascist party. They can’t be reasoned with.

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b.d. (Lock Him Up!)  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:42:02pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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Clinton is 1,000 lifetimes ago in politics.

On a totally unrelated topic, I wonder why there are no rumors about Trump f*cking around on Melania while he is POTUS? Trump does have a history of keeping the rumor mags in his pocket but I would have thought that even the “fake news” would have said something?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:44:22pm

re: #15 b.d. (Lock Him Up!)

Clinton is 1,000 lifetimes ago in politics.

On a totally unrelated topic, I wonder why there are no rumors about Trump f*cking around on Melania while he is POTUS? Trump does have a history of keeping the rumor mags in his pocket but I would have thought that even the “fake news” would have said something?

Maybe Trump is too old to get it up anymore.

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:44:44pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:46:36pm

These people are discrediting Christianity for a generation.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:48:11pm
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b.d. (Lock Him Up!)  Dec 23, 2019 • 6:54:28pm

I am enjoying this Christmastime where we can all sit back, relax and watch our enemies beat the crap out of each other.

Peace brothers and sisters, you were right.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:00:41pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:01:06pm

This was yesterday:

Today we find out:

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:02:39pm

Rudy is nuts.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:03:53pm

I have come to realize that faith in religion is at BEST, a tragically misplaced faith in god. Doomed to fail because religion is all people.

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:04:34pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

Bringing a new emphasis to “no immediate health threat.”

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retired cynic  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:05:25pm

re: #12 Dread Pirate

I hate this! I know some Syrian people, and they are such fine people! They do not deserve, no one deserves, to be bombed into the stone age. And that is what is happening.

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:05:43pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:07:50pm

It will take more followers of Christ to save Christianity from fascism.

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William Lewis  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:10:25pm

re: #18 NO SMOCKING GUN!

These people are discrediting Christianity for a generation.

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Probably even longer since even many of the younger evangelical leaders have surrendered their souls for power. OTOH, that is a good thing; it is better for the real teachings to have these fools discredit their fundamental hate and treason disguised as Christianity so that maybe those few actually living it can perhaps reform it. God knows the church is even worse now than in 1517.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:11:36pm

The corruption is blatant.

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jaunte  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:17:01pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:17:30pm

Amazing how bigots always out themselves.

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calochortus  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:19:58pm

re: #32 The Pie Overlord!

Amazing how bigots always out themselves.

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And this guy in particular doesn’t seem very coherent while he’s outing himself.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:21:03pm
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makeitstop  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:28:25pm

Economist fat-shames Lizzo, gets dog walked.

Lizzo is a badass.

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:31:19pm
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retired cynic  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:31:22pm

re: #35 makeitstop

Economist fat-shames Lizzo, gets dog walked.

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Lizzo is a badass.

I wish they could bottle what she has. I need a little sniff of that now and again!

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retired cynic  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:32:18pm

re: #36 gocart mozart

And NOT what she has!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:33:09pm

Um, she’s gonna get dick pix.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:35:33pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

This was yesterday:

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And Next…

The Green Slime (1968) trailer

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:35:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:40:26pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:43:53pm

Great story from an independent joirnalist.

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danarchy  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:46:20pm

re: #13 Ace Rothstein

“Irregardless.”

That one is a lost battle and has long since been added to the dictionary as a synonym for regardless. When the OED and Merriam Webster both give in it is time to give up the fight.

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:47:00pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:47:58pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:49:57pm
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:52:23pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

His belligerence and bluster are the reason I know he is insecure.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:55:38pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 7:59:25pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:01:47pm
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Ace Rothstein  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:02:27pm

re: #48 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The fact that his tie hangs past his thimble-sized dick is one of the many reasons I know he’s insecure.

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:06:27pm
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Mattand  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:11:12pm

re: #51 gocart mozart

A hit dog will holler, as they say.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the group of prosecutors that Rudy is calling “assholes” the same SDNY that pretty much functioned a Trump campaign office? The same group of people that Comey was so worried about interfering in the election for Trump, he went did it for them for some sort of idiotic reason?

I’m starting to have a hard time following this. If SDNY was basically acting as Trump’s cheerleaders, aren’t they on the same side?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:11:18pm

Well, this has been an entirely craptastic day.

I guess I’ll sign off with a glass of rum and holiday guinea pigs (7:36)

Making a Giant Christmas Tree for my Guinea Pigs | A Festive Pigmas Meal

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wrenchwench  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:15:51pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, this has been an entirely craptastic day.

I guess I’ll sign off with a glass of rum and holiday guinea pigs (7:36)

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It’s good to see you and your pigs.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:25:18pm

re: #56 wrenchwench

It’s good to see you and your pigs.

I borrowed someone else’s guinea pig video. It’s been a while since I had guinea pigs (though since we haven’t had any pets in our home in a while, I’m considering getting a pair again).

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:27:25pm

(5:37, complete with awful music)

Tacos for guinea pigs!

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mmmirele  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:29:49pm

This may have been posted earlier, I did not check.

I would note that the Boston Globe’s Spotlight reports on child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is almost old enough to vote (came out in February 2002). This #%^&@! is STILL going on.

For months, civil authorities and Catholic parishioners have sought access to a secret church report about Michael J. Bransfield, the West Virginia bishop ousted for alleged sexual and financial misconduct. Law enforcement authorities in two jurisdictions contend that it could aid investigations they have launched, and parishioners have said it could help them understand how Bransfield’s behavior went unchecked for so long.

But so far, the report has remained out of their reach.

The Washington Post obtained a copy of the document in June and has drawn on it and other records for a series of stories about the role of cash gifts among senior clerics in the church’s ongoing sex abuse crisis.

The 60-page report is brimming with investigative findings about how Bransfield allegedly groomed and inappropriately touched young men and spent millions of dollars in church money on himself and on fellow clerics.

After church officials repeatedly declined to say whether they were going to release the report, The Post has decided to publish it on its website for the first time with some details redacted to protect the identities of alleged victims of sexual improprieties. The Post is doing so in response to significant interest from the public.

washingtonpost.com

The report can be found here: washingtonpost.com

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:36:14pm

re: #36 gocart mozart

Lol! Good one about Breitbart.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:40:27pm

Amazon CFO killed in a collision with an Amazon van delivering packages.
yahoo.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:41:49pm

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

This was yesterday:

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Didn’t even have to read the original article. The words “hexavalent chromium” should have been the tipoff that the sludge was toxic. What idiot working for the state was unaware of this?

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:42:35pm
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retired cynic  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:44:27pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

How dare they? My god….

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gocart mozart  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:45:32pm

re: #54 Mattand

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the group of prosecutors that Rudy is calling “assholes” the same SDNY that pretty much functioned a Trump campaign office? The same group of people that Comey was so worried about interfering in the election for Trump, he went did it for them for some sort of idiotic reason?

That was the NY FBI that wads Rudy’s boys. The SDNY was Preet Bharara’s old stomping grounds

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:57:01pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

Holy Moley!

I hope Queen sues TPUSA into the dirt.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:58:39pm

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Lawyer Rule #2: Never sue anyone that doesn’t have any money.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 23, 2019 • 8:58:52pm

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, this has been an entirely craptastic day.

I guess I’ll sign off with a glass of rum and holiday guinea pigs (7:36)

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Video

May 2020 prove to be a much better year for you and your family. We are thinking of you.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 23, 2019 • 9:00:18pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 23, 2019 • 9:20:32pm

re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter

Thank you. Good night.

I expect I will not receive a call tonight from my mother now; it’s too late.

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2019 • 9:39:53pm

re: #63 gocart mozart

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They are trying so desperately to make “Trump dynasty” a thing. It’s never going to be a thing.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 23, 2019 • 10:10:24pm

re: #71 Targetpractice

They are trying so desperately to make “Trump dynasty” a thing. It’s never going to be a thing.

I didn’t think Don the elder was going to be a thing either. When he disparaged McCain in 2015, I was sure that would be it. But Trump is an unprincipled infighter who knows how to strike at an opponent’s weakness (real or imagined) through lies and deception.

Trump has succeeded in Hillarying Biden and brought down his numbers — the charges against Hunter are bogus, but most people will react as though this is Trump level corruption — a son getting a position because of his father and not because of personal merits. It wasn’t illegal but still — you know that Hunter would not have gotten the placement if he didn’t have a connected parent. Every single possible Democratic candidate will face a barrage of hostile reporting that will damage them.

Not a single Republican Senator has shown any fortitude to date. Let’s see if somehow Nancy can deal a fatal blow to Trump and Trumpism.

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Targetpractice  Dec 23, 2019 • 10:14:00pm

Senate GOP: “Pelosi needs to call the witnesses we want, needs to give Trump the ability to do whatever he likes, and needs to hobble their own impeachment investigations in every way possible or else we won’t treat it seriously when it reaches the Senate!”

Also Senate GOP: “HOW DARE PELOSI TRY TO TELL US HOW TO RUN THINGS?!”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 23, 2019 • 10:44:31pm

re: #71 Targetpractice

They are trying so desperately to make “Trump dynasty” a thing. It’s never going to be a thing.

Note how the fucking Pulpit Pimps are closing ranks and pushing Ivanka for 2024!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 23, 2019 • 10:50:07pm

re: #70 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Dread Pirate  Dec 23, 2019 • 10:55:44pm

Good

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 23, 2019 • 11:07:35pm

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Dread Pirate  Dec 23, 2019 • 11:52:14pm
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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:06:17am
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:25:07am

re: #75 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:36:26am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:50:38am

Time to break out the A-list:

Jussi Bjorling O Holy Night (The best recording of a Christmas Carol)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:55:17am

So I can’t turn off autoplay anymore on Youtube. I look for the autoplay setting in all the usual places, and where blogs/sources tell me autoplay control ought to be… but it doesn’t seem to appear on my Youtube pages when I play a video.

help?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:59:34am

If I just open a video *not* on a channel to which I subscribed, there are the usual autoplay controls.

*But* if I am playing a video on a channel to which I subscribe, or, if the video is part of a playlist, then there is not autoplay control.

How frustrating.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:02:30am

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:03:15am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:04:20am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

Sorry for your loss

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dell*nix  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:21:22am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Condolences.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:27:00am

re: #87 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

re: #88 dell*nix

re: #86 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

My sister says planning is underway for his funeral from the local Renaissance Faire community, Morris dancing community, and bagpiper community, to help out my mother. One request he made was that “The Parting Glass” be played for such a service (hence the pipers and singers).

He is also eligible for military honours for his Air Force service.

Celtic Woman - The Parting Glass

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:28:40am

Christmas theme musics…

Twisted Sister: “White Christmas” - AXS TV

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:38:28am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

My condolences.

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:39:53am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

My condolences.
*pats consolingly on back*
:(

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:27:52am

re: #91 Dr Lizardo

re: #92 Teukka

Thank you. My mother just called with the information as well. She is on the way to the hospice with my step-brother.

I just sent a notice to the village board that my wife and I will be leaving town to help my mother.

I also sent a notice to the Renaissance Festival Podcast with a brief obituary (with the permission of my mother) for them to read.

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steve_davis  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:43:30am

re: #2 teleskiguy

“Supposebly.” That one kills me.

recent discussion about this online somewhere: “supposably” is an actual word, though it’s not easy to use correctly (something to do with it having a different sense of the reality of the conjecture, as opposed to “supposedly,” with one indicating that something is capable of supposition, while the other infers question as to something having occurred).

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:43:46am

re: #89 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Sending you love and light and hopes for healing and strength, and all that and more to your mom.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:49:02am

re: #95 A Mom Anon

Sending you love and light and hopes for healing and strength, and all that and more to your mom.

Thank you kindly. I’m about to lift the parting glass (I do not have Scottish whiskey so it will have to be rye) then hit the rack.

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steve_davis  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:49:41am

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

This was yesterday:

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I’m not a chemist and even I can tell you that something called hexavalent chromium is not something you want to ingest.

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:49:47am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🎃

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

So sorry, Anymouse.
Condolences.

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steve_davis  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:51:28am

re: #26 retired cynic

I hate this! I know some Syrian people, and they are such fine people! They do not deserve, no one deserves, to be bombed into the stone age. And that is what is happening.

It’s fine. AT some point, a Democrat will become president again, and when that happens, this country is going to throw open its arms to roughly 3 million Syrians and 15 million or so folks from South of the border. And if there is justice in this world, there will be a program that will help to resettle them in those barren states that could use 20 million or so folks that owe their citizenship to Democrats.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:51:55am

re: #94 steve_davis

recent discussion about this online somewhere: “supposably” is an actual word, though it’s not easy to use correctly (something to do with it having a different sense of the reality of the conjecture, as opposed to “supposedly,” with one indicating that something is capable of supposition, while the other infers question as to something having occurred).

Supposably is something which can be conceived or imagined.

For example, I can conceive of a nation with universal health care; it is supposably achievable with the political will to implement it.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:01:12am

re: #99 steve_davis

Fun fact: Per capita, Nebraska has resettled more refugees than any other state (that includes more Syrian refugees).

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Dave In Austin  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:04:10am

In for the day…..

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:04:52am

Not sure what this signifies…. But probably nothing good.
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:07:37am

(video, 2:20, WXYZ television in Detroit, thread, four tweets)
Yay for infrastructure week.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:09:46am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Wasn’t hexavalent chromium the chemical in some lawsuit somewhere, possibly a movie, too?

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:09:53am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:13:20am

Pretty neat stop motion video clip from the Sarasota P.D.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:17:32am

re: #105 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Wasn’t hexavalent chromium the chemical in some lawsuit somewhere, possibly a movie, too?

Yes, “Erin Brockovich,” made in 2000 about her successful lawsuit against PG&E.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:18:12am

re: #65 gocart mozart

That was the NY FBI that wads Rudy’s boys. The SDNY was Preet Bharara’s old stomping grounds

True. The NY FBI office has been suspected of feeding Giuliani inside info. They were notoriously anti-Clinton. I suspect they sat on Weiner’s laptop for a bit then dropped it at the right time for maximum effect leading to the infamous Comey letter. That will probably take some sleuthing to flesh out and confirm.

What’s weird is the whole True Pundit deal seems to have fed into that witches brew of ratfuckery: he is rabidly anti-Clinton but is also anti-FBI. Originally he played as an FBI ‘insider’ to dish on Clinton and may have helped influence Comey. He may have unwittingly exacted revenge on the FBI well beyond his wildest dreams… even though the NY field office of the FBI is not ‘the FBI.’

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:18:24am

re: #107 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Pretty neat stop motion video clip from the Sarasota P.D.

I think I will take Stephen King’s advice and not watch it.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:24:59am

re: #110 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I think I will take Stephen King’s advice and not watch it.

Probably a very wise choice. BTW, welcome back. Sorry about the circumstances though.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:29:03am

re: #47 gocart mozart

Anatevka Jewish Refugee Co? So, they’re Fiddler fans?

Fuck these guys. Every last thing they do is a scam, and they aren’t shy about telling everyone about it. It’s so blatant that they’re running a scam that everyone seems to ignore them until they got involved with Rudy’s Ukraine business and Trump.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:29:33am

Deepest condolences, Anymouse. Safe travels.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:31:05am

re: #62 Hecuba’s daughter

Didn’t even have to read the original article. The words “hexavalent chromium” should have been the tipoff that the sludge was toxic. What idiot working for the state was unaware of this?

There’s a huge Superfund site in Garfield NJ due to hexavalent chromium polluting the groundwater. There’s a plan to remediate, but it has caused serious health harms to the community for years.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:31:57am

re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:36:34am

I posted on Pauly Walnuts and Big Baby’s $391m Ukranian Impeachment about 18 hours ago. It seems like a pretty big story that is lost in the background noise of so many other big stories. ICYMI:

Manafort (PM) mobbed up in Ukraine and Russia, in deep debt to Oleg Deripaska (OD)

PM gets into Trump campaign, figures he can get right with OD by cooking up some big deals being close to power, the classic recipe for grift

2016 RNC Platform at GOP Convention: language supporting Ukraine changes from providing ‘lethal assistance’ to ‘appropriate assistance’

Besides trying to get Trump/Russian meetings going PM keeps feeding polling data to OD right up until Trump’s victory

PM continually pushes Russian friendly Peace Deal for Ukraine to Trump Team before and after he’s publicly sacked: he never left the campaign or admin until Mueller cuffed him

Peace Deal includes: Russia keeps Crimea, Ukraine keeps the rest, except for Donbas: that becomes new state, run by democratically install-elected (cough) Victor, PM’s old bestie client Yanukovych!

Crimea is almost all Russian speakers, Donbas is largely Russian speakers, unlike the rest of the Ukraine. This is probably why Putin will ‘settle’ for Donbas and Crimea for now.

Years later, $391m aid package approved with Javelin missiles, Trump gets impeached over it for being Trump

The catch: the missiles cannot be used in Donbas. They have to be stored hundreds of miles away from Donbas. They are stipulated to not be used in that theater.

Trump originally did not want any Javelins going to Ukraine but had to be convinced over the economic impact of the arms sales as good for business

Manafort was pushing the Russian concoted Ukraine ‘Peace’ deal to Trump early and often: President Trump has had meetings with Putin that are not documented or transcribed

This seems swampy as fuck. It’s beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump should be a registered FARA agent.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:36:35am

re: #105 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Wasn’t hexavalent chromium the chemical in some lawsuit somewhere, possibly a movie, too?

It was one of the first dozen carcinogens regulated by OSHA when standards were adopted. Stuff is not subtle.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:40:04am

re: #105 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Yup. That’s the nasty stuff that Erin Brockovich became a household name over.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:42:25am

There is nothing I’d like more than for the whole NY FBI office/Giuliani/Weiner laptop/Comey situation to be thoroughly investigated. It stank like ratfuckery at the time and it still does. I think the Comey letter was probably 1-2% of the PV: that 1-2% in the battleground states could have given Clinton those states.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:44:09am

Republicans: Always cool-headed and rational people.

An Iowa state representative is standing by inflammatory comments he made online suggesting that a supporter of required vaccines is a “pharma fascist.”

Rep. Jeff Shipley, R-Fairfield, replied to one of California state Sen. Richard Pan’s tweets about vaccinations Saturday and continued to tweet about the subject Sunday. Shipley first called Pan “a medical rapist” before apologizing for the term and saying that “pharma fascist” or “corporate vaccine whore” would have been more appropriate terms.

More: desmoinesregister.com

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:48:27am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🎃

More: Shipley said that none of his tweets were intended to endorse violence. He described himself as a practicing Catholic and a student of Mohandas Gandhi.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:51:26am

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:57:29am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🎃

More: Shipley said that none of his tweets were intended to endorse violence. He described himself as a practicing Catholic and a student of Mohandas Gandhi.

So IOW, he’s just a regular crackpot anti-vax asshole, not a violent one. Good to know.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:03:51am

re: #122 A Mom Anon

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:06:18am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🎃

More: Shipley said that none of his tweets were intended to endorse violence. He described himself as a practicing Catholic and a student of Mohandas Gandhi.

I wonder which MLM scam Shipley is involved in? Mormons and Baptists go for Amway and Herbalife. I am not sure about Catholics.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:07:35am

re: #125 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I wonder which MLM scam Shipley is involved in? Mormons and Baptists go for Amway and Herbalife. I am not sure about Catholics.

Bingo, mostly.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:09:00am

Well damn. No Steph Miller show today. Bob and Buzz are also taking a break. At least we are going to have a white Christmas this year (if it doesn’t all melt away).

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:10:03am

re: #122 A Mom Anon

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:11:16am

Even the so-called fun tweets are steeped in dark places thanks to Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:11:39am

My wife’s brother just called in response to an E-mail my wife sent him regarding my step-father’s death.

He had heart surgery last year, and said he is having extreme difficulty today and may be going to the hospital.

She told him she can’t handle more than one death in a day, and if he dies on her today she’ll never speak to him again. (That drew a laugh from him.)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:23:46am

re: #124 BigPapa

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:29:27am

re: #124 BigPapa

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makeitstop  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:34:49am

At this rate, they’re going to ask Tulski to just not bother going back to Hawaii soon.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:37:09am

re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Maybe Trump is too old to get it up anymore.

Or Putin took his balls and has them in a jar in the Kremlin.

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jeffreyw  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:38:15am

Good morning!

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:48:10am

Current Christmas Day Playlist the Wife Unit and I are arguing over. We have 30 hours to figure this out or Christmas is ruined.

1. Elf
2. A Christmas Story
3. Bourdain’s Parts Unknown: Manila
4. Die Hard

I’m cool with Elf leading off but we are locked in stalemate on the best #2.

Parts Unknown: Manila is extra special as it’s connects me to my wife’s family, and it’s also shot during Christmas which is pretty much the entire month of December in the Philipines.

Mom 2 always went to the Philipines every year to visit with fam and I always wondered why she would pack up cardboard boxes full of treats and knick knacks to bring, tiny little Philipino woman with a large suitcase and two heavy ass cardboard boxes. Of course she’d bring a box back of Philipino treats. My dumb ass thought ‘Why not buy that shit when you’re there?’

It wasn’t until I watched Parts Unknown:Manila till I understood the meaning of the balikbayan box.

Dammit Bourdain, I miss you ya bastardo.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:50:55am

re: #122 A Mom Anon

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:57:20am

I drove past this spot on the way to Canada last week and it wasn’t coned off then. I was in the left lane anyway.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:59:40am

re: #137 The Pie Overlord!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:00:00am

Happy not-quite-Christmas from a chilly western New York State.

Travel here yesterday from Pennsylvania was a bit more adventurous than I wanted.

My car is a bit of a runner. 2005 Subaru with a few issues for which repair cost is greater than the book value of the vehicle. And so I was driving between Philadelphia and western New York.

About 80 miles from home and in a relatively rural area of Pennsylvania I am at a stop light and notice that smoke is issuing from the hood of my car along with a definite burning smell. So I pull off into a Wawa to see what is the matter.

Just something smoldering*. But still unsure exactly what in the car has now given up the ghost and let out the magic smoke. And I’m 1.5 hours from home and 3.5 hours from my brother. So I limp the car about 15 miles to the closest Subaru dealership.

And then spend about 2.5 hours buying a new car. Which given that I wasn’t carrying the title, a checkbook, etc. went better than I expected. Not an expense I was quite ready to pick up, but I hit a sort of “screw it” mentality and decided to just get the issue out of the way now instead of messing with old car, getting rental or something to get past the holiday, etc.

* - To the best of my knowledge and someone looking at it the smoldering part was a bearing in the fan/AC seizing up and self-destructing. Which would have been another expensive repair to toss on the pile.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:00:54am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:00:57am

Tonight for the Traditional Asian Foods of Nittel we are ordering takeout!

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:02:14am

re: #138 The Pie Overlord!

*checks firstshowing.net*
Okay probably not another The Blob remake stunt…

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:02:53am

re: #133 makeitstop

She’s more at home in Damascus or Moscow…

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:03:34am

OK so this is the best thing I’ve ever seen:

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:05:48am

re: #140 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

That sucks about the old car giving up the ghost. What did you end up getting?

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:08:06am

re: #140 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Sorry that your old ride bit the dust but at least you are in a financial situation to buy a new vehicle on the spot!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:10:56am

re: #146 lawhawk

That sucks about the old car giving up the ghost. What did you end up getting?

Subaru Impreza. Back to compacts and having a trunk.

Getting used to how “chirpy” the car is since it has one of those sensor systems that detects cars ahead of you and warns if you wander into the edge of your lane, etc.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:11:01am
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Sherlock Hound  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:11:56am

re: #122 A Mom Anon

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:15:24am

re: #140 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Bummer about your car. Hope you’re happy with the new one!

Though it is strange: “It started smoking, so I took it to the shop and ended up buying a new one rather than fix the old one” is a story one usually hears about cellphones, or microwave ovens, rather than automobiles. Oh well….

Drive safely!

ADD: if the hazard-detection “chirping” gets annoying (though it can be very useful at times), you might want to check the manual to see if the audio signals can be disabled. My car had the same issue, and since driving in Manhattan is, at most times, a hazard-in-your-spaces game anyway, it was good (if borderline dangerous) to be able to shut it off.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:17:31am

re: #148 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Yeah, that would take some getting used to - but the blind spot monitors are awesome - I’ve avoided accidents that way - but when I switch to other car, I forget that I don’t have that helping me.

I also adjusted the sensitivity on some of the warning chirps since I do so much driving in NYC metro - just because there’s so much traffic, having it constantly warn would be tiresome.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:18:41am

re: #129 lawhawk

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Even the so-called fun tweets are steeped in dark places thanks to Trump.

Our local paper has an article addressing Santa’s carbon footprint today. I haven’t read it yet, but no doubt in the coming days there’ll be a letter from some crackpot about how Greta wants to steal Christmas from the children.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:18:52am

re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I couldn’t stop laughing when Molly’s mom told her Marianne Williamson was chiding her over texts to put Molly in check and mom couldn’t figure out how to screen shot her phone so Molly had to run over and take photos of Mom’s phone.

Now I’m laughing about it all over again.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:20:34am

re: #147 The Pie Overlord!

Sorry that your old ride bit the dust but at least you are in a financial situation to buy a new vehicle on the spot!

Well, zero down and a finance plan can get you past the no available money right then issue. And replacing the old car was in the near future and I do have sufficient savings to handle the cost luckily. (Which I do know would put a lot of other people in the lurch.)

And a bit more than I planned on spending since I was going to luck for a used car to replace the old one. But this was adapting to circumstances and not wanting to get stuck in the middle of nowhere right before Christmas. Or a lot of shuttling about to deal with a rental and a nearly dead vehicle not worth sinking repair costs into.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:24:19am

I’m going to go back to bed. I have to go into town before noon to pick up my wife’s medications from the pharmacy.

My wife and I get to spend the day planning a trip to Chicago. I hope y’all’s holiday season is more fun.

Thanks to everyone for the kind words.

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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:24:21am

re: #154 BigPapa

Had to find it, what utter joy. Shows how technology can bring us all closer.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:26:21am

re: #129 lawhawk

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Santa better have his IFF lit up when he approaches the ADIZ.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:27:35am

re: #152 lawhawk

Yeah, that would take some getting used to - but the blind spot monitors are awesome - I’ve avoided accidents that way - but when I switch to other car, I forget that I don’t have that helping me.

I also adjusted the sensitivity on some of the warning chirps since I do so much driving in NYC metro - just because there’s so much traffic, having it constantly warn would be tiresome.

I read a pretty good article written by a guy that does aircraft safety systems. Long story short many carmakers are doing this wrong. One example is the transition you mention in a less equipped car. Safety system habituation. The gear is good, sensors and all. But the pesky human reaction thing. Pilots are highly trained as civilians. Insert military flight training, then a career flying for Delta. Even that guy needs a landing gear-shaped landing gear control.

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LadyBehir  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:31:47am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I do not post much but lurk like crazy. You and your family have been in my prayers. I know, you aren’t a believer, but Good Thoughts™ are always a good thing.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:38:56am

Here’s some good news about good people and good doggo:

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:39:33am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Just wanted to offer another set of arms to the group hug 🤗. I hate adulting sometimes. OK , most of the time. Safe travels, hope the weather is cooperative at the very least. ❤️

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:43:28am
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:46:25am

Mike Huckabee blocked Doktor Zoom after this response.

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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:47:40am
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:47:58am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Mike Huckabee blocked Doktor Zoom after this response.

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So, duck hell is goober heaven. There is a kind of symmetry to it I guess.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:52:03am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:56:58am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My deepest sympathy to you and your family for your loss.

My late husband and I attended the King Richard’s Faire several times over the years and always enjoyed it tremendously.

{{{{Anymouse}}}}

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:57:24am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:57:29am

Big Woo in action:

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 7:59:37am

re: #169 Joe Bacon 🌹

re: #168 Hecuba’s daughter

Thank you both. I’m off to take that nap now before going into town.

Happy holidays, y’all.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:03:59am

Hee hee!

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:08:42am

A stroll down memory lane.

The Night Before Christmas 1973

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land
There were mittens and gloves on each cold little hand.
The stockings that year were on feet to keep warm
All chimney flues closed against oncoming storm.
The Lincolns and Caddies and Chryslers alas,
Lay idle all over—they’d run out of gas.

Our thermostat set at a cool 65—
Our unlit Christmas tree kept our spirits alive…
But to keep our minds off having no food to eat
We were burning the branches for some extra heat.
When on our TV there arose quite a din
Out rang “Here’s Comes the Chief” and St. Dickie walked in.

“I have something to say” he said, smiling quite broadly
(As cold as it was—still his lip sweated oddly.)
“I must make this short to conserve on all power,
So I’ll limit my talk to a very quick hour.
“It’s HEALTHY to walk and it’s HEALTHY to freeze—
My doctor informed me” (He said with a sneeze.)

“We must simply not panic; we must keep our head.
You won’t be cold next week-you’ll be hungry instead.
“I gave wheat to the Russians” the president said.
“So you dieters can smile as we’ve none left for bread.
“Please be happy today. I know of whence I speak.
‘Cause the REALLY bad news won’t be out till next week!”

With a cock of his head and a wink of his eye,
He turned to his gas deer saying, “Come on, let’s fly!”
“Come Shell, Mobil, Exxon, I need gas aplenty
To fly me from Washington to San Clemente.”
But man that he was as he boarded his flight
He cried, “MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND GOOD NIGHT.”

And as cold as we were and quite hungry as well
We kicked in the tube and said, “JUST GO TO HELL.”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:10:12am

re: #172 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Addendum:
But of course:

Multi-level marketing: Monavie and Jeunesse
Howard-Browne and his wife Adonica were top-ranking (“Black Diamond executive level”) distributors for Monavie, a multi-level marketing company that sold acai berry juice-based beverages until folding in 2014 subsequent to a $182 million loan default and allegations of pyramid scheming, fraudulent advertising, and patent infringement. As of 2016, Howard-Browne also served as a “North America Emerald Director” for the multi-level marketing company Jeunesse.

He also believes that cannibalism and human sacrifice have been common in Hollywood and Washington DC for years. He has been a guest on Info-Wars and in Trump’s White House.

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makeitstop  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:13:29am

Welcome to the party, pal…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:18:05am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:22:52am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

Sorry for your loss. My stepmother isn’t doing too well these days. I do not look forward to the day I get a similar call about her. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:24:17am

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:33:35am

re: #172 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Hee hee!

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My family uttered that slander about Hillary repeatedly.

Along with a bunch of Berniebots and Jillshills.

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jaunte  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:34:15am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

So sorry for your loss, Anymouse.

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:36:10am

re: #135 jeffreyw

It isn’t every day I get mooned by a Blue Jay wishing me Good Morning. :)

(Joking here. I greatly enjoy your pictures.)

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:37:52am

More projection?

She knows nothing about the USMCA Deal!

And shouldn’t that be ever, not even?

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:40:24am

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TedStriker  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:49:05am

re: #136 BigPapa

Current Christmas Day Playlist the Wife Unit and I are arguing over. We have 30 hours to figure this out or Christmas is ruined.

1. Elf
2. A Christmas Story
3. Bourdain’s Parts Unknown: Manila
4. Die Hard

I’m cool with Elf leading off but we are locked in stalemate on the best #2.

Parts Unknown: Manila is extra special as it’s connects me to my wife’s family, and it’s also shot during Christmas which is pretty much the entire month of December in the Philipines.

Mom 2 always went to the Philipines every year to visit with fam and I always wondered why she would pack up cardboard boxes full of treats and knick knacks to bring, tiny little Philipino woman with a large suitcase and two heavy ass cardboard boxes. Of course she’d bring a box back of Philipino treats. My dumb ass thought ‘Why not buy that shit when you’re there?’

It wasn’t until I watched Parts Unknown:Manila till I understood the meaning of the balikbayan box.

Dammit Bourdain, I miss you ya bastardo.

The Parts Unknown Manila episode is good, gets you right in the feels at the end.

Not big on Elf, but one can’t go wrong with either Die Hard (it is a Christmas movie, damnit!) or A Christmas Story. I’d throw in Scrooged, though; of all of the “A Christmas Carol” film adaptations, it’s easily the best, with a Grade A ensemble cast anchored by Bill Murray and a still modern-ish sensibility.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:49:52am

The Traditional Kosher Chinese Food has been ordered from the takeout! This is the first year I’m not making it myself.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:50:00am

Well, since people are complaining about their family on Christmas, I might as well join the fun:

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 8:59:06am

I have a Christmas story. It’s kind of mean but also very funny.

Years ago, a neighbor from down the street came knocking on my door and she was seething mad.

ONE OF YOUR KIDS TOLD MY TOMMY THAT THERE IS NO SANTA AND NOW HIS CHRISTMAS IS RUINED!!!! YOUR KIDS HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO TOMMY RIGHT NOW!!!1!!1!!

I stood there in utter shock and then I started to laugh and I couldn’t stop.

ITS NOT FUNNY!!! YOU TELL TOMMY THAT THERE’S A SANTA OR I’LL… I’LL…

“Call the police” I suggested before shutting the door.

Then I turned to my kids and said “Which one of you told Tommy there is no Santa?”

“I did!” admitted my daughter. “Everybody knows the grandparents buy the presents!”

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:03:39am

re: #85 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My sister just called. My step-father just passed away.

Very sorry to hear that, and of course the time of year just makes it harder. We (the wife and I) wish you strength and peace, happiness in the new year.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:07:11am
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wrenchwench  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:08:42am
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William Lewis  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:08:44am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Mike Huckabee blocked Doktor Zoom after this response.

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He should have continued “That’s OK. Killing the ducks is all that matters!”

Fuckabee is a nasty piece of work.

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:10:21am

{{{Everyone with bad stuff at this time of year}}} Between the short days and the expectations it can be really hard.
Private because it’s not all that interesting. ;)

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:10:37am

Interesting article on how Joe Biden’s stuttering, how it affected and affects him, and how it affects how he is viewed. Including how stuttering compensation techniques may be misinterpreted by the non-stuttering general public.

And, yes, the article is sympathetic and humanizing. Something that, sadly, seems to be increasingly rare these days.

What Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to Say
theatlantic.com

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ckkatz  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:12:52am

re: #191 William Lewis

Yes. When I saw the Huckabee tweet, my first thought was that his Heaven does not sound like a fun place for ducks… Or dogs.

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TedStriker  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:13:14am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Mike Huckabee blocked Doktor Zoom after this response.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:13:25am

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:14:10am

re: #22 The Pie Overlord!

This was yesterday:

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No immediate danger, it could take 20 years to get ya.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:14:47am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t care, do you?

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:18:55am

re: #198 Patricia Kayden

I don’t care, do you?

I assume she has credit cards and can get herself whatever she’d like. I don’t imagine this was ever about love.
That said, we aren’t terribly gift-y people and the same goes for cards and flowers, so I’m not going to rag on someone for not buying a Christmas present.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:24:52am

It’s interesting that in the midwest, where I’m from, I don’t recall people saying “Merry Christmas” that much—surprising given that church-going is probably much higher there than here in northern New England where people are fucking aggressive about saying “Merry Christmas.”

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:27:20am

With regards to the impeachment trial in the Senate, someone needs to whisper in Trump’s ear every so often that people won’t believe he’s totally exonerated unless he produces witnesses and documents in the trial to show how perfect everything was. That he needs a real trial and should demand that of McConnell.

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William Lewis  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:28:53am

re: #136 BigPapa

Current Christmas Day Playlist the Wife Unit and I are arguing over. We have 30 hours to figure this out or Christmas is ruined.

1. Elf
2. A Christmas Story
3. Bourdain’s Parts Unknown: Manila
4. Die Hard

I’m cool with Elf leading off but we are locked in stalemate on the best #2.

Parts Unknown: Manila is extra special as it’s connects me to my wife’s family, and it’s also shot during Christmas which is pretty much the entire month of December in the Philipines.

Mom 2 always went to the Philipines every year to visit with fam and I always wondered why she would pack up cardboard boxes full of treats and knick knacks to bring, tiny little Philipino woman with a large suitcase and two heavy ass cardboard boxes. Of course she’d bring a box back of Philipino treats. My dumb ass thought ‘Why not buy that shit when you’re there?’

It wasn’t until I watched Parts Unknown:Manila till I understood the meaning of the balikbayan box.

Dammit Bourdain, I miss you ya bastardo.

Well, I’d not have “A Christmas Story” in there personally, though I can at least sit in the same room with it on, unlike the horrifically saccharine crud that is “A Wonderful Life”.

In no particular order:

1) Dr Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas - Boris Karlof version ONLY.
2) Trading Places
3) Lethal Weapon
4) Star Wars - A New Hope
5) Die Hard

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:29:40am

re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:31:12am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🎃

So what happens when someone blocks you? Can everyone else still see your comment?

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:35:53am

Newly revealed emails show why Trump should fear a real Senate trial
Paul Waldman, WaPo

These new emails will make it even more difficult for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to justify staging the kind of Senate trial he and the White House would obviously prefer: one as brief as possible, with no witnesses. And while the president himself might like to create an absurdist spectacle by forcing Joe Biden or his son to testify, Trump doesn’t have a single witness he could call whose testimony would support the idea of his innocence.
That’s Trump’s problem, which is now McConnell’s problem, in a nutshell. If there are going to be any witnesses at all, they would have to include at a minimum Duffey, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton, all of whom have refused to testify before the House. And who would the witnesses for Trump’s defense be? They’ve got nothing.

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calochortus  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:39:55am

Ah well, I’d better start doing something constructive.
BBL

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KGxvi  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:43:18am

re: #2 teleskiguy

“Supposebly.” That one kills me.

My mom insists on saying “irregardless” and it drives me almost as nuts as her Trump support.

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KGxvi  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:44:58am

re: #205 retired cynic

And who would the witnesses for Trump’s defense be?

Because he believes he is his best advocate, Trump will demand to testify in his own defense at the Senate trial.

Actually, that might be the best way to goad them into having witnesses… convince Trump that he should testify in his own defense, prey on his ego and insistence of being the center of attention.

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makeitstop  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:45:28am

SCIENCE!!

Also - Bad Religion as soundtrack. Cool.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:46:40am

re: #208 KGxvi

Oh, good idea!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:47:05am
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lawhawk  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:51:40am

re: #208 KGxvi

He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and knows more about everything than anyone else. We see this in every thing he spews - whether it’s the nonsensical ravings about wind power, or light bulbs, or coal and manufacturing.

He’s got such a fragile ego that it’s easy to goad him into doing what you want him to do, because he can’t help himself either.

So, the ongoing impeachment continues to eat away at whatever is bouncing around between his ears and he can’t stand that he’s not the one in control of the process.

That adds pressure to McConnell, who is his last line of defense here.

Trump will likely demand the ability to testify, even though everyone in the legal community knows that this would be disastrous for Trump. Doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you’re on, you know that Trump would implicate himself in not only the crimes directly before us, but admit to still other crimes under oath as a boast of what he can do, what he will do, and has already done. Allowing anyone else to testify would eliminate the second charge (obstruction of Congress) but open him up to still more criminal charges and jeopardy.

Pelosi’s living rent free in Trump’s head, and she knows it. She knows that impeachment is eating away at Trump, and there’s nothing he can do about it short of resignation. His ego wont allow resignation to even enter the discussion, but it should be what McConnell and others are telling him.

The GOP chances in 2020 depend on it, and the longer impeachment runs, the lower the GOP odds of holding on to the power they have declines (or it should).

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:52:40am

re: #185 The Pie Overlord!

The Traditional Kosher Chinese Food has been ordered from the takeout! This is the first year I’m not making it myself.

And what movie are you going to see?

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 9:52:55am

The Beginning of Brexit
Boris Johnson may soon regret having gotten what he wanted.
by Thomas Danielian December 24, 2019, Washington Monthly

A good summary of some of the problems getting ready to smack BoJo right in the kisser.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:00:49am

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹🎃

(video, 2:20, WXYZ television in Detroit, thread, four tweets)
Yay for infrastructure week.

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Because companies will regulate themselves and do what is good for the people. Which sounds great if it wasn’t a steaming pile of bullshit, but truth is these fuckers care nothing for anyone not a moneyed interest. These tax payers will be saddled with the cost of cleanup, and the business interests will skate scott free. Socialize losses and privatize profits.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:07:04am

re: #215 Eventual Carrion

Because companies will regulate themselves and do what is good for the people. Which sounds great if it wasn’t a steaming pile of bullshit, but truth is these fuckers care nothing for anyone not a moneyed interest. These tax payers will be saddled with the cost of cleanup, and the business interests will skate scott free. Socialize losses and privatize profits.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:10:55am

Nancy is living rent-free in his head, throwing a party every night.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:21:56am
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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:23:02am

Man, this story keeps getting worse.

Twice within an hour on the afternoon of Dec. 9, police say a Des Moines woman intentionally struck young pedestrians with her SUV: a 12-year-old boy in Des Moines and a 14-year-old girl in Clive.

Authorities say the woman, Nicole Marie Poole Franklin, 42, last week admitted she targeted the teenage girl because she was Latino. Police said she had made no admissions as of Monday about her alleged role or motive in the hit-and-run of the boy, who is black.

She was charged with attempted murder in the Clive case on Friday, and a separate charge of attempted murder in the Des Moines case on Monday.

Franklin is also charged in a disturbance that occurred at a West Des Moines Conoco convenience store about an hour after the girl was hit. She faces a hate crime charge in that case, which also includes charges of assault, operating under the influence, theft and public intoxication, court records show.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:24:27am

re: #120 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Republicans: Always cool-headed and rational people.

More: desmoinesregister.com

We have a local scumbag politician named Shipley here. When I first saw the name I thought he might have moved, but his first name is Brian.

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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:25:10am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Tomorrow Trump: Roger Stone? I think he was a guy that got me Big Macs once.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:25:48am

re: #219 Teddy’s Person

Man, this story keeps getting worse.

Someone slash that womans tires.

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Nyet  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:31:13am

Watched 6 episodes of Years and Years today. Scary stuff. If you haven’t yet watched, try to find it.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:32:13am

LOL Trumpster fire

Facebook Video

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:32:51am

re: #219 Teddy’s Person

Man, this story keeps getting worse.

I bet we can guess who she voted for.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:33:14am

I just got back from doing some last minute shopping. The State Wine and Liquor store, which will close at 6PM and will be closed tomorrow, was madness. I’m betting the parking lot will be like demolition derby around 5:45 or so. I got a bottle of red and of white for under $20 for tomorrow’s dinner.

Just after that my wife came home. She works elder care. The son of one of her clients gave her a bottle of white and red from a winery called Cakebread Cellars. Looked it up and they’re over $70 apiece. You don’t want to get used to that kind of thing, but it was a nice gift of appreciation. My wife bought presents for all of her clients, too (one of whom she was to care for tomorrow morning died today).

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:34:06am

re: #225 sagehen

I bet we can guess who she voted for.

Steve King didn’t get elected for his economic savvy.

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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:35:21am

re: #222 Eclectic Cyborg

Someone slash that womans tires.

While she’s being charged with attempted murder and a hate crime, it will be interesting to see what leniency her whiteness gets her. When will his fans learn, what ever corrupt bargain Trump’s made with the world’s evil forces that seems to keep him from facing any consequences doesn’t cover their bad behavior.

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TedStriker  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:37:24am

re: #226 Barefoot Grin

I just got back from doing some last minute shopping. The State Wine and Liquor store, which will close at 6PM and will be closed tomorrow, was madness. I’m betting the parking lot will be like demolition derby around 5:45 or so. I got a bottle of red and of white for under $20 for tomorrow’s dinner.

Just after that my wife came home. She works elder care. The son of one of her clients gave her a bottle of white and red from a winery called Cakebread Cellars. Looked it up and they’re over $70 apiece. You don’t want to get used to that kind of thing, but it was a nice gift of appreciation. My wife bought presents for all of her clients, too (one of whom she was to care for tomorrow morning died today).

That’s OK, I just came from my neighborhood Kroger, where their network is apparently down and they can’t take any debit/credit cards; fortunately, I had cash, but it still took me 15-20 minutes of standing in line to check out a box of dog food. There’s a whole bunch of people in those lines that are trying to get last-minute stuff before the store closes at 6 PM getting pissed off right now…

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:42:11am

re: #205 retired cynic

Newly revealed emails show why Trump should fear a real Senate trial
Paul Waldman, WaPo

This is totally the fault of the man’s ego. Had he been willing to accept the initial defense strategy of the Repubs, which was to spin his call as “wrong, but not impeachable,” he might have been able to put Mulvaney or Duffey up there to say that they’d conducted the hold with “good intentions” but had belatedly realized they’d fucked up.

But no, he insisted upon his call being seen as “perfect” and absolutely refused to accept even the slightest shred of responsibility for his wrong-doing, so there’s absolutely no way he can allow a single “fact witness” take the stand because the moment they admit that they knew what they were doing was going against Congressional intent, they’re well and truly fucked in the eyes of the public. Yeah, Yertle will still probably pistol-whip his caucus into acquittal, but the damage will have been done and it will last well past the final vote.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:42:22am
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:45:30am

re: #229 TedStriker

That’s OK, I just came from my neighborhood Kroger, where their network is apparently down and they can’t take any debit/credit cards; fortunately, I had cash, but it still took me 15-20 minutes of standing in line to check out a box of dog food. There’s a whole bunch of people in those lines that are trying to get last-minute stuff before the store closes at 6 PM getting pissed off right now…

I miss Kroger, but that’s a really bad problem to have anytime, but especially Dec. 24.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:46:32am
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KGxvi  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:48:02am

re: #212 lawhawk

He always thinks he’s the smartest guy in the room and knows more about everything than anyone else. We see this in every thing he spews - whether it’s the nonsensical ravings about wind power, or light bulbs, or coal and manufacturing.

He’s got such a fragile ego that it’s easy to goad him into doing what you want him to do, because he can’t help himself either.

So, the ongoing impeachment continues to eat away at whatever is bouncing around between his ears and he can’t stand that he’s not the one in control of the process.

That adds pressure to McConnell, who is his last line of defense here.

Trump will likely demand the ability to testify, even though everyone in the legal community knows that this would be disastrous for Trump. Doesn’t matter what side of the aisle you’re on, you know that Trump would implicate himself in not only the crimes directly before us, but admit to still other crimes under oath as a boast of what he can do, what he will do, and has already done. Allowing anyone else to testify would eliminate the second charge (obstruction of Congress) but open him up to still more criminal charges and jeopardy.

Pelosi’s living rent free in Trump’s head, and she knows it. She knows that impeachment is eating away at Trump, and there’s nothing he can do about it short of resignation. His ego wont allow resignation to even enter the discussion, but it should be what McConnell and others are telling him.

The GOP chances in 2020 depend on it, and the longer impeachment runs, the lower the GOP odds of holding on to the power they have declines (or it should).

There’s an interesting aspect to this impeachment trial as well… the vulnerable Republican Senators have to make a choice on two votes. There’s basically four ways it can play out:

1. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then for acquittal - in which case they’re probably fucked with their non-base voters.
2. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then to convict - assuming they know they don’t have 67 votes
3. they vote against them on the rules but to acquit - they can argue that they gave a fair trial, but then they have to explain why they ignored evidence in front of their eyes
4. they vote against them on the rules and to convict - again, assuming they know they won’t get to 67 votes.

Each move has problems. 1 and 2 likely screws them with moderates and independents. 3 and 4 screw them with the GOP base. 2 and 3 will be seen as splitting the baby and likely to piss everyone off. 1 is a godsend to a Democratic challenger. 4 is asking for a primary challenge.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:51:09am

re: #234 KGxvi

There’s an interesting aspect to this impeachment trial as well… the vulnerable Republican Senators have to make a choice on two votes. There’s basically four ways it can play out:

1. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then for acquittal - in which case they’re probably fucked with their non-base voters.
2. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then to convict - assuming they know they don’t have 67 votes
3. they vote against them on the rules but to acquit - they can argue that they gave a fair trial, but then they have to explain why they ignored evidence in front of their eyes
4. they vote against them on the rules and to convict - again, assuming they know they won’t get to 67 votes.

Each move has problems. 1 and 2 likely screws them with moderates and independents. 3 and 4 screw them with the GOP base. 2 and 3 will be seen as splitting the baby and likely to piss everyone off. 1 is a godsend to a Democratic challenger. 4 is asking for a primary challenge.

As far as I’m concerned every GOP Senator can go fuck themselves!

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:55:19am

re: #234 KGxvi

There’s an interesting aspect to this impeachment trial as well… the vulnerable Republican Senators have to make a choice on two votes. There’s basically four ways it can play out:

1. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then for acquittal - in which case they’re probably fucked with their non-base voters.
2. they vote with Trump/McConnell on the rules and then to convict - assuming they know they don’t have 67 votes
3. they vote against them on the rules but to acquit - they can argue that they gave a fair trial, but then they have to explain why they ignored evidence in front of their eyes
4. they vote against them on the rules and to convict - again, assuming they know they won’t get to 67 votes.

Each move has problems. 1 and 2 likely screws them with moderates and independents. 3 and 4 screw them with the GOP base. 2 and 3 will be seen as splitting the baby and likely to piss everyone off. 1 is a godsend to a Democratic challenger. 4 is asking for a primary challenge.

I can really only assume at this point that Yertle is privately hopeful that if this stretches past Iowa, then it at least goes until April, when most of the GOP’s primaries will be over and thus the pressure to acquit less immediately apparent. Because if the “trial” happens prior to that, then his caucus is well and truly fucked either way.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 24, 2019 • 10:57:37am

re: #236 Targetpractice

I can really only assume at this point that Yertle is privately hopeful that if this stretches past Iowa, then it at least goes until April, when most of the GOP’s primaries will be over and thus the pressure to acquit less immediately apparent. Because if the “trial” happens prior to that, then his caucus is well and truly fucked either way.

And then watch what happens when the House passes another set of Impeachment articles!

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:01:18am

Impeachy Christmas, Moron

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jaunte  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:02:31am
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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:04:59am

re: #223 Nyet

Watched 6 episodes of Years and Years today. Scary stuff. If you haven’t yet watched, try to find it.

I thought it was amazing—and scary—and a bit too close to home. Viv’s little speech about the Boer Wars and concentration camps in Episode 5 was the creepiest. (Hidden in case of people who haven’t watched)

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:05:07am

This Happy Holidays Message Is Full Of Feels

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:10:29am

A Merry Christmas to Lizards far and wide.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:13:39am

re: #241 The Pie Overlord!

I can’t understand why more humans do not get that we’re supposed to be here to look out for each other and help each other over the rough patches. To celebrate the fun and joyful and good and to be there to mourn and grieve the inevitable losses and setbacks. To give when you can and receive when you have the need, and yes, the want as well. We’re not meant to be lonely, alone and excluded, pushed away and hated. We’re meant to have a pack, a place of belonging. And yet humans do their fucking best to ruin that all the time.

This was lovely. And so many turned out to help too! Thanks for sharing!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:15:15am
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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:18:57am

re: #226 Barefoot Grin

I just got back from doing some last minute shopping. The State Wine and Liquor store, which will close at 6PM and will be closed tomorrow, was madness. I’m betting the parking lot will be like demolition derby around 5:45 or so. I got a bottle of red and of white for under $20 for tomorrow’s dinner.

Just after that my wife came home. She works elder care. The son of one of her clients gave her a bottle of white and red from a winery called Cakebread Cellars. Looked it up and they’re over $70 apiece. You don’t want to get used to that kind of thing, but it was a nice gift of appreciation. My wife bought presents for all of her clients, too (one of whom she was to care for tomorrow morning died today).

Second the recc for Cakebread: it’s a top-notch label, and - if the wine isn’t too young - definitely a good swig for the holidays.
Bummer about the departed client, though.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:19:16am

Trump Doesn’t Know What Pelosi Is Doing to Him
by Martin Longman December 19, 2019, Washington Monthly

An essay on the process, which I understand a bit better now.

from Senate Rules:

I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately* inform the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment, agreeably to such notice.

A normal reading of this clause would allow for no delay on the Senate’s part in receiving the House managers. But it also shows that the Senate can’t initiate a trial until the House appoints their managers and sends notice to that effect.

*emphasis added

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:19:56am

re: #248 retired cynic

edited to include the link, duh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:20:38am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:24:17am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is that even fucking legal?

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:24:32am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A major difference in the caliber (such as it is) of the political classes in the UK vs. the US. Incompetent buffoon and executive disaster as BoJo might be, he can still “recite[] the Iliad in ancient Greek from memory” - Trump can barely speak contemporary English….

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:24:46am

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:24:53am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

And he forgot to use his spell-checker. “Valuss” ::: snicker:::

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:25:24am

re: #252 Eclectic Cyborg

Is that even fucking legal?

this is the trump era…who knows?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:25:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:27:21am
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:27:45am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is they type of thing that makes me smile. Thanks.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:29:14am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:29:45am

another post about Zeus

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:31:25am
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gocart mozart  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:33:25am

re: #164 Anymouse 🌹🎃

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:35:29am

My wife and I have returned from the county seat to refill her medications in advance of a trip to Chicago.

Already every person I ran into offered condolences. (I imagine my message to the village board here flew like wildfire through the county.)

My sister called again. She convinced my eldest first cousin to “not cancel Christmas” and go to Chicago afterward.

My sister points out that a plane ticket one way from LAX to ORD is over a frickin’ thousand dollars.

My sister suggested that my cousin try to convince my mother to move out of Chicago to our home town; our aunt is fine with my mother moving in with her. The trouble is convincing my mother, as she doesn’t want to leave her friends and isn’t big on the idea of living in a town of two hundred.

“I want to be near my friends” seems to be a problem in my family. My sister is currently paying more than $1,000 a month for a 10x13 foot apartment in Burbank and sharing it with another person. She won’t move here (that $1,000 is nearly three times our annual tax bill we just got in the mail today) because “small town.” I’ve already suggested it to my mother and she immediately rejected it.

From the Renaissance Faire community, the Triple Nine Society, and Intertel my E-mail box blew up with condolences.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:36:08am
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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:36:17am

Cleo would like you all to know that taking a bath is THE MOST EXHAUSTING THING EVER.

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jaunte  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:41:13am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:41:58am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:42:36am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:44:32am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Decatur Deb  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:48:50am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Nicer picket line than I remember.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:49:17am

Damn shame he can’t run again. He is what this Nation needs.

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:50:10am

re: #271 Decatur Deb

Nicer picket line than I remember.

More “line” than “picket”, but who’s complaining?

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:51:16am

re: #271 Decatur Deb

It is one of the artistic picket lines I have ever seen. And very well choreographed too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:51:31am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:53:48am
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Ace Rothstein  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:53:49am

re: #269 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’d love to know how much money he made off of those pardons.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:56:46am

re: #277 Ace Rothstein

I’d love to know how much money he made off of those pardons.

one of them (the guy who stuffed the beheaded woman in a barrel) was $21,000

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:56:46am

re: #276 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

What the actual fuck?

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:57:07am

re: #266 A Mom Anon

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Cleo would like you all to know that taking a bath is THE MOST EXHAUSTING THING EVER.

For YOU!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:57:24am

re: #277 Ace Rothstein

I’d love to know how much money he made off of those pardons.

Aside from the campaign contributions he got from the families of the people he pardoned?

This seems to be a thing with conservatives when they are voted out for a more liberal governor. They suddenly start pardoning the worst douchecanoes in the prison system to stick it to the Democrat coming in.

See Mike Huckabee for details.

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Jay C  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:58:26am

re: #276 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Rudy Giuliani has never been Attorney General.

And not to mention: “Government Official”??

Is he? Really? And if so, what listed position does he hold, and how much is he being paid?
As taxpayers, I think we have the right to know….

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:58:55am

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s doing that rocking back and forth motion while nodding his head thing again. Translated, it means he has absolutely no fucking idea what’s being discussed or how to reply to it. One of his biggest tells.

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:59:01am

Science break:

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 11:59:15am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:00:02pm

re: #276 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

southpaw
@nycsouthpaw
Rudy Giuliani has never been Attorney General.

He was a United States Associate Attorney General for a couple years in the 1980’s

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:00:19pm

re: #284 Teukka

Science break:

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is fifth force of nature anything like the Fifth Element?
because I’ve seen that movie…

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:01:21pm

re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

He is out of his ever-lovin’ mind. Not been treated 1/100th as bad as I would like to!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:01:45pm

re: #284 Teukka

Mysterious ‘Particle X17’ Could Carry a Newfound Fifth Force of Nature, But Most Experts Are Skeptical

A “fifth element”, one could say?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:02:21pm

re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:04:23pm

re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Dead slaves on line one, sir.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:05:38pm

re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s one amazing neckgina.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:07:02pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:07:39pm

re: #292 Ace Rothstein

Dead slaves on line one, sir.

Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and countless others on line 2.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:09:28pm

re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Thousands of people lynched across Dixie would beg to differ.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:10:42pm

re: #294 Dread Pirate

Well, that depends on the length of the hair now, doesn’t it?

If it was one of my hairs, that would be one tenth of two feet.

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Mescalero09  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:11:11pm

re: #122 A Mom Anon

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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:12:13pm

I was looking for that hexavalent chromium leak on google earth. I got the address from the EPA site and used the photo date archive and see they were cleaning up the spill on the freeway since at least April.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:17:08pm

re: #295 Backwoods_Sleuth

Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo and countless others on line 2.

Japanese internment victims on Line 3.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:19:03pm

re: #300 Targetpractice

Japanese internment victims on Line 3.

Passengers on the St. Louis on Line 4.

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:20:00pm

re: #301 The Pie Overlord!

16th Street Baptist Church on line five.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:21:22pm

Dinner (main course) tomorrow. Since no recipe has ever survived first contact with me, there will be changes. What I will change to start is the type of ham I’ll be using. A Hempler Boneless half ham (around 3 lb) and the usual fixings. Debating on adding some cloves as well.

sweetandsavorymeals.com

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:21:30pm

re: #298 Mescalero09

Seconded.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:21:31pm
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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:23:13pm

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ll take his word for it, because listen to DT on any subject, let alone holiday greetings, I will not.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:23:59pm
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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:24:24pm

Rodney King was unavailable for comment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:25:18pm
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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:25:26pm

re: #298 Mescalero09

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:27:30pm

re: #308 Targetpractice

Rodney King was unavailable for comment.

George Stinney couldn’t be reached either.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:27:55pm

By the way, most of those who’ve been listed as responses to Trump’s brain dropping totally lacked the benefit of having the jury foreman declaring publicly that he was coordinating with the defense to provide a “fair” trial.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:28:33pm

Merry Christmas (Goes to Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:29:19pm

this one is just too precious

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:31:08pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

this one is just too precious

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:31:13pm

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:31:55pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am happy for her. If I acted like that when I got something I wanted my kid sister would have me taken away in a straightjacket.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:34:11pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

If I got someone anything that ever made them that happy, I think I’d cry for a month, lol. That’s just so sweet.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:34:32pm

re: #316 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Eewwww!!!

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:35:04pm

My wife just made Welsh rarebit for breakfast.

en.wikipedia.org

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:35:37pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

this one is just too precious

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I’m trying to think what kind of gift my grandkids could get for me that would make me jubilate like that granny.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:37:51pm

Granny is gonna be flaunting that purse at church tomorrow.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:41:24pm

re: #321 The Pie Overlord!

Back in September my son commissioned a friend of his to do a watercolor and pen portrait of our dog who passed the year before, Abby. On the first anniversary of Abby’s passing he gave me the portrait. I lost it, crying and then laughing at how beautiful and perfect it was and then crying again. Really one of the most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for me. Just the perfect thing on what was a sad occasion.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:41:42pm

re: #316 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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In 5 years, you’ll find few but the craziest wingnuts willing to don those red monstrosities. They won’t get rid of them, but they’ll be like championship hats for teams that haven’t seen a championship in years (*couBearsgh*), stuffed to the back of the closest or worn “ironically.” And again, only the craziest will take any pride in having voted to Cheeto Benito, the rest will either deny it (“I didn’t vote for him! I voted for Johnson!”) or they’ll wear it as an old shame like Nixon voters today.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:42:26pm

re: #314 Backwoods_Sleuth

this one is just too precious

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Thank you! Needed that!

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:45:23pm

re: #285 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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The Central Park 5 were treated pretty badly.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:46:12pm

re: #261 Backwoods_Sleuth

another post about Zeus

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Thanks! Someone in the thread posted a video of the reunion!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:46:21pm

i just can’t…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:51:55pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:53:22pm

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:54:44pm

I wonder how long it will be before it is acknowledged that most of Venice is a lost cause, and should be abandoned

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:55:06pm

re: #330 GlutenFreeJesus

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FBI agents investigating him…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:55:14pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:55:52pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:57:48pm

re: #326 sagehen

The Central Park 5 were treated pretty badly.

By Trump himself, with his adverts demanding they be executed.

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 12:58:28pm

re: #334 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Something just for show, or something far more provocative?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:01:54pm

re: #331 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I wonder how long it will be before it is acknowledged that most of Venice is a lost cause, and should be abandoned

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Been a lost cause since she lost Cyprus in the 1500s, yet somehow she persists.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:03:00pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:09:37pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:09:55pm

Well, I’ve been up since about 4AM after only a couple hours sleep. After we got home from the county seat, I filled a couple parting glasses to my step-father.

I’m going to hit the rack. Catch y’all another time.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:11:18pm
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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:13:06pm

re: #341 Patricia Kayden

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I’m already seen the right wing trying to blame this on weed and other substances…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:14:40pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:15:04pm

re: #342 Teukka

I’m already seen the right wing trying to blame this on weed and other substances…

Oh yeah. Weed totally made her a racist bigot. Makes PERFECT sense.

*cannot eyeroll hard enough*

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:15:25pm

re: #342 Teukka

I’m already seen the right wing trying to blame this on weed and other substances…

It’s been hard for them, not having a black guy in the White House to blame for all their racist outbursts.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:15:40pm

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Three ICBMS targeted on that Red Suited Bastard, sir!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:15:41pm
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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:16:54pm

re: #323 A Mom Anon

Back in September my son commissioned a friend of his to do a watercolor and pen portrait of our dog who passed the year before, Abby. On the first anniversary of Abby’s passing he gave me the portrait. I lost it, crying and then laughing at how beautiful and perfect it was and then crying again. Really one of the most thoughtful things anyone has ever done for me. Just the perfect thing on what was a sad occasion.

Sounds to me like your son has a good mom. 😊

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:17:21pm

re: #347 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s a high-priced slum lord. Golfing is “work” to him because when he’s not lying about his handicap, he’s using the relative seclusion to make the “hard sell” to his captive audience.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:17:55pm

I don’t know if this has been posted, but this video of Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, blues artist extraordinaire, was on my FB page. He’s playing “Amazing Grace” at his mother’s funeral. It’s just, well, amazing. Check it out.

openculture.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:18:40pm
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:20:16pm

re: #351 Backwoods_Sleuth

Beautiful.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:22:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:24:23pm
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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:25:41pm

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Bloomberg shocked, shocked to learn that unfettered capitalism leads to slavery.

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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:27:24pm

The AP giving Roberts a tongue bath.

Headline: “Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial”

Blech!

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Dread Pirate  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:27:42pm

re: #334 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:33:29pm

re: #356 Teddy’s Person

The AP giving Roberts a tongue bath.

Headline: “Roberts will tap his inner umpire in impeachment trial”

Blech!

I really think it’s cute that anybody still believes Roberts is concerned about anything other than the way he personally looks in the eyes of the public. His entire reasoning behind “saving” the ACA was because he couldn’t get his buddies on the right side of the bench to budge from striking down the law in its entirety, so he went with the “best” option he could in ruling with the minority that the mandate was a “tax” so as to save it and thus the law.

The idea that he’s somehow above being a willing participant in whatever sham of a “trial” Yertle cooks up just really doesn’t pass the sniff test. If the Repub majority can ram through “reasonable” rules and act as though they’re abiding by such, then he’s not going to step in and say that the “trial” is a sham. He’ll go along with it, he’ll sign off on it, and then he’ll tell anybody who asks that he was just there to make sure that the Senate followed the rules.

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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:45:50pm

So, someone posted this ‘shop on reddit…

N.B.: FAKE N.B.: FAKE N.B.: FAKE N.B.: FAKE
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:47:51pm

re: #359 Teukka

And even though it has fake at the bottom someone will take it as a reality.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:53:43pm

re: #359 Teukka

What did North Korea do to North Pole Jesus?

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mmmirele  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:53:55pm

re: #232 Barefoot Grin

I miss Kroger, but that’s a really bad problem to have anytime, but especially Dec. 24.

It sounds like a connection issue for their terminals. As opposed to being declined because your bank is down and the payment network (MC or Visa) is using default settings. I’ll be curious to find out the cause, professional interest, obviously.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:55:11pm
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Teukka  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:55:47pm

re: #361 Dave In Austin

What did North Korea do to North Pole Jesus?

Wasn’t Kim. This is either Erdogan, or Putin remote operating the S400’s.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:56:23pm

re: #359 Teukka

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:56:31pm

The Questions That Will Ultimately Define Who We Are
Can our pluralistic democracy survive an attack by those who view themselves as engaged in a holy war?
by Nancy LeTourneau December 24, 2019, Washington Monthly

… Kathleen Parker wrote that it is a shame that cruelty isn’t an impeachable offense. But I was immediately reminded of the powerful piece from Adam Serwer titled, “The Cruelty Is the Point.”

Trump’s only true skill is the con; his only fundamental belief is that the United States is the birthright of straight, white, Christian men, and his only real, authentic pleasure is in cruelty. It is that cruelty, and the delight it brings them, that binds his most ardent supporters to him, in shared scorn for those they hate and fear: immigrants, black voters, feminists, and treasonous white men who empathize with any of those who would steal their birthright.

…Is there a place for reasoned dialogue and disagreement with those who have chosen to use “any means necessary” to impose their will on everyone else?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:57:41pm

re: #362 mmmirele

It sounds like a connection issue for their terminals. As opposed to being declined because your bank is down and the payment network (MC or Visa) is using default settings. I’ll be curious to find out the cause, professional interest, obviously.

From what I’ve gathered, it was nation-wide and has since been resolved

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:59:09pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 1:59:30pm

re: #362 mmmirele

It sounds like a connection issue for their terminals. As opposed to being declined because your bank is down and the payment network (MC or Visa) is using default settings. I’ll be curious to find out the cause, professional interest, obviously.

My guess is the sheer volume of transactions being processed just overwhelmed a less than ideally designed system.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:00:08pm

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And yet another Republican who only found his balls the moment he didn’t have to run for reelection.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:00:42pm

re: #368 Backwoods_Sleuth

A former congressman. No need to worry about saving face to get re-elected. STILL won’t allow himself to be identified.

This is where we are now. Republicans are terrified of Trump and his base coming after THEM should they dare break ranks.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:05:26pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:05:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:06:09pm
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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:07:19pm

re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth

OOoooh, fennel and potatoes! Love!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:08:39pm
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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:09:37pm

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

You are just too good today!!!

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:10:28pm

re: #372 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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This one might involve weed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:10:45pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:11:34pm

re: #374 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That looks so good, but I could clear a courtroom if I eat lamb.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:11:39pm

re: #377 retired cynic

You are just too good today!!!

I am making my very best effort

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:23:55pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:25:49pm
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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:26:53pm

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Nah, the Republican answer is “IT JUST DOES, OKAY?!”

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:27:18pm

When the topic of lamb came up I remembered that my mom likes it with mint sauce/jelly. So I googled the topic of why mint with lamb. Some compelling theories: actually a holdover from medieval thinking about combinations of foods under prevailing medical doctrine based on “humours”; they didn’t actually eat lamb, but ate mutton and had to have some thing to cover the strong taste; English law mandated it because it actually tasted horrible with the meat, commoners were getting a taste for lamb and it was cutting into England’s main export market—wool, but they didn’t outlaw the eating of lamb because it was a dish of the elite, but somehow people started to actually like it. All are compelling, but I like the English law theory. Remains inconclusive.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:28:18pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:29:28pm

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Melania’s gonna be teed.

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Targetpractice  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:32:10pm

Reagan got away with his tax cuts largely because the increased gov’t spending did enough to keep the economy afloat that people didn’t really question why all the well-paying union jobs were going away and being replaced with minimum wage jobs in industries that treat their employees like shit.

Dubya managed to keep people conned for a few years about his tax cuts because the housing bubble made it believable that the stock market’s post-9/11 recovery was finally “trickling down” to the middle class.

But Trump? His runaway spending is not making much of a dent in an economy where the people who most need well-paying jobs are finding none, while the stock market “recovery” only really helps those who are aging out of the economy anyway. Like Dubya, his tax cuts were totally about helping those who needed the least help (i.e. the rich), but unlike Dubya he has no real “recovery” to call his own.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:33:28pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:36:06pm

The pecans that didn’t stick fell through the cooling rack and the brown sugar maple glaze hardened on them and OMG I’M EATING THEM ALL GET IN MY MOUTH NOW.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:39:06pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:41:04pm

I was just listening to the news roundup on our NPR station (NHPR) while reading the NYT, drinking a latte, in the Volvo, and the reporter in recounting that Trump is supporting Susan Collins said, “Collins has become a target of Democrats’ criticism since she voted to nominate Breast, er, Brett Kavanaugh.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:43:32pm

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

Stonekettle speaks the truth here. (I am also a lefty)

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:44:29pm

re: #385 Barefoot Grin

When the topic of lamb came up I remembered that my mom likes it with mint sauce/jelly. So I googled the topic of why mint with lamb. Some compelling theories: actually a holdover from medieval thinking about combinations of foods under prevailing medical doctrine based on “humours”; they didn’t actually eat lamb, but ate mutton and had to have some thing to cover the strong taste; English law mandated it because it actually tasted horrible with the meat, commoners were getting a taste for lamb and it was cutting into England’s main export market—wool, but they didn’t outlaw the eating of lamb because it was a dish of the elite. All are compelling, but I like the English law theory. Remains inconclusive.

Lamb with mint sauce or mint jelly is WONDERFUL! One of my favorites! I don’t care what kind of holdover it is. It was my husband’s absolute favorite, as well.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:45:13pm

re: #396 retired cynic

Lamb with mint sauce or mint jelly is WONDERFUL! One of my favorites! I don’t care what kind of holdover it is. It was my husband’s absolute favorite, as well.

I love lamb, but I don’t do mint sauce. My dad is all about that, though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:47:55pm
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BigPapa  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:50:14pm

I’m doing a boneless lamb roast tomorrow. Roasted bone for stock last night and simmering the bones today. There Will Be a Write Up.

Lamb Bones for Stock
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:50:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:54:29pm

take. a. fucking. seat. asshat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:55:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:55:50pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:55:53pm

Florida Man, meet Michigan Man!

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 2:56:27pm

re: #399 BigPapa

I’m doing a boneless lamb roast tomorrow. Roasted bone for stock last night and simmering the bones today. There Will Be a Write Up.

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As I have said on another occasion or two, my husband and I raised Arabian horses, and on several major open houses, I cooked a huge Arabic dinner. Not lamb with meat sauce, but a huge brass tray covered with rice and lamb bits, and lamb tajine, and Syrian vegetables braised and tabbouli and fruits, and baclava with rosewater sugar syrup and pistachios instead of walnuts and honey. For another one, we had a friend buy and raise 6 lambs, and they were boned and covered with a dry rub, then wrapped fat to the inside around a spit and grilled. Now let me tell you, that group darned near ate the whole 6 lambs. I prefer not to think of the lambs, but BOY, was that good. I used to really cook. Now I eat frozen vegetarian meals. Sigh…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:03:24pm

completely unrelated to anything…
I spotted a mistletoe-infested tree about 5 miles or so south of our farm as we were taking Glory to the animal hospital last Friday.
I’ve seen loads of trees in Fayette County (Lexington) Ky that were absolutely filthy with mistletoe, but never saw it anywhere in my country until last week.
Now I’m looking for it everywhere.

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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:04:00pm

re: #406 Backwoods_Sleuth

Moving north?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:06:39pm

re: #406 Backwoods_Sleuth

It can be quite invasive, and is parasitic on the trees.

Fun fact: the order of eudicots in which mistletoe is placed are called Santalales.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:12:05pm

re: #407 retired cynic

Moving north?

no idea.

according to my google searching, mistletoe is a pest to eradicate, but it’s a host plant for the endangered great purple hairstreak butterfly, which has reportable populations in Lexington and Paducah

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:13:20pm
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Teddy's Person  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:13:57pm

re: #401 Backwoods_Sleuth

take. a. fucking. seat. asshat.

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Here Donnie, let me give you the cliff notes version since you don’t really read.

Plot of Mitch’s Book: I broke every Congressional norm, changed the rules and decided that I could ignore the Constitution to pack the courts with Federalist Society hacks.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:17:57pm

For those in SoCal, your Christmas forecast is wet:

Incoming Major Winter Storm to impact SoCal

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:18:24pm

thread

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:19:00pm

re: #409 Backwoods_Sleuth

no idea.

according to my google searching, mistletoe is a pest to eradicate, but it’s a host plant for the endangered great purple hairstreak butterfly, which has reportable populations in Lexington and Paducah

I hadn’t heard of this when I lived in Lexington, but I lived on a street which derived its name from a kind of tree that had mostly died; the last couple of trees were the back yard of the house we rented and a neighbors. Over the two years we were there multiple interventions were needed on both.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:20:38pm
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retired cynic  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:22:27pm

re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth

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LOL! Not a surprise! The only surprise is that anyone in that position would hang himself out to dry like that!

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:22:50pm

Tin foil territory here but based loosely on the premise that every accusation Trump makes against the Democrats is actually a crime that he is committing.

Ok — so here it is. Do we really know that the government economic statistics are still honest? e.g. unemployment statistics, new jobs, inflation, etc?

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:23:09pm

re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ahh. Another one who speaks gibberish.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:26:48pm

re: #418 PhillyPretzel

Ahh. Another one who speaks gibberish.

kinda like that there speaking in tongues…

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sagehen  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:27:31pm

re: #389 Targetpractice

Reagan got away with his tax cuts largely because the increased gov’t spending did enough to keep the economy afloat that people didn’t really question why all the well-paying union jobs were going away and being replaced with minimum wage jobs in industries that treat their employees like shit.

Reagan got away with it because when he took office, the highest marginal rate was 70%, and inflation and interest rates were both well into double digits. Putting that much more cash into the banks really did bring interest rates down. (also, he really did eliminate a lot of corporate deductions, and he put earned income and dividends/interest income into the same brackets, because income is income.)

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:30:18pm

re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth

There was a comment by someone else in the Old Holborn thread who made a different argument — but did mention that the accent was not great. So Boris was reciting from memory verses that he may not have understood.

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:30:44pm

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

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$32,432,776 for losing $8 billion for his company.

I wonder what board member Nikki Haley had to say about it. (Caroline Kennedy is also on the Boeing board—shaking my damn head.)

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BeachDem  Dec 24, 2019 • 3:38:52pm

re: #418 PhillyPretzel

Ahh. Another one who speaks gibberish.

This reply caps it—

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Unabogie  Dec 24, 2019 • 4:58:58pm
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Patricia Kayden  Dec 24, 2019 • 5:02:45pm

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Who knew that watching guinea pigs eating could be so relaxing. Used to have some when I was a kid and remember them as noisy poopers who chewed down the house.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 24, 2019 • 6:59:35pm

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m going in!


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