Great New Acoustic Track by Snarky Puppy Guitarist Mark Lettieri: “Ojai” [VIDEO]

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From the album, “Things of That Nature,” released on GroundUP Music.

“Ojai” written and produced by Mark Lettieri

Personnel:
Mark Lettieri: acoustic guitars, resonator guitar
Jason “JT” Thomas: shaker

Recorded and mixed by Joey Lomas at January Sound Studios
Mastered by Dave McNair

Filmed and edited by Andy Laviolette

© 2019 Markus Justinius Music (SESAC)
© 2019 GroundUP Music

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223 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:03:10pm
2
I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:13:53pm

Has Rudy tweeted that he is “more Catholic than the Pope,” yet?????

3
Dread Pirate  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:16:55pm

re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To

Has Rudy tweeted that he is “more Catholic than the Pope,” yet?????

Nah, that’s not anti-Semitic.

4
PhillyPretzel  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:17:26pm

re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To

Not yet, but I am fairly certain it will be soon. /half

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BigPapa  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:27:22pm

OK time for BigPapa to hit the kitchen for the lamb roast and oven fries. Don’t break anything or get too drunk or in a fight without calling me.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:29:35pm
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Dread Pirate  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:38:45pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:44:51pm
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A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!  Dec 25, 2019 • 5:46:37pm

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

Egypt…

Or, wouldn’t they be more convincing if they read their bibles….

10
Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:22:38pm

re: #9 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

Egypt…

Or, wouldn’t they be more convincing if they read their bibles….

the Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged.

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nicdanger  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:25:21pm

I hope everyone has/is having a great holiday season.Eat drink and be merry,and best wishes to all.

Next,we have to gird our loins for the tRump fuckery that is sure to come…flowing like an avalanche rollin’ down the mountain.

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:25:39pm
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Belafon  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:26:19pm

re: #11 nicdanger

I hope everyone has/is having a great holiday season.Eat drink and be merry,and best wishes to all.

Next,we have to gird our loins for the tRump fuckery that is sure to come…flowing like an avalanche rollin’ down the mountain.

Or, as I like to think of it: We’re coming for you, Donnie.

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nicdanger  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:28:27pm

re: #13 Belafon

Or, as I like to think of it: We’re coming for you, Donnie.

Well said,sir

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:53:23pm

Happy Holidays, all.

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Rightwingconspirator  Dec 25, 2019 • 6:55:17pm

These are the golden days. For Christmas day we went to mil’s house. Cooked breakfast. Fresh, scratch-made apple pancakes and bacon. Then for dinner we did a boneless ribeye with a bacon cap, sauteed mushrooms, carmelized onions, baked biscuits. Really had a good time, even had surprise family dinner guests, neice, boyfriend and young 2 foster boys that were just a ball to have around. We gave them Hot Wheels. And so glad we got the big roast.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:03:20pm

Briefly in and out for an update.

I spoke to my mother, sister, and eldest first cousin.

My mother is doing about as well as can be expected. My step-brother and his wife took her out to dinner today.

My step-brother and my sister have been working on the problem of an $80,000 medical bill. It would seem that may be a misbilling—the state of Illinois seems to have fouled up paperwork regarding that.

My cousin is going to leave Michigan day after tomorrow to stay with my mother. My sister has now raised sufficient funds and is looking for a plane ticket she can afford. She wants to fly out of Burbank but it appears she’s going to have to fly out of LAX.

Yesterday we picked up an advance refill for my wife’s medications at the county seat. As for my Phenobarbital, I ordered a refill the evening of the 23rd. It should be arriving in a day or two, after which my wife and I will leave for Chicago.

As I told my mother on the telephone this evening, I don’t know how much help I can be, but I can be a lackey or a Sherpa. I can also drive her around when my step-brother is not available or able.

She needs to get with the Illinois teachers’ pension people to have my step-father’s pension transferred to her, Social Security for the same, and still needs to look for another apartment.

It would appear we will all be in Chicago at the same time, so perhaps we can triple-team her into considering moving in with my aunt in Michigan (despite her resistance at the idea of living in our home town).

Mostly though, I just listened while she talked.

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retired cynic  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:05:33pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🎃

That is undoubtedly just what she needed: to talk.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:05:56pm

I did inform my mother of one thing, that there’s a whole bunch of people on fora such as this who are sympathetic to her plight in this terrible time and are concerned for her well-being.

She did say she appreciates that.

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Teukka  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:06:16pm

re: #2 I Would Prefer Not To

Has Rudy tweeted that he is “more Catholic than the Pope,” yet?????

re: #3 Dread Pirate

Nah, that’s not anti-Semitic.

re: #4 PhillyPretzel

Not yet, but I am fairly certain it will be soon. /half

I concur (repost from downstairs):

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:14:40pm

Timing on a trip could be a problem. I can’t leave until my medications arrive, and the rainstorm now sweeping into California is expected to be a snowstorm when it gets here in a couple days.

As of yet the National Weather Service says they cannot tell how severe the storm will be, and are cautioning people here who are planning to travel in the next couple days to keep an eye on the weather report.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:22:07pm

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🎃

It’s usually best to move to where family lives; for years, a close girl friend had resisted entreaties from her children to move from Chicago area to Texas because she didn’t want to leave her friends, but she finally made the move this year. It can be overwhelming to cope simultaneously with the loss of a spouse and a move to a different state — so sometimes it might be preferable to postpone that decision, but you know her best and the right choice is different for each person.

Good luck and best wishes.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:22:48pm

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jaunte  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:25:20pm
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A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:33:49pm

re: #24 jaunte

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Read the Constitution, dumbass. And stop whining.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:46:00pm
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LadyBehir  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:51:41pm

Rarely post, often read. You keep me sane as I can be. Normal is a setting on the dishwasher, right? I just wanted to say Happy Holiday of your choice and especially a thank you to our host.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:52:31pm

Santa left a turd in his stocking.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:52:42pm

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s usually best to move to where family lives; for years, a close girl friend had resisted entreaties from her children to move from Chicago area to Texas because she didn’t want to leave her friends, but she finally made the move this year. It can be overwhelming to cope simultaneously with the loss of a spouse and a move to a different state — so sometimes it might be preferable to postpone that decision, but you know her best and the right choice is different for each person.

Good luck and best wishes.

My mother says she doesn’t want to live with my sister in California (because she doesn’t want to live where the ground moves—she has a thing against that), nor does she want to move here (because we live out in the middle of nowhere though that’s not exactly true)—though the house across the street from us just went up for sale and we could squeeze out the bucks to help buy it outright (no loan) if needed.

As far as my aunt in Michigan, she and my mother are close in age and friendship (my aunt was married to her brother before he died in 1974), plus the cousin I mention lives in the house I grew up in, and it’s only one mile away, so that might work if we can convince her. Chicago is pretty expensive and her income is limited; our hometown is much less expensive (though has less things around than we do—there are no businesses or public facilities even though it has about two hundred people, whereas my town has a community centre, a public library, a store, and an art school—I don’t think she’d be interested in the gun shop—that said, the shop owner is looking to sell it because of his failing health and maybe she’d like to run a business).

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retired cynic  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:56:33pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I know that it is circumstance, not you all wanting her to move, that is creating the pressure. I hope she is able to make a decent decision, and is able to feel as good about it as possible.

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Mattand  Dec 25, 2019 • 7:59:15pm

A little late in the day but Merry Xmas to everyone out there.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:00:29pm

re: #31 retired cynic

I know that it is circumstance, not you all wanting her to move, that is creating the pressure. I hope she is able to make a decent decision, and is able to feel as good about it as possible.

I just want my mother to be happy and as far as possible financially secure.

Her principle objection is she doesn’t want to leave her vast network of friends: Those from her Irish folk sessions she’s held in her home over decades, the Morris dancing community, and the Renaissance fair community. Those are things my aunt, my sister, or me cannot replace.

She is also not a person who is very willing to accept financial help.

On a practical matter, none of that matters if she can’t afford to stay there. My sister and my step-brother are working to see if they can find a place she can afford to live with her means.

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wrenchwench  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:04:16pm

re: #15 The Ghost of a Flea

Happy Holidays, all.

O, jai.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:06:05pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My mother says she doesn’t want to live with my sister in California (because she doesn’t want to live where the ground moves—she has a thing against that), nor does she want to move here (because we live out in the middle of nowhere though that’s not exactly true)—though the house across the street from us just went up for sale and we could squeeze out the bucks to help buy it outright (no loan) if needed.

As far as my aunt in Michigan, she and my mother are close in age and friendship (my aunt was married to her brother before he died in 1974), plus the cousin I mention lives in the house I grew up in, and it’s only one mile away, so that might work if we can convince her. Chicago is pretty expensive and her income is limited; our hometown is much less expensive (though has less things around than we do—there are no businesses or public facilities even though it has about two hundred people, whereas my town has a community centre, a public library, a store, and an art school—I don’t think she’d be interested in the gun shop—that said, the shop owner is looking to sell it because of his failing health and maybe she’d like to run a business).

Big city vs small town — very different types of living and attracts different people. If your mother is reluctant to move out of the area, has your family looked into senior subsidized housing in the city itself or in suburban areas? The nicer places usually have waiting lists but it doesn’t hurt to check and you may just luck out.

Hope all works out for her. She needs time to heal from her terrible loss.

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teleskiguy  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:08:08pm
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retired cynic  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:09:32pm

re: #36 teleskiguy

Yep, it was 70 here, in that greyish pink blob in the center. Amazing.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:11:05pm

re: #35 Hecuba’s daughter

Big city vs small town — very different types of living and attracts different people. If your mother is reluctant to move out of the area, has your family looked into senior subsidized housing in the city itself or in suburban areas? The nicer places usually have waiting lists but it doesn’t hurt to check and you may just luck out.

Hope all works out for her. She needs time to heal from her terrible loss.

Both my step-brother and my sister have been looking into that as well. There is a problem with waiting lists as well as her limited means.

The problem with moving out of her apartment is more with her landlord. She is renting month-by-month (their lease expired years ago), and the landlord wants to renovate the apartment (she has already renovated the other apartments in the building).

She can’t renovate it as long as my mother is there, so now she wants her out. She has been patient since my step-father’s health started failing, and she’ll probably give my mother more time because of his death on the 24th. She won’t give her unlimited time though, and the rest of us are doing the looking she isn’t capable of doing now.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:12:55pm

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:15:44pm

re: #9 A hollow voice says, Impeachmoot now!

Egypt…

Or, wouldn’t they be more convincing if they read their bibles….

Exactly. When his family fled to Egypt, Jesus and his parents were refugees. Does Walsh not read his own Bible? Arghhhh

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:20:21pm

re: #37 retired cynic

Yep, it was 70 here, in that greyish pink blob in the center. Amazing.

The ground here isn’t frozen, even though we’ve had snow on the ground for two weeks (it’s been in the sixties—we got a lot of snow).

The whole state is above average for soil temperature this time of year.

cropwatch.unl.edu

Currently it’s snowing and just below freezing.

forecast.weather.gov

I can’t seem to find any page showing record highs or lows because I’m not that good at searching.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:21:55pm

re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:23:10pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. When his family fled to Egypt, Jesus and his parents were refugees. Does Walsh not read his own Bible? Arghhhh

Going back further, Moses was an unaccompanied minor.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:35:30pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. When his family fled to Egypt, Jesus and his parents were refugees. Does Walsh not read his own Bible? Arghhhh

Few people read their Bibles; their knowledge derives from what their pastors tell them. And reading words does not equate to understanding the stories.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:35:48pm

Wingnut pastor Kevin Swanson of Elizabeth, Colorado, thinks Greta Thunberg is demonic.

(Utah Outcasts, 25:49)

I suspect Rev. Swanson is jealous he is never going to make the cover of Time with his religious hate preaching.

Kevin Swanson Thinks Greta Thunberg is Demonic

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teleskiguy  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:41:23pm

The most offensive Christmas song ever.

Content warning: Eazy-E

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sagehen  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:45:46pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. When his family fled to Egypt, Jesus and his parents were refugees. Does Walsh not read his own Bible? Arghhhh

If he’d ever read his Bible, he’d know that pre-viability fetuses aren’t yet people (and killing one isn’t murder). Also, that the Leviticus prohibition on homosexuality is actually just a prohibition on one particular m/m sex act — other m/m sex acts aren’t a problem at all (see David/Jonathan story), and f/f relationships aren’t mentioned ever in the entire book (lesbian weddings often do a reading from the Ruth/Naomi story, the scripture is super-ambiguous about the exact nature of their relationship).

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:46:32pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🎃

His degree in engineering and previously running for Governor of Colorado eminently qualifies him to weigh in on a teen girl climate activist from Sweden as “demon possessed” (by the way, why do Christians think everything they don’t like is demon possession—I’m demon possessed too because [many] Christians have a thing for epilepsy).

He has no education in theology or Biblical studies, so in those areas he has less training than me (because I’ve read the Bible and he cherry-picks it).

He’s also one of those Christians who wants to kill all Teh Geyhs, though I don’t know if that’s before you kill all the liberals or epileptics.

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mmmirele  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:52:38pm

re: #40 Patricia Kayden

Exactly. When his family fled to Egypt, Jesus and his parents were refugees. Does Walsh not read his own Bible? Arghhhh

Matt Walsh is Catholic and this is Year A in the Lectionary, which concentrates on the gospel of Matthew. *sigh* Unfortunately, the reading for Epiphany (January 6, also my mother’s birthday) is only Matthew 2:1-12, which includes the story of the Wise Men and Herod, but doesn’t include the Flight into Egypt and Slaughter of the Innocents, which is Matthew 2:13-18. Blergh. SO MANY PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR THOSE VERSES. Blergh.

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mmmirele  Dec 25, 2019 • 8:59:12pm

re: #47 sagehen

If he’d ever read his Bible, he’d know that pre-viability fetuses aren’t yet people (and killing one isn’t murder). Also, that the Leviticus prohibition on homosexuality is actually just a prohibition on one particular m/m sex act — other m/m sex acts aren’t a problem at all (see David/Jonathan story), and f/f relationships aren’t mentioned ever in the entire book (lesbian weddings often do a reading from the Ruth/Naomi story, the scripture is super-ambiguous about the exact nature of their relationship).

I wish lesbian weddings would not do that, because Ruth is described in the text as Naomi’s daughter in law and if you read the text further, Naomi schemes to get Ruth into Boaz’s bed. I remember hearing in a class back in the 1980s that the person/people who wrote Ruth did it in part to counter the calls to divorce foreign wives in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. I mean LOOK, here’s the great King David’s g-g-grandmother, she was from Moab, and Israelites were flatly told not to marry Moabites!

Just My Personal Opinion, I’m No Theologian, Your Mileage May Vary.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 9:12:35pm

I WON THE LOTTO (the 2x2 game available only in Nebraska and North Dakota).

I won five free tickets.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 25, 2019 • 9:13:11pm

re: #30 Anymouse 🌹🎃

My mother says she doesn’t want to live with my sister in California (because she doesn’t want to live where the ground moves—she has a thing against that), .

Sacramento gets no quakes, even a quake on the Hayward fault is 50+ miles away.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 25, 2019 • 9:14:49pm

and with this good night.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 25, 2019 • 9:28:44pm

My wife is already asleep, after working on finishing off her rye before we leave for Chicago.

I’ve been working on the rum and should have it done before we leave as well.

We don’t want to leave the booze as it will spoil while we’re gone for two or three weeks.

(I am of the opinion liquor will spoil if you don’t use it up. /s)

I need to hit the rack.

I hope you had a happy Christmas, or Channukah.

Good night, y’all, and thanks for putting up with my venting and dismal family problems over the holidays.

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sagehen  Dec 25, 2019 • 9:29:57pm

re: #50 mmmirele

I wish lesbian weddings would not do that, because Ruth is described in the text as Naomi’s daughter in law and if you read the text further, Naomi schemes to get Ruth into Boaz’s bed. I remember hearing in a class back in the 1980s that the person/people who wrote Ruth did it in part to counter the calls to divorce foreign wives in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. I mean LOOK, here’s the great King David’s g-g-grandmother, she was from Moab, and Israelites were flatly told not to marry Moabites!

Just My Personal Opinion, I’m No Theologian, Your Mileage May Vary.

I’d be super-creeped out by anybody who thought King David was a romance role model. Beyond creeped out — I’d run screaming the other direction.

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Belafon  Dec 25, 2019 • 10:13:48pm

I’ve spent the past week, between shopping and all of my other commitments, reading the webcomic Questionable Content from the beginning. 15+ years worth. I am now caught up, and eagerly wait for new strips. And my reaction after getting caught up is melancholy/depression. Not at the comic. At the lack of it.

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William Lewis  Dec 25, 2019 • 11:25:36pm

re: #56 Belafon

I’ve spent the past week, between shopping and all of my other commitments, reading the webcomic Questionable Content from the beginning. 15+ years worth. I am now caught up, and eagerly wait for new strips. And my reaction after getting caught up is melancholy/depression. Not at the comic. At the lack of it.

I understand. I started reading it a … long time ago but I remember the archive binge. I especially enjoyed how he played out the growing relationships - especially Claire and Marten.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:04:36am
Donald Trump’s impeachment was set in motion after a whistleblower report came to light complaining about the inappropriate nature of Trump’s July 25th call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine.

During that call, Trump leveraged the threat of withholding U.S. aid funding to Ukraine in order to get an investigation into alleged corruption of Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Many had fixated on one aspect of the timing of the call: it came just one day after Robert Mueller testified in front of Congress about his report, a testimony that was widely seen as a dud. Perhaps Trump felt emboldened and newly vindicated by Mueller’s testimony.

But now we have a new clue as to what may have inspired the call to Zelensky: a Fox News poll that Trump had been touting that very morning:

secondnexus.com

TL;DR - Trump saw a poll on FNC on the morning of 7/25/19 that showed Joe Biden with a pretty commanding lead (10 points). And then, a little over one hour later, Trump calls Ukrainian President Zelensky to ask for a “favor” and then of course, after that, aid to Ukraine is promptly suspended.

Simply put, Trump freaked the fuck out over a poll. Yet again, as it has countless times in the past, his impulsiveness got the better of him…..and in this case, led to his impeachment.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:34:53am

Rain about to get here:

radar.weather.gov

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:40:30am

re: #36 teleskiguy

See many examples:

Record Report
000
SXUS73 KDMX 252346
RERDSM

RECORD EVENT REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DES MOINES IA
0545 PM CST WED DEC 25 2019

…RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE SET AT DES MOINES IA…

A RECORD HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 60 DEGREES WAS SET AT DES MOINES IA
TODAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 58 SET IN 1936.

On Christmas, Des Moines was warmer than San Diego.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:46:34am

More from the A-listers:

Mario Lanza - O Holy Night

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:53:12am

Saw this the other day and forgot to post it.

Heh.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:53:32am

One of my favorite Christmas appropriate recording of the 21st century (so far):

L’Ensemble Choral du bout du Monde - Joyful Mysteries

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 2:04:38am

re: #62 Dr Lizardo

Caga Tió - Pooping log

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 26, 2019 • 3:03:54am

re: #10 Joe Bacon 🌹

the Bible of the Religious Right is Atlas Shrugged.

That’s what their preachers are for. They themselves do not read.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 26, 2019 • 3:15:47am

re: #57 William Lewis

I understand. I started reading it a … long time ago but I remember the archive binge. I especially enjoyed how he played out the growing relationships - especially Claire and Marten.

I quite liked the Faye/Bubbles story arc.

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 3:35:02am

en.wikipedia.org

A Caganer (Catalan pronunciation: [kəɣəˈne]) is a figurine depicted in the act of defecation appearing in nativity scenes in Catalonia and neighbouring areas with Catalan culture such as Andorra, Valencia, and Northern Catalonia (in southern France). It is most popular and widespread in these areas, but can also be found in other areas of Spain (Murcia), Portugal, and southern Italy (Naples).

The name “El Caganer” literally means “the pooper”. Traditionally, the figurine is depicted as a peasant, wearing the traditional Catalan red cap (the barretina) and with his trousers down, showing a bare backside, and defecating.

ugh

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 3:37:03am

re: #67 Nyet

caganer.com

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 3:41:19am

re: #68 Nyet

JFYI, those are literally figurines of Trump, Obama, Greta Thunberg, Groot and Luke Skywalker defecating.

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steve_davis  Dec 26, 2019 • 4:00:09am

re: #8 The Pie Overlord!

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nothing to think Joseph was impoverised, other than the whole “having to sleep in a manger because unable to afford Motel 6” thing.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2019 • 4:02:32am

re: #69 Nyet

JFYI, those are literally figurines of Trump, Obama, Greta Thunberg, Groot and Luke Skywalker defecating.

Has a strong medieval flavor, like the Feast of Fools or the obscene female sheila-na-gig sculptures in Irish churches.

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William Lewis  Dec 26, 2019 • 4:52:55am

re: #66 Romantic Heretic

That one was good too - especially the tetris image :D

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HappyWarrior  Dec 26, 2019 • 5:17:43am

re: #58 Dr Lizardo

secondnexus.com

TL;DR - Trump saw a poll on FNC on the morning of 7/25/19 that showed Joe Biden with a pretty commanding lead (10 points). And then, a little over one hour later, Trump calls Ukrainian President Zelensky to ask for a “favor” and then of course, after that, aid to Ukraine is promptly suspended.

Simply put, Trump freaked the fuck out over a poll. Yet again, as it has countless times in the past, his impulsiveness got the better of him…..and in this case, led to his impeachment.

I never thought about a poll influencing the call but I definitely think it was the same impulsiveness we’ve seen from Trump constantly. 7/24 also my birthday was the day Mueller testified. I think he thought he was in the clear after that.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 5:29:18am

re: #73 HappyWarrior

I never thought about a poll influencing the call but I definitely think it was the same impulsiveness we’ve seen from Trump constantly. 7/24 also my birthday was the day Mueller testified. I think he thought he was in the clear after that.

Trump’s impulsiveness has repeatedly gotten him into trouble in the past - his “business career” is ample proof of that. And you’re right that Trump likely thought he was totally in the clear after Mueller testified and probably figured he could do any damn thing he wanted without any repercussions; combine that with his reckless and impulsive behavior, and here we are.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 26, 2019 • 5:39:45am
President Trump on Wednesday lashed out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a pair of tweets Christmas night, decrying what he called a “Scam Impeachment,” The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?”

Ahem
Mitch McConnell 3 vote majority

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jeffreyw  Dec 26, 2019 • 5:48:36am

Good morning!

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:11:16am

re: #75 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

Ahem
Mitch McConnell 3 vote majority

Further
House majority 32 seats 8%

Senate 3 seats, 3%

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:24:01am

re: #77 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

Further
House majority 32 seats 8%

Senate 3 seats, 3%

And of course, Republicans’ 53% of senators represent less (fewer?) than 45% of the voters.

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:25:31am

re: #17 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Again, I’m so sorry for your loss.

The funeral home will contact Social Security on your family’s behalf, and getting copies of death certificates will help with all the other contacts since you’ll need those to make sure that the beneficiaries can get financials transferred in a timely fashion.

Pension funds typically have a set of forms you have to file to claim as a beneficiary. Banks too - POD/TOD accounts should be straight forward. If there are accounts that don’t have a beneficiary named, you’ll have to wait until someone is named administrator/executor (if will, that person is named).

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:33:52am

This is fantastic. I embrace my squirribel friends at my birb feeders. They are very chubby.

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Shropshire Slasher  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:49:25am

re: #80 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The bane of my dog’s existence.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:50:38am

re: #77 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

Further
House majority 32 seats 8%

Senate 3 seats, 3%

Oops not quite right
House majority is 15 seats over ,50% or also 3% or so

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 6:53:14am

re: #82 Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)

Democrats control 54% of the House.
GOP controls 53% of the Senate.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:09:06am

re: #83 lawhawk

Democrats control 54% of the House.
GOP controls 53% of the Senate.

But again, count the overall number of votes each party received compared to number of seats

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:11:41am

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

Yes; Democrats received far more votes than Republicans have had over the past few cycles - thanks to voter suppression and gerrymandering, Democrats can have millions more votes than GOP nationwide and yet have fewer seats in legislatures and Congress.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:12:39am

re: #83 lawhawk

Democrats control 54% of the House.
GOP controls 53% of the Senate.

Exactly
Still waiting for my coffee to kick in

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:15:24am

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

But again, count the overall number of votes each party received compared to number of seats

There’s 20 states with populations smaller than Puerto Rico. PR has 0 senators and 0 electoral votes.

Vermont and Wyoming each has fewer voters than DC. DC has 0 senators.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:19:24am

Blabbering moron keeps blabbering moronically:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:21:38am

another moron tweets

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:23:13am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

another moron tweets

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Pssst, hey Rudy,

They didn’t have newspapers or TV during biblical times, bro.

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jaunte  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:25:06am

re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg

Looter complains about stuff distracting him from looting.

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:30:08am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

Guy who married his cousin and had multiple affairs and violated his marriage vows repeatedly is suddenly concerned by a lack of faith?

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jaunte  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:31:39am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:34:25am

re: #87 sagehen

There’s 20 states with populations smaller than Puerto Rico. PR has 0 senators and 0 electoral votes.

Vermont and Wyoming each has fewer voters than DC. DC has 0 senators.

P.R. should have another referendum. Since there are 3 options (statehood, commonwealth, independence), they should use rank choice voting to see what is actually most acceptable to the majority.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:36:31am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:37:44am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

another moron tweets

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I seriously doubt there was a Golden Retriever at the manger.

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:42:03am

re: #92 lawhawk

Guy who married his cousin and had multiple affairs and violated his marriage vows repeatedly is suddenly concerned by a lack of faith?

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During his second divorce… the Court ordered that the soon-to-be ex-wife could continue to live in the Mayor’s official residence, but the mayor had to move out. The judge was partially swayed by the fact that the Mayor hadn’t actually served Donna with divorce papers, he announced it in the middle of a press conference and seeing it on the TV was the first she’d heard about it.

Quite the tabloid spectacle.

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BlueGrl21  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:43:06am

Happy holiday of your choice, Lizardim. May the universe smile upon you next year.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:46:56am

What could be more American than fucking up a company and getting a Golden Parachute in the amount of $60 million?

It’s time to tax these Golden Parachutes at 100%!

Boeing’s ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg left behind a long list of problems at Boeing, but he’s walking away with a sizable golden parachute.

The exact amount of money that he will leave with isn’t yet clear. That will depend on his negotiations with Boeing (BA), including how the company labels his departure — for example, was it a retirement? A resignation? A layoff?

But public filings show Muilenburg could be entitled to a benefit plan worth more than $30 million and, potentially, a severance payment of about $7 million. Muilenburg also has another $20 million-plus worth of vested stock and a pension package totaling more than $11 million.

Muilenburg, 55, became CEO of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, in 2015 after serving in several other executive roles, including chief operating officer and CEO of its defense space and security division, throughout his 34-year tenure at the company at Boeing.

edition.cnn.com

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:49:17am

re: #98 BlueGrl21

Happy holiday of your choice, Lizardim. May the universe smile upon you next year.

Well, we’re still stuck with Trump next year so I don’t anticipate much smiling.

But hey, who knows, right?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 26, 2019 • 7:59:56am

re: #96 sagehen

I seriously doubt there was a Golden Retriever at the manger.

One of the Magi got a little confused about the gift he was supposed to bring.

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:01:31am

For first time in 3 years, re-enactors were able to portray Washington crossing the Delaware.

Americans. We kill you when you’re sleeping/hung over on Christmas.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:02:54am

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

What could be more American than fucking up a company and getting a Golden Parachute in the amount of $60 million?

It’s time to tax these Golden Parachutes at 100%!

Boeing’s ousted CEO Dennis Muilenburg left behind a long list of problems at Boeing, but he’s walking away with a sizable golden parachute.

The exact amount of money that he will leave with isn’t yet clear. That will depend on his negotiations with Boeing (BA), including how the company labels his departure — for example, was it a retirement? A resignation? A layoff?

But public filings show Muilenburg could be entitled to a benefit plan worth more than $30 million and, potentially, a severance payment of about $7 million. Muilenburg also has another $20 million-plus worth of vested stock and a pension package totaling more than $11 million.

Muilenburg, 55, became CEO of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, in 2015 after serving in several other executive roles, including chief operating officer and CEO of its defense space and security division, throughout his 34-year tenure at the company at Boeing.

edition.cnn.com

He should get life+20. As I occasionally, though modestly, remind people from time to time, I have been a pilot for 54 years. When I first read about the 737 MAX’s problems I was incredulous. They tried to patch an inherent stability problem with a control gimmick? Then failed to tell people about it? No fucking way, I thought. Maybe the ass/elbow media have it wrong, as usual with aviation stories. But, no, it was true, and 300+ people died.
Thanks to this fiasco, and to the regulators who gradually allowed Boeing to gain a monopoly on commercial airliner production in this country, our strongest industry is now a shambles. We aren’t #1 in the world anymore, we will soon not even be #1 in this hemisphere.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:05:12am

something for our front desk hotel lizards:

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:07:37am

re: #102 lawhawk

For first time in 3 years, re-enactors were able to portray Washington crossing the Delaware.

Americans. We kill you when you’re sleeping/hung over on Christmas.

Was Poldark ever specific about which battles Ross was in, and where exactly he was wounded?

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:08:35am

re: #103 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The accountants took over the company and not for the better. Instead of doing the right thing, they did the cost-benefit analysis and decided it cheaper to move ahead with a seriously flawed design, concealed the problems from pilots, tried a workaround that confounded experienced pilots, led to 100s of deaths, and production lines shut down because no one wants to confront the institutional rot from the top down.

Muilenburg’s departure may be most visible, but it’s not the only head that should roll.

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:10:41am

re: #93 jaunte

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Adam P. is right-on here, IMO.

Maybe I’ve missed something, but AFAICT, most of the Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays messages I’ve seen online from various public figures have been of the usual pleasantly positivistic “best wishes” variety.

Except for Donald Trump. While I think there were a couple of “official” greetings put out (almost certainly by WH staff), he himself seems to have taken to Twitter this Christmas to spew out a string of his typical insult-laden diatribes awash in alternate tides of self-pity, and transparent guilt-deflection. What an embarrassment.

I just realized, Trump’s tweets really do encapsulate the Hobbesian model: “nasty, brutish and short”…

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:13:25am

re: #106 lawhawk

The accountants took over the company and not for the better. Instead of doing the right thing, they did the cost-benefit analysis and decided it cheaper to move ahead with a seriously flawed design, concealed the problems from pilots, tried a workaround that confounded experienced pilots, led to 100s of deaths, and production lines shut down because no one wants to confront the institutional rot from the top down. Or, more importantly, fly on their fucking unsafe airplanes!

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:13:50am

re: #107 Jay C

Except for Donald Trump. While I think there were a couple of “official” greetings put out (almost certainly by WH staff), he himself seems to have taken to Twitter this Christmas to spew out a string of his typical insult-laden diatribes awash in alternate tides of self-pity, and transparent guilt-deflection. What an embarrassment.

Silly Donald, the Festivus airing of grievances is supposed to be on Dec 23.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:15:33am

Trump tweets out an endless stream of internet farts!

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Teukka  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:19:44am

So this meme passed through my feeds…

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:32:26am

CNBC touting Trump economy with misleading news report about how well the economy is doing.

Of course they are.

The markets are doing better than the average seen under prior administrations, but when you break out prior presidents, then it doesn’t look so great.

As good as economy has been this year, Obama’s economy did better.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:35:41am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:38:03am

Things that make you go hmmm….

Another Kevin Spacey accuser, Ari Behn, has died.

Behn, who accused Spacey of groping him during a Nobel Peace Prize concert in 2007 died by suicide on Wednesday at the age of 47, according to CNN. At the time of the alleged incident, Behn was married to Princess Marth Louise of Norway. The couple had three daughters. Norwegian King Harald, in a statement to Hello!, said, “It is with great sadness that the Queen and I have received the message of Ari Behn’s passing. Ari has been an important part of our family for many years, and we carry warm, fond memories of him. We are grateful that we got to know him.”

This death comes just three months after another Spacey accuser, a massage therapist known only as John Doe, died before his scheduled trial was able to take place. After the death of John Doe, the groping case against Spacey was dropped.

Behn’s suicide also comes on the heels of a bizarre video of Spacey that was posted online Christmas Eve. The video shows Spacey in character as Frank Underwood tending a small fire and speaking directly into the camera as he once did on House of Cards before his character was written off the show.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:38:30am

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

The dog is probably the most authentic part of that inconceivably inauthentic depiction of jebus’s birth.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:39:59am

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

What the fuck? Dishwashers take too long? Just load the dishes, put the soap in, hit the button and then proceed to go about your day. If you have stuff that needs to be cleaned fast fill up the damn sink and do it the old fashioned way.

I’ll put up with longer Dishwasher times to get cleaner, more sanitary dishes, thank you very much.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:43:46am

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

What the fuck? Dishwashers take too long? Just load the dishes, put the soap in, hit the button and then proceed to go about your day. If you have stuff that needs to be cleaned fast fill up the damn sink and do it the old fashioned way.

I’ll put up with longer Dishwasher times to get cleaner, more sanitary dishes, thank you very much.

Does anyone here believe that Trump has ever used a dishwasher in his life? Or that Melania has operated a dishwasher during the past 10 years? Anyone?

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jaunte  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:44:50am

re: #117 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s be hard-pressed to tell you what room it’s in.

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Teddy's Person  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:46:22am

America’s role in the world has been reduced to Trump pleading “Don’t do it.” Next up, “wait till your dad gets home.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:46:54am

O_o

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:47:32am

Actually, RSS originated before the Nazi SS (in 1925) and is probably more akin to the SA, the Storm Troopers. It is enormously pervasive and increasingly aggressive.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sanghis an Indian right-wing, Hindu nationalist, paramilitary volunteer organisation that is widely regarded as the parent organisation of the ruling party of India, the Bharatiya Janata Party. The RSS is the progenitor and leader of a large body of organisations called the Sangh Parivar (the “family of the RSS”), which have presence in all facets of the Indian society. RSS was founded on 27 September 1925. RSS is largest NGO in the world.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:47:54am

Baby moron. Daddy will never love him.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:48:01am

re: #118 jaunte

He’s be hard-pressed to tell you what room it’s in.

It’s in the dish room of course.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:50:40am

re: #122 The Pie Overlord!

Baby moron. Daddy will never love him.

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They cut Donald’s scene in order to make more time for a Tim Horton’s commercial. Who wouldn’t rather watch a Tim’s advert than Donald Trump?

For Canada

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:52:51am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

Bob Cesca

@bobcesca_go
The prime directive of the far-right for the last 30+ years is to distract their people with bullshit inconsequential nonsense like this, while robbing them blind and decimating their only planet for profit.

The faux War on Christmas is another example of the RW distraction from the damage that the GOP is inflicting on our institutions and this planet.

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calochortus  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:53:49am

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

What the fuck? Dishwashers take too long? Just load the dishes, put the soap in, hit the button and then proceed to go about your day. If you have stuff that needs to be cleaned fast fill up the damn sink and do it the old fashioned way.

I’ll put up with longer Dishwasher times to get cleaner, more sanitary dishes, thank you very much.

New dishwashers are sooooo much quieter than the old ones, they work great, use less water, and generally have a 1 hour cycle if you’re in a hurry.

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:54:44am

re: #124 The Pie Overlord!

They cut Donald’s scene in order to make more time for a Tim Horton’s commercial. Who wouldn’t rather watch a Tim’s advert than Donald Trump?

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I’m sure a lot of people would rather watch almost anything on TV than seeing Donald Trump.
Hell, I’d rather watch the Indian chief on the test-pattern than Trump: he (the Chief), at least, makes more sense….

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:56:50am

re: #114 Eclectic Cyborg

So he committed suicide and lotsa newspaper headlines have already reduced him to … a “Spacey accuser”. What a way to go out…

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:57:38am

re: #126 calochortus

New dishwashers are sooooo much quieter than the old ones, they work great, use less water, and generally have a 1 hour cycle if you’re in a hurry.

I like my new Bosch dishwasher. It’s not really as quiet as I have been led to believe but it gets stuff clean, unlike the KitchenAid Pro-Wash that it replaced.

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:58:32am

re: #116 Eclectic Cyborg

Or, most dishwashers have a quick wash setting too. Not that most folks need it.

I can put wash on after dinner, and empty it before the next dinner. If I need it done faster, quick wash finishes in about an hour.

This is preying on the uninformed who think energy efficiency is a four letter word.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:58:59am

re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

oh no….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:59:36am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 8:59:45am

re: #119 Teddy’s Person

Turkey has lately been warning (or threatening) that they can’t handle another major refugee influx.

Another large-scale refugee crisis next year would be seriously bad news for Europe. The 2015 crisis led to a wave of right-wing populists making serious gains all over the EU, and certainly contributed to Brexit the following year.

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:02:00am

re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

She talks of an “uprising” without linking to any source about such. Maybe she doesn’t understand the word.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:04:08am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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The hell?

Yeah, I can’t defend my country on this one. Trump was in the movie for all of 15 seconds. Just leave it in there. No reason to be that petty.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:05:31am

Well, winter storm watches went up across Nebraska for the time we are likely to be driving to Chicago. Bleah.
forecast.weather.gov

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:07:42am

re: #121 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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Actually, RSS originated before the Nazi SS (in 1925) and is probably more akin to the SA, the Storm Troopers. It is enormously pervasive and increasingly aggressive.

Khakis and white shirts? Where’s the tiki torches?

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:08:11am

re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg

The hell?

Yeah, I can’t defend my country on this one. Trump was in the movie for all of 15 seconds. Just leave it in there. No reason to be that petty.

Movies are shortened to fit into allotted time. Even Doctor Who gets done that way when repeated on BBCA. Did they used to show it before?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:08:55am

Also, re: Home Alone 2.

Trump owned the Plaza Hotel at the time and he insisted on being given a cameo in every movie that was filmed there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:09:22am

re: #138 Belafon

Movies are shortened to fit into allotted time. Even Doctor Who gets done that way when repeated on BBCA. Did they used to show it before?

Yes. They didn’t start editing it out until 2015 I believe.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:16:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:16:17am
Post-holiday travelers…HEADS UP as confidence is increasing for heavy snow chances across the Nebraska Panhandle into the Central Great Plains. Winter Storm Watches are in effect for Friday late afternoon through Sunday morning for far eastern Laramie County, Goshen County, and Niobrara County in Wyoming and all of the Nebraska Panhandle. Areas east of the orange dashed line have the greatest chance to see snowfall totals of 5-8” with higher localized totals especially along the Pine Ridge area between Harrison and Chadron. Slick to snow-covered roads may impact travelers especially along Interstate 80 in Nebraska so take the time today to adapt travel plans accordingly, so you can get to your destination safely. Follow the forecast at weather.gov as headlines change as we get closer to Friday afternoon.

weather.gov

We’re east of said orange line in the description. My wife is suggesting we leave as soon as my meds come in, rather than the original plan of a few days.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:21:44am

re: #141 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

As a Christian, this irritates the hell out of me.

The Diocese of Lafayette posted a picture on Facebook showing the plane with several members of the St. Anne Church congregation surrounding it in the days before Christmas, preparing to launch the plane loaded with holy water.

“They loaded 100 gallons of holy water into the plane and the pilot sprayed the water onto the town and the nearby farms. Parishioners also brought water from home to the airstrip to be blessed,” the post read.

The Rev. Matthew Barzare of St. Anne Church told NPR that the plane was an efficient way to cover more ground for a blessing.

“We can bless more area in a shorter amount of time,” he said.

Just…all the Facepalms. The obsession with numbers that so many modern Churches have is maddening. I mean, I know you need a congregation to sustain a church and that new members are necessary for survival, but still. There are Preachers out there these days who get butthurt because they wanted 20 conversions this month and only got 11.

It’s not like Jesus said: “Hey man, you got get 1000 people to follow me or you’re not going to Heaven.”

Of course, He did give us the Great Commission but he never tacked any numbers on to it.

I have always believed it is the job of Believers to run the church as effectively as possible and let God deal with the numbers side of things.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:22:38am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

As a Christian, this irritates the hell out of me.

So a church paid for that, you know, instead of feeding or clothing the poor.

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sagehen  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:22:46am

re: #141 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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So the town is now certified vampire-free?

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gocart mozart  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:23:07am
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gocart mozart  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:23:30am
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jaunte  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:23:53am

re: #141 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It would be more efficient to just bless all water.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:25:51am

re: #145 sagehen

So the town is now certified vampire-free?

Soon as they get the garlic strapped to every lamppost.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:26:41am

Another reminder that Bernie is heaven’s gift to Republicans, or Putin’s, since Bern Out could very well be a Cold War legacy asset.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:29:16am

re: #147 gocart mozart

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eh, we tried

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:36:54am

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Another reminder that Bernie is heaven’s gift to Republicans, or Putin’s, since Bern Out could very well be a Cold War legacy asset.

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Alabama technically permits most incarcerated felons to vote, even ones that have been shipped out-of-state. Execution depends on access to the jails and resolving some residual issues on fines and fees.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:43:47am
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Belafon  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:45:10am

re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes. They didn’t start editing it out until 2015 I believe.

2015 is pre-presidency. That might still be Trump-is-an-ass territory, but I don’t see a conflict.

Also, if Trump can’t deal with this, then he can stop being president.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:45:58am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:47:04am
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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:47:11am

re: #130 lawhawk

Or, most dishwashers have a quick wash setting too. Not that most folks need it.

I can put wash on after dinner, and empty it before the next dinner. If I need it done faster, quick wash finishes in about an hour.

This is preying on the uninformed who think energy efficiency is a four letter word.

I don’t think the folks who eat up Trump’s anti-efficiency crap are “uninformed” - they’re just plain prejudiced. The sort of “low-information” types who have marinated in RW media hatemongering for decades, and for whom “energy efficiency” = “environmentalism” = “left-wing DFH eco-freaks who hate America telling them how to live”.

Same as with light bulbs, or car fuel standards, or carbon emissions: you can cite scientific data 24/7/365, even economic benefit in the form of lower electric bills, and it’s not going to make one iota of difference to that large fraction of the American electorate who will only see the issue in terms of the cheapest social-prejudice stereotypes: i.e. “Snotty affluent leftists from [naturally] San Francisco Berkeley wanting to make life uncomfortable for Us Just Plain Folks because they hate Us”.

A stupid message to be sure, and wrong on a vast number of levels; but probably, at this point, indelible.

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Belafon  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:50:17am

re: #157 Jay C

It’s time we went back to refrigerators that cost twice as much, held half as much, and use more electricity than current models.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:52:59am

re: #158 Belafon

It’s time we went back to refrigerators that cost twice as much, held half as much, and use more electricity than current models.

Ice boxes!

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:53:47am

re: #158 Belafon

It’s time we went back to refrigerators that cost twice as much, held half as much, and use more electricity than current models.

And if buying one could be pitched as “owning the libs”, they’d sell like the proverbial hotcakes.

To a limited market, to be sure: but they’d sell. And, when they would break down twice as fast, I’m sure the manufacturer (or, more likely, the importer) would find an easy way to blame the “eco-freaks” for their problems…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:58:15am

re: #143 Eclectic Cyborg

The stupid never stops.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 26, 2019 • 9:59:55am

re: #157 Jay C

As someone who just had to replace a dishwasher, the LG my husband found on sale is freaking badly over engineered. I do not need my dishes steam cleaned. I use the one setting on it that is under 3 hours and it works just fine. I ran one of the super cycles when we first got it last month and it took 4 hours and I can’t for the life of me understand why this thing needs so much crap on it. New appliances are supposed to be energy efficient but I can’t see how that works if something has to run for 4 hours instead of one with no difference in how it works. I cook and clean up from that every single day and I cannot see how I would need to synchronize my dishwasher or my fridge with my computer or phone, and again wtf is up with steam cleaning dishes?

My husband thinks LG stuff is great. I hate it. We have a fridge from them too and it’s crap. I wanted a side by side because finding stuff in that stupid giant drawer freezer is a pain in the ass. He has been told he’s not picking out appliances anymore, lol. I’m a practical person, I don’t need all this overpriced and over engineered crap in my life. YMMV of course, and I do get that new technology brings better sanitation and all that, but it’s more shit to go wrong, and I bet if you took a survey of home cooks, they’d tell you that they don’t use half the crap on these appliances or know what it’s for.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:01:31am

My sister just called; she has her ticket and is leaving from Burbank tomorrow.

My first cousin is also leaving from Michigan tomorrow.

I have enough meds to last about three weeks. If my meds don’t come in the mail by tomorrow, we’ll leave here tomorrow afternoon to try to beat the incoming snowstorm.

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:03:04am

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s bizarre. When I use my dishwasher, I just run on it on a 30min energy efficient setting, and it does the job. The 1 hour setting is the longest program. This is a pretty bog standard dishwasher from a few years ago. And these dishwashers are designed to work in hard water areas, harder than we have in Glasgow. So I don’t get this “modern dishwashers use more water and energy” argument. In my experience, it’s the exact opposite.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:05:55am

re: #164 Alephnaught

That’s bizarre. When I use my dishwasher, I just run on it on a 30min energy efficient setting, and it does the job. The 1 hour setting is the longest program. This is a pretty bog standard dishwasher from a few years ago. And these dishwashers are designed to work in hard water areas, harder than we have in Glasgow. So I don’t get this “modern dishwashers use more water and energy” argument. In my experience, it’s the exact opposite.

That’s Trump vocalizing. Nothing he says ever has any particular relation to the world of things or world of ideas.

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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:09:18am

re: #164 Alephnaught

I have a Bosch after old Kenmore kicked the bucket. The auto setting is roughly 2 hours; drying is uneven though - plastics don’t dry as well as with the Kenmore, but that’s because there’s no dryer element in the tub - it uses differential temps to get stuff drying.

But it cleans everything very well and is super quiet.

I could use the faster setting, but we typically run it before we go to sleep so there’s no reason to do it faster.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:13:58am

re: #165 Decatur Deb

That’s Trump vocalizing. Nothing he says ever has any particular relation to the world of things or world of ideas.

I think reality touched tRump inappropriately at some point in his young life and they have not been on speaking terms since.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:14:15am

Sanity break - or insanity break, depending on your POV.

YMS: Neil Breen

Neil Breen…..the Ed Wood of the 21st century, only weirder.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:16:45am

re: #167 Eventual Carrion

I think reality touched tRump inappropriately at some point in his young life and they have not been on speaking terms since.

Most conventional liars actually tell inconsequential truths most of the time. Trump is different.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:18:25am

re: #169 Decatur Deb

Most conventional liars actually tell inconsequential truths most of the time. Trump is different.

Apparently, he feels those truths would not be inconsequential to him, somehow.

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:19:20am

re: #166 lawhawk

I have a Bosch after old Kenmore kicked the bucket. The auto setting is roughly 2 hours; drying is uneven though - plastics don’t dry as well as with the Kenmore, but that’s because there’s no dryer element in the tub - it uses differential temps to get stuff drying.

Our washer doesn’t have a dryer element either. However, it’s well insulated, so the heat left over after the wash pretty much dries the dishes by itself if you leave the washer for a bit after the wash has finished.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:21:58am
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Eventual Carrion  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:22:32am

re: #171 Alephnaught

Our washer doesn’t have a dryer element either. However, it’s well insulated, so the heat left over after the wash pretty much dries the dishes by itself if you leave the washer for a bit after the wash has finished.

My wife and I named all our dishwashers when they were born. Most worked alright, but this last one takes many pushes of his buttons to get him to start working.

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:25:12am

See if you can guess what’s being discussed here… (Answer in private tag)

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:26:21am

re: #166 lawhawk

I have a Bosch after old Kenmore kicked the bucket. The auto setting is roughly 2 hours; drying is uneven though - plastics don’t dry as well as with the Kenmore, but that’s because there’s no dryer element in the tub - it uses differential temps to get stuff drying.

But it cleans everything very well and is super quiet.

I could use the faster setting, but we typically run it before we go to sleep so there’s no reason to do it faster.

I’m the dishwasher at Chez Tumbleweed. I don’t know how energy efficient I am though. /s

I just got back from the Post Office. I put a stop order on our mail for Saturday. No drugs in the mail today.

The gun shop owner was there; we chatted for a few minutes. He was complaining about the guy who beat me in the election saying the town voted for a raw deal (blush).

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:28:04am
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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:30:32am

re: #162 A Mom Anon

Quite agree about LG appliances: we replaced the refrigerator in our last apartment with an LG: structural - and cost - factors precluding our getting the Sub Zero we really wanted. Mediocre, to say the least: noisy, poorly laid-out, meandering “cold spots” (in the fridge section) that froze stuff seemingly at random locations, and an icemaker that was remarkably consistent in dumping a load of cubes (usually on the floor) when I removed the tray. Great ads, diligent consumer follow-up, crummy products.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:31:00am

Alleged veteran threatens civil war on YouTube if Trump is either removed from office or not reëlected. Utah Outcasts has fun mocking him, and a whole bunch of veterans in the comments are also tearing into this assmunch. (20:26)

A “Veteran’s” Warning to Democrats

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:33:11am

re: #5 BigPapa

OK time for BigPapa to hit the kitchen for the lamb roast and oven fries. Don’t break anything or get too drunk or in a fight without calling me.

Shout out to BigPapa:

For this Thanksgiving and Christmas, tried your suggestion of cooking the turkey breast side down for the 1st hour, and placing 1/2 lemon and 1/2 onion inside turkey for moisture.

(my idea of fun on Thanksgiving and Christmas day is to cook the meal from peeling potatoes to making the gravy, as a thank you to the wife. Some adult beverages are consumed)

Best turkey eva!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:38:50am

re: #176 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Rejoice, fellow Grinches and Scrooges, victory is ours! (Puritan allies may conduct a sober acknowledgement, since they regard rejoicing as sinful).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:42:31am

re: #144 Anymouse 🌹🎃

So a church paid for that, you know, instead of feeding or clothing the poor.

because they would rather soak their parishioners than fed the poor

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:44:23am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:45:55am

Trump should order all movie scenes including Justin Trudeau to be deleted from US broadcasts.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:48:56am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I’m in favor of closely monitoring and auditing and taxing every church with more than 50 members. There should be mandatory rules for how much is given to charitable causes and which causes are given to. No minister has any fucking business with a private jet or a 30 room mansion on 20 acres. That’s not charitable and it shouldn’t be a tax deduction either.

There is a saying that says the definition of integrity is what you do when no one is watching. Many, many churches have shown who they are by what they do under cover of Jesus.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:49:35am

re: #181 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because they would rather soak their parishoners than fed the poor

ISWUDT

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:51:14am

re: #184 A Mom Anon

There is a saying that says the definition of integrity is what you do when no one is watching. Many, many churches have shown who they are by what they do under cover of Jesus.

This is my main issue with (organized) religion: the amount of bullshit you can get away with just by declaring that it is all in the name of God/Jesus.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:51:16am

I suggested to my wife that we could take an alternative route to Chicago if the snow looks like it will overcome us. We could go north instead and take I-90. That’s outside the warning area.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:54:23am

re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🎃

I suggested to my wife that we could take an alternative route to Chicago if the snow looks like it will overcome us. We could go north instead and take I-90. That’s outside the warning area.

Godspeed

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 10:56:44am

re: #174 Alephnaught

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:08:44am

A bit of light relief. (My Gran was a bit like this…)

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Teddy's Person  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:14:47am

Speaking of monitoring the activities of churches, the city of Cleveland is on it.

A few weeks ago, the church began a partnership with the Metanoia Project, a local nonprofit that aims to shelter the homeless in Cleveland. However, the city’s Public Safety Department sent the church a cease use notice.

While part of the notice asks the church to update its fire security, it also demands the church change its title from a religious institution to a homeless shelter.

Pastor Nozomi Ikuta understands the need to update the building’s fire safety, but not the order to change the church’s identity.

“You’re asking to update our fire extinguishers, that’s understandable,” she explained. “But you’re asking us to change the use of our building. We’re a church, we have services here.”

19 News reached out to city representatives, but they were not available for comment due to the holiday.

Pastor Ikuta hopes to find a solution that will allow the church to continue to help the homeless while also retaining their religious title.

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gocart mozart  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:17:17am
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lawhawk  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:22:26am

re: #192 gocart mozart

You know, there’s a reason that Gosar’s own siblings wrote their community telling them not to vote for Gosar for Congress.

That’s pretty harsh rebuke and speaks to the measure of the man. They found their own brother wanting. They wanted someone else representing their district - not their brother.

That seems highly relevant.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:22:55am
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Teddy's Person  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:24:14am

re: #194 Dread Pirate

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So the DoJ is scrambling to make Jared’s middle eastern adventure legal.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:25:13am

re: #194 Dread Pirate

Let’s get the courts on that!!

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:30:28am

re: #194 Dread Pirate

WTF?

Barr is determined to turn the USA into a Putin-esque kleptocracy.

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Dread Pirate  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:32:15am

re: #197 Dr Lizardo

WTF?

Barr is determined to turn the USA into a Putin-esque kleptocracy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:33:49am

re: #194 Dread Pirate

In a rule that could have wide-reaching consequences, the Department of Justice recently issued a legal opinion that appears to exempt a Saudi-owned oil company’s lobbyists from registering under the Foreign Agents Registration Act

Will save a lot of his associates from having to lie.

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jaunte  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:38:34am

re: #194 Dread Pirate

Who doesn’t love a retroactive license to bribe?

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Dread Pirate  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:44:42am

ha ha ha

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Alephnaught  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:47:08am

re: #173 Eventual Carrion

I’ve only had one, and it defaults to the last programme upon switching on, so it’s just a case on switching on and pressing start…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:48:38am

re: #193 lawhawk

You know, there’s a reason that Gosar’s own siblings wrote their community telling them not to vote for Gosar for Congress.

That’s pretty harsh rebuke and speaks to the measure of the man. They found their own brother wanting. They wanted someone else representing their district - not their brother.

That seems highly relevant.

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:51:42am

re: #193 lawhawk

You know, there’s a reason that Gosar’s own siblings wrote their community telling them not to vote for Gosar for Congress.

That’s pretty harsh rebuke and speaks to the measure of the man. They found their own brother wanting. They wanted someone else representing their district - not their brother.

That seems highly relevant.

BTW, I can’t seem to call up the embed: what was it that prompted Chelsea’s (nice-as-always) burn on Paul Gosar?
I’m guessing, since it’s Gosar, that it was likely to have been stupidly offensive, or offensively stupid… or both..

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:53:46am

re: #204 Jay C

BTW, I can’t seem to call up the embed: what was it that prompted Chelsea’s (nice-as-always) burn on Paul Gosar?
I’m guessing, since it’s Gosar, that it was likely to have been stupidly offensive, or offensively stupid… or both..

Rep. Gosar sending up a 0:04 clip of a 60 Minutes production lamp falling and Bill Clinton diving across a sofa to shield her and pull her out of harm’s way as the lamp crashes where she was sitting.

He tagged it “the reason for the season” like a good Christian.

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Jay C  Dec 26, 2019 • 11:55:52am

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Rep. Gosar sending up a 0:04 clip of a 60 Minutes production lamp falling and Bill Clinton diving across a sofa to shield her and pull her out of harm’s way as the lamp crashes where she was sitting.

He tagged it “the reason for the season” like a good Christian.

Thanks. So just stupid, then…

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Dread Pirate  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:01:55pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:02:38pm
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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:04:46pm

re: #207 Dread Pirate

Zambia meddled in the 2016 election in three …

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:09:19pm

re: #206 Jay C

Thanks. So just stupid, then…

I wasn’t clear. In the clip, he’s pulling Hillary Clinton out of the way, not Chelsea Clinton (she wasn’t there).

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:13:05pm

So, I’m slow, but I’ve read around about the JK Rowling situation and judging by the fact that she follows some explicitly transphobic accounts and stands together with an anti-trans activist, she indeed holds at least some transphobic views. Bummer.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:18:21pm

re: #205 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Rep. Gosar sending up a 0:04 clip of a 60 Minutes production lamp falling and Bill Clinton diving across a sofa to shield her and pull her out of harm’s way as the lamp crashes where she was sitting.

He tagged it “the reason for the season” like a good Christian.

So Gosar tweeted a video on Xmas of Bill Clinton protecting Hillary from an accident as an insult?

Am I being denser than usual here, or am I risking brain injury trying to think like a conservative?

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:20:32pm

re: #211 Nyet

So, I’m slow, but I’ve read around about the JK Rowling situation and judging by the fact that she follows some explicitly transphobic accounts and stands together with an anti-trans activist, she indeed holds at least some transphobic views. Bummer.

Well, just following them wouldn’t necessarily mean anything. (For example, atheists tend to follow wingnut preachers on social media, because you need to know how they are thinking to protect yourself.)

Retweeting coded language from TERFs might not even necessarily mean she is one (that’s the point of culture jamming coded language).

However, when it was pointed out to her and she doubled down on her defence, that kind of made it apparent. She does not appear to believe all people should be treated on their merits, and the anti-scientific notion that gender must fit into one of two boxes that match your bits.

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retired cynic  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:21:11pm

re: #211 Nyet

So, I’m slow, but I’ve read around about the JK Rowling situation and judging by the fact that she follows some explicitly transphobic accounts and stands together with an anti-trans activist, she indeed holds at least some transphobic views. Bummer.

I am really sorry about that. I had thought her to be a woman of excellent sense. And had enjoyed all her writing, even as Robert Galbraith. Oh well… it is just too bad.

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:25:19pm

> (For example, atheists tend to follow wingnut preachers on social media, because you need to know how they are thinking to protect yourself

The comparison would only work if she followed more trans activists. Someone has done the research and she doesn’t appear to follow any.

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:30:12pm

One of the accs JKR follows. I’m hiding it because it can be traumatizing. (The author died in Sep. this year).

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William Lewis  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:33:41pm

So, photo stuff behind the lock if you’re interested.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:40:01pm

re: #213 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Well, just following them wouldn’t necessarily mean anything. (For example, atheists tend to follow wingnut preachers on social media, because you need to know how they are thinking to protect yourself.)

Retweeting coded language from TERFs might not even necessarily mean she is one (that’s the point of culture jamming coded language).

However, when it was pointed out to her and she doubled down on her defence, that kind of made it apparent. She does not appear to believe all people should be treated on their merits, and the anti-scientific notion that gender must fit into one of two boxes that match your bits.

Bits that can be removed or grown. GRS (forth coming) and estrodiol (breasts) so yeah, fuck her.

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:46:33pm

re: #216 Nyet

One of the accs JKR follows. I’m hiding it because it can be traumatizing. (The author died in Sep. this year).

Wholly crapballs.

Graham Lineham (who is in that thread) is a notorious homophobe as well.

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Nyet  Dec 26, 2019 • 12:51:58pm

re: #219 Anymouse 🌹🎃

That I don’t know, I’ve just read some lines by him that suggest he’s not, but maybe that’s not the whole picture.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:10:37pm

re: #212 Mattand

So Gosar tweeted a video on Xmas of Bill Clinton protecting Hillary from an accident as an insult?

Am I being denser than usual here, or am I risking brain injury trying to think like a conservative?

When the lamp falls, Hillary is heard shouting “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” the way some of us might yell “Oh shit!”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 26, 2019 • 1:29:21pm

re: #215 Nyet

> (For example, atheists tend to follow wingnut preachers on social media, because you need to know how they are thinking to protect yourself

The comparison would only work if she followed more trans activists. Someone has done the research and she doesn’t appear to follow any.

Same reason that I read newsmax.

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Mattand  Dec 26, 2019 • 2:00:41pm

re: #221 The Pie Overlord!

When the lamp falls, Hillary is heard shouting “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” the way some of us might yell “Oh shit!”

Lol, thanks for the reply, but I’m still not seeing why Godard thinks it’s an insult.


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