Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican, expressed his extreme discomfort with the way President Trump’s team treated Congresspeople in a briefing about the administration’s Iran strategy. #Monologue #LSSC #Colbert
Cl’d
If the articles are sent to the Senate next week, is the impeachment going to be finished before the State of the Union? My liver can’t take two hours of trump gloating.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
I doubt it. Pelosi I am sure is waiting until after SOTU to send them specifically to dent Trumps ego.
Worth re-posting again since he was a giant:
Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67
Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for Rush, died Tuesday, January 7th, in Santa Monica, California at age 67. The cause was brain cancer, which he had been quietly battling for three years, according to Elliot Mintz, a spokesperson for the Peart family. A representative for the band confirmed the news to Rolling Stone. rollingstone.com
:(
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
Cl’d
If the articles are sent to the Senate next week, is the impeachment going to be finished before the State of the Union? My liver can’t take two hours of trump gloating.
Hearing the Senate trial may take as little as 2 weeks, so if it starts around this time next week it will probably be done. I seriously doubt Mitch will allow it to go past the SOTU
2112 was one of those albums that you could not escape during my freshman year at Indiana University: you could walk down the halls of McNutt dormitory at any time of day or night and hear it playing behind some towel-stuffed door.
re: #64 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The fascists are gearing up for civil war in Virginia over gun control.
A huge grassroots movement against gun control has been spreading across Virginia. So far, it’s mainly been convered by conservative national news outlets. The rhetoric of some of the movement’s supporters is extreme. https://t.co/XP3qoiB1XX
— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) January 10, 2020
From last thread…
I suspect that this is more due to the ongoing demographic shift in Virginia than any actual firearms ownership issues.
The urban and suburban areas of Northern Virginia and the Tidewater regions have been rapidly growing. And the longtime power base of the rural areas is rapidly diminishing. Add to that the unpopularity of the current Trump administration and failure of the Republicans to actually govern (as opposed to fight a political and cultural war) in either the National or Virginia State governments for the past 20 years. The result has been the sweeping out and repudiation of the Republicans in Virginia.
The losers are panicking and trying a bunch of different tactics. The threat of physical violence is a traditional go-to in this state. It will be ‘interesting’ to see how this plays out.
Edit - Clarify that it is the Trump Administration who is unpopular.
re: #8 ckkatz
The fascists are gearing up for civil war in Virginia over gun control.
They love the 2nd Amendment except for that “well-regulated militia” part…
I was born in 1981, so Rush was JUST a little before my time. I still have great respect for their work regardless.
re: #4 KGxvi
Heh - I like the anime magical girl in the back…
And speaking of Archer, this clip is iconic:
Texas governor says state will not accept more refugees. #AmericaFirst https://t.co/QPwojiViGH
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 10, 2020
“Make Texas White Again!”
re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg
I was born in 1981, so Rush was JUST a little before my time. I still have great respect for their work regardless.
One of my friends is in a Rush tribute band. I heard the news from him. I feel sad for the loss.
re: #13 DodgerFan1988
According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Texas was:
White: 74.31%
Black or African American: 12.07%
Other race: 5.74%
Asian: 4.69%
Two or more races: 2.62%
Native American: 0.49%
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.08%
worldpopulationreview.com
74.31% not enough for Greg Abbott.
We could have built schools. Invested in growth, in veteran’s services, in parks.
But instead Republicans wanted a massive monument to how much they hate people.
What a fucking travesty.— Alex Wild (@Myrmecos) January 10, 2020
re: #8 ckkatz
From last thread…
I suspect that this is more due to the ongoing demographic shift in Virginia than any actual firearms ownership issues.
The urban and suburban areas of Northern Virginia and the Tidewater regions have been rapidly growing. And the longtime power base of the rural areas is rapidly diminishing. Add to that the unpopularity of the current Trump administration and failure of the Republicans to actually govern (as opposed to fight a political and cultural war) in either the National or Virginia State governments for the past 20 years. The result has been the sweeping out and repudiation of the Republicans in Virginia.
The losers are panicking and trying a bunch of different tactics. The threat of physical violence is a traditional go-to in this state. It will be ‘interesting’ to see how this plays out.
Edit - Clarify that it is the Trump Administration who is unpopular.
The VA GOP is suffering a slow death in this state, and it is entirely their own fault. Like a lot of states slowly changing from red to purple, the VA GOP only really retained any power through gerrymandering and even outright cheating when that didn’t work in their favor. They’ve made no real effort to moderate their stances or draw in new blood, it’s been totally about social warfare and racial dog whistles (“Southern heritage,” anybody?) when they’re not making empty promises about jobs and tax cuts.
Very cool, very normal:
An anti-Gov. Gretchen Whitmer group on Facebook devolved into a vile platform that promoted violence against Democrats and Muslims and churned out degrading comments about women.
But on Friday afternoon, the group’s creator deactivated the page in response to questions from Metro Times.
The public group, “People vs Gov. Gretchen Whitmer,” was rapidly growing, attracting nearly 9,000 conservatives of all kinds - elected officials, veterans, firefighters, law enforcement officers, educators, pastors, business owners, political candidates, militia members, blue-collar workers, and your garden variety trolls.
Metro Times identified dozens of recent posts promoting or threatening violence, primarily against Whitmer, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Elissa Slotkin, American Muslims, and Dearborn. Hundreds of comments were posted each day, and many included vulgar insults against women, Muslims, Democrats, and LGTBQ+ communities.
Tlaib, who is a Muslim American from Detroit, was a common target of the vitriol.
“She needs a bullet between her eyes,” Spencer Hayward wrote.
Carl Wilhelm Sr. posted, “How many teeth you figure you could knock out with one swipe with a baseball bat.”
Mike Nixon suggested, “set that bitch on fire.”
In an exchange about a photo showing Tlaib posing with the Palestinian flag, group members called for the congresswoman’s death.
“Die bitch,” Gerald Carter wrote.
Jeannie Percy added, “I wish someone would find this b**** in a dark alley.”
Tommy D’avignon followed up: “Death to this bitch and her voters.”
These are just a few examples of the hostile comments that fill the grammar-challenged page every day.
“We overflood them with imminent death threats, until it stops, one way or another,” Michael Dearing explained to the group.
The creator of the page, Charlie Gillett, admits the “group has spun out of control” and told Metro Times he shut down the page to avoid repercussions at his job as a machine tool electrician in Sterling Heights if his identity is revealed in this story. (He’s listed publicly as the administrator and creator of the page on Facebook.)
But Gillett had done little, if anything, to stop the threats and posts promoting violence, and blamed the anger on Democrats.
“People promote violence I can’t do anything to stop them. I can block them, ban them, report them but don’t matter,” Gillett told Metro Times in a statement. “Do I agree with it. Some of it no some of it yes. Do I think it gets to far yes most definitely. But for it to stop id have to shut the group down. Then where would people be able to have their voices be heard. Everyone has opinions and not everyone agrees with everyone’s point of view.”
Joshua Doan, who was the group’s co-administrator, told Metro Times he was recruited by Gillett to help launch the page and regrets getting involved. He said he wasn’t monitoring the page closely because his primary role was to get the page started.
“I do not support or align with those people in the group,” Doan said. “The only reason I am an admin is to clean it up. I may not be doing the best job. But I am doing the best I can with the time I have. The group is not a very big focus point in my life.”
On Thursday evening, Doan alerted the group that he would remove racist and threatening posts, which incensed group members.
“Where can I join a militia?” Stacie Rose Laesch responded.
A member provided an email address.
By Friday morning, Doan said Gillett removed him as an administrator, giving him no control to delete threats as they continued to stream in.
“It’s so awful,” Doan told Metro Times. “These people are so scared and uneducated.” [article continues—does not get better]
re: #15 jaunte
74.31% not enough for Greg Abbott.
How does this table deal with “Hispanic” identification? Usually US ethnic-breakdown charts specify “non-Hispanic White” (to classify the caucasians), and “Hispanic (any race)” to differentiate. One would think this would be a big issue in Texas.
Never mind: Wiki has a (sort-of) answer, as usual:
According to the 2010 United States census, the racial composition of Texas was the following:[217]
White American 70.4 percent (Non-Hispanic whites 45.3 percent)
Black or African American: 11.8 percent
American Indian: 0.7 percent
Asian: 3.8 percent (1.0 percent Indian, 0.8 percent Vietnamese, 0.6 percent Chinese, 0.4 percent Filipino, 0.3 percent Korean, 0.1 percent Japanese, 0.6 percent other Asian)
Pacific Islander: 0.1 percent
Some other race: 10.5 percent
Two or more races: 2.7 percent
re: #16 jaunte
That fence doesn’t look like much of a challenge for someone determined enough.
re: #13 DodgerFan1988
Somebody should roll his ass into the Rio Grande. What a piece of human garbage.
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes, it’s just a huge waste of money on a symbolic bigoted campaign promise.
re: #21 Amory Blaine
And Laura too. Look at her hashtag.
My 18yo is burning down the house making dinner for us tonight.
When I saw “Gaddafi” trending on Twitter I knew I’d end up slapping my forehead.
Forehead status: slapped.
re: #8 ckkatz
From last thread…
I suspect that this is more due to the ongoing demographic shift in Virginia than any actual firearms ownership issues.
The urban and suburban areas of Northern Virginia and the Tidewater regions have been rapidly growing. And the longtime power base of the rural areas is rapidly diminishing. Add to that the unpopularity of the current Trump administration and failure of the Republicans to actually govern (as opposed to fight a political and cultural war) in either the National or Virginia State governments for the past 20 years. The result has been the sweeping out and repudiation of the Republicans in Virginia.
The losers are panicking and trying a bunch of different tactics. The threat of physical violence is a traditional go-to in this state. It will be ‘interesting’ to see how this plays out.
Edit - Clarify that it is the Trump Administration who is unpopular.
Nothing says ‘guns are good and we should be allowed more of them forever’ than threatening violence and civil war. It really shows that these valiant ‘gun advocates’ truly should be trusted to be gun owners.
re: #3 Dr. Matt
Worth re-posting again since he was a giant:
:(
Friend of mine used to work for Eliot; back in the day, at Rogers & Cowan, he was known as “The Beast.” Ever seen the movie “Swimming with Sharks” ?
Yeah, like that.
Still, we got to see the Rolling Stones, Rush, Janet Jackson & other acts backstage, during their sound checks & etc.
Didn’t suck.
Peart was like a lot of other drummers. Intense, but polite, reserving his energy because he’d need it all that night.
He will be missed.
re: #27 Citizen K
Nothing says ‘guns are good and we should be allowed more of them forever’ than threatening violence and civil war. It really shows that these valiant ‘gun advocates’ truly should be trusted to be gun owners.
That’s why they are properly called ‘gun nuts’.
Any reasonable psych evaluation would bar at least 3/4 of these second amendment worshippers from owning guns. That’s one of the main reasons the NRA et al., always oppose such evaluations — they know their membership would be disproportionally affected. Ditto with the red flag laws (e.g., banning gun ownership after conviction on a domestic violence charge).
re: #18 Barefoot Grin
Very cool, very normal:
“It’s so awful,” Doan told Metro Times. “These people are so scared and uneducated.” [article continues—does not get better]
Shorter: violent dumbfucks get together online to scream at each other.
Reminds me of the white power gangs in prisons, adorning themselves with swastikas & skulls. They desperately want to align themselves with something powerful & scary, because they are the most disempowered men in our society.
Dunno if y’all have seen this story from Nicholas Kristof about the Knapp family in Oregon.
It’s a fucking doozy.
He goes back to his roots and traces what happened to a white working-class family in a place not all the distinct from where I grew up.
“… today about one-quarter of the children on that No. 6 bus are dead, mostly from drugs, suicide, alcohol or reckless accidents. Of the five Knapp kids who had once been so cheery, Farlan died of liver failure from drink and drugs, Zealan burned to death in a house fire while passed out drunk, Rogena died from hepatitis linked to drug use and Nathan blew himself up cooking meth. Keylan survived partly because he spent 13 years in a state penitentiary.
Among other kids on the bus, Mike died from suicide, Steve from the aftermath of a motorcycle accident, Cindy from depression and a heart attack, Jeff from a daredevil car crash, Billy from diabetes in prison, Kevin from obesity-related ailments, Tim from a construction accident, Sue from undetermined causes. And then there’s Chris, who is presumed dead after years of alcoholism and homelessness. At least one more is in prison, and another is homeless.”
So yeah, like my relatives in Northern Wisconsin, these are people who are deeply, deeply fucked. They are too stupid to figure out that the shysters & con men they’ve been voting for for 40-odd years so far are the ones that have been fucking them up the ass.
They just know that they’re fucked, and they’re casting about for causes. Mexicans and liberals is what Fox News tells them, and everybody in their threadbare and shitty churches nods & agrees with this assessment.
So they voted for Trump, as a kind of “Hail-Mary Pass,” hoping that this would somehow bring back the union jobs and small town hardware stores that used to provide them with a decent living.
Part of me is so fucking angry that I just want them all to die.
They are obligingly poisoning themselves to early graves, and I’m not sure how to feel about this.
re: #31 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Wow, that’s an amazing article. Big money quote highlighted:
Even in this presidential campaign, the unraveling of working-class communities receives little attention. There is talk about the middle class, but very little about the working class; we discuss college access but not the one in seven children who don’t graduate from high school. America is like a boat that is half-capsized, but those partying above water seem oblivious.
re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg
Wow, that’s an amazing article. Big money quote highlighted:
Even in this presidential campaign, the unraveling of working-class communities receives little attention. There is talk about the middle class, but very little about the working class; we discuss college access but not the one in seven children who don’t graduate from high school. America is like a boat that is half-capsized, but those partying above water seem oblivious.
Yeah, that hit me too.
I read the obits and I keep seeing names of people I went to school with, blowing their heads off, or dying of untreated diabetes/liver failure/kidney, all brought on by numbing themselves off to the hellscape that is Reagan’s America.
That’s when it all started. Back in the 80s.
Thank you Stephen Kang! https://t.co/I2eGiG0zoA
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 10, 2020
This bullying declaration of friendship makes sense now pic.twitter.com/jl930anGYT
— Patrick Skinner (@SkinnerPm) January 11, 2020
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
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Respecting a “Sovereign state of Iraq” means when they ask us to leave, we leave. If we say no, that means we don’t see them as sovereign.
re: #15 jaunte
74.31% not enough for Greg Abbott.
A hefty percentage of that “white” would be “hispanic” because nonhispanic whites are a minority in Texas now.
The fuck is she sticking in that thing?
““It’s a blend of geranium, citrusy bergamot, and cedar absolutes juxtaposed with Damask rose and ambrette seed that puts us in mind of fantasy, seduction, and a sophisticated warmth.”” https://t.co/uyHgqWc30W— xsyntryk (@xsyntryk1) January 11, 2020
re: #37 goddamnedfrank
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I must admit, I’m a little put off by any official statement-of-policy that feels it has to start off with the flat declaration: “America is a force for good in the Middle East”. Although I’m sure its authors would take it as a sign of hopeless disloyalty to describe this self-serving boilerplate as “assuming facts not in evidence”….
re: #41 Jay C
I must admit, I’m a little put off by any official statement-of-policy that feels it has to start off with the flat declaration: “America is a force for good in the Middle East”. Although I’m sure its authors would take it as a sign of hopeless disloyalty to describe this self-serving boilerplate as “assuming facts not in evidence”….
Echoes of that awful “Project for a New American Century” still linger, mainly because Trump has surrounded himself with the same GOP shitbirds that produced that earlier bit of crap and then went to war in Iraq when they got so jaded from their various perversions that they needed a new source of gratification.
Moved to Saudi Arabia https://t.co/HP93dJZbSJ
— WoodMac Oil Price (@WMALHittle) January 10, 2020
The Secretary of State gets owned by Webster’s Dictionary. https://t.co/4HpZvhTuBM
— Hieronymus McGillicuddy (@HieronymusMcG) January 10, 2020
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Insane twist: A copy of the letter G/O Media sent to staff blasting the union today accidentally disclosed salary information for the company’s HR chief https://t.co/SDg8LYDvxO
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) January 11, 2020
The sheer level of incompetence here is just breathtaking.
Between January 1, 2010 and the end of 2014, the phrase “deep state” appeared in tweets with >100 likes exactly 3 times, 2 of them were about a “deep state of grief.” The other was a reference to Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/IoM7RmpQbY
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) January 11, 2020
Between 1/1/2016 and 11/1/2016 there were 14 tweets that used the phrase “deep state” and got more than 100 likes. Almost all of the tweets were about Pakistan or Turkey, with the exception of this from Michael Tracey (no comment). pic.twitter.com/gqklVEyfAy
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) January 11, 2020
You’ll note how it went from the Infowars fringe to close Trump surrogates, to his son, to Trump himself in a matter of just a few months. pic.twitter.com/lYunvgtWb4
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) January 11, 2020
Yeah, Fox News hasn’t been awful enough lately.
New: Allies of President Trump are pursuing an effort to acquire right-leaning news channel One America News Network, according to people familiar with the matter, in a bid to shake up a conservative media market that has been dominated by Fox News. https://t.co/oE4M52Yg4q
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 10, 2020
Quotes from the movie Jaws in which shark is replaced by Jimmy Page.
re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
2112 was one of those albums that you could not escape during my freshman year at Indiana University: you could walk down the halls of McNutt dormitory at any time of day or night and hear it playing behind some towel-stuffed door.
2112 was the number of my cubicle in law school. I thought it was prophetic.
Even worse… it was _obvious_ bullshit. Nobody should ever have fallen for it. https://t.co/K42Lw8Y1Ws
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2020
re: #20 Eclectic Cyborg
The fence is ready made building material for determined adversaries with cutting tools
Forget about a debate - I’d pay big bucks to see a fencing match between you and Ben Shapiro.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2020
Bravely venturing into the lion’s den, eh Gramps? https://t.co/EAji0i3cwE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2020
re: #55 Charles Johnson
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I find it hilarious that Ben appointed himself an arbitrator of what men and women should and not be. He’s so pathetically reactionary.
re: #56 Charles Johnson
I heard a clip from this. Now it’s four embassies that he believes were going to be attacked.
My new favorite web extension (after the one I’m developing, of course). Makes opening new tabs fun. https://t.co/Rxvcl329Vw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 11, 2020
Oh, speaking of the 288 Planar monitors, currently configured into eight “Fox Business” screens. I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE PISSED OFF. Other techs hate it and not just because it’s “Fox Business.” (Although!!! that is part of it.) It’s because the screen constantly flickers with all the camera changes. I’m hoping we can get that changed Monday if it’s still there. Just turning it off is acceptable until they get up the actual monitoring stuff up there.
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re: #52 mmmirele
2112 was the number of my cubicle in law school. I thought it was prophetic.
Not to brag, but I wrote much of my dissertation in a room in what had been McNutt dormitory at IU when it had been converted into extra office space. An administrative secretary gave me a key. At the end I was the only one in the building as workers were stripping everything out. Wendell is the Alpha; I the Omega.
re: #46 gocart mozart
All that juicy data, missing from the Iowa nazis charts today.
re: #16 jaunte
Not just hate.
It’s fear.
It’s absolute fear that nonwhites may have power in the US.
It’s fear that white guys will be in the minority at some point in the future.
It’s about angry white guys so fearful that they will hold on to power at all costs, even lying to themselves and everyone around them about their intentions.
And lest we forget, the wall works to keep those who are here illegally inside the US. They can’t cross back. And the wall doesn’t address the millions who overstay visas after entering the country lawfully.
Subtle https://t.co/qkN7BfkKnZ
— Allison F.🦉 (@ablington) January 11, 2020
re: #67 Amory Blaine
(a Picasso or a Garfunkel)
We’ve lost a legend. But his influence and legacy will live on forever in the hearts of music lovers in Canada and around the world. RIP Neil Peart. 🇨🇦
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) January 11, 2020
re: #65 lawhawk
A wall never stopped an employer from hiring an undocumented worker in his office.
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re: #71 Rightwingconspirator
A wall never stopped an employer from hiring an undocumented worker in his office.
It’s crude but there is an old saying in the intelligence community that there is no border that can’t be wet backed…
Caramel coconut Oreos are pretty damn good. re: #72 bratwurst
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re: #74 Shropshire Slasher
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What finally forced my hand and made me go in for a sleep study:
A new study has revealed that people with obstructive sleep apnea or those who snore at night are more at risk of dementias and Alzheimer’s disease. It has been noted that these individuals may have a high accumulation of the toxic protein tau in their brains. The area involved in these depositions is usually the one which is vital for memory, time perception and navigation.
re: #75 bratwurst
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re: #75 bratwurst
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re: #78 calochortus
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re: #79 retired cynic
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I was just reading a silly comedy article, and had a epiphany.
It’s been six months. Six months since Donald Trump threw a fit over wanting to BUY F*ING GREENLAND.And I completely forgot about it. In six months. Any other administration, this would be a defining source of ridicule. Now, it’s just, oh yeah- he tried to do that.Shameful. https://t.co/YeGFBD38xk
— Uriel (@sickendun2death) January 11, 2020
re: #39 NO SMOCKING GUN!
A hefty percentage of that “white” would be “hispanic” because nonhispanic whites are a minority in Texas now.
Non-Hispanic whites are a plurality, not a minority. Slight difference. And there’s enough white hispanics who relate more to the “white” than “Hispanic” part of their ethnic identity that it is probably still a functional majority
Gigantic implication of reported #Shahlai operation:
Says this was connected to Saudi war in #Yemen.
What on earth is the legal authority for that?
Not the #2002AUMF for Iraq.
Not the 2001AUMF for September 11.
No authority to use force against Houthis let alone Iran there. https://t.co/8tMl2K2K5s— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) January 10, 2020
Is there a missing War Powers Report for the #Shahlai strike?
Read the Department of Defense’s letter to Congress in 2018 which suggests this kind of action would trigger the reporting requirement under the #WarPowersResolution.
cc: @oonahathaway https://t.co/CgIt0nw6n4— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) January 10, 2020
re: #77 retired cynic
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re: #84 bratwurst
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re: #84 bratwurst
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re: #72 bratwurst
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JFC, he just can’t quit the war crimes, can he?
pic.twitter.com/o6rHQ9gG7L— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 11, 2020
🚨 On Inside the Hive this week @gabrielsherman tells this short hilarious and sad story about Trump that pretty much sums up his presidency. 🚨 https://t.co/wCWIPNRYO1 pic.twitter.com/Nv6EpUo01J
— Nick Bilton (@nickbilton) January 10, 2020
re: #88 jaunte
In an interview with @IngrahamAngle, President Trump refers to U.S. troops as “my troops.”
(“I moved my troops out of Syria — on the border between Turkey and Syria.”)— David Gura (@davidgura) January 11, 2020
Hi.
My wife says if she had designed a Website as poorly as the Illinois Tollway system, she’d have been fired on the spot. (It employs what I call “user antagonistic” elements.)
Leaving Chicago, because of poor signage, I missed the toll plaza leaving I-294 shortly after entering I-88 West. (I wound up blowing through the EZ-Pass lane.)
At the next toll plaza, I told the toll collector I’d missed the previous plaza, and she handed me an instruction form on how to redeem the toll I did not pay. It recommended using the accursed Website, but also offered a form to fill in giving the details of your registration, time, &c so you could mail the toll.
So today I wrote a giant $1.50 cheque and put it in the mail.
I’m still recovering from the flu.
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You mean Us troops are now mercenaries? https://t.co/KaRO4rWQHs
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) January 11, 2020
#Russia deploys MSTA-SM1 152mm Self propelled guns to Bryansk, close to both #Belarus and #Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/j4pbqLNRhV
— Petri Mäkelä (@pmakela1) January 10, 2020
re: #84 bratwurst
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Robert Henderson (Christian pastor) Claims God Told Him to be Trump’s “Spiritual” Running Mate (goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for coarse language in the video and comments, 12:28)
He says God came to him in three dreams to be on Trump’s “spiritual cabinet” on Jim Bakker’s show. In the third dream he claims Trump wants him to be his running mate for 2020 (I imagine that will piss off Mike Pence).
Oh?
BREAKING (@AP): Iranian state TV, citing a military statement, says the country ‘unintentionally’ shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 aboard. Story to follow shortly. #Denver7
— Denver7 News (@DenverChannel) January 11, 2020
re: #96 teleskiguy
Oh?
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It’s official: the Iranian government is more honest than Trump.
Long live the Deep State https://t.co/He0XnVnrv4
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) January 11, 2020
re: #72 bratwurst
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re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Robert Henderson (Christian pastor) Claims God Told Him to be Trump’s “Spiritual” Running Mate (goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for coarse language in the video and comments, 12:28)
He says God came to him in three dreams to be on Trump’s “spiritual cabinet” on Jim Bakker’s show. In the third dream he claims Trump wants him to be his running mate for 2020 (I imagine that will piss off Mike Pence).
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The Courts of Heaven operate similar to the legal system we see on Earth.
Because of all the injustices happening in the world, God is releasing new revelation about gaining justice through the Courts of Heaven. The Cross of Christ is our verdict but there are times we need to enforce this by entering into the justice system of God. We operate in the Courts of Heaven through prayer and an intimate relationship with the Lord.
And just like here on Earth, there is more than one type of court in the Courts of Heaven. You might be wondering: which ones are accessible to us?
Anyway, Henderson, Addison and the rest have created their own version of human legal courts, and they’ll sell you ways to work those courts to our favor. (Henderson’s got a raft of books, Addison will sell you how to become your own prophet.) It’s all magical mumbo jumbo. And yes, I know that religion in general can be called magical mumbo jumbo, but the *irony* of this is how these very same people will tell you how the Bible is inerrant but in the next minute they’re talking about an elaborate system of courts of heaven that can’t even be found in the book they claim is without error and complete. *sigh* Might as well get my chakras scanned.
re: #95 Anymouse 🌹🎃
Robert Henderson (Christian pastor) Claims God Told Him to be Trump’s “Spiritual” Running Mate (goes to Utah Outcasts, caution for coarse language in the video and comments, 12:28)
He says God came to him in three dreams to be on Trump’s “spiritual cabinet” on Jim Bakker’s show. In the third dream he claims Trump wants him to be his running mate for 2020 (I imagine that will piss off Mike Pence).
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Well I said Beetlejuice 3 times and a weird dude showed up and said “Fuck Robert Henderson”.
Putin’s not going to like this. He probably would have preferred continued denial, to make Russia’s refusal to take responsibility for shooting down MH17 the new normal
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 11, 2020
re: #100 mmmirele
The Courts of Heaven?
What does it take to be admitted to God’s BAR?
You’re right, to me it all looks like mumbo-jumbo.
So it’s possible Jupiter is being a dick
Note to self: Don’t take lotto tickets out-of-state. The magic winnings are discharged at the state line. (I had two tickets, they won nothing.)
re: #108 Dread Pirate
I just wish it could learn to aim.
Trump getting obliterated by a small meteorite would be very appropriate.
Every word out of his mouth, including “a” and “the,” is a lie https://t.co/T2JUNSKIJ7
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 11, 2020
Trump tells Fox that he would consider invoking executive privilege to block John Bolton’s testimony before the Senate “for the sake of the cover-up.” https://t.co/OMzZZaJd3e
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) January 11, 2020
The Trump administration reportedly concedes it removed defenses from the Iraqi base housing U.S. troops, which came under fire this week, to protect Saudi installations. Did it prioritize the Saudis over U.S. and Iraqi forces? https://t.co/PcSGiEyJu2
— National Security Action (@natsecaction) January 10, 2020
re: #112 jaunte
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The call was “perfect” and totally legal…but you can’t see the transcript.
Everybody who listened in says nothing illegal happened…but you can’t talk to them.
And all the documentation will prove that everything was on the level…but you can’t read it.
Why? Because Democrats have hurt his feelings by not bending the knee.
re: #98 Dread Pirate
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 11, 2020
re: #113 Dread Pirate
Yes. And they also wouldn’t have minded if a few of the troops had gotten killed by the missiles because they would have used that as an excuse for attacks on Iran.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) January 11, 2020
Dad crossed over the Rainbow Bridge 18 years ago yesterday. Just been down in the dumps thinking about Dad. Oh if he was still around he’d be out in the streets marching against The Heinous Anus.
Sunday the 12th will be a hard day to get thru because that was the day of Pop’s funeral while a dysfunctional family feud was well underway. That day was the last time I walked all around my home town because I knew it would be the last time I would ever be there…
Today been remembering the Raggedy Ann and Andy bedtime story Dad would tell me when I was ill as a kid. If only I had a tape recorder going when he told it…
I know which side I’d put money on.
If Quds force was truly planning attacks on 4 US embassies, Iran was essentially preparing for war with the United States.
If not, Trump is fabricating peril to US diplomats in effort to prop up rationale for Soleimani strike. https://t.co/3uq3m1uqqV— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) January 11, 2020
re: #117 Joe Bacon 🌹
{{{JoeBacon}}} It’s tough. This coming week is my least favorite too. Mom died on Jan. 13th and Dad on the 17th (though 18 and 29 years ago respectively.) It’s still hard, though better than it used to be.
re: #117 Joe Bacon 🌹
28 years since my dad passed. Christian church wouldn’t allow service because he died of AIDS.
re: #117 Joe Bacon 🌹
I’m sorry for your loss.
re: #119 calochortus
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re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🎃
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And it’s time for me to head to bed.
Hasta mañana, all.
re: #124 Joe Bacon 🌹
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What is with people re-timing music clips to “natural” middle A, 432hz?
Meanwhile Iran turns a decent global PR hand (given the terrorist and equally criminal nature of Soleimani’s entire oeuvre, which is honestly the kindest way to put it) into a horrible debacle because their civilian air grid and defense grid can’t communicate for shit in a crisis
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) January 11, 2020
re: #128 Dread Pirate
What is with people re-timing music clips to “natural” middle A, 432hz?
There is a huge and dumb conspiracy theory surrounding A=432 cycles, involving Nazis (no), New Age “natural vibrations” (no) and a whole host of other crap.
If you Google “432 Hz”, you will find a tremendous number of articles and YouTube videos about the tuning A = 432 Hz and its presumed healing and soothing properties. If you dig a little bit deeper, you will also find an “explanation” of this phenomenon. Presumably, the 432 Hz tuning is in some way tuned to the vibrations of nature itself, whereas the 440 Hz tuning was introduced by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda.
Yes, that’s right. There are millions of people in the world who believe that Goebbels introduced the tuning to make people feel more anxious.
An article on this fascinating bit of nonsense and how it came about:
The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory (goes to Jakob Marian’s mathematics, physics, and music blog)
re: #72 bratwurst
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“Presumably, the 432 Hz tuning is in some way tuned to the vibrations of nature itself, whereas the 440 Hz tuning was introduced by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda.”
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🎃
More proof that people have been dumbed down to believe any asinine conspiracy theory…
re: #134 Joe Bacon 🌹
More proof that people have been dumbed down to believe any asinine conspiracy theory…
Now, why should 432 Hz be so great? According to proponents of the theory, the number 432 has special properties. And, indeed, it is an interesting number. It is a sum of four consecutive primes: 103 + 107 + 109 + 113. It is exactly three gross, where gross = 144 is a traditional unit. An equilateral triangle whose area and perimeter are equal has the area of exactly the square root of 432.
Then you will find many mystical arguments, such that there are 432 Buddha statues on Mount Meru, or that it is somehow related to the location of chakras. There is even a claim that scientists at Nike found out that the best golf balls have 432 dimples…
The best part debunking the 432 cycle assertion being “spiritual”:
However, in the 1940s, scientists discovered that the speed of rotation of the Earth is not constant (due to various tidal effects), and the second was eventually redefined as “the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom”.
So, yeah. The 432 Hz tuning, the divine tuning of nature itself, is ultimately defined as one vibration per 21279240.2083 periods of radiation of an uncommon chemical element. Very spiritual, indeed.
I Had to repost this, needed a good laugh today! 😹pic.twitter.com/ApZnDg9QWs
— 🍃🌺🍃ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ🍃🌺🍃 (@LepapillonBlu) January 10, 2020
Ted Yoder beat me and won at the 2010 National Hammered Dulcimer Competition (I came in seventh). I presume it’s because he tunes his dulcimers to A4=432 cycles.
That obviously lulled the judges. /s
(No seriously, he is way better than me and deserved to win. That and his dulcimer cost more than my house.)
I’m off to bed.
Hopefully tomorrow I’ll start feeling better.
G’night y’all
Trump allies get that it’s important to the Trump movement that Trump be the major source of information about Trump. https://t.co/SGYk9QOar4
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 11, 2020
A portrait of two countries. This is why I remain Canadian after 60 years in the USA. You have always been like this. You will never change. I’m sorry.
Trump considering dramatic expansion of travel ban: Report https://t.co/jEIxeBSYNb pic.twitter.com/5aEpov19f6
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) January 11, 2020
Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump order https://t.co/Fkgq9THZR0
— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) January 11, 2020
138 of the 176 passengers who died were bound for Canada. 138. https://t.co/QFBrTW4qpr
— Rosemary Barton (@RosieBarton) January 8, 2020
Canada announces formation of International Coordination and Response Group for families of victims of PS752 https://t.co/xXTohM2mmA
— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) January 10, 2020
re: #93 Dread Pirate
Maybe gearing up for a spring offensive?
re: #145 Dread Pirate
As far as Texas goes, in a more sane era, Abbot would be told to shut the fuck up because it’s not his decision to make. And if he doesn’t like hearing that, then he can go pound sand.
i think trump will fade away, but not through any virtuous realizations by the supporters that he has left, but because he is fated to become boring and ridiculous
trump’s fake news, his bullying tactics, his transgressive thrills, his childish insults, these are cheap junkie highs that lose their effect with repetition and overuse
the real dangers are the mcconnells, who don’t shock or thrill, but smoothly implement the wishes of the wealthy criminals with as little fuss as possible…
Good to see that Iran fessed up - a lot of people (here and elsewhere) correctly recognized that it was an accidental shootdown, and most likely caused by a lack of communication between ATC at Khomeini International Airport and Iranian air defense forces.
To this day, the Russians refuse to acknowledge they accidentally shot down Malaysian Airlines #17.
re: #147 Dr Lizardo
As far as Texas goes, in a more sane era, Abbot would be told to shut the fuck up because it’s not his decision to make. And if he doesn’t like hearing that, then he can go pound sand.
You won’t get sanity or reflection out of him. Abbot is insane. He believes he was installed by god and he’s got a cat-like reflex aversion to doing anything for common good. Think of him as Mike Pence buzzing hard on Red Bull & vodka. I’m surprised he doesn’t suggest giving kids guns to solve school shootings. Or maybe he has already, I can’t remember, he’s said so much insane, vicious, head-injury-or-drug-addict-I-can’t-really-tell crap in the last five years. He’s one of the reasons I didn’t have any qualms about leaving Texas.
re: #150 Pawn of the Oppressor
From everything I can gather, Abbot is a bona fide crackpot. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that in the end, sanity will prevail.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🎃
There is a huge and dumb conspiracy theory surrounding A=432 cycles, involving Nazis (no), New Age “natural vibrations” (no) and a whole host of other crap.
Well, that’s not crazy at all.
Not one bit.
re: #96 teleskiguy
BREAKING (@AP): Iranian state TV, citing a military statement, says the country ‘unintentionally’ shot down a Ukrainian jetliner, killing all 176 aboard. Story to follow shortly. #Denver7
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I didn’t expect this to happen: they were “sanitizing” the scene for days and have now admitted they were flat out lying. They kinda sorta blame the crew for “turning towards a sensitive military center”, as well as US adventurism, but the Iranian president and military apologized.
This is a good thing: otherwise it would be a constant open sore like MH17. Now the families don’t have to live through a neverending political nightmare.
re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
i think trump will fade away, but not through any virtuous realizations by the supporters that he has left, but because he is fated to become boring and ridiculous
My guess is that there will be a significant anti-Trump vote due not because of his crimes or fuckups or evil policies, but because they’re just sick of the fucking constant drama.
This also leads into my little theory of why support for Biden is higher than most people thought: because he looks like the guy who will take care of business and not screw with everything, so the country can take a goddamn breather and not have to think about the fucking President every twenty minutes.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🎃
There is a huge and dumb conspiracy theory surrounding A=432 cycles, involving Nazis (no), New Age “natural vibrations” (no) and a whole host of other crap.
An article on this fascinating bit of nonsense and how it came about:
The “432 Hz vs. 440 Hz” conspiracy theory (goes to Jakob Marian’s mathematics, physics, and music blog)
mi contra fa diabolus est in musica
re: #84 bratwurst
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re: #160 Targetpractice
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
re: #155 ericblair
Unfortunately I think that we need a Democrat in charge that *will* mess with things. A lot of damage needs undone, and also there’s a lot to fix that the current administration has made clear needs to be adjusted at a minimum.
And a “we can work together” approach like Biden seems to be basing his campaign on will result in the GOP entrenching all their gains as the new normal.
re: #130 Anymouse 🌹🎃
The article doesn’t mention this, but it was in fact one of Lyndon LaRouche’s pet theories, which he also used as a tool to recruit unsuspecting musicians into his movement(s).
It’s actually typical of the way many cult theories/movements operate: starting with some facts or intuitions that may or may not be valid, at least partly (there *are* good historic and aesthetic arguments for a slightly lower pitch, one of these being the lesser strain on classical singers’ voices), they build an all-encompassing, all-or-nothing, with-us-or-against-us system: the LaRouche movement went as far as to promote a bill in Italy that would have mandated what they call the “Verdi pitch” for all State-sponsored musicians and orchestras, with hefty fines for “offenders” and even the confiscation by law enforcement of all “non-Verdi” tuning forks… The way tuning evolved through centuries (and the fact that it became more or less fixed at A=440Hz only recently) actually makes a case for diversity and case-by-case experimentation, for greater creative freedom - performers could choose the “best” pitch for their particular interpretation of a piece, specific orchestras could adopt a slightly lower or higher pitch depending on the mix of color and brilliance they want to achieve. Instead, conspiracy theorists advocate for a totalitarian solution mandating a “natural” pitch (arbitrary at best) for all, and backing it up with loads of pseudo-science and numerology.
#FilmsForRepublicans
Kentucky Fried Chickenshit Movie
A biopic on the life of @senatemajldr pic.twitter.com/q3B3UyVijk— VoteBluetoSaveAmerica (@RockvilleSue51) January 11, 2020
Interesting map of temperature anomalies here in Europe:
It’s been a pretty mild winter so far, at least in my region of Moravian Silesia.
Older Czech students of mine - people now in their late 50s to early 60s - have certainly noticed the difference between now and the winters of their childhood, when heavy snow and quite cold temperatures here the region were very much the norm during the winter.
Lyndon La Rouche proved my theory a person couldn’t do enough drugs to believe him so he had to be insane. OK maybe I proved that theory through experimentation on myself, but it still holds up. I should get a masters degree for my work.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s I looked forward to presidential elections just for the unhinged Lyndon Larouche campaign address on public television.
re: #162 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Unfortunately I think that we need a Democrat in charge that *will* mess with things. A lot of damage needs undone, and also there’s a lot to fix that the current administration has made clear needs to be adjusted at a minimum.
And a “we can work together” approach like Biden seems to be basing his campaign on will result in the GOP entrenching all their gains as the new normal.
Maybe, but I think there’s a significant portion of the electorate that just wants politics to go away for a while.
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Good to see that Iran fessed up - a lot of people (here and elsewhere) correctly recognized that it was an accidental shootdown, and most likely caused by a lack of communication between ATC at Khomeini International Airport and Iranian air defense forces.
To this day, the Russians refuse to acknowledge they accidentally shot down Malaysian Airlines #17.
The Iranian government may have figured that the jig was up:
Source in the Ukrainian investigation commission says found direct evidence of #PS752 shootdown by missile about 10PM yesterday. It was a fragment of the cockpit with visible missile damage. TOR-1 struck the plane right below the cockpit, source says. https://t.co/ZllMHMZn0c
— Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) January 11, 2020
I assume that the aviation minister and a few others will be underbussed.
re: #62 Barefoot Grin
Not to brag, but I wrote much of my dissertation in a room in what had been McNutt dormitory at IU when it had been converted into extra office space. An administrative secretary gave me a key. At the end I was the only one in the building as workers were stripping everything out. Wendell is the Alpha; I the Omega.
Somewhere under those layers of paint are my Hare Krishna and Quah murals
re: #100 mmmirele
The Courts of Heaven operate similar to the legal system we see on Earth.
see also: Sharia
re: #149 Dr Lizardo
Good to see that Iran fessed up - a lot of people (here and elsewhere) correctly recognized that it was an accidental shootdown, and most likely caused by a lack of communication between ATC at Khomeini International Airport and Iranian air defense forces.
To this day, the Russians refuse to acknowledge they accidentally shot down Malaysian Airlines #17.
Because the Iranians had a legitimate excuse, while there was no reason for Russian missiles to have been in the vicinity of the flight path of Malaysian Airlines flight 17.
re: #154 Dread Pirate
Alice Cooper: I Love the Dead
This was also among the first albums I bought when I got my first Radio Shack stereo record player for Christmas of 1972.
re: #166 Dread Pirate
Lyndon La Rouche proved my theory a person couldn’t do enough drugs to believe him so he had to be insane. OK maybe I proved that theory through experimentation on myself, but it still holds up. I should get a masters degree for my work.
He dates back to before the days of the Internet CT.
I have now caught up with the thread and am going out for a walk.
You may continue.
re: #169 ericblair
The Iranian government may have figured that the jig was up:
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I assume that the aviation minister and a few others will be underbussed.
I’d imagine a few people are for the chop - hopefully, metaphorically, not literally. But if some folks get jail time over this (the local equivalent of involuntary manslaughter and/or negligent homicide), it would probably end up with Iran looking pretty good in the eyes of a lot of people, East or West.
re: #165 Dr Lizardo
Interesting map of temperature anomalies here in Europe:
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It’s been a pretty mild winter so far, at least in my region of Moravian Silesia.
Older Czech students of mine - people now in their late 50s to early 60s - have certainly noticed the difference between now and the winters of their childhood, when heavy snow and quite cold temperatures here the region were very much the norm during the winter.
I’ve noticed the marked differences, and I’m in my late 40’s. It used to be really cold and this time of year, you always had a couple of inches of snow outside when I was a kid. This year? Occasional powderings which melt away during daytime. And I live in a +4°C zone, not a +10°C one.
But yet, GloBULL warning is a lieBULLar kkkonspiracee to tejk or freedumbs!
re: #177 Teukka
I’ve noticed the marked differences, and I’m in my late 40’s. It used to be really cold and this time of year, you always had a couple of inches of snow outside when I was a kid. This year? Occasional powderings which melt away during daytime.
The only snowfall we’ve had here in Ostrava thus far melted away in about 24 hours.
I seem to recall that 2010/11 was the last “white Christmas” we had in Germany and the last time we had snowfall that lasted fore than a few days.
(I am going out for my walk now, promise!)
re: #167 Dread Pirate
Back in the 1970s and 1980s I looked forward to presidential elections just for the unhinged Lyndon Larouche campaign address on public television.
And the less insane Pat Paulsen
Let’s hope for a smooth power transition.
Oman has announced culture minister Haitham bin Tariq Al Said as the new ruler of the Gulf Arab country, ending the mystery of who would succeed Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
The announcement on Omani state television was read over footage showing thousands gathered in the capital, Muscat, for the funeral of Sultan Qaboos, who ruled the country for 50 years and did not have any children.
His choice of successor was a closely-guarded secret believed to have been known only to the sultan.
And you can’t have a news story without pitchers!!!(pet peeve of my mom is when people would pronounce the word pictures incorrectly, I miss you ma.)
They shall truly inherit the Earth
Feral Hogs tear through $22,000 worth of cocaine in Italy
A pack of feral hogs in Italy recently uncovered $22,000 worth of cocaine in what is shaping up to be one of Italy’s weirdest drug busts.
David Brook has just bothsidered ‘stupid’. Of course he means everyone but himself
Donald Trump is impulse-driven, ignorant, narcissistic and intellectually dishonest. So you’d think that those of us in the anti-Trump camp would go out of our way to show we’re not like him — that we are judicious, informed, mature and reasonable.”
“But the events of the past week have shown that the anti-Trump echo chamber is becoming a mirror image of Trump himself — overwrought, uncalibrated and incapable of having an intelligent conversation about any complex policy problem
re: #176 Dr Lizardo
I’d imagine a few people are for the chop - hopefully, metaphorically, not literally. But if some folks get jail time over this (the local equivalent of involuntary manslaughter and/or negligent homicide), it would probably end up with Iran looking pretty good in the eyes of a lot of people, East or West.
The offenders can always cite the warning they received from Trump henchman Sean Hannity that an air attack on Tehran was imminent. I doubt the court martial will buy it completely but it could help with punishment.
re: #167 Dread Pirate
Back in the 1970s and 1980s I looked forward to presidential elections just for the unhinged Lyndon Larouche campaign address on public television.
He caused quite a scandal when he won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, forcing the Democratic candidate to run as an independent (they have since changed the rules to allow the candidate to name his own Lt. Gov as with the VP).
I was impressed back then by what a small but active group could pull off.
re: #184 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The offenders can always cite the warning they received from Trump henchman Sean Hannity that an air attack on Tehran was imminent. I doubt the court martial will buy it completely but it could help with punishment.
I can see it now.
The “Hannity Defense”-
Looks like Tsai Ing-Wen has been re-elected as Taiwanese president.
Tsai Ing-Wen has been re-elected as Taiwan’s president, as voters delivered a sharp rebuke to Beijing by choosing a leader who had campaigned on protecting their country from China.
As results came in on Saturday following a quiet day of voting in schools, temples, and community centres across the island, Tsai, of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), quickly established a lead over her opponent, Han Kuo-yu, of the Kuomintang, which promotes closer ties with China.
“With each presidential election, Taiwan is showing how much we cherish our free democratic way of life and how much we cherish our nation,” Tsai said in her victory speech in Taipei.
NEW: Warren & her allies—long resistant to discussing process, polls, etc.—are making a surprising closing pitch abt electability: that she’s the best candidate to unite the warring Bernie/Biden factions, making explicit what’s long been the quiet strategyhttps://t.co/KAzlzOBcRQ
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) January 10, 2020
Puerto Rico just got hit with another earthquake, moment magnitude 6.0:
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy more deserving prick:
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican and staunch ally of President Trump, pushed other Republicans to vote in favor of limiting Trump’s authority in the military confrontation with Iran, drawing ire from the president and other Republicans in Congress, according to aides and emails.
“Reclaiming Congressional power is the Constitutional conservative position!” Devin Murphy, Gaetz’s legislative director, wrote to all Republican offices around 11 a.m. Thursday, underlining the text, according to the email obtained by The Washington Post.
The message, arguing for Republicans to buck the president, ended: “We WILL be voting in favor of H. Con. Res. 83, and hope you will do the same!”
It was a risky move that surprised the president and showed rare fissures in a Republican Party that Trump has firmly controlled. Trump fiercely complained about Gaetz after aides informed Trump that his office had sent the email backing the resolution, which was pushed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Trump’s team lobbied heavily against the nonbinding resolution.
re: #165 Dr Lizardo
Interesting map of temperature anomalies here in Europe:
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It’s been a pretty mild winter so far, at least in my region of Moravian Silesia.
Older Czech students of mine - people now in their late 50s to early 60s - have certainly noticed the difference between now and the winters of their childhood, when heavy snow and quite cold temperatures here the region were very much the norm during the winter.
reminder for Americans perusing that map:
10 degrees C is 18 degrees F.
Another take:
Local actress successfully deprograms member of hereditary cult https://t.co/jDbjAGZzlY via @TheBeaverton
— Hans Noel (@ProfHansNoel) January 10, 2020
re: #187 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Tsai Ing-Wen has been re-elected as Taiwanese president.
I heard a report on NPR about a popular podcast in Taiwan that makes fun of politics and politicians—esp. Beijing. It underlined how young Taiwanese, especially after seeing what is happening in Hong Kong, have no interest in what Beijing is selling. A couple of interviewees even said, “I’m not Chinese, I’m Taiwanese” (I know that there are indigenous peoples there who are truly Taiwanese, but that’s not what he meant).
re: #194 Barefoot Grin
I heard a report on NPR about a popular podcast in Taiwan that makes fun of politics and politicians—esp. Beijing. It underlined how young Taiwanese, especially after seeing what is happening in Hong Kong, have no interest in what Beijing is selling. A couple of interviewees even said, “I’m not Chinese, I’m Taiwanese” (I know that there are indigenous peoples there who are truly Taiwanese, but that’s not what he meant).
I do not know much about Taiwanese politics and just how free and democratic they are, but they have managed to build a separate identity. And they will never let themselves be part of any reunification deal with the Mainland.
re: #191 sagehen
reminder for Americans perusing that map:
10 degrees C is 18 degrees F.
should be 50 F?
re: #173 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
This was also among the first albums I bought when I got my first Radio Shack stereo record player for Christmas of 1972.
He was my first rock concert. 1973 my aunt took me along to one of his concerts in Pittsburgh. Quite an eye opening experience for me.
Is there anyone on the planet that doesn’t own this exact box of useless computer cables from 15 years ago that they keep moving to new places as if it were full of gold? pic.twitter.com/OnZYc8rIIQ
— Hashi Alvarez 🆘 (@AlvarezHashi) January 10, 2020
What if Stacey’s mom was Jessie’s girl and her phone number was 8675309?
Never mind, some of y’all are too young for that mind blower. 😂— JayQwellin (@DarkCovfefe) January 10, 2020
re: #199 Belafon
Is there anyone on the planet that doesn’t own this exact box of useless computer cables from 15 years ago that they keep moving to new places as if it were full of gold?
My feet are resting on one as I write this. Actually one of the cables contained within came in handy for connecting my son’s PS to the LAN to speed up response time.
re: #200 Belafon
What if Stacey’s mom was Jessie’s girl and her phone number was 8675309?
She would be on a midnight train going anywhere…
The @realDonaldTrump presidency is a recklessly irresponsible “borrow and burn” sham. $4.7 trillion in new debt to:
—Give 100s of billions to the rich
—Pay farmers billions to hide his failed trade policy
—Build no new roads/bridges or schools; Lose more factory jobs https://t.co/me6ZGwHDEz— Douglas A. Blackmon (@douglasblackmon) January 11, 2020
Didn’t there used to be a bunch of tea-bag hat wearing folks protesting the deficit?
re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
From Tucson to Tucumcari.
My father’s favourite quote to us -
“The woman you know as your grandmother is not my mother. That’s an elderly woman now trying to get into heaven.” https://t.co/1RVWvk29JC— IG: Jadularasa (@jadegraceann) January 10, 2020
re: #204 jaunte
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Didn’t there used to be a bunch of tea-bag hat wearing folks protesting
the deficita black man with a vaguely Arabic-sounding name being president?
FTFY.
re: #120 Dread Pirate
28 years since my dad passed. Christian church wouldn’t allow service because he died of AIDS.
$%^&!@#. One of my law school classmates died 30 years ago in September of AIDS. He was clerking for an appellate court. We had to remain quiet about his cause of death (officially put off to a heart attack) because one of the judges on the appellate court was one of the architects of the Southern Baptist Convention’s “conservative resurgence.” We didn’t want Buddy to become an object lesson in one of Judge Paul Pressler’s sermons.
That said, the last few years have been kind of hard for Judge Pressler. He was sued a couple different ways by men who claimed he’d sexually harassed them, or worse. I’m not sure of the status of the suits, I think they may have been dismissed due to the statute of limitations. The guy he ran with in chasing out the liberals, Paige Patterson, lost his position as President of Southwestern Baptist Seminary in 2018 after it became excruciatingly clear to everyone (not that it wasn’t but it needed the press to expose this) that he had covered up rapes and other abuse at SWBTS. Oh, and the lovely stained glass pictures of Pressler and Patterson that Patterson had solicited money for and was having put up in the SWBTS chapel…they have been removed.
Somewhere my friend Buddy is laughing.
Trump is not at 53% approval in any recent poll I can see; he’s at 48% even in the latest Rasmussen daily tracker. (Please let me know if I’m missing a poll.) He’s also still not at 95% with Republicans. Also, 95% with Republicans wouldn’t be a record; GWBush hit 99% post-9/11. pic.twitter.com/vxLDdDMXZm
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
He’s at it again. The Democrats haven’t defended Soleimani’s life. pic.twitter.com/uwCI4OjEZq
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 11, 2020
Maybe I’ll commit war crimes, maybe I won’t? Who knows? https://t.co/jfbLm1hKnn
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 11, 2020
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump and McCarthy falsely accusing Pelosi of defending Soleimani is part of a broader Republican effort to dishonestly describe Democratic opposition to the killing as support for Soleimani. Their nonsense follows similar from Nikki Haley, Doug Collins
Meanwhile ISIS openly celebrates his killing…
Looks like little Matty is on somebody’s shit list.
A senior White House official said it was “super uncool” and “quite unwise” for Gaetz to push for limits on the president’s authority. This person added that White House officials would not be returning Gaetz’s phone calls, text messages, “smoke signals or his kneelings in the snow.” Source: WaPo
re: #163 peguyjaures
Thanks for mentioning this. I looked at the article and was, “Wait, they didn’t mention LaRouche and his pet organization, the Schiller Institute?”
Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster, told Gabe Sherman that he had recently asked Trump what his middle initial “J” stands for.
“Genius,” Trump responded. https://t.co/4D7EFEiAat— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 11, 2020
re: #177 Teukka
I’ve noticed the marked differences, and I’m in my late 40’s. It used to be really cold and this time of year, you always had a couple of inches of snow outside when I was a kid. This year? Occasional powderings which melt away during daytime. And I live in a +4°C zone, not a +10°C one.
But yet, GloBULL warning is a lieBULLar kkkonspiracee to tejk or freedumbs!
Interestingly, the discussion about the Planar monitors playing “Fox Business” and being annoying about it (nobody wants to look at eight screens of anyone flickering every couple of seconds) developed out of a discussion happening on the voice technology side of the room about global warming. Several of the techs were talking about another tech (not present) who didn’t believe in global warming. Normally, these very large discussions don’t happen during the week because we are so damned busy, but on weekends and overnight, oh yeah.
Reports from Iran of major conflict not only between Guards and government but also between different parts of the military. International investigators are in suspended mode, not knowing who is to provide objective data. Expectations that “scapegoat is still being sought”
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) January 11, 2020
There’s a great deal of domestic politics going on in Iran that we’re not going to understand very well.
Local vintners dump their pressed grapes out into the vineyards after the fall harvest, which used to be in October.
Now they harvest a good two weeks earlier, and the piles grapes lie out waiting for a hard frost to kill off all the swarms of fruit flies that start to breed in them.
But the frosts are also coming later and now every September/October our village has swarms of damn fruit flies getting into everything.
re: #190 Dr Lizardo
Couldn’t happen to a
nicer guymore deserving prick:
That’s right. He’s the guy who wanted my friend Amanda thrown in prison for a year because she threw a Slushie at him. (What she got was a 15 day jail sentence and she’s on probation for a year.) So yeah, karma’s getting him.
Smerconish’s survey question of the week was, is @PeteButtigieg right that the U.S. strike on Suleimani was partly responsible for the plane being shot down? He spent the whole hour trying to lead viewers into saying no, but over 80% said YES, and he was visibly shocked.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 11, 2020
“father of the roadside bomb”
“…While the IED is sometimes described as a new technology, it actually has a lengthy history. Ships loaded with explosives were used as far back as the 1500s, while various jury-rigged bombs and mines were used in our own Civil War, such as at the naval battle of Mobile Bay and the land battle of Petersburg. Even the “new” version of IEDs — whose explosively formed penetrators can pierce even the armor plating of the U.S. military’s mine-resistant vehicles — actually dates back to World War II.”
President Racist Toad is on a tweet spree this morning:
95% Approval Rating in the Republican Party, a record. 53% Approval Rating overall (can we add 7 to 10 percent because of the Trump “thing?”). Thank you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2020
re: #204 jaunte
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Didn’t there used to be a bunch of tea-bag hat wearing folks protesting the deficit?
that was during a dem presidency
re: #210 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Trump’s only at 48% on Rasmussen, he’s gonna get his ass handed to him.
To all my fellow Christians, Evangelicals, People of Faith! How can you support such an idea, such a person?That thinks is ok to “take away” the oil from other countries? JESUS would never ever take away the Bread and the Fish from others, but gave it all away. to feed body+souls https://t.co/5PpgRuspel
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) January 11, 2020
Good grief. I had no idea how much of this shit she’d put up with - and I have to follow the news for work. pic.twitter.com/ZkxEitOHxp
— James O’Brien (@mrjamesob) January 11, 2020
re: #209 mmmirele
Southern Baptist Convention
Ironic that the SBC (IIRC) was relatively abortion-agnostic, stating that was a Roman Catholic issue until some in the SBC Hierarchy realized by going that route it gave them political power they could have never envisioned.
I know, I know, I know. I’m shouting into the wind.
You are President of the United States, not just the Republican party. #Resist
— yntbe (@yntbe) January 11, 2020
Yo magas, here’s what yer fuckboie did; started shit with a 3rd rate buncha hooligans, watched said hooligans drop a dozen bombs on our soldiers in response, then backed off, thus becoming the 1st US president to back off of a fight from a buncha 3rd rate hooligans.
— Ron Perlman (@perlmutations) January 11, 2020
re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth
“WHO GAVE THE STAND DOWN ORDER?!?!?!l https://t.co/mNlMDGJ1Gm
— David Waldman-1, of Yorktown LLC™ (@KagroX) January 11, 2020
What did the Trump and Kushner families get paid for that Patriot missile battery?
re: #217 mmmirele
Normally, these very large discussions don’t happen during the week because we are so damned busy, but on weekends and overnight, oh yeah.
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The forest was shrinking, But the trees kept voting for the axe.
For the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was wood,
He was one of them.
-Asian fable— Chicano Marine 🇲🇽🇺🇸🧩 (@kingsrush) January 11, 2020
I love he constantly yaps about his approval among Republicans as if that is something impressive. 🙄
Imagine how that headline would have played other times throughout history…
NEW POLL SHOWS RECORD SUPPORT OF HITLER AMONG NAZIS
SURVEY OF TERRORISTS SHOWS WIDE SUPPORT FOR BOMBING AMERICA
9 OF 10 ROMAN PREFECTS SAY EMPEROR IS DOING ‘FANTASTIC’ JOB
MONGOLIAN GENERALS HEAP PRAISE ON GENGHIS KHAN
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ICYMI: Matt Bevin made very specific claims to me for why he was sure Dayton Jones was innocent of the brutal sodomy he was convicted for, saying prosecutor got co-defendants to falsely finger him. A review of case evidence shows those claims were false: https://t.co/BzfCNjObF6
— Joe Sonka 😐 (@joesonka) January 11, 2020
Selling the troops we pay for with our taxes to the highest bidder. https://t.co/nkbpl2uQtb
— Teri Carter (@teri_atthepaper) January 11, 2020
Our media claims Iran is unified in grief over Soleimani. Chris Matthews said the terrorist’s death hit Iran like the death of Princess Di hit Britain. Here’s the reality: students, under threat of torture & death, calling now for the Supreme Leader to go. pic.twitter.com/VfQxzh35uc
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 11, 2020
This purports to show security forces cracking down now. I can’t vouch for the authenticity. | https://t.co/l3XCigwEPB
— Mike (@Doranimated) January 11, 2020
If it isn’t already, it should be illegal to use the U.S. Military as a mercenary force.
re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth
It wasn’t Soleimani that caused the students to turn, but the downing of the airplane. I bet a lot of people there are very angry about the plane, and very angry at the US for Soleimani’s death.
re: #237 jaunte
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Trump claims Saudi Arabia has already deposited one billion dollars “in the bank” in exchange for US troops being sent. He then goes on to talk about South Korea paying $500 million for US troops defending them against North Korea. pic.twitter.com/Ocoo3D9Q8G
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) January 11, 2020
Trump administration warned Iraq that it risks losing access to US bank account where oil revenue is kept if it moves to expel American forces https://t.co/q87cHkxqb5
— Ahmed Al Omran (@ahmed) January 11, 2020
Cutting off access to their money seems like extortion.
Trump to Iraq: take your money out of US banks as soon as you can.
re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg
If it isn’t already, it should be illegal to use the U.S. Military as a mercenary force.
Nothing trump does is legal. I’m logging off to write.
Resist
Remember
Remember
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re: #242 jaunte
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Cutting off access to their money seems like extortion.
We’re run by a mob boss.
re: #242 jaunte
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Cutting off access to their money seems like extortion.
“If I keep threatening enough people, I can make everything like it was before.”
re: #243 jaunte
Trump to Iraq: take your money out of US banks as soon as you can.
The Iraqis need to pull the trigger on that withdrawal transaction ASAP, before Trump can stop them.
re: #245 HappyWarrior
Didn’t he threaten to deny federal money to states he doesn’t like?
re: #248 jaunte
Didn’t he threaten to deny federal money to states he doesn’t like?
And even as a Californian, we got no trouble as compared to a US Territory in need. Puerto Rico. Too many brown people apparently.
If Joe Biden had gone on msnbc last night and declared he was renting out our troops as mercenaries and planning to steal oil from the Middle East, it would be wall to wall coverage today. But training wheels trump always gets a pass.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 11, 2020
re: #252 Rightwingconspirator
And even as a Californian, we got no trouble as compared to a US Territory in need. Puerto Rico. Too many brown people apparently.
What infuriates me is the shit he talks about Democratic areas and ignores that plenty of Republican areas are pretty impoverished and underdeveloped. And then of course all the talk about urban renewal and in fact impeding that through proxies like Carson.
re: #253 jaunte
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That’s the sick irony of America First, its reality is anything but.
re: #255 Teukka
The singer sounds like Gary Numan.
re: #257 Eric The Fruit Bat
The singer sounds like Gary Numan.
From what I understand, it’s original performers, voice isolated or passed the original masters :)
re: #258 Teukka
From what I understand, it’s original performers, voice isolated or passed the original masters :)
The full tracklisting is:
“Let’s Dance” — David Bowie
“Take On Me” — a-ha
“Alive & Kicking” — Simple Minds
“Vienna” — Ultravox
“The Killing Moon” — Echo & the Bunnymen
“Smalltown Boy” — Bronski Beat
“What Is Love?” — Howard Jones
“What’s Love Got to Do with It” — Tina Turner
“Holding Back the Years” — Simply Red
“Josephine” — Chris Rea
“Hard Habit to Break” — Chicago
“It Must Have Been Love” — Roxette
“I Want to Know What Love Is” — Foreigner
“Drive” — The Cars
“2000 Miles” — Pretenders
National Geographic: In the Alaska-Yukon wilderness, wildlife crime fighters face a daunting task
There is growing need to patrol this wildlife-rich expanse, but resources are scant.
Vanda Felbab-Brown, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank in Washington, D.C., says she’s “become concerned that the U.S. and North America are about to experience significant increases in poaching and wildlife trafficking, including as an outcome of decisions made by the Trump administration.”
These, she says, include stripping refuge managers and others of their law enforcement capabilities while simultaneously repealing rules and deregulating hunting. In Alaska such rules had prohibited the shooting of wolves and pups and hibernating bears and their cubs in their dens, using dogs and bait to hunt bears, and killing swimming caribou from motorboats.
re: #261 Dr Lizardo
Now this is some weird shit:
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Can’t remember now who recommended that YouTube channel to me, but….thanks!
Wasn’t me but I’ve watched that channel. Mike is good.
re: #263 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t me but I’ve watched that channel. Mike is good.
Yeah, definitely, I’ll just sit down and bingewatch it sometime.
re: #264 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, definitely, I’ll just sit down and bingewatch it sometime.
I’ve always been something of a true crime buff. Dunno why.
RIGHT NOW at the Lincoln Memorial: “Trump is guilty!” “Remove Trump!” #RemoveTrump #SwarmTheSenate pic.twitter.com/8MYMMlB0XE
— Remove Trump #SwarmTheSenate (@Remove_TrumpNow) January 11, 2020
— Reisa Miller 🌊 (@ReisaMiller) January 11, 2020
re: #265 HappyWarrior
I’ve always been something of a true crime buff. Dunno why.
Because somewhere deep in your psyche is the sneaking suspicion that someday you’ll need to know how to not get caught.
re: #232 jaunte
What did the Trump and Kushner families get paid for that Patriot missile battery?
So President Bone Spurs sent our Patriot missile defense to protect Prince Bone Saw, and the Iranians fired their missiles to avoid major damage? Doesn’t this almost seem like kabuki theater, where the public are pawns in some kind of game being played by those with power?
I was in those wars. Yes, I might have heard of them. https://t.co/xPLCvIRRAV
— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 11, 2020
re: #270 Hecuba’s daughter
So President Bone Spurs sent our Patriot missile defense to protect Prince Bone Saw, and the Iranians fired their missiles to avoid major damage? Doesn’t this almost seem like kabuki theater, where the public are pawns in some kind of game being played by those with power?
they will follow every other groundless CT but this goes unquestioned
Latest thoughts about tRUMP running for president for a second term….😂😂 pic.twitter.com/4xlUO0xs4u
— Sondra Rodgers (@sondra_rodgers) January 11, 2020
re: #197 Eventual Carrion
He was my first rock concert. 1973 my aunt took me along to one of his concerts in Pittsburgh. Quite an eye opening experience for me.
Hmm, 1973 may have been the year that my grandfather accompanied my high school-aged aunt and her best friend to an Alice Cooper concert.
You all keeping asking this: is it legal?
Yes. It’s legal unless Congress say otherwise. So far, they haven’t.
Elections have consequences, this is one. https://t.co/5ZcL5qlDyS— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 11, 2020
Speaking of head first into a wood chipper, just found out Chris Rock will lead in the next Fargo.
re: #275 Backwoods_Sleuth
You all keeping asking this: is it legal?
Yes. It’s legal unless Congress say otherwise. So far, they haven’t.
Elections have consequences, this is one.
We really should not need impeachment or a Mueller Report: Trump’s actions are clear conflicts of interest and blatant violations of the Emoluments Clause, but the Senate is not about to act on them.
re: #276 BigPapa
Speaking of head first into a wood chipper, just found out Chris Rock will lead in the next Fargo.
Perfect for an Easter Weekend binge…
re: #274 A Three Hour Tour
Hmm, 1973 may have been the year that my grandfather accompanied my high school-aged aunt and her best friend to an Alice Cooper concert.
Civic Arena, Pittsburgh? Like I said, this was my first ROCK concert. I was drug to see The Osmonds along with my sisters by my mom before that, but I would hardly call that a rock concert. I bet in my moms head she pictured that concert in her head when I asked to go to see Alice Cooper with aunt Mary. Those 2 concerts couldn’t have been more different.
Trump’s impeachment trial team sees ‘significant’ executive privilege issues over potential Bolton testimony
(Cnn)
Then
- you call/subpoena him
- he shows up
- and for each question asked he asserts ep or natsec if it applies, then you argue about it
What doesn’t happen is he doesn’t appear
Well gang I got my W2’s went online and did my tax returns and WOW!
Compared to last year I got a Trump Tax Cut of…
Wait for it…
FOUR FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!
re: #281 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well gang I got my W2’s went online and did my tax returns and WOW!
Compared to last year I got a Trump Tax Cut of…
Wait for it…
FOUR FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!
Which you are immediately going to invest in job creation, right?
re: #279 Eventual Carrion
Civic Arena, Pittsburgh? Like I said, this was my first ROCK concert. I was drug to see The Osmonds along with my sisters by my mom before that, but I would hardly call that a rock concert. I bet in my moms head she pictured that concert in her head when I asked to go to see Alice Cooper with aunt Mary. Those 2 concerts couldn’t have been more different.
Well my first rock concert was Frank Zappa at Pittsburgh’s Syria Shrine May 1973. Same day as the Senior Prom. It was more important to me to see Frank live. Everyone who went to the prom got the next day off of school. I lied. Mom vouched that I was “sick”. It was worth it to see Frank and the Mothers!
re: #283 Joe Bacon 🌹
Your folks sounds like pretty great folks!
re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which you are immediately going to invest in job creation, right?
Hey, I looked on Amazon and found I could get a used Hot Wheels BMW for $3.99!
re: #279 Eventual Carrion
Civic Arena, Pittsburgh? Like I said, this was my first ROCK concert. I was drug to see The Osmonds along with my sisters by my mom before that, but I would hardly call that a rock concert. I bet in my moms head she pictured that concert in her head when I asked to go to see Alice Cooper with aunt Mary. Those 2 concerts couldn’t have been more different.
Afraid not. We lived down in Virginia, so it probably would’ve been in either Norfolk or Hampton. I was barely into elementary school at the time, so I didn’t pay much attention to matters outside the immediate household.
My first rock concert was Wishbone Ash at the Hammond Civic Center, also ca 1973.
re: #284 retired cynic
Your folks sounds like pretty great folks!
They knew I hated High School Hell. They didn’t like the idiots who ran the town’s School Bored who screwed with Grandpa’s pension…
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My first rock concert was Wishbone Ash at the Hammond Civic Center, also ca 1973.
Mine was KISS, August 1977, Los Angeles Forum.
Here’s Trump crapping on South Bend, Indiana, as if it’s not a part of the country he’s supposed to be president of pic.twitter.com/I2CbxP02HM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2020
“I’m under investigation, federal investigation, before I even ran” — This is a total lie. The FBI investigation of the Trump campaign began in July 2016, more than a year after Trump started running for president. pic.twitter.com/wsLUUDN5hP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2020
Trump responds to a puff question about the British royal family by talking about himself pic.twitter.com/c8Me9RSUNO
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2020
HS classmate just IM’d me via Facebook that another 2 classmates from High School passed away. One from heroin OD and another from fentanyl. Of course that had to be published in the local paper.
365 graduated in May of 1973 from Ambridge High School. Now only 49 are still alive…
re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My first rock concert was Wishbone Ash at the Hammond Civic Center, also ca 1973.
My only rock “concert” was 50 year old me accompanying my daughter to see the Japanese band Guitar Wolf in an “alternative” performance space in Albuquerque back in 2017.
re: #291 Joe Bacon 🌹
HS classmate just IM’d me via Facebook that another 2 classmates from High School passed away. One from heroin OD and another from fentanyl. Of course that had to be published in the local paper.
365 graduated in May of 1973 from Ambridge High School. Now only 49 are still alive…
OMG…
Staggeringly irresponsible journalism. The story is that he took credit for the decline in cancer deaths when not only could he not possibly be responsible it is in spite of the fact that he cut funding for cancer research. How could you bury that in the story? https://t.co/qsbjza9QAi
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) January 11, 2020
re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth
Julie’s last sentence almost reads like sarcasm, but, if true, they need to realize that it doesn’t carry on the internet very well.
The Deplora-Bora Chicks coined ‘Tehran Nancy’ because Teh Stupidz isn’t stupid enough.
re: #296 BigPapa
The Deplora-Bora Chicks coined ‘Tehran Nancy’ because Teh Stupidz isn’t stupid enough.
Make sure they’re not bots.
re: #281 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well gang I got my W2’s went online and did my tax returns and WOW!
Compared to last year I got a Trump Tax Cut of…
Wait for it…
FOUR FUCKING DOLLARS!!!!
Saw your comment and realized I better pay estimated taxes. After retirement, there is no automatic withholding from payroll; I have to manage this myself and the amount the company withheld from my 401(k) was way too low to meet my obligations. I am waiting to see what happens taxwise given that 2019 was my first full year of retirement.
𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝗙𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱
An embedded tornado within a long line of intense thunderstorms has resulted in three fatalities near Carrollton in Pickens County. Learn more at https://t.co/5sbpiCLBMx pic.twitter.com/91YN2P9UfI— Alabama EMA (@AlabamaEMA) January 11, 2020
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am looking at it on national radar and it is highlighted in red. That is one very powerful front coming through.
re: #300 PhillyPretzel
I am looking at it on national radar and it is highlighted in red. That is one very powerful front coming through.
Line of severe storms is approaching Birmingham. We advise you to go ahead and go to your safe place if in a Severe Thunderstorm Warning. Embedded areas of rotation can develop quickly & produce tornadoes. #alwx pic.twitter.com/7gDndAVb3g
— NWS Birmingham (@NWSBirmingham) January 11, 2020
⚠SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING for E Winston County until 1 PM. Line of storms is capable of damaging winds up to 60 mph possible. Take shelter! pic.twitter.com/uY4CjJ6ApT
— NWS Birmingham (@NWSBirmingham) January 11, 2020
At least four people have died in this severe weather outbreak, and today is already shaping up to be another dangerous day. The latest: https://t.co/5GOV7aw8iL pic.twitter.com/3TkDywgbFC
— Sean Breslin (@Sean_Breslin) January 11, 2020
re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #300 PhillyPretzel
You gotta see this lightning map
lightningmaps.org;
re: #303 Rightwingconspirator
Yes. That is one very powerful front.
Saw the obit, glad to see someone finally report on how he died.
FWIW, here’s video of Massey back when he was being Camp Lonestar’s chief spokesman.https://t.co/YnypchXSQu pic.twitter.com/MIzt1Ub8rt— David Neiwert (@DavidNeiwert) January 11, 2020
apparently a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
This is what the weather is going to look like tomorrow in Philly.
forecast.weather.gov
Armed protestors are in San Antonio today to protest a Mike Bloomberg campaign stop. No background check, training or permit is required to open carry long guns in Texas.
The @NRA encourages extremists to threaten violence against fellow Americans who support gun safety. #txlege pic.twitter.com/sxJhrJflxi— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) January 11, 2020
If you watch CNN report from al Asad:
-missiles struck US sleeping quarters. Hundreds could have died without advance warning
-Iran wasn’t trying to miss
-whoever tried to sell that narrative WTF
-would’ve been nice to have air defenses to protect our guys, not leased to Saudis https://t.co/LTCU7kERBV— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 11, 2020
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Looks like all that hate and paranoia festering in his head was just too much to bear.
meanwhile in Cincinnati:
TRAFFIC: Flooding has closed the right lane of northbound I-75 near Towne Street. Expect delays, and don’t drive through flooded areas. https://t.co/VVvj2W4NOE pic.twitter.com/E2mNQN7YkG
— WCPO (@WCPO) January 11, 2020
re: #283 Joe Bacon 🌹
Well my first rock concert was Frank Zappa at Pittsburgh’s Syria Shrine May 1973. Same day as the Senior Prom. It was more important to me to see Frank live. Everyone who went to the prom got the next day off of school. I lied. Mom vouched that I was “sick”. It was worth it to see Frank and the Mothers!
Mine was George Thorogood with Johnny Winter opening at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh in 1983.
re: #298 Hecuba’s daughter
Saw your comment and realized I better pay estimated taxes. After retirement, there is no automatic withholding from payroll; I have to manage this myself and the amount the company withheld from my 401(k) was way too low to meet my obligations. I am waiting to see what happens taxwise given that 2019 was my first full year of retirement.
My accountant and I do a calculation for estimated taxes when I file my returns in March. And then we sit down in early November with my investment summaries for the end of October and check whether we need to make an adjusted payment in January. She (the accountant) takes the results from 3/4 of the year and projects from that what the annual income can be expected to be.
We have seen some remarkably bad behavior on the part of political candidates in recent years, but this is really among the shittiest things I have ever heard.
A progressive challenger to Emanuel Cleaver in Missouri accused the congressman, who is black, of keeping a photo of Bill Cosby at his desk. It was Al Jarreau https://t.co/B9kYizIwmz
— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) January 11, 2020
re: #298 Hecuba’s daughter
Saw your comment and realized I better pay estimated taxes. After retirement, there is no automatic withholding from payroll; I have to manage this myself and the amount the company withheld from my 401(k) was way too low to meet my obligations. I am waiting to see what happens taxwise given that 2019 was my first full year of retirement.
Fella I just got a reply from my pal at Block. He had to deal with a lot of angry clients who got a-SALT-ed by the Trump tax cuts last year. and yeah, I got a-SALT-ed by that fucking supply side shit too.
I can’t wait to get my California ballot and vote for Elizabeth!
re: #316 bratwurst
And she doesn’t even proof her non-apology apology tweet.
re: #316 bratwurst
We have seen some remarkably bad behavior on the part of political candidates in recent years, but this is really among the shittiest things I have ever heard.
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I saw this earlier and was talking to a friend of mine who lives in MO. I said that MO doesn’t get enough credit for the batshit crazy that happens in the state.
storm has arrived in The Backwoods.
Power is out in most of the county
re: #319 Teddy’s Person
I saw this earlier and was talking to a friend of mine who lives in MO. I said that MO doesn’t get enough credit for the batshit crazy that happens in the state.
Harry Truman weeps in his grave…
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
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WOW! A one man Jonestown. May it become a trend. (Yes, I know it’s unlikely but we can hope.)
Back from my walk and all I can say is that it has been nice knowing you folks.
It’s 60 Degrees F in NYC.
In January.
worst hoax ever.
re: #324 I Would Prefer Not To
Back from my walk and all I can say is that it has been nice knowing you folks.
It’s 60 Degrees F in NYC.
In January.
worst hoax ever.
Yes, it was 60 here on Thursday, and nasty as all get out after that. So that is coming your way from Illinois!
re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth
The logical endpoint for “nobody tells me what to do!”
re: #319 Teddy’s Person
Limbaugh is from there. Go figure.
re: #327 Ace Rothstein
Limbaugh is from there. Go figure.
I often forget that Limbaugh is still lurking around out there. Trump has really taken the spotlight off people like Limbaugh since people can now mainline hate directly from the president. They don’t need the spin provided by the AM hate-fest spin.
re: #328 Teddy’s Person
I often forget that Limbaugh is still lurking around out there. Trump has really taken the spotlight off people like Limbaugh since people can now mainline hate directly from the president. They don’t need the spin provided by the AM hate-fest spin.
This describes my relationship with “El Rushbo” as well. During the Obama years I would catch a segment or two a few times per week just to get an idea of the talking points that had been distributed to various AOL inboxes the night before. Now I get the same information just following Trump on Twitter, so I don’t even bother with Rush at all.
He recently extended his deal with Premiere (I am still amazed that as recently as 10 years ago we had people here who believed Rush owned his own platform, that “EIB Network” was actually a thing!). The fact the numbers for these things are no longer disclosed tells you he makes way less per annum than when he trumpeted the fact he signed a $400 million dollar 8 year deal in 2008. Even so, he is still paid a LOT of money. If Premiere winds up making only $100 dollars per hour on advertising that is still WAY better than having to re-invent middays completely, a daypart that barely generated a penny for the industry before Rush.
Reminder
✔️A Royal Saudi Air Force pilot murdered 3 in a terrorist attack on a FL military base in December
✔️Saudi’s govt murdered a US columnist
✔️15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia
✔️Bin Laden was Saudi
Would these new restrictions apply to Saudi Arabia? https://t.co/LZTs4afuOz— Marc Caputo (@MarcACaputo) January 11, 2020
In 1999, GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich was forced to resign due to marital infidelities.
The first choice to replace Gingrich, Bob Livingston, was also forced to resign due to marital infidelities.
Dennis Hastert thus became Speaker. He’d later go to jail for molesting kids. https://t.co/iTUvicE5Em— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) January 11, 2020
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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