Sheryl Crow on Fire: “Out of Our Heads” (Quarantine Version)

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This is the way I try to live my life… by listening to my heart and my conscience, especially at this moment in our history where we are so divided and discerning the truth is not easy.

ALSO! My incredible band plays the following instruments in this video:

Fred Eltringham: drums
Audley Freed - acoustic guitar
Josh Grange - keys & backing vocals
Jen Gunderman - accordion & backing vocals
Robert Kearns - bass & backing vocals
Peter Stroud - acoustic guitar & backing vocals

Shout out to Alberto Vaz who had been taking all of our home recordings and putting out incredible mixes!

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293 comments
1
Patricia Kayden  May 9, 2020 • 7:22:47pm

This is what happens when you elect a clown.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 9, 2020 • 7:25:03pm

Hot weather this week ripened many of the local loquats. I found a few to pick.

But alas my (remaining) favorite tree was raided while I was at the grocery store.

Speaking of which, still no H2O2 at the store. Why have the stocks disappeared? It’s too abrasive to use on your hands, too destructive to many surfaces. I don’t get why people would hoard it. It’s not even going to be as useful as liquid bleach if you need to clean say a cloth mask.

The pattern at the store is clear: the soups/pasta aisle and frozen dinner/frozen fruits are what people are buying now, and the paper aisle is a statement about 21st century America.

That we seem to have an endless supply of sugar and corn products (chips, margarine, etc.) also says something about America.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 7:28:42pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Hot weather this week ripened many of the local loquats. I found a few to pick.

But alas my (remaining) favorite tree was raided while I was at the grocery store.

Speaking of which, still no H2O2 at the store. Why have the stocks disappeared? It’s too abrasive to use on your hands, too destructive to many surfaces. I don’t get why people would hoard it. It’s not even going to be as useful as liquid bleach if you need to clean say a cloth mask.

The pattern at the store is clear: the soups/pasta aisle and frozen dinner/frozen fruits are what people are buying now, and the paper aisle is a statement about 21st century America.

That we seem to have an endless supply of sugar and corn products (chips, margarine, etc.) also says something about America.

My wife swung by a CVS two days ago. Nitrile gloves and H2O2 in abundance.

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Thanos  May 9, 2020 • 7:29:22pm

re: #2 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Actually one of two CDC recommended methods for cleaning N-95 masks for re-use (not something you are supposed to do, but what they have to do at present) is to steam it with Hydrogen peroxide 3% - just steaming to 140 degrees isn’t enough

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Thanos  May 9, 2020 • 7:33:17pm

Our local stores in Kansas seem pretty stocked up on everything but Meat, which people are starting to hoard.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 9, 2020 • 7:44:54pm

from downstairs

Michelle malkin: crackpot

(also a liar. of course she will vaccinate)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 9, 2020 • 7:45:14pm

Viced Rhino youtube channel is live streaming a watch-along of the new Christian classic Assassin 33A.D.:

Drunken Movie Night: Assassin 33 AD

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retired cynic  May 9, 2020 • 7:47:11pm

A friend passed on this link:

The Risks - Know Them - Avoid Them, by Erin Bromage. “Dr. Bromage joined the Faculty of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2007 where he teaches courses in Immunology and Infectious disease, including a course this semester on the Ecology of Infectious Disease which focused on the emerging SARS-CoV2 outbreak in China.” Posted three days ago and updated just now.

It seems many people are breathing some relief, and I’m not sure why. An epidemic curve has a relatively predictable upslope and once the peak is reached, the back slope can also be predicted. We have robust data from the outbreaks in China and Italy, that shows the backside of the mortality curve slowly declines, with deaths persisting for months. Assuming we have just crested in deaths at 70k, it is possible that we lose another 70,000 people over the next 6 weeks as we come off that peak. That’s what’s going to happen with a lockdown.

As states reopen, and we give the virus more fuel, all bets are off. I understand the reasons for reopening the economy, but I’ve said before, if you don’t solve the biology, the economy won’t recover. …

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Sherlock Hound  May 9, 2020 • 7:49:58pm

Tara’s check cleared…

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Jay C  May 9, 2020 • 7:50:25pm

re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Viced Rhino youtube channel is live streaming a watch-along of the new Christian classic Assassin 33A.D.:

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Video

I loved the comment on the FP review on IMDB:

I wish I could go back in time - to unsee this movie

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Jay C  May 9, 2020 • 7:55:30pm

re: #9 Sherlock Hound

Tara’s check cleared…

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Gee, Tara’s leaving the Dems?

Wow: that will only leave 45,715,951 of us! However will we manage?
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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 7:55:49pm

Except for the hash oil chocolate bars I can no longer find, edibles usually don’t do it for me. I have what I assume is moderately high tolerance but I don’t think that’s the problem. So tonight I got two bags of gummies, one bag sativa, one bag indica. 10 mg THC per gummie so I ate 15 of them just now.
Eventually, I will know if they are working…

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plansbandc  May 9, 2020 • 7:59:36pm

re: #12 Jebediah, RBG

Dude. One of those gummies would get me high. I am a complete flyweight when it comes to pot.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 9, 2020 • 8:01:49pm

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William Lewis  May 9, 2020 • 8:02:14pm

re: #13 plansbandc

Dude. One of those gummies would get me high. I am a complete flyweight when it comes to pot.

Me as well. Had a co-worker give me a cookie awhile back. Proverbial ton of bricks. As it hit he asked for help with a problem on the computer that I could normally fix in two seconds. I stared at the computer and said “my brain is fuzzy.”

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 8:02:28pm
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Jay C  May 9, 2020 • 8:02:34pm

re: #12 Jebediah, RBG

Except for the hash oil chocolate bars I can no longer find, edibles usually don’t do it for me. I have what I assume is moderately high tolerance but I don’t think that’s the problem. So tonight I got two bags of gummies, one bag sativa, one bag indica. 10 mg THC per gummie so I ate 15 of them just now.
Eventually, I will know if they are working…

15 gummies?
I’m sure they’ll work: whether you’ll remember them working is another story….

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2020 • 8:03:53pm
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plansbandc  May 9, 2020 • 8:05:34pm

This dog is adorable. The way he constantly wags reminds me of my little fellow. Maybe it’s something about rescues. Just so happy to be out of jail.

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 8:06:59pm

re: #13 plansbandc

Dude. One of those gummies would get me high. I am a complete flyweight when it comes to pot.

I wish I was… it would be a lot cheaper!

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CleverToad  May 9, 2020 • 8:09:26pm

Have to go back about three threads to catch up, but wanted to say:

Any and all crossed fingers and good wishes for my kid, please.
He just spent his first day as doorkeeper/shopper counter/greeter at a Safeway where they are now — at least for now — enforcing the “no mask, no entry, NO exceptions” rule. No one pulled a gun on him, but he says he caught a whole lot of anger. The store manager provided free masks for the greeters to hand out, but of course there were covidiots who objected to the whole concept. Not to mention the lady who took the free mask, pulled out a pen and poked a hole in it “so she could breathe.”

I hope that at least the store will put a sign in very large letters over the door announcing this policy, so that at least some of the shrieking idiots will see it and drive away without bothering to get out of the car. Also hope that the door-keepers have backup in earshot at all times.

And oh, yeah, this is just as the local Krogers/King Soopers branch is discontinuing their hazard pay, so Safeway is likely to follow.

(I now return you to you regularly scheduled thread and go back to try to catch up, which will take a few hours.)

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 8:09:58pm

re: #17 Jay C

15 gummies?
I’m sure they’ll work: whether you’ll remember them working is another story….

It’s possible that I didn’t need to eat 15, but where am I going tonight anyway?

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Sherlock Hound  May 9, 2020 • 8:14:32pm

Tara’s check kiting isn’t just overdrafts

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Charles Johnson  May 9, 2020 • 8:14:45pm

re: #22 Jebediah, RBG

It’s possible that I didn’t need to eat 15, but where am I going tonight anyway?

Nowhere, that’s for sure.

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 8:14:47pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 8:18:38pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Nowhere, that’s for sure.

Well, I will have to venture out later to walk the dogs, but that would be about it

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EPR-radar  May 9, 2020 • 8:19:29pm

from downstairs re: #129 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Repugs for Biden? That’s nice… but all of you have been in a position to have said/done something years ago. Glad you’re not kissing DT’s ass any longer, but as the enemy of my enemy, you are… the enemy of my enemy.

These not-Trump Republicans are useful for two reasons. Republicans are naturally more vicious than Democrats when it comes to political attacks, and the media is far friendlier to attacks by Republicans than to attacks by Democrats.

But Republicans are all in the position of Dr. Frankenstein being appalled by the monster he created. Trump is the one thing where Republicans really have ‘built that’.

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Jay C  May 9, 2020 • 8:24:35pm

re: #26 Jebediah, RBG

Well, I will have to venture out later to walk the dogs, but that would be about it

A good thing about the dogs: at least they’ll know the way home….😝

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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 8:27:09pm

re: #28 Jay C

A good thing about the dogs: at least they’ll know the way home….😝

Haha true… hope they don’t take advantage

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Hecuba's daughter  May 9, 2020 • 8:27:56pm

From downstairs:

re: #41 goddamnedfrank

It’s official, she’s pure fucking evil, trying to sell the idea that the death count is somehow inflated instead of being vastly underreported.

rawstory.com

I read the brief story and the headline is deceptive if the article is accurate. Apparently CDC software systems (like most government systems) are antiquated and her complaint is that the information produced by the system may be inaccurate — though it’s possible that the objection was directed toward the model predicting 3000 daily deaths. As someone who, in the past, has worked with both creaky ancient systems or untested brand new systems, I can appreciate that type of frustration when you feel critical results may be unreliable.

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 8:33:11pm

I went off on a guy at Walmart earlier.

I had to go into Walmart to get some dog food and a gift card. Now that governor Abbott has made being considerate of other people optional, it was pretty busy, people had their families there, and at least half were not wearing their masks.

So, the lines were pretty long, including the line I was in. Sometime after I got in line, the cashier had turned off her light, but as I got close, an older man (probably my dad’s age, about 70ish), asked “Can I get in your line?” The cashier, and Indian woman - I heard her accent later - heard him, and looked around to see his cart. He asked her again, and as she replied that he could, he goes “Do you understand English?”

That set me off.

“Do you understand,” I told him, “that she had just told you you could get in line? Not after that, though. If you’re gonna act like that, get out of here. You don’t need to be here.” He went back to the line he was in, mumbling.

Things like that leave me shaking. It’s just not generally in me. But fuck that shit.

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 8:35:12pm
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Jebediah, RBG  May 9, 2020 • 8:38:33pm

re: #31 Belafon

Good for you!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 8:44:57pm

re: #18 Charles Johnson

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Catholic Bishops demanded a slice of the communion wafer and Trump gave it to them in return for their endorsement against the Gawdless Biden!

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Dread Pirate  May 9, 2020 • 8:55:32pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 9:03:10pm

And will Marky Mark do anything to stop the spreading of conspiracy shit?

Nope.

And neither will the rest of the Silicon Six.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 9, 2020 • 9:03:21pm

Now, this says “WINNER”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 9, 2020 • 9:04:25pm
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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 9:09:06pm

re: #38 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The pandemic will. Just not the first wave.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 9, 2020 • 9:11:41pm
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Dread Pirate  May 9, 2020 • 9:20:34pm
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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 9:22:32pm

re: #41 Dread Pirate

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I’m pretty sure there’s more than one “Why do Democrats say that women can have an abortion, but we have to wear masks?”

Answer: We get to decide what happens with our own bodies. You don’t get to decide if we should get sick.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 9, 2020 • 9:22:49pm

Snerk

SURE, THE VELOCIRAPTORS ARE STILL ON THE LOOSE, BUT THAT’S NO REASON NOT TO REOPEN JURASSIC PARK
by CARLOS GREAVES

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 9, 2020 • 9:23:02pm

I have not viewed a second of ‘Tiger King’.
But, I can’t help but think this is excellent casting

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Dread Pirate  May 9, 2020 • 9:36:38pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2020 • 9:36:50pm
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jaunte  May 9, 2020 • 9:39:19pm

re: #45 Dread Pirate

Uber, but for renting walruses.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 9, 2020 • 9:39:36pm

re: #46 jaunte

Any effect of ending a shutdown will take more than a couple of days to manifest.

Note too that test reports have a time delay.

The growth in testing, not just numbers but also in strategy, can affect the positive rate.

It will take several weeks to see how Abbot’s new order ending the limited shutdown impacts the numbers.

Till then, what we’re likely seeing is simply the fact that Texas wasn’t shut down that tightly to begin with.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2020 • 9:41:06pm

re: #9 Sherlock Hound

Tara’s check cleared…

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Reading between the lines, her reason for “leaving” the party is pretty clear: She failed to find the rubes she was looking for. Instead of the response the party has greeted such “scandals” with in the past, reflexively turning on the accused and demanding their almost immediate ouster from the party, she found virtually every prominent Dem either saying they supported Joe or expressing skepticism to her “allegations.”

And considering the facts that have come to light in the past week, it’s only going to get worse as her story continues to disintegrate and she conjures up more lies to try desperately to fill in the gaps. Just in the Megyn Kelly interview she introduced yet another timeline of events and changed her “rape” story yet again to try to address the inconsistencies.

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jaunte  May 9, 2020 • 9:41:28pm

re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Texas wasn’t shut down that tightly to begin with.

Exactly.

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sagehen  May 9, 2020 • 9:43:58pm

SNL tonight is uneven, but… I loved the Let Kids Drink musical number.

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Dr Lizardo  May 9, 2020 • 9:51:02pm

re: #36 Joe Bacon 🌹

And will Marky Mark do anything to stop the spreading of conspiracy shit?

Nope.

And neither will the rest of the Silicon Six.

Facebook (and Zuck) is in the tank for Trump. Mark’s worst nightmare is a Democratic POTUS with a Democratic House and Senate launching an investigation into Facebook’s practices.

If that comes to pass, either he’ll move FB overseas, beyond the reach of American jurisdiction, or - less likely - he’ll pull the plug. He’s set for a thousand lifetimes after all.

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Dread Pirate  May 9, 2020 • 9:52:40pm
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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 9:53:21pm

re: #46 jaunte

“We’re on our way down!” - Abbott, soon.

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Citizen K  May 9, 2020 • 9:53:47pm

re: #46 jaunte

re: #48 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Any effect of ending a shutdown will take more than a couple of days to manifest.

Note too that test reports have a time delay.

The growth in testing, not just numbers but also in strategy, can affect the positive rate.

It will take several weeks to see how Abbot’s new order ending the limited shutdown impacts the numbers.

Till then, what we’re likely seeing is simply the fact that Texas wasn’t shut down that tightly to begin with.

I mean, yeah, it doesn’t say anything about the results of the new order. Just that, you know, they picked the time right when the severity seemed to be ramping up to declare victory and swing the doors open.

The next couple weeks will be…interesting to see. Also worth keeping in mind just where the numbers are coming from too: most coming from the ‘essential services’, many of which are the folks even those recognizing the lockdown are most likely to come in contact with on the regular.

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I Would Prefer Not To  May 9, 2020 • 9:54:02pm

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

Facebook (and Zuck) is in the tank for Trump. Mark’s worst nightmare is a Democratic POTUS with a Democratic House and Senate launching an investigation into Facebook’s practices.

If that comes to pass, either he’ll move FB overseas, beyond the reach of American jurisdiction, or - less likely - he’ll pull the plug. He’s set for a thousand lifetimes after all.

He can move all he wants to. We still have to regulate what happens here. The EU can do the same.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 9, 2020 • 9:54:25pm

re: #50 jaunte

re: #50 jaunte

Out here on the left coast we’ve been more hardcore about a shutdown.

It appears to be working, if one looks at page 16 of the latest San Diego county report:

The percentage positives on tests has slowly been going down over the past month.

However, if you look at the next slide on page 17, the number of hospitalizations after the initial drop-off from the peak has remained steady, perhaps increasing very slowly. Even more worrying is that it appears that the ICU number is growing too.

Which implies to me that there are people for whom recovery is taking too long. Remember, some of those numbers found in previous days in ICU are now death statistics, so they have been replaced with new ICU victims, and replaced more quickly than the death+recovery numbers.

All of which tells me that Covid-19 is a long term problem, with people requiring extensive time in the hospital and for some people extensive time in ICU.

SARS-Cov-2 has easily taken over from influenza as the concern now for the elderly and immune compromised. And this will not go away soon.

Which then means that Covid-19 will remain an issue for our society.

Hence this ought to be part of election year politics.

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Citizen K  May 9, 2020 • 9:55:37pm

re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Out here on the left coast we’ve been more hardcore about a shutdown.

It appears to be working, if one looks at page 16 of the latest San Diego county report:

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The percentage positives on tests has slowly been going down over the past month.

However, if you look at the next slide on page 17, the number of hospitalizations after the initial drop-off from the peak has remained steady, perhaps increasing very slowly. Even more worrying is that it appears that the ICU number is growing too.

Which implies to me that there are people for whom recovery is taking too long. Remember, some of those numbers found in previous days in ICU are now death statistics, so they have been replaced with new ICU victims, and replaced more quickly than the death+recovery numbers.

All of which tells me that Covid-19 is a long term problem, with people requiring extensive time in the hospital and for some people extensive time in ICU.

SARS-Cov-2 has easily taken over from influenza as the concern now for the elderly and immune compromised. And this will not go away soon.

Which then means that Covid-19 will remain an issue for our society.

Hence this ought to be part of election year politics.

Especially with word of folks suffering from severe post-COVID complications that will likely remain long-term conditions.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 9:59:57pm

re: #54 Belafon

“We’re on our way down!” - Abbott, soon.

I’m wondering if that TexAssHole will say that before he’s tubed to a respirator?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 10:02:51pm

Total number of friends sick from the virus now stands at 17. Another one was rushed to the ER…

And this girl is in red Missouri…

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teleskiguy  May 9, 2020 • 10:03:26pm

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

he’ll pull the plug

That would be a great day for humanity. Alas, FB is too fucking big.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 10:03:59pm

re: #59 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m wondering if that TexAssHole will say that before he’s tubed to a respirator?

That’s the thing about these Texas yahoos. They truly believe it will never happen to THEM.

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sagehen  May 9, 2020 • 10:06:30pm

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

Facebook (and Zuck) is in the tank for Trump. Mark’s worst nightmare is a Democratic POTUS with a Democratic House and Senate launching an investigation into Facebook’s practices.

If that comes to pass, either he’ll move FB overseas, beyond the reach of American jurisdiction, or - less likely - he’ll pull the plug. He’s set for a thousand lifetimes after all.

Reminder: his wife is Chinese (first generation American, immigrant parents). Her grandparents, cousins, etc still live in China. And he made a big huge fuss a couple of years ago about learning Mandarin, well enough to do speeches and Q&A’s live onstage in Beijing.

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Ace-o-aces  May 9, 2020 • 10:08:53pm
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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 10:09:59pm

To be clear, since I live here, OUR Texas yahoos. About 40% of our citizens are nuts, about 35% of our citizens are sane, and about 25% of our citizens just don’t fucking vote.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 10:10:12pm

Shall we start a poll to guess what day it leaks that Trump and Pence have tested positive for COVID?

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2020 • 10:11:36pm

re: #64 Ace-o-aces

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But she makes sure to defend Canned Ass by saying she’s just angry over “racial division.”

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 10:12:31pm

Update on the SUV which I mentioned last night. I went to the dealership, and the guy told me that there were two types of engine models used in the Sorento. Since there were different engine sizes you could get (you could fit another half an engine in the space under the hood), I believe him. It was the bigger engine that had the issue.

So my dad is going to go talk to a mechanic and find out what he might be able to do. If it’s going to cost a whole lot of money just to look at it, then I probably won’t have anything done. It it’s not terribly expensive to investigate, and it turns out that I can do something like replace the bearings, I will probably have that done. It’s not cheap, $2500, but it’s still less than an engine, and it’s still less than the ~$6k I have left on the car.

If I can’t get it fixed, then we’ll most likely park the car in the driveway until I can pay off the loan. I can, if I do everything right, pay it off in about 4 months. At that point, I can either trade a broken car in or sell it to someone else and get a new car.

Kind of sucky, but we’re not in desperate need of a new car right now since my wife works from home and the kid is not at school.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 10:14:16pm

re: #67 Targetpractice

But she makes sure to defend Canned Ass by saying she’s just angry over “racial division.”

I’ll cheer when Candyass comes down with the virus and I won’t feel any remorse.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 10:14:38pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹

Shall we start a poll to guess what day it leaks that Trump and Pence have tested positive for COVID?

Until they put his pustulant body on a respirator, you won’t hear a single word.

That being said, May 23rd for Drumpf, May 25th for Mother’s Husband.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2020 • 10:16:06pm

Basically wingnuts are breaking into the usual two camps on the Arbery murder:

- “This was a tragedy, but WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE A RACIAL THING!?”

- “IF THOSE NI-CLANGS WOULD JUST RESPECT THE LAW, THEY WOULDN’T GET SHOT!”

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Belafon  May 9, 2020 • 10:18:18pm

re: #71 Targetpractice

Basically wingnuts are breaking into the usual two camps on the Arbery murder:

- “This was a tragedy, but WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE A RACIAL THING!?”

- “IF THOSE NI-CLANGS WOULD JUST RESPECT THE LAW, THEY WOULDN’T GET SHOT!”

Show them the picture of the guy screaming at the police in Michigan and ask “Like this guy?”

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2020 • 10:22:15pm

re: #72 Belafon

Show them the picture of the guy screaming at the police in Michigan and ask “Like this guy?”

“That’s different because those laws are unconstitutional! I don’t them anywhere in my little pocket Constitution”

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2020 • 10:28:08pm

re: #70 austin_blue

Until they put his pustulant body on a respirator, you won’t hear a single word.

That being said, May 23rd for Drumpf, May 25th for Mother’s Husband.

Oh we will know. He can’t fucking shut his cake hole for any length of time. As soon as we don’t see him flapping his fish lips on TV for 2-3 days, and his tweets become slightly more coherent… he’s in quarantine.

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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 10:29:14pm

re: #74 Jack Burton

Oh we will know. He can’t fucking shut his cake hole for any length of time. As soon as we don’t see him flapping his fish lips on TV for 2-3 days, and his tweets become slightly more coherent… he’s in quarantine.

Exactly!

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austin_blue  May 9, 2020 • 10:49:55pm

80, 037 dead per Worldometer.

So much winning!

Six times Obama’s H1N1 response in 2009. 40,000 times the deaths from the Ebola virus in 2014. 20,000 Benghazis. Almost 27 9/11’s.

USA! USA! USA!

They may not have been, actively, intentionally evil in their response to this pandemic, although some people at the top clearly were, but this administration is, collectively, a batch of incompetent fuckwits who are the the single biggest group of mass murders in the history of the country.

I’m off for the rack. Sleep as well as you can.

(hunkered down in south Austin)

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sagehen  May 9, 2020 • 10:55:17pm

re: #64 Ace-o-aces

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If a guy in a cop uniform, standing next to a cop car, tells me stop he wants to talk to me, I’ll respond as if it’s a cop giving me an order.

But if the McMichaels tell me stop they want to talk to me, dressed like that, driving that truck, with those weapons, I’ll respond as if it’s the Hillside Strangler coming after me.

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2020 • 10:55:50pm

re: #76 austin_blue

20,000 Benghazis. Almost 27 9/11’s.

There’s a Biden campaign commercial.

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Dr Lizardo  May 9, 2020 • 10:56:52pm

re: #63 sagehen

Is FB allowed behind China’s “Great Firewall”?

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Dr Lizardo  May 9, 2020 • 10:59:38pm

re: #66 Joe Bacon 🌹

Shall we start a poll to guess what day it leaks that Trump and Pence have tested positive for COVID?

Like I said the other day, we’ll all find out about it when we get a breaking news alert saying that Trump has been rushed to Walter Reed and anonymous White House sources will claim that Trump has been having problems breathing for a few days running.

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2020 • 11:00:12pm

re: #77 sagehen

If a guy in a cop uniform, standing next to a cop car, tells me stop he wants to talk to me, I’ll respond as if it’s a cop giving me an order.

But if the McMichaels tell me stop they want to talk to me, dressed like that, driving that truck, with those weapons, I’ll respond as if it’s the Hillside Strangler coming after me.

I wouldn’t have even though for a second about stopping for those peckerwoods, and I’m 87.5% white. Random homeless people with mental or drug problems, tweakers, drunks, “Likes to start shit for no reason” guys, etc. often yell out at passing people for one reason or another. I would have probably put these clowns in at least one of those categories.

Edit: Even if I didn’t see guns.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2020 • 11:01:04pm

I knew something was super fucked up about that one, just couldn’t put it together because WHO FUCKING DOES THAT???

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Dread Pirate  May 9, 2020 • 11:03:59pm

moron

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Jay C  May 9, 2020 • 11:04:02pm

re: #81 Jack Burton

I wouldn’t have even though for a second about stopping for those peckerwoods, and I’m 87.5% white. Random homeless people with mental or drug problems, tweakers, drunks, “Likes to start shit for no reason” guys, etc. often yell out at passing people for one reason or another. I would have probably put these clowns in at least one of those categories.

Yeah, but even at 87,5% white, it’s unlikely said peckerwoods would even have given you more than passing glance.

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Targetpractice  May 9, 2020 • 11:05:44pm

re: #83 Dread Pirate

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moron

Could you show your work on that one, Mike? Because last I checked, Iran is actually closer to having the nuclear material for bomb than they would have been had we continued to honor the JCPOA.

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sagehen  May 9, 2020 • 11:06:22pm

re: #76 austin_blue

They may not have been, actively, intentionally evil in their response to this pandemic, although some people at the top clearly were, but this administration is, collectively, a batch of incompetent fuckwits who are the the single biggest group of mass murders in the history of the country.

Minor correction: 2nd biggest group of mass murderers.

First is Sumner Simpson (president of Raybestos Manhattan), Vandiver Brown (house counsel for Johns-Manville) and the rest of the Asbestos Manufacturers Council. They paid for a bunch of research in the 1930’s and 40’s about the dangers of asbestos, then vigorously suppressed that research. There’s a whole series of correspondence between them and executive board meeting minutes where they discussed that protective equipment for their workers, including masks with proper filters, was more expensive than just letting people die and replacing them.

It’s estimated that 20% of the cancer cases in the US from the 1930’s to 1970’s, is on them.

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2020 • 11:09:13pm

re: #83 Dread Pirate

LOL. We are all safer because we pissed off a bunch of people for no reason and aren’t bothering to monitor what they are doing anymore. Oh and almost started a war with them like 3 fucking times, the last as recently as a couple of month ago for shits and giggles.

CLOWN SHOES.

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sagehen  May 9, 2020 • 11:09:43pm

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

Is FB allowed behind China’s “Great Firewall”?

All the shit we’d like them to vigorously monitor and remove but they say they can’t because it’s “too difficult” to keep track of? It’s apparently not difficult at all to monitor and remove whatever the Chinese government doesn’t want posted. Also, the user data is 100% turned over to the government, no privacy policy at all.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 9, 2020 • 11:18:17pm

Right now, I think the Big G is getting down over at the Pleiades!

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teleskiguy  May 9, 2020 • 11:21:13pm

Jebediah, RBG ate a bunch of weed gummies? Here’s a song.

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goddamnedfrank  May 9, 2020 • 11:23:39pm

re: #12 Jebediah, RBG

FYI there’s evidence that high dose edibles can deplete serotonin levels, which isn’t great.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 9, 2020 • 11:26:49pm

re: #88 sagehen

All the shit we’d like them to vigorously monitor and remove but they say they can’t because it’s “too difficult” to keep track of? It’s apparently not difficult at all to monitor and remove whatever the Chinese government doesn’t want posted. Also, the user data is 100% turned over to the government, no privacy policy at all.

Facebook is banned in China. I remember wheatdogg (has anyone heard anything about him?) talking about how you need a VPN to get through the Great Firewall.

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BigPapa  May 9, 2020 • 11:33:40pm

re: #91 goddamnedfrank

FYI there’s evidence that high dose edibles can deplete serotonin levels, which isn’t great.

I have no idea how much one should take. I’m a few times week smoker but have been thinking about edibles lately

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Jack Burton  May 9, 2020 • 11:37:43pm

re: #92 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Facebook is banned in China. I remember wheatdogg (has anyone heard anything about him?) talking about how you need a VPN to get through the Great Firewall.

Since you brought it up… I looked into it, and he hasn’t posted anything here for almost a year.

His last comment: littlegreenfootballs.com

I myself took a very long break with some lurking on and off from LGF because politics (well… TRUMP and his crime family) were affecting my health mentally and physically. I only recently came back to comment on a regular basis. It could be something like that.

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Dr Lizardo  May 9, 2020 • 11:38:31pm

re: #92 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Facebook is banned in China. I remember wheatdogg (has anyone heard anything about him?) talking about how you need a VPN to get through the Great Firewall.

I looked it up; Facebook is banned outright in China, North Korea, Syria and Iran. The vast majority of North Koreans have no internet access and Syria is a mess, so really, only China and Iran make active efforts to restrict access to FB.

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A Three Hour Tour  May 10, 2020 • 12:18:35am

re: #94 Jack Burton

Since you brought it up… I looked into it, and he hasn’t posted anything here for almost a year.

His last comment: littlegreenfootballs.com

I myself took a very long break with some lurking on and off from LGF because politics (well… TRUMP and his crime family) were affecting my health mentally and physically. I only recently came back to comment on a regular basis. It could be something like that.

IIRC, wheatdogg suffered a medical issue last year that affected his ability to post.

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unproven innocence  May 10, 2020 • 12:30:01am

Minutes ago…

Obama slams Trump response to coronavirus as ‘chaotic disaster’

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Jebediah, RBG  May 10, 2020 • 12:53:41am

re: #90 teleskiguy

Jebediah, RBG ate a bunch of weed gummies? Here’s a song.

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Nice!

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Jebediah, RBG  May 10, 2020 • 1:02:49am

re: #91 goddamnedfrank

FYI there’s evidence that high dose edibles can deplete serotonin levels, which isn’t great.

I’m assuming that that is something I would notice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 3:44:05am

Well, as I predicted, because Panhandle Public Health District is only permitting sign ups for drive through testing on the Internet, they have a bunch of open slots. (That and only two day’s warning for this.)

They’ve opened up the testing now to asymptomatic people to try to fill the slots. (Turns out when your area mostly has no Internet, doing Internet sign ups doesn’t work.)

Later today there are several open slots in my county seat. I just asked my wife if we should go out and do this.

She notes we’ve only had two people in our house since this started (the roofer collecting his cheque and the water system mechanic repairing our r/o unit, both several weeks ago). We also have not left our home (see my little house emoji) except for necessary reasons and have taken every precaution we could (masks, washing up when we get home, &c).

She is of the opinion there might actually be more risk by going out to one of these things than just sitting at home.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 3:49:18am

If you have a half-an-hour, this video might be worth watching for the humour value.

Jeff Holiday on YouTube reads the hate mail he got for his takedown of the propaganda movie “Plandemic.”

Typical of the conservative you find in the wild, there’s lots of capitalisation, misspelt words, bad grammar, absolute certainty of their religious faith, and threats when challenged. (The libertarians can be sorted out by better grammar and spelling.)

Caution for coarse language from Mr. Holiday, because magic four-letter words are like magical incantations against conservatives. (30:27)

Reading ‘Plandemic’ Comments

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Shropshire Slasher  May 10, 2020 • 3:55:53am

Elon Musk, being Elon Musk, is threatening to pull up his tent stakes and move to a more coronavirus friendly state.

Elon Musk on Saturday filed a lawsuit against California’s Alameda County to reopen the Fremont Tesla plant despite the stay-at-home order. He also threatened to move Tesla production to Nevada or Texas.

Musk tweeted “Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected & ignorant ‘Interim Health Officer’ of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense!” Musk then wrote “Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependen [sic] on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.”

cbsnews.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 4:00:03am

re: #102 Shropshire Slasher

Elon Musk, being Elon Musk, is threatening to pull up his tent stakes and move to a more coronavirus friendly state.

cbsnews.com

Moving to Texas is an empty threat, and he knows it. Texas cannot provide for him the specialised skilled workers he needs (which is why his company is in California), nor can Nevada. It is unlikely enough of his skilled workforce would be willing to move to Texas.

A similar thing happened when former Texas Governor Rick “Good Hair” Perry went to Ruger Arms and suggested they could move from Maryland (with its strict gun laws and corporate taxes) to Texas (yeehaw). Ruger told him no, they needed a skilled workforce for their manufacturing and they couldn’t get it in Texas and none of their workers would be willing to move there anyway.

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Decatur Deb  May 10, 2020 • 4:08:12am

re: #68 Belafon

Update on the SUV which I mentioned last night. I went to the dealership, and the guy told me that there were two types of engine models used in the Sorento. Since there were different engine sizes you could get (you could fit another half an engine in the space under the hood), I believe him. It was the bigger engine that had the issue.

So my dad is going to go talk to a mechanic and find out what he might be able to do. If it’s going to cost a whole lot of money just to look at it, then I probably won’t have anything done. It it’s not terribly expensive to investigate, and it turns out that I can do something like replace the bearings, I will probably have that done. It’s not cheap, $2500, but it’s still less than an engine, and it’s still less than the ~$6k I have left on the car.

If I can’t get it fixed, then we’ll most likely park the car in the driveway until I can pay off the loan. I can, if I do everything right, pay it off in about 4 months. At that point, I can either trade a broken car in or sell it to someone else and get a new car.

Kind of sucky, but we’re not in desperate need of a new car right now since my wife works from home and the kid is not at school.

Someone yesterday mentioned finding a low-milage wreck and getting a good independent mechanic to do a swap. That sounds like the lowest-cost path out of this, but takes time to research both the salvage engine and the4 mechanic.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 4:09:07am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 4:10:14am

..

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steve_davis  May 10, 2020 • 4:31:00am

re: #68 Belafon

Update on the SUV which I mentioned last night. I went to the dealership, and the guy told me that there were two types of engine models used in the Sorento. Since there were different engine sizes you could get (you could fit another half an engine in the space under the hood), I believe him. It was the bigger engine that had the issue.

So my dad is going to go talk to a mechanic and find out what he might be able to do. If it’s going to cost a whole lot of money just to look at it, then I probably won’t have anything done. It it’s not terribly expensive to investigate, and it turns out that I can do something like replace the bearings, I will probably have that done. It’s not cheap, $2500, but it’s still less than an engine, and it’s still less than the ~$6k I have left on the car.

If I can’t get it fixed, then we’ll most likely park the car in the driveway until I can pay off the loan. I can, if I do everything right, pay it off in about 4 months. At that point, I can either trade a broken car in or sell it to someone else and get a new car.

Kind of sucky, but we’re not in desperate need of a new car right now since my wife works from home and the kid is not at school.

I may have missed the reply to this from the thread yesterday, but Kia has a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty on the powertrains on their new cars. Are you out of warranty?

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William Lewis  May 10, 2020 • 4:37:04am

re: #102 Shropshire Slasher

Cali should call his bluff - “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. ” because no place else is going to have the workforce he needs.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 10, 2020 • 4:42:06am

re: #108 William Lewis

Cali should call his bluff - “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. ” because no place else is going to have the workforce he needs.

They already did.

A California Democrat had choice words for entrepreneur Elon Musk after he announced that he plans to move the Tesla HQ to Texas and Nevada ‘immediately’ after a California county health official said that his plant could not reopen.

‘F**k Elon Musk,’ San Diego assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez tweeted Satuday.

Gonzalez’s statement drew both praise and condemnation, particularly from people who pointed out the number of job losses if the Tesla factory moves.

Tesla’s Freemont factory employs 10,000 people.

dailymail.co.uk

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 10, 2020 • 4:43:22am

re: #108 William Lewis

Cali should call his bluff - “Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. ” because no place else is going to have the workforce he needs.

Nevada will not. But Texas is a possibility, as the Austin area and Dallas area, and certainly the Houston region, have large technical workforces.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 10, 2020 • 4:45:23am

Musk is the guy who wants to pollute low Earth orbit with thousands of satellites, degrading the view of space for mere mortals who want to look up and see the stars.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 10, 2020 • 4:47:08am

re: #107 steve_davis

I may have missed the reply to this from the thread yesterday, but Kia has a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty on the powertrains on their new cars. Are you out of warranty?

IIRC, he wrote that it was at 101k miles.

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William Lewis  May 10, 2020 • 4:49:47am

re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Nevada will not. But Texas is a possibility, as the Austin area and Dallas area, and certainly the Houston region, have large technical workforces.

He’d have to pay more than they are already making and competative wages are anathema to Libertarians.

He won’t move.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 10, 2020 • 4:55:01am

re: #113 William Lewis

He’d have to pay more than they are already making and competative wages are anathema to Libertarians.

He won’t move.

Maybe if he’s been tunneling to Nevada!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 10, 2020 • 4:57:13am

re: #113 William Lewis

There are a lot of defense/space contractors in the Houston region, and with the decline in NASA and especially the collapse of commercial airlines wrt travel, I bet there are lots of skilled people in the Houston area that would leap at a chance to work for Tesla.

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Shropshire Slasher  May 10, 2020 • 4:57:45am

This isn’t meant to be a commercial for Kia, but since a lizard was talking about theirs; Kia is offering 0% 75 month financing on all new Kia’s. Chevrolet is also offering I believe 7 year loans, at 0%. Get indebted now before inflation blasts off!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:00:05am

A terroristic prop, and that’s the point.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:01:46am

re: #113 William Lewis

He’d have to pay more than they are already making and competative wages are anathema to Libertarians.

He won’t move.

Plus he has to sell his multi-million dollar home compound, probably at a loss considering the epidemic.

Never get between a libertarian and his money.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:03:16am

re: #112 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

IIRC, he wrote that it was at 101k miles.

Taking planned obsolescence to the next level.

“I though it had a lifetime warranty.” (customer)
“Obviously it’s useful lifetime is over.” (manufacturer)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:05:06am

re: #115 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

There are a lot of defense/space contractors in the Houston region, and with the decline in NASA and especially the collapse of commercial airlines wrt travel, I bet there are lots of skilled people in the Houston area that would leap at a chance to work for Tesla.

Give up government job with benefits and such to work for a petulant carpetbagger? Maybe some would jump, but they wouldn’t be enough. He needs more than engineers to run an auto plant. Everyone from mechanics to janitors to front office workers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:07:29am

GAAA
Obamagate as a hashtag is now trending on Twitter. It’s filled with morans.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:09:13am

Happy USA Mother’s Day, all you mothers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:12:33am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:25:23am
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Sherlock Hound  May 10, 2020 • 5:29:35am

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡

A terroristic prop, and that’s the point.

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I despise those people. Most of us don’t know much about weapons, and the gunnits taunt us for that (“HUR HUR ITS A CLIP! HUR HUR IT’S A MAGAZINE! LIBTARDS!”)

Regardless if it is inert or fake, if I see this in my town, I will give them a choice: Either get a complimentary escort to the train station (and quickly!) or I smash them over the head with their fucking weapon. Their choice.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:44:28am

I just watched the clip of The Rachel Maddow Show where she interviews state senator Adam Morfeld (D), and called Nebraska “the least transparent state in the country” on the epidemic.

No wonder Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-meat packing) and Taylor Gage (his spokesmodel) howled so loudly on Twitter yesterday. The old “hit dogs holler” phrase applies.

Nebraska has the highest growth rate in infections of four of ten counties in the entire country, therefore the growth rate here is amongst the highest in the world.

Twitter won’t show the ratio (comments/retweets) on my computer (they’re covering for Republicans again), but after over a day Taylor Gage has a grand total of seventeen likes and three retweets.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  May 10, 2020 • 5:51:34am

re: #125 Sherlock Hound

I despise those people. Most of us don’t know much about weapons, and the gunnits taunt us for that (“HUR HUR ITS A CLIP! HUR HUR IT’S A MAGAZINE! LIBTARDS!”)

Regardless if it is inert or fake, if I see this in my town, I will give them a choice: Either get a complimentary escort to the train station (and quickly!) or I smash them over the head with their fucking weapon. Their choice.

They’re such assholes and they deserve to have their guns taken from them. Bullying assholes.

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JC1  May 10, 2020 • 5:55:53am

re: #111 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Musk is the guy who wants to pollute low Earth orbit with thousands of satellites, degrading the view of space for mere mortals who want to look up and see the stars.

That’s a good thing though. Cheap, reliable, fast internet anywhere in the world. It’ll be a game changer.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:56:37am

re: #127 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

They’re such assholes and they deserve to have their guns taken from them. Bullying assholes.

I’d be good with charges for terroristic threats. They aren’t doing this because of some nebulous claim to freedom being squashed by tyranny. How many of these irredeemable fuquewittes are standing up to the tyranny of a lynching in Georgia? Oh right, they’re cheering it on.

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jeffreyw  May 10, 2020 • 5:56:39am

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 5:58:30am

re: #130 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Only those passing the colour test may enter.

Careful, you might get Tang the Incompetent at your bird feeder.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:00:17am

re: #128 JC1

That’s a good thing though. Cheap, reliable, fast internet anywhere in the world. It’ll be a game changer.

Cheap. Sure, with a libertarian owning a monopoly on those satellites which would be a hazard to launching any spacecraft, interference to terrestrial radio and astronomy, &c.

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Decatur Deb  May 10, 2020 • 6:02:40am

re: #128 JC1

That’s a good thing though. Cheap, reliable, fast internet anywhere in the world. It’ll be a game changer.

Yeah, the Papuans in Mendi are hurting for kitten memes and conspiracy theories.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 6:06:30am

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Yeah, the Papuans in Mendi are hurting for kitten memes and conspiracy theories.

You’re not civilized until you have easy access to porn.
///

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Decatur Deb  May 10, 2020 • 6:07:12am

re: #134 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

You’re not civilized until you have easy access to porn.
///

Porn is tricky when your national dress is a penis sheath.

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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 6:09:15am

re: #107 steve_davis

I may have missed the reply to this from the thread yesterday, but Kia has a 10-year, 100,000 mile warranty on the powertrains on their new cars. Are you out of warranty?

101,200

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:09:31am

Don’t relax, relent, coast. Don’t assume. Write, register and vote.
And look for good signs.

CNN:

Biden’s lead is about as steady as it can possibly be. Not only is he up 6 points over the last month or so, but the average of polls since the beginning of the year has him ahead by 6 points. Moreover, all the polls taken since the beginning of 2019 have him up 6 points.”

“The steadiness in the polls is record breaking. Biden’s advantage is the steadiest in a race with an incumbent running since at least 1944. That could mean it’ll be harder to change the trajectory of the race going forward, though this remains more than close enough that either candidate could easily win.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:11:01am

re: #135 Decatur Deb

Porn is tricky when your national dress is a penis sheath.

No one I’m aware of in Papua New Guinea wears an AR-15 that way.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:11:59am

re: #133 Decatur Deb

Yeah, the Papuans in Mendi are hurting for kitten memes and conspiracy theories.

The internet is for porn

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:12:15am

re: #134 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

You’re not civilized until you have easy access to porn.
///

Gmta

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:13:37am

Gov. Pete Ricketts puts out a statement which makes no sense.

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ericblair  May 10, 2020 • 6:15:37am

re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Nevada will not. But Texas is a possibility, as the Austin area and Dallas area, and certainly the Houston region, have large technical workforces.

True, but. It’s not the general skillset; they’d be losing most of the corporate knowledge of the company if a significant number of people refuse to relocate. There’s all sorts of little details and “why we didn’t do it that way” that are spread throughout a workforce, and he’d be losing all of that.

He’s not majority owner of the company, supposedly needs 2/3 majority for major decisions, and by saying he *will* move the company to TX/NV *immediately* he’s writing checks his ass can’t cash. Did he actually get permission to tweet this, did he discuss this with anyone on the board, or even as a possibility with shareholders? And if/when Tesla stays right where it is, who’s going to listen to him? He’s a loose cannon who is going to blow up the company, and he needs to be shoved out the door and replaced by adult supervision.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:16:03am

re: #139 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

The internet is for porn

You made me do it. (3:11)

The Internet Is For Porn - HQ - Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast

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Decatur Deb  May 10, 2020 • 6:16:31am

re: #134 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

You’re not civilized until you have easy access to porn.
///

Until you’re “civilized”, you don’t need porn.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:19:22am

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Shropshire Slasher  May 10, 2020 • 6:27:26am

re: #144 Decatur Deb

As soon as they get internet they can sell those used on EBay.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:35:44am

Seven Dems and seven GOP on the House Banking Subcommittee.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:36:21am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Gov. Pete Ricketts puts out a statement which makes no sense.

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He’s trying to out desantis desantis

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A Cranky One  May 10, 2020 • 6:39:00am

Something different:

mentalfloss.com

Denmark’s infamous dog fart rollercoaster. Watch the video.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:41:11am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡

You made me do it. (3:11)

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Moi?

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Jay C  May 10, 2020 • 6:46:44am

re: #137 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Don’t relax, relent, coast. Don’t assume. Write, register and vote.
And look for good signs.

CNN:

Wise advice: every Democrat from Joe Biden and Tom Perez on down to every individual voter HAS to act as if Joe is six points down, rather than up. And don’t stop campaigning, and support the (D) campaign: right up til Election Night, not stopping for a second.

But numbers like these are unsurprising ( to me, anyway); it’s the flip side of Trump’s consistent, if negative, favorability/approval ratings: the Orange Anus has never been able to get more than (roughly) 42% approval. And while GOPers want to think otherwise, that number is way more likely to be Trump’s “ceiling” than his “floor”.

Polls have little relevance this far out; and before any real “campaign” has actually begun, but I think this is a “good sign”: Trump, for all the BS bluster, isn’t really all that popular: and, if the public is presented with a palatable alternative, most definitely CAN be beaten.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 6:48:20am
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Florida Panhandler  May 10, 2020 • 6:49:54am

re: #65 austin_blue

To be clear, since I live here, OUR Texas yahoos. About 40% of our citizens are nuts, about 35% of our citizens are sane, and about 25% of our citizens just don’t fucking vote.

This is correct. I grew up in Texas and I would say near 80% of my family over the age of 50 are wacko nutso Fox News 24/7 cult members. They are also highly religious in a conservative fundamentalist Christian sect. Their white entitlement and sometimes more overt racism is also on display behind closed doors.

The more liberal voices across Texas are actively suppressed in the dominant rural swaths and the liberal concentrations in cities are suppressed via laughably overt gerrymandering. It’s been this way since LBJ died. The non-voters are infuriating.

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A Mom Anon  May 10, 2020 • 6:52:41am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡

How many NYPD members are sick or dead from this damned virus? Seriously? WTF?

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:57:28am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡

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A bagel is just a donut with hardening of the arteries
So they really were going for donuts
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 10, 2020 • 6:58:49am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Gov. Pete Ricketts puts out a statement which makes no sense.

It does make some sense in some arenas. He phrased it (very) poorly and without really understanding; you’re going to end up using more kits than if you tested individually in this situation. Pooling samples to test groups of people is not new; you then retest individuals if the pool turns up positive. But SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious virus, so this mechanism isn’t so good. Pooling makes much more sense with a diseases caused by an infectious agent that is much less infections and therefore less common.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 6:59:57am

re: #154 A Mom Anon

How many NYPD members are sick or dead from this damned virus? Seriously? WTF?

They don’t think they’ll get it
And of course they think they are special or somehow privileged so the cooperative rules just don’t apply

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:00:35am

LOL this photo of student protests in Montréal in 2012:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:04:49am

re: #156 Colère Tueur de Lapin

It does make some sense in some arenas. He phrased it (very) poorly and without really understanding; you’re going to end up using more kits than if you tested individually in this situation. Pooling samples to test groups of people is not new; you then retest individuals if the pool turns up positive. But SARS-CoV-2 is a highly infectious virus, so this mechanism isn’t so good. Pooling makes much more sense with a diseases caused by an infectious agent that is much less infections and therefore less common.

Part of the problem is our state’s Chief Medical Officer. His medical degrees come from Catholic colleges, so he’s opposed to anything resembling women’s healthcare. He is a surgeon hired by the governor directly out of private practice (because government should be run like a business) and not a public health policy expert or a public health physician.

He is just like Dr. Birx: A conservative first and a physician second. His concern is “opening up the economy” not public health.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 7:05:19am

re: #76 austin_blue

80, 037 dead per Worldometer.

So much winning!

Six times Obama’s H1N1 response in 2009. 40,000 times the deaths from the Ebola virus in 2014. 20,000 Benghazis. Almost 27 9/11’s.

USA! USA! USA!

They may not have been, actively, intentionally evil in their response to this pandemic, although some people at the top clearly were, but this administration is, collectively, a batch of incompetent fuckwits who are the the single biggest group of mass murders in the history of the country.

I’m off for the rack. Sleep as well as you can.

(hunkered down in south Austin)

Look at this, he is bragging about his “Great Marks!” like this was a high school math test. (He never paid attention in math class)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:08:58am

re: #160 The Pie Overlord!

We have a Twitter troll for President.

Not even a good Twitter troll.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:12:36am
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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 7:24:03am
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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 7:24:18am

Porn will save us:

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 7:32:44am

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SteelPH  May 10, 2020 • 7:34:37am

re: #164 Belafon

I always knew porn would one day be our savior, but they didn’t believe me. NOBODY BELIEVED ME!!
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Patricia Kayden  May 10, 2020 • 7:35:33am

re: #71 Targetpractice

Basically wingnuts are breaking into the usual two camps on the Arbery murder:

- “This was a tragedy, but WHY YOU GOTTA MAKE A RACIAL THING!?”

- “IF THOSE NI-CLANGS WOULD JUST RESPECT THE LAW, THEY WOULDN’T GET SHOT!”

What law did a jogger have to obey when faced with armed thugs? Arbery did nothing wrong.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:36:59am

Okay this is weird. California wanted exotic fish from the East Coast stocked in its rivers, they paid to have a bunch shipped, and they never made it out of Nebraska. For a few years Nebraska had salmon, eels, oysters, lobsters, and other marine creatures.

A true fish tale: How a railroad crash boosted Nebraska’s fishing stock in the late 1800s (Omaha World-Herald)

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Patricia Kayden  May 10, 2020 • 7:39:33am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Is Trump tweeting about the 80,000 people who have succumbed to the Coronavirus? Or are his tweets all about himself? Looking forward to a non-narcissistic President. Go Biden!!

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 7:43:27am

re: #167 Patricia Kayden

What law did a jogger have to obey when faced with armed thugs? Arbery did nothing wrong.

The wingnuts are running on the logic of the shithead DA who bent over backwards to justify letting these two go with no charges: Arbery had a “criminal past” and “mental issues” which meant he was both aggressive and fit the profile of a suspect of a series of burglaries in the neighborhood.

Why did these matter? Because the DA had to make their actions “legal” and so spun BS about how they’d “seen” Arbery burglarize a home that was under construction (legally not burglary in GA) and thus were acting within the boundaries of GA’s “citizen’s arrest” law.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 10, 2020 • 7:43:52am

re: #126 Anymouse 🌹🏡

I just watched the clip of The Rachel Maddow Show where she interviews state senator Adam Morfeld (D), and called Nebraska “the least transparent state in the country” on the epidemic.

No wonder Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-meat packing) and Taylor Gage (his spokesmodel) howled so loudly on Twitter yesterday. The old “hit dogs holler” phrase applies.

Nebraska has the highest growth rate in infections of four of ten counties in the entire country, therefore the growth rate here is amongst the highest in the world.

Twitter won’t show the ratio (comments/retweets) on my computer (they’re covering for Republicans again), but after over a day Taylor Gage has a grand total of seventeen likes and three retweets.

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I can see the comments, and they’re not favorable. Maybe you should try again, if you’re interested.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:46:16am

re: #170 Targetpractice

The wingnuts are running on the logic of the shithead DA who bent over backwards to justify letting these two go with no charges: Arbery had a “criminal past” and “mental issues” which meant he was both aggressive and fit the profile of a suspect of a series of burglaries in the neighborhood.

Why did these matter? Because the DA had to make their actions “legal” and so spun BS about how they’d “seen” Arbery burglarize a home that was under construction (legally not burglary in GA) and thus were acting within the boundaries of GA’s “citizen’s arrest” law.

It was also reported that there had been no burglaries in about two years in the area, so they lied about that as well.

In addition to the murderers going on trial, the people involved in covering this up should go on trial for criminal conspiracy to cover up the murder. I’m not holding my breath on that. Possibly a firing or two is the best one can expect.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:48:04am

re: #171 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I can see the comments, and they’re not favorable. Maybe you should try again, if you’re interested.

Tried again. Still can’t see the number of comments.

Perhaps it’s because I’m not using a Twitter account and just going to the Website.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  May 10, 2020 • 7:50:04am

re: #130 jeffreyw

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Western good morning!

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 7:51:40am

re: #170 Targetpractice

The wingnuts are running on the logic of the shithead DA who bent over backwards to justify letting these two go with no charges: Arbery had a “criminal past” and “mental issues” which meant he was both aggressive and fit the profile of a suspect of a series of burglaries in the neighborhood.

Why did these matter? Because the DA had to make their actions “legal” and so spun BS about how they’d “seen” Arbery burglarize a home that was under construction (legally not burglary in GA) and thus were acting within the boundaries of GA’s “citizen’s arrest” law.

A petty crime even if true
Call the police and follow at a safe distance
Any other response and the results thereof are on the guy with the gun

100% unjustified and unnecessary

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Citizen K  May 10, 2020 • 7:51:57am

On April 17 in Toledo, Ohio, a 19-year-old black man was arrested for violating the state stay-at-home order. In court filings, police say he took a bus from Detroit to Toledo “without a valid reason.” Six young black men were arrested in Toledo last Saturday while hanging out on a front lawn; police allege they were “seen standing within 6 feet of each other.” In Cincinnati, a black man was charged with violating stay-at-home orders after he was shot in the ankle on April 7; according to a police affidavit, he was talking to a friend in the street when he was shot and was “clearly not engaged in essential activities.”

Ohio’s health director, Dr. Amy Acton, issued the state’s stay-at-home order on March 22, prohibiting people from leaving their home except for essential activities and requiring them to maintain social distancing “at all times.” A violation of the order is a misdemeanor, punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a $750 fine. Since the order, hundreds of people have been charged with violations across Ohio.

The state has also seen some of the most prominent protests against state stay-at-home orders, as large crowds gather on the statehouse steps to flout the directives. But the protesters, most of them white, have not faced arrest. Rather, in three large Ohio jurisdictions ProPublica examined, charges of violating the order appear to have fallen disproportionately on black people.

ProPublica analyzed court records for the city of Toledo and for the counties that include Columbus and Cincinnati, three of the most populous jurisdictions in Ohio. In all of them, ProPublica found, black people were at least four times as likely to be charged with violating the stay-at-home order as white people.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 7:54:16am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 7:54:45am

re: #176 Citizen K

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Jay C  May 10, 2020 • 7:55:07am

re: #170 Targetpractice

The wingnuts are running on the logic of the shithead DA who bent over backwards to justify letting these two go with no charges: Arbery had a “criminal past” and “mental issues” which meant he was both aggressive and fit the profile of a suspect of a series of burglaries in the neighborhood.

Why did these matter? Because the DA had to make their actions “legal” and so spun BS about how they’d “seen” Arbery burglarize a home that was under construction (legally not burglary in GA) and thus were acting within the boundaries of GA’s “citizen’s arrest” law.

The “BS” (well, one bit of it anyway) is also that Ahmaud Arbery was simply poking around a construction site; technically, misdemeanor trespass at the worst - if that.

But I’m guessing the McMichaels’ defense is more likely to focus on the (reported) struggle for the shotgun that Travis McMichael (reportedly) threatened Arbery with. Which (as with George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin) throws the shadow of “self-defense” on the charges.Which I am sure any *local* jury will be only too happy to seize on as an excuse to let these clowns walk…..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 7:57:38am

Wyoming has numbers from late last night.

644 - Total cases (+11)
7 - COVID-19 related deaths (no change)
64 - Hospitalised (+4)
7 - New tests

Ski country and rural west central Fremont County continues to be hammered as people continue entering the area escaping from Colorado (the same thing which brought the disease here in the Panhandle, except here it was campgrounds). Fremont County has 180 cases by itself, and its hospital was overwhelmed long ago (patients are airlifted or driven out of the county).

health.wyo.gov

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 8:00:21am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 8:01:32am
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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:02:28am

re: #179 Jay C

The “BS” (well, one bit of it anyway) is also that Ahmaud Arbery was simply poking around a construction site; technically, misdemeanor trespass at the worst - if that.

But I’m guessing the McMichaels’ defense is more likely to focus on the (reported) struggle for the shotgun that Travis McMichael (reportedly) threatened Arbery with. Which (as with George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin) throws the shadow of “self-defense” on the charges.Which I am sure any *local* jury will be only too happy to seize on as an excuse to let these clowns walk…..

Since GA has no hate crime laws, it’s all going to be self-defense at trial. The McMichael’s will have a defense strategy of playing down everything prior to the confrontation as “legal” or “misguided,” while insisting that the relevant moment was when (according to the accused) this “thug” attacked them and tried to make a grab at one of their weapons. They “fear for their lives” and so shot him in “self-defense,” a tragic set of circumstances that wouldn’t have happened had he just stopped and “answered their questions.

And note this will be before they proceed to character assassination by bringing in his past misdeeds while playing up the McMichael’s and their “years of service” as DA’s investigators.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 8:04:03am

re: #183 Targetpractice

Since GA has no hate crime laws, it’s all going to be self-defense at trial. The McMichael’s will have a defense strategy of playing down everything prior to the confrontation as “legal” or “misguided,” while insisting that the relevant moment was when (according to the accused) this “thug” attacked them and tried to make a grab at one of their weapons. They “fear for their lives” and so shot him in “self-defense,” a tragic set of circumstances that wouldn’t have happened had he just stopped and “answered their questions.

And note this will be before they proceed to character assassination by bringing in his past misdeeds while playing up the McMichael’s and their “years of service” as DA’s investigators.

So it’s going to hinge on jury selection and how much bullshit the judge is willing to put up with?

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2020 • 8:04:22am

re: #18 Charles Johnson

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Fuck those fuckers. They don’t pay fucking taxes, fuck them. TAX THE CHURCHES!!!!!

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PhillyPretzel  May 10, 2020 • 8:05:58am

To all of the LGF family who are mothers I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Mother’s Day.

And to all of the LGF family who are thinking of them today Happy Mother’s Day.

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Patricia Kayden  May 10, 2020 • 8:06:08am

re: #184 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

A (nearly all) White jury will bend over backwards to find them not guilty. See George Zimmerman.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:06:13am

Well, State Senator Adam Morfeld apparently shamed someone in the state government while on The Rachel Maddow Show:

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:06:58am

re: #184 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

So it’s going to hinge on jury selection and how much bullshit the judge is willing to put up with?

Pretty much. Odds are prosecution will move for a change of venue, as the jury pool has been pretty well tainted by Barnhill’s efforts and the subsequent BS in local news. And then there will be arguing during discovery over whether Arbery’s arrest record and other documents going towards character are germane to the proceedings (particularly since none of it involved burglary).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:12:34am

Cheyenne, Wyoming’s Frontier Days and Rodeo is still on for July 17-26. Tickets are still on sale (it would appear they have no intent of cancelling). The week-long event draws in people from all over the world.

Included is a whole concert series of Country & Western stars and its giant midway of games and rides.

I think I’ll stay the hell out of Cheyenne in the last part of the month and August, since I have zero confidence in Wyoming to get the epidemic under control by then.

It’s not as large as Mardi Gras or Spring Break in Florida, but it draws in hundreds of thousands of people over the week (and fills up our campgrounds here). I imagine we can expect spillover disease in my area, especially along I-80 through the Nebraska Panhandle to Cheyenne.
cfdrodeo.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 8:13:28am

re: #189 Targetpractice

Pretty much. Odds are prosecution will move for a change of venue, as the jury pool has been pretty well tainted by Barnhill’s efforts and the subsequent BS in local news. And then there will be arguing during discovery over whether Arbery’s arrest record and other documents going towards character are germane to the proceedings (particularly since none of it involved burglary).

Will depend on the judge and defense’s willingness to attempt to go there. Which I expect they will since assassinating the victim’s character is probably a key thing.

(Anecdote: Last jury trial where I actually served the defendant’s past history did not come up. Though they presumably had something there since the primary witness was able to pick them out of a mugshot book according to the testimony of a police detective.

And there was a character assassination attempt statement on this witness by one of the defense attorneys. Objected to immediately by the prosecutor, objection sustained by the judge, judege instructed jury to ignore it, and followed by a short sidebar with the defense attorneys. However, it had its desired effect since the other alternate seated next to be audibly gasped when he made the statement/accusation.)

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  May 10, 2020 • 8:14:02am

re: #185 Eventual Carrion

re: #185 Eventual Carrion

re: #18 Charles Johnson

Okay, I can’t speak to every Catholic Church, but where I live, the money received went directly to paying all of the hourly employees at all of the Catholic Schools that had been furloughed, and to any shortfalls in money that would go paying other employees. Our Bishop, who is a good person, as liberal as you can get for a Catholic Priest, and leans all in on racial justice(his callout of MAGA and the kids from Covington Catholic). Yes, the local church is tax exempt, but don’t believe that all smaller churches and systems are treated equally, or given the same amount of financial support from the upper church.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 8:14:54am

re: #183 Targetpractice

Since GA has no hate crime laws, it’s all going to be self-defense at trial. The McMichael’s will have a defense strategy of playing down everything prior to the confrontation as “legal” or “misguided,” while insisting that the relevant moment was when (according to the accused) this “thug” attacked them and tried to make a grab at one of their weapons. They “fear for their lives” and so shot him in “self-defense,” a tragic set of circumstances that wouldn’t have happened had he just stopped and “answered their questions.

And note this will be before they proceed to character assassination by bringing in his past misdeeds while playing up the McMichael’s and their “years of service” as DA’s investigators.

You took the weapon out of your truck
You could have stayed safe in your truck till the police came

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Patricia Kayden  May 10, 2020 • 8:16:34am

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:17:41am

re: #192 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Okay, I can’t speak to every Catholic Church, but where I live, the money received went directly to paying all of the hourly employees at all of the Catholic Schools that had been furloughed, and to any shortfalls in money that would go paying other employees. Our Bishop, who is a good person, as liberal as you can get for a Catholic Priest, and leans all in on racial justice(his callout of MAGA and the kids from Covington Catholic). Yes, the local church is tax exempt, but don’t believe that all smaller churches and systems are treated equally, or given the same amount of financial support from the upper church.

It’s not like the wealthiest private organisation in the history of the planet, which is tax-exempt as a religion in our country, couldn’t distribute a tiny rounding error of zero to smaller churches, instead of violating our Constitution on separation of Church and State.

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:18:45am

re: #193 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

You took the weapon out of your truck
You could have stayed safe in your truck till the police came

It was noted yesterday that the DA’s case was basically predicated on the “white authority” idea, that these two morons with guns had some inherent authority to enforce the law. Hence why Barnhill had to twist events (and, in the case of the “burglaries,” fabricate them) to confer upon the McMichael’s the ability to conduct a citizen’s arrest.

I’d add that there’s also a whiff of the “good guy with a gun” BS, that these two armed yahoos didn’t need no cops and to wait on them to arrive would have been the same as letting a crime go unpunished.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:20:14am

Food! Stuffed French toast (stuffed with peanut butter and chocolate).

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  May 10, 2020 • 8:27:10am

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡

It’s not like the wealthiest private organisation in the history of the planet, which is tax-exempt as a religion in our country, couldn’t distribute a tiny rounding error of zero to smaller churches, instead of violating our Constitution on separation of Church and State.

Exactly right. In a lot of ways, the Catholic Church responds to things like the the Trump Administration- hey you Governors are on your own. You do the work. And be in a red state too(KY). Separation of Church and state down here only really matters for white evangelicals. (Obviously I don’t believe that, and that shouldn’t be the case)

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SteelPH  May 10, 2020 • 8:27:26am

re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Food! Stuffed French toast (stuffed with peanut butter and chocolate).

Totally not jealous. Nope. Not at all.
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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:28:58am

One of the things that the NRA and other “guns rights” groups has managed to convince millions of armed yahoos is to see a “crime” and not meet it with an armed response is tantamount to being an accomplice. That if you have a gun and you don’t intervene, then you are “allowing” the crime to occur because you’re not exercising your “right” as a gun owner. That this is little more than promoting armed vigilantism is not ignored, but instead embraced as the “duty” of a “law-abiding citizen.”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 8:30:49am

re: #195 Anymouse 🌹🏡

It’s not like the wealthiest private organisation in the history of the planet, which is tax-exempt as a religion in our country, couldn’t distribute a tiny rounding error of zero to smaller churches, instead of violating our Constitution on separation of Church and State.

Why should they be bailed out from a system they do not support?
And why them before/ instead of actual taxpayer businesses who were instead shut out when the funds ran out?

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lawhawk  May 10, 2020 • 8:31:38am

re: #185 Eventual Carrion

The PPP loans are available to all manner of businesses and congregations. Our congregation applied for them to fund office staffing - teachers and back office staff, or else they’d have to be laid off/furloughed. I get it.

At same time, the Catholic Church sits on vast amount of wealth and could pay these costs, but wont.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  May 10, 2020 • 8:32:16am

re: #170 Targetpractice

The wingnuts are running on the logic of the shithead DA who bent over backwards to justify letting these two go with no charges: Arbery had a “criminal past” and “mental issues” which meant he was both aggressive and fit the profile of a suspect of a series of burglaries in the neighborhood.

Why did these matter? Because the DA had to make their actions “legal” and so spun BS about how they’d “seen” Arbery burglarize a home that was under construction (legally not burglary in GA) and thus were acting within the boundaries of GA’s “citizen’s arrest” law.

I’m thinking back to my Texas CHL instructor - an active LEO - who made it very clear to our class that lethal force in defense of mere property (i.e. things like your car, tools in your shed, whatever) was never justified. If you drew on somebody and shot them because they were taking stuff, you were going to jail.

Bottom line is there’s no good reason for those fuckpoodles to be armed, chasing a guy in a truck, & confronting/threatening him.

(We all know that, of course, but I’m not sure if The Law does)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:33:21am

R&B Singer Betty Wright Dead at 66 (TMZ)

Wright’s cause of death was not announced when her niece confirmed the passing. Something was clearly wrong though because 2 days ago, Chaka Khan made a plea … “Calling all my #PrayWarriors. My beloved sister, Betty Wright @MsBettyWright, is now in need of all your prayers.”

Wright, whom some in the music industry called one of the most underrated singers of her time, was recently honored on TV One’s, “Unsung.”

(more)

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jaunte  May 10, 2020 • 8:33:36am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 8:35:41am

re: #197 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Food! Stuffed French toast (stuffed with peanut butter and chocolate).

So..Reese’s French toast?

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lawhawk  May 10, 2020 • 8:37:36am

Fuck Trump and Fuck the Enabling GOPers and even the media that amplifies their bulkshit.

Trump holds meetings with senior DoD officials - no social distancing, no masks. WH staffers have gotten covid19, and all of these old white guys are old and in the vulnerable population age and likely risk groups.

That they’re not value signaling with masks and social distancing means that they don’t take any of this seriously - either within the military or the general public. They’re enabling people to go out and ignore the dire threat, and it means that the death toll will climb ever higher than if the Trumpists took this shit seriously and pushed to aggressively social distance and mask up.

Instead, they’re reopening before we’ve even seen a peak in many parts of the country, because of course they are. They don’t give a crap about anyone alive right now - they never have. They’re just cogs in a machine that generates wealth for the rich, and the burdens fall to everyone else. Poor. Old people. Minorities. That’s who bears the burden hardest. And Trumpists don’t care about anyone but themselves.

They’re sociopaths and they are proud of it.

The media keeps amplifying this - with everything from both siding to regurgitating what Trump says without noting that he’s putting the public in grave risk by ignoring health experts.

This is not ending well for far too many people.

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jaunte  May 10, 2020 • 8:37:44am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:38:29am

re: #206 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

So..Reese’s French toast?

The stuffing my wife put in it is a Vitacoast product called “Peanut Butter Slim.”

It is a powdered peanut butter and milk chocolate mix.

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:38:37am

re: #203 Pawn of the Oppressor

I’m thinking back to my Texas CHL instructor - an active LEO - who made it very clear to our class that lethal force in defense of mere property (i.e. things like your car, tools in your shed, whatever) was never justified. If you drew on somebody and shot them because they were taking stuff, you were going to jail.

Bottom line is there’s no good reason for those fuckpoodles to be armed, chasing a guy in a truck, & confronting/threatening him.

That’s one of the issues when you live in a late-stage capitalist society: People have so little and sacrifice so much to get what they have that material possessions begin to take on the same value to some as a human life. Hence the morons who either insist on staying in their homes during natural disaster or pile useless junk in their vehicles when escaping: Even if the disaster doesn’t destroy it all, people live in constant worry that “looters” will come and cart it all off.

It’s how you get defense attorneys who will (without hesitation) argue in court that if the theft of property isn’t defended against, then those looters might get bolder until “someone gets hurt.” And then the jury gets images in their heads of little kids or grandmas being shot and killed in confrontations with home invaders and decide that they must “take a stand.”

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  May 10, 2020 • 8:39:50am

re: #208 jaunte

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Satire?

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jaunte  May 10, 2020 • 8:41:53am

re: #211 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Actual statements from the idiot, condensed.

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retired cynic  May 10, 2020 • 8:41:54am

re: #130 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

I had a pair of Baltimore orioles up in one of my pecan trees the other afternoon. Closest I had been to them. The male especially just glowed iridescently. He landed on a branch and began calling. The female came from the woods, joined him on the branch and they discussed plans for the evening, and then sailed off back into the woods. Every winter, when the leaves are gone, I get to see one or two of their nests. But this viewing was a gift. I just stood and watched and enjoyed.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:44:37am
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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 8:46:33am

Mother’s Day 2020:

My oldest son is still shloffin’ poffin’ in bed.
I want waffles.
Looks like I’m gonna make them for myself.

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retired cynic  May 10, 2020 • 8:48:34am

re: #152 Anymouse 🌹🏡

Molly Crabapple🇵🇷
✔
@mollycrabapple
In Brooklyn cops tossed away the barricades that mark the pedestrian-only streets that let people exercise while social distancing.

They then drove down the pedestrian-only street to the bagel shop, and illegally entered the shop with no masks

He could have done with an attitude adjustment and some exercise, IMO.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:50:14am

#FathersDay is trending in tandem with #milfs .

A lot of Twitter is a Dumpster fire.

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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 8:54:31am

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡

#FathersDay is trending in tandem with #milfs .

A lot of Twitter is a Dumpster fire.

Twitter is what happens when the cost of publishing what you think is low.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 8:56:47am

re: #218 Belafon

Twitter is what happens when the cost of publishing what you think is low.

The racists are all over the Father’sDay hashtag bashing Michelle Obama in exactly the classy manner you would expect from a conservative.

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lizardofid  May 10, 2020 • 8:58:05am

Good morning and Happy Mothers Day everyone!

The other afternoon I snapped this, and wanted to add it to the “good morning bird collection”.

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 8:59:11am

Think the best way to characterize the Arbery murder trial will be “letter of the law vs spirit of the law.”

The prosecution will be arguing the letter, that nothing the victim did that day constituted a crime, that even if it had the accused had no way of knowing and said as much during questioning immediately after the shooting, and so the state’s “citizen’s arrest” law did not apply. And that their actions, even if you assume they had no intent to harm/kill, were still so reckless as to meet the legal criteria for manslaughter.

By contrast, the defense is gonna argue the spirit, trying to bring in “evidence” that there had been a rash of “crimes” in the neighborhood. They’ll bring in the property-owner to say that his future home had been “burglarized” and that he’d caught Arbery on video the day of the shooting. The theft of a gun from the McMichael’s unlocked truck will be another example offered, even though there’s no evidence whatsoever that Ahmaud was involved. Both men will then say on the stand that they’d never seen Arbery before and didn’t recognize him, thus making his presence in the neighborhood “suspicious.” So you got a rash of unreported “burglaries” going on with a black “suspect,” enough (in the defense’s estimation) to justify a “citizen’s arrest.”

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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 8:59:42am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 9:02:04am

Chester County, PA COVID-19 stats for yesterday:
Confirmed Cases: 1906 (+90) <— largest one day jump yet
Total Tests: 8872 (+402)
Deaths: 184 (+1)

Large jump in tests as well; usually 150-250 more tests per day.

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Jay C  May 10, 2020 • 9:07:57am

re: #221 Targetpractice

Think the best way to characterize the Arbery murder trial will be “letter of the law vs spirit of the law.”

The prosecution will be arguing the letter, that nothing the victim did that day constituted a crime, that even if it had the accused had no way of knowing and said as much during questioning immediately after the shooting, and so the state’s “citizen’s arrest” law did not apply. And that their actions, even if you assume they had no intent to harm/kill, were still so reckless as to meet the legal criteria for manslaughter.

By contrast, the defense is gonna argue the spirit, trying to bring in “evidence” that there had been a rash of “crimes” in the neighborhood. They’ll bring in the property-owner to say that his future home had been “burglarized” and that he’d caught Arbery on video the day of the shooting. The theft of a gun from the McMichael’s unlocked truck will be another example offered, even though there’s no evidence whatsoever that Ahmaud was involved. Both men will then say on the stand that they’d never seen Arbery before and didn’t recognize him, thus making his presence in the neighborhood “suspicious.” So you got a rash of unreported “burglaries” going on with a black “suspect,” enough (in the defense’s estimation) to justify a “citizen’s arrest.”

Not to mention the “self-defense” ploy, when they argue that Travis McMichael was in fear of his life or whatever when Ahmaud Arbery grabbed his shotgun (that Travis was waving, loaded, at him with little/no “justification”, but never mind: Georgia, guns, etc….).

My guess is a concerted attempt by prosecutors (and likely in some other venue) to throw the book at the bozos, followed by a trial and acquittal, with plenty of fake chagrin at the “tragic accident but not rising to the level of murder” excuse-mongering.

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 9:15:30am

re: #224 Jay C

Not to mention the “self-defense” ploy, when they argue that Travis McMichael was in fear of his life or whatever when Ahmaud Arbery grabbed his shotgun (that Travis was waving, loaded, at him with little/no “justification”, but never mind: Georgia, guns, etc….).

My guess is a concerted attempt by prosecutors (and likely in some other venue) to throw the book at the bozos, followed by a trial and acquittal, with plenty of fake chagrin at the “tragic accident but not rising to the level of murder” excuse-mongering.

That’s the entire reason for the “spirit of the law” approach, arguing that the McMichael’s had “lawful authority” in this situation and thus the prosecution’s theory that their actions were reckless contradicts the law. And leads us to the “if he’d just obeyed their orders” point in the trial, where they argue that Arbery was at fault for his death by “escalating” to violence. Put one or both of the duo on-stand to ask if they intended to harm Arbery (they’ll insist they didn’t), if they did anything to threaten him (again, insist they didn’t), and had they intended to shoot him if he resisted (of course both will deny that as well). So the defense will insist that if anybody had violent intent, it was Arbery because he was not jogging but “fleeing the scene.”

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Rightwingconspirator  May 10, 2020 • 9:21:04am

Why are so many of us on both sides of the COVID argument(s) speaking as if we have never known how to quell a deadly infectious disease? We actually did it before computers and cell phones and the internet. In an incredibly dense populous till developing nation.
Paged

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 10, 2020 • 9:21:49am

re: #187 Patricia Kayden

A (nearly all) White jury will bend over backwards to find them not guilty. See George Zimmerman.

Add in the Republican 24/7 Bullshit Machine making them martyrs. Oh and you can bet that they will show up on Jesus TV talking about their “deep Xtian faith”.

It’s a foregone conclusion that they will get the George Zimmerman treatment they’ll get away with it as they walk out of the courthouse with the crackers cheering them!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 10, 2020 • 9:24:23am

re: #192 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Okay, I can’t speak to every Catholic Church, but where I live, the money received went directly to paying all of the hourly employees at all of the Catholic Schools that had been furloughed, and to any shortfalls in money that would go paying other employees. Our Bishop, who is a good person, as liberal as you can get for a Catholic Priest, and leans all in on racial justice(his callout of MAGA and the kids from Covington Catholic). Yes, the local church is tax exempt, but don’t believe that all smaller churches and systems are treated equally, or given the same amount of financial support from the upper church.

There’s also a certain former catholic bishop of West Virginia who lived the TV Pulpit Pimp lifestyle….

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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 9:28:39am

re: #226 Rightwingconspirator

The only reason those of us on the left are talking about this being hard is precisely the reason stated by the article: lack of unity. We have an entire group of people that refuse to follow what needs to be done. And the reason for that is, in 1974, there were plenty of people that remember the 1918 flu pandemic, and the fight against polio. So little of that experience remains now.

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Eclectic Cyborg  May 10, 2020 • 9:29:25am

Just wanted to comment on the whole “Animal Crossing is a leftist game” thing.

This is a game where a private company sends you to live on a deserted island and basically forces you to take out a loan to pay for the trip.

Once on the island you have to scrounge up your own supplies or buy them from the local
shop, which belongs to the same company who brought you out there.

Need a shovel or an axe or a net? Gotta gather the materials and build it yourself.

At the start your “home” is a tent. To get an actual house you have to pay off your travel debt and then get another loan to build a actual house. Once you have a house you have to take out further loans to make it bigger.

If you get sick you have to buy your own medicine.

When the shop owner decides to expand the shop, he makes YOU gather the supplies he needs to do it.

So yeah, so totally leftist.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 9:30:55am

re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg

Just wanted to comment on the whole “Animal Crossing is a leftist game” thing.

This is a game where a private company sends you to live on a deserted island and basically forces you to take out a loan to pay for the trip.

Once on the island you have to scrounge up your own supplies or buy them from the local
shop, which belongs to the same company who brought you out there.

Need a shovel or an axe or a net? Gotta gather the materials and build it yourself.

At the start your “home” is a tent. To get an actual house you have to pay off your travel debt and then get another loan to build a actual house. Once you have a house you have to take out further loans to make it bigger.

If you get sick you have to buy your own medicine.

When the shop owner decides to expand the shop, he makes YOU gather the supplies he needs to do it.

So yeah, so totally leftist.

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Libertarian pipe dream… where they run the private company and send out the “contract” workers.

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A Mom Anon  May 10, 2020 • 9:35:33am

re: #215 The Pie Overlord!

Do.not.share. Happy Mommy’s Day!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 9:38:52am

This covidiot worked for Thomson & Knight, a 300-person corporate law firm in Fort Worth.

He doesn’t work there any more. They fired him over his social media post.

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2020 • 9:42:04am

re: #45 Dread Pirate

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Damn it. Now I have to come up with another idea for the wife’s birthday present.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  May 10, 2020 • 9:49:27am

Ah memories of the 1970s when the “progressive” rock station in Pittsburgh celebrated Mother’s Day by only playing Frank Zappa…

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Citizen K  May 10, 2020 • 9:56:38am
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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 10, 2020 • 10:01:08am

Wow!

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Teukka  May 10, 2020 • 10:01:20am

Today in history:

On May 10, 1933, the Nazis burned thousands of books written by Jews or by political opponents. It was conducted as a public bookstore in Berlin and elsewhere. By the end of 1934, over 5,000 book titles had been banned in Germany.

In 1933, the government took increasingly firm control of the German radio and the press. Tough restrictions were imposed on what could be sent and written. Music, theater and film production were also controlled by the regime.

Photo: Students burn books at Opernplatz in Berlin in May 1933. Image from USHMM.

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Dagens datum: Den 10 maj 1933 brände nazisterna tusentals böcker som var skrivna av judar eller av politiska motståndare. Det genomfördes som offentliga bokbål i Berlin och på andra platser. Vid slutet av 1934 hade över 5 000 boktitlar förbjudits i Tyskland.

Under 1933 tog regeringen allt fastare kontroll över den tyska radion och pressen. Hårda restriktioner infördes för vad som fick sändas och skrivas. Också musik-, teater- och filmproduktion kontrollerades av regimen.
#historia #dagensdatum #10maj #1933
Foto: Studenter bränner böcker på Opernplatz i Berlin i maj 1933. Bild från USHMM.

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Rightwingconspirator  May 10, 2020 • 10:04:05am

re: #229 Belafon

The only reason those of us on the left are talking about this being hard is precisely the reason stated by the article: lack of unity. We have an entire group of people that refuse to follow what needs to be done. And the reason for that is, in 1974, there were plenty of people that remember the 1918 flu pandemic, and the fight against polio. So little of that experience remains now.

There are some on the left, IMHO way too many to ignore, that are undermining unity as best they can. Anti Globalists, much of the Anti Vaxx, Anti WHO, Anti-CDC, Anti-Gates Foundation. Between them, MAGA types, and the Mickey Mouse Militias we have a serious problem. We are so mentally unbalanced despair is becoming a real killer from COVID.

Check this out. How did we get this vulnerable to our own minds?
US ‘Deaths of Despair’ From COVID-19 Could Top 75,000, Experts Warn

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Targetpractice  May 10, 2020 • 10:06:29am

re: #236 Citizen K

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It’s becoming an “optics” story, that it doesn’t matter anymore that Reade’s allegations are crumbling in the face of scrutiny, now the “optics” of not immediately burning Biden in effigy is somehow an indictment of every skeptic.

Meanwhile, in the real world, the Access Hollywood “leak” was swamped out of the media spotlight the very same day by Wikileaks dumping Podesta’s emails on the net within hours of the tape becoming public. By the next day, anybody talking about the AH tape was told they were ignoring the “real” news story.

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sagehen  May 10, 2020 • 10:07:04am

re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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How could a decade with such great music have such hideous clothes? (interior design for that decade was also atrocious).

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mmmirele  May 10, 2020 • 10:08:36am

Famous Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai died on this day in 1849.

Several years ago I saw an exhibition of Hokusai’s prints, including a print of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” and some blocks that were used for the prints at the MFA in Boston. I think the thing people don’t realize is how small of an artwork it is—about 11 inches by 15 inches. But the way Hokusai just lets the wave fill the paper, and Mt. Fuji is so small in the background, it makes the wave look so much larger and it truly takes up the imagination.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 10:08:44am

re: #241 sagehen

How could a decade with such great music have such hideous clothes? (interior design for that decade was also atrocious).

Personally, I blame Obama

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teleskiguy  May 10, 2020 • 10:10:57am

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And now I’ve got a bitchen new pen to write letters with! Should get it by the end of the week.

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lizardofid  May 10, 2020 • 10:12:58am

re: #241 sagehen

How could a decade with such great music have such hideous clothes? (interior design for that decade was also atrocious).

You got a problem with the avocado shag carpet in my sunken living area? I think it makes my copper tone appliances really pop!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 10:14:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 10:16:00am

re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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PhillyPretzel  May 10, 2020 • 10:16:57am

re: #246 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

So after we fight COVID-19 we will have to fight stupidity.

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retired cynic  May 10, 2020 • 10:17:40am

re: #238 Teukka
Another dissident dies in Egypt’s prisons as its dictator jails more

As you know, we raised Arabian horses. We learned this week from a friend in Egypt (who is NOT a fan of al-Sissi) that the race track (for Arabians) outside Cairo, which has been in existence for over a hundred years, and contained 2000 horses, was demolished. Apparently, al-Sissi was driving by, decided the area would be a good parking lot for a place he is pushing, and demanded the demolition. Originally they were given 72 hours to get out, but upon protest, given two weeks. The day that was up, the buildings and all of the hundreds of trees (something I would think Cairo needed) were bulldozed. The horse community is devastated. I see this, and think that this is the way DT would act in that situation. Brush those people off of the table, I want a wall there.

We HAVE to win in November, and we HAVE to correct some of the issues that have been brought to a head by this amoral administration.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  May 10, 2020 • 10:19:02am

re: #246 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Australia has its share of god-bothering wingnuts.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 10:20:03am

re: #248 PhillyPretzel

So after we fight COVID-19 we will have to fight stupidity.

Luckily, it is a clearly visible enemy

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  May 10, 2020 • 10:22:47am

re: #241 sagehen

How could a decade with such great music have such hideous clothes? (interior design for that decade was also atrocious).

To whit, Mike Brady (an architect) has an astroturf lawn and about a billion different design elements in a house that he designed which is ugky. And all this design element individually are just bad; glommed together, shudder.

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PhillyPretzel  May 10, 2020 • 10:22:59am

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

It will be an uphill battle. There are some people no matter what who will hold onto their “beliefs” until the end.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 10, 2020 • 10:26:01am
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sagehen  May 10, 2020 • 10:28:37am

re: #181 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  May 10, 2020 • 10:29:39am

re: #250 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Australia has its share of god-bothering wingnuts.

They usually export them to the USA. Thanks, Australia.

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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 10:31:18am

Rude Pundit has used up his Strategic Fuck Reserve

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 10:32:38am

These all need a ‘Letters from the Civil War’ treatment

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Belafon  May 10, 2020 • 10:36:04am

re: #242 mmmirele

Famous Japanese artist and printmaker Hokusai died on this day in 1849.

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Several years ago I saw an exhibition of Hokusai’s prints, including a print of “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” and some blocks that were used for the prints at the MFA in Boston. I think the thing people don’t realize is how small of an artwork it is—about 11 inches by 15 inches. But the way Hokusai just lets the wave fill the paper, and Mt. Fuji is so small in the background, it makes the wave look so much larger and it truly takes up the imagination.

There’s an anime, Miss Hokusai, is indirectly about him.

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Decatur Deb  May 10, 2020 • 10:38:02am

re: #245 lizardofid

You got a problem with the avocado shag carpet in my sunken living area? I think it makes my copper tone appliances really pop!

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That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

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lizardofid  May 10, 2020 • 10:39:56am

re: #260 Decatur Deb

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?

Hell, it rocked in the wife’s 71 Pinto!

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teleskiguy  May 10, 2020 • 10:41:24am

Fuckface Von Clownstick has literally spent all day on Twitter, his feed is a non-stop firehose of crazy. Happy Mother’s Day!

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ckkatz  May 10, 2020 • 10:41:48am

re: #242 mmmirele

About 25 years ago I saw an exhibit at San Francisco’s De Young Art Museum of Hokusai and Hiroshige’s artwork. Each of the many featured prints had a description of the print’s cultural and historical context. The exhibit was hands down the best I have ever seen. And it sticks with me to this day.

I purchased a poster sized print of Utagawa Hiroshige’s
“Asakusa Rice fields and Torinomachi Festival” because of the story it tells.

To someone unfamiliar with the context, like myself, it was just a cat staring out a window at the landscape. But to those familiar with the cultural and historical context, there is an entire story in that simple picture.

And that De Young exhibit told the stories for dozens of their works.

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teleskiguy  May 10, 2020 • 10:42:52am

SMOTI. Oy!

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Charles Johnson  May 10, 2020 • 10:44:25am
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Barefoot Grin  May 10, 2020 • 10:44:32am

re: #259 Belafon

There’s an anime, Miss Hokusai, is indirectly about him.

A very talented artist in her own right. If this is about his daughter (edited to add).

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ckkatz  May 10, 2020 • 10:45:16am

re: #244 teleskiguy

Congratulations! Those things are extremely hard to score. The one time I tried, they were all gone before I could get a selection through the purchase process. Etsy even grabbed the one I was trying to buy and sold it to someone else. About 2 minutes and they were all gone.

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sagehen  May 10, 2020 • 10:46:18am

re: #262 teleskiguy

Fuckface Von Clownstick has literally spent all day on Twitter, his feed is a non-stop firehose of crazy. Happy Mother’s Day!

Did any of his tweets mention any of the three mothers of his children?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 10, 2020 • 10:47:08am

moron just retweeted this

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The Pie Overlord!  May 10, 2020 • 10:48:49am
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A Mom Anon  May 10, 2020 • 10:50:13am

re: #244 teleskiguy

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Mattand  May 10, 2020 • 10:50:27am

re: #230 Eclectic Cyborg

Just wanted to comment on the whole “Animal Crossing is a leftist game” thing.

I did not know this was a viewpoint people have.

Now I know that it is a viewpoint people have, and I’m sad.

And I don’t even play Animal Crossing…

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goddamnedfrank  May 10, 2020 • 10:50:46am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 10:51:20am

re: #270 The Pie Overlord!

He probably has a government-paid staffer whose sole job is to do that - or at least find the tweets for him to read and then retweet. Why would Trump do any of the work to find them when it can be tasked to an underling to do?

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2020 • 10:52:49am

re: #200 Targetpractice

One of the things that the NRA and other “guns rights” groups has managed to convince millions of armed yahoos is to see a “crime” and not meet it with an armed response is tantamount to being an accomplice. That if you have a gun and you don’t intervene, then you are “allowing” the crime to occur because you’re not exercising your “right” as a gun owner. That this is little more than promoting armed vigilantism is not ignored, but instead embraced as the “duty” of a “law-abiding citizen.”

So next time these thugs illegally take over a government building(s) we should all arm up and eradicate the criminals since the cops won’t/can’t? 20 of them take it over and 40 of us eradicate them (2 against 1 ratio like this situation).

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teleskiguy  May 10, 2020 • 10:53:42am

re: #268 sagehen

Did any of his tweets mention any of the three mothers of his children?

Of course not. That would be normal behavior.

There’s this:

And he retweeted Melanoma once:

And, OH GOD HE JUST RETWEETED THIS TWEET FROM A MONTH AGO.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  May 10, 2020 • 10:54:49am
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teleskiguy  May 10, 2020 • 10:55:59am

I’m going for a bike ride.

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Amory Blaine  May 10, 2020 • 11:00:09am

Hey gang, today is my LGF membership 10 year anniversary. You guys are a great port in the storm. The time, it flies.

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PhillyPretzel  May 10, 2020 • 11:00:45am

re: #276 teleskiguy

He has had four years of his turn now it is back in the hands of the people. We look forward to your days in jail.

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jaunte  May 10, 2020 • 11:01:06am

My senator made it into both columns.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  May 10, 2020 • 11:02:11am

Well, not today’s ‘crime of the day’. but, post worthy none the less

Yesterday’s.
Unfortunately, no images

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  May 10, 2020 • 11:04:28am

re: #282 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I have a set of the old style lawn darts in my basement. Was the set my parent’s bought/got in the late 60s/early 70s.

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Barefoot Grin  May 10, 2020 • 11:08:16am

The javelin catch used to be an Olympic event.

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goddamnedfrank  May 10, 2020 • 11:17:12am

People desperately trying to find some small way to blame the victim and justify the suspicion are disgusting.

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jaunte  May 10, 2020 • 11:21:18am

Republicans will kill you for a buck.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  May 10, 2020 • 11:24:07am

re: #244 teleskiguy

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Barefoot Grin  May 10, 2020 • 11:26:26am

There’s an article saying that the Biden campaign is courting never-Trump Republicans like John Kasich for support (and I guess some roll in his administration?). Let them support of their own accord. Don’t coordinate. He’d better get a solid progressive VP on board.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  May 10, 2020 • 12:13:15pm

re: #285 goddamnedfrank

People desperately trying to find some small way to blame the victim and justify the suspicion are disgusting.

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Pathetic. This isn’t trespass unless A. It is posted or B. There is someone there to tell him to leave. In the latter case, it becomes trespass only if he refuses. Simple trespass is not a felony and is not subject to citizen’s arrest anyway.

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CleverToad  May 10, 2020 • 12:36:05pm

re: #192 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Okay, I can’t speak to every Catholic Church, but where I live, the money received went directly to paying all of the hourly employees at all of the Catholic Schools that had been furloughed, and to any shortfalls in money that would go paying other employees. Our Bishop, who is a good person, as liberal as you can get for a Catholic Priest, and leans all in on racial justice(his callout of MAGA and the kids from Covington Catholic). Yes, the local church is tax exempt, but don’t believe that all smaller churches and systems are treated equally, or given the same amount of financial support from the upper church.

Thanks for the information! I was wondering if a lot of those approvals are connected to the associated schools.

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jeffreyw  May 10, 2020 • 12:47:56pm

re: #213 retired cynic

Thirty years ago, way before digital cameras, a pair of orioles nested high in a walnut tree just yards from our front porch. We watched them come a go and didn’t think much about it - but they never came back. Last year was the first year we saw them again.

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2020 • 3:06:54pm

re: #241 sagehen

How could a decade with such great music have such hideous clothes? (interior design for that decade was also atrocious).

Cocaine

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Eventual Carrion  May 10, 2020 • 3:31:49pm

re: #283 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I have a set of the old style lawn darts in my basement. Was the set my parent’s bought/got in the late 60s/early 70s.

I’ve seen them for sale at garage sales many times.


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