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retired cynic  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:47:04pm

Good for the Fearless Flyers and Chris Thile!

Boo for DT and Barr.

GOTV! = FT

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:50:54pm

Shpx Gehzc!

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(((Archangel1)))  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:52:58pm

פאק Drumph

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:54:16pm

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Dizzy  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:55:31pm

Smith drops a stick and literally doesn’t miss a beat. Whew!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:56:19pm

From the previous thread:

re: #338 plansbandc

Always the tone police with animal vids. I put up a vid of a dog riding a skateboard and then crashing into a plastic trashcan (obvious no animal was harmed. He got up and went looking for his board.) I had an internet friend lose her shit over my cruelty, block me on all social media, shit post about me on our mutual fan boards and generally stalk me on the internet for several years. All because I posted the vid on twitter and thought it was funny.

Yeah, no “controversial” animal vids for me.

Wow, that seems a bit obsessive.

I can’t judge the value of your friendship, but perhaps her cutting you off was for the best.

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plansbandc  Jul 10, 2020 • 8:57:22pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It was for the best. She was a gaslighting asshole.

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BeachDem  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:02:28pm

JFC—just when you thought we might have a breather from crackpots on the Fed, this whackjob is coming up again.

Senate banking panel to resume considering Judy Shelton for Fed board

washingtonpost.com

In case you don’t remember her from when she was first going to be nominated in February:

An outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve, Shelton is best known for her controversial views on monetary policy. She has suggested that the United States does not need a fully independent central bank and has advocated for the nation to return to something akin to the gold standard...

Although much media attention has focused on Shelton’s views about gold, the banking community is more alarmed by her desire to end federal deposit insurance…

“This fast tracking of the Shelton nomination is mind boggling. It is as if they have not read anything she has said,” tweeted Diane Swonk, chief economist at Grant Thornton. “She is not only unqualified, she is dangerous. She has advocated policies removing deposit insurance and policies that would undermine community banking.”
washingtonpost.com

Various comments back in February—

CBS—Judy Shelton is a fan of a policy abandoned in 1971 and considered a fringe view by mainstream economists

WaPo—Shelton is an opportunist and a quack

The Hill—Among President Trump’s more bizarre nominations for office has to be his nomination of Judy Shelton

The American Prospect—Trump’s Latest Crackpot

(And then, of course, the New York Times—Ms. Shelton has unconventional views)

So here we go again. Ugh.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:06:58pm

Report the dumb ass

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:09:46pm

LOL (0:33)

How to cognitive

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:12:06pm

re: #9 Dave In Austin

Mrs. Fish and I both proudly voted in the primary via absentee ballot. We are registered to vote in November by mail, as well. Fuck you, you tangerine wankmaggot, and may my vote carry you to oblivion and to the infamy that your failed presidency deserves.

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:12:40pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:13:18pm

re: #8 BeachDem

She can rail against FDIC all she wants, but that was created by statute. If it was somehow repealed, there would be a guaranteed run on banks which would collapse them. I’d be in line to get my money.

As for the gold buggery, every libertarian in the land orgasms.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:15:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:16:04pm

re: #9 Dave In Austin

Report the dumb ass

Amazing how he continues to ignore red states with mandatory vote by mail such as Utah (everywhere) and Nebraska (rural areas). The state GOP is working very hard to counter his message, without actually distancing themselves from Trump (which the Democrats won’t let them do anyway).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:16:51pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate

My wife hasn’t gotten her first one yet.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:21:09pm

My only regret is that my 2016 vote got spoiled because on election day I was busy getting Mrs. Fish released from the hospital due to her car accident.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:22:52pm

It’s official. Let the whinging commence in the opening lines.

Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grant of Clemency for Roger Stone, Jr. (Goes to the White House proclamations page).

Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting the unjust sentence of Roger Stone, Jr.

Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency. There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia. Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election. The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice.This is why the out-of-control Mueller prosecutors, desperate for splashy headlines to compensate for a failed investigation, set their sights on Mr. Stone.

(more, bad spacing, grammar, and punctuation in the original)

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:24:31pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist.”

Official lies, to be preserved for American History.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:24:53pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate

I gave the first $1200 to covid relief, if I get another, I’ll do the same — but I don’t want to see other people deprived because they’re “wealthy” enough to add cheese to their beans on Fridays.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:28:56pm
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BigPapa  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:29:14pm

This is… not like Chris Thile

IGORRR - VERY NOISE

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Dread Pirate  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:30:58pm
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sagehen  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:35:02pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s official. Let the whinging commence in the opening lines.

Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grant of Clemency for Roger Stone, Jr. (Goes to the White House proclamations page).

(more, bad spacing, grammar, and punctuation in the original)

It wasn’t at taxpayer expense. The Manafort seizures more than paid for the entire Mueller investigation.

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mmmirele  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:35:07pm

re: #20 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

I gave the first $1200 to covid relief, if I get another, I’ll do the same — but I don’t want to see other people deprived because they’re “wealthy” enough to add cheese to their beans on Fridays.

I didn’t get $1200, but what I did get, I gave away. $400 to the local food bank and the rest parceled out among people I knew were unemployed. I did ask my brother if he and my mom didn’t need it first, and he told me to go ahead and give it away. If I get more, I’ll do the same thing. I do not need the money.

Yeah, I’m saving money by not having to drive to work and having to cook at home, but it’s been a wash since I’ve had to pay ca$$$h for a very expensive acid reflux medication. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

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William Lewis  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:39:01pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate

I must admit I hope they do send out another round of checks. I might actually get caught the rest of the way up and even have a little for myself (being more serious about it than downstairs).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:43:12pm

re: #21 Dave In Austin

LOL WUT?

That’s why he invites all those highly classified live media broadcasts.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:44:38pm

re: #26 William Lewis

I must admit I hope they do send out another round of checks. I might actually get caught the rest of the way up and even have a little for myself (being more serious about it than downstairs).

I just had to buy a fridge on a credit card. The old one was leaking water in the ice maker and some came out the door instead of freezing, then it ran behind some sheet metal and and made mold underneath on the floor. I could use some more help from the government.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:48:04pm

re: #25 mmmirele

I didn’t get $1200, but what I did get, I gave away. $400 to the local food bank and the rest parceled out among people I knew were unemployed. I did ask my brother if he and my mom didn’t need it first, and he told me to go ahead and give it away. If I get more, I’ll do the same thing. I do not need the money.

Yeah, I’m saving money by not having to drive to work and having to cook at home, but it’s been a wash since I’ve had to pay ca$$$h for a very expensive acid reflux medication. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Yeah, I might have to give a bit back to the IRS next year — although this isn’t looking like a banner year for investment income — but it won’t hurt to do it. My disposable income the last few years mostly went to travel and live performances, so…

I also gave $400 to a local food bank. The rest went to a city fund for helping businesses hurt by the shutdown. I’ll probably do something similar if there’s another stimulus check in my future.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:51:21pm

re: #28 Dread Pirate

I just had to buy a fridge on a credit card. The old one was leaking water in the ice maker and some came out the door instead of freezing, then it ran behind some sheet metal and and made mold underneath on the floor. I could use some more help from the government.

Something to be said for ancient equipment. I’ve had my fridge for 30 years, and it was old when I moved in. No ice maker, no frost-free, and it just keeps chugging along (touch wood).

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Amory Blaine  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:52:17pm

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:54:33pm

re: #30 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Something to be said for ancient equipment. I’ve had my fridge for 30 years, and it was old when I moved in. No ice maker, no frost-free, and it just keeps chugging along (touch wood).

It’s the no ice maker part. The only trouble I have with my Samsung fridge is the ice maker.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 9:57:03pm

Since most of the businesses (and the university) have given up herbicides around here, there’s a lot of weed action that didn’t happen previously, and I’ve been interested in what can grow out of tiny cracks in the sidewalks. And here’s a prime example:

Here’s its closeup:

And here’s what happens if you leave these things to their own devices (probably not if it’s growing out of a crack in the concrete):

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:04:48pm

Even in California, flower season eventually ends, but there are still some in bloom:

Agapanthus:

And here’s the last of the jacaranda:

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:06:44pm

This one looks more like someone’s embroidery than flowers in a basket:

And this is a teeny tiny flower blooming from a hedge:

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Cheechako  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:12:49pm

re: #33 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

These look like Canada thistle. I’ve seen horses eat the flower/seed pod even with all the spines. Some kind of treat for them.

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Belafon  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:15:09pm
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Belafon  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:16:04pm
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Dread Pirate  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:16:09pm

re: #32 Belafon

It’s the no ice maker part. The only trouble I have with my Samsung fridge is the ice maker.

I hope you don’t own anything similar to this one…

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:18:40pm

re: #36 Cheechako

These look like Canada thistle. I’ve seen horses eat the flower/seed pod even with all the spines. Some kind of treat for them.

They’re not as spikey as they look.

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Dread Pirate  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:21:56pm

re: #36 Cheechako

These look like Canada thistle. I’ve seen horses eat the flower/seed pod even with all the spines. Some kind of treat for them.

YouTube

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:29:32pm

Good morning, all.

So, I wake up here in Europe and see that Trump has commuted Roger Stone’s prison sentence. This actually didn’t surprise me; the only part of it that did surprise me was the timing.

I figured Trump would wait until after the election and do that regardless of whether he won or lost. If he won, he’d do it as an exercise of triumphal power…..and if he lost, he’d do it as a last favor to an old friend and frankly, at that point, what would Trump have to lose?

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jaunte  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:32:50pm
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jaunte  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:34:27pm

Killed by misinformation spread by Republicans.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jul 10, 2020 • 10:55:38pm

re: #44 jaunte

Killed by misinformation spread by Republicans.

And probably Facebook.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:09:46pm

re: #45 NO SMOCKING GUN!

And probably Facebook.

And let’s not forget Faux.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:16:38pm

Two new cases in the Old West today, bringing the total to 5,874 tested and 347 positive.

Positivity rate rises to 5.9%.

Governor Pete Ricketts wants to spend more money on a no-bid contract with the libertarian tech bros who provided faulty testing material and did not provide services promised, to test the Nebraska Huskers football players throughout the season to ensure football can go on here.

The Huskers outrank God to wingnuts here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:17:48pm

re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fixed, messed up the numbers.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:19:27pm

re: #43 jaunte

Remember, conservatives want to sacrifice veterans on the altar of their religion.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:21:50pm

ROTFLMAO when I saw this!

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:37:09pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:38:25pm

Statewide numbers reported have now pushed my county from #6 to #8. Other counties now are exploding in cases.

20,777 cases (+154)
Largest age group: 20-34
286 deaths (+2)
Largest age group: 65-74

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 10, 2020 • 11:40:24pm

The SOB is partying knowing he got away with treason thanks to the piece of shit in the Oval Office.

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 11, 2020 • 12:22:44am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 1:12:14am

re: #53 🌹UOJB!

The SOB is partying knowing he got away with treason thanks to the piece of shit in the Oval Office.

That’s it. I can’t be an atheist because there is a hell, and the Republican Party runs it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 1:43:15am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 1:44:40am

re: #23 Dread Pirate

NEW: In June, an adviser to a top HHS official accused the CDC of “undermining the President” by putting out a report about risks of coronavirus to pregnant women.

threat to the UNBORN?!?

I can hear a lot of heads going all explodey…

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 11, 2020 • 2:04:16am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 2:09:45am

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

threat to the UNBORN?!?

I can hear a lot of heads going all explodey…

Nope. Both Christianity and conservatism are religions, frequently admixed.

Religions require you to hold two or more opposing ideas which are exclusive, but believe both unquestioning.

Another example of that admixture: Conservatives and Christians of all denominations will frequently say Islam is not protected by the I Amendment because it is frequently political in nature (nevermind political positions are protected by the I Amendment). However, Christianity is protected when it produces political speech because reasons.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 2:23:06am

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nope. Both Christianity and conservatism are religions, frequently admixed.

Religions require you to hold two or more opposing ideas which are exclusive, but believe both unquestioning.

Another example of that admixture: Conservatives and Christians of all denominations will frequently say Islam is not protected by the I Amendment because it is frequently political in nature (nevermind political positions are protected by the I Amendment). However, Christianity is protected when it produces political speech because reasons.

Yes, I was being facetious: I know how these people can believe that a thrice-married whoremonger can be God’s Chosen President.

And their argument against Islam is that it comprises a political system, equating Islamism (which is a movement based on Islam) with the religion itself.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 11, 2020 • 2:40:01am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 2:44:53am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:05:44am

I’m making dinner, which is usually a cringe for my wife.

Tonight’s haute cuisine ran into a problem.

My wife went to buy milk at the general store yesterday, but none was delivered to the store. All the proprietor had was chocolate milk, so my wife bought some. She thought that would be fine for coffee, and I rarely drink milk at all.

So tonight’s dinner is Tuna Helper … which requires milk. I did not inventory supplies before I started, so I was left puzzling over the chocolate milk.

“Honey, can I put your Silk brand milk in Tuna Helper?”

“No, it will taste like crap, or soybeans, same thing.”

“Well, how about the chocolate milk? I’ll bet that would be a new taste sensation.”

“I’ll beat you with an iron skillet.”

Grumble, grumble, dig out the dry milk and mix up a quart. “How about this?”

“That will be fine.” Dinner will be ready in a couple minutes.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:12:36am

re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

General rule of cuisine: when in doubt, add butter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:12:59am

Tropical Storm Fay has been declared post-tropical, as almost all deep convection is gone. Tropical storm force winds continue south of the storm. All tropical storm warnings are dropped.

The centre of Fay is near the New York-Massachusetts-Vermont corner, moving just east of north. It is expected to enter Canada as an illegal border crosser later today.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:14:26am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:16:11am

re: #64 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

General rule of cuisine: when in doubt, add butter.

I added mushrooms.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:16:28am

“The American ideal of equal justice under the law is once again being undermined by a lawless president who regards the Justice Department as his personal plaything,” ~ Sen. Chuck Schumer

“President Trump has engaged in countless acts that are both self-serving and destructive to our democracy while in office, but commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, a crony who lied and obstructed our investigation to protect Trump himself, is among the most offensive to the rule of law and principles of justice.” ~ Rep. Adam Schiff

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:17:34am

re: #66 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

JFC the wingularity in the comments.

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stpaulbear  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:39:36am

re: #55 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s it. I can’t be an atheist because there is a hell, and the Republican Party runs it.

In the WaPo today. Roger Stone Is Saved

I’m quoting way too much but every line of the story is another nail.

When I called Roger Stone early Friday evening, he was in the midst of doing an online interview with an evangelical Christian leader. He let me listen in. It was, shall we say, a revelation. Until recently about as un-devout as a lapsed everything could be, he earnestly recounted for an equally earnest interviewer how he’d been saved by Jesus Christ at a Franklin Graham rally.

“I stood up,” Stone said. “I accepted Christ as my savior. I felt like a cement block had been lifted from my chest.” His newfound faith had given him a ticket to eternal salvation and, perhaps, a stay-out-of-jail card.

When Stone finished, he got on the line with me.

“I know there is a lot of skepticism,” he said in the audial version of a straight face. “Who knows? A year from now you may be calling me Reverend Stone! What else am I going to do with all these white suits I own?”

Like God, President Trump was merciful, Stone said. Trump was a man of “enormous fairness and compassion” and would lift the burden Stone was facing.

The reward was carefully choreographed.

The announcement was timed to first allow Attorney General William P. Barr to lift his pantlegs over the muck as he passed over the dirty road. He solemnly concluded that Stone’s convictions had been “righteous” and the sentence fair. But when asked whether Stone deserved pardon or commutation, Barr demurred, saying that was entirely up to Trump’s discretion.

And Trump then delivered. On Friday night, of course.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:40:31am

17 years… that’s how long after WWII when TV-land really started to reminisce about the war. So many shows with war themes:

32 NEW SHOWS OF FALL TV 1962

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:41:39am

Weld County, Colo. (borders to the north Laramie County, Wyo. and Kimball and Cheyenne County, Nebr.) is still getting hammered by Covid-19.

Weld County has more cases than Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle combined, and far more deaths.

Weld County Dashboard

Total cases: 2,987 (+9 yesterday, +30 day before, +29 day before that, curve is bending upward)
Most by age: 30-39, then 20-29
Largest outbreak: Rural area north of the county seat Greeley (992)
Deaths: 91 (last death on June 9)
Most by age: 80-89, then 70-79

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:42:00am

re: #70 stpaulbear

There is a straight line between Christian fundamentalism and Trumpism. We don’t have to infer or extrapolate: it’s all out in the open.

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stpaulbear  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:52:23am

Well WeatherUnderground is nothing if not accurate for current conditions. I just heard some thunder (no rain yet) so I went to check what was coming. WU’s statement of current conditions says 71 with “Thunder in the Vicinity”. Well, yeah.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:54:03am

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

17 years… that’s how long after WWII when TV-land really started to reminisce about the war. So many shows with war themes:

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Famous war-themed shows “The Jetsons” and “The Beverly Hillbillies.”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 3:58:26am

re: #75 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I loved The Jetsons when I was a kid. The theme music I still find engaging.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:09:03am

I still find myself drawn to 1960’s TV music as the best of the TV soundtrack genre. Perhaps because the visual limitations of NTSC and 19” tubes, music may have been more important.

Sure, today there are composers who write decent themes for the small screen. But so much TV today is absent of artistic content - “reality TV” is about not artistry but about doing as little as possible.

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Sherlock Hound  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:12:19am

re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I still find myself drawn to 1960’s TV music as the best of the TV soundtrack genre. Perhaps because the visual limitations of NTSC and 19” tubes, music may have been more important.

Sure, today there are composers who write decent themes for the small screen. But so much TV today is absent of artistic content - “reality TV” is about not artistry but about doing as little as possible.

Hanna-Barbera used the four-note intro to The Jetsons as their signature for years.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:18:46am

Watching old lottery “game shows” on Youtube… and how much has changed in even 3 decades. Used to be that winning $60k was a big deal.

Today, $60k barely buys one a new car.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:36:38am

re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Watching old lottery “game shows” on Youtube… and how much has changed in even 3 decades. Used to be that winning $60k was a big deal.

Today, $60k barely buys one a new car.

Back when I was a teenager, the state of Michigan issued a special Bicentennial ticket with one 9-digit number for $5. The prize was $1,000,000, which was historic at the time.

There were practically riots when the state drew the number and the winner was a resident of Ontario.

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stpaulbear  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:55:39am

They’ll never waste an opportunity to be a dick.

The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death.

Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz.

The governor’s spokesman, Teddy Tschann, confirmed late Friday that the request for federal aid was denied.

“The Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial support,” Tschann said in a statement. “As we navigate one of the most difficult periods in our state’s history, we look for support from our federal government to help us through.”

Many small businesses and grocery stores, pharmacies and post offices were damaged during the unrest. In his letter to FEMA, Walz said what happened in the Twin Cities after Floyd’s death was the second most destructive incident of civil unrest in U.S. history, after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jul 11, 2020 • 4:56:00am

re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

17 years… that’s how long after WWII when TV-land really started to reminisce about the war. So many shows with war themes:

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.

I don’t remember a lot of these at all (I was 13 that year). Some, though, like the Jetsons and The Beverly Hillbillies, became iconic. I thought McHale’s Navy was quite good, mostly because of Ernest Borgnine.

One almost forgotten show that made a great impression was Gene Roddenberry’s GE True, an anthology series based on re-enactments of real events. I have not seen it since it was canceled the same season, but I remember some specific episodes besides the ones described in the wikipedia article. There was one where some guys working at an electroplating shop accidentally mixed up 100 gallons or so of nitroglycerine and the local fire department had to deal with it. Another involved a Navy surgeon removing a live artillery shell from a wounded Marine on a ship off Okinawa. Another was about a British escape artist who was deliberately parachuted into Germany so he could be captured and instruct other PoWs in escape and evasion.

The very dramatic narration by Jack Webb set the tone nicely.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:00:34am

re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Watching old lottery “game shows” on Youtube… and how much has changed in even 3 decades. Used to be that winning $60k was a big deal.

Today, $60k barely buys one a new car.

If you watch Press Your Luck, there’s one square that is NEVER a whammy, and always has a higher $ amount. Top row. Third from right. It’s the same even now in the updated show currently airing. I even think the 3rd square down on the right column too.

Press Your Luck Michael Larson

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:50:49am

They’re back!

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:52:04am

re: #84 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’ve been replacing them with Tums. That being said, I’ll probably go buy some!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:53:50am

So, the debate here about whether to use the name “Karen” to describe an entitled forties or fifties something woman demanding particular preference because she (or he) believes they are simply entitled to it, is a slur, leaves me pondering. I don’t use the name that way, but language evolves. My own name of James is no longer used to mean “usurper,” that definition is deprecated. But it used to mean that. Not all Jameses.

It is regularly argued that:

“Boomer” used negatively doesn’t mean all boomers, particularly when a boomer says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

“Me too” and “Time’s up” does not refer to all men, frequently when a man says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

So I wondered where the pushback against the term “Karen” for the entitled middle-aged woman first became a complaint it was a slur, and started searching. It doesn’t refer to all Karens any more than complaints about Boomers don’t mean all Boomers or Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean fuque all those other lives.

The earliest on-line complaint I can find about Karen being an insult to all Karens and therefore people who use it are bigots comes from Julie Bindel, defending a friend named Karen when the name was used.

In case you don’t know who she is, she is a TERF, and since TERFs have nothing better to do in the time of the Trump virus, and they are funded by right-wing outrage machines like the Heritage Foundation, she latched on to the Karen meme to try to drive a wedge into discourse about what the name applied in that way represents.

The point is sealioning: By focusing on people named Karen who are not entitled assholes and promoting to them that they are being slurred by people who use the name to identify a set of entitled assholes, TERFs and their backers are successfully deflecting the debate from the conservative asshole to a debate about what to call them.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:54:34am

re: #84 Eric The Fruit Bat

They’re back!

[Embedded content]

I’m waiting for them to come to our stores here. I’ll buy a dozen gross cases.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:57:02am

re: #83 GlutenFreeJesus

I thought that the Press Your Luck crew had fixed the Michael Larson problem from resurfacing.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:57:22am

Michael Cohen is an idiot, that is all.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 5:59:27am

re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

But so much TV today is absent of artistic content - “reality TV” is about not artistry but about doing as little as possible.

Minimal production costs, maximum advertising revenues.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:00:09am

re: #79 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Watching old lottery “game shows” on Youtube… and how much has changed in even 3 decades. Used to be that winning $60k was a big deal.

Today, $60k barely buys one a new car.

The house I grew up in cost my parents $14K

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:01:36am

re: #89 Shropshire Slasher

Michael Cohen is an idiot, that is all.

Obviously—He’s a Trump tool who actually managed to serve some time.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:02:43am

re: #85 Shropshire Slasher

Your local Walgreens will have them - that is where I got mine.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:02:49am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The house I grew up in cost my parents $14K

The house we bought in 2011 cost $18,000 (including closing costs). When it was first built in 1914, it was sold according to the abstract for 20 twenty-dollar gold pieces.

The price of the house when we bought it was the same price in twenty ounces of gold in 2011.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:04:14am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The house we bought in 2011 cost $18,000 (including closing costs). When it was first built in 1914, it was sold according to the abstract for 20 twenty-dollar gold pieces.

The price of the house when we bought it was the same price in twenty ounces of gold in 2011.

Further reason to abolish the Federal Reserve and Fiat Currency.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:07:48am

re: #87 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m waiting for them to come to our stores here. I’ll buy a dozen gross cases.

You may be waiting a while as they roll it out to their retailers.

And you can forget about using Amazon - no distributor dares sells the current production Necco’s on Amazon.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:08:35am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Further reason to abolish the Federal Reserve and Fiat Currency.

It’s too early for this shit, I’m going back to bed./////

Morning Lizardim from the beautiful wild north country. The latest round of thunderstorms, with tornadoes, appears to have done the trick - the heat finally broke, and we’re back to gorgeous outdoors-worthy weather for the weekend. How go things among the lizardfolk on this picturesque summer Saturday?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:09:58am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

To continue the same, there’s been discussion that the interpretation of the phrase “defund the police” is hitting people to mean “abolish the police” and the GOP is pushing that message hard.

Like the usage of Karen to mean entitled white woman, it doesn’t matter what message or phrase comes from the left; the right-wing will always pervert it to mean something different and nefarious. They live for outrage, just as the TERFs pushing the message that anyone who uses Karen in that way is a bigot against anyone named Karen.

Opposing religious displays on public property doesn’t mean “liberals are making a war on Christmas.”

It doesn’t matter what a message is, whether it’s serious like Black Lives Matter or snarky like Karen. The conservative outrage must be fed a steady diet of false equivalences, and if it ropes in a few well-meaning liberals, so much the better.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:13:01am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Further reason to abolish the Federal Reserve and Fiat Currency.

I read that as “abolish Flat Currency.” I need flat currency to fit in my wallet.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:14:00am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, the debate here about whether to use the name “Karen” to describe an entitled forties or fifties something woman demanding particular preference because she (or he) believes they are simply entitled to it, is a slur, leaves me pondering.

That’s one of the reasons to replace Karen with Ivanka.

That’s another reason why (under my alternate identity) to replace “Trolls” with “Seagulls”.

Sadly I didn’t get traction on the latter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:17:52am

re: #93 Eric The Fruit Bat

Your local Walgreens will have them - that is where I got mine.

Hmm. That’s a 120-mile round trip to Scottsbluff for me. I don’t think I can justify that to my wife. “Honey, I want to go to Scottsbluff to buy Neccos.”

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:17:54am

re: #21 Dave In Austin

This is so ridiculously funny. The whole thing is funny, really. It’s like it was written by a 5 year old.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:21:10am

Thread:

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:23:31am

re: #37 Belafon

Wasn’t his latest KKK rally cancelled?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:24:43am

re: #13 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

She can rail against FDIC all she wants, but that was created by statute. If it was somehow repealed, there would be a guaranteed run on banks which would collapse them. I’d be in line to get my money.

As for the gold buggery, every libertarian in the land orgasms.

And the rest of the nations on the planet laugh as it’s financial suicide.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:25:18am

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hmm. That’s a 120-mile round trip to Scottsbluff for me. I don’t think I can justify that to my wife. “Honey, I want to go to Scottsbluff to buy Neccos.”

From what I have been able to discern, Spangler Candies (the new Necco owners) is servicing all of their retail clients first before even thinking about having Amazon act as a fulfillment arm.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:26:10am

re: #100 Eric The Fruit Bat

That’s one of the reasons to replace Karen with Ivanka.

That’s another reason why (under my alternate identity) to replace “Trolls” with “Seagulls”.

Sadly I didn’t get traction on the latter.

I could go with Ivanka, but she doesn’t seem to be the person standing in a store with the proles demanding to see the manager.

The reason Karen came up in the first place is because there was a huge bump of baby girls named Karen over a short period of time though it was not used before 1930, dramatically rose in the Fifties and peaked suddenly in 1959 as the 12th most popular girl’s name and by 1990 was out of the top 100.

Karen (Goes to Baby Name Wizard)

Hence the use of the name.

What’s scary is now I imagine the huge number of wingnuts naming their daughters Ivanka. As of yet it is not in the top thousand, but is rising in popularity.

In fifty years people who are named Ivanka will be complaining “Not all Ivankas” when the name is used to describe a spoilt, entitled woman who never earned anything in her life but rises over others due to nepotism and favouritism from Daddy.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:26:23am

re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Wasn’t his latest KKK rally cancelled?

They announced that it was being canceled due to the rain, but, if they really wanted to have it, the rain will be over before it starts. The rain is an excuse to avoid saying it’s the virus and no one wants to go.

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plansbandc  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:27:28am

re: #53 🌹UOJB!

But he can dance!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:28:12am

re: #36 Cheechako

These look like Canada thistle. I’ve seen horses eat the flower/seed pod even with all the spines. Some kind of treat for them.

Tastes like artichokes perhaps?

:)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:28:33am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

To continue the same, there’s been discussion that the interpretation of the phrase “defund the police” is hitting people to mean “abolish the police” and the GOP is pushing that message hard.

Just like the RWNJ syllogism of: “Black Lives Matter” = “White Lives Don’t Matter”
ergo “Kill all de White Men and Rape de Wimmenz!”!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:28:50am

re: #106 Eric The Fruit Bat

From what I have been able to discern, Spangler Candies (the new Necco owners) is servicing all of their retail clients first before even thinking about having Amazon act as a fulfillment arm.

If that’s the case, maybe they will show up in the market in Bridgeport then. I’ll put them on the shopping list for our next store run and take a look.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:29:23am

re: #110 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Tastes like artichokes perhaps?

:)

No, they taste like chicken. /s

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:32:31am

AAAAAAGH. I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and I keep seeing the Donald Trump ad about “defund the police” = “no emergency personnel” and it triggers me every time. Which, I know, that’s the whole point, but goddamn it, I hate the fact-free infosphere the right wing lives in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:35:14am

We got big thistles in our village. These from last year around this time:

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:37:09am

Jeffrey Toobin called President Trump’s granting of clemency to Roger Stone ― who was soon set to begin a 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election ― as “the most corrupt and cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history.”

WAPO:

“There are no doubt thousands of people in federal prison who deserved a presidential commutation more than Roger Stone. But after President Trump’s intervention on Friday, Mr. Stone will serve none of his prison sentence. The president may have had the power to help his longtime friend. But that does not make it any less a perversion of justice — indeed, it is one of the most nauseating instances of corrupt government favoritism the United States has ever seen.”

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Barefoot Grin  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:39:03am
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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:42:45am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:44:04am

re: #96 Eric The Fruit Bat

You may be waiting a while as they roll it out to their retailers.

And you can forget about using Amazon - no distributor dares sells the current production Necco’s on Amazon.

Necco Wafers Original Assorted Candy Rolls (Set of 3) (Goes to Amazon, one of many entries for Necco wafers). $15 for three rolls seems kind of steep though.

You can also buy 24-packs.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:48:30am

re: #114 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

AAAAAAGH. I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and I keep seeing the Donald Trump ad about “defund the police” = “no emergency personnel” and it triggers me every time. Which, I know, that’s the whole point, but goddamn it, I hate the fact-free infosphere the right wing lives in.

80% of Americans know it means reform the police. What if the purpose of the ad was to get you worked up and depressed about how Democrats are doing their job of winning elections so that you’re not concentrating on the real issue?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:50:49am

re: #120 Belafon

80% of Americans know it means reform the police. What if the purpose of the ad was to get you worked up and depressed about how Democrats are doing their job of winning elections so that you’re not concentrating on the real issue?

I wouldn’t be surprised, but to be honest, I know the Democrats are winning the ground war right now. I see the polls. I am not the target audience for this ad - I am an informed voter.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:51:30am

There are two people in my town named James: Me, and a woman in her mid-twenties. Neither of us is an usurper.

We both insist on being called James (it is a girl’s name too, though not nearly as popular as it used to be). No Jimmy for me or Jamie for her.

It helps keep people here confused, in conversation one has to clarify which James you’re talking about.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:51:31am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, the debate here about whether to use the name “Karen” to describe an entitled forties or fifties something woman demanding particular preference because she (or he) believes they are simply entitled to it, is a slur, leaves me pondering. I don’t use the name that way, but language evolves. My own name of James is no longer used to mean “usurper,” that definition is deprecated. But it used to mean that. Not all Jameses.

It is regularly argued that:

“Boomer” used negatively doesn’t mean all boomers, particularly when a boomer says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

“Me too” and “Time’s up” does not refer to all men, frequently when a man says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

So I wondered where the pushback against the term “Karen” for the entitled middle-aged woman first became a complaint it was a slur, and started searching. It doesn’t refer to all Karens any more than complaints about Boomers don’t mean all Boomers or Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean fuque all those other lives.

The earliest on-line complaint I can find about Karen being an insult to all Karens and therefore people who use it are bigots comes from Julie Bindel, defending a friend named Karen when the name was used.

In case you don’t know who she is, she is a TERF, and since TERFs have nothing better to do in the time of the Trump virus, and they are funded by right-wing outrage machines like the Heritage Foundation, she latched on to the Karen meme to try to drive a wedge into discourse about what the name applied in that way represents.

The point is sealioning: By focusing on people named Karen who are not entitled assholes and promoting to them that they are being slurred by people who use the name to identify a set of entitled assholes, TERFs and their backers are successfully deflecting the debate from the conservative asshole to a debate about what to call them.

Karen Karens for being called a Karen

It’s the ultimate in meta-karening

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:52:31am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are two people in my town named James: Me, and a woman in her mid-twenties. Neither of us is an usurper.

We both insist on being called James (it is a girl’s name too, though not nearly as popular as it used to be). No Jimmy for me or Jamie for her.

It helps keep people here confused, in conversation one has to clarify which James you’re talking about.

One of my professional engagements was with a team that had four Chrises. Four of them. We wound up having to label them by the first letter of their last name in order to be sure which Chris one was talking about.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:53:15am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

To continue the same, there’s been discussion that the interpretation of the phrase “defund the police” is hitting people to mean “abolish the police” and the GOP is pushing that message hard.

Like the usage of Karen to mean entitled white woman, it doesn’t matter what message or phrase comes from the left; the right-wing will always pervert it to mean something different and nefarious. They live for outrage, just as the TERFs pushing the message that anyone who uses Karen in that way is a bigot against anyone named Karen.

Opposing religious displays on public property doesn’t mean “liberals are making a war on Christmas.”

It doesn’t matter what a message is, whether it’s serious like Black Lives Matter or snarky like Karen. The conservative outrage must be fed a steady diet of false equivalences, and if it ropes in a few well-meaning liberals, so much the better.

+1

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:54:12am

re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hmm. That’s a 120-mile round trip to Scottsbluff for me. I don’t think I can justify that to my wife. “Honey, I want to go to Scottsbluff to buy Neccos.”

Doesn’t that depend on how many you bring back?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:55:06am

re: #124 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

One of my professional engagements was with a team that had four Chrises. Four of them. We wound up having to label them by the first letter of their last name in order to be sure which Chris one was talking about.

In my dorm floor my freshman year at Pitt it was discovered that I shared the same first name as two others on the floor. So a wag just said “we are going to call you ‘Zeke’.” And I carried that as a nickname through the rest of college - and still have a few friends who refer to me using that instead of my actual first name. (Which confuses people now and then since they don’t know who is being referred to.)

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:56:13am

re: #108 Belafon

They announced that it was being canceled due to the rain, but, if they really wanted to have it, the rain will be over before it starts. The rain is an excuse to avoid saying it’s the virus trump and no one wants to go.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:56:53am

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 6:58:02am

re: #114 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

AAAAAAGH. I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and I keep seeing the Donald Trump ad about “defund the police” = “no emergency personnel” and it triggers me every time. Which, I know, that’s the whole point, but goddamn it, I hate the fact-free infosphere the right wing lives in.

Heartbreak ridge:. Don’t give the prick the satisfaction

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A Mom Anon  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:00:51am

Good Morning Lizards. I don’t have photo evidence, but Cleo had her first swim yesterday. She had to be led into it, and someone had to be with her, but she did it. Now to teach her to do laps….

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:04:27am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are two people in my town named James: Me, and a woman in her mid-twenties. Neither of us is an usurper.

We both insist on being called James (it is a girl’s name too, though not nearly as popular as it used to be). No Jimmy for me or Jamie for her.

It helps keep people here confused, in conversation one has to clarify which James you’re talking about.

English naming conventions—could be worse. The writer Evelyn Waugh married a woman named Evelyn. Their friends distinguished them as “He-Evelyn” and “She-Evelyn”.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:05:12am
134
A Cranky One  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:05:28am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There are two people in my town named James: Me, and a woman in her mid-twenties. Neither of us is an usurper.

We both insist on being called James (it is a girl’s name too, though not nearly as popular as it used to be). No Jimmy for me or Jamie for her.

It helps keep people here confused, in conversation one has to clarify which James you’re talking about.

During a meeting with multiple people with the same name, I suggested we differentiate by calling one handsome Bob and the other drop dead gorgeous Bob. One of them immediately claimed the title drop dead gorgeous Bob. When asked to justify the claim, he responded “when I was dating, women often called me by the diminutive form, drop dead.”

He got the title.

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b.d. (Boring Competence 2020!)  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:08:25am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, the debate here about whether to use the name “Karen” to describe an entitled forties or fifties something woman demanding particular preference because she (or he) believes they are simply entitled to it, is a slur, leaves me pondering. I don’t use the name that way, but language evolves. My own name of James is no longer used to mean “usurper,” that definition is deprecated. But it used to mean that. Not all Jameses.

It is regularly argued that:

“Boomer” used negatively doesn’t mean all boomers, particularly when a boomer says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

“Me too” and “Time’s up” does not refer to all men, frequently when a man says in self-defence “I don’t do that.”

So I wondered where the pushback against the term “Karen” for the entitled middle-aged woman first became a complaint it was a slur, and started searching. It doesn’t refer to all Karens any more than complaints about Boomers don’t mean all Boomers or Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean fuque all those other lives.

The earliest on-line complaint I can find about Karen being an insult to all Karens and therefore people who use it are bigots comes from Julie Bindel, defending a friend named Karen when the name was used.

In case you don’t know who she is, she is a TERF, and since TERFs have nothing better to do in the time of the Trump virus, and they are funded by right-wing outrage machines like the Heritage Foundation, she latched on to the Karen meme to try to drive a wedge into discourse about what the name applied in that way represents.

The point is sealioning: By focusing on people named Karen who are not entitled assholes and promoting to them that they are being slurred by people who use the name to identify a set of entitled assholes, TERFs and their backers are successfully deflecting the debate from the conservative asshole to a debate about what to call them.

Has anyone asked Dick how he feels about the name Karen being adopted as a demeaning term?

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:09:12am

re: #122 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I never met a Jimmy I didn’t like.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:11:35am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

English naming conventions—could be worse. The writer Evelyn Waugh married a woman named Evelyn. Their friends distinguished them as “He-Evelyn” and “She-Evelyn”.

Lee girl and Lee boy was the naming convention of two of my dating friends in High Skool.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:16:25am

Today’s random acknowledgement of karma points goes to Yeah Sure WhatEVs, who has of this moment 155,979 points. A few more upfists and that cracks 156,000.

Those points may be exchanged for valuable rewards at your local S&H Green Stamp store.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:20:56am

re: #136 Shropshire Slasher

I never met a Jimmy I didn’t like.

Jimmy Swagart on Line One.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:24:49am

re: #135 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)

Has anyone asked Dick how he feels about the name Karen being adopted as a demeaning term?

LOL

Then there’s the dick pic. Not all men (particularly Dicks) send them.

When I send one, it’s this one.

Dick pic.
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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:27:40am

re: #139 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Jimmy Swagart on Line One.

Never met him!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:30:29am

re: #135 b.d. (Follow science, survive and vote!)

Has anyone asked Dick how he feels about the name Karen being adopted as a demeaning term?

Poor Phillip K. Dick. He must have been the butt of a ton of dick jokes.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:33:11am

re: #137 Shropshire Slasher

Lee girl and Lee boy was the naming convention of two of my dating friends in High Skool.

My mother notes there were several people in her boot camp company who all had Polish names, all alphabetically right next to each other.

When roll was called, she says five people would all answer to “Ski” in the correct order in the roll.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:34:46am

re: #119 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Necco Wafers Original Assorted Candy Rolls (Set of 3) (Goes to Amazon, one of many en
tries for Necco wafers). $15 for three rolls seems kind of steep though.

You may be better off making your Scottsbuff run if you need to make such a run.

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jeffreyw  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:36:01am

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:40:48am

re: #145 jeffreyw

Good Morning to you. Are you feeling better?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:43:23am

re: #125 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

+1

Reddit’s r/gendercritical (TERFs) was banned from the site, where TERFs were trying to make Karen into a slur against all women named Karen.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:53:45am

re: #145 jeffreyw

The new birdfeeder we ordered specially constructed (it’s designed to look like a mini-barn) has yet to arrive.

I’ll be able to post pictures of all the pigeons we have here when it arrives.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:55:26am

re: #146 PhillyPretzel

Good Morning to you. Are you feeling better?

No. Traitor Tot is still in office.

Did you weather Tropical Storm Fay okay?

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:58:30am

re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Everything seems to be okay. We still have a possibility of a severe thunderstorm this afternoon.
forecast.weather.gov

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 7:59:46am

(4:06)

To Be Human

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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:01:50am

re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

No. Traitor Tot is still in office.

Did you weather Tropical Storm Fay okay?

Take two of everything and call me in the morning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:02:08am

re: #150 PhillyPretzel

Everything seems to be okay. We still have a possibility of a severe thunderstorm this afternoon.
forecast.weather.gov

We have a couple days of clear but hot weather scheduled by the National Weather Service (around 100°F but clear).

The golf-ball hail a couple days ago only knocked out our Internet service; it caused no damage.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:04:45am

Quarantine update:

I’m not really sanguine about letting people into our home.

A couple weeks ago it was my brother- and sister-in-law on their trip around the Plains states when they were returning to Texas. Then it was the r/o repairman who fixed our r/o unit, after the plumber diagnosed the flood of water on the outside of our house as the r/o unit. He’ll be back to do the other plumbing repairs we hired him for.

People trooping through our house is not good right now.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:06:32am

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

r/o?

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:06:59am

re: #154 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Require masks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:10:17am

re: #145 jeffreyw

I see the cat is ensuring no birds appear this morning.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:11:06am

re: #155 PhillyPretzel

r/o?

Reverse osmosis unit. Required by state law and the EPA in our village to remove the arsenic and uranium from our water.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:15:30am

re: #145 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Western good morning!

(Hope you’re feeling better, Jeffrey!)

Bird sanctuary — birds not found
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Dread Pirate  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:16:29am
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Dread Pirate  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:17:34am
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mmmirele  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:20:15am

re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I took the bar back in 1989, and I’m gonna tell you that if someone told me on July 11 (end of the BarBri classes and beginning of 2.5 weeks of review) that my (three day) bar exam was going to be held in a huge room during a pandemic, I would have completely lost my shit. But some states are going forward. Here’s Oklahoma:

As part of the safety precautions, test takers will have their temperatures checked each day, they will be required to wear masks and the tables will be spaced out to allow for proper social distancing. The board has also asked all exam takers to self-quarantine for two weeks before the exam.

oklahoman.com

*snort* That’s what the 2.5 week review period IS. You’re not seeing ANYONE.

The young people today are under a lot more pressure because they’re graduating with ~10x the debt I had when I graduated. (I had $18,000 in loans for living expenses; it’s quite possible to be in debt ~$200K on graduation day in between tuition and living expenses.) They need to take the bar so they can go to work as lawyers as soon as possible. But let’s be clear, they’re risking their lives to take the bar and states not taking this into account are irresponsible as hell.

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jeffreyw  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:22:00am

re: #146 PhillyPretzel

Good Morning to you. Are you feeling better?

I feel torn up inside from the extreme bout of nonproductive vomiting, Very sore in the torso. I can lie on my back but I can’t turn over. Maybe a slight lessening today. Walking from the front room to the bathroom is all I can do. Using a cane.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:22:52am

re: #163 jeffreyw

I hope you feel better soon.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:24:01am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:24:25am

re: #123 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

Karen Karens for being called a Karen

It’s the ultimate in meta-karening

Karening_Intensifies.gif

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:24:32am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:27:15am
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Shropshire Slasher  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:29:53am

re: #163 jeffreyw

I hope you feel better. My mom always told me to use the B.R.A.T. diet, bananas, rice, apples, toast. Nothing fatty.

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retired cynic  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:30:38am

re: #169 Shropshire Slasher

That works on adults, too! I lived on it for a while last summer.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:31:11am

re: #163 jeffreyw

I feel torn up inside from the extreme bout of nonproductive vomiting, Very sore in the torso. I can lie on my back but I can’t turn over. Maybe a slight lessening today. Walking from the front room to the bathroom is all I can do. Using a cane.

courage camille!
this too, shall….pass.

seriously though
hopefully whatever caused it is now gone
so it’s all about reset / restart
time and patience

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:35:02am

On the subject of requiring masks: Yesterday, I picked up my amusingly intoxicated friend to take him to our church tech team’s small group meeting. (No, the irony wasn’t lost on me.) By tradition, we get dinner - either ordering pizza for everybody, or just picking up our own food and eating together at the church. My friend wanted to go to the local meat market to get “a proper dinner”, but they require masks now, so he said, “I’ll just take my money elsewhere.” I told him I was glad they require masks and that they have absolutely earned my patronage. One thing, though, is that a man walked into the store not wearing a mask while we were sitting there. I’m uncertain if they asked him to leave or not - I didn’t stick around to find out; but knowing the people in this area, I bet he got his way.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:35:20am

Panhandle Public Health District gave demographic information on the fifth person to die here for capitalism due to the coronavirus epidemic.

She was a woman in her seventies. They made sure to note she had “underlying health conditions” (read: she was human).

PPHD also reports this morning a new case of a woman in her forties.

It still seems to me that younger adults forced to go out and work return home and bring the virus to their parents, killing them unwittingly.

Opening schools would be a first-class shyteshow. I expect Scottsbluff Public Schools to show a dramatic increase in the 10-19 case count, deaths in their parents, whilst the rest of the public school districts here remain closed because we flipped the school boards to control by the sane party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:35:36am

re: #165 Belafon

Good morning. It’s a good day to register to vote. It’s an even better day to make sure all of your friends are registered too.

…and make sure those votes get properly tallied and counted!

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:41:27am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

…and make sure those votes get properly tallied and counted!

I doubt that’s happening today.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:43:24am

Very good current article on viewing Comet C-2020 NEOWIN for the next couple of weeks. (Our weather cycle sucks for the forseeable.)

space.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:43:36am

Already Christians are claiming that Christians are being censored or banned by Instagram over so-called conversion therapy posts, and claiming that Instagram is anti-Christian.

Really, it’s not like Instagram threw them to the lions.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:45:44am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Complete list of everything Christ said about homosexuality:

1. _______________

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:47:22am

re: #175 Belafon

I doubt that’s happening today.

we need to start making provisions because there are people working to see that votes don’t get count

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:47:38am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Already Christians are claiming that Christians are being censored or banned by Instagram over so-called conversion therapy posts, and claiming that Instagram is anti-Christian.

Really, it’s not like Instagram threw them to the lions.

My religion requires at least one Christian be sacrificed to the lions each week. These people had better support my religion as well.

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JC1  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:48:19am

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Complete list of everything Christ said about homosexuality:

1. _______________

I think the fact that he spent most of his time with 12 other dudes is the tell…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:53:20am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

we need to start making provisions because there are people working to see that votes don’t get count

Yep. I am still not convinced Trump won’t somehow find a way to stay President.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:53:41am

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Complete list of everything Christ said about homosexuality:

1. _______________

His statement about eunuchs seems to elude to the idea.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:54:18am

re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. I am still not convinced Trump won’t somehow find a way to stay President.

If Trump were an evil genius, yes.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:54:42am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:55:07am

re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg

Yep. I am still not convinced Trump won’t somehow find a way to stay President.

If he loses the election, his term ends as soon as Joe Biden is sworn in.

At that point, the Secret Service or federal Marshal Service can drag him out as a squatter in the White House.

Unless the GOP goes for a full-on coup, the Constitution applies no matter how much whinging he does.

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A Mom Anon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:55:11am

I’m about to lose my posting ability to the next thread, it’s going to begin crashing soon. Have a good Saturday, or try to. I have more yard work awaiting. Ick.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:55:35am

re: #184 Belafon

If Trump were an evil genius, yes.

He’s not. Barr? No principles, unconcerned by laws, crooked to his core.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:57:21am

re: #186 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If he loses the election, his term ends as soon as Joe Biden is sworn in.

At that point, the Secret Service or federal Marshal Service can drag him out as a squatter in the White House.

Unless the GOP goes for a full-on coup, the Constitution applies no matter how much whinging he does.

Of course. I was moreso referring to copious amounts of ratfuckery to try and make sure he wins the election.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 8:59:23am

re: #188 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

He’s not. Barr? No principles, unconcerned by laws, crooked to his core.

The biggest problem Barr runs into is the 50 states that run the elections.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:01:14am

Panhandle Public Health District notes the risk of coronavirus infection remains real, despite mixed messaging from the state governor relaxing restrictions.

Despite the governor’s complaints about releasing “too much data” the public health districts in the state continue to expand the data available to the public.

In addition, when he banned release of information about meat processing plants by the public health districts, the plants themselves started releasing data (I presume that’s because they want to show how serious this is and how it impacts their businesses).

Official: Risk for coronavirus continues despite re-opening (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

The official is the director of Panhandle Public Health District.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:02:28am

re: #190 Belafon

The biggest problem Barr runs into is the 50 states that run the elections.

Even red states will object to Barr or any other fed trying to interfere with what is a state power.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:09:51am

re: #192 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Even red states will object to Barr or any other fed trying to interfere with what is a state power.

I think the biggest risk is Trump and co. trying to mess with the EC delegates.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:10:26am
CHEYENNE - More 25% of Laramie County’s 35,572 registered voters have requested an absentee ballot for the Aug. 18 primary election, a seven-fold increase from 2016.

Since the start of absentee voting July 2, the clerk’s office has mailed nearly 9,300 ballots to voters who requested them, and requests are still coming in, according to a news release. Voters have until the day before the primary to request a mail ballot.

Laramie County Clerk Debra Lee said the response from voters is “unprecedented.”

“Typically, we mail an average of around 1,600 primary election absentee ballots during the 45-day period of absentee voting,” Lee said in the release. “This year, the number of requests we have for absentee ballots is staggering.”

More at the (Cheyenne) Wyoming Tribune-Eagle:

Laramie County sees seven-fold increase in absentee ballots from 2016 primary election

I don’t know how the election will shake out in Wyoming. That said, Laramie County (seat Cheyenne) is the most populous county there, and generally large turnouts favour Democrats.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:10:42am

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

Complete list of everything Christ said about homosexuality:

1. _______________

what an astonishing coincidence; that’s the same thing he said about abortion.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:10:58am

Mango Moron has retweeted himself ELEVEN times today.

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sagehen  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:11:52am

re: #184 Belafon

If Trump were an evil genius, yes.

He doesn’t need to be an evil genius; that’s what Barr is for.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:13:07am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Mango Moron has retweeted himself ELEVEN times today.

Twitter drenched in flop sweat.

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makeitstop  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:18:05am

re: #196 Eclectic Cyborg

Mango Moron has retweeted himself ELEVEN times today.

That tells you something.

Even though Roger Stone walks free today, the botched handling of the pandemic is not going away. Releasing Stone will do nothing to improve his poll numbers - might even make them worse. Down-ticket races all over the country are still in dire jeopardy.

Commuting Stone was not the action of confidence. It was one of desperation. Sure, Trump felt all warm and fuzzy and powerful last night, but that’s worn off by now.

But nothing has changed except where Roger Stone sleeps tonight. And Trump knows it.

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jeffreyw  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:18:09am

re: #171 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)

I have directed that rice be made. Milky rice with sugar, long time.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:22:04am

re: #193 Eclectic Cyborg

I think the biggest risk is Trump and co. trying to mess with the EC delegates.

Which the Supreme Court just made harder.

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DodgerFan1988  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:28:17am

The McCloskeys are who we thought they were.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:31:00am

re: #202 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

The McCloskeys are who we thought they were.

My surprise, let me show you it.

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BigPapa  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:34:21am

re: #203 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

My surprise, let me show you it.

My surprised face. Let me show you.

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Jay C  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:36:41am

re: #202 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

The McCloskeys are who we thought they were.

Which should have been obvious the minute they were identified as “trial lawyers”.

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:41:28am

re: #202 DodgerFan1988

[Embedded content]

The McCloskeys are who we thought they were.

Strangely, I’m not surprised at their SMU connections.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jul 11, 2020 • 9:42:57am

I’m off to bed. I’ll catch y’all later.

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Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)  Jul 11, 2020 • 10:03:43am

re: #177 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Already Christians are claiming that Christians are being censored or banned by Instagram over so-called conversion therapy posts, and claiming that Instagram is anti-Christian.

Really, it’s not like Instagram threw them to the lions.

see what you did there…

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 11, 2020 • 10:03:45am

re: #38 Belafon

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stpaulbear  Jul 11, 2020 • 10:04:09am

re: #199 makeitstop

That tells you something.

Even though Roger Stone walks free today, the botched handling of the pandemic is not going away. Releasing Stone will do nothing to improve his poll numbers - might even make them worse. Down-ticket races all over the country are still in dire jeopardy.

Commuting Stone was not the action of confidence. It was one of desperation. Sure, Trump felt all warm and fuzzy and powerful last night, but that’s worn off by now.

But nothing has changed except where Roger Stone sleeps tonight. And Trump knows it.

And Roger Stone goes home with a huge smile on his face (which was plastered all over the media), while Trump is still stuck with all of ‘his’ problems and still having to worry about how much Roger Stone knows almost everything about all his corruption. Will he stay quiet? Trump doesn’t really get a thing out of this except the risk of future blackmail or exposure if Stone gets unhappy. Stone is probably too smart to stand near windows.

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🌹UOJB!  Jul 11, 2020 • 10:28:06am

Another Asshole Karen…claiming a man doesn’t live in his house…and she calls the police alleging he’s a drug dealer.

It’s time to pass a KAREN act putting these ignorant assholes in jail when they make false accusations.

Sick of these ignorant white KKKraKKKers!


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