I think I posted this episode of “Live From Daryl’s House” once before, years ago, but I just rediscovered it and was blown away all over again. So you might call this a “greatest hits” post, I guess. Jason Mraz is amazing and Daryl Hall and his band have never sounded better.
How to person woman man camera tv https://t.co/nplmR7rrV0
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 24, 2020
3D printed water droplet simulator. https://t.co/Bz6X5QhDms pic.twitter.com/AuRwUFF7dl
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) July 24, 2020
Goebbels here is first at the Nuremberg trials https://t.co/Rct2eqVbir
— Grudgie the Whale (@grudging1) July 24, 2020
re: #6 Dread Pirate
I think Miller has the most punchable face in the entire Administration and that’s saying something because there are a lot of top contenders.
re: #3 gocart mozart
Here it is (spoiler alert for those who haven’t seen it)https://t.co/mxgST3SIzs
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 24, 2020
re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg
Looking at that tweet, I think Miller is using the spray-on hair again.
Here’s what I learned making this video: Fox News HATES Donald Trump. They could’ve edited this (heavily) and made him not sound so *lost old man* but they didn’t, they kept all the repetitive nonsense intact. Because they actually hate him. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 24, 2020
This is what we saw from the window of the Hampton Inn Hotel today. Families asking for help & telling us they have no phones. @DHSgov is keeping them in this black-site to expel them unless we raise hell
visit https://t.co/zVU9dUHGAX to help#FreeThemAll 📸: @RobertoAleLopez pic.twitter.com/MeJeYh8L7J— Texas Civil Rights Project (@TXCivilRights) July 24, 2020
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
From two or three threads back, attempting vainly to catch up here. Will be checking for updates, but for now…
re: #117 Eclectic Cyborg
Well, this sucks. My dad just called and said my stepmom, who has been fighting cancer for five years now, was taken to hospital in an Ambulance this morning.
It’s NOT Covid (they were both tested). We don’t know much yet. He’s also heartbroken that because of the restrictions she can’t have any visitors, including him.
Good juju appreciated.
{{{Sending the good juju, EC, for your stepmom and all who love her}}}
NEWS: Democrats raised concerns in nonpublic portion of letter sent to FBI that Graham, Grassley, Nunes, and Mick Mulvaney were mailed packets of info from Ukraine about Joe Biden. It fueled their demand for an urgent briefing on election security. https://t.co/DQMxtJd1vj
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 23, 2020
BREAKING: A federal court just issued a restraining order on the federal agents in Portland, Oregon.
We said we would deploy the full firepower of the ACLU in this fight to save our democracy — and we meant it.— ACLU (@ACLU) July 24, 2020
My theory is there is a correlation between Covid-19 cases and number of Confederate monuments. The map bears this out. If we get rid of the monuments, poof! There goes Corona. https://t.co/XowOSKFInK
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 24, 2020
re: #14 Belafon
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
Yep. If you happen to have a random compatible CPU floating around, that is what I would try next. Other than that, new computer time.
re: #14 Belafon
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
Only thing I’d try is reseating the CPU in case heat pulled it away from the socket. Otherwise, the question is the same class MB to reuse everything else or a new gen mobo with an AMD X570 chipset and a AMD Ryzen 7 4700G.
Applebaum is right: the attack on demonstrators in Portland is political performance art, carefully staged to cast the enemy as a left-wing “mob.” The rationale for doing this is identical to that of Mussolini’s blackshirts: the more violence, the better. https://t.co/3MGqbnVLFG
— Michael Carpenter (@mikercarpenter) July 24, 2020
Nope. Aliens want nothing to do with us. Even they are afraid of Trump!
Alien invasion couod be like the one good thing to happen in 2020 let’s not jinx it https://t.co/JxeczUQrWk
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 24, 2020
re: #21 jaunte
Gotta say what a great shot and in the thick of it. Those guys show up in LA and I’m in cam in hand.
re: #14 Belafon
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
Maybe, or Bios, or most likely hard drive.
re: #20 William Lewis
Only thing I’d try is reseating the CPU in case heat pulled it away from the socket. Otherwise, the question is the same class MB to reuse everything else or a new gen mobo with an AMD X570 chipset and a AMD Ryzen 7 4700G.
Run the motherboard with the most minimal configuration; memory, graphics, no HD. only connect the power switch wiring in the case. If you have 4 (or 2) memory sticks, try running with just one and swap it out. (That said, I have never seen memory just fail.)
My last build had an odd failure: The reset button shorted out (it was an old case, and near the ocean, too.) and caused my new board to continuously reset. I seldom use the reset button for its intended purpose, so off that went. Problem solved. (I had other problems that took me a month to figure out, but in the end all my hardware was good.)
re: #27 jaunte
Yep. And why would I need an English tooter when I already have an American one?
The WH assignment should be the plum job for any journalist. Who are these people who fail us on a daily basis? It’s like the junior varsity every damn day. @peterbakernyt , et. al. Come on, do your damn jobs!
— David Mersault (@DMersault) July 24, 2020
Well, TS Hannah has formed in the Gulf and is expected to make landfall around Corpus on Saturday. We were hoping it would track farther north, because we desperately need rain (0.00 this month), but fuck us, out of luck.
We were #1 in Covid deaths again today! Yay, Texas! Everything is bigger here.
I think both Texas and Florida are cooking the the books on reported vs. actual COVID deaths. The numbers look hinkie.
Night all, sweet dreams.
Life in hell continues.
Oh, and wear a mask, wash your hands, social distance, and GOTV.
And as never before, Black Lives Matter.
re: #30 austin_blue
It’s actually pretty well documented (4000 mysterious pneumonia deaths) that Florida has excess mortality which should be attributed to C19. And they did this dance with people from out of state not really counting, too.
While a lot of us suspect Texas is playing the same games, they seem to be hiding it better.
re: #14 Belafon
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
Motherboard or maybe the CPU. My money would be on the motherboard if even the fans don’t spin up
7.23.20 pic.twitter.com/N60Yzd3B0d
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 24, 2020
🚨🚨 New @CookPolitical Senate ratings and overview 🚨🚨
Almost 100 days out, Democrats are favored to take back the Senate https://t.co/SjHRq9L6IS pic.twitter.com/Bv0fo77cwa— Jessica Taylor (@JessicaTaylor) July 23, 2020
We wrote four months ago that the worsening pandemic, along with Biden emerging as the Democratic nominee instead of Bernie Sanders, was the “perfect storm” Republicans feared. Now, with the death toll nearing 150,000, the environment has gotten even worse for the GOP, prodded along by Trump’s missteps. Racial injustice protests after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery in early June further galvanized the nation, leading to rapid cultural shifts against Confederate monuments and even the long pushed for change of the Mississippi state flag, which still bore the Confederate battle flag emblem.
Thanks to @TXCivilRights for their vigilance fighting for legal rights of asylum seekers, especially children.
Here’s the thing: As we have seen in Portland, everything done to immigrants will eventually be done to anyone who opposes this admin. Chew on it. #FreeThemAll https://t.co/n6yCcpMfN3— YRUMarchingTX? (@YRUMarchingTX) July 24, 2020
ICUs Reach Breaking Point As Nation Hits 4 Million Coronavirus Hoaxes https://t.co/Kc73gt8Od7 pic.twitter.com/pkn28tpcwx
— The Onion (@TheOnion) July 23, 2020
China orders closure of US consulate in Chengdu.https://t.co/KDDQyGm1MT
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) July 24, 2020
Tag Teaming Karens double down on the bigotry!
A pair of racist women in Oregon tell Latinx customers to “go back to Mexico” pic.twitter.com/8Mu4kaP9BI
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 24, 2020
“Vote for me and this time I promise I will do exactly the same things I promised I would do the first time but didn’t.”
That’s how an incumbent loses. https://t.co/ucsCizo7NY— Marcher Lord Fred (@LesserFrederick) July 24, 2020
Few things kill an incumbent’s chances like “You fucked up, you trusted me, now give me another 4 years!”
If anyone’s ever wondered just how big a piece of shit Stephen Miller is, well…..here ya go:
Stephen Miller, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, is insisting his grandmother did not die of the coronavirus, despite a death certificate that states otherwise.
Miller’s maternal uncle, David Glosser, who has criticized Miller in the past for crafting Trump’s restrictive immigration policies, took to Facebook to commemorate the death of his mother, Ruth Glosser, who died at 97 in Southern California, Mother Jones reported Thursday. He said in the post she died of “the late effects of COVID 19.”
The White House has come under fire for mishandling the pandemic. On Thursday, the number of infected in the United States hit 4 million. The death toll tops 141,000.
Mother Jones asked the White House for a response.
“This is categorically false, and a disgusting use of so-called journalism when the family deserves privacy to mourn the loss of a loved one,” the White House said. “His grandmother did not pass away from COVID. She was diagnosed with COVID in March and passed away in July, so that timeline does not add up at all. His grandmother died peacefully in her sleep from old age. I would hope that you would choose not to go down this road.”
Yep, Pee Wee Himmler there is straight-up denying reality to OWN THE LIBS! This asshat is fucking vile.
These are the guys the who’ve been grabbing protesters off the street in Portland. https://t.co/qYQ09QfdF1 They are deploying to a new city even as the DHS IG launches an investigation into their presence and actions in Portland. https://t.co/Crl2B73JLP https://t.co/7R8FjLV3U4
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) July 23, 2020
re: #24 austin_blue
Maybe, or Bios, or most likely hard drive.
I’m not even getting a bios or even a blink of the board trying to turn anything on.
re: #44 Belafon
I’m not even getting a bios or even a blink of the board trying to turn anything on.
I’d agree with the idea upthread that the motherboard is likely toast if you’re not even getting the fans to turn on.
re: #45 Targetpractice
I’d agree with the idea upthread that the motherboard is likely toast if you’re not even getting the fans to turn on.
That’s what I was thinking, I just wanted to get some other opinions.
Thanks, everyone.
re: #46 Belafon
That’s what I was thinking, I just wanted to get some other opinions.
Thanks, everyone.
No prob. Sounds to me like perhaps a bad trace on the board that finally gave up the ghost. You said the power light’s turning on, but is it giving any sort of beep when the power’s first turned on?
re: #46 Belafon
Usually, motherboards die when their capacitors fail; these parts are driven hard and some vendors use cheap parts. My last motherboard developed a problem where it would boot only when it felt like it, and I had to do all kinds of rituals to get it to behave. When you have to sacrifice a goat to get your work done, it’s time to move on. Also, while I’m very good at fixing and stretching my electronics as far as they can go, if I have to mess with something more than twice, it’s time to junk it.
I bet images like all of the baseball players taking a knee are flummoxing Trump. He keeps trying to beat up blacks, incite violence, and all most people want to do is get along.
They’re going to be desperate, and they’re going to keep trying more and more aggressive actions. Our job is to stick together, and keep pointing out to people what is wrong.
Good time to remind everyone that using mercenaries against civilians was literally one of the reasons listed in the Declaration of Independence for starting the revolution.
— Antifa Air Force Commander (@aceoaces) July 24, 2020
re: #47 Targetpractice
No prob. Sounds to me like perhaps a bad trace on the board that finally gave up the ghost. You said the power light’s turning on, but is it giving any sort of beep when the power’s first turned on?
Nope.
re: #48 Sherlock Hound
Usually, motherboards die when their capacitors fail; these parts are driven hard and some vendors use cheap parts. My last motherboard developed a problem where it would boot only when it felt like it, and I had to do all kinds of rituals to get it to behave. When you have to sacrifice a goat to get your work done, it’s time to move on. Also, while I’m very good at fixing and stretching my electronics as far as they can go, if I have to mess with something more than twice, it’s time to junk it.
At least the caps are better now than they were in the late 80’s ~ early 90’s. I’ve got a MacSE/30 that has been recapped and the thing that prevents me from buying an old Amiga again is the caps. I have even seen workstations (Sun, SGI, etc) that needed to be recapped because of the crap sold to the makers in those days.
re: #50 Ace-o-aces
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We’re almost at the “quartering of troops” part. They may not be in your houses as such, but if they’re sleeping off their last beating in MY neighborhood, I should have a say!
re: #48 Sherlock Hound
Usually, motherboards die when their capacitors fail; these parts are driven hard and some vendors use cheap parts. My last motherboard developed a problem where it would boot only when it felt like it, and I had to do all kinds of rituals to get it to behave. When you have to sacrifice a goat to get your work done, it’s time to move on. Also, while I’m very good at fixing and stretching my electronics as far as they can go, if I have to mess with something more than twice, it’s time to junk it.
I’ve had that board for probably 9 years now.
re: #51 Belafon
Nope.
Then it’s not even getting to POST, which given the age of the board, probably means Sherlock is right about a capacitor finally giving up the ghost. It’s not impossible to fix, assuming that it hasn’t blown and eaten into the traces. When you get a chance to look at the board, check for any of the barrel-shaped bits that look swollen, darkened, or split open.
re: #50 Ace-o-aces
I was hoping to find that one on Susan’s facebook page, but I can’t find it there.
Is this REAL? Is this really @RepTedYoho daughter? Cause if so—dayuuuuuuum!!!!! Go girl. #AOC https://t.co/YeKHFsEsxk
— Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) July 23, 2020
re: #16 Dread Pirate
NEWS: Democrats raised concerns in nonpublic portion of letter sent to FBI that Graham, Grassley, Nunes, and Mick Mulvaney were mailed packets of info from Ukraine about Joe Biden. It fueled their demand for an urgent briefing on election security. https://t.co/DQMxtJd1vj
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) July 23, 2020
Biden and the Lincoln Project should probably both be taking about how this is going to be the “October Surprise” and it’s going to be full of doctored videos and fake documents.
re: #42 Dr Lizardo
If anyone’s ever wondered just how big a piece of shit Stephen Miller is, well…..here ya go:
Yep, Pee Wee Himmler there is straight-up denying reality to OWN THE LIBS! This asshat is fucking vile.
Steven Miller needs to be sent to The Hague to answer for his crimes.
re: #50 Ace-o-aces
The image is doctored. The distance between the letters is not consistent
re: #59 🌹UOJB!
Steven Miller needs to be sent to The Hague to answer for his crimes.
Yep. But unless US law is changed, sadly, that’s probably not going to happen. That being said, we can still try him in the USA.
re: #57 Dave In Austin
Not real
Blaire Erskine is a comic
That’s my husband Dan Maples in that video from Costco and I have some things to say!! pic.twitter.com/WOoPGTWijY
— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) July 7, 2020
re: #52 William Lewis
At least the caps are better now than they were in the late 80’s ~ early 90’s. I’ve got a MacSE/30 that has been recapped and the thing that prevents me from buying an old Amiga again is the caps. I have even seen workstations (Sun, SGI, etc) that needed to be recapped because of the crap sold to the makers in those days.
Vintage DEC machines die in fire, or at least smoke, due to their RIFA caps.
re: #54 Belafon
I’ve had that board for probably 9 years now.
Nine years is outstanding. For me, five years is normal, three years on a motherboard (my previous one) is meh. If my electronics die sooner than that, it’s poor. I had an HP Chromebook and I only got a year and a half out of it before it died suddenly. Not getting another one.
I can’t believe Gavin Newsom was ever married to her…
— KathyK (@ElephantLvr) July 23, 2020
re: #61 Dr Lizardo
Yep. But unless US law is changed, sadly, that’s probably not going to happen. That being said, we can still try him in the USA.
The key for dealing with this administration is “18 U.S. Code § 242.Deprivation of rights under color of law” because that’s the way all of the cops the Mango Moron has suborned can be prosecuted.
re: #63 Sherlock Hound
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Vintage DEC machines die in fire, or at least smoke, due to their RIFA caps.
Yeah, I have an Alphastation 200 4/233 I’ve considered paying to get recapped because 1) I love the machine and 2) I don’t trust my hand on the soldering iron O_o
It feels like 75%+ of computer restoration videos on Youtube involve either recapping or hunting down boards with intact capacitors. In fact, it’s actually a surprise in those videos when they crack open an 80s-vintage computer and don’t have to go hunting for blown caps.
re: #62 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Yeah I knew that. I’ve seen her before.
Their site is being crashed by so many Googlers pic.twitter.com/QTpJbuDODK
— Dave Kobert (@dkobert) July 24, 2020
re: #58 Belafon
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Biden and the Lincoln Project should probably both be taking about how this is going to be the “October Surprise” and it’s going to be full of doctored videos and fake documents.
I’ve seen at least three bits of speculation about an “October Surprise”:
1. Criminal charges brought due to the Durham “probe” that somehow catch some low-ranking underlings in what the wingnuts like to dub “process crimes,” leading to the last days of the election filed with talk about “plea deals” leading to Biden or even Obama being charged with felonies
2. “Revelations” from Ukraine that show either Hunter or Joe knew “something” about corruption at Burisma and that’s why the WH pressed to get Shokin out, with the press talking again about how this “scandal” needs a full Congressional investigation and Joe needs to “come clean.”
3. An announcement is made that a CV-19 vaccine has been found in a lab sponsored by the federal government, with plans to quickly begin production and crank it out before year’s end. This will (somehow) totally “vindicate” Donny in the eyes of the public.
Looks like Trump’s Sturmabteilung are in Seattle. They seem increasingly desperate to provoke some kind of major incident.
After a day of conflicting messages from the federal government, where they told my staff repeatedly that there was no surge of additional personnel to Seattle, it appears they are doing just that.
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) July 24, 2020
re: #73 Dr Lizardo
Heads up Seattle, two USCBP P-3s flew into PDX to drop off federal police special tactics teams that ended downtown at the Federal Court House. Airplane spotters caught the puzzling arrival & all the dudes & equipment that came off. Within 24 hours, it was clear what it was for. https://t.co/1E4RHP11hw
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) July 24, 2020
Maybe this case is different. Maybe they are going to do interdiction operations or a training event in the area. That does happen. But these are the facts in PDX’s case.
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) July 24, 2020
re: #73 Dr Lizardo
Looks like Trump’s Sturmabteilung are in Seattle. They seem increasingly desperate to provoke some kind of major incident.
Then order them arrested the instant they step off federal property. Their intent is to violate federal law (18s242) and obeying illegal orders is no defense.
re: #14 Belafon
Yup, the follow-on comments are my experience as well.
Basically, if no power to the motherboard or anything else, then it is likely to be the power supply.
After replacing the power supply, the motherboard should show that it is getting power. And it’s rom should start to boot up.
If it doesn’t respond, the motherboard has the a failure. If the rom will start up, it can usually identify what part is failing for you.
And yes, at times it can feel like you are replacing the tires, one by one, in order to fix a flat.
Per the earlier discussion on team names, my favorite team names are:
1. The Rocket City Trash Pandas
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and the
2. UC Santa Cruz Banana Slugs
en.wikipedia.org
An internal White House email obtained by CREW shows that in 2019, the top W.H. ethics official determined that it was “reasonably necessary” for Jared Kushner to divest his interest in Cadre. But CNBC recently reported that Kushner is not going to divest.https://t.co/PWOZ9WfUS6
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 24, 2020
re: #14 Belafon
PC question. I have a computer I built back in the second generation of i5s. It’s worked great up until two days ago, when it struggled to turn on, and then failed to turn on yesterday. Thinking it was the power supply, I bought a new one today, no deal. I get the little green light on the motherboard that says that it’s receiving power, but it will not turn on. No spinning fans, nothing on the monitor indicating a power up.
I have pulled all the cards, most of the memory, and have checked all of the connections. I even replaced the cmos battery just in case. No deal. Does it sound to anyone like the motherboard just gave up?
As suggested, try a minimal configuration but first I would pull the video card (if using dedicated graphics), the cpu and the memory sticks. Get a natural rubber eraser and use it to carefully clean the gold ‘fingers’ (contacts) on each and then reassemble. I’ve revived numerous older systems this way, just handle carefully and discharge any static before and during cleaning. The gold layer is ultra thin and the base metal that it is on will start to oxidize through it in some climates.
When pulling the cpu from the socket, be careful about keeping a good grip on it so you don’t slip and damage the wire contacts in the socket. Same with dropping it back in. I like to clean the cpu, unlatch it and use tape to lift it out without fuss.
Quit a thread here.
A stunning scene in Portland right now pic.twitter.com/2eDeWt6bC5
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 24, 2020
More from Portland tonight. This seems to sum things up nicelyhttps://t.co/Fkmqv04VRi https://t.co/FvQm6eU1EQ
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 24, 2020
re: #58 Belafon
Biden and the Lincoln Project should probably both be taking about how this is going to be the “October Surprise” and it’s going to be full of doctored videos and fake documents.
They have been building this up too much for too long not to “deliver”. Timing will be important: just enough for the both-sides press to report on allegations but not enough time for the completely contrived nature of the “investigations” to come out.
Portland has disabling tear gas canisters down to a sciencehttps://t.co/pBBwYdPXTW https://t.co/nybzKSS9H9
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 24, 2020
re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They have been building this up too much for too long not to “deliver”. Timing will be important: just enough for the both-sides press to report on allegations but not enough time for the completely contrived nature of the “investigations” to come out.
Could try forcing their hand to release whatever cooked-up nonsense they have early. Put out a pre-emptive strike, something like “the Trump administration, acting out of panic, is planning to put out a series of lies about former VP Biden. We must remember that Trump himself is a pathological liar, so anything the White House throws out there can be easily dismissed.”
Just keep repeating that message, over and over again. Especially hammer the message that Trump is very well-known to be a pathological liar, and nothing he says is ever to be trusted.
— And the Wind Cries Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV (@DaveoutofAustin) July 24, 2020
re: #85 Dr Lizardo
Just keep repeating that message, over and over again. Especially hammer the message that Trump is very well-known to be a pathological liar, and nothing he says is ever to be trusted.
but both sides…
fucking press puts its own ratings above the nation’s well being
From the BBC article
“Mr Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez, 30, said on Thursday. “I am two years younger than Mr Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am someone’s daughter too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr Yoho treated his daughter.”
Fox analysis::
AOC Thankful that her Father is Dead!
Feds shot at least 2 canisters with what looks like a launcher device. Does anyone have more information on this weapon? #Portland #PortlandProtest pic.twitter.com/kwcTE1QpqB
— #DEFENDPDX™ 🖤 (@defendpdx) July 24, 2020
“I would have complied, but I lost all the videos in a boating accident. ” pic.twitter.com/U1vvHDzceb
— Brandon (@BrandonTalks) July 24, 2020
re: #89 Dave In Austin
Huh. Looks like the Feds are holed up in their building. I’d imagine they have some pretty serious tear-gas launchers inside.
re: #90 Dread Pirate
A terrifying court ruling here: A judge in Seattle has ordered that media outlets must turn over images and footage from the George Floyd protests on May 30, so that police can investigate possible crimes.
How about: Trump gets all the Portland videos in exchange for all the outtakes from The Apprentice?
re: #90 Dread Pirate
“It was the damnedest thing, your Honor. I was out enjoying some fishing with all my video footage, and suddenly, the boat sprang a leak outta nowhere and I only had enough time to put on a lifejacket before it went under. And what a shame, too…I had some great footage and now it’s all at the bottom of Puget Sound.”
Rose twitter has found itself in a huge bind: Their chosen candidate to challenge Pelosi has been caught up in his own accusations of sexual harassment and office place misogyny and…well…
These are the same people who insisted Tara Reade’s story was credible. pic.twitter.com/Z3KQRSAU8I
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) July 22, 2020
The @OxfordEconomics US Recovery Tracker shifts into reverse in week-ended July 10:
- 3rd decline in 5 weeks
- Lowest level since mid-June
Components:
- Health fell for 4th consecutive week
- Demand 2nd consecutive drop & worst decline in 4 months
- Employment flat pic.twitter.com/IuQupQd3YZ— Gregory Daco (@GregDaco) July 23, 2020
re: #97 Dread Pirate
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And it’s only going to get worse in coming weeks as the CARES Act components reach their expiration dates in coming days and millions of Americans are back to wondering how the fuck they’re going to avoid eviction and starvation.
re: #92 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How about: Trump gets all the Portland videos in exchange for all the outtakes from The Apprentice?
That seem to be how they do it these days. and a subpoena?? Republican leadership ignores them. I say no. Take it to SCOTUS unless that’s settled law. I hope that’s not the case
Weird Drinkers, meet your first recipe #sekanjabin https://t.co/ozLcCdfShQ
— Give Me Weird Drinks (@weirddrinks) July 22, 2020
This looks interesting.
re: #98 Targetpractice
And it’s only going to get worse in coming weeks as the CARES Act components reach their expiration dates in coming days and millions of Americans are back to wondering how the fuck they’re going to avoid eviction and starvation.
“Poverty kills people, too!” is the counter-argument for reopening the economy in the midst of a deadly epidemic.
Except that poverty does not kill: people die from lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care. Because our society has decided that poor people are not worthy of these resources…
re: #95 Dread Pirate
That’s about the equivalent of the US M79, in use since the Vietnam war. A version with the 40mm slung under an M16 rifle barrel is the M203.
re: #103 Dread Pirate
Political BS aside, CDC has a lot of numbers. Many are used for specialized purposes. For instance, if you die of CV19, you might be a long time being validated and entered in some CDC tables. Basically, CDC is supposed to do science, Worldometer is doing (good) journalism.
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Poverty kills people, too!” is the counter-argument for reopening the economy in the midst of a deadly epidemic.
Except that poverty does not kill: people die from lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care. Because our society has decided that poor people are not worthy of these resources…
They genuinely thought they’d get away with things being “over” by August. The CARES Act was always written to be a one-and-done affair, a “temporary” assistance bill that they never planned to extend or follow up with further aid. They assumed that it was going to be like past outbreaks in the US: A few weeks of terror, a few thousand infections/deaths, and then states got it “under control” in time for the summer holidays to wipe out people’s memory of the whole matter.
They figured by the time it got to the convention, CV-19 would be up there with SARS and H1N1: A flash-in-the-pan scare that the media blew out of proportion, something that they’d be laughing about as voters figured out they’d stayed home and stayed away from other people for no good reason. The jobs would quickly be restored as businesses felt safe to reopen, making their arguments that people needed to “go back to work” seem like common sense rather than a death sentence. And all the Dems who’d criticized Trump for not taking the whole thing seriously would look “foolish” for politicizing what had been an outbreak of something that was “no worse than the flu.”
Even their supposed work on a new bill is obviously half-hearted, as their political orthodoxy is warring with electoral realities. Honestly, if you asked them away from the cameras what they think, they’d tell you that what needs to be done is there need to be federal penalties for people who won’t go “back to work” and that the whole thing is happening for one reason: To hurt Trump’s reelection bid.
re: #105 Targetpractice
That’s still the absolute gospel according to Free Republic.
re: #106 Decatur Deb
That’s still the absolute gospel according to Free Republic.
Of course, they’ve all busted out the “Great Recession” golden oldies:
- “There’s plenty of jobs out there! If you don’t got a job, then you don’t want to work!”
- “So what if that new job doesn’t come with health insurance? Tighten your belt until you can pay for you own!”
- “You need to lower your expectations! No job’s gonna pay as well as your last job. Gotta get rid of them luxuries until you can afford them again!”
- “I know a guy who just got a job that pays great and comes with amazing benefits! If you can’t find a job, you’re not looking hard enough!”
Gee, I wonder why?
Can’t see a mask anywhere in that picture— Joan McGinnis (@JoanPennnative) July 24, 2020
re: #98 Targetpractice
And it’s only going to get worse in coming weeks as the CARES Act components reach their expiration dates in coming days and millions of Americans are back to wondering how the fuck they’re going to avoid eviction and starvation.
Well, there’s always the “Al Capone” solution. You know…..crime.
/s - kinda sorta
re: #102 Decatur Deb
That’s about the equivalent of the US M79, in use since the Vietnam war. A version with the 40mm slung under an M16 rifle barrel is the M203.
re: #109 Dr Lizardo
Well, there’s always the “Al Capone” solution. You know…..crime.
/s - kinda sorta
Just like the “Magnum Lotto” Pension Plan:
Buy a lottery ticket every week until you retire. If you have not won by then, go buy a .357 Magnum and knock over a bank. Even if you get caught, you are at least guaranteed a place to stay, meals and heath care for the rest of your life…
re: #110 Dr Lizardo
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Good theatre, but not accurate. Most 40mm HE grenades don’t arm at such short ranges (The kill radius shouldn’t be greater than the arming distance for obvious reasons). I’ve had lots of semi-friendly security guards train 40s on me at a few meters—I always felt consoled that the thing would knock a hole in my suitcoat, but probably wouldn’t go off.
Wow — what a giant FUCK YOU to @realDonaldTrump!! 🖕pic.twitter.com/vBMiKPYpQc
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) July 23, 2020
re: #114 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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Quoth Mrs. Fish, “Literally the only time I’m going to say this, but good job, Yankees.”
re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“Poverty kills people, too!” is the counter-argument for reopening the economy in the midst of a deadly epidemic.
Except that poverty does not kill: people die from lack of proper nutrition, shelter and health care. Because our society has decided that poor people are not worthy of these resources…
Poverty is a form of violence.
who is the other team?
re: #112 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just like the “Magnum Lotto” Pension Plan:
Buy a lottery ticket every week until you retire. If you have not won by then, go buy a .357 Magnum and knock over a bank. Even if you get caught, you are at least guaranteed a place to stay, meals and heath care for the rest of your life…
My dad made a similar joke. “Three hots and a cot! What more do ya need?”
re: #117 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who is the other team?
Washington Nationals.
re: #116 Barefoot Grin
Poverty is a form of violence.
we are raised to see it as a moral shortcoming
hi
If I could afford to be a state legislator, I would run against my senator Steve Erdman (Hack-District 47). At least I could take away his “I’m a vet, vote for me” schtick. Plus the district is small enough I could campaign in all of it and I know many of the people here personally (including Senator Erdman). The problem is the pay for a state legislator is so low that unless you have independent income, you can’t afford to be one.
I really don’t know who to believe here: a vast group of scientists and researchers around the world who are united on the idea of man-made climate change and only differ slightly on minor details, or a state senator from a town of 800 people? Who to believe here?
Opponents of a bill that would require a state plan for dealing with extreme weather and the warming of the planet blocked the advancement of the proposal on Thursday, despite an offer by its chief sponsor to remove the words “climate change” from the bill.
State Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks of Lincoln, who introduced Legislative Bill 283, said that 34 other states had already created such climate action plans or were in the process of doing them and that Nebraska needed to plan for the next catastrophic flood and for the future of agriculture on a warming planet.
Sen. John McCollister of Omaha, who picked LB 283 as his priority bill, acknowledged that rural senators and those who don’t believe that man is contributing to the rising heat might fear such a bill. But McCollister said it was aimed at preserving the economic health of the state.
But opponents, led by Sens. Dan Hughes of Venango and Steve Erdman of Bayard, questioned the $250,000 cost and the need for such a study. They and other opponents said that the planet is in a “very active weather cycle” that was caused by nature and that it’s a “hoax” that man is contributing to the more extreme weather that scientists have linked to climate change.
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re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we are raised to see it as a moral shortcoming
I’ve been on the business end of that most of my life.
re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I really don’t know who to believe here: a vast group of scientists and researchers around the world who are united on the idea of man-made climate change and only differ slightly on minor details, or a state senator from a town of 800 people? Who to believe here?
That reminds me of the beginning of the pandemic, when a local state senator / family practitioner started putting out videos claiming that the novel coronavirus had been in the country much earlier, that it was much less deadly than everyone claimed, that we were making a big mistake by shutting everything down, etc. He was one of the earliest proponents of what is now the standard right-wing argument for opening states back up. At that time, though, my rebuttal was along the same lines as yours: Who should we believe, an entire community of experts who specialize in infectious disease, or some country family doctor from Backwater, USA who spends half his time in state government and not even performing his practice?
LINCOLN — A Gretna company, Community Pharmacy Services, obtained the four drugs used in the August 2018 execution of double-murderer Carey Dean Moore, the state’s first execution in 21 years.The supplier was revealed in 44 pages of public documents released late Thursday by the Nebraska Department of Corrections after the ACLU of Nebraska, The World-Herald and the Lincoln Journal Star sued for their release.
The owner of the company, Kyle Janssen, issued a statement shortly after the records were released saying that Community Pharmacy Services regretted its decision to sell those drugs and that it has not sold drugs to the Nebraska prison system, or any other correctional department, since.
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Nebraska’s new lethal injection drugs came from Gretna pharmacy (Omaha World-Herald)
The four drugs used were diazepam (a sedative), fentanyl (a powerful opioid painkiller), cisatracurium (a paralyzing drug intended to stop the inmate’s breathing) and potassium chloride (a drug that causes a heart attack in high doses). That four-drug combination has not been used by any state since, according to Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center based in Washington, D.C.
At least one of the drugs, potassium chloride, was set to expire the month that Moore was put to death.
The records indicated that a fifth drug was also obtained: hydromophone, a potent painkiller sold under the brand name Dilaudid. But Dunham speculated that Nebraska officials declined to use it after the drug was one of two used in a botched execution in Arizona.
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re: #116 Barefoot Grin
Poverty is a form of violence.
Poverty is a system of learned and shared adaptations.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Poverty is a system of learned and shared adaptations.
en.wikipedia.org
Poverty, or the threat of falling into it irrevocably, is also a major motivating factor in the American labor market and economic system.
re: #123 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
To give you an idea of how much of a parrot of right-wing fact-free conservative talking points my state senator is, I can direct you to his official senate page at the Nebraska Legislature Website.
His entire page is a firehose of crazy.
re: #125 Decatur Deb
Poverty is a system of learned and shared adaptations.
en.wikipedia.org
Not to mention our torn clothes and homelessness being an inspiration for high-fashion designers at the New York Fashion Show.
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Poverty, or the threat of falling into it irrevocably, is also a major motivating factor in the American labor market and economic system.
Particularly sharp in the Newly Poor—they haven’t learned how.
re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Not to mention our torn clothes and homelessness being an inspiration for high-fashion designers at the New York Fashion Show.
Dumpster Chic for dumpster souls.
re: #130 Decatur Deb
Particularly sharp in the Newly Poor—they haven’t learned how.
And that generation of college graduates we burden with enough debt to make a down payment on a home that they will as a result never own…
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that generation of college graduates we burden with enough debt to make a down payment on a home that they will as a result never own…
That’s a policy choice. Congress and the Fed dumped enough money into the Wall Street rescue to educate a couple generations of Americans.
re: #133 Decatur Deb
That’s a policy choice. Congress and the Fed dumped enough money into the Wall Street rescue to educate a couple generations of Americans.
and ensure that that the Wall Street managers can send their kids to whichever school they can buy their way into…
re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
And that generation of college graduates we burden with enough debt to make a down payment on a home that they will as a result never own…
Fortunately we are debt-free. Debt was never a thing I acquired since my family was poverty-stricken from the moment my father died. Poor people couldn’t get loans in the Sixties and Seventies.
My wife avoided incurring debt except for the purchase of a house in Colorado Springs, which she sold for much more than she paid for it after Digital Equipment Corporation went belly up along with her job. She was left in the unenviable position her experience in computers had been rendered moot, whilst her three college degrees were met with the same response (you’re over-educated) for any other job for which she applied.
She did not have another job again until she became out town library director here, where “over-education” meant she qualified for a much higher classification of librarian certification than normally required in such a small town.
re: #135 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Fortunately we are debt-free. Debt was never a thing I acquired since my family was poverty-stricken from the moment my father died. Poor people couldn’t get loans in the Sixties and Seventies.
I was fortunate to be able to graduate from college debt-free, thanks to Social Security and BEOG grants.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was fortunate to be able to graduate from college debt-free, thanks to Social Security and BEOG grants.
I owed a pittance through grad school, even with 3 kids then, because of the Vietnam-era GI Bill and 8 hours a day on an assembly line.
re: #136 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I was fortunate to be able to graduate from college debt-free, thanks to Social Security and BEOG grants.
I got to be an exchange student for a year because my mother won $5,000 in the Michigan Lottery.
I did get to join the Navy and see the world though. One of my cousins disowned me because she thought it was “unfair” my (ex-)wife and I got to go to Paris for three weeks and she couldn’t afford it as a registered nurse. She didn’t take well to my suggestion that the Navy needs nurses and she could join right up.
re: #137 Decatur Deb
I owed a pittance through grad school, even with 3 kids then, because of the Vietnam GI Bill and 8 hours a day on an assembly line.
I owed nothing because my rich father was able to take on the loans and pay them off for me. Yeah, I’m the living embodiment of white male privilege. I try to use my powers for good, though.
re: #139 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I owed nothing because my rich father was able to take on the loans and pay them off for me. Yeah, I’m the living embodiment of white male privilege. I try to use my powers for good, though.
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Meanwhile in the obituary column of the Scottsbluff Star-Herald for some reason is this article.
Hail storm causes devastating damage for local crops
Crops in Scotts Bluff County were hit with severe hail on Sunday causing costly damage to plants during crucial growth stages, leaving some farmers with nothing to show for a season of hardwork.
Scottsbluff farmer Andy Groskopf said crop damage from Sunday’s hail storm has come at a devastating time of the season, after growers have already invested thousands of dollars in this years crop.
“The worst thing is the farmers had all of their inputs, all of their money in their crop,” Groskopf said. “They already got in there and worked so hard for it and hail just comes and wipes it out, and there is nothing you can do. Keeping a positive attitude, that’s about the only thing they can do.”
Fifth generation farmer Joe Nichols said Sunday’s hail storm which he estimated to be three miles wide and to have ping-pong size hail took down hundreds of acres of corn, alfalfa and beans.
This hail storm is not the first to take a toll on his families’ farm, Nichols said. For the last six consecutive years, his crop has been hit by storms similar to this and has been significantly damaged by hail year after year.
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re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Needz moar copyeditor.
Maybe I should apply for a job at the Star-Herald. The errors hurt my eyes.
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How much of that is made good by crop insurance?
re: #144 Decatur Deb
How much of that is made good by crop insurance?
I have no idea.
Crop insurance from the USDA is a really complex matter, as you can see from this year’s chart.
I would imagine if the farmer cited in the article has lost his crop six years in a row is still in business, his insurance pays for most of it (but gets more expensive every year).
re: #115 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
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China orders closure of US Consulate in Sichuan’s Chengdu.
Chengdu? ChengDon’t, says China!
Sorry.
“A party that disdains government should not run for office. A party that celebrates rudeness, incivility, meanness & bigotry should be shunned. Rehabilitation for the GOP? It’s impossible to imagine, given its cast of characters.”
@JRubinBlogger: https://t.co/Gg4CCrLBYT— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) July 24, 2020
This is not how disease works. From a local columnist in the Sidney (Nebr.) Sun-Telegraph, the lede:
The fight between collectivists and individualists continues to be manifested by those calling for and opposing “one size fits all” approaches in fighting the coronavirus. We see it in calls for national and statewide mandates to wear masks and demands that schools reopen or remain closed this fall.
The idea that people in Washington, D.C. or Lincoln can dictate policy to people in a county hundreds of miles away flies in the face of individualism. This is especially true in matters such as an epidemic. The dispersed population of the Nebraska Panhandle coupled with distances between towns affords its own mitigating effect on the spread of a virus.
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re: #147 Barefoot Grin
China orders closure of US Consulate in Sichuan’s Chengdu.
Chengdu? ChengDon’t, says China!
Sorry.
Just move it to Spare Chengdu
re: #148 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
“…Rehabilitation for the GOP? It’s impossible to imagine, given its cast of characters.”
Rehabilitation is seen as a sign of weakness, it means admitting that something about them was in need of change.
re: #149 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The fight between collectivists and individualists continues to be manifested by those calling for and opposing “one size fits all” approaches in fighting the coronavirus.
These guys live in a Jeffersonian La-La land in which we are all Gentlemen Yeoman Farmers living on 40 acres that we carved out of the wilderness by nothing but the sweat of our brows, autonomous and only required to enter into contracts and agreements with others when we determine it is to our advantage.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These guys live in a Jeffersonian La-La land in which we are all Gentlemen Yeoman Farmers living on 40 acres that we carved out of the wilderness by nothing but the sweat of our brows, autonomous and only required to enter into contracts and agreements with others when we determine it is to our advantage.
I would write a response, but somehow I don’t think they would print it in the letters column.
Everything about that column is wrong. Distance between Panhandle cities and towns will prevent spread of the virus? How does that explain every town in the Panhandle except mine has cases? Aside from that, it was brought here on April 1 from someone in Colorado. Early on it overwhelmed the Kimball hospital when it hammered the staff there.
Does he make his local decisions on the weather, or does he rely on the National Weather Service office in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
The bulk of Cheyenne County’s residents live in single-family homes and not apartments? So what? That means the bulk of the cases in Cheyenne County are in single-family homes.
There is automatic resistance from “individualists” when a distant “edict” is imposed? Yup, that’s how our country became the world’s leper colony.
And state health experts gets put in scare quotes? Really? They’re not experts?
Finally the nation did not envision individualism from its founders. The very idea of the Constitution is a collective action to create a governing document that applied to the whole of the nation, not just those who drafted it in Philadelphia.
A dying breed.
North Carolina professor found dead weeks after backlash over “slave state” tweets https://t.co/D28C8KCxIk
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 24, 2020
That whole column is a page of dumb.
I’m not going to rely on distant “health experts” from the Mayo Clinic or the National Cancer Institute to tell me if I have cancer or how serious it is if I do; I’m only going to seek out a local physician who makes up his own mind without the input of distant “health experts” and didn’t attend a distant “medical school” (even though there aren’t any here for hundreds of miles away), or be licensed by a distant “medical board” in Lincoln.
Gaa.
re: #154 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A dying breed.
Noted infectious disease expert [checks article] criminology professor weighing in on disease control.
re: #154 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A dying breed.
Probably one of those “individualists” who doesn’t think you should take orders from distant Raleigh or “health experts” advising the “governor” on “best practices” for controlling a hoax.
Breakfast of champions:
Mechanically-obliterated pig spread on commercial wheat squares.
(Underwood deviled ham sandwiches)
From yesterday; Omaha hospitals appear to be on the cusp of being overwhelmed.
Getting ready to hear from Mayor Stothert and Dr. Adi Pour.
This comes on the same day the health department announced the county has a 84% hospital bed occupancy rate…the highest the county has has since the pandemic started. pic.twitter.com/DKQZBMJ5vp— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) July 23, 2020
Dr. Adi Pour says the positivity rate is 11.6%, compared to just 7% last week.
— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) July 23, 2020
Pour says the most cases they had last week was kids 20-24 year olds, the next was 25-29 year olds.
— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) July 23, 2020
Pour says hospitals are getting more white, western Douglas County residents into their COVID wards.
That’s a change from many people of color, which was the case earlier.— Jon Kipper (@jonnykip21) July 23, 2020
Trump: Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.
America: Dirtbag. Pedophile. Elections. Judge. Jail.— Arch (Soros Antifa Rabbi Commander And Spy Master) (@Arch_LGF) July 24, 2020
My second C19 test came back Neg. Yea! It took apps 60 hrs to turn here in Austin.
“Rugged individualism” versus “collectivism” brings us six new cases in the Panhandle yesterday.
Total cases: 404 (+6)
Hospitalised: 2 (no change)
Available hospital beds: 39%
Total active cases: 74
Women and girls are 2/3 of cases
Total tests: 7,092 (some would be repeats)
Population 82,962 (but we’re spread out according to the douchecanoe in Sidney, so we should be okay, right?)
Largest age group: 40-49, then 20-29
Deaths: 5 (no change)
re: #162 Dave In Austin
My second C19 test came back Neg. Yea! It took apps 60 hrs to turn here in Austin.
Congradumalashuns! You are plague-free! With that and your 55,221 karma points, I will have a rum drink to your good health.
When Twitter rocks.
Overruled no takes backsies!!! pic.twitter.com/EBKmqnkNE6
— sixers world (@beniamurson) June 28, 2020
a) She is a Republican, therefore follows the precepts of her religion
b) She is also afraid Gov. Ricketts (R-Ameritrade) will withhold CARES Act funding as he threatened, in violation of the state constitution. Jean Stothert is good at following orders.
Omaha’s mayor still refuses to issue a mask ordinance as infection rate grows and hospital capacity decreases
Please wear a mask https://t.co/B9JMwoTadM— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 23, 2020
CBP has deployed 2,174 personnel, 46 aircraft and 2 drones to assist dozens of police departments across the country since June, per CBP document leaked to me.
This operation is much, much bigger than just Portland:https://t.co/2MYNaX42Xu pic.twitter.com/3X91mLjzqd— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) July 23, 2020
Me, a serious public management professor who studies government performance: The fact that so many Customs and Border Protection officials don’t actually need to check customs or be near the border suggests some room for rightsizing their operation. https://t.co/gv0gcayOAE
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 23, 2020
re: #158 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Breakfast of champions:
Mechanically-obliterated pig spread on commercial wheat squares.
(Underwood deviled ham sandwiches)
Heh, reminds me of the joke regarding the origin of “SPAM”.
Scientifically Processed Animal Matter.
Bon appétit!
Don’t be knocking that spam. It’s gross out of the can but is great pan-fried in its copious fatty goodness.
re: #45 Targetpractice
I’d agree with the idea upthread that the motherboard is likely toast if you’re not even getting the fans to turn on.
The magic smoke might have left the motherboard.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Trump’s still so desperate to get schools reopened, he’s corrupted the CDC to do so.
The CDC issued initial guidelines on reopening schools that Trump promptly blasted as being too stringent and costly.
That was the tell - and the result is that the CDC watered down the guidance, all while still recommending that places where covid19 is out of control not reopen.
Let’s get something straight. CDC didn’t just issue new guidelines because they were correcting things.
They issued them because Trump bullied the agency into doing his bidding.
Timeline shows just how this went down.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 24, 2020
Covid19 is currently out of control in more than 30 states. Now isn’t the time to reopen schools. It’s time to shut things down again, mask mandates initiated, and do what should have been done nationwide months ago. But no, Trump thinks that stringing this along somehow helps him?
He’s an addled know nothing whose instincts are awful. He hasn’t got a clue, and his every policy reeks of know nothing authoritarianism, misogyny, and white nationalism. That’s what he thinks should be done.
https://t.co/Qoi2MjFrjO https://t.co/jOXPpWzWXL
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) July 24, 2020
re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
This hail storm is not the first to take a toll on his families’ farm, Nichols said. For the last six consecutive years, his crop has been hit by storms similar to this and has been significantly damaged by hail year after year.
But he continues to insist there’s no such thing as climate change…
Historic. pic.twitter.com/dBovf0tIE9
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 23, 2020
re: #169 NetworkKed
Don’t be knocking that spam. It’s gross out of the can but is great pan-fried in its copious fatty goodness.
Spam musubi is awesome.
re: #175 Barefoot Grin
Spam musubi is awesome.
The Navy has about ninety ways to cook spam for chow aboard ship, each worse than the last.
Trump protects the criminals and sympathizes with child sex traffickers. #TrumpTheDisasterpic.twitter.com/vrs3afESmz
— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) July 24, 2020
re: #176 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Navy has about ninety ways to cook spam for chow aboard ship, each worse than the last.
Spam and eggs. Had that as a kid, but it was actually pretty good. Sadly, can’t find Spam here in Czech Republic.
Did this come to your attention yet?
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re: #180 Teukka
Did this come to your attention yet?
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re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Spam and eggs. Had that as a kid, but it was actually pretty good. Sadly, can’t find Spam here in Czech Republic.
Amazon Germany has free shipping to the Czech Republic. (Searching for Amazon Czech Republic on a search engine yields an advert at the top suggesting you can buy the Czech Republic on Amazon).
Naše cena: 3,62 € (3,62 € / ct) + poštovné 24,39 €
Ceny zboží prodávaného na Amazonu jsou zobrazeny včetně německé DPH. Pro další informace klikněte prosím na podrobnosti.
re: #172 lawhawk
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if you’re not 100% sharp-plus, you got a problem.”
And we have got a problem. So he is correct there.
Germans sell Frühstücksfleisch (“breakfast meat”), which is some sort of processed meat sold in similar Spam-shaped cans.
But I am not about to try it just to find out how similar it is to Spam
re: #180 Teukka
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I think the ultimate sign you’ve passed a cognitive test is that you’re able to move on to something else.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) July 23, 2020
re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germans sell Frühstücksfleisch (“breakfast meat”), which is some sort of processed meat sold in similar Spam-shaped cans.
But I am not about to try it just to find out how similar it is to Spam
Well, with the Spam brand name on it I imagine it’s the same stuff. The company would use Germany’s robust intellectual property laws to go after them otherwise.
Plus the ingredient list from the Czech language posting reads like Spam.
Ingredients. Pork (91%), Water, Salt, Thickner (1442), Sugar, Mineral Salts (339,508) Antioxidant (301), Preservatives (250). Please note whilst all care is taken to ensure information provided is correct, food products are constantly being reformulated and ingredients and nutirition content may change. If you have an allergy or specific dietary requirement you should always defer to the label on the food product before consuming it.
re: #50 Ace-o-aces
Could be worse, they could be deploying Fillmore-Graves.
Their party is irredeemable
GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party (The Hill)
re: #188 John Hughes
Could be worse, they could be deploying Fillmore-Graves.
+100 for the iZombie reference.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Their party is irredeemable
GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party (The Hill)
Oy.
The resolution is co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Jody Hice (Ga.), Randy Weber (Texas) and Andy Harris (Md.
Here’s what I learned making this video: Fox News HATES Donald Trump. They could’ve edited this (heavily) and made him not sound so *lost old man* but they didn’t, they kept all the repetitive nonsense intact. Because they actually hate him. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) July 24, 2020
re: #191 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Oy.
Wingnut bingo.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) introduced a House resolution Thursday calling on lawmakers to ban organizations or political groups that have historically supported the Confederacy or slavery in the U.S., a list he said includes the Democratic Party.
Which party is arguing for slaver statues to remain as “history,” the Confederate flag as a right, &c? We banning the Republican Party, since they have historically supported the Confederacy and slavery?
Do they want to ban NASCAR? The Dukes of Hazzard?
How is it that a guy who claims to be cognitively all there can’t remember the name of the acuity test he was given? Weird. He keeps mentioning this test, but can’t remember the name of the test?
It’s as though he took a scholastic achievement test to enter college, but couldn’t remember the name of the test (because he had someone else take it for him).
re: #187 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, with the Spam brand name on it I imagine it’s the same stuff. The company would use Germany’s robust intellectual property laws to go after them otherwise.
Plus the ingredient list from the Czech language posting reads like Spam.
Yeah, “luncheon meat”, that’s what it called here. Never had it though.
re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Heads up Seattle, two USCBP P-3s flew into PDX to drop off federal police special tactics teams that ended downtown at the Federal Court House. Airplane spotters caught the puzzling arrival & all the dudes & equipment that came off. Within 24 hours, it was clear what it was for. https://t.co/1E4RHP11hw
— Tyler Rogoway (@Aviation_Intel) July 24, 2020
A “slick” and a “dome.” CBP Office of Air and Marine has 16 P-3s, 8 AEWs and 8LRTs. The P-3AEW (Airborne Early Warning or “dome”) has the same airborne early warning radar as the carrier based E-2 Hawkeye and is normally used for border and anti-smuggling patrol. The LRT (Long Range Tracker ie “slick”) has fighter type radar (apparently the APG-66 from the F-16) and operates in tandem with the domes.
Both versions have quite a bit of extra interior space and, as Rogoway speculates, can be used as priority transports.
re: #172 lawhawk
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Jesus, this was a month ago and it didn’t even make a ripple in the national consciousness.
Some researchers who found signs of racial bias in the automated content review systems at Facebook and Instagram presented their work to the management team & they were told to immediately stop all research into race and not to share it with co-workershttps://t.co/L5kOwaTuyG
— Olivia Solon (@oliviasolon) July 23, 2020
re: #198 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Sarah is giving Fox way more credit than they deserve. Fox doesn’t trust the intelligence or fact-finding ability of their viewers. They like their viewers ignorant and uninformed, because that’s the best way to keep them malleable and controllable.
If Fox managed to bowdlerize the interview to make Trump sound coherent, it would have been such an obvious chop job that no one would have believed it. Fox can’t change fact that Trump’s an addled know nothing white nationalist - so they lean into his incompetence and cognitive issues as if they’re somehow endearing or that they appeal to his slack jawed base.
All the while, bulk of GOP leaders and Fox propagandists are doing whatever they can to protect themselves from covid19, keep their kids home schooled, and avoid working in the studio together. The WH, skips the protection part altogether, and puts everyone coming into contact with them at risk.
re: #193 lawhawk
Here’s what I learned making this video: Fox News HATES Donald Trump. They could’ve edited this (heavily) and made him not sound so *lost old man* but they didn’t, they kept all the repetitive nonsense intact. Because they actually hate him. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
There was a key moment in the anti-Gorbachev putsch of 1991 in which the pro-Soviet leaders, having been holed up for 24 hours without sleep, wanted to make a TV announcement that everything was “under control”.
Their hands were shaking. The TV station could have panned in tight so as not to show that, but they pulled back so the people could see just who was trying to assume control of their country.
It was a key moment in restoring Gorbachev.
re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
These guys live in a Jeffersonian La-La land in which we are all Gentlemen Yeoman Farmers living on 40 acres that we carved out of the wilderness by nothing but the sweat of our brows, autonomous and only required to enter into contracts and agreements with others when we determine it is to our advantage.
And who have benefited massively from various infrastructure projects heavily subsidized by the state or national government they disdain. Both sides benefit from transportation and utility networks since, for instance, it’s easier to get their crops to market to benefit both themselves and the citizens eating that food. But otherwise, without those investments they couldn’t afford they would probably not have electricity and a number of other things.
Have they started asking “What have the Lincolnites ever done for us?” yet?
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In COVID-19 related news out of the Czech Republic, the much-vaunted “smart quarantine” app has been….less then stellar.
Of course, there’s a simple reason for it. Only 60% of Czechs have a smartphone - and most of them tend to be under the age of 50. But that means 40% of Czechs, the vast majority of them being older people (and therefore more vulnerable to COVID-19) are using feature phones….and I still see older folks using Nokia 3310 phones, FFS.
re: #178 Dr Lizardo
Spam and eggs. Had that as a kid, but it was actually pretty good. Sadly, can’t find Spam here in Czech Republic.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Their party is irredeemable
GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party (The Hill)
Nothing like some grandstanding BS in the middle of a public health crisis along with a number of other pretty important things to be dealt with.
re: #205 Dr Lizardo
My mobile phone is a Nokia 7110, in part because I can carry it into sensitive areas like data centres since it has no way to exfiltrate data (no SD card, no camera, no Bluetooth, no WiFi). I do have an older Samsung smartphone but I use it as a portable computer/tablet, GPS device and ebook reader. It does not have a phone SIM installed and I leave it switched off most of the time.
Some dumbassed GOP representative in Ohio just sent to my Dem Alabama inbox. He didn’t ask why I unsubscribed. Tight ship there, Wenstrup.
re: #209 Decatur Deb
And my ward leader wants to know why I will not give out my e-mail address to the GOP.
re: #208 Nojay UK
My mobile phone is a Nokia 7110, in part because I can carry it into sensitive areas like data centres since it has no way to exfiltrate data (no SD card, no camera, no Bluetooth, no WiFi). I do have an older Samsung smartphone but I use it as a portable computer/tablet, GPS device and ebook reader. It does not have a phone SIM installed and I leave it switched off most of the time.
My mobile phone (which I can only use when I’m somewhere near a city) is a Motorola flip-phone with no SIM card (that is pre-programmed into the telephone and cannot be changed). It can take pictures with its potato-cam. It is always off unless I need it in a city.
New daily COVID-19 deaths in Texas, Arizona, and Florida. The two week spike in all 3 states is horrifying. pic.twitter.com/7cxYriP1r9
— Decoherence (@DecoherenceWave) July 24, 2020
One benefit of an epidemic from state senator Megan Hunt (D-district 8)
One thing I do like about the Covid safety restrictions at the Capitol is that because there are no lobbyists in the rotunda, more members are present on the floor for debate. This has been a really good thing for our deliberative process. #NELeg
— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 23, 2020
Spam is one of those foods that sounds good in the abstract. I have fond memories of my Dad cooking Sunday breakfast before mass. We couldn’t afford most breakfast meats to feed a family of six back then, and Spam went a long way.
Now I’m pushing 60, and occasionally I will remember Spam exists and buy a can. It always sounds good, but halfway through the second fried slice and I remember that I don’t really like it that much and the rest of the can gets tossed. No worries. In a couple years it’ll sound good again and I’ll buy another can.
JFC
Trump: I’ve done more for Black people than anyone, maybe Lincoln https://t.co/uHvotj5tGK via @nbcnews
— DL Hughley (@RealDLHughley) July 24, 2020
I like to read comments. Not one comment on that NYT article supporting Republicans. Not one.
Bahaha. Republicans have tied themselves to Trump with a cord of steel.
As Trump water carrier Marco Rubio would say:
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”https://t.co/dM66lwqgZu— Zac Petkanas (@Zac_Petkanas) July 24, 2020
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
DT makes Archie Bunker look like a flaming liberal.
re: #216 The Pie Overlord!
JFC
Well, he claims he’s the worst-treated president ever. Never mind Lincoln being assassinated. Just a fatal flesh wound.
I remember the uproar over the “stockpiling” of small arms ammo. It put an alarmed tone on routine purchases of such ammunition, successfully exploiting the goobers who are too ignorant to know, for example, that the Coast Guard is part of DHS or that IRS agents are armed.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 24, 2020
Conspira-liars work by hitting seams of otherwise unsuspected ignorance. In this uproar, which was a sensation among freepers and talk radio dupes, the goobers were running around asking “OMG! Why does DHS need millions of rounds of handgun ammo, if not to massacre white babies?” They had no idea that several armed agencies, with many thousands of armed personnel, are part of DHS and they buy handgun ammunition to replenish stocks depleted mostly by target practice. These purchases are usually made on multi-year contracts to get the best price, so they don’t buy the same stuff every year and the purchases usually exceed the annual expenditure of ammo. They also apparently did not give a moment’s thought to the IRS’s need for a modest amount of handgun ammo, not realizing that the agents who investigate tax cheats, especially Republicans, will need to be armed for their own protection.
Reminds me of the yokel media types in Lubbock who were scandalized to learn that fire marshals are armed. “WHY! why!” they demanded. “Arsonists are often privileged types and they really, really don’t like to be arrested.” was my response.
Crying about Confederate names being “Cancelled”
I spoke to highly respected (Chairman) Senator @JimInhofe, who has informed me that he WILL NOT be changing the names of our great Military Bases and Forts, places from which we won two World Wars (and more!). Like me, Jim is not a believer in “Cancel Culture”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2020
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
That NYT headline should read: “Republicans, realizing they’re fucked six ways from Sunday, frantically flee the sinking Trumptanic”.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
Crying about Confederate names being “Cancelled”
I guess Rep. Gohmert’s bill will ban the Republican Party then.
I PROOFED YEAST! First time ever.
This is gonna be interesting.
re: #217 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I like to read comments. Not one comment on that NYT article supporting Republicans. Not one.
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When that ship goes down I want a Republican senator lashed to every mast and spar.
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
That NYT headline should read: “Republicans, realizing they’re fucked six ways from Sunday, frantically flee the sinking Trumptanic”.
If the some of the fleeing rats; the Lincoln Project, for instance; want to help out by gnawing holes in the still buoyant hulk, we should not discourage them, but we do need to remember that they are still rats.
Epstein. Maxwell. Trump. pic.twitter.com/UVr8bmCIoh
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 24, 2020
re: #227 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
If the some of the fleeing rats; the Lincoln Project, for instance; want to help out by gnawing holes in the still buoyant hulk, we should not discourage them, but we do need to remember that they are still rats.
Conversely, any fleeing rat who refuses to start gnawing should be bashed in the head with an oar.
270towin.com which is less bullish on the election than electoral-vote.com has safe-lean-likely Democratic electoral votes at 278 and safe-likely-leans Republican electoral votes at 169.
Toss ups are now listed as OH, NC, GA, FL, AZ, ME-2, NE-2 (total of ninety-one electoral votes).
Even if the GOP took all of those ninety-one votes, that is not enough to win.
Two states are “lean GOP”: IA (6) and TX (38). More states are lean Dem.
While the Democratic Party doesn’t need the toss-up states and districts, there is no reason they shouldn’t compete for them. The lean states need to be protected as well.
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
270towin.com which is less bullish on the election than electoral-vote.com has safe-lean-likely Democratic electoral votes at 278 and safe-likely-leans Republican electoral votes at 169.
Toss ups are now listed as OH, NC, GA, FL, AZ, ME-2, NE-2 (total of ninety-one electoral votes).
Even if the GOP took all of those ninety-one votes, that is not enough to win.
Two states are “lean GOP”: IA (6) and TX (38). More states are lean Dem.
While the Democratic Party doesn’t need the toss-up states and districts, there is no reason they shouldn’t compete for them. The lean states need to be protected as well.
Kinda like Howard Dean’s 50 State Strategy.
re: #231 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Kinda like Howard Dean’s 50 State Strategy.
That’s why I’m thinking it would be a good move to put Stacy Abrams in the DNC Chair to resurrect Dean’s 50 (hopefully soon to be 52 with DC and Puerto Rico added) State Strategy!
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
While the Democratic Party doesn’t need the toss-up states and districts, there is no reason they shouldn’t compete for them. The lean states need to be protected as well.
Very true. The Presidential race is only one facet of the election process: and even more so this year. It’s an unfortunate truism that even “wave” elections at the top don’t always have a down-ballot effect: but Senate, House, Statehouse and local races can be every bit as important. Especially in a post-Census year like 2021. If there really is going to be a “blue tsunami” this year, it behooves the Democrats to try to surf it into as many seats as possible nationwide.
re: #221 The Pie Overlord!
Confederate treasonweasels do not deserve to have military bases or statues.
You’re spending more time defending confederate treasonweasels (and your own corrupt admin) than protecting the nation from covid19.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) July 24, 2020
People need to go before the Hague over this.
Dear God.https://t.co/qlH7kKdxzK pic.twitter.com/POFSzkkFR4
— Radley Balko (@radleybalko) July 24, 2020
re: #200 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Zuckerberg only sees green.
re: #169 NetworkKed
Don’t be knocking that spam. It’s gross out of the can but is great pan-fried in its copious fatty goodness.
Noteworthy is that Johnson, who denies his committee’s being used as part of a foreign influence op, refused to get specific when asked Qs about relying on foreign information, which really has been just anti-Biden disinformation up to this point. https://t.co/JHAXzpyhC1
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 24, 2020
Holy. Fucking. Fuck.
A document just declassified by ODNI shows Trump asked FBI personnel during his Aug 2016 counterintelligence briefing:
“Joe, are the Russians bad?” https://t.co/pQhLRbQErB h/t @NatashaBertrand pic.twitter.com/UWQOB13TXd— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 23, 2020
Get him outta here.
I do believe that’s what they call a, what is it now, schmeto roof, credo floof, vida goof, something?
Well… this is awkward. The NDAA, including the language on changing names of bases named after Confederate figures within three years, passed the Senate yesterday 86-14. https://t.co/EUd20BxHei
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) July 24, 2020
re: #230 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
270towin.com which is less bullish on the election than electoral-vote.com has safe-lean-likely Democratic electoral votes at 278 and safe-likely-leans Republican electoral votes at 169.
Toss ups are now listed as OH, NC, GA, FL, AZ, ME-2, NE-2 (total of ninety-one electoral votes).
Even if the GOP took all of those ninety-one votes, that is not enough to win.
Two states are “lean GOP”: IA (6) and TX (38). More states are lean Dem.
While the Democratic Party doesn’t need the toss-up states and districts, there is no reason they shouldn’t compete for them. The lean states need to be protected as well.
So, the conservative estimate is that Biden wins.
re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #239 makeitstop
Holy. Fucking. Fuck.
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Get him outta here.
My surprised face, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.
Best response I’ve seen to Dr Fauci’s first pitch https://t.co/WpHYDI88TN
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 24, 2020
Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian Crew Is Still Trying — And Failing — To Smear Joe Biden
Fuckhead Rudy needs to be locked up.
re: #235 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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re: #242 Belafon
“I was just following orders” is not a defense.
cf. Nürnberg Principles
1. Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.
2. The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.
3. The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law, acted as Head of State or responsible government official, does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.
4. The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.
5. Complicity in the commission of genocide, a war crime, or a crime against humanity is a crime under international law.
6. Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Their party is irredeemable
GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party (The Hill)
Which party won’t let us take down Confederate statues?
Exceptional article by @MollyJongFast https://t.co/4DtM2RfseK
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 24, 2020
re: #215 Swampwitch
I will remember Spam exists and buy a can. It always sounds good, but halfway through the second fried slice and I remember that I don’t really like it that much and the rest of the can gets tossed. No worries. In a couple years it’ll sound good again and I’ll buy another can.
I need anywhere from 5 to 10 years to forget how much I don’t like Spam. It’s been nearly 8 years since the last time.
Does this send a chill down anyone else’s spine? Like, “creepy doll horror film” chill? There’s just something about the way the melody evolved in this song…I think it’s actually the scariest thing I’ve ever heard.
This frightens someting deeply coded in me. Unreal. https://t.co/bMWpldEF9L— 🌈Trevor_Pott(Black Lives Matter); (@cakeis_not_alie) July 24, 2020
Anybody who dismisses Spam but likes pineapple on pizza: sit in the corner of the room and shut it. —->
Dad would slice Spam very thin and fry it to a crisp and then scramble a couple eggs on the side. He knew how to make it really crunchy.
Dad said it was a trick he learned during WW2 when food was rationed. He had to make everything stretch with the ration coupons because when he married Mom in November 1942 they used all their ration coupons for the month to provide for the wedding cake and dinner. All of a sudden they had to make a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese stretch for 4 servings over 2 days—you could get 2 boxes with 1 ration stamp. Mom said she circled December 1 on the calendar because that’s when she could go to City Hall to get the next months ration book and when that day came they had a feast—1 egg each and thin sliced SPAM…
re: #249 jeffreyw
I need anywhere from 5 to 10 years to forget how much I don’t like Spam. It’s been nearly 8 years since the last time.
Spam is nummy, especially in a hot dish of egg noodles, spam, corn and cream of mushroom soup reconstituted with milk.
re: #253 William Lewis
Spam is nummy, especially in a hot dish of egg noodles, spam, corn and cream of mushroom soup reconstituted with milk.
OMG. 🤢
⚠️The US just passed 4 MILLION confirmed #coronavirus cases with nearly 1 million in the past 2 weeks.
More than 144,000 Americans are DEAD, and @realDonaldTrump did NOTHING to protect us.
Trump’s chaos has a deadly price.🤬
VOTE HIM OUT.#TrumpVirus pic.twitter.com/UWFJqPHMRk— Dr. Dena Grayson (@DrDenaGrayson) July 24, 2020
re: #247 Belafon
Which party won’t let us take down Confederate statues?
The Republican claim for this I’ve seen is the Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to escape their history, and those statues should remain to remind Democrats where they stood 150 years ago.
Nevermind that the split wasn’t Democrat and Republican, it was conservative and liberal, or North and South.
re: #232 🌹UOJB!
That’s why I’m thinking it would be a good move to put Stacy Abrams in the DNC Chair to resurrect Dean’s 50 (hopefully soon to be 52 with DC and Puerto Rico added) State Strategy!
Majority of PR does not want statehood, and there are very good reasons for that. We shouldn’t be pushing that on them just because it adds 2 D senators.
If DHS is flying goons around, from state to state, shouldn’t they be subject to any local/state requirements to self-quarantine those from TX, FL, AL and other listed high-incidence areas?
If you are a true #heforshe then you must speak up against this disturbing study
3 men created fake social media accounts to purposefully spy on applicants
Worse they are shaming our women physician colleagues for wearing bikinis 🤦🏽♂️ #MedTwitter #MedBikini #retraction pic.twitter.com/MvNZoBnok2— Mudit Chowdhary (@DrChowdharyMD) July 24, 2020
Wow they used fake accounts to stalk? That’s beyond unprofessional. https://t.co/TPYBHfEEH7
— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) July 24, 2020
re: #256 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The Republican claim for this I’ve seen is the Democrats shouldn’t be allowed to escape their history, and those statues should remain to remind Democrats where they stood 150 years ago.
Doubt many of today’s Dems were standing anywhere 150 years ago, with the possible exception of Betty White.
re: #252 🌹UOJB!
Dad would slice Spam very thin and fry it to a crisp and then scramble a couple eggs on the side. He knew how to make it really crunchy.
Dad said it was a trick he learned during WW2 when food was rationed. He had to make everything stretch with the ration coupons because when he married Mom in November 1942 they used all their ration coupons for the month to provide for the wedding cake and dinner. All of a sudden they had to make a box of Kraft Mac & Cheese stretch for 4 servings over 2 days—you could get 2 boxes with 1 ration stamp. Mom said she circled December 1 on the calendar because that’s when she could go to City Hall to get the next months ration book and when that day came they had a feast—1 egg each and thin sliced SPAM…
HOW DARE THE GOVERNMENT DENY THE FREEDOM OF AMERICANS TO EAT WHATEVER THEY WANT!
re: #258 Decatur Deb
If DHS is flying goons around, from state to state, shouldn’t they be subject to any local/state requirements to self-quarantine those from TX, FL, AL and other listed high-incidence areas?
Expecting Federal-level people following orders from Trump administration to follow state and local regs, much less acknowledge that there are any?
This is a call for the retraction of your paper: https://t.co/bsrEDC4QRC. It is highly inappropriate and discriminatory. It does not reflect the values of your institute and that of this profession. #retractthepaper
@BUMedicine @BMCSurgery @JVascSurg— SluttyMD (@MdSlutty) July 23, 2020
re: #262 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Expecting Federal-level people following orders from Trump administration to follow state and local regs, much less acknowledge that there are any?
I sometimes slip into a naive pre-2016 state of mind.
re: #263 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Strictly from a personal viewpoint, I would be more likely to select a physician who goes by the name “Slutty MD,” but I don’t have a rake stuck up my butt.
take a pause from all the covid statistics and break up your otherwise dull day
here’s some running related stats. what else have you got to do?
after three months of not running (and thus gaining weight) the foot and ankle doc cleared me to start running on Feb 1. I told him my style had always been to run a lot, mostly easy miles, with gentle increases and he said go for it.
- 10 minutes a day, every other day. It was a deadly and impatient two weeks.
- Then i was allowed to start building slowly to 20 minutes, then more days a week, till it was 20 minutes a day every day.
- Then I was able to start adding an easy 10% a week
- I recently hit 60 minutes a day, every day.
- I’ve run 105 days straight.
- Missed only 4 days in the last 105.
- And a total of 16 since I began 177 days ago, which includes those pesky early alternate days.
- I’ve logged 6,224 minutes / 103.75 hours.
- an overall average of just under 40 minutes a day and of course still increasing.
- The last 30 days average is 56 minutes a day.
Not bad considering I started at zero and I’m still rebuilding my strength and form.
The fasciitis is totally gone. Not a twinge, not a hint, not a reminder. No other running related aches or pains either during the run or lingering after throughout the day. (This is a big deal!)
I haven’t quite got back to long, slow, easy, effortless, endless runs. That easy, light, and smooth with no desire to stop. Though I’m close.
I am a very minimalist, low tech runner. Even so, today I bought myself a Garmin Forerunner 35 gps watch.
All in all pretty good for almost 63 years old.
re: #265 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Strictly from a personal viewpoint, I would be more likely to select a physician who goes by the name “Slutty MD,” but I don’t have a rake stuck up my butt.
People with rake issues might also choose that physician. Just sayin’.
No kidding. Wow.
This is something.
pic.twitter.com/cg6n3AKm9W— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) July 24, 2020
re: #266 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
take a pause from all the covid statistics and break up your otherwise dull day
here’s some running related stats. what else have you got to do?
after three months of not running (and thus gaining weight) the foot and ankle doc cleared me to start running on Feb 1. I told him my style had always been to run a lot, mostly easy miles, with gentle increases and he said go for it.
- 10 minutes a day, every other day. It was a deadly and impatient two weeks.
- Then i was allowed to start building slowly to 20 minutes, then more days a week, till it was 20 minutes a day every day.
- Then I was able to start adding an easy 10% a week
- I recently hit 60 minutes a day, every day.- I’ve run 105 days straight.
- Missed only 4 days in the last 105.
- And a total of 16 since I began 177 days ago, which includes those pesky early alternate days.- I’ve logged 6,224 minutes / 103.75 hours.
- an overall average of just under 40 minutes a day and of course still increasing.
- The last 30 days average is 56 minutes a day.Not bad considering I started at zero and I’m still rebuilding my strength and form.
The fasciitis is totally gone. Not a twinge, not a hint, not a reminder. No other running related aches or pains either during the run or lingering after throughout the day. (This is a big deal!)
I haven’t quite got back to long, slow, easy, effortless, endless runs. That easy, light, and smooth with no desire to stop. Though I’m close.
I am a very minimalist, low tech runner. Even so, today I bought myself a Garmin Forerunner 35 gps watch.
All in all pretty good for almost 63 years old.
That’s amazing and inspirational. Congrats!
He’s acting like the 6th grade bully in school and the DC Press Corpse continues to kiss his ass.
Trump Gloats After Portland Mayor Gets Jeered, Tear-Gassed: ‘That Was The End Of Him’
re: #137 Decatur Deb
I owed a pittance through grad school, even with 3 kids then, because of the Vietnam-era GI Bill and 8 hours a day on an assembly line.
My parents paid my way through most of undergrad. I paid for the last year, working 32 hours a week. I dinked around until I was 25 (it wasn’t deliberate, I was practicing the Austin slacker en.wikipedia.org lifestyle) before having a discussion with an ex-boyfriend who said, “of course your father will pay for law school.” Well, Dad paid (some) living expenses. I worked through law school, took out loans, and got government grants. My parents helped pay off my law school loans after it became clear that actual lawyering wasn’t for me.
Decades later, I’m still tickled that I got “national defense” grants for law school.
I absolutely do not recommend people go to law school today unless they have a full-ride scholarship or someone is paying for it. You can easily, EASILY get into owing into six figures just from three years in law school. The state law school I went to? When I went to law school, tuition went up from $36/hour to $75/hour. Now, tuition is $30,000 a year. You might get some grants, but you’re still going to be in the hole.
Oh, and since the bar is next week for states still having it, these days you’re looking at well in excess of $10 grand just to take prep classes for the multistate (200 questions of “which is the most wrong answer”) and then whatever the state prescribes. I remember dropping $1,000 for the MBE prep class in 1989 and that was an *insane* amount of money. But I passed. I don’t remember how much BarBri was, but it wasn’t cheap either.
ETA: at least these days you didn’t have to drive miles and miles to the one location in Houston or wherever that the MBE and bar prep classes were being held. But still…I just checked, the MBE and BarBri look to be around $8,000.
re: #257 JC1
Majority of PR does not want statehood, and there are very good reasons for that. We shouldn’t be pushing that on them just because it adds 2 D senators.
Is it guaranteed they would be D’s? A lot of PR’s political establishment is as tied to the hotels and cruise lines as Texas pols are to oil and gas.
Talking about my state senator …
“It is a hoax called global warming,” Sen. Steve Erdman of Bayard argued in offering a motion to shelve the bill. “It’s a joke.”
Read more: https://t.co/afrl8oBnEO— Senator Megan Hunt 😷 (@NebraskaMegan) July 24, 2020
re: #272 mmmirele
Started at Pitt in 1973—Tuition was $400 and Room & $Board was $400 a trimester. If I went all year round that was $2,400
Now—Pitt no longer does the trimesters.
Tuition for the year—$18,130
Room & Board—$11,050
“Other Charges”—$4,323
Total Cost—$33,053
No way could I afford going to college now…
Good for her!https://t.co/zZDiRpGikx
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 24, 2020
re: #257 JC1
Majority of PR does not want statehood, and there are very good reasons for that. We shouldn’t be pushing that on them just because it adds 2 D senators.
Why don’t they want statehood? Are they worried that:
1) This will make it impossible for them to become independent if they ever so choose?
2) This will cause _all_ federal laws to be applied to them immediately, and as such cause economic issues due to the application of more government regs, to what would be our poorest state, and another isolated one due to its island status. The Jones Act already screws them (and Hawaii and the other territories) for that matter.
I’m having a very hard time understanding how it is in the interest of the Republican Party to crash the economy three months before a general election.
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) July 24, 2020
re: #273 sagehen
Is it guaranteed they would be D’s? A lot of PR’s political establishment is as tied to the hotels and cruise lines as Texas pols are to oil and gas.
Their current non-voting representative is a Republican for national political purposes. The two main Puerto Rican political parties are only loosely correlated with the Democrats and the Republicans.
re: #189 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Their party is irredeemable
GOP’s Gohmert introduces resolution that would ban the Democratic Party (The Hill)
Yeah, thanks, I think, for posting that.
I’ve also started blocking people who refuse to engage or who post obscene memes on the congressman’s Facebook. If you throw up a meme that says I suck off for bus fare, you’re blocked.
re: #279 jaunte
It’s in Putin’s interest.
It’s also in their own. There is a great amount of profit to be made from a depression. While many workers and middle managers were left destitute in the Great Depression, none of the truly wealthy families and industrialists were hurt. Lots profited off the suffering of millions.
re: #281 mmmirele
Yeah, thanks, I think, for posting that.
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I’ve also started blocking people who refuse to engage or who post obscene memes on the congressman’s Facebook. If you throw up a meme that says I suck off for bus fare, you’re blocked.
I live to serve. /s
The Republicans in the Senate went on vacation with a House Stimulus Bill on @senatemajldr desk. They don’t care if you’re homeless…they don’t and never will. No Republican should be returned to office in November. https://t.co/tuzNz5hi4t
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) July 24, 2020
I like how the New York Times now regularly publishes articles suggesting that the earth is being visited by space aliens & no one really cares because other stuff is going on. pic.twitter.com/5Z5KawyNHe
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 24, 2020
“Yeah, take you to our leader, not a real good time for that, perhaps next year, hm?”
I would like to see some details of the materials they found. The Aerospace Corporation is quite legit (it’s structured like JPL or Los Alamos).
Well there is a first time for everything even after six years in the Legislature - Senator Groene just told @Patty4Nebraska to “shut up” on the floor and then flipped her off - the chairman of our Education Committee.
— Senator Adam Morfeld (@Adam_Morfeld) July 22, 2020
I met Sen. Groene at an ed policy conference in Denver last year while representing educators as the 2019 Nebraska Teacher of the Year. I’ll never forget how dismissed I felt by him. He had no interest in listening to me at all. I’ve seen true leadership, and that is not it. pic.twitter.com/UQmiDhNXB6
— Sydney Jensen (@sydneycjensen) July 22, 2020
I was beyond shocked…so much for legislative collegiality. https://t.co/2GLWThVHjP
— Senator Patty Pansing Brooks (@Patty4Nebraska) July 22, 2020
SCOOP: Republican National Committee said in a federal filing that it spent $14,000 last month on “building maintenance.”
In reality, it was disguising a purchase of COVID-19 face masks — at the time, anathema among some conservatives. Like @POTUS. https://t.co/QgdtnK3koQ— Dave Levinthal (@davelevinthal) July 24, 2020
Go back to school and work, peasants, everything is fine.
re: #282 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
It’s also in their own. There is a great amount of profit to be made from a depression. While many workers and middle managers were left destitute in the Great Depression, none of the truly wealthy families and industrialists were hurt. Lots profited off the suffering of millions.
As Andrew Mellon, the only Treasury Secretary who had THREE Presidents serve under him (Harding, Coolidge & Hoover) “in a depression, wealth returns to it’s natural owners”
re: #285 ericblair
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I would like to see some details of the materials they found. The Aerospace Corporation is quite legit (it’s structured like JPL or Los Alamos).
‘we couldnt make it ourselves’ is the the ‘no way the mayans, incas, egyptians etc could have built that” argument
I like how the New York Times now regularly publishes articles suggesting that the earth is being visited by space aliens & no one really cares because other stuff is going on. pic.twitter.com/5Z5KawyNHe
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 24, 2020
re: #285 ericblair
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“Yeah, take you to our leader, not a real good time for that, perhaps next year, hm?”
I would like to see some details of the materials they found. The Aerospace Corporation is quite legit (it’s structured like JPL or Los Alamos).
So UFOs came all the way here to lose their hubcaps?
re: #279 jaunte
It’s in Putin’s interest.
Yes, but, in this case, Republicans are worried about them having to pay for it by raising taxes. They’d rather have a dead economy with more short-term money in their accounts than a functioning economy where they could earn more over time, because they can’t think beyond the next quarter.
re: #292 Belafon
“Running the country like a business.”
re: #287 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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seems like it’s similar to what happened to ocasio-cortez
a (white) man telling a(ny) woman she’s wrong
(and doing it badly) - ie because i say so even with nothing to back it up
I was beyond shocked…so much for legislative collegiality. https://t.co/2GLWThVHjP
— Senator Patty Pansing Brooks (@Patty4Nebraska) July 22, 2020
re: #289 🌹UOJB!
As Andrew Mellon, the only Treasury Secretary who had THREE Presidents serve under him (Harding, Coolidge & Hoover) “in a depression, wealth returns to it’s natural owners”
well played
JUST IN: Toronto Blue Jays set to make Buffalo their home in 2020: AP source https://t.co/BrUw8uJqL4 pic.twitter.com/2zp0vDCXcr
— CP24 (@CP24) July 24, 2020
re: #278 jaunte
I’m having a very hard time understanding how it is in the interest of the Republican Party to crash the economy three months before a general election.
Voter suppression.
If 20 million people are evicted in the next few months, their ID’s won’t reflect their current address.
re: #296 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
For first time since 1950s, NY has 3 MLB teams playing in the state.
That’s all because Toronto didn’t want the gringos from across the border bringing the covid with them.
re: #297 sagehen
Voter suppression.
If 20 million people are evicted in the next few months, their ID’s won’t reflect their current address.
Another one of their ingenious “This will only affect Democrats” plans then.
re: #291 Decatur Deb
So UFOs came all the way here to lose their hubcaps?
Guess you could say we’re a galactic pothole then.
re: #297 sagehen
Voter suppression.
If 20 million people are evicted in the next few months, their ID’s won’t reflect their current address.
But who will know that? It’s too soon for that to be known, isn’t it?
I take your point, for sure. I’m just not sure how effective that’s going to be.
re: #298 lawhawk
For first time since 1950s, NY has 3 MLB teams playing in the state.
That’s all because Toronto didn’t want the gringos from across the border bringing the covid with them.
I know but I’m kinda shocked. I’d be surprised if this doesn’t make them… unpopular.
Last night’s comet from 7,300 feet up in the San Gabriel Mtns. It has faded almost a full magnitude since two nights ago as seen from this location; that, plus the waxing moon, signals that this appearance is mostly over. (For the next six thousand years)
re: #288 jaunte
What more proof do people need to see that they are KILLING US ON PURPOSE? They hate us that much.
re: #301 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
But who will know that? It’s too soon for that to be known, isn’t it?
I take your point, for sure. I’m just not sure how effective that’s going to be.
Are you familiar with caging?
The RNC sends letters to every registered voter in a chosen jurisdiction, marked “Do Not Forward.” In that letter is a form that must be returned within 30 days to prove you’re a still-alive person who resides at that address. If their mailing gets returned to sender as “not at this address”, or if you just don’t send back the card, you get put on the list of people they’ll challenge at the polls on Election Day.
This is semi-legal, and they’ve mis-used it a bunch of times in a bunch of jurisdictions. But the consent decrees all timed out a few years ago.
ETA: even if most of the challenges fail, it really slows things down. At an over-crowded polling place with long lines, that can keep a lot of people from voting.
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