A look at how America is making the same mistakes with COVID in 2020 as it did with the Spanish Flu in 1918. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #Coronavirus
We could be through the worst of the Pandemic already if we had competent leadership…
Biggest difference between 1918 and 2020? Unlike Wilson, Trump doesn’t have the excuse of waging a world war to explain why he’s doing all of jack and shit about the pandemic.
re: #4 Targetpractice
i dunno, based on his actions, you could say he’s at war with America itself, or at least those who he perceives to be his political enemies.
Here we go again, @ICEgov once again working to help @realDonaldTrump browbeat universities into opening on campus classes during a global pandemic. pic.twitter.com/vLGouPnp1q
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 24, 2020
TBotB trying to make something:
Senator Kamala Harris has spent her entire life fighting for the people. I would never want to be labeled the “anti-Kamala Harris.” We’re fortunate to have had her as Attorney General and now as Senator. She would be an excellent VP and the same goes for anyone else on the list. https://t.co/CA4nuTaOia
— Karen Bass (@KarenBassTweets) July 24, 2020
When your pro Karen Bass article is so steeped in misogynoir against Kamala Harris, that Karen Bass HERSELF disavows it.
White progressives, Bass, Demings & Rice are all amazing & they all DESERVE BETTER than to be treated like the “anti Kamala”
Stop doing “not THAT Black woman” https://t.co/Py2u08ClX4— Michelle B. Young 💛🐝 (@MichelleBYoung1) July 24, 2020
re: #5 piratedan
i dunno, based on his actions, you could say he’s at war with America itself, or at least those who he perceives to be his political enemies.
There’s a lot of shit that Wilson got away with (even if only for a short while) in the name of fighting a world war that Trump could only dream of. Warrantless wiretaps are shocking, but imagine government censors reading your mail for signs of “dissent”? And I don’t mean soldiers mail, I mean John Q Public finding out he’s suddenly facing criminal charges of “dissent” because he questioned the need for soldiers in Afghanistan.
re: #8 Belafon
TBotB trying to make something:
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And Karen Bass shows them how it’s done. Classy!!
re: #7 Dread Pirate
This reminds me of a kid playing with a light switch after his parents told him not to.
re: #3 Eclectic Cyborg
We could be through the worst of the Pandemic already if we had competent leadership…
and we cooperated
Bridgeport Ct ….🤝🔥🤦🏿♂️💪🏾 pic.twitter.com/UT7yTGGjCV
— worldstar_Trav (@TravisF75955022) July 24, 2020
re: #8 Belafon
TBotB trying to make something:
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It’s 2016 all over again. “We support woman candidates for the presidency, just not THAT woman!”
re: #9 Targetpractice
There’s a lot of shit that Wilson got away with (even if only for a short while) in the name of fighting a world war that Trump could only dream of. Warrantless wiretaps are shocking, but imagine government censors reading your mail for signs of “dissent”? And I don’t mean soldiers mail, I mean John Q Public finding out he’s suddenly facing criminal charges of “dissent” because he questioned the need for soldiers in Afghanistan.
You know who wouldn’t let him get away with some of his shit - WOMEN
Florida congressman announces that a longtime staffer has died from coronavirus https://t.co/PcaoaTs7EB pic.twitter.com/TGsQJKjf5b
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 24, 2020
My prediction is that once the unemployment benefits stop in a week, Trump, et al will go right back to screaming about how the country needs to reopen again.
re: #13 gocart mozart
I would totally do something like this if I didn’t think I’d kill myself trying.
re: #16 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
And this is a GOP congressman for the record.
re: #17 Ace Rothstein
My prediction is that once the unemployment benefits stop in a week, Trump, et al will go right back to screaming about how the country needs to reopen again.
They’ve never stopped. The whole business with masks? That’s their one concession to reality. They still think all businesses should throw open their doors, all employees should return to work under threat of poverty, and any suggestion of shutdowns is tantamount to wanting America to “fail.”
re: #18 Eclectic Cyborg
I would totally do something like this if I didn’t think I’d kill myself trying.
i’ve tried and could never get the front wheel off the ground
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
And this is a GOP congressman for the record.
See, you didn’t need to day that. It was assumed.
re: #20 Targetpractice
They’ve never stopped. The whole business with masks? That’s their one concession to reality. They still think all businesses should throw open their doors, all employees should return to work under threat of poverty, and any suggestion of shutdowns is tantamount to wanting America to “fail.”
On the New Abnormal today Wilson and Jong-Fast were talking about the dumb men in this administration including Peter Navarro who is, was, and always will be on board with “herd immunity”. I haven’t finished the pod, but basically: the debate at this point is whether the Trump administration is made up of more dumb smart guys or dumb dumb guys. My bet is on the latter, but the odds probably aren’t that good.
re: #21 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
i’ve tried and could never get the front wheel off the ground
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I was on the freeway the other day and somebody on a street bike/crotch rocket decided to do a wheelie for a solid half mile (at least, I took an off ramp)
re: #7 Dread Pirate
I’m surprised that their countries would let those students come to the US or that the students would want to come into our petri dish.
Tropical storm Hannah on her way to south Texas:
re: #21 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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I can do a magnificent wheelie on my Exmark zero-turn mower!
re: #13 gocart mozart
I like those videos more when their machine gets heavily damaged at the end.
Jeh Johnson confirmed on MSNBC that DHS ‘cops’ are ‘contractors.’ They are mercenaries supplied by Erik Prince, brother of DeVos.
AKA Tiki Torch Boys— James “Wear a Mask and Stay Away From Me” Morrison (@JamesPMorrison) July 24, 2020
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Needs another source or two. Plausible, but tangled up with the earlier LTG Honore story.
Erik Prince is another one that needs to be on the radar of the Justice Department if we can wrangle that back into shape. He’s evil, more than average. He’s also not stupid like Trumpco.
How I use (some of) my time in solitary. Completed another model kit. This is a PM 1/72 Spitfire V floatplane. There were only 6 Spitfire floatplanes for the very good reason that there was no use for them by the time they were ready. It was the fastest seaplane of the time (370 mph), and quite possibly the best looking, though.
The kit was simple, almost primitive, but I still had some trouble with the build, especially with the paint. As you can see it is quite small. I am working myself up to some of the mega-model projects I have, like the giant Saturn V, which is the same scale but comes out to over 5 feet in height when finished.
re: #35 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That looks incredible. Well done. The paint is, to me, always the hardest part. I struggled a lot with over-gluing when I was young, but I evolved a few techniques to fix that problem when I got old enough to take models seriously.
😁😂😂🤣🤣
What you ordered online vs what arrives at your door. pic.twitter.com/q4FhRrjKnP
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 24, 2020
re: #35 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
How I use (some of) my time in solitary. Completed another model kit. This is a PM 1/72 Spitfire V floatplane. There were only 6 Spitfire floatplanes for the very good reason that there was no use for them by the time they were ready. It was the fastest seaplane of the time (370 mph), and quite possibly the best looking, though.
The kit was simple, almost primitive, but I still had some trouble with the build, especially with the paint. As you can see it is quite small. I am working myself up to some of the mega-model projects I have, like the giant Saturn V, which is the same scale but comes out to over 5 feet in height when finished.[Embedded content]
Very nice. Some of the Spitfire evolved out of a floatplane—the Supermarine Swift, built for cup racing. Revell had a kit in the day.
re: #38 Decatur Deb
Very nice. Some of the Spitfire evolved out of a floatplane—the Supermarine Swift, built for cup racing. Revell had a kit in the day.
Edit: Make that the Supermarine S.5. The Swift was a later jet.
corrected yet again.
re: #7 Dread Pirate
International students need to boycott American universities then. I’m sure they can get their education elsewhere.
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
International students need to boycott American universities then. I’m sure they can get their education elsewhere.
The worst part of this, to me, is: After Biden is elected in November, how many of these things will get reversed? So do students apply now in the hope that in the spring term, they’ll be allowed to come to the US?
DOJ lawyer says new applications for #DACA are not being rejected but are ‘being held.’
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) July 24, 2020
DOJ lawyer also says some applicants may have received letters saying their #DACA applications were denied because all are being rejected, but those people were rejected because of some specific flaw in their applications
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) July 24, 2020
re: #40 Patricia Kayden
International students need to boycott American universities then. I’m sure they can get their education elsewhere.
My alma mater (Salem State University) has always been a magnet for foreign students, particularly from the Caribbean. (By “always”, I mean, since I was a student 35 years ago.) My president did not have good words for the President.
I watch the Canadian Drag Race. This person wasn’t terribly nice (all the others are pretty nice) but this really rocks.
Drag queen @onlinekyne is teaching math on TikTok — and it’s fabulous 🔥 pic.twitter.com/GKnYPXodlQ
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) July 24, 2020
for this week’s dog video we’re going to play count the long bois pic.twitter.com/k9yuHGZoRT
— We Print Video (@infiniteobjects) July 24, 2020
Trump campaign lists all the polls it believes is *undersampling* Republican turnout >> pic.twitter.com/avwZvZEllV
— Dave Catanese (@davecatanese) July 24, 2020
I don’t believe that the “random words” that Trump was asked to memorize were “person, woman, man, camera, tv.” The words on some sample MoCAs that I found online are FACE, VELVET, CHURCH, DAISY, RED & LEG, COTTON, SCHOOL, TOMATO, WHITE iow you have:
BODY PART
FABRIC
BUILDING
PLANT
COLOR
PERSON WOMAN MAN CAMERA TV do not follow that pattern. They do seem like words that Trump would pick for himself.
re: #48 The Pie Overlord!
I don’t believe that the “random words” that Trump was asked to memorize were “person, woman, man, camera, tv.” The words on some sample MoCAs that I found online are FACE, VELVET, CHURCH, DAISY, RED & LEG, COTTON, SCHOOL, TOMATO, WHITE iow you have:
BODY PART
FABRIC
BUILDING
PLANT
COLOR
PERSON WOMAN MAN CAMERA TV do not follow that pattern. They do seem like words that Trump would pick for himself.
He picked them because they were things he could see while giving his interview.
Did trump have his telerally at 5 today?
re: #21 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
i’ve tried and could never get the front wheel off the ground
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Was driving on the highway earlier this week, a dude on a rice burner popped a wheelie going about 75mph and kept it up for ~200 yards. Pretty dumb IMHO.
re: #50 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Did trump have his telerally at 5 today?
The PDS says he’s traveling to Bedminster during the telerally time.
What? You mean the pharm lobby will not buckle under the weight of a sharpie signed EO? What’s the Oval Office come to? Powerless ness, that’s what. Legislation means more. Price fixing, let’s say. Or open competition for negotiated prices. That sort of thing. EOs?
Hehehehehe.— Dr. Joe (@headcoach4life) July 24, 2020
re: #29 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I’m not seeing a link for his claim. If it is true, that’s alarming and can’t be legal. House Dems need to be probing this in hearings.
TFW the White House Press Secretary is fact checked by cartoon dogs.
No need to worry. PAW Patrol is not canceled. 🐶
— PAW Patrol (@pawpatrol) July 24, 2020
re: #51 JC1
Was driving on the highway earlier this week, a dude on a rice burner popped a wheelie going about 75mph and kept it up for ~200 yards.
A trials rider performed a continuous wheelie around the Mountain course on the Isle of Man a few years back — that’s over 37 miles.
re: #41 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Good question. I was once a foreign student so I can just imagine the aggravation they’re going through with this petty, xenophobic administration. But to be honest, I wouldn’t have come here if Trump had been President.
Republican-appointed judge who was chosen in part to his adherence to “states’ rights” denies that the state has a right to stop the federal government from illegally detaining its residents. https://t.co/LTeFuJ5ZNs
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) July 24, 2020
re: #13 gocart mozart
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Hmmm….mask……proper social distancing…..nothing reckless about this guy at all.
re: #47 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
When you have to explain why the polls are wrong to make your candidates feel better, you’ve already lost. I hope.
🤦♀️ Judge Won’t Force Federal Officers In Portland To Identify Themselves When Making Arrests, The judge found the Oregon attorney general’s office could not bring a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the federal presence in #Portland. https://t.co/E4A9FG8jwJ
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) July 24, 2020
“…US District Judge Michael Mosman found that state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum lacked standing to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Oregon residents because her office hadn’t articulated any specific state interest beyond the constitutional rights of individuals.”
re: #62 jaunte
I’m sorry, WHAT? The constitutional rights of one’s citizens isn’t a good enough reason to bring a lawsuit against the government?
re: #45 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I watch the Canadian Drag Race. This person wasn’t terribly nice (all the others are pretty nice) but this really rocks.
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Nope. Brings back memories of High School Hell and the 8th Grade Algebra Teacher From The Dinah Shore Portal To Hell who killed any interest I had in math.
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Our laws are apparently an uncertain shield against raw force.
re: #64 🌹UOJB!
Nope. Brings back memories of High School Hell and the 8th Grade Algebra Teacher From The Dinah Shore Portal To Hell who killed any interest I had in math.
My eighth grade math teacher told me girls weren’t good at math. I went home and told my mom. She was ready to storm the school. Like most kids, I didn’t want this to happen. She told me she’d let it go as long as I could honestly say I didn’t believe her. I thought my teacher was full of shit as I was good in math. I proved this to my mom by getting 2 of my 4 degrees in math related fields.
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m sorry, WHAT? The constitutional rights of one’s citizens isn’t a good enough reason to bring a lawsuit against the government?
Apparently not. What the actual fuck is going on?
According to @USAO_OR, you most obey orders of one of these thugs - despite no badge or identifying agency. If you dont, you commit a federal crime. Of course, if you obey the orders of the other two, you might be murdered. Way to go, Billy! Endanger Americans to stop graffiti. pic.twitter.com/N0WOVddNpN
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) July 24, 2020
Judge Mosman says it’s purely hypothetical.
re: #67 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently not. What the actual fuck is going on?
Republicans are letting us know what they really think of the Constitution.
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m sorry, WHAT? The constitutional rights of one’s citizens isn’t a good enough reason to bring a lawsuit against the government?
As the Whore Judge made it clear, Republicans are our masters and we must obey their every command for the glory of the Fatherland!
Yes, let’s all celebrate Big Baby Boy finally giving up on the reckless overweening narcissistic quest to be celebrated that drove him to actively ignore expert public health advice for months while violating Constitutional rights & murdering Americans with depraved indifference. https://t.co/HW86g1g4UH
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 24, 2020
That’s because rightwing pundits have never believed in anything except absolute power for republicans. The mask is off forever. https://t.co/LFflK61wmR
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 24, 2020
re: #54 Patricia Kayden
I’m not seeing a link for his claim. If it is true, that’s alarming and can’t be legal. House Dems need to be probing this in hearings.
Found it. At least I think this is it.
re: #71 goddamnedfrank
Nikki did get one thing right, he did turn the American economy and foreign policy around… taking a country that was doing quite well and throwing it so far down the crapper that I can’t even imagine how we recover.
When Homeland Security’s new Protecting American Communities Task Force appeared around July 4, it inflamed protests, which shifted to the federal courthouse. Since then, people have shot fireworks, tagged it with graffiti, and tried to tear down barriers and light fires. pic.twitter.com/VE4DeHf87c
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) July 24, 2020
Even as the federal presence has come under increasing scrutiny, Homeland Security has deployed more forces. On Wednesday, C.B.P. sent a Beechcraft B300C to orbit the crowd and provide real-time video to officers in the courthouse command center below. pic.twitter.com/T04W9xI0wS
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) July 24, 2020
re: #72 jaunte
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So in other words, overreaching government is just fine as long as THEY are the ones doing the overreaching.
re: #68 jaunte
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Judge Mosman says it’s purely hypothetical.
That’s extremely stupid reasoning.
Any right winger would immediately take advantage of that. Simple common sense.
“It’s the government’s job to protect my constitutional rights.” - tell that to Trump’s thugs invading Portland.
— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 24, 2020
re: #68 jaunte
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Judge Mosman says it’s purely hypothetical.
Sure, two of them are right wing terrorists and the other is a right wing terrorist.
— Moscow Mitch’s Shell Corporation Is People Too (@opus17) July 24, 2020
re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
So in other words, overreaching government is just fine as long as THEY are the ones doing the overreaching.
There is NO difference between a junky addicted to heroin and a RepubliKKKlan addicted to power.
Republicans want people to be evicted and have all assistance cut off because they believe that will cause more unrest that Trump’s Thugs can get the blood flowing in the streets.
Belafon mentioned computer problems last night to which I suggested cleaning the gold contacts on the video, memory and cpu and testing again to see if it fixes the problem. This afternoon I had a customer drop by with a 2010 MacBook Pro that wouldn’t boot up. Dead as a brick. Since I knew this was a good candidate for the above mentioned fix I had the customer wait while I popped the bottom off, cleaned his two memory modules with an eraser and then tested it. Success! I put the base cover back on, sold him on a new battery and SSD upgrade (he’ll return when the parts are in), charged him $20 and sent him on his merry way.
I just thought it was funny that I mentioned that last night and today I recovered a system using that method. :)
America is full of people who live in a fantasy land…
“The Greek lexicons are made by reprobate scholars…”
That… that right there, that’s some cult-think.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) July 24, 2020
By the way:
1) Barron Trump going to go to Public School?
Oh and also
2) How’s Mr. 9-9-9 Herman Cain?
re: #84 🌹UOJB!
By the way:
1) Barron Trump going to go to Public School?
Oh and also
2) How’s Mr. 9-9-9 Herman Cain?
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, just outside Washington in the state of Maryland, said it is still deciding whether to teach fully online in the new school year or to adopt a “hybrid” model in which limited numbers of children can attend in person.
For all the talk about how there’s all this lawlessness in Portland by protesters, where exactly are the arrests and court proceedings to administer those charges?
Turns out there isn’t much there. 18 arrests this week by US jack booted thugs not counting those this morning.
..the action comes as U.S. agents have arrested 18 people in Portland this week as the clash with protesters turned chaotic for another night.
The number doesn’t include arrests made early Friday, when federal officers again used tear gas to force thousands of demonstrators from crowding around a U.S. courthouse, a target of two months of nightly protests. Protesters projected lasers on the building and tried to take down a security fence. They scattered as clouds of gas rose up and agents fired crowd control munitions, which critically injured a demonstrator this month.
The protesters who were arrested face federal charges including assaulting federal officers, arson and damaging federal property, U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said. All the defendants are local, and they were released after making a court appearance.
18. That’s not widespread violence. That’s a showing of just how pathetic Trumpworld is in trying to portray this as widespread violence.
re: #86 lawhawk
Trump is trying to draw attention away from COVID-19 to himself.
re: #84 🌹UOJB!
By the way:
1) Barron Trump going to go to Public School?
Oh and also
2) How’s Mr. 9-9-9 Herman Cain?
Cain’s staff has taken over his twitter feed and this is the last time they mentioned how he’s doing.
If he continues to progress at the same pace, they will probably get a little more proactive today about moving him to some new treatments. Also, he was irritated they wouldn’t let him have a Snickers bar. That’s our boss! Please keep praying for him.
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 15, 2020
My guess is he’s very sick or his twitter feed would be full of “it’s just the flu” bullshit.
Allen West telling the Texas State GOP “We are the storm.” Totally OK. No dog whistle there. pic.twitter.com/z4U8NtQ9Bx
— Poker and Politics (@PokerPolitics) July 24, 2020
re: #88 Teddy’s Person
Sounds like the progress is backsliding and they’re concerned they’ll have to intubate. Covid19 is no joke.
Lots of people asking what’s up with 999 Cain.
I also am wondering about Don Jr’s girlfriend who has covid. She attended a fundraiser for Trump with his rich donors. I imagine some of them will be sick and some will die. Pretty sure an older crowd. But we are hearing nothing. @MSNBC @CNN what is the scoop? Herman Cain?
— Sebrina Alfonso (@SebrinaAlfonso) July 20, 2020
re: #90 lawhawk
Sounds like the progress is backsliding and they’re concerned they’ll have to intubate. Covid19 is no joke.
And that was 9 days ago.
re: #7 Dread Pirate
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come to think about it, if the classes are all taught online, the foreign students don’t actually have to come here and spend money in the US for living expenses and whatnot…
re: #81 Odie Hugh Manatee
Belafon mentioned computer problems last night to which I suggested cleaning the gold contacts on the video, memory and cpu and testing again to see if it fixes the problem. This afternoon I had a customer drop by with a 2010 MacBook Pro that wouldn’t boot up. Dead as a brick. Since I knew this was a good candidate for the above mentioned fix I had the customer wait while I popped the bottom off, cleaned his two memory modules with an eraser and then tested it. Success! I put the base cover back on, sold him on a new battery and SSD upgrade (he’ll return when the parts are in), charged him $20 and sent him on his merry way.
I just thought it was funny that I mentioned that last night and today I recovered a system using that method. :)
I recommend Caig Deoxit Gold. I did the eraser trick for years. I live on the coast. What do we think happened? The contacts didn’t oxidise afterwards and make me do it again? Of course not.
The Deoxit cleans, and then leaves a very light oil film to keep it that way.
re: #90 lawhawk
Sounds like the progress is backsliding and they’re concerned they’ll have to intubate. Covid19 is no joke.
If they haven’t already.
Trump has campaigned on imprisoning his political foes both times. Not normal in a healthy democracy. https://t.co/AVFSqFFOew
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 24, 2020
So on my Facebook timeline shows up some Covid-19 misinformation.
Sad to see, but I thought Facebook was policing Covid misinformation?
Just another one of those “everything is getting better, not worse” type of posts. I check out the originator… sure enough, a Ron Paul type.
re: #98 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ugh, that fucking douchecanoe is what finally led to the break with my family.
Charlie Pierce: “Anyone who used the phrase “change in tone” in reporting on Tuesday’s press availability at the White House needs to be hustled off to journalism re-education camp immediately.”
Please watch to the very end — you’ll thank me if you do. pic.twitter.com/p55fcXK6KG
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) June 11, 2020
re: #101 gocart mozart
That’s exactly how I feel about both of them.
re: #101 gocart mozart
The beginning was much better than the ending.
re: #105 Dave In Austin
We have the same idiots in NJ when a tropical storm is nearby.
rhis is from CBS but its all over
LeBron James’ voting rights group donating $100,000 to pay fines and fees so ex-felons can vote in Florida
As a renewed social justice movement swept the country earlier this year, athletes from all sports felt inspired to do their part to bring about change. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James was no different, and his big push was staring a voting rights group called More Than A Vote.
re: #106 PhillyPretzel
We have the same idiots in NJ when a tropical storm is nearby.
Get off the damned beach!
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is trying to cancel the 1619 Project because he is triggered by politically incorrect historical facts. https://t.co/IXTOt3hCK5
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 25, 2020
re: #114 gocart mozart
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The book that started* the 1619 Project - American Slavery, American Freedom - was published in 1975, two year before Tom Cotton was born. It’s still essential reading for anyone getting an advanced degree in American history.
* The first book by an academic historian that argued American freedom was built on slavery.
I’m just embracing this dystopian hellscape for the laughs its providing.
— Brian (@MarioIncandenz2) July 24, 2020
re: #114 gocart mozart
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Republican Sen. Tom Cotton is trying to cancel the 1619 Project because he is triggered by politically incorrect historical facts. https://t.co/IXTOt3hCK5
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 25, 2020
re: #118 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Tom “Retcon” Cotton.
re: #112 The Pie Overlord!
Click on it to stop it.
re: #114 gocart mozart
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Tom Cotton really does seem to have a bug (the size of Shelob’s grandmother) up his ass about the 1619 Project: he keeps going on and on about it. I’m sure the good Senator has his own notions of how the issues of racism, slavery and discrimination ought to be taught in American History - with the notion of “dismissal” prominent, I’m sure - but yeah, “cancel culture” to the max. Not made any better by the fact that it isn’t his culture……
Oh look-y at that - a white guy arrested ALIVE after engaging with SWAT and they’ve evacuated 168 homes, 34 businesses because of explosives found in house. Betting he’s not a supporter of #BLM. #GOPfascists #Utah https://t.co/uYgl6b2ki4
— (((RB Blair))) Proud Democrat | Wear A Damn Mask (@TuxcedoCat) July 25, 2020
Not even a giant rubber bullet impact bruise.
Sorry, I scrolled through the comments before saying that I want to use Trevor Noah’s monologue here for students about learning from history. Brilliant, if too short to really address all that needs to be addressed (and I understand the limitations of the medium_.
Associated Press: “Virginia House Speaker Eileen Filler-Corn, a Democrat, quietly ordered the Lee statue and busts of generals J.E.B. Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and others removed from the historic Old House Chamber. A moving crew worked through the night Thursday — carefully removing the monuments and their plaques and loading them into a truck and taking them to an undisclosed location.”“The stealth approach avoids the possibility of protests or a lawsuit to keep the monuments in place, but may prompt criticism that the monuments were moved without public discussion.”
It’s almost as if they are snatching people statues in the middle of the night, throwing them in unmarked vehicles, and stashing them in undisclosed locations.
re: #94 Sherlock Hound
I have a can of Deoxit on the shelf and have used it for years but the eraser trick followed by a wipe with Deoxit is far better than just applying Deoxit. I’ve done side-by-side tests that clearly show that the eraser method of cleaning is quicker and better. The Deoxit is the frosting on the cake. :)
I had a system come in last week with a wine spill. The owner cut the power and pulled the battery before the wine did any electrical damage. I ended up washing the motherboard in the sink to get the wine out from under the chips. A rinse in distilled water followed, then blown off with compressed air, a short soak in a pan of 99% isopropyl alcohol followed by one more blast of compressed air to dry it off. I placed in under a stream of warm, dry air for an hour, cleaned and wiped down all contacts with Deoxit and reassembled. Another save! :)
I’ve been fixing this stuff since the mid-80’s so I’ve accumulated a big bag of tricks.
There’s some headline.
Reminder, Johnson spent the 4th of July in Russia.https://t.co/s5QmVTLJTr— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 25, 2020
We’re watching Jaws. If you haven’t seen it recently, it has it all: public officials denying it’s a problem, overriding local officials who attempted to shut down the beach so that they could reopen by the end of the month.
re: #129 Belafon
Were watching Jaws. If you haven’t seen it recently, it has it all: public officials denying it’s a problem, overriding local officials who attempted to shut down the beach so that they could reopen by the end of the month.
I hear there’s a shark in it too
and that they need a bigger boat
What if these birds are “emu-like” because they’re actually Were-Emus?
It would explain a lot https://t.co/yurP3pY9zn— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
re: #35 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
How I use (some of) my time in solitary. Completed another model kit. This is a PM 1/72 Spitfire V floatplane. There were only 6 Spitfire floatplanes for the very good reason that there was no use for them by the time they were ready. It was the fastest seaplane of the time (370 mph), and quite possibly the best looking, though.
The kit was simple, almost primitive, but I still had some trouble with the build, especially with the paint. As you can see it is quite small. I am working myself up to some of the mega-model projects I have, like the giant Saturn V, which is the same scale but comes out to over 5 feet in height when finished.[Embedded content]
I’ve been watching season 5 of Gold Rush (don’t judge), in which they disassembled, moved, then reassembled a 75 ton gold dredge which was 75 years old.
We got a mean one:
PSA
I’m an angry veteran.
It’s nearing that point
17 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/SAIbZ1ftix— 🇺🇸Fitz ™️ (@gunbunny913) July 24, 2020
re: #126 Odie Hugh Manatee
I have a can of Deoxit on the shelf and have used it for years but the eraser trick followed by a wipe with Deoxit is far better than just applying Deoxit. I’ve done side-by-side tests that clearly show that the eraser method of cleaning is quicker and better. The Deoxit is the frosting on the cake. :)
I had a system come in last week with a wine spill. The owner cut the power and pulled the battery before the wine did any electrical damage. I ended up washing the motherboard in the sink to get the wine out from under the chips. A rinse in distilled water followed, then blown off with compressed air, a short soak in a pan of 99% isopropyl alcohol followed by one more blast of compressed air to dry it off. I placed in under a stream of warm, dry air for an hour, cleaned and wiped down all contacts with Deoxit and reassembled. Another save! :)
I’ve been fixing this stuff since the mid-80’s so I’ve accumulated a big bag of tricks.
Erasers were always flaky for me. :)
Someone was suggesting WD-40 for cleaning after water immersion (rather than the bag of rice).
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
Sorry, I scrolled through the comments before saying that I want to use Trevor Noah’s monologue here for students about learning from history. Brilliant, if too short to really address all that needs to be addressed (and I understand the limitations of the medium_.
I just read that the authorities are going to blow his house up rather than pack the explosives out.
Wow…
re: #69 Teddy’s Person
Republicans are letting us know what they really think of the Constitution.
To fascists, all that matters is the will to power.
So this Covid baseball
Man, when Didi clobbers one he clobbers one. + a bunch of air fives pic.twitter.com/MB21OIRF6N
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) July 25, 2020
re: #139 gocart mozart
So this Covid baseball
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Do they really have fake fans in the stands? I know they’re piping in recordings of ballpark sounds.
“One of the officials said the White House had long wanted to amplify strife in cities, encouraging DHS officials to talk about arrests of violent criminals…& more details of raids…’It was about getting viral online content,’ one of the officials said.”
Nauseating. https://t.co/6DmWCNKhut— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) July 25, 2020
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Do they really have fake fans in the stands? I know they’re piping in recordings of ballpark sounds.
Yes. the Mets and other teams are allowing fans to donate and have their pic on a cutout. It’s for local charities. I believe the Dodgers are doing this also.
the crowd noise is fake.
re: #139 gocart mozart
Are they real or digitally inserted?
re: #142 I Would Prefer Not To
Yes. the Mets and other teams are allowing fans to donate and have their pic on a cutout. It’s for local charities. I believe the Dodgers are doing this also.
the crowd noise is fake.
That’s hilarious and wholesome at the same time. I love it. Also, cheering for my hometown team as they battle the South Siders in the Windy City tonight. Up 5-1 at the moment.
Fuck this fascist prick
Trump’s anti-American fascist goon squad is going to lose.https://t.co/HAaSrKKsmT
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 25, 2020
re: #144 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
That’s hilarious and wholesome at the same time. I love it. Also, cheering for my hometown team as they battle the South Siders in the Windy City tonight. Up 5-1 at the moment.
Sometimes baseball gets in right. they also deserve major Karma for everyone kneeling on opening day.
Ouch. #JoeBidenJob pic.twitter.com/CAQhiuztDB
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 24, 2020
re: #146 I Would Prefer Not To
Sometimes baseball gets in right. they also deserve major Karma for everyone kneeling on opening day.
I mentioned this last night, but after the opening of the Yanks-Nats game, Mrs. Fish uttered that immortal line, “This is the only time I will ever say this, but good job, Yankees.”
Please share 🚨👇🏼🚨 https://t.co/WUZ6cw5PbS
— Leah McElrath 🏳️🌈 (@leahmcelrath) July 25, 2020
re: #151 William Lewis
That’s a wonderful way to close it out. I wasn’t along for the entire 20-year ride, but I loved the story and I definitely read all the backstory when I had time. That’s dedication.
Sucks?
i have an intern joke and it… nevermind. https://t.co/SCHRGYVIJV
— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) July 24, 2020
Speaking of baseball during the right thing.
The Rays organization has committed $100,000 to local groups @CDCofTampa_ @PCUrbanLeague @eji_org Remembrance Project @NAACP5139 @pinellasreentry who fight systemic racism.
Please visit our social justice resource guide: https://t.co/irYdBs9eMM #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/O0S6LaBGDH— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) July 24, 2020
am a little surprised.
re: #142 I Would Prefer Not To
Yes. the Mets and other teams are allowing fans to donate and have their pic on a cutout. It’s for local charities. I believe the Dodgers are doing this also.
the crowd noise is fake.
I heard last night that the crowd noise is from a baseball video game.
re: #156 Belafon
I heard last night that the crowd noise is from a baseball video game.
Funny story about that: For years, teams accused the Minnesota Twins of piping fake crowd noise into the Metrodome, especially during playoff games. The Atlanta Braves were especially incensed during the 1991 World Series, the second series in which the home team won all 7 games - the first, of course, being the 1987 World Series… Which also went to the Minnesota Twins.
If there were more Black and Latina women writing editorials for the New York Times, this oped might have been about how a white Congressman called a Latina colleague a “fucking bitch” with impunity. Instead, we’re debating whether white men like David Brooks have enough freedom. https://t.co/ddp7r1hhmE
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 24, 2020
Yes, I do occasionally just sign the fuck out of Twitter, believe it or not.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 25, 2020
A friend said I was swearing more lately and I replied, “So fucking what?”
Then I apologized for snapping because it’s not her fault the shit is so fucked up.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 25, 2020
But yeah, I definitely fucking am swearing more lately.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 25, 2020
Or, to be more precise, swearing a fuck of a lot more IN PUBLIC.
Because we’re out of fucks and will let you know when more fucks are available.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 25, 2020
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 25, 2020
re: #159 Charles Johnson
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I’m sorry, but our fields of fucks are currently barren. Please hold and we will connect you as soon as a fuck is available to give.
re: #157 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Those were some exciting series and The Metrodome was the only time in sports history where a giant hefty trash bag was relevant
re: #158 Dread Pirate
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It is indeed crazy how Brooks and others are being silenced and yet I can still hear them.
— Debra Pickett (@DebPickett) July 24, 2020
re: #161 So Cal Greek Hippie
Those were some exciting series and The Metrodome was the only time in sports history where a giant hefty trash bag was relevant
I went to a couple of games at the Dome before they blew it up. I admit, I like Target Field better, but it was definitely a nostalgic experience and a 1000% upgrade on Komiskey Park, as it was known before it became U.S. Cellular Field after its rehabilitation. I went to a few games on the South Side, and I was … leery, to say the least.
re: #158 Dread Pirate
If there were more Black and Latina women writing editorials for the New York Times, this oped might have been about how a white Congressman called a Latina colleague a “fucking bitch” with impunity. Instead, we’re debating whether white men like David Brooks have enough freedom.
I bet driftglass will be in full roar over this!
On this note, I’ve actually added Drudge back into my newslinks…. while he’s still linked to quite a few sketchy sites, what he’s front paging is more balanced that the past.
Tucker Carlson segment tonight questions what happened to @DRUDGE, saying his site is at times no longer distinguishable from “woke” websites. Carlson calls Drudge “firmly a man of the progressive left.” pic.twitter.com/GobP77x3uX
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 25, 2020
Also if you get bored this weekend, AP’s what didn’t happen fake news recap is always worth a read:
Should be the norm in every city in America! Check Out This Article: Michigan Prosecutor Begins Publicizing Quarterly List Of Cops Who’ve Lied On… https://t.co/g37UHXAVLN
— cowboytexas🇺🇸🌊 (@cowboytexas) July 25, 2020
re: #133 Dave In Austin
Fuck you mutherfucker, I got an ar15 too, cletus.
I went to one of the last home games the Nationals played at RFK, a nasty venue mostly due to neglect, Nationals Park is a spectacular venue run by people who know what they are doing, btw.
Petco Park in San Diego is a fun but militaristic venue with a lot of drunks
Safeco Seattle has nice fans and lots of good places nearby and the best concessions variety ever. Rode the ferry in from Bainbridge Island
I was served a beer in my seat in a day game in Oakland Coliseum when I was 15 by a dude carrying them in a cart. I finished the one and he said hey kid slam another these things are killing me
Dodger Stadium is a baseball temple but my wife pointed out that we always sit in aisle 57 to exit quick in case of disaster. Remote location and hassle to freeway always send my paranoid spidey sense into gear.
Anaheim Stadium is an old and unremarkable place with short lines for tall cans of beer and though 38 miles further than Dodger Stadium a faster round trip. Nice fans and I hear they upped their food game.
re: #140 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Do they really have fake fans in the stands? I know they’re piping in recordings of ballpark sounds.
I’m looking forward to the videos of fake fans getting pegged by a foul ball. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw them. They should put a bunch of Trump cutouts in the stands behind third base.
And with that, Tampa Bay Rays Twitter sides with the Black Lives Matter movement… https://t.co/oGOIUJym2y
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 25, 2020
re: #172 stpaulbear
I’m looking forward to the videos of fake fans getting pegged by a foul ball. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw them. They should put a bunch of Trump cutouts in the stands behind third base.
While that would be hilarious, I think the majority of parks at this point have added netting to the baselines to prevent this scenario. Feels bad man.
re: #134 Sherlock Hound
Save the rice for dinner! After your motherboard has had a nice hot, soapy bath in the sink and has been rinsed/blown off, a quick soak in 99% isopropyl will get the last bits of water out from under things. The alcohol will quickly evaporate when blown off with compressed air and the hour under a warm, dry stream of air will quickly evaporate the remainder.
When it comes to keyboards and liquids I just do three soaks and blowouts in 99% iso, followed by warm, dry air for a couple of hours. Works every time.
re: #171 So Cal Greek Hippie
Here’s hoping they have more foul netting up now than when the pic was taken.
re: #176 Thanos
Good seat but yeah I was on the alert for a sharp hit foul. You can get a good single seat a lot of times. Usually there are season ticket holders who take for granted its going to be empty and they are irked like the guy with the brown slippers shown in photo. His wife had those awesome baseball leather and stitching sneakers from Nordstrom so it was all good
Yoho completely unprovoked called the Congresswomen a “Fucking bitch.” https://t.co/P5j5nqkkg2
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 24, 2020
Fox News misogyny on full display.
re: #167 Thanos
Drudge probably did an estimation of whether he’ll be more profitable pushing rightwing propaganda, or if he ought to be a more generic news aggregator.
While I think we’re nearing the end of the big-time success of the right-wing grift, it will always be with us. Just not as profitable as it has been the past 40 years.
re: #169 jaunte
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35 names out of around 4k officers between Detroit and Wayne County Sheriff’s? That’s less than 1%. I’m sure that the other 99% are beacons of truth. Better than nothing, but not much better.
re: #180 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Drudge probably did an estimation of whether he’ll be more profitable pushing rightwing propaganda, or if he ought to be a more generic news aggregator.
While I think we’re nearing the end of the big-time success of the right-wing grift, it will always be with us. Just not as profitable as it has been the past 40 years.
Yeah, he still has Gateway, the freepers, and Breitbart linked, but Gates of Vienna and others are gone.
re: #178 Dread Pirate
He called her a bitch, but she said he called her a bitch. Who are you going to believe?
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 25, 2020
It’s cowboy night at the swinger’s club. He has a date with a horse. 0/10 #rogerstoneisacriminal pic.twitter.com/XDcTk0bolU
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) July 25, 2020
re: #184 Belafon
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You know he’s a lying dog from how quickly he pulled out his family as a shield during his fake apology.
And another ZERO from Room Rater!
Hi @DevinNunes. It’s us, Room Rater. This seems like a hostage video situation. Did you sue the wrong person/imaginary farm animal? cc @DevinCow 0/10 https://t.co/l7PCHUcSQU pic.twitter.com/6kThjvUumT
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) July 24, 2020
2 days ago, Sen. Johnson’s office pushed back, hard, on the idea they’re taking foreign “oppo”
👉”Telizhenko and Onyshchenko said they’ve been asked to be interviewed as part of the Senate inquiry and have shared materials with” GOP committee members. https://t.co/RPKAarpzBV— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) July 24, 2020
Wonder how they are going to try and explain this picture? pic.twitter.com/4vXUpkDhDJ
— Citizen D (@touchmeimdic) July 24, 2020
Wow. 🔥🔥🔥
This is an amazing compilation of videos and photos from the grassroots reporters and independent journalists on the ground at the #PortlandProtest.
Please spread it. From @johnogpdx: #DemCast
pic.twitter.com/kxbMDpwjlG— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@DemWrite) July 25, 2020
I still think Soros and perhaps Nick Hanauer should get together and try to corner the executive jet charter reservations for November 4-5, to keep as many GOP dirtbags as possible from absconding to Russia. Mexico and Canada should also cooperate to massively reinforce their borders on those days to prevent overland escapes. I am not sure how to keep DeVos’s yacht from breaking out of port, other than perhaps limpet mines, and I am not well-versed in how to procure those.
I just got an email from the ACLU. I don’t think the ACLU had much about me other than public info and the email address I gave them…
We’re reaching out to let you know that the ACLU was notified of a security breach at one of our vendors, Blackbaud.
Blackbaud, which works with many nonprofits to support their fundraising and engagement efforts, was the target of a ransomware attack. As a result, the hackers obtained some personally identifying information about Blackbaud’s nonprofit clients’ donors and prospective donors, including those of the ACLU. Please note that no credit card or bank account information was compromised in this breach. A full description of the incident is available here. (note: this link will take you to a third party website, blackbaud.com)
Blackbaud believes they have successfully retrieved the stolen data, but we cannot be completely certain this is the case. The ACLU’s contractual agreements have always required Blackbaud to keep our constituent information confidential and to have security procedures in place to minimize breaches.
In all candor, we are frustrated with the lack of information we’ve received from Blackbaud about this incident thus far. The ACLU is doing everything in our power to ascertain the full nature of the breach, and we are actively investigating the nature of the data that was involved, details of the incident, and Blackbaud’s remediation plans.
We are also exploring all options to ensure this does not happen again, including revisiting our relationship with Blackbaud.
“The federal police in Portland don’t even understand what ‘arrests’ are.” - Me, up @washingtonpost now and in the Outlook section this Sunday.https://t.co/yMJjmi49B9
— Andrew Crespo (@AndrewMCrespo) July 25, 2020
“…the government maintained that what the agents did was lawful, and Cline’s explanation for that belief is the heart of the problem. It all comes back to that crucial word, “arrest.” DHS says pulling a man off the street and carrying him away in an unmarked van was just a “simple engagement.” “It was not a custodial arrest,” Cline said. In other words, the officers supposedly complied with the Fourth Amendment because, in Cline’s view, they didn’t need probable cause: There was no arrest, he says.
This assertion is glaringly wrong — and it has been for 40 years, since the Supreme Court’s 1979 opinion in Dunaway v. New York. In that case, the justices had to decide whether police officers violated the Fourth Amendment when, without probable cause, they took someone “into custody, transported him to the police station, and detained him there for interrogation.” Their answer, reaffirmed over the years, was unequivocal: Such conduct is “indistinguishable from a traditional arrest,” which need not be accompanied by bureaucratic processes like fingerprinting, booking or a formal arrest record to count as an arrest for purposes of the Fourth Amendment.”
re: #192 stpaulbear
Hmm. I’m on their email list, and didn’t get that email.
Earlier today, I mentioned the hazards of flying in combat. I’ve come across a good database on the actual numbers. Helicopter Losses During the Vietnam War
6994 UH-1 Hueys served in Vietnam, of which about 3400, nearly half, were lost. A total of about 20,000 pilots flew Hueys, roughly half the chopper pilots who served in Vietnam. 1,151 UH-1 pilots and 1,231 non-pilot crew members were killed, about 5.5% of the total, and about 4% of all US war fatalities.
Army UH-1’s totaled 10,693,902 flight hours in the Vietnam War between October 1966 and the end of 1975. This is by far the highest combat flight time of any aircraft in history.
re: #162 sagehen
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what they want is to not be questioned or criticized.
to have everything they write and say just automatically accepted as right and true because of who (they think) they are
It is indeed crazy how Brooks and others are being silenced and yet I can still hear them.
— Debra Pickett (@DebPickett) July 24, 2020
re: #178 Dread Pirate
Good point.
Yoho is a reminder that Trump did not takeover the Republican Party, he is a product of where it’s been headed for a long time
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 24, 2020
re: #180 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Drudge probably did an estimation of whether he’ll be more profitable pushing rightwing propaganda, or if he ought to be a more generic news aggregator.
While I think we’re nearing the end of the big-time success of the right-wing grift, it will always be with us. Just not as profitable as it has been the past 40 years.
Only because they have gone completely off the rails. Q is Republicans. Trump is Republicans. The majority of the crazy is Republicans - and not just rank and file but the elected officials.
That’s a losing proposition. That’s going down the Alex Jones road of being sued, being deplatformed where it matters and being shoved into the shadowy edges of the internet where there is little money and even less prestige.
re: #167 Thanos
On this note, I’ve actually added Drudge back into my newslinks…. while he’s still linked to quite a few sketchy sites, what he’s front paging is more balanced that the past.
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right. no longer distinguishable
there is no grey with these people
no nuance
no middle ground
if you’re not 100% compliant 100% of the time you’re a “woke” hard leftist socialist commie pinko liberal elite (vegan)
Tucker Carlson segment tonight questions what happened to @DRUDGE, saying his site is at times no longer distinguishable from “woke” websites. Carlson calls Drudge “firmly a man of the progressive left.” pic.twitter.com/GobP77x3uX
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 25, 2020
This is an absolutely brutal takedown of Cheeto and his accomplices.
Great new video by @donwinslow. Retweet and spread the word about #AmericasGreatestMistake pic.twitter.com/s0qGCrecJF
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) July 25, 2020
re: #194 retired cynic
Hmm. I’m on their email list, and didn’t get that email.
Likewise. Maybe they haven’t given our information to blackbaud.
re: #178 Dread Pirate
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dude should stop digging
Yoho completely unprovoked called the Congresswomen a “Fucking bitch.” https://t.co/P5j5nqkkg2
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) July 24, 2020
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m sorry, WHAT? The constitutional rights of one’s citizens isn’t a good enough reason to bring a lawsuit against the government?
This is all kinds of fucked up. When some, including many here, recognized the threats of the 150-mile border zone and cops taking cameras and wiping cards of shots taken in public, only a few took it seriously. When Border Patrol can execute the same demands upon you 100 miles north of the border, even if you never crossed that border we are in trouble. The law enforcers cannot make all the rules with impunity.
re: #202 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
dude should stop digging
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Heh, in a way… no, he should not. Let him have at it.
re: #205 Rightwingconspirator
Heh, in a way… no, he should not. Let him have at it.
should
and won’t
;-)
New—>Phoenix Fire tells NBC News that the overnight fire that destroyed most of the AZ Democratic Party’s HQ is being investigated as arson.
“At this time we have collected enough evidence at the scene where we will now transition this investigation into an arson investigation.”— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) July 24, 2020
We had the top-line of some credible internal polling shared with us yesterday. While we don’t have the crosstabs to show you, we saw:
OK-5: Biden 51% (+11 from 2016), Trump 46% (-7 from 2016)
OK-1: Trump 55% (-6), Biden 41% (+8)— OkiePolls (@OkiePolls) July 24, 2020
unverified
and yikes
re: #208 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
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I know one person who lives there, and he’s been a full metal faux zombie for years… but he hates DT (one unscientific data point).
Fire at Arizona Democratic Headquarters Was Arson, Police Say
A fire that destroyed part of the Arizona and Maricopa County Democratic Party headquarters was an act of arson, authorities said Friday.
Investigators were gathering surveillance video from nearby buildings after combing the wreckage and concluding the fire was human-caused, authorities said. Nobody was hurt.
Police Sgt. Mercedes Fortune declined to reveal what evidence convinced investigators the blaze was set, saying she doesn’t want to tip off the perpetrator.
“We are working through it. It’s very early on,” Fortune told reporters. “We do have some good video, we do have some information.”
The flags are still standing and so are we. We’re ready to turn this state blue. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/FQzHMnT5Zl
— Arizona Democratic Party (@azdemparty) July 25, 2020
#BreakingNews - The United States is suing the City of Seattle in Federal Court to remove the tear gas ban. https://t.co/Yea8EiPwPD
— Omari Salisbury (@Omarisal) July 25, 2020
re: #192 stpaulbear
I just got an email from the ACLU. I don’t think the ACLU had much about me other than public info and the email address I gave them…
I got the same email. I looked at what Blackbaud sent. I then went to the web page at Blackbaud.
Because protecting our customers’ data is our top priority, we paid the cybercriminal’s demand with confirmation that the copy they removed had been destroyed.
I don’t know how you could prove that the data had been destroyed. I just don’t. If it were my non-profit, I’d be asking a person like Brian Krebs (or someone similar with that kind of background) what he thought about this information.
I’m ending this week with weed and “The Beastaster” from 1982 on Prime. It is so awesome.
Love, Peace and FT
On #LSSC tonight: A movie that examines one of the great minds in history is coming soon. pic.twitter.com/DnMCiPBYsT
— A Late Show (@colbertlateshow) July 24, 2020
re: #215 gocart mozart
“Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that’s where the fun is”
this should be a bigger story than it is right now. arson .State Dem headquarters and largest county in the state Dem headquarters. Just over a week before the primary. important swing state https://t.co/2lVrjn9oya
— ⚖️💛🥁Wrangler:⚖️ pace yourselves, it’s a long ride (@arcillahumeda) July 25, 2020
The GOP Senate has committed suicide by killing the unemployment benefits.
MILLIONS of people are staring eviction/foreclosure/repossession right in the face and a lot of them will be voting.
re: #202 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
dude should stop digging
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Guy who whined on the floor of the House about how he was being treated in the press and how his attack on a strong congresswoman’s character was inspired by his “passion” is now telling Faux that her using her own time before the podium to publicly geld him is “crying” and “disingenuous.”
Perhaps Yoho needs to take a break from politics, because he can’t seem to keep his emotions in check.
re: #191 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
I still think Soros and perhaps Nick Hanauer should get together and try to corner the executive jet charter reservations for November 4-5, to keep as many GOP dirtbags as possible from absconding to Russia. Mexico and Canada should also cooperate to massively reinforce their borders on those days to prevent overland escapes. I am not sure how to keep DeVos’s yacht from breaking out of port, other than perhaps limpet mines, and I am not well-versed in how to procure those.
There will be no need. I’ll be shocked if the Biden administration does anything to go after the crime spree that Trump+Co are waging. 5 bucks says that it’ll be all about looking forward and putting the past behind. Just like the jokers from Iran Contra and Iraq 2.0 were never held accountable. I get that Trump’s abuse of power and norms are greater than the previous examples, but I’d be pleasantly amazed if Biden’s DOJ went after them.
re: #223 JC1
There will be no need. I’ll be shocked if the Biden administration does anything to go after the crime spree that Trump+Co are waging. 5 bucks says that it’ll be all about looking forward and putting the past behind. Just like the jokers from Iran Contra and Iraq 2.0 were never held accountable. I get that Trump’s abuse of power and norms are greater than the previous examples, but I’d be pleasantly amazed if Biden’s DOJ went after them.
Trump will be the only one that the Feds will be able to go after. He’ll pardon everyone else. That said, let NY do the dirty work and let Joe deal with Trump’s boss in Moscow.
re: #223 JC1
There will be no need. I’ll be shocked if the Biden administration does anything to go after the crime spree that Trump+Co are waging. 5 bucks says that it’ll be all about looking forward and putting the past behind. Just like the jokers from Iran Contra and Iraq 2.0 were never held accountable. I get that Trump’s abuse of power and norms are greater than the previous examples, but I’d be pleasantly amazed if Biden’s DOJ went after them.
1) Given the hell we’re going to raise if he even thinks of letting things slide, that won’t be an option.
2) Even if the feds don’t go after him, there are 50 states that will also have a chance at him. Some of them (New York) are working on it now.
re: #223 JC1
There will be no need. I’ll be shocked if the Biden administration does anything to go after the crime spree that Trump+Co are waging. 5 bucks says that it’ll be all about looking forward and putting the past behind. Just like the jokers from Iran Contra and Iraq 2.0 were never held accountable. I get that Trump’s abuse of power and norms are greater than the previous examples, but I’d be pleasantly amazed if Biden’s DOJ went after them.
Biden is probably inclined that way, but Harris et al won’t be.
re: #224 William Lewis
Trump will be the only one that the Feds will be able to go after. He’ll pardon everyone else. That said, let NY do the dirty work and let Joe deal with Trump’s boss in Moscow.
In which case we can have another go at whether you can pardon someone before they’ve been charged with or convicted of anything. And, as you said, there are also the states to consider.
— Julie Gillis (@TheJulieGillis) July 25, 2020
re: #226 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Biden is probably inclined that way, but Harris et al won’t be.
I really have no idea how Biden is inclined. He seems like an easygoing kind of guy, but I expect he has a sense of justice. And we won’t fail to remind him what happened to President Ford. (Even if he claims today to be in it just for the one term.)
re: #224 William Lewis
Trump will be the only one that the Feds will be able to go after. He’ll pardon everyone else. That said, let NY do the dirty work and let Joe deal with Trump’s boss in Moscow.
There’s nothing preventing Trump from pardoning himself. NY could have nailed Trump and his older spawn at any time over the past 20 years, but law enforcement was too busy with petty crime and too willing to look away due to mid 5 figure ‘donations’. Maybe the spotlight will be too bright to let Donny slide this time, but I’d bet good money that he never sees the inside of a jail cell. Hope I’m wrong, obviously; I want to see that entire family ruined and in prison or living on the streets, but it’s not going to happen.
re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The GOP Senate has committed suicide by killing the unemployment benefits.
MILLIONS of people are staring eviction/foreclosure/repossession right in the face and a lot of them will be voting.
Good. The GOP needs to die.
Too bad they are willing to take a whole bunch of Americans with them. They’ll personally survive where many of us won’t.
Fuck Republicans. FUCK THEM.
re: #144 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
The A’s have a “popcorn guy” to the right of home plate (when viewed from the centerfield camera) with Tom Hanks’ face on it.
re: #222 Targetpractice
Guy who whined on the floor of the House about how he was being treated in the press and how his attack on a strong congresswoman’s character was inspired by his “passion” is now telling Faux that her using her own time before the podium to publicly geld him is “crying” and “disingenuous.”
Perhaps Yoho needs to take a break from politics, because he can’t seem to keep his emotions in check.
He’s so emotional.
And he needs to smile more.
And look at that outfit!
re: #229 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
I really have no idea how Biden is inclined. He seems like an easygoing kind of guy, but I expect he has a sense of justice. And we won’t fail to remind him what happened to President Ford. (Even if he claims today to be in it just for the one term.)
Remind me again, how many wall street guys/bankers who engaged in fraud and other law breaking were prosecuted after 2008 when Biden was VP and had Obama’s ear?
They’re going to get Fauci killed.
— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 25, 2020
Sinclair is programming someone to kill Fauci the same way Fox programmed Scott Roeder to kill Dr. Tiller.
That angy psycho soldier’s account is gone @gunbunny913
Trump’s anti-American fascist goon squad is going to lose.https://t.co/HAaSrKKsmT
— E. C. Mix (@TheEdMix) July 25, 2020
re: #223 JC1
There will be no need. I’ll be shocked if the Biden administration does anything to go after the crime spree that Trump+Co are waging. 5 bucks says that it’ll be all about looking forward and putting the past behind. Just like the jokers from Iran Contra and Iraq 2.0 were never held accountable. I get that Trump’s abuse of power and norms are greater than the previous examples, but I’d be pleasantly amazed if Biden’s DOJ went after them.
I don’t think Biden will have a choice. Democrats are pissed. If he doesn’t go after trump he loses his base. His AG will do his dirty work. Plus, once trump is removed from office and has no power more info is going to come out and none of it favors him. Biden may be reluctant, but his options will be limited.
also, it’s not like trump is going to keep silent about anything. He’s going to bait us to go after him, Yesa, he is that fucking stupid.
re: #238 🌹UOJB!
Sinclair is programming someone to kill Fauci the same way Fox programmed Scott Roeder to kill Dr. Tiller.
My thought exactly.
Off topic stupidity…
My sib narced me out for bitching about my mother on my anonymous twitter. This is the sib that constantly tells me, don’t tell mom stuff.
I feel like we’re teenagers. FFS
This Yankee fan appreciates that the Red Sox all took a knee prior to their game. so did the opposing team the Orioles. things have changed a little. once again, trump is on the wrong side of history.
also, if Biden wants his party to succeed he must go after all the voter suppression BS. If not, his majority will not hold in the long run. Democrats have to fight or die.
FT
yes, I’m still watching “The Beastmaster” but it’s like eating chocolate cake. I have to take small bites or I will OD.
re: #234 JC1
Remind me again, how many wall street guys/bankers who engaged in fraud and other law breaking were prosecuted after 2008 when Biden was VP and had Obama’s ear?
Remind me again, what authority did Biden have then?
re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The GOP Senate has committed suicide by killing the unemployment benefits.
MILLIONS of people are staring eviction/foreclosure/repossession right in the face and a lot of them will be voting.
Now watch the GOP move to disenfranchise those newly homeless people.
re: #241 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
My thought exactly.
Fauci has already been threatened and has secret service protection.
Another huge crowd tonight in Portland, including a new “wall” on the front lines: a Wall of Vets.
Here’s a look at the line of military veterans getting set up here in front of the federal courthouse. Behind them, the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Dads are arriving. pic.twitter.com/gGnXHjI3k2— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) July 25, 2020
There are considerably more people out night than yesterday.#Portland #PDX pic.twitter.com/pj4Pf8ZCJ5
— Ted Corcoran (Red T Raccoon) (@RedTRaccoon) July 25, 2020
Trump is losing. For one think I don’t think he really has very many fully reliable goons for this kind of operation, and Portland is just one city out of many he wants to target.
Turnout in Portland is absolutely MASSIVE tonight! Biggest throng to date at the waterfront getting ready to march to the (In)Justice Center. BIG BIG ENERGY! The Hawthorne Bridge still flows thick with pedestrians arriving. Wow! #BlackLivesMatter #PDXprotests #PortlandProtests pic.twitter.com/NlSBN8YMrc
— Jules Boykoff (@JulesBoykoff) July 25, 2020
re: #240 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t think Biden will have a choice. Democrats are pissed. If he doesn’t go after trump he loses his base. His AG will do his dirty work. Plus, once trump is removed from office and has no power more info is going to come out and none of it favors him. Biden may be reluctant, but his options will be limited.
also, it’s not like trump is going to keep silent about anything. He’s going to bait us to go after him, Yesa, he is that fucking stupid.
I hope you’re right.
re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
my question to that is where will they be voting?
If evicted, where do you live?
if evicted, and you move, do you have enough time to ensure you’re registered to vote at your new residence?
yeah, lets say YOU manage that successfully, but what happens to those that don’t?
what happens if you get evicted in September? October?
Don’t get me wrong, I want Trump and his crew on the streets and then in front of judges, but I wouldn’t be shocked if this is part of the cold calculation orchestrated by the GRU to help the GOP suppress votes by folks being lost in the churn.
re: #245 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
Remind me again, what authority did Biden have then?
If we give Biden credit for the good things that the Obama administration accomplished over 8 years, we have to hold him accountable for the failures. Otherwise, we’re saying that he spent 8 years as a wallflower, maybe occasionally washing his trans-am shirtless in the white house driveway.
re: #251 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Trump is losing. For one think I don’t think he really has very many fully reliable goons for this kind of operation, and Portland is just one city out of many he wants to target.
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Trump and Barr were counting on people cowering. Instead, the protests made it to Friday. For two days, people will have nothing to do but protest.
re: #234 JC1
and in response to 2008, you got Liz Warren to build the CFPB as a federal agency. You now have Liz Warren’s policy agenda being the de facto Democratic platform. You think she has plans to do those guys a solid?
re: #253 piratedan
my question to that is where will they be voting?
If evicted, where do you live?
if evicted, and you move, do you have enough time to ensure you’re registered to vote at your new residence?yeah, lets say YOU manage that successfully, but what happens to those that don’t?
what happens if you get evicted in September? October?Don’t get me wrong, I want Trump and his crew on the streets and then in front of judges, but I wouldn’t be shocked if this is part of the cold calculation orchestrated by the GRU to help the GOP suppress votes by folks being lost in the churn.
Probably so. GOTV volunteers are working on a strategy for mass homelessness right now. Shelters can provide permanent addresses and that procedure has survived challenges before. A lot depends on the particular jurisdiction, since GOP officials will pull out all the stops to keep the evicted in particular from voting. It will be just another challenge in what is basically the front line of this struggle.
re: #254 JC1
If we give Biden credit for the good things that the Obama administration accomplished over 8 years, we have to hold him accountable for the failures. Otherwise, we’re saying that he spent 8 years as a wallflower, maybe occasionally washing his trans-am shirtless in the white house driveway.
We don’t give Biden much credit beyond giving Obama an opening to support gay marriage out in the open and saying the ACA was a big fucking deal. And your equivalency is silly.
I get it. You’re ready to be disappointed in Biden. But let’s win stuff first. But you did make me think of a scenario: Biden wins but the Senate remains in GOP hands, so McConnell blocks ALL of Biden’s nominees, not just judges, but AG and the rest of his cabinet, thereby making it impossible to undo the damage Trump has done to the departments.
This may be the single greatest protest chant of all time…Please someone get some audio and play it as part of an on air segment 😂💀🙈 pic.twitter.com/XFr0mmOl0X
— Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) July 24, 2020
re: #257 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
The Republicans aren’t the only ones that can play delay of game: The tenants can try to run out the clock in housing court.
re: #257 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
agreed, all of this shit appears to be orchestrated (at least imho), Democratic headquarters in AZ torched, ginning up the urban rioting threat to coincide with a message that Joe Biden’s to blame for the lawlessness (implied) triggered by Trumps’s own escalation by sending in the goon squads and sowing even more nervousness and outrage trying to get his reichstag fire. The GOP going on vacation at exactly the time when unemployement benefits are expiring.
The Dems have a Hobson’s choice of sorts, while it’s great to say that they won’t sign off on anything that funds the HHS but the GOP won’t promote anything to Trump without it/ Just how do you think the media will present that to the masses? I can almost guarantee you that it won’t be that the Dems refused to give money to HHS, it will be framed as the Dems are condemning you all to die. JFC, if the NYT can run stories the day after AOC takes down Yoho as it being somehow her fault for being a bitch as opposed to the guy who started all of this shit unprovoked, I can guarandamn tee you Dems “defunding the police” would be exactly what Trump would love to crow about and justify the shit he’s going to do anyway but without the media cover.
re: #257 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Probably so. GOTV volunteers are working on a strategy for mass homelessness right now. Shelters can provide permanent addresses and that procedure has survived challenges before. A lot depends on the particular jurisdiction, since GOP officials will pull out all the stops to keep the evicted in particular from voting. It will be just another challenge in what is basically the front line of this struggle.
A lot of us have been working on getting out the vote since 2017. We’re not going anywhere, and we can handle this too. (If it comes to this. Someone pointed out, I think on MSNBC, that when the markets start reacting, Senate Repugs get real attentive real fast, even if it means they have to help the jobless. And the House bill is right there waiting for them.)
re: #195 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Earlier today, I mentioned the hazards of flying in combat. I’ve come across a good database on the actual numbers. Helicopter Losses During the Vietnam War
6994 UH-1 Hueys served in Vietnam, of which about 3400, nearly half, were lost. A total of about 20,000 pilots flew Hueys, roughly half the chopper pilots who served in Vietnam. 1,151 UH-1 pilots and 1,231 non-pilot crew members were killed, about 5.5% of the total, and about 4% of all US war fatalities.
Army UH-1’s totaled 10,693,902 flight hours in the Vietnam War between October 1966 and the end of 1975. This is by far the highest combat flight time of any aircraft in history.
A single engine Slick with a magnesium frame? What could go wrong?
When my dad got back from his second tour in the ‘Nam, he was assigned to command a Marine Reserve squadron at Dobbins AFB in Marietta, Ga.F-8 Crusaders on the jet side, UH-1 Slicks on the rotor side.
I went with him to work one day and we looked at the UH-1s. They were covered, inside and outside, with these little 2” x 2” riveted squares, in some cases dozens of them.
I looked at my dad, curious, “Battle patches”, he said, “each patch is a repair from where a round came through the helicopter.”
About six months later, one of his choppers threw a blade. Three dead. Metal fatigue, not detected as it came through depot. Didn’t matter, dad took the hit.
re: #240 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t think Biden will have a choice. Democrats are pissed. If he doesn’t go after trump he loses his base. His AG will do his dirty work. Plus, once trump is removed from office and has no power more info is going to come out and none of it favors him. Biden may be reluctant, but his options will be limited.
also, it’s not like trump is going to keep silent about anything. He’s going to bait us to go after him, Yesa, he is that fucking stupid.
I suspect a lot of damaging information about Trump and his four-year tenure is going to be coming from the very people surrounding him today. If an AG under a Biden presidency aggressively pursues wrongdoing by the Trump administration, I think we’re going to see a lot of people spilling the beans, hoping to get some kind of plea deal so their prison time will be minimal.
re: #260 Sherlock Hound
The Republicans aren’t the only ones that can play delay of game: The tenants can try to run out the clock in housing court
True. In addition, a lot of landlords are going to be less likely than usual to evict since the chance of re-letting a cleared property is going to be very low. Additionally, a lot of normally Republican retirees depend on rental income and they, too, are not going to like having that spigot shut off. Big management corporations are a different story but it might be possible that even they can be made to act like human beings if the bottom line is not really going to be helped by tossing people into the street. Foreclosures are yet another story but the prospect of a less crook-friendly administration may have a healthy affect there.
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re: #261 piratedan
agreed, all of this shit appears to be orchestrated (at least imho), Democratic headquarters in AZ torched, ginning up the urban rioting threat to coincide with a message that Joe Biden’s to blame for the lawlessness (implied) triggered by Trumps’s own escalation by sending in the goon squads and sowing even more nervousness and outrage trying to get his reichstag fire. The GOP going on vacation at exactly the time when unemployement benefits are expiring.
The Dems have a Hobson’s choice of sorts, while it’s great to say that they won’t sign off on anything that funds the HHS but the GOP won’t promote anything to Trump without it/ Just how do you think the media will present that to the masses? I can almost guarantee you that it won’t be that the Dems refused to give money to HHS, it will be framed as the Dems are condemning you all to die. JFC, if the NYT can run stories the day after AOC takes down Yoho as it being somehow her fault for being a bitch as opposed to the guy who started all of this shit unprovoked, I can guarandamn tee you Dems “defunding the police” would be exactly what Trump would love to crow about and justify the shit he’s going to do anyway but without the media cover.
I’d be more worried about that if poll after poll hadn’t been showing that people simply aren’t listening to that crap anymore (the NYT “story” was an opinion piece, by the way).
TS Hanna growing tonight as it approaches south Texas:
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Will be quite the rainmaker.
re: #267 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
TS Hanna growing tonight as it approaches south Texas:
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Will be quite the rainmaker.
It appears that Dog hates Texas. Hannah is not a big storm, but it will push a 4’ wave of water onto the coast all the way up to Galveston. People will be displaced inland into shelters, which, given the ‘rona, is not where you want be given that the Texas Gulf Coast is being stricken with disease right now.
It’s just another disaster waiting to happen, and it’s happening in slow motion. Wait until you see our numbers in 17 days. Oh, and we topped the US in death’s again today.
Night all. This just sucks giant donkey dicks.
Defaults on vehicle loans are another area that has to be considered. Humanitarian impulses are much lower than for housing, though in places like Texas a functioning vehicle is basically a matter of survival. Companies like GMAC would be taking a massive hit, with little or no chance of turning over the bloated inventory. They, too, may decide that it is better to let it ride for a while.
re: #192 stpaulbear
I just got an email from the ACLU. I don’t think the ACLU had much about me other than public info and the email address I gave them…
Heh, I do IT support for a school that uses the Blackbaud hosted solution and they are navigating this same thing right now. They will be sending out a notice on Monday. The Massachusetts laws on this are pretty strict and they are taking the weekend to manually review all non encrypted fields to make sure nobody added any PII to a notes field or something.
Old white man in NY: “50 years ago I would’ve pulled you out of there and hung you on a tree.”
This is what these Helman’s flavored haters mean by “Make America Great Again.”
Somebody should’ve pulled this decrepit racist out of the car and…… pic.twitter.com/j2uGpMgSzo— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) July 25, 2020
A president. pic.twitter.com/FXSiWHOpIT
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 25, 2020
re: #251 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Trump is losing. For one think I don’t think he really has very many fully reliable goons for this kind of operation, and Portland is just one city out of many he wants to target.
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Besides the incompetence, I don’t think there are enough goons installed to truly consolidate power yet. He has to get re-elected. He’s fucked.
Speaking of Nassau County…
The Nassau County PBA announced a ‘Support the Blue’ rally for Saturday on Fascbook, and announced that the National Anthem would be performed by Ted Nugent.
Nassau County Executive Laura Curran said ‘Doesn’t Nuge come from Michigan? Sorry, we’ve got a quarantine going on here. No Nuge for you.’
AOC: “I think he was maybe talking about an incident at some protest somewhere that I don’t know about. But he started talking about throwing urine and at that point, I was so bewildered. I was like, these folks are out of their minds. .. They were just yelling at the world.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 24, 2020
Acting tennis pro
— Mike Stern (@mls1776) July 25, 2020
The Bugs Bunny sawing off Florida gif will never get old.
I nominate Chad for the Trump administration’s most punchable face. Yeah I know Goebbels Jr. deserves it, but there’s just something about Chad.
re: #277 plansbandc
The Bugs Bunny sawing off Florida gif will never get old.
Until Florida is under water.
Like, please can you just not show me all the sane places I can’t even visit now because I live in a diseased crapsack pariah nation
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
His play acting can only last so long. He get bored and moves on. Keeping him on track is like picking up mercury. It just breaks apart, rolls away and regroups elsewhere.
— healthygoddess5 (@healthygoddess5) July 24, 2020
This seems like an accurate description of Trump:
This is what it means to elect an absolutely finished man—someone who cannot grow or care or even reconcile himself to any new thing—to a job like the presidency. Everything Trump does sounds the same, because whether it happens on Twitter or in the quintuple-byline newspaper stories about bleary behind-the-scenes White House upbraidings, it fundamentally is the same. Trump will always and only be upset about the same things in the same stupid way; he will stay mad about them even as the country shudders and cracks around him. It will never be any way but this for him, because Donald Trump will never be any way but this.
A finished man.
“The bases aren’t known for the generals they’re named after, the bases are known for the heroes within it,” WH Press Secy. Kayleigh McEnany says when asked if bases named after Confederate generals could hurt recruitment among African Americans https://t.co/TGQKnyASZZ pic.twitter.com/0wFDtshK8u
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 24, 2020
Name those heroes, Kayleigh.
Kayleigh:
Didn’t think so.
Hawaii-based #USNavy ships and submarines to sortie ahead of #HurricaneDouglas: https://t.co/9fnVKr1EK3 (file photo) pic.twitter.com/2MquzzrKvg
— U.S. Pacific Fleet (@USPacificFleet) July 25, 2020
Well this interesting: China’s Houston consulate balking at closing order. https://t.co/pdjsEphKl4
— Jeff Stein (@SpyTalker) July 24, 2020
I guess we’ll have to balk at closing our Consulate in China, too.
re: #285 Dread Pirate
Probably too much spy gear and other incriminating stuff to completely destroy…lol
It’s 0240 in Lower Alabama, and nothing has happened yet.
Having a midnight lunch of oatmeal cookies and red box wine, because we ran out of white box wine. Have to breach our quarantine bubble soon.
re: #287 Decatur Deb
It’s 0240 in Lower Alabama, and nothing has happened yet.
Do a lot of things happen in Lower Alabama at 0240? Here, at that time we have a CHP high speed chase or two for entertainment.
NEW: Trump officials plan to announce today they’ll allow sales of large armed drones — bypassing an international arms control agreement banning the exports. Some officials & lawmakers oppose the move and are anxious about sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE. https://t.co/CalWYyBo6W
— Edward Wong (@ewong) July 24, 2020
Money over morals.
re: #283 Dread Pirate
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Kayleigh:
Didn’t think so.
The obvious follow-up question, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen these stenographers even consider asking once, is “Then why not rename the bases for the heroes that served?” Of course, this would lead to the BS excuse we’ve seen before, which is that it would somehow “dishonor” the memories of those heroes if you changed the name of the base/fort away from what it was when they served there.
Which is why the men who trained and served at Muroc Field were all dishonored the moment the Air Force renamed it to Edwards AFB…in honor of a combat pilot with six Distinguished Flying Crosses who died during a test flight.
re: #290 Dread Pirate
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Money over morals.
Some defense lobbyist just made a hefty “campaign contribution” to the Trump Organization, no doubt.
The first couple months of this, Sam’s Club would cart booze to the parking lot. Their HQ or Alabama changed policy, and now you have to go in. If I have to go in, I’m going to Publix during Fogey Hours. Fuck Sam’s Walton bullshit anyway.
re: #289 Dread Pirate
Do a lot of things happen in Lower Alabama at 0240? Here, at that time we have a CHP high speed chase or two for entertainment.
Around midnight the kudzu curls up and the fire ants burrow deeper.
I had a really… I dunno. Weird feeling today. It’s not quite despair, but there’s a heavy note of hopelessness in it. It’s been four months spent 98% inside the apartment, and I’m the kinda guy who doesn’t hate it, but this morning the decree came down that we really had to fill out the asinine surveys about next steps in the office.
Such gems as “Do you trust the executive leadership team with your safety as we resume normal operations in our office space?” And the always wonderful “Are you worried about the future of your job?” And a few other doozies in that general line, including some badly worded implicit double negatives where it’s not even clear what the meaning of yes or no was.
This was on the same day when our state (the glorious state of Indiana - insert your hoosier jokes here) posted its highest single-day number of positive tests to date. I was livid, and I may have stretched the limits of polite business language in filling out said survey.
I’m just so mad, and tired, and sick of all the goddamn stupid. And it’s not going to end, because the states will fucking kick and scream when Biden gets in and tries to enforce any kind of reasonable national lockdown policy. And now because some self-important wannabe executive shitheads can’t read a basic fucking line graph I’m going to have to do the whole passive resistance nonsense to continue working from home while our department is already fighting executive overreach on other fronts.
So it’s 4 AM and I’m tired but I can’t fall asleep because I keep thinking about all the stupid and what I’m going to have to do to literally survive it.
re: #202 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Yoho completely unprovoked called the Congresswomen a “Fucking bitch.”
because he does not understand why that should be seen by anyone as unacceptable.
re: #295 NetworkKed
I had a really… I dunno. Weird feeling today. It’s not quite despair, but there’s a heavy note of hopelessness in it. It’s been four months spent 98% inside the apartment, and I’m the kinda guy who doesn’t hate it, but this morning the decree came down that we really had to fill out the asinine surveys about next steps in the office.
Such gems as “Do you trust the executive leadership team with your safety as we resume normal operations in our office space?” And the always wonderful “Are you worried about the future of your job?” And a few other doozies in that general line, including some badly worded implicit double negatives where it’s not even clear what the meaning of yes or no was.
This was on the same day when our state (the glorious state of Indiana - insert your hoosier jokes here) posted its highest single-day number of positive tests to date. I was livid, and I may have stretched the limits of polite business language in filling out said survey.
I’m just so mad, and tired, and sick of all the goddamn stupid. And it’s not going to end, because the states will fucking kick and scream when Biden gets in and tries to enforce any kind of reasonable national lockdown policy. And now because some self-important wannabe executive shitheads can’t read a basic fucking line graph I’m going to have to do the whole passive resistance nonsense to continue working from home while our department is already fighting executive overreach on other fronts.
So it’s 4 AM and I’m tired but I can’t fall asleep because I keep thinking about all the stupid and what I’m going to have to do to literally survive it.
Correct answers:
“I will follow our executive leadership through the gates of Hell.”
“I am worried about the future of my lungs.”
“Of course.” (to all incoherent questions)
POTUS talks about how much better his life was before he became president in this interview. https://t.co/fxF1OhY3Mf
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 24, 2020
We all concur.
re: #295 NetworkKed
I hate to harp on these things, but I passed that point months ago when it was decided that hotels are considered “essential” and thus my pasty white ass was informed that we’d be braving the storm unless corporate said different. I’ve watched as the few good weeks of sanity were totally undone by the very industry I work for using their lobbyist dollars to pressure our governor into “reopening” the state only weeks after it had (reluctantly) shut down. So that now I’m working in the epicenter of the state’s resurgence of CV-19 cases, because nobody with two functioning neurons asked “Is it a good idea in the midst of a pandemic to open up the tourism industry, knowing that idiots from areas that haven’t tackled their own outbreaks will flood our beaches?”
The idea of “hazard pay” has never even passed the lips of my employers. Instead, the full totality of their acknowledgment that employees may not want to work in an industry where they are constantly in contact with total morons…is to offer us a one-time payment and a few months of health insurance if we chose to voluntarily quit. And by waving away the offer, you (in the eyes of the company) waived any liability in the eyes of the company’s lawyers if you should be infected.
Combine all this with my planned vacation going into the shredder because they first cut down the staff to the bone, and then only started rehiring once the summer crowds began to come back, and I must admit that I’m saltier than a bag of fast food french fries.
re: #299 Targetpractice
I hate to harp on these things, but I passed that point months ago when it was decided that hotels are considered “essential” and thus my pasty white ass was informed that we’d be braving the storm unless corporate said different. I’ve watched as the few good weeks of sanity were totally undone by the very industry I work for using their lobbyist dollars to pressure our governor into “reopening” the state only weeks after it had (reluctantly) shut down. So that now I’m working in the epicenter of the state’s resurgence of CV-19 cases, because nobody with two functioning neurons asked “Is it a good idea in the midst of a pandemic to open up the tourism industry, knowing that idiots from areas that haven’t tackled their own outbreaks will flood our beaches?”
The idea of “hazard pay” has never even passed the lips of my employers. Instead, the full totality of their acknowledgment that employees may not want to work in an industry where they are constantly in contact with total morons…is to offer us a one-time payment and a few months of health insurance if we chose to voluntarily quit. And by waving away the offer, you (in the eyes of the company) waived any liability in the eyes of the company’s lawyers if you should be infected.
Combine all this with my planned vacation going into the shredder because they first cut down the staff to the bone, and then only started rehiring once the summer crowds began to come back, and I must admit that I’m saltier than a bag of fast food french fries.
Cough a lot, mostly near the front office, while insisting that you feel fine. A blood-spotted handkerchief in your back pocket is probably too much.
re: #300 Decatur Deb
Cough a lot, mostly near the front office, while insisting that you feel fine. A blood-spotted handkerchief in your back pocket is probably too much.
I did that earlier in the outbreak, but that was mostly due to spring allergies. At this point, I may have to consider just calling in dead.
re: #301 Targetpractice
I did that earlier in the outbreak, but that was mostly due to spring allergies. At this point, I may have to consider just calling in dead.
If someone complains in a staff meeting take the manager’s side, emphasizing that “At least we’ll all go down together…”
re: #302 Decatur Deb
If someone complains in a staff meeting take the manager’s side, emphasizing that “At least we’ll all go down together…”
I work graveyard, the only time I show up at a staff meeting is when they decide to schedule one of those “all-hands” annual meetings or the quarterly “Here’s what (we think) is going to happen over the next few months.” Otherwise, the only interaction I have with management is a few minutes in the morning before I punch out and run.
re: #298 Dread Pirate
POTUS talks about how much better his life was before he became president in this interview.
He means it in the sense of how much he has sacrificed in order to serve. I sure it has seriously cut into his tee-times…
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He means it in the sense of how much he has sacrificed in order to serve. I sure it has seriously cut into his tee-times…
He’s facing a report card in November, and Daddy can’t buy him an “A” this time.
Think the best way to explain the situation for folks that aren’t in the service/hospitality industry is that most businesses in such lines of work may make a lot of noise about how much they’re looking out for the safety of their customers…but behind the scenes, their concern for their employees goes only as far as necessary to avoid getting sued.
I’m out covering Portland protests tonight. The boogaloo boys have arrived. They tell me they are here in support of Black & trans lives. “Fuck the feds,” one told me. They say they’re here to protect protesters. pic.twitter.com/zuHqMM8Fou
— Tess Riski (@tessriski) July 25, 2020
re: #306 Targetpractice
Think the best way to explain the situation for folks that aren’t in the service/hospitality industry is that most businesses in such lines of work may make a lot of noise about how much they’re looking out for the safety of their customers…but behind the scenes, their concern for their employees goes only as far as necessary to avoid getting sued.
because it costs money
on the one hand, you cannot blame them, they need to make a profit in order to survive
this is another example of how lack of social and labor legislation proves to be a failure over the long term and for (nearly) everyone
re: #307 Dave In Austin
I’m out covering Portland protests tonight. The boogaloo boys have arrived. They tell me they are here in support of Black & trans lives. “Fuck the feds,” one told me. They say they’re here to protect protesters.
has the use of federal goons prompted a schism in the anti-government right?
Off to catch another couple hours. ‘Nite, all.
re: #309 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
has the use of federal goons prompted a schism in the anti-government right?
Shit ain’t gonna stir itself.
re: #311 Decatur Deb
Shit ain’t gonna stir itself.
so they are pretending to be pro-protesters to incite violence and give the goons an excuse to crack down?
anybody smell smoke coming from the direction of the Reichstag?
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so they are pretending to be pro-protesters to incite violence and give the goons an excuse to crack down?
anybody smell smoke coming from the direction of the Reichstag?
Maybe. Also maybe, years of Jade Helm Feds-Are-Gonna-Getya pumped directly into rightwing brains doesn’t just go down the memory hole. Trump’s goons are demanding that the whole paranoid-industrial complex turn 180 degrees on a dime with this.
re: #314 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
“you are a healthy woman/with the qualities of a pheasant…”
re: #283 Dread Pirate
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Name those heroes, Kayleigh.
Kayleigh:
Didn’t think so.
if the bases aren’t known for the generals theyre named for, theres no reason not to change the names
“The bases aren’t known for the generals they’re named after, the bases are known for the heroes within it,” WH Press Secy. Kayleigh McEnany says when asked if bases named after Confederate generals could hurt recruitment among African Americans https://t.co/TGQKnyASZZ pic.twitter.com/0wFDtshK8u
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 24, 2020
re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“you are a healthy woman/with the qualities of a pheasant…”
Some things really don’t translate easily.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
He’s facing a report card in November, and Daddy can’t buy him an “A” this time.
he shoulda paid someone to be the president for him
This Buzzfeed headline is 100% accurate and I give props to @pdmcleod and his editing team for telling their readers the plain truth on a very important story without equivocating pic.twitter.com/g1W8UOprRa
— Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) July 24, 2020
To complain about your local Sinclair station, send them a Registered letter and save your receipt📝
After a week or 2, go to the station & ask to see their “Public Inspection File.”
If your letter isn’t in the file, make a complaint to the FCC.
They could lose their license— Rodney”Reciprocity”Claeys #TeamJoe (@RodneyClaeys) July 25, 2020
re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Sinclair is owned by Christian fundamentalists.
As I keep noting, the transition of the US to a post-Christian nation is going to be very bumpy. The worldview collapse that fundamentalists are experiencing is going to undo them.
And in their anger, they will try to undo us too.
Someone in New Jersey won the MegaMillions jackpot last night. It had slowly built to a reasonable figure over several weeks. The cash value was only around $99M, but even after paying taxes the result will be a comfortable lifestyle.
The starting values for MegaMillions and PowerBall were decreased back when the pandemic hit, as the already slow lottery sales became even slower.
Both lotteries got rid of their minimum increment for each new draw. So it has taken quite a bit longer for the jackpots to get to 9 figures.
Currently PowerBall has a decent jackpot, but it’s taken seven weeks to get there.
Locally, vendors have had a hard time keeping scratchers in stock, not because people are buying more but because the California Lottery’s own contractors aren’t delivering them as quickly. Apparently not only is Calotto closed to the public, their distributors are minimally staffed.
Gambing has taken a hit in the pandemic. Lottery sales are down. Las Vegas has seen it’s tourist industry greatly reduced. Sports betting has not happened because there are no sports.
What’s a gambler to do?
Speaking of scratchers, I remain amazed at the number of Youtube channels dedicated to watching people scratch off their scratchers.
It’s not Shakespeare, but I guess there is a bit of drama.
My question is: where do people get all the money to spend on thousands of dollars of scratchers per week?
For example, this guy in California buys huge stacks of the big boys:
How, again I ask how, do these folk have so much money to spend? It’s not like they win the jackpots (the highest I’ve seen is a $1k win, but the typical big win is just $100.)
hi
I’m here briefly.
My wife’s brother is battening down the hatches in advance of the hurricane approaching the Texas coast.
Conservatism always tends to genocide if it stays in power long enough. Whether a nation or a locality, they will kill to gain and conserve power.
Over on the other side of my state, more cracks in the Republican wall of silence on the epidemic. Teachers across the city of Omaha held a rally yesterday demanding a mask mandate, joined by citizens concerned about their children.
City council’s Democrats are united against Mayor Jean Stothert’s (R) original position against a mask mandate. One Republican member is opposed to the idea of a mask mandate but will support the county health commissioner if she imposes it. The other two Republicans consider it excessive government overreach.
Mayor Stothert caved, and says the city charter allows the unified Douglas County-City of Omaha Health Board to impose a mask mandate for an epidemic. The health board is to meet later today to impose that requirement. That will draw fire from the Governor’s office, which is still withholding CARES funds from any government entity in the state which imposes mask requirements and is seeking to overturn the ruling from the Lancaster County and City of Lincoln unified health board. They are both having their money withheld.
However, the county part of that mandate runs into a problem, as Governor Pete Ricketts is still trying to kill us in the name of conservatism. The Governor’s office is clear that state law says a “regulation change” for a county over 400,000 requires a three-week notification period, followed by thirty-day public comment period before a “new regulation” can be enforced. Following that, the health board could not impose a mask mandate on rural Douglas County or Omaha suburbs before mid-September.
The Governor’s office is clear they will go after the Douglas County-City of Omaha Health Board members in court on criminal charges if they try to impose a mask requirement on rural Douglas County.
On the wingnut side of the state, there was one new case. Rural schools and governments are in real danger of being harmed by the governor withholding CARES Act funds; nevertheless my school district is remaining closed to bypass that, and Banner Public School in Banner County has decided to challenge the governor and order mandatory masks.
In Banner County, that could result in removing funding from the school and the county government. Worse, since the school library also serves as the county public library, it will affect the library as well.
Motorcyclists blocking traffic for the protest. I thought that guy had a “don’t tread on me” patch but then I got closer… pic.twitter.com/Uqv0hR8D5X
— Sarah Mirk (@sarahmirk) July 25, 2020
Sinclair needs a full blown investigation to find out if they are taking Russian money. https://t.co/Z5EbOJHXIe
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) July 25, 2020
re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That CNN article is basically Bolling saying “I’m dumb as a stump and will do anything for money. Also, I’m from Fox so I trust my bookers and producers will do the most unethical thing possible because that’s how it’s done.”
Editorial: Get Prayer Out of Government (Seeing Red Nebraska)
Before we decided to write this piece, many of us on the SRN team didn’t know what religious identity many of the rest of us were. So we took a roll call and here are some of the answers:
“An atheist who occasionally thinks things are so fucking weird I am agnostic-ish”
Protestant Christian
Methodist
“Extremely Jewish”
Unitarian Universalist
“I’m atheist but will go with Satanic for the purpose of making people lose their shit even though satanism is nothing but atheism with added pussy power and social justice”
Lutheran
“a terrible Buddhist”
Eastern Orthodox
“Newly atheist, formerly Southern Baptist”
Episcopalian
Zen BuddhistThe reason we didn’t even know most of our religious identities despite getting along very well and chatting on a daily basis is because—imagine this—it generally has nothing to do with our work together.
And it has nothing to do with the work of secular governance either.
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re: #240 I Would Prefer Not To
I don’t think Biden will have a choice. Democrats are pissed. If he doesn’t go after trump he loses his base. His AG will do his dirty work. Plus, once trump is removed from office and has no power more info is going to come out and none of it favors him. Biden may be reluctant, but his options will be limited.
also, it’s not like trump is going to keep silent about anything. He’s going to bait us to go after him, Yesa, he is that fucking stupid.
I think the new admin and DOJ just about have to go after Barr in some way. He pretty much trashed any reputation and tradition of political impartiality and being there to serve the country instead of the President. There is a lot to fix there and in the judiciary.
And I expect that DHS will get broken back up. And hopefully CBP razed to the ground and rebuilt as well since there is probably so much wrong there institutionally that partial measures will get nowhere.
Tropical Storm Warnings and Hurricane Watches have gone up for the islands of Hawai’i.
Hanna has been upgraded to a hurricane, the first of the Atlantic season.
re: #338 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Tropical Storm Warnings and Hurricane Watches have gone up for the islands of Hawai’i.
Hanna has been upgraded to a hurricane, the first of the Atlantic season.
I knew a Hurricane Hanna…
re: #301 Targetpractice
I did that earlier in the outbreak, but that was mostly due to spring allergies. At this point, I may have to consider just calling in dead.
Doesn’t that require a written excuse from a coroner? (Or necromancer I guess.)
re: #305 Decatur Deb
He’s facing a report card in November, and Daddy can’t buy him an “A” this time.
He’ll send in a substitute to take the election for himself.
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re: #307 Dave In Austin
I have to presume that nothing good will happen if bugaloo boys in BDUs without ID meet up with DHS/whatever fed agents in BDUs without ID.
re: #342 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
He’ll send in a substitute to take the election for himself.
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He will hire thugs to burn down the school…
re: #341 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Doesn’t that require a written excuse from a coroner? (Or necromancer I guess.)
Necromancer, but you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get an appointment. People are always dying to see him.
//
That’s because our governor wants to kill us all.
As Nebraska sees surge in COVID cases, experts warn things could ‘go sideways’ (Omaha World-Herald)
Nebraska’s count of new COVID-19 cases has taken a definite turn higher, with totals not seen since late May.
While two hospital systems say they are not experiencing a surge in patients, health experts warn that hospitalizations will rise even more in the coming weeks as the new cases progress.
Dr. Kelly Cawcutt, an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the associate medical director of infection control and epidemiology, said the Nebraska Medical Center has seen an increase in patients after experiencing a low several weeks ago.
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re: #345 Targetpractice
Necromancer, but you wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get an appointment. People are always dying to see him.
//
necrophiliacs?
re: #322 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Someone in New Jersey won the MegaMillions jackpot last night. It had slowly built to a reasonable figure over several weeks. The cash value was only around $99M, but even after paying taxes the result will be a comfortable lifestyle.
The starting values for MegaMillions and PowerBall were decreased back when the pandemic hit, as the already slow lottery sales became even slower.
Both lotteries got rid of their minimum increment for each new draw. So it has taken quite a bit longer for the jackpots to get to 9 figures.
Currently PowerBall has a decent jackpot, but it’s taken seven weeks to get there.
Locally, vendors have had a hard time keeping scratchers in stock, not because people are buying more but because the California Lottery’s own contractors aren’t delivering them as quickly. Apparently not only is Calotto closed to the public, their distributors are minimally staffed.
Gambing has taken a hit in the pandemic. Lottery sales are down. Las Vegas has seen it’s tourist industry greatly reduced. Sports betting has not happened because there are no sports.
What’s a gambler to do?
Not wear a mask?
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re: #213 mmmirele
I got the same email. I looked at what Blackbaud sent. I then went to the web page at Blackbaud.
I don’t know how you could prove that the data had been destroyed. I just don’t. If it were my non-profit, I’d be asking a person like Brian Krebs (or someone similar with that kind of background) what he thought about this information.
I got the same message from our local NPR station (nothing from ACLU yet). I was wondering the same thing. I’m pretty ignorant of this stuff, but I thought of it as if someone showed themselves destroying incriminating photos after receiving the ransom—but they still have the negatives.
re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
necrophiliacs?
Something something “crack open a cold one.”
//(I’m going to Hell)
Given Sinclair chairman David Smith’s history as a pornographer and sex offender, kompromat is more likely than monetary bribes. What is it? Under-age girls? Boys? Goats and llamas? Who knows (other than the GRU), but an investigation is certainly warranted.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 25, 2020
re: #349 Barefoot Grin
I got the same message from our local NPR station (nothing from ACLU yet). I was wondering the same thing. I’m pretty ignorant of this stuff, but I thought of it as if someone showed themselves destroying incriminating photos after receiving the ransom—but they still have the negatives.
We support the ACLU, but only with written cheques through regular mail. They do not have our E-mail or telephone number.
Given Sinclair chairman David Smith’s history as a pornographer and sex offender, kompromat is more likely than monetary bribes. What is it? Under-age girls? Boys? Goats and llamas? Who knows (other than the GRU), but an investigation is certainly warranted.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) July 25, 2020
re: #335 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I think the new admin and DOJ just about have to go after Barr (THIS) in some way. He pretty much trashed any reputation and tradition of political impartiality (THIS) and being there to serve the country instead of the President. There is a lot to fix there and in the judiciary. (THIS)
And I expect that DHS will get broken back up. (THIS) And hopefully CBP razed to the ground and rebuilt (THIS) as well since there is probably so much wrong there institutionally that partial measures will get nowhere.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
re: #343 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
I have to presume that nothing good will happen if bugaloo boys in BDUs without ID meet up with DHS/whatever fed agents in BDUs without ID.
They’re on the sane SAME team.
Gah, autocorrect. Fixed.
re: #353 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That was back in 2005, when they only owned sixty television stations.
List of Stations Owned or Operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group (Wikipedia)
Now they own hundreds, from every broadcast network in the USA. About the only market in the country they don’t have a station is Scottsbluff. In several markets they own multiple stations with different network affiliations (see the link for the details for your state).
There is almost nowhere you can escape their propaganda pushed as news now, unless you simply ditch television (or live where I do).
Chris Janicek wrote me back:
James, I will not be withdrawing from the US Senate race. I never made an assertion that a “gay man” cannot harass a woman. I won’t even address your next comment. Honesty is being accountable and apologizing. Apologies have been accepted. Your disregard for Republicans is the problem Nebraska faces in winning a federal race. Democrats make up 29% of registered voters in Nebraska. No Democrat will win unless we have Republican and Independent votes. Thank you for your concern.
Say hello to six more years of Senator Ben Sasse.
re: #358 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Chris Janicek wrote me back:
Say hello to six more years of Senator Ben Sasse.
Every Nebraska woman needs a Sasse Gay Senator.
If you need a spade bit you better buy it now.
BC’s Centre for Disease Control suggests using glory holes to practice safe sex during #COVID19.
It’s not even 9am and Canadians are having a laughing fit so hard that #gloryhole is now trending. 😂
But seriously, it’s good advice!#canada #safesex pic.twitter.com/wrVbh88ilf— amelia rose griffin (@ameliargriffin) July 22, 2020
re: #359 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Every Nebraska woman needs a Sasse Gay Senator.
The comment he wouldn’t address is me saying I would not vote for a person who suggested gang-raping a staffer on a conference call to other Democrats, and I’d rather have an honest Republican over a rape-promoting Democrat.
His assertion he never said a gay man cannot harass a woman is refuted by the large number of people who heard him say it. That is why the state party withdrew its support.
His path to victory was always tough, but now its impossible. We have a good candidate to replace him with, but he must withdraw by September 1. It seems apparent he is not going to do that.
re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The comment he wouldn’t address is me saying I would not vote for a person who suggested gang-raping a staffer on a conference call to other Democrats, and I’d rather have an honest Republican over a rape-promoting Democrat.
His assertion he never said a gay man cannot harass a woman is refuted by the large number of people who heard him say it. That is why the state party withdrew its support.
His path to victory was always tough, but now its impossible. We have a good candidate to replace him with, but he must withdraw by September 1. It seems apparent he is not going to do that.
Given his attitude and self-sabotage, I’d honestly question if this isn’t a case of rodent copulation.
re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Time to write it off and move on to where you can do something constructive.
re: #364 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
SAME. GAH, Autocorrect!
My question is whether the Bogaloo Boys are there to stir up the shit and provoke violence to warrant an even tougher crackdown (seems more likely) or if there is some sort of schism over the use of Federal Force against protesters from the extreme anti-government right. (less likely but still plausible to a limited extent)
re: #365 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My question is whether the Bogaloo Boys are there to stir up the shit and provoke violence to warrant an even tougher crackdown (seems more likely) or if there is some sort of schism over the use of Federal Force against protesters from the extreme anti-government right. (less likely but still plausible to a limited extent)
In this climate we can’t even be sure these people are BB. We can barely define BB, except in their apparent origins in the militia/asshole camp.
re: #362 Targetpractice
Given his attitude and self-sabotage, I’d honestly question if this isn’t a case of rodent copulation.
He’s run for office here before but did not win (in 2018). Therefore his assertion that no Democrat can win unless they earn Republican or Independent voters is false, since I won twice.
This whole thing blew up in a matter of weeks after text messages.
Nebraska Democrat Urged to Quit Senate Race Over Sexual Texts to Aide (New York Times)
I like how he says it’s my fault that this is why Democrats have trouble winning offices here. Way to win votes.
Gene Siadek is now the Libertarian Party candidate for the election. He might take some Republican votes, but not enough to deny reëlection to Ben Sasse.
re: #366 Decatur Deb
In this climate we can’t even be sure these people are BB. We can barely define BB, except in their apparent origins in the militia/asshole camp.
they are sure clear about defining Antifa as an organized threat to democracy…
re: #368 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
they are sure clear about defining Antifa as an organized threat to democracy…
Border Patrol with poor fashion sense.
re: #19 Eclectic Cyborg
And this is a GOP congressman for the record.
Funny how they never mention that in their twitter description. Always have to go looking.
re: #307 Dave In Austin
I wouldn’t trust them. They are there to get someone injured, and then step back and let the “feds” escalate the situation.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) July 25, 2020
I also got an E-mail response to my contact with Senator Ben Sasse about not promoting Donald Trump’s BS about everything from masks to hydroxycloroquine.
While his letter was mostly boilerplate, he (or his staffers) did address me personally to assure that Senator Sasse does not support those positions and encourages everyone in Nebraska to mask up, socially distance, and other things to protect themselves. His E-mail pointed to resources from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the CDC for further information.
He also noted he’s interested in working with Democrats on extending aid during the epidemic. (Mitch McConnell recessing the Senate is not Sasse’s fault, McConnell isn’t going to listen to him.)
There is very little I agree with politically with Senator Sasse, but his office is always respectful, explains the answers to my questions, and never sends a Dumpster fire of an E-mail like Chris Janicek did.
re: #366 Decatur Deb
In this climate we can’t even be sure these people are BB. We can barely define BB, except in their apparent origins in the militia/asshole camp.
Yes, I remember JJ McNabb tweeting that BB is not a coherent movement.
re: #373 Barefoot Grin
Yes, I remember JJ McNabb tweeting that BB is not a coherent movement.
Neither is the Alabama Democratic Party, but we truck along.
re: #362 Targetpractice
Given his attitude and self-sabotage, I’d honestly question if this isn’t a case of rodent copulation.
My exact thought.
re: #365 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My question is whether the Bogaloo Boys are there to stir up the shit and provoke violence to warrant an even tougher crackdown (seems more likely) or if there is some sort of schism over the use of Federal Force against protesters from the extreme anti-government right. (less likely but still plausible to a limited extent)
Both are plausible. I’m thinking the first but who knows?
When you order something online versus when it arrives pic.twitter.com/BtQFxGrMPt
— Stone (@stonecold2050) July 24, 2020
re: #360 Amory Blaine
If you need a spade bit you better buy it now.
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Larry Craig is vindicated!!
re: #361 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
If 2020 has proven anything, a month is an eternity. There’s a lot of time for things to change before Sept. 1. I hope NE dems have success in getting rid of this guy.
So a playground for those who can pay for it.
Perfectly describes everything REPUBLICAN.— Yeah Sure WTF Ever 🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@YeahSureWhatev2) July 25, 2020
re: #381 stpaulbear
If 2020 has proven anything, a month is an eternity. There’s a lot of time for things to change before Sept. 1. I hope NE dems have success in getting rid of this guy.
He still has pickets in front of his cupcake shop. He might decide his business is more important to save.
Corpus Christi, already beset by a spike in coronavirus cases, now faces the dangers of Tropical Storm Hanna. https://t.co/NlNOepBj94
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 24, 2020
Awful. https://t.co/Q42rlwgexr
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) July 25, 2020
re: #382 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
You would likely need a private plane to go to most of the nations in question anyway.
Plus it’s not exactly a playground for the rich either. Albania, Kosovo, and Tunisia aren’t exactly hot spots for American tourists. (I’ve only been to Tunisia thanks to the Navy.)
Turkey a bit more, but tourism is off there over the ever-stricter religious government.
The Dominican Republic attracts lots of tourists normally, but five hours ago the US Embassy in Santo Domingo issued a travel advisory noting the Embassy is closed and the epidemic in that country is out of control.
They also note hospital capacity is already strained there, the government imposed a nationwide curfew, masks are mandatory nationwide, and large gatherings are suspended.
re: #384 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Barr needs to see the inside of the Greybar Hotel for a long time.
Greetings from Corpus Christi! We’ve got it all — morgue trucks, overflowing ICUs, 1 in 50 people infected, a hurricane bearing down, and a foot of rain anticipated.
re: #387 Flying Squirrel Girl
Greetings from Corpus Christi! We’ve got it all — morgue trucks, overflowing ICUs, 1 in 50 people infected, a hurricane bearing down, and a foot of rain anticipated.
Try to stay safe. Check in if you can when it is safe to do so.
re: #387 Flying Squirrel Girl
Greetings from Corpus Christi! We’ve got it all — morgue trucks, overflowing ICUs, 1 in 50 people infected, a hurricane bearing down, and a foot of rain anticipated.
Yeah, but you’ve got taco trucks.
re: #390 Decatur Deb
Yeah, but you’ve got taco trucks.
We had a taco truck here in Rockwall. They weren’t really moving around that much, because Rockwall doesn’t have a whole lot of places for food trucks to go. But they became successful enough they moved into a building to get a bigger kitchen.
If Mr. Janicek withdraws, this is his replacement.
We are moving forward with our campaign through September 1st. Amidst receiving mixed messages from the current nominee’s campaign of withdrawal, we will be prepared if this is true. Rest assured, if I am given the basketball with 3 seconds on the clock I am ready to shoot it!
— Alisha Shelton (@Shelton4Senate) July 23, 2020
She also has recipes for good food.
Thanks everyone for joining the conversation with my sister Naeemah and I. Here are the pictures of our finished product, Baked Ziti! I made a little garlic bread as well. Enjoy your weekend!! #SheltonServes #SheltonforSenate #Sisters #Nebraska pic.twitter.com/Ts9Kceb6xJ
— Alisha Shelton (@Shelton4Senate) July 24, 2020
Prior to Harvey, CC hadn’t experienced a hurricane since 1971. We bought our house in 2016 and this is our second hurricane. And the new storm formation off the western coast of Africa is already starting to make me nervous.
re: #385 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
You would likely need a private plane to go to most of the nations in question anyway.
Plus it’s not exactly a playground for the rich either. Albania, Kosovo, and Tunisia aren’t exactly hot spots for American tourists. (I’ve only been to Tunisia thanks to the Navy.)
Turkey a bit more, but tourism is off there over the ever-stricter religious government.
The Dominican Republic attracts lots of tourists normally, but five hours ago the US Embassy in Santo Domingo issued a travel advisory noting the Embassy is closed and the epidemic in that country is out of control.
They also note hospital capacity is already strained there, the government imposed a nationwide curfew, masks are mandatory nationwide, and large gatherings are suspended.
Mexico is also a pretty big mess, too. 129m people in the country, 378k cases, almost 43k deaths. But they have a massive shortage of testing, so those numbers are probably optimistic. Turns out leftwing populist governments are just as shitty as rightwing populist governments.
re: #392 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Any way she can get on the ballot as an independent?
re: #393 Flying Squirrel Girl
Prior to Harvey, CC hadn’t experienced a hurricane since 1971. We bought our house in 2016 and this is our second hurricane. And the new storm formation off the western coast of Africa is already starting to make me nervous.
Tropical Storm Gonzalo is raking the Venezuela coastline and the Windward Islands right now. It’s expected to rapidly die after it enters the Caribbean Sea, because the waters and winds are unfavourable to sustain the storm.
The tropical wave southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands looks like it has a good chance of developing into a tropical depression in five days, but it will be moving over the same waters Gonzalo did. We’ll have to see if the tropical storm stirred up enough deep cold water to prevent development of the depression.
Hurricane Hanna on Corpus Christi radar.
radar.weather.gov
The storm looks as though the eye will cross the shoreline south of Corpus Christi, putting the fastest winds in the city.
re: #318 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
he shoulda paid someone to be the president for him
Didn’t he offer the VP to Kasich with that in mind? IIRC?
My mom sent me this link about falsehoods amd fake stories that are being passed around social media this last week: bigcountryhomepage.com
re: #384 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
From the NYT article is this little nugget:
Mr. Danchenko’s identity is noteworthy because it further calls into question the credibility of the dossier. By turning to Mr. Danchenko as his primary source to gather possible dirt on Mr. Trump involving Russia, Mr. Steele was relying not on someone with a history of working with Russian intelligence operatives or bringing to light their covert activities but instead a researcher focused on analyzing business and political risks in Russia.
WUT? Trump was allegedly a businessman. Business is directly tied up with the Russian government there. The Steele Dossier attempted to show that Donald Trump might be compromised in some way by the FSB or SVR, which is a business and political risk in dealing with Russia.
How does that question the credibility of the dossier?
Twitter has removed Chris Janicek’s blue checkmark. Is he no longer who he says he is?
Person. Man. Woman. Camera. TV.
American. Voters. Elect. Biden. Please.— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) July 23, 2020
re: #402 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Twitter removed Milo’s blue checkmark after one too many of his tweets violated Twitter’s code of conduct and before they suspended him.
re: #404 Eric The Fruit Bat
Twitter removed Milo’s blue checkmark after one too many of his tweets violated Twitter’s code of conduct and before they suspended him.
Can he still go to the Twitter Prom?
Nice view of the rolling doughnut of hell right now:
re: #387 Flying Squirrel Girl
Greetings from Corpus Christi! We’ve got it all — morgue trucks, overflowing ICUs, 1 in 50 people infected, a hurricane bearing down, and a foot of rain anticipated.
You won 2020 Bingo and this is your prize?
Here’s hoping you and yours can stay safe somewhere above the waterline. Wifi and/or cell service would be a bonus.
{{{Sending good thoughts!!}}}
Glad our great-niece isn’t living in Port A anymore, she got out after Harvey; worrying about the cousins in Galveston.
re: #406 austin_blue
There’s already so much misery in the Rio Grande Valley due to COVID. This is going to be awful.
re: #407 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
NBC News will stream live on YouTube Representative John Lewis’s final crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge tomorrow at 10AM CT. It will stream on the channel below.
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They need to rename that damned bridge to the “John Robert Lewis Bridge”
re: #410 Thanos
They need to rename that damned bridge to the “John Robert Lewis Bridge”
Even my conservative brother thought that would be an appropriate homage to Rep. Lewis.
re: #353 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
That GQ story on Sinclair certainly raises questions about whether the Smith brothers had any foreign sources of money and direction helping them build their propaganda network.
re: #409 Flying Squirrel Girl
There’s already so much misery in the Rio Grande Valley due to COVID. This is going to be awful.
And the most active part of hurricane season is just about to start. Other states with surging Coronavirus cases that could also be hit: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi North and South Carolina and, oh yeah - FLORIDA.
re: #322 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Gambing has taken a hit in the pandemic. Lottery sales are down. Las Vegas has seen it’s tourist industry greatly reduced. Sports betting has not happened because there are no sports.
What’s a gambler to do?
Go to an indoor restaurant without a mask.
We really need to have a conversation about how the rhetoric of “free speech and the marketplace of ideas” has been used to as a cynical cover by far right propagandists in the US for years, if not decades. They are choosing to use their precious airtime to spread lies. pic.twitter.com/4RAEPSZq5P
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) July 25, 2020
“We will air unbalanced conspiracy theories without comment, because we derive short-term profit from chaos.”
OAN Demands Twitter Stop Censoring QAnon Ideas Even They Won’t Say On Air — by @RobynElyse https://t.co/4EL3Ezasgl
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 25, 2020
when desantis and and county started ‘reopening’, the local county parks opened too.
there’s a park about 1/2 mile from us. there were signs - help us keep the park open, social distance, masks, etc. they seemed to be taking it seriously. I never went in.
Now the park is closed until further notice starting today.
Tomorrow it becomes a testing site (Sunday-Thursday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
Don’t know whether they’ve converted any other parks recently.
“Trump could not be more on the wrong side: New poll shows Trump’s black lives matter protest response could cost him 2020, by Peter Hamby, Vanity Fair
Exclusive polling suggests the protests changed Americans’ minds so quickly, and so profoundly, that Trump planted himself even further on the wrong side of public opinion than previously understood.
…
Yet Trump seems to be doing the work on his own in recent days, by dispatching federal troops to cities like Portland, Chicago, and even Albuquerque to tangle with protesters who, for the most part, have been behaving peacefully for more than a month. As with Lafayette Square, Trump is perversely creating mayhem in the name of law and order, clinging to the apple-pie idea that the “silent majority” of 1968 is still hiding out somewhere. The country will “go to hell” if Biden wins, Trump said this week, as if people don’t understand that he’s the one presiding over the chaos. But if Avalanche’s research is correct, the silent majority of 2020 is firmly on the side of Biden when it comes to issues of race and justice, and its members walked out of Trump’s community theater Richard Nixon impression many weeks ago.
re: #387 Flying Squirrel Girl
Greetings from Corpus Christi! We’ve got it all — morgue trucks, overflowing ICUs, 1 in 50 people infected, a hurricane bearing down, and a foot of rain anticipated.
You’re bingo card isn’t full yet.
You don’t have murder hornets.
re: #420 retired cynic
He’s taking a line of messaging that works for 34% of his base in our survey. It’s not even that big of a part of his base.
re: #367 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Therefore his assertion that no Democrat can win unless they earn Republican or Independent voters is false, since I won twice.
actually sort of proves his point. Didn’t you say there were only 8 Clinton voters in your jurisdiction? You definitely got more than 8 votes for the elections you won, so you obviously must have pulled Republicans and/or independent voters too.
Seeing Red Nebraska is on the phone with me right now, interviewing me to be a writer and potentially a podcaster.
re: #424 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Seeing Red Nebraska is on the phone with me right now, interviewing me to be a writer and potentially a podcaster.
Hold out for video. Make Trilbys Great Again
Good morning,
Sitting around cooking breakfast and puttering with emulation. I have a copy of FreeBSD 12.1 running on Oracle VirtualBox so that in it I can TME (the machine emulator) a emulator for Sun worstations (Sun 2, 3, 4c & 4u) with an emulated 3 running ATT Research Unix V9 and an emulated Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.4. Good humor and one of my ideas of fun on a way too hot and humid a day.
usa today
Tom Nichols: “America has now passed the milestone of 4 million COVID cases, and we’re still arguing with doctors and epidemiologists about masks and school closures. I expected some of this, because I literally wrote the book over three years ago on why so many Americans think they’re smarter than experts. What I did not expect is that this resolute and childish opposition to expertise would be hijacked by the president of the United States and an entire American political party, and then turned into a suicide cult.”
quibble: they’re not ‘arguing with doctors’
they’re dismissing and/or ignoring them
re: #424 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Seeing Red Nebraska is on the phone with me right now, interviewing me to be a writer and potentially a podcaster.
wear the cape
re: #426 William Lewis
Good morning,
Sitting around cooking breakfast and puttering with emulation. I have a copy of FreeBSD 12.1 running on Oracle VirtualBox so that in it I can TME (the machine emulator) a emulator for Sun worstations (Sun 2, 3, 4c & 4u) with an emulated 3 running ATT Research Unix V9 and an emulated Sparcstation 2 running SunOS 4.1.4. Good humor and one of my ideas of fun on a way too hot and humid a day.
you kids and your lingo
re: #429 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
Heh.
So the Cyborg household has picked up some unexpected guests:
We found three of these little guys and their mama on our carport last night. Amazingly they are still there as of right now.
We certainly don’t want five cats around (we already have one in addition to this new brood) but we want to make sure these little guys (or gals) stay safe. So at the moment we’re trusting them to the care of their mother while keeping a close eye on them.
re: #425 jeffreyw
Hold out for video. Make Trilbys Great Again
I’m hired.
Last night I wrote what was supposed to be a tip on how schools are trying to get around Gov. Ricketts’s threats to withhold funding if government agencies require masks. I dealt with all the school districts in the southern Panhandle.
That was what prompted the call this morning. With slight editing it will become a post on the site, and the rest of the call ranged about a number of state and local issues, &c.
So I will be on the (unpaid) staff.
The Democrats in the House are trying to undo my big win Travel Ban Bill, which successfully keeps very bad and dangerous people out of our great Country. Passed along party lines. Hopefully, will be DEAD in the Senate! The Dems have gone Stone Cold Left - Venezuela on steroids!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2020
Stone Cold Left, bitches.
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re: #433 Eclectic Cyborg
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Stone Cold Left, bitches.
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‘big win’
he’s so transparent
The Democrats in the House are trying to undo my big win Travel Ban Bill, which successfully keeps very bad and dangerous people out of our great Country. Passed along party lines. Hopefully, will be DEAD in the Senate! The Dems have gone Stone Cold Left - Venezuela on steroids!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 25, 2020
In addition, we discussed my state senator Steve Erdman and his claim on the floor of the Unicameral a couple days ago that anthropogenic climate change “is a hoax.” She’d seen that, and she was really pissed.
Several of the staffers there encouraged me to run for his seat in the next election (too late this time round). I might do that.
The map link below is the Unicameral Legislative District I live in. All of this is within an hour and a half drive of my house, so personal campaigning would be possible. If nothing else, it would make Sen. Erdman come home and actually campaign.
re: #434 A Cranky One
This fucking year…
Peter Green has died.
On a related note:
Fleetwood Mac Preps Massive Box Set Documenting Earliest Years
White privilege is voting for this overly psychopathic and depraved horror-show carnival barker then turning around and blaming literally any-fucking-body else for the abject misery we’re all living through.
Just shut the entire fuck up and own it.— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
re: #434 A Cranky One
This fucking year…
Peter Green has died.
What an influence he was, to me and just about every guitarist I know.
British singer-songwriter Peter Green, co-founder of Fleetwood Mac, has died aged 73https://t.co/ZeJflwpVrS
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 25, 2020
And before I forget if you just chose not to vote you can also fuck all the way off. Seriously.
Because we’re all living with the consequences of your indifference to having a good competent government. Just own that shit, you helped buy it & now we’re all paying for it.
Thanks— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
Apparently I’m in a fuckin’ mood this morning.
re: #444 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Big mood. Love to see it.
It’s a God Damned Mood. Me too. Just about 100 days.
Random thought: if heaven and hell actually exist, who has the better band?
And why am I thinking about such silly things?
re: #447 A Cranky One
Random thought: if heaven and hell actually exist, who has the better band?
And why am I thinking about such silly things?
Depends on the rules for entry to each. And how tyrannical the rulers of each would be
re: #449 KGxvi
Depends on the rules for entry to each. And how tyrannical the rulers of each would be
It’s not even close. Hell. Heaven is boring.
re: #450 I Would Prefer Not To
It’s not even close. Hell. Heaven is boring.
Hell has been leaving musicians on earth. Heaven has been gathering musicians.
Venezuela on steroids!
Not their most popular export product.
re: #450 I Would Prefer Not To
It’s not even close. Hell. Heaven is boring.
Well, if you believe that heaven has an open door and that hell is truly for the worst of people, then most great musicians would be in heaven. If you believe heaven is an exclusive club, then it’s probably hell.
But then there’s the question of what the devil would do? Like would the devil make musicians play out of tune instruments? Or instruments they can’t play?
Looks like @jack was just bullshitting about kicking Q shit off of Twitter.
President Manger Merde retweeted a Qasshole running against Ocasio-Cortez who claims that Trump was never involved with Epstein…but Obama was…
re: #438 goddamnedfrank
Tell us how you really feel.
re: #453 KGxvi
Well, if you believe that heaven has an open door and that hell is truly for the worst of people, then most great musicians would be in heaven. If you believe heaven is an exclusive club, then it’s probably hell.
But then there’s the question of what the devil would do? Like would the devil make musicians play out of tune instruments? Or instruments they can’t play?
re: #450 I Would Prefer Not To
Well, we’ve been told that rock and roll is a tool of the devil, so there’s that.
Going back, there’s Paganini, the devil’s violinist. Hmmmm.
re: #432 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m hired.
Last night I wrote what was supposed to be a tip on how schools are trying to get around Gov. Ricketts’s threats to withhold funding if government agencies require masks. I dealt with all the school districts in the southern Panhandle.
That was what prompted the call this morning. With slight editing it will become a post on the site, and the rest of the call ranged about a number of state and local issues, &c.
So I will be on the (unpaid) staff.
Congrats! Keep us updated if you get any death threats from freedom-loving conservatives.
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re: #455 🌹UOJB!
Looks like @jack was just bullshitting about kicking Q shit off of Twitter.
President Manger Merde retweeted a Qasshole running against Ocasio-Cortez who claims that Trump was never involved with Epstein…but Obama was…
It’s going to be a fight to get them all off. They have eliminated some, but eliminated them all would be like eliminating the flu.
re: #458 A Cranky One
I remember Grandma Bacon telling me how Billy Sunday (The King of the Pulpit Pimps in the 20s and 30s) attacked Gawdless “Swing” and “Jazz” music. Yep, ol’ BS said that was The Day-Vell’s Sinful Seduction That Leads You To Hell…
re: #447 A Cranky One
Random thought: if heaven and hell actually exist, who has the better band?
And why am I thinking about such silly things?
Well, Hell would get bands like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. Heaven would get bands like Petra.
re: #463 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Well, Hell would get bands like Judas Priest and Black Sabbath. Heaven would get bands like Petra.
And Pat Boone goes to hell along with The Osmonds…
re: #453 KGxvi
Well, if you believe that heaven has an open door and that hell is truly for the worst of people, then most great musicians would be in heaven. If you believe heaven is an exclusive club, then it’s probably hell.
But then there’s the question of what the devil would do? Like would the devil make musicians play out of tune instruments? Or instruments they can’t play?
Robert Johnson is musical director. He chose the roster, he chose the instruments, he decides the playlist.
(that’s for the American division. Mozart runs the European division. They have a battle of the bands every Tuesday.)
re: #464 🌹UOJB!
And Pat Boone goes to hell along with The Osmonds…
Jerry Lee will find his way home.
re: #62 jaunte
“…US District Judge Michael Mosman found that state Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum lacked standing to bring a lawsuit on behalf of Oregon residents because her office hadn’t articulated any specific state interest beyond the constitutional rights of individuals.”
So the constitutional rights of individuals can just go pound sand then I guess. Law and order isn’t what it used to be.
re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
I’m sorry, WHAT? The constitutional rights of one’s citizens isn’t a good enough reason to bring a lawsuit against the government?
Unless you try to regulate their guns of course.
re: #467 Eventual Carrion
So the constitutional rights of individuals can just go pound sand then I guess. Law and order isn’t what it used to be.
Your Typical Federalist Society Fascist put on the bench by McConnell who believes Republicans are above the law.
re: #464 🌹UOJB!
And Pat Boone goes to hell along with The Osmonds…
That would make it hell for sure.
re: #469 🌹UOJB!
Your Typical Federalist Society Fascist put on the bench by McConnell who believes Republicans are above the law.
Right now, he’s not wrong.
re: #464 🌹UOJB!
And Pat Boone goes to hell along with The Osmonds…
Aaaaaaa! No way I’m sharing Perdition with them!
re: #470 A Cranky One
That would make it hell for sure.
Pat Boone in leather singing metal songs for eternity.
In case you missed it: @TiffanyDCross defenestrates @Bruce_LeVell on Trump’s race record https://t.co/b7d4b4n6z6 via @YouTube #AMJoy
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) July 25, 2020
complained that Sen. @Patty4Nebraska disparaged him for months by calling him “sunshine.” This is after some senator accused Groene of ‘flipping off’ Pansing Brooks during debate the other night. Scheer said that people need to learn to listen and get along. So #neleg quits early
— Paul Hammel (@PaulHammelOWH) July 24, 2020
Nebraska’s legislature adjourned early today due to Mike Groene’s fragile ego. After throwing his usual temper tantrums on the floor of the unicam, he got emails from citizens that hurt his feelings and that reminded him that another senator called him a name he can’t handle. https://t.co/16rAVIk2jC
— Ari Kohen (@kohenari) July 24, 2020
re: #437 A Cranky One
On a related note:
Fleetwood Mac Preps Massive Box Set Documenting Earliest Years
There’s also a budget 5-disc set that has the best of the studio albums in that big set, but has zip for liner notes. Neither of these sets covers the Green years except for the album Then Play On.
re: #476 BeachDem
Well, according to the Righteous Brothers (and hey, they’re righteous)
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Then life is just a one-night stand.
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Our nuns were pretty cool with music—played Rock Around the Clock for a Friday night movie. They were damned suspicious about little Suzy “falling asleep” in the balcony, though.
People are tweeting videos of protests in San Diego from June claiming it is evidence of violent protests currently occurring. Note, there are no violent protests occurring in San Diego right now. They are trying to mislead the public and get Trump to bring in federal cops.
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) July 25, 2020
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) July 25, 2020
Stone Mountain, SPLC article
With a creative solution: stop maintaining it, and let nature obscure the carving with trees, vines, and other vegetative growth.
re: #474 Welcome to The Imbleachment (dangerman)
This why you don’t often see Republicans on MSNBC. They actually have to answer questions.
I’m the guy at Antifa who works in the bakery and does all the finishing airbrush work on the decoys our street ninjas use to misdirect the feds.
In-house we’re calling them cake-elgangers— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
President Trump ordered his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, he tried to block CDC funding, and he has ignored the experts from day one. His actions defy both logic and humanity.
What kind of president actively undercuts efforts that will save lives?— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 25, 2020
Emmett Till would’ve been 79 today. That’s another reminder of how recent that event was. He was born a year after John Lewis.
— Bree Newsome Bass (@BreeNewsome) July 25, 2020
New from me for @BuzzFeedNews: I spoke Rudy Giuliani’s Ukrainian operatives who are leaking Biden calls, passing material to Senate Republicans, and doing their damnedest to undermine the former Dem Veep’s campaign (spoiler: it’s not really working). https://t.co/JHAXzpyhC1
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) July 24, 2020
They call themselves “Team Giuliani” and include “a fugitive, a tainted former prosecutor, and the son of a KGB officer who also was trained in Russian spy techniques.”
Also, they’re determined to meddle in our election with the help of Sen Ron Johnson.https://t.co/HGGQEdZklO— Ned Price (@nedprice) July 24, 2020
Two bearded sculptures believed to be the mythological #Silenus were discovered during excavations of Bar Hill fort on the #AntonineWall, in #Scotland. They display the middle finger “infamis digitus” gesture, to ward off the evil eye. #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Archaeology pic.twitter.com/yl7KcxRgAo
— Roman Britain News (@Roman_Britain) July 25, 2020
Twitter helps us learn #MiddleFingerHistory
(Curiously, this item relates to the current session of the Nebraska Legislature!)#NELeg https://t.co/O9p04kinWK— Geitner Simmons (@GeitnerSimmons) July 25, 2020
A li’l pick-me-up. Read to the end.
What happened in #NELeg today is classic misgoverning to sabotage. This is disaster capitalism. This is @GovRicketts strategy to use his own failure and failure of people he pays to get elected as justification for more of the privatization that feeds him and his powered class. https://t.co/i3MS3CgTzF
— Seeing Red Nebraska (@SeeingRedNE) July 24, 2020
re: #485 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
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“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
—William Faulkner
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
—L.P. Hartley
The federal eviction moratorium has expired. Millions of Americans are now at risk of losing the roof over their head. My heart aches for all those facing uncertainty right now. Congress must move immediately to protect renters. Let’s start with my RELIEF Act to stop evictions.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 25, 2020
Maybe Trump can send DHS militia to help his buddy Putin. https://t.co/9mVtbYn0Ze
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) July 25, 2020
Trump and Putin: Two peas in a pod.
— Daniel James Brown (@DJamesBrown) July 25, 2020
re: #489 teleskiguy
A li’l pick-me-up. Read to the end.
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That’s great! (And as I’m sure I’ve related before, I’ve played volleyball with Adrian Belew.)
re: #168 Thanos
Also if you get bored this weekend, AP’s what didn’t happen fake news recap is always worth a read:
Good page. Here’s an example:
CLAIM: A video from a 1985 hearing exposes Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for using the N-word, stating: “We already have a n—- mayor, we don’t need any more n—- big shots!”
THE FACTS: Social media users are twisting Biden’s words from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1985 for the nomination of William Bradford Reynolds as U.S. deputy attorney general. Biden was reading a racist statement made by a state legislator during a redistricting process in Louisiana that was overseen by the nominee, who was being questioned under oath.
Biden was using those comments to build a case against Reynolds’ nomination, pointing out that as the assistant attorney general for civil rights he ignored racist comments by lawmakers and signed off on a plan that gerrymandered Louisiana’s congressional districts to deprive Black residents of representation. Biden specifically questioned Reynolds about a Louisiana congressional map redistricting proposal called the Nunez plan. C-Span video footage of Reynolds’ 1985 nomination hearing shows that Biden repeatedly asked Reynolds if he heard or saw any evidence that Louisiana’s politicians intentionally drew the map in a way that discriminated against Black residents in New Orleans.
Reynolds said he did not find any evidence that this was the case. Biden pointed out that Reynolds did, however, receive a memo from his staff that highlighted racist comments made by legislators who opposed the majority Black district. Using the N-word in the quote, Biden said: “They brought to your attention the allegation that important legislators in defeating the Nunez plan, in the basement, said, ‘We already have a n—- mayor, we don’t need any more n—- big shots.’”
Biden argued that those comments, as well as other problems with the Louisiana governor’s plan, should have been a red flag for Reynolds, who should have never signed off on the plan. The Senate Judiciary Committee ultimately rejected Reynolds’ nomination in a 10-8 vote.
I have an optical physics joke, but it’s pretty transparent. https://t.co/ysMpBXPOB0
— Jason McGlothlen (@goddamnedfrank) July 25, 2020
I had a joke about a Ben Garrison cartoon, but I’m trying to resist labeling.
I had a ventriloquist’s-dummy joke, but the delivery came across as pretty wooden.
I had a math divide by 2 joke, but I just can’t even.
TX is in the midst of an outbreak. They’re about to get hit by a hurricane. To remain safe from the weather, people may have to enter confined spaces, thus putting themselves at risk for the virus. This is what the current Senator of TX vs. his former challenger are tweeting pic.twitter.com/IlAu2Ic372
— Mangy Jay (@magi_jay) July 25, 2020
Fear is all they have left to work with.
re: #502 jaunte
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Fear is all they have left to work with.
Naaah, the GOP has more shots in its locker than that:
They also have have prejudice, greed, and self-righteousness!
The sort of broadband approach every national Party should have…..!! //
I’m already voting for him. You don’t have to convince me. https://t.co/zA0841ZUuu
— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) July 25, 2020
re: #434 A Cranky One
Peter Green was a force in the day.
Willing to bet at least 75% of players and owners of these baseball teams don’t believe in this bullshit kneeling but had to go along with it to save their necks from the mob. Pathetic.
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) July 24, 2020
Never kneel to the mob
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) July 24, 2020
Never kneel to a mobster. https://t.co/0Q33OybeT3
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 24, 2020
Fuck….. Out of weed and Austin of all places is dry as a bone.
‘Multiple victims’ reported shot as armed militias face off at Louisville police brutality protesthttps://t.co/OCAhIuNeas
— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 25, 2020
BREAKING: We just watched two people be taken onto stretchers at Baxter square on 12th and Jefferson. Metro safe has confirmed reports of shootings & that there are multiple victims. We heard the noises when people scattered to get behind cars, & to take a knee @WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/h5AsPWlLbi
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
We just watched LMPD take a shot gun from the scene that was within the perimeter of their tape. @WHAS11 #nightteam pic.twitter.com/6ZjnqWZvJ0
— Jessie Cohen (@jessiecohennews) July 25, 2020
An early report from MSNBC suggested that the shooting was a single shot that was “accidental” but they had no further details.
re: #504 jaunte
Good.
Then we’d have someone who actually knows how to run the department unlike your bimbo billionaire who is hell bent on killing kids.
By the way Ronna ROMNEY McDaniel are YOU sending YOUR kids to public schools???????— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) July 25, 2020
I had an automotive joke, but I couldn’t get it started.
— RedRyder (@RedRummer62N) July 25, 2020
Here’s the moment it appears an #NFAC member negligently shot himself, or another member. Those are initial reports from streamers on the ground. pic.twitter.com/06w8znZSpQ
— Simulation Warlord🇺🇸 (@zerosum24) July 25, 2020
re: #447 A Cranky One
Random thought: if heaven and hell actually exist, who has the better band?
And why am I thinking about such silly things?
Being rather universalist, I tend to the wide open heaven side. Imagine, if you will a quartet of Duke Ellington, Mozart, Charlie Parker and Keith Moon…
Morgan Redford brought us the painful dilemma of a mother in Milwaukee facing eviction after the pandemic mortgage relief now expires. I defy anyone watching this to not ask what the hell is going on in Congress https://t.co/Mz7MKTk5Qw
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 25, 2020
Why would anyone be surprised the Dean of the But Her Emails School of Journalism would blame “Congress” as opposed to “Republicans” who have sat on their hands for months while Speaker Pelosi passed bills out of the House months ago on this & other needed assistance. https://t.co/cPuuAga94W
— scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) July 25, 2020
re: #505 nines09
Peter Green was a force in the day.
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Still is. You gotta be to take Eric Clapton’s seat, like he did with Mayall.
Didja get that Zemaitis? How do you like it?? Spill! :)
Also - at about 1:45 in the ‘Oh, Well’ video, take a look at Spencer’s Strat and note where the pickup switch is. Legend has it that it came out of Fender’s factory that way.
re: #467 Eventual Carrion
So the constitutional rights of individuals can just go pound sand then I guess. Law and order isn’t what it used to be.
According to a lawyer who heard the decision, the judge practically laid out the course of action for a successful case by someone who did have standing (like, say, an individual affected).
re: #469 🌹UOJB!
Your Typical Federalist Society Fascist put on the bench by McConnell who believes Republicans are above the law.
Wrong on all three counts.
re: #296 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
because he does not understand why that should be seen by anyone as unacceptable.
Then he won’t take offense when I call him a donkey fucker.
re: #520 Eventual Carrion
Then he won’t take offense when I call him a donkey fucker.
Of course he would be. Conservatives bellyache about “civility.” They are always the victim.
That goes back to our Unicameral having to be shut down yesterday early because a Republican senator was throwing a tantrum on the floor because his own constituents sent him E-mails or telephone calls calling him “sunshine.” This is the same guy who flipped off a Democratic senator a couple days before in the Unicameral and also claimed victimhood because she called him out on a falsehood.
‘Multiple victims’ reported shot as armed militias face off at Louisville police brutality protest
Yep, the Stone Mountain folks:
According to a report at the Daily Beast, the protest against police brutality resulted in a stand-off between “the Not F**king Around Coalition—an all-Black armed militia founded by Atlanta-based rapper and DJ John ‘Jay’ Johnson,” and members of the conservative Three Percenter militia group.
This is so frustrating to me. This guy is responsible for the death of minimally tens of thousands of people - if not millions.
So an apology gets him a pass and appreciation for finally coming clean?
Fuck. You. Fuck right off. Take your engorged bank account and all the blood on your fucking millions and fucking die.
Amid America’s #COVID19 disaster, I must come clean about a lie I spread as a health insurance exec: We spent big $$ to push the idea that Canada’s single-payer system was awful & the U.S. system much better. It was a lie & the nations’ COVID responses prove it. The truth: (1/6)
— Wendell Potter (@wendellpotter) June 25, 2020
re: #305 Decatur Deb
He’s facing a report card in November, and Daddy can’t buy him an “A” this time.
But step-daddy Putin can try to hack the grading server.
RIP
BREAKING: Regis Philbin, best known as the host of “Live!” and “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” has died. He was 88 years old. https://t.co/KJPxuzJnGp
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) July 25, 2020
I had a kitchen blender joke, but keep mixing up the punchline.
An openly misogynistic lawyer who is believed to have killed the son of a female federal judge in New Jersey had a list of more than a dozen other possible targets, including three other judges and two doctors. https://t.co/iShAe5bgFa
— John FitzGerald (@TheTweetOfJohn) July 25, 2020
I’m just not feeling sad:
It was a chance for the 41-year-old Republican to snag a top billing during Trump’s final coronation and test the waters for a potential run at the GOP presidential nomination in 2024. In an interview last month, Republican Party Chairman Joe Gruters said he expected the convention would “put Gov. DeSantis in the spotlight and add fuel to his efforts to make a national name for himself.”
But Trump’s sudden announcement Thursday not only dashed those plans, but raised doubts about DeSantis’ own response to the coronavirus. On the same day DeSantis contended Florida’s outbreak was showing signs of slowing down, Trump argued it was too dangerous to hold a convention there…
re: #517 makeitstop
Nice spot on the 3 way. Wonder who was screwing around on the line that day?
Or maybe it was a request and he just picked it up after the guy sold it.
Lot’s of strange things on and in factory built back then.
On the Zemaitis.
It’s lighter than I thought it would be. +
But not as resonate as I hoped. —
Craftsmanship is great. No edges on frets. No space on inlays on neck. Neck pocket is perfection. Came “set up” but we know better.
No name humbuckers. Suspect tuners.
The usual.
After you hold great guitars all these years I have to find that sweet spot it’s capable of.
Jury is out, 72 hour return time running down.
Not sure, but very well built. I’d love to get it to my tech in Reading Pa, but can’t right now.
I’ll need 3-4 weeks to see if I’m happy.
Oh and they have 9’s on it I prefer 10’s.
I’ll shoot some pix in a minute or two. Front is gorgeous.
re: #529 nines09
Nice spot on the 3 way. Wonder who was screwing around on the line that day?
Or maybe it was a request and he just picked it up after the guy sold it.
Lot’s of strange things on and in factory built back then.On the Zemaitis.
It’s lighter than I thought it would be. +
But not as resonate as I hoped. —
Craftsmanship is great. No edges on frets. No space on inlays on neck. Neck pocket is perfection. Came “set up” but we know better.
No name humbuckers. Suspect tuners.
The usual.
After you hold great guitars all these years I have to find that sweet spot it’s capable of.
Jury is out, 72 hour return time running down.
Not sure, but very well built. I’d love to get it to my tech in Reading Pa, but can’t right now.
I’ll need 3-4 weeks to see if I’m happy.
Oh and they have 9’s on it I prefer 10’s.
I’ll shoot some pix in a minute or two. Front is gorgeous.
Can’t wait to see it. Congrats on a shiny new guitar!
The story on that Strat is that Jerry Garcia took Spencer and Greenie to a warehouse full of old guitars in San Francisco and Spencer picked that one - it was a ‘58.
I read an interview where he said he had it for a few years but never really fell in love with it.
re: #528 Belafon
I’m just not feeling sad:
DeSantis’s bid to make a name for himself already came with the dramatically rising cases of Covid-19 and the horrible response. He is world-famous now for bringing death and destruction on his state. I doubt a moment in the spotlight with Trump would have washed the stink of death from him.
This chowderhead needs to be crushed in his next election to end any aspirations he has for higher office. We don’t need any more genocidaires in the government.
re: #531 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
DeSantis’s bid to make a name for himself already came with the dramatically rising cases of Covid-19 and the horrible response. He is world-famous now for bringing death and destruction on his state. I doubt a moment in the spotlight with Trump would have washed the stink of death from him.
This chowderhead needs to be crushed in his next election to end any aspirations he has for higher office. We don’t need any more genocidaires in the government.
I don’t see him ever recovering from this. Not ever.
re: #523 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
This is so frustrating to me. This guy is responsible for the death of minimally tens of thousands of people - if not millions.
So an apology gets him a pass and appreciation for finally coming clean?
Fuck. You. Fuck right off. Take your engorged bank account and all the blood on your fucking millions and fucking die.
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That prick along with others like KKKristolmeth, Tory Twit Sullivan, Adulterer Newt, McCaughey-Ross and their fellow conservatives made my parents lose their home thanks to medical debt.
‘Some’? Are the others asleep?
— tim fredericks (@riflemanoatcake) July 25, 2020
It begins. 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😂😂😂
WASHINGTON — For Senate Republicans, it’s now all about self-preservation.
As their grip on the Senate majority teeters while President Donald Trump’s political standing plummets, their fate could well be determined by their ability to produce a sweeping pandemic recovery package before the election. But their frantic attempts to do so have so far produced little more than deep division in their ranks and with Trump — not the place they wanted to be 100 days out from a decisive race.
Their uncertain fortunes appear to have stiffened Republicans’ resolve to do something they rarely try: distance themselves, however gingerly, from Trump. They have jettisoned the president’s call for a payroll tax cut, drawing a resentful response from him on Twitter.
re: #530 makeitstop
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Longtime TV personality Regis Philbin has died, his family says. He was 88.https://t.co/nJvmCwYANE
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) July 25, 2020
Hurricane Hanna making landfall north of Brownsville:
re: #513 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I had an automotive joke, but I couldn’t get it started.
I had a joke about Trump’s character, but it was weak.
Rabidly anti-gay Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert, who has referred to coronavirus as a “hoax” and called mask mandates “draconian,” is now hospitalized with COVID-19 https://t.co/heUdkdilOD via @tlrd pic.twitter.com/6lNZOmlzSO
— Towleroad (@tlrd) July 24, 2020
re: #541 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Thoughts and prayers.
I have a first amendment joke and he sued me 🐮
— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) July 25, 2020
re: #537 nines09
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re: #546 Dread Pirate
I have an intelligence joke, but ██████(b)(3)████████. https://t.co/f4D9iTcJCu
— Veli-Pekka Kivimäki (@vpkivimaki) July 24, 2020
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
so they are pretending to be pro-protesters to incite violence and give the goons an excuse to crack down?
anybody smell smoke coming from the direction of the Reichstag?
Didn’t someone post here days ago that there is a real split in the Boogaloo movement, with many of the younger members more aligned with other younger members of the society — pro-gay and pro-BLM?
re: #480 retired cynic
Stone Mountain, SPLC article
With a creative solution: stop maintaining it, and let nature obscure the carving with trees, vines, and other vegetative growth.
I somewhat like that solution, or, they could just change the show they put on to reflect the actual true history. Yeah, they were brave. So what? Brave isn’t all that notable. What they fought for needs to be addressed and that is a perfect site to use for that.
re: #536 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I thought they were giving him until Labor Day?
I don’t know which shit show I’d rather see more:
1. Trump just randomly announcing that he’s decided not to seek re-election because we as a nation don’t deserve his amazing leadership and the ensuing clusterfuck floor fight at the GOP convention
2. The GOP establishment finally getting so worried about Trump sinking their chances to hold power that they put another name into nomination to cause a floor fight
3. Trump resigning, Pence pardoning him and his family, and then the clusterfuck floor fight that happens when Trump shows up at the convention and decided he wants to be president again afterall
re: #533 🌹UOJB!
That prick along with others like KKKristolmeth, Tory Twit Sullivan, Adulterer Newt, McCaughey-Ross and their fellow conservatives made my parents lose their home thanks to medical debt.
Same here with a woman on our library board; her husband died of cancer and she lost her ranch to medical debts. She now lives in a tiny house in town when she and her husband before were easily classifiable as millionaires.
re: #501 A Cranky One
I had a math divide by 2 joke, but I just can’t even.
Don’t believe atoms, they make up everything.
— Joe Gerard 🌈 (@OklaVoter) July 25, 2020
re: #549 Hecuba’s daughter
Didn’t someone post here days ago that there is a real split in the Boogaloo movement, with many of the younger members more aligned with other younger members of the society — pro-gay and pro-BLM?
What is the point of being a boogaloo boy if you’re going to support BLM? I thought that the purpose of the bb’s was to start a race war.
re: #547 makeitstop
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re: #489 teleskiguy
I actually got to visit Maple Leaf Gardens in the mid 1980’s while I was there for a training course taught by CA for one of their security products - but it wasn’t for a hockey game, but a wrestling event. Turned out my hotel that I was staying in was next door to the arena, and I shared a limo with Luscious Johnny Valiant, who asked the limo driver where he could get a drink, given that it was beyond closing time.
Before the limo came to pick me up, I saw Paul Orndorff pick up a rental car at YYZ.
re: #540 BlueSpotinAL
I had a joke about gun runners, but the punchline was up to its caliber.
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