Lucinda Williams at Home: Tiny Desk Concert

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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space.

July 27, 2020 | Bob Boilen — To me, it’s still thrilling to see a concert in an office — even if it’s not the one, back at NPR, that I’m used to. Lucinda Williams and her guitar mate, Stuart Mathis, set up shop for this performance at Thirty Tigers’ headquarters in Nashville, a place usually filled with artist managers and folks who distribute music, including hers.

Lucinda kicks off this Tiny Desk (home) concert with a nod to the present moment, a song called “Bad News Blues” from her 2020 release, Good Souls Better Angels:

Fools and thieves and clowns and hypocrites,
Gluttony and greed, and that ain’t the worst of it.

When it closes, Lucinda says, “we’ve had our share of bad news, even before this lockdown thing.” The COVID-19 crisis has kept her from seeing her other bandmates, who are out in California, but this minimalist pairing, of Lucinda’s voice and Stuart’s sliding blues, is quite the treat.

SET LIST
“Bad News Blues”
“Big Black Train”
“You Can’t Rule Me”
“Man Without A Soul”

MUSICIANS
Lucinda Williams - vocals, guitar; Stuart Mathis - guitar

CREDITS
Audio by: Ray; Kennedy Video by: Stevie Rees; Producer: Bob Boilen, Tom Overby, Ray Kennedy, Lucinda Williams; Audio Mastering Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Video Producer: Morgan Noelle Smith; Associate Producer: Bobby Carter; Executive Producer: Lauren Onkey; Senior VP, Programming: Anya Grundmann

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retired cynic  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:06:40pm

GOTV/FT!

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:06:41pm

FT

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Teukka  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:15:09pm

Beau dropped a good one:

Let’s talk about admitting mistakes, arrogance, and schools….

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:36:50pm
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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:40:40pm

Get a load of this shit:

Back in 2015, I would have immediately assumed these people were paid actors, because nobody could be that dumb.

Now? Now I’m not only convinced they’re that dumb, I’m convince they deserve every bit of misery Trump is looking to visit upon them.

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retired cynic  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:42:38pm

re: #5 Targetpractice

Maybe. But what about the rest of us?

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:46:17pm

re: #6 retired cynic

Maybe. But what about the rest of us?

Prepare to visit that misery upon Trump in November.

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retired cynic  Aug 1, 2020 • 9:48:07pm

re: #7 Targetpractice

I can work with that.

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blueraven  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:05:00pm

If you don’t listen to the entire concert, and you should, at least listen to the last song…Man Without A Soul.

It’s obviously written for Trump and it’s devastating.

You’re a man without truth
A man of greed, a man of hate
A man of envy and doubt
You’re a man without a soul

All the money in the world
Will never fill that hole
You’re a man bought and sold
You’re a man without a soul

You bring nothing good to this world
Beyond a web of cheating and stealing
You hide behind your wall of lies
But it’s coming down
Yeah, it’s coming down

You’re a man without shame
Without dignity and grace
No way to save face
You’re a man without a soul

How do you think this story ends?
It’s not a matter of how
It’s just a matter of when
‘Cause it’s coming down
Yeah, it’s coming down

There’s a darkness all around you
To cover all you’re hiding
There’s no light in your eyes
You’re a man without a soul

Now the exits will be closing
A sad life will be exposed
No dealer and no deals
‘Cause you’re a man without a soul

How do you think this story ends?
It’s not a matter of how
It’s just a matter of when
‘Cause it’s coming down
Yeah, it’s coming down
Yeah, it’s coming down
Yeah, it’s coming down

Even better version here with the full band

Lucinda Williams “Man Without A Soul” - Late Show #PlayAtHome

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:24:55pm

Can someone explain to me how cutting the payroll tax benefits anyone?

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:35:44pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

Can someone explain to me how cutting the payroll tax benefits anyone?

It puts more money in the pockets of the rich, which is what all Repub tax cuts are about. For Average Joe Sixpack, it’s a few bucks more in their paycheck that they fool themselves into thinking will be the stimulus that finally moves them up a tax bracket. And for everybody else, it’s a swift kick in the huevos from wealthy politicians who think the only people who matter are the ones adding points to their stock portfolio.

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teleskiguy  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:45:18pm

Oooh, they’re feisty tonight.

Click to Reveal
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teleskiguy  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:53:39pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:57:22pm
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🌹UOJB!  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:59:08pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

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Relatives insist “Frazzledrip” is real. When I forward the latest Maxwell crap they respond Bill Clinton is a pedo…

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Jack Burton  Aug 1, 2020 • 10:59:11pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

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Adrenochrome having any properties besides helping to clot blood is something made up in several movies, and possibly the books they were based on. Namely A Clockwork Orange and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Remember, almost everything they howl about the loudest is projection.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 11:04:10pm

re: #13 teleskiguy

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Can’t we go back to conspiracy theories that didn’t involve total lunacy, like thinking the moon landing was filmed in a TV studio or that jet fuel fires don’t burn hot enough to melt steel?

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Amory Blaine  Aug 1, 2020 • 11:22:45pm

Gohmer victim.

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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 11:48:52pm

re: #14 Dread Pirate Ron

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Almost 3x the “only 61,000” we were assured about back in April. At this rate, we’re gonna be at or above 250,000 by Election Day. A quarter of million Americans dead without a war or terrorist attack. And yet, the fuckheads responsible could still cheat their way to another 4 years of ham-fisted rule.

I’d say call up London and apologize for that whole “revolution” business, but that would mean Boris would be in charge. Maybe call Ottawa and ask if they’re willing to annex us.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2020 • 11:50:35pm
NEVER FORGET!!
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Targetpractice  Aug 1, 2020 • 11:52:12pm

re: #20 Dave In Austin

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NEVER FORGET!!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:37:28am

I do wish the Trump bumper sticker generator could do unicode characters.

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Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:42:14am

It’s the first weekend of August and people are still flooding into a city that is accounting for 1/3 of all new CV-19 cases in the state (100+ added yesterday) to look for hotel rooms at unholy hours of the morning. And I sit here, trying not to think that not only are these people contributing to the continuation of this damned outbreak, but many of them are blowing money to “get out of the house” without any thought that they could be jobless or even homeless by year’s end when the economic crash that the summer delayed gets back into full swing.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:50:05am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:50:48am

It may be too subtle.

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Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2020 • 1:16:03am

Here are a few things I wish Dr. Fauci would get out there and inform the public about:

- A vaccine is not a cure, it’s a form of prevention. If you’re already infected, a vaccine is useless until the virus has run its course.

- Any vaccine is unlikely to be a “one and done” deal. Given what we’ve learned so far about what this virus does to the immune system, it’s possible that people will require multiple treatments or even regular “boosters” in order to acquire and maintain immunity to CV-19.

- If you believe you can just avoid getting the vaccine and wait until “herd immunity” sets in, you may be waiting for months or years as distribution of the vaccine not only in the US, but across the planet could be delayed by any number of factors.

- On that same line of thinking, the announcement that a vaccine has been found does not mean the outbreak is immediately “over.” It will take weeks to months before production can begin to turn out the vaccine in large lots. And even when it does, you’re probably far down on the list of people whose vaccination will be viewed as a “priority.” Don’t be surprised when you hear that your buddy in the Army got the vaccine, but his family is on a waiting list until the DoD can get all active-duty soldiers vaccinated first.

- Lastly, if you are so far up your own ass that you believe that a vaccine is a “conspiracy” or that bleach is a “natural” cure for the virus, then please exit the gene pool and take your fellow nutters with you.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 1:48:14am

Looks like the Tories in the UK might be looking down the barrel of a pretty serious criminal incident. One of their own, a Member of Parliament and former government Minister, has been arrested for rape, though later released on bail.

A Conservative MP has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of rape.

The Sunday Times reported that the allegations against the former minister were made by an ex-parliamentary employee.

The Met Police said the allegations relate to four separate incidents alleged to have taken place between July 2019 and January 2020.

The Conservative Party said it takes such allegations “extremely seriously”.

The Sunday Times, which first reported the story, said the complainant alleges that the MP assaulted her, forced her to have sex and left her so traumatised that she had to go to hospital.

The Metropolitan Police said it had launched an investigation into the allegations.

bbc.com

As everyone can probably imagine, speculation is rife on various discussion boards. Because the MP in question has not been formally charged, he cannot yet be named.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2020 • 1:54:50am

re: #27 Dr Lizardo

Surprised the name hasn’t been leaked. Something like this has to involve lots of worker bees.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 1:58:07am

re: #27 Dr Lizardo

The Sunday Times, which first reported the story, said the complainant alleges that the MP assaulted her, forced her to have sex and left her so traumatised that she had to go to hospital.

This is ugly. Rape can be any form of non-consensual sex; force and violence need not necessarily be involved, but in this case, we are dealing with the most brutal form of physical assault.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:10:55am

re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Surprised the name hasn’t been leaked. Something like this has to involve lots of worker bees.

I’d bet that reporters covering the story likely know very well who it is, but they’re not going to name him because he’s obviously a prominent individual….sitting MP and former cabinet Minister and all.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:11:58am

re: #29 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is ugly. Rape can be any form of non-consensual sex; force and violence need not necessarily be involved, but in this case, we are dealing with the most brutal form of physical assault.

Yeah, this is a damned serious matter. This is far worse than your run-of-the-mill “I’m a naughty Tory” scandal.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:20:20am

re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Surprised the name hasn’t been leaked. Something like this has to involve lots of worker bees.

I should’ve added, there’s some clues in a brief Sky News article about this.

Sky News understands the MP was accused by a young woman who used to work in parliament.

He was arrested and taken to an east London police station on Saturday morning and was released on bail on Saturday night.

A police statement said: “On Friday 31 July, the Metropolitan Police Service received allegations relating to four separate incidents involving allegations of sexual offences and assault.

“These offences are alleged to have occurred at addresses in Westminster, Lambeth and Hackney between July 2019 and January 2020.

news.sky.com

Hackney is in East London. My guess is the accused either lives in Hackney or very close to it; in the Sunday Times article, it’s alleged that some of the offenses took place at his home, and he was arrested at home Saturday morning. He most likely would’ve been taken to his local cop shop.

That’s a clue that a good reporter could drop into the story, knowing that either a local from Hackney would figure out who it is or that an intrepid reader could sort it out.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:21:28am

re: #31 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, this is a damned serious matter. This is far worse than your run-of-the-mill “I’m a naughty Tory” scandal.

Nor can they attempt the classic “But it was consensual at the time!” ploy if there was hospitalization involved.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:32:31am

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

The list of former cabinet members who are still sitting MPs can’t be all that long. Certainly there has to be speculation about who it is.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:34:24am

In COVID-19 news, looks like Melbourne, Australia has been put into lockdown after a surge of cases.

The restrictions introduced to Victoria are as follows, says premier, Daniel Andrews:

“I have a new series of stage four restrictions to announce and I’ll do metro Melbourne first and go to the impacts for regional Victoria. That state of disaster is from 6pm tonight. Beyond that, the stay at home restrictions for metro Melbourne will be enhanced.”

“There will be additional limits to the four reasons to leave home. You will no longer be able to leave home and go any further away from your home than a 5km radius. You will not be able to be at any point more than 5km away from your home for the purposes of shopping for what you need. Only one person will be able to go shopping once per day and they will need to secure the goods and services that are what you need within a 5km radius. In terms of exercise, recreational activity is now no longer allowed. You will be able to have one hour of exercise, no further than 5km from your home. That means it’s fresh air. It’s a jog. It’s a walk. It’s in your local neighbourhood. It is staying close to home or in your home. And there will no longer be able to be groups any bigger than two, regardless of whether they’re from your family or someone else.”

theguardian.com

Oof.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:37:37am

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The list of former cabinet members who are still sitting MPs can’t be all that long. Certainly there has to be speculation about who it is.

Oh, yeah, there’s rampant speculation about who it was. I suppose we’ll find out in a couple of weeks; it’ll depend on whether the Metropolitan Police refer the case for prosecution. If they do, we’ll find out. And most likely, that MP will be under enormous political pressure to resign immediately, regardless of his guilt or innocence - and that might be worth watching in the next few days….see if a Tory MP has resigned and left the House of Commons.

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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:40:18am

re: #35 Dr Lizardo

In COVID-19 news, looks like Melbourne, Australia has been put into lockdown after a surge of cases.

theguardian.com

Oof.

They should end any statement like this with “Do this or we look like the USA within three weeks”.

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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:51:59am

I found a new favorite YouTube channel last night. A live cam from Duluth harbor (a companion channel for the lift bridge). I’m watching the sun rise on Lake Superior right now. I love the north shore.

Duluth Canal Cam

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Nojay UK  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:55:38am

re: #36 Dr Lizardo

The Met did not cover itself in glory in a previous case of claims of sexual assault of children laid against members of Parliament and others in the UK’s military and intelligence establishment, the Carl Beech affair.

They will be treading cautiously in the new case given the fallout from this.

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ozharas  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:56:41am

re: #37 stpaulbear

They should end any statement like this with “Do this or we look like the USA within three weeks”.

Oh we already do.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 2:58:08am

“A man in his 50s was arrested on Saturday 1 August on suspicion of rape. He has been released on bail to return on a date in mid-August.”

So that narrows it down to 90% of the Tory party, the rest being men in their 60’s and above…

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stpaulbear  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:00:22am

re: #40 ozharas

Oh we already do.

I’m so sorry that we’re the example to the world as to what happens when you do everything wrong. We’re a powerful lesson.

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Teukka  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:02:17am

re: #20 Dave In Austin

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:02:58am

re: #9 blueraven

If you don’t listen to the entire concert, and you should, at least listen to the last song…Man Without A Soul.

It’s obviously written for Trump and it’s devastating.

You’re a man without truth
A man of greed, a man of hate
A man of envy and doubt
You’re a man without a soul
….

Before there was Trump, before there was America, Trump was known to the ancients:

As for the fool unable to hear,
nothing can ever be done for him.
He sees wisdom as ignorance,
and what is good as what is painful.
He commits every error,
to be accused of it each day.
He lives on what one dies of,
corrupt speech is his food.
His character in this is well-known to the officials,
saying ‘living death’ each day.
His faults are passed over
from the sheer number of faults on him each day.
(Papyrus Prisse column 17, line 10 to column 18, line 12)

Ptah-hotep c.2350 BC

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:07:38am

Somehow, I missed this…..

Did Trump go to Walter Reed yesterday afternoon? I didn’t hear anything about it.

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John Hughes  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:07:42am

re: #136 Nojay UK

Name the first nuclear weapons test carried out after you were born, with yield (if any) and any other special features.

There were no tests the year I was born, the USA, USSR and UK were holding a moratorium.

The first test after my birth was the French Gerboise Bleue test in Algeria, 70 kilotons, the largest first test ever.

(The later Gerboise Vert test was more interesting as it took place during the failed anti-De Gaulle putsch, the rumour is that the test was rushed to avoid the bomb falling into the hands of the putschists, with the core of the bomb being smuggled across the desert in 2CV).

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:17:54am

re: #45 Dr Lizardo

Somehow, I missed this…..

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Did Trump go to Walter Reed yesterday afternoon? I didn’t hear anything about it.

Someone put up a tweet yesterday in which an experienced nurse spotted the fresh exfiltration of a needle site on his hand.

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Teukka  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:19:12am

re: #47 Decatur Deb

Someone put up a tweet yesterday in which an experienced nurse spotted the fresh exfiltration of a needle site on his hand.

So he had an IV line going, like fluids?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:20:11am

re: #48 Teukka

So he had an IV line going, like fluids?

I’ll try to find it. She described it as IV or injection site.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:20:47am

re: #47 Decatur Deb

Someone put up a tweet yesterday in which an experienced nurse spotted the fresh exfiltration of a needle site on his hand.

re: #48 Teukka

So he had an IV line going, like fluids?

Could’ve been dehydration - it happened to me many years ago. I’ve since improved on my hydration habits.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:35:25am

re: #48 Teukka

So he had an IV line going, like fluids?

Had to find it the hard way—yesterday was one big thread.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:42:34am

The nurse’s twitter thread has a lot of (hopeful) speculation.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:43:26am

re: #51 Decatur Deb

Yeah, that’s hinky. Could’ve been a bruise from a fall as well, though that seems to me like a damned odd place to get bruised.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 3:58:27am

This is fine:

Cuban community plans rally at NuLu restaurant in response to Black Lives Matter demands

courier-journal.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 4:02:55am

re: #51 Decatur Deb

I’m an ICU nurse so trust me - 45 has recently experienced a venopuncture for either blood work or an IV infusion of some kind. Only other possible reason for the large hand bruise would be a traumatic injury to the hand. There is no other plausible explanation.

and the dumb fuck did not have the sense to add some skin toner to cover it?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 4:23:47am

Daughter1 teaches English to Chinese elementary and middle school aged children in China. (Money is good, hours are ungodly.) In the very earliest days of the Wuhan outbreak, her online agent/principal asked her to ship unobtainable masks to her. Dau1 got a couple hundred Chinese-made masks sent to rural Alabama, then reshipped them to staff in a couple Chinese cities. Recently her schoolmistress offered to send a supply back.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 4:40:23am

hi

Today’s fights in the state.

a) A bowling alley ordered by the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department to close for twenty-four hours says it will defy the order and stay open. It was closed for violating the Health Department’s mask mandate.

The owner says adults are responsible for their own health.

Health inspectors found no enforcement of masks or social distancing, signs throughout the business saying masks are optional (they are required in Lincoln), and no employees wearing masks.

b) The big fight is over the state lottery’s disbursements. State lottery disbursements go to the Environmental Trust Fund, which doles out money for conservation projects in Nebraska.

The board defunded a handful of sites in June, and voted to move the entire $1.8 million dollar trust fund to buy ethanol blender pumps for commercial gasoline stations, a move pushed for by Governor Pete Ricketts (R-destroyer).

As such, an opposition group called the Friends of the Environmental Trust has formed to fight the Environmental Trust, arguing moving the money to commercial uses violates the law creating the state lottery thirty years ago.

The law permits the governor to appoint nine of the fourteen board members, and Ricketts has stuffed the board with ethanol boosters.

The Friends group is examining the June grant process, not ruling out either a lawsuit against the board and the state, or calling for a boycott of the state lottery.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 4:50:05am

The third fight in the state is over the passage of state Senator Ernie Chambers’s citizen police oversight board bill, now law.

Cities and police departments across the state vow to oppose setting up citizen commissions to oversee police departments, with the charge led by the Omaha Police and Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert (R-I turned the downtown streets to gravel in Omaha).

Mayor Stothert claimed she supported “local control” at a hearing in the state Public Affairs Committee. That meeting was cut short when the committee chair was notified a member of the committee was notified as being exposed to the novel coronavirus. The chairman cut the meeting short to limit exposure to others.

Community members from across Nebraska had previously testified in favour of the new law, naming several disturbing encounters with the police, violations of rights, or killings.

The Omaha Police chief said the bill undermines his authority; the police union said the bill gives them fewer rights than other workers.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 4:53:07am

Just saw a bit of an old thread flow through “Spy”, about TX teachers resisting and retiring. Alabama did a look at our public school teachers— 40% are in the high risk group, mostly from age. About 1/3 are retirement-eligible.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:09:06am

The Omaha Public School District made a press release urging Mayor Jean Stothert (R-wingnut) to impose a mandatory mask order on all Omaha schools before the start of the school year August 11.

The board noted in shade to the Omaha-Douglas County Health Director that the threat of a lawsuit should not prevent a government official from doing the right thing. The Public Health Director backed down from a mandatory mask order when the state Attorney General threatened to sue the Public Health Board.

Mayor Stothert is absolutely opposed to imposing any orders for health, saying those are up to the health board or the state.

It’s a good thing she was reëlected rather than the Democrat who was polling ahead of her until Daily Kos went on a rodent-copulating campaign against her opponent for a vote he made in the state legislature regarding abortion when he was a state senator years before. Voter turnout was depressed as Daily Kos led a campaign against Mayor Stothert’s opponent, allowing her to be reëlected.

The note I put up there about turning the downtown streets to gravel? She ordered that, arguing maintenance of paved streets is expensive and it was cheaper simply to grind them up. Omaha is now the largest city in the USA with unpaved downtown streets (population 400,000). In some residential areas, streets requiring paving were also ground up, causing people who lived on those streets to have to raise money or spend their own to pave the streets in front of their homes.

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ozharas  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:12:53am

Reality check here - we are going into a State of Disaster, because we were on the end of several weeks of 300-700 daily infections.

6 weeks of a hard lockdown - 8pm to 5am curfew, no leaving the house for more than an hour a day, mandatory masks, only within a 5 km radius of your home, 1 person per household for grocery shopping, online schooling for all students & daycare/kindergartens closed, except for children in vulnerable situations or of essential workers, work from home, all cafes, restaurants closed except for takeaway or delivery, etc.

Every public resource of our State and Federal government fully engaged - aggressive testing, public schools, police, ADF, federal income support etc.

Everyone I know is in all in - we can do this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:16:13am

re: #61 ozharas

Can I move to Victoria? The Attorney-General for Victoria isn’t going around threatening cities and government agencies with lawsuits if they impose mask orders, unlike the Attorney General of Nebraska.

MAGA: Make Assholes Go Away

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:36:43am

Primary election field set (more local news, goes to the Torrington, Wyo. Telegram)

The Wyoming Primary is August 18. In Torrington, it’s simply “the Primary” because the Democratic Party doesn’t exist there (it has been extinguished throughout most of Wyoming).

A person moved away from Torrington, leaving a seat open. Another person chose not to seek reëlection. City council in Torrington consists of a mayor and three councilmembers. Three people are vying for the two open seats.

The mayor says he will appoint whoever wins the Primary to fill the empty seat, as the city council needs a quorum to do business. New members by statute start their terms on January 1.

One Goshen County Commission seat is up for grabs. Three people have filed to run for the Primary. One candidate has launched an independent write-in campaign for that seat.

In Wyoming, except for very few places, winning the Primary means yours is the only name on the ballot for the General Election.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:57:01am

A letter to my regional newspaper I submitted just now, regarding the questionable use of lottery funds, the Scottsbluff Star-Herald. Let’s see if they print it, since they didn’t carry the article about the state lottery.

The Omaha World-Herald today reports that several influential Nebraskans have formed Friends of the Nebraska Environmental Trust. They seek to examine the grants awarded by the state lottery for conservation projects, particularly awarding the entire $1.8 million dollars to commercially-owned gasoline stations to purchase ethanol blender pumps.

Governor Ricketts is a big booster of ethanol production, and feels this is an appropriate expenditure of grant money for commercial endeavors rather than conservation as set forth in the law.

All ninety-three counties have benefited from the state lottery’s grant program for conservation projects. It is questionable at best whether business handouts from the fund count as environmentalism.

The Friends group is considering a lawsuit. I will consider a boycott of the lottery. I can buy tickets in Colorado or Wyoming when I want them.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 5:59:45am

From one of the top reporters on epidemics:

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jeffreyw  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:05:47am

Black Swallowtail

Good morning!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:08:51am

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:10:34am

re: #65 Barefoot Grin

I’m blaming the Trump administration. All of this is on them. They have done nothing but lie, hide the truth, create huge amounts of disinformation and conspiracy theories and figured out how to use a pandemic to launder money and make a profit off the deaths caused by their inaction. They’ve created a monster in their followers who refuse to care and spread this disease and made it a pandemic. And exported this disgusting shit to other countries. They are genocidal and spiteful and there have to be consequences. If there’s any of us left to make sure that happens.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:13:57am

re: #68 A Mom Anon

I’m blaming the Trump administration. All of this is on them. They have done nothing but lie, hide the truth, create huge amounts of disinformation and conspiracy theories and figured out how to use a pandemic to launder money and make a profit off the deaths caused by their inaction. They’ve created a monster in their followers who refuse to care and spread this disease and made it a pandemic. And exported this disgusting shit to other countries. They are genocidal and spiteful and there have to be consequences. If there’s any of us left to make sure that happens.

We’ve been doing relatively well in NH, but I expect that to turn around when the effects of tourists and massive numbers of motorcycle visitors come for “bike week” in Laconia in late August. Those are not the kind of folks who wear helmets, not to mention masks.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:13:58am

re: #65 Barefoot Grin

From one of the top reporters on epidemics:

Might I suggest reading this, a book on business and conservatives in general, from Amazon:

Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson, for Kindle, by audiobook, in paperback, and in hardcover.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:17:42am

re: #68 A Mom Anon

I’m blaming the Trump administration. All of this is on them. They have done nothing but lie, hide the truth, create huge amounts of disinformation and conspiracy theories and figured out how to use a pandemic to launder money and make a profit off the deaths caused by their inaction. They’ve created a monster in their followers who refuse to care and spread this disease and made it a pandemic. And exported this disgusting shit to other countries. They are genocidal and spiteful and there have to be consequences. If there’s any of us left to make sure that happens.

There is no reporting in the Nebraska Panhandle over the weekends, but the rise here has been trending slower (albeit not slow enough), unlike the rest of the state.

Currently 2 are in hospital out of 53 ill, and 432 total cases. The largest age group is 40-49 followed by 20-29, then 10-19 (but all are very close together).

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wrenchwench  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:23:32am

re: #66 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

The butterfly changes, but the flower remains the same.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:24:30am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Do we have a link showing that they’re trying to pass that off as the official photo.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:26:13am

re: #73 Belafon

It looks like in the tweet thread that it’s meant as a joke, more of a preemptive thing.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:26:19am

re: #73 Belafon

It’s fake.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:30:04am

re: #69 Barefoot Grin

Yeah, and Sturgis is ramping up too. Then those fools will go home and make more cases. Dr. Irwin Redlener is predicting 800k deaths by year’s end. One of his specialties is disaster planning (he’s a pediatrician that focuses on underserved kids getting proper medical care) and his figures are probably on the money if we cannot get our shit together. Which we can’t. Obviously.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:31:30am

re: #73 Belafon

Do we have a link showing that they’re trying to pass that off as the official photo.

It is apparently a hoax. I have deleted the above comment. I could not find it on the official White House Press Release or Instagram pages. Other people on Twitter are calling out for a source and the original poster has not responded.

We don’t need hoax photographs; the turnout was objectively bad by any measure without them. However, they give ammunition to those who would try to both-siderise information as “they all lie.”

My apologies for not thoroughly vetting the photograph first.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:33:38am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:35:57am

re: #76 A Mom Anon

A bunch of folks who go to Sturgis, So. Dak. drive right through my town in both directions. They will stop at the general store for gasoline or munchies, or the bar in the evenings, or camp in the city park (that’s allowed in my town).

So far my town has no cases; I’d prefer if we kept it that way.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:40:27am
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Weaselone  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:44:20am

re: #78 Belafon

This is actually really stupid.
1. The good doctor apparently doesn’t know what “incentivize” means.
2. Increases in testing turnaround time are related to exploding demands for testing due to the coronavirus spikes in multiple states, while the ability to scale up production is heavily constrained by the lack of trained lab techs, testing equipment and testing materials. Demanding a 3 day turnaround at this point just means that for legitimate labs there will be some combination of rejecting tests and sloppiness. In other words, we’ll end up with increasingly incomplete/inaccurate results.
3. I’m sure there are nearly bankrupt sewing machine needle manufacturers and startup companies that would be happy to fill the testing gap. Their testing methodology will almost certainly not involve rolling dice or drawing sample numbers out of a hat.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:49:11am

re: #76 A Mom Anon

Yeah, and Sturgis is ramping up too. Then those fools will go home and make more cases. Dr. Irwin Redlener is predicting 800k deaths by year’s end. One of his specialties is disaster planning (he’s a pediatrician that focuses on underserved kids getting proper medical care) and his figures are probably on the money if we cannot get our shit together. Which we can’t. Obviously.

Yes, my wife—who does elder care for her job—had a brief cry this morning. It’s not just that one of her clients went to a small family reunion in Maine, and that several of the family came up from NC, but also that, in her words, “the solution is straightforward and simple, but it can’t be done in this country.” She’s better now, but it’s so hard not being able to travel to our own families.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:49:31am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:50:33am

That trend started here before the epidemic, which is part of what’s helping us turn the area more blue. Housing, food, and utilities are a fraction of what they are in big cities. The downside is if you’re really into city amenities, it’s a long way to Denver (Cheyenne doesn’t really count).

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 6:53:24am

re: #50 Dr Lizardo

Could’ve been dehydration - it happened to me many years ago. I’ve since improved on my hydration habits.

Or Typhoid Don got a mild case of the ‘Rona months ago at Mar-a-Plagueo and is getting plasma.

There’s no way he doesn’t have (or had) it. People all around him for months have gotten it after being with him (think the entire Brazilian entourage in, what, February… March?)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:00:07am

re: #81 Weaselone

My understanding is a test over three days old if not processed is worthless.

One wonders if higher, but not 100% turnaround, would be an improvement.

At the start of this, when Covid-19 first came into the Panhandle on April 1, my wife popped into the general store (wearing a mask). In the store was a member of the state epidemiology team from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

After he thanked her for wearing a mask (that idea wasn’t pushed in Nebraska at all then), she struck up a conversation with him, asking what he was doing way the hell out here from Omaha.

He noted he was taking Covid-19 test samples from several hospitals in the area back to Omaha. Because of the three-day limit, that means driving hundreds of miles every day to get the samples in.

They still do it that way today. Every couple days a driver from UNMC will come through the Panhandle collecting samples for the state lab. While there are labs two hundred miles closer in Cheyenne and Wyoming, they also have their own problems within their own states.

There is more to speeding up testing than equipment or trained lab technicians. Hiring more people to do mundane tasks such as paperwork or driving relieves trained personnel from those tasks, giving them more time to work on what they were trained to do, &c.

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:09:08am
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sagehen  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:09:09am

I’ve been watching YouTube of Pompeo and Barr trying to avoid answering whether the president can change the date of the election, and various senators and TV anchors keep pointing out that no he can’t, it was set by Congress in 1845 and only Congress can change it…

And I can’t help but think of the bullet we dodged by winning the midterms. If the House were still in Republican hands, you know that’s something they would have done.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:15:37am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Your tax dollars at work creating propaganda, this time over Trump’s Tampa rally’s failure to get it up.

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It’s supposedly satire.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:16:39am

re: #88 sagehen

I’ve been watching YouTube of Pompeo and Barr trying to avoid answering whether the president can change the date of the election, and various senators and TV anchors keep pointing out that no he can’t, it was set by Congress in 1845 and only Congress can change it…

And I can’t help but think of the bullet we dodged by winning the midterms. If the House were still in Republican hands, you know that’s something they would have done.

Shit, I still wanna know how Trump can ban TikTok.

Maybe it’s a good thing I’m not a CEO or anything like that, because if Trump said that about my company, I’d call a press conference that would go like this.

“Thank you all for coming. I just want to say, in response to President Trump’s threat to ban my business, go eat a bag of dicks old man” and then leave the podium.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:18:11am

re: #80 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Ivanka Trump Earned $4 Million From Family’s Hotel While Employed By White House

HUNTER BIDEN!!!

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:18:52am

re: #61 ozharas

Reality check here - we are going into a State of Disaster, because we were on the end of several weeks of 300-700 daily infections.

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6 weeks of a hard lockdown - 8pm to 5am curfew, no leaving the house for more than an hour a day, mandatory masks, only within a 5 km radius of your home, 1 person per household for grocery shopping, online schooling for all students & daycare/kindergartens closed, except for children in vulnerable situations or of essential workers, work from home, all cafes, restaurants closed except for takeaway or delivery, etc.

Every public resource of our State and Federal government fully engaged - aggressive testing, public schools, police, ADF, federal income support etc.

Everyone I know is in all in - we can do this.

Fwiw, here

The first quasi-lockdowns in March occurred when we had a total of 50,000 cases in the entire country.
Now we’re adding more than that every day and a large fraction of folks are going about their business like everythingis normal

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:19:50am

re: #84 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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That trend started here before the epidemic, which is part of what’s helping us turn the area more blue. Housing, food, and utilities are a fraction of what they are in big cities. The downside is if you’re really into city amenities, it’s a long way to Denver (Cheyenne doesn’t really count).

On the other hand, once more people start moving away from the cities, amenities will follow…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:21:47am

re: #89 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s supposedly satire.

I deleted it and apologised for not fact-checking the photograph at #77

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:22:18am

re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[deleted by me]

I don’t get it

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:24:46am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

On the other hand, once more people start moving away from the cities, amenities will follow…

Credit cards. Cell service. Paved roads. Cable television service. UPS (wait, they’re not really much of a service and aren’t cheaper than the Post Office).

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:25:05am

re: #79 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A bunch of folks who go to Sturgis, So. Dak. drive right through my town in both directions. They will stop at the general store for gasoline or munchies, or the bar in the evenings, or camp in the city park (that’s allowed in my town).

So far my town has no cases; I’d prefer if we kept it that way.

Roadblocks

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:26:09am

re: #95 dangerman

I don’t get it

I posted a tweet of someone showing an altered photograph of Donald Trump’s shindig in Tampa, which alleged they pasted in more people than were there and officially released it.

That was false, so I deleted it and apologised for failure to check before posting it.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:28:26am

Fun with Florida:

Tampa-area DIL, who tested positive last month, did not get very sick—just a couple weeks of bad flu. A follow-up test was negative, for what it’s worth. Son2 still cannot get a test authorized in FL, after sharing a house with the bug for a month.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:28:53am

I award this one yike.

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Weaselone  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:28:54am

re: #86 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The 3-day limit is true from the perspective of contact tracing and preventing the spread of the virus. Honestly, you want the results as quickly as possible, so you can begin contact tracing and so the person who tests positive will quarantine themselves. The longer the delays, the harder it is to contact trace, the more additional contacts the person has had and the harder it is to convince the person being tested to quarantine until they get the results.

I agree that there are probably other things that can be done to speed up testing, but I doubt that the individuals doing the tests are doing general paperwork or driving around the samples. To identify that we would need to look at the where the bottlenecks in the process are.

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Nojay UK  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:29:18am

re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Do you still have to truck in daylight where you live?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:30:02am

re: #97 dangerman

Roadblocks

Giant hay bale rolls ought to do for that.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:31:38am

re: #102 Nojay UK

Do you still have to truck in daylight where you live?

LOL. In reality we just use a 300W light bulb and call it the sun.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:36:30am

More Fun from Florida:

After 15 weeks of strict self-quarantine, I will drive Wife to the Panhandle tomorrow, to escort Grandkid4 on a flight to Denver. He was stuck in N FL for the Summer to satisfy an Alabama custody arrangement.

Current Mood—Homicidal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:37:22am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Are people from Nashville called Nash-villains or did I just come up with something creative?

If people from Moscow are Muscovites, then are people from Paris called Parisites?

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:38:52am

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I posted a tweet of someone showing an altered photograph of Donald Trump’s shindig in Tampa, which alleged they pasted in more people than were there and officially released it.

That was false, so I deleted it and apologised for failure to check before posting it.

I read ahead and figured I’d get this kind of answer. ;-)
It was an early morning joke that I guess no one thought was funny except me

Sometimes I’m so lonely

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:39:03am

re: #105 Decatur Deb

More Fun from Florida:

After 15 weeks of strict self-quarantine, I will drive Wife to the panhandle to escort Grandkid4 on a flight to Denver. He was stuck in N FL for the Summer to satisfy an Alabama custody arrangement.

Current Mood—Homicidal.

Alabama getaway!

Grateful Dead - Alabama Getaway (Studio version)

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:41:27am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

lol. You live in Europe and you know better. Parisienne I think is what the residents call themselves.

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Weaselone  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:41:44am

re: #65 Barefoot Grin

From one of the top reporters on epidemics:

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This is what surrender looks like. The states in the Northeast will be hard pressed to remain exceptions given that we are reopening, can’t control are borders and the virus is rampaging everywhere else.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:43:31am

re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If people from Moscow are Muscovites, then are people from Paris called Parisites?

Always called the people around me “Alabamans”. The correct word is “Alabamians”. That wouldn’t be so irritating if I lived in Alabamia.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:46:13am

re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trash fire. I know autistic women, and she didn’t sound fake to me. It never occurred to me. And “extra clout on social media”. I’M AUTISTIC! In the immoral words of Whitey Bulger, “WHERE’S MINE?!” //

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:46:21am

re: #111 Decatur Deb

Always called the people around me “Alabamans”. The correct word is “Alabamians”. That wouldn’t be so irritating if I lived in Alabamia.

They used to refer to “Texians” as well.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:47:07am

re: #53 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that’s hinky. Could’ve been a bruise from a fall as well, though that seems to me like a damned odd place to get bruised.

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Dun’t know, I had a bruise in almost that exact spot last week, was making dinner and spun around to grab something and whacked my hand on the corner of the kitchen island. Bruise didn’t look that ugly, but I am also not 74 years old.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:47:41am

…

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:48:15am

re: #114 danarchy

Dun’t know, I had a bruise in almost that exact spot last week, was making dinner and spun around to grab something and whacked my hand on the corner of the kitchen island. Bruise didn’t look that ugly, but I am also not 74 years old.

Well yeah, but you actually do stuff. 😁

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Nojay UK  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:48:23am

re: #109 PhillyPretzel

Parisiennes call themselves “Superieur” mostly.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:50:42am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They used to refer to “Texians” as well.

Where I live we’re referred to as “Wyobraskans” and the area as “Wyobraska.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:51:16am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And another who gets one yike.

Men, if a woman accuses you of rape, even if you didn’t do it, you shut up, and accept the charges, women have been systematically oppressed for years and you giving up some years of your freedom doesn’t compare to the oppression they’ve been through.

?!?

Is this designed to yank chains and send Incels and Men’s Rights Activists back to the barricades?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:52:27am

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Where I live we’re referred to as “Wyobraskans” and the area as “Wyobraska.”

Texarkanans, Calexicans and Mexicalians…

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:52:30am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Sounds like sarcasm that is too subtle for the medium.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:52:31am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sounds like a troll working for the MRA side.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:54:15am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And another who gets one yike.

She is a Canadian women’s activist.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:54:50am

re: #78 Belafon

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If labs can’t keep up with testing volume, it seems threatening to not pay them may make them faster, but it may also make them sloppy. Somehow I don’t think they are purposely sitting on tests for days. How about giving them the resources they need, or better yet provide the resources to set up government testing facilities

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:57:39am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

?!?

Is this designed to yank chains and send Incels and Men’s Rights Activists back to the barricades?

I think it’s a man posing as a woman.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:57:49am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And another who gets one yike.

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She is a Canadian women’s activist.

That person isn’t real, in terms of seriousness. Read their timeline. This is more like how the Christan Wife you posted about yesterday would view a feminist. Or a dude playing dress up.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:58:51am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think it’s a man posing as a woman.

Transjestite?

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:59:05am

re: #123 Colère Tueur de Lapin

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We all have our crosses to bear.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:59:19am

re: #123 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That’s two deletions for me in less than an hour. I’m really giving a poor showing this morning.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 7:59:25am

re: #127 Decatur Deb

It’s a troll-op.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:00:48am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think it’s a man posing as a woman.

Because a lot of people are unable to distinguish an Internet presence from a real human being…

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:01:05am

re: #66 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

WPA art
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:01:19am

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s two deletions for me in less than an hour. I’m really giving a poor showing this morning.

Don’t sweat it… It gives us something to talk about.

Don’t delete them, just update the post to say it’s bullshit or whatever. I mean we’re all engaged, right?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:02:07am

re: #130 jaunte

It’s a troll-op.

Lady of the Might.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:02:23am

re: #131 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because a lot of people are unable to distinguish an Internet presence from a real human being…

We’re real? All of us?

I think I’m having an existential crisis right now. /

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:02:54am

re: #129 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s two deletions for me in less than an hour. I’m really giving a poor showing this morning.

The only reason I went looking is because it seemed reasonable and I wanted to see what other crazy she had posted. Everything is a Poe, now.

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Nojay UK  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:03:31am

re: #124 danarchy

Somehow I don’t think they are purposely sitting on tests for days. How about giving them the resources they need, or better yet provide the resources to set up government testing facilities

One thing is that the labs carrying out RT-PCR swab testing deal with multiple streams of tests — they’ve got swabs coming in from parking-lot drive-in collection sites in batches every few hours as well as individual rush tests for hospital admission triage units which get prioritised. The samples from folks who aren’t immediately suffering symptoms get put to the back of the queue(s) and done when there’s capacity on the machines, spare technician time, consumables etc.

More testing is great but standing that testing up in a hurry is not easy — it’s a bit like the idea that a woman can carry a child to birth in nine months but nine women can’t do this in a single month. It’s not just the RT-PCR machines, it’s the sterile lab space, the trained technicians, availability of consumables, administration and notification processes etc. A big push to massively increase testing at the beginning of the slow-rolling disaster would have been a good idea but that was then and this is now.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:03:32am

re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We’re real? All of us?

I think I’m having an existential crisis right now. /

I feel real. I did realize how much I miss live music today though.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:03:36am

re: #111 Decatur Deb

Always called the people around me “Alabamans”. The correct word is “Alabamians”. That wouldn’t be so irritating if I lived in Alabamia.

A perpetual question: are people from Michigan “Michiganians” or “Michiganders”? Or as they call us in Israel משוגים (“Mishugah”)

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:03:42am

Someone’s getting stuck with a ton of Hydroxychloroquine.

“…Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health who coordinates the administration’s coronavirus testing, said Sunday that there is no evidence that hydroxychloroquine is an “effective” treatment for COVID-19, despite President Donald Trump’s repeated boosting of the drug over objections from experts.

In an interview on “Meet the Press,” Giroir did not specifically mention the president, but he made clear that the scientific consensus is that the drug does not help treat the disease.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:04:03am

re: #136 Colère Tueur de Lapin

The only reason I went looking is because it seemed reasonable and I wanted to see what other crazy she had posted. Everything is a Poe, now.

Poor Edgar Allen.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:05:28am

re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

On the other hand, once more people start moving away from the cities, amenities will follow…

There is only so much that can happen. Some things just require a certain population density to be viable. Most cities have a theater district, in the burbs you will be lucky to have a community theater etc.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:06:05am

re: #139 The Pie Overlord!

A perpetual question: are people from Michigan “Michiganians” or “Michiganders”? Or as they call us in Israel משוגים (“Mishugah”)

My neighbors in Ra’anana called me mishugah, and I deployed from Ft. Rucker.

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A Cranky One  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:06:51am

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:08:52am

re: #94 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Woke up I the wrong side of the bed rant:

I think they are called “Moochers” taking more Federal dollars than they pay

At least this taxpaying Californian thinks that way

And I swear it would not bug me at all but for the Tennessee tendency to elect officials who whine about evil socialism as default tone.
Idea: let’s pass the end socialism act and stipulate that a state gets paid out what they pay in.

Maybe Nebraska can afford to pave the roads again, Anymouse

Lets watch the vaunted fiscal hawks running those “Taker” places start to fly erratic and crap everywhere when Fed dollars evaporatorate, and us socialists out in Cali can try true internal socialism we are accused of rather than the Federal socialism we’ve provided for 100 years

Okay. Rant over. I know that plan would be bad for America but damn the American strain of cognitive dissonance gets my goat sometimes

The coffee has fully kicked in and I wish all a great day

November 2018 Ventura, California Moonrise
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:09:18am

re: #133 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Don’t sweat it… It gives us something to talk about.

Don’t delete them, just update the post to say it’s bullshit or whatever. I mean we’re all engaged, right?

I delete them if I have time when I find I’m wrong. I’ll post an apology and what I got wrong in a new comment though, to avoid:

a) New person starts reading down the thread
b) Sees faulty comment, checks it out.
c) Thinks “Dammit Anymouse you Irredeemable Fuquewitte, here’s the correct information.”
d) Repeat several times with other people.

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Jay C  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:09:21am

re: #132 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Western good morning!

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Pretty strange relief there: looks like - ? - a postal inspector checking out a package while a mailman cuts his coattail off??
(Must be in a Post Office….)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:11:12am

re: #145 So Cal Greek Hippie

That’s a good idea, the “end socialism act.”

Nebraska is one of the few red states which pays more than it receives (but not nearly as much more as California or Massachusetts).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:14:39am

re: #142 danarchy

There is only so much that can happen. Some things just require a certain population density to be viable. Most cities have a theater district, in the burbs you will be lucky to have a community theater etc.

For stage theatre, the nearest one for us is the Goshen County Players in Torrington, Wyoming (about 100 miles).

For movie theatres we have two which are sixty miles away, both single screen: The Fox in Sidney, and The Midwest in Scottsbluff (they only play classic films).

Covid has shut both theatres, but The Midwest has set up a new drive-in theatre at the airport which is a big success so far.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:19:19am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:21:03am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:21:45am

re: #142 danarchy

There is only so much that can happen. Some things just require a certain population density to be viable. Most cities have a theater district, in the burbs you will be lucky to have a community theater etc.

Yep, but the cool thing would be is that you could move to a city if you wanted to always go to the theater. If you’re ok with streaming movies (if we put the correct infrastructure
in place) and getting stuff in the mail, you could live further out.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:22:01am

re: #147 Jay C

Pretty strange relief there: looks like - ? - a postal inspector checking out a package while a mailman cuts his coattail off??
(Must be in a Post Office….)

Outside of a post office. The inspector is wearing some kind of coverall (no coattails), and the guy bending over is holding a bag.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:23:24am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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So you know how Trump talks about a silent majority. That’s what Joe actually has. I don’t own any Biden merch but my vote for Joe counts just as much as Jesse’s vote for Trumps withering corpse.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:24:46am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s a good idea, the “end socialism act.”

Nebraska is one of the few red states which pays more than it receives (but not nearly as much more as California or Massachusetts).

California has been getting more back than they are giving for a couple years… barely. There are only 10 states currently sending more to the fed than they get back.

usatoday.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:24:58am

re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We’re real? All of us?

I think I’m having an existential crisis right now. /

I am an Internet presence here. The person behind that Internet presence happens to correspond fairly closely to who I really am, at least on this site…

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:25:09am
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:25:11am

Morning Lizardim.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:25:14am

It was like that in the primaries too. All the bs about Bernie’s crowds and Biden won big. I don’t need a fucking circus around my President. I value competency and experience. Something we haven’t had since 1/19/17.

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mmmirele  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:25:49am

Just something different for today…this retired Japanese guy (Shibasaki) does painting on YouTube. He started out with watercolors, expanded to acrylics and today uses cheap oil pastels from the 100 yen shop to paint. He has a very calming voice, the background music is unobtrusive, and the subtitles are superb. It’s kind of like watching Bob Ross, but in Japanese and without happy little trees.

【100円画材】100圴のクレヨンでまともに描けるの？？ 画家 柴﨑春通が検証してみた / ダイソーの画材 / 夏休みの宿題におすすめ

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:26:12am

re: #140 jaunte

BRETT GIROIR: “At this point in time, there has been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine. So, at this point in time, we don’t recommend that as a treatment. There’s no evidence to show that it is.”

Time to start digging into Brett Giroir’s connections to Big Pharma, Soros, Bill Gates, etc….

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:27:13am

[no not that one, people would think I’m weird]

[no, not that one either, an explanation of “it’s research for Romance novels” would get me all the eyerolls]

[no, not that other one, people would start to get the idea after the first two I really watch some explicit stuff]

“Spaceballs”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:27:44am

re: #142 danarchy

There is only so much that can happen. Some things just require a certain population density to be viable. Most cities have a theater district, in the burbs you will be lucky to have a community theater etc.

Of course, there are some institutions that require major urban centers, but I simply mean things like a lively local arts, music or (community) theater scene.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:29:17am

re: #160 mmmirele

Thanks that sounds interesting. I still prefer Bob Ross and I do like the happy clouds and trees. :)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:31:06am

re: #157 jaunte

The fact we’re even considering sending everyone back to work and reopening schools WITHOUT A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO LIMIT CLASS SIZE, HIRE EXTRA STAFF, BUILD AUXILLIARY FACILITIES, etc., when we expect 300,000 dead and millions with long-term damage to internal organs by the end of the year is patently insane.

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Jay C  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:33:17am

re: #150 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Bumper stickers, huh?
OK then….

This sounds like the sort of Fox News “polling analysis” that tries to convince its viewership that a neighborhood that has two houses with one Biden sign each in the yard, vs. one house with twenty Trump signs (and a flag!) is proof-positive that Trump is going to outpoll Biden in that neighborhood by 20-2 .

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:33:18am

re: #155 danarchy

Interesting. Must look closer before I rant next time. Or at least wait for the coffee before posting 😑

On the 100 year tend:

Most years 5-9 states pay more and the rest are neutral and or get extra than they pay

Most “taker” states are along the major rivers or coasts and a lot of the federal funding goes into waterway management type things it seems

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:33:20am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:33:29am

re: #140 jaunte

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:33:59am

Something I’m learning both in my personal ordeals and through the pandemic: Sometimes, things happen that completely redefine “normal”. The problem is, we as human beings are absolutely shit at figuring out when these things happen, and how to handle them. Our desire for comfort and status quo is so strong that we are willing to go to (sometimes literally) insane lengths to try to maintain them. In the case of the Republicans, it’s because their stranglehold on power in the “old normal” was so strong that they are terrified, now, that the “new normal” will bring about an end to the de facto oligarchy over which they have reigned for nearly 40 years. It’s going to be a long, drawn-out fight to establish that the “new normal” is, in fact, normal.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:37:58am

re: #155 danarchy

California has been getting more back than they are giving for a couple years… barely. There are only 10 states currently sending more to the fed than they get back.

usatoday.com

Hmm, interesting list. I wonder how California went from a net “giver” state to a net (barely) “taker” state.

The only three red states listed as giver states are New Hampshire, North Dakota (I suppose that would be from the fracking industry there), and Nebraska.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:38:39am

re: #153 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Outside of a post office. The inspector is wearing some kind of coverall (no coattails), and the guy bending over is holding a bag.

Has a Diego Rivera vibe.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:39:19am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hmm, interesting list. I wonder how California went from a net “giver” state to a net (barely) “taker” state.

The only three red states listed as giver states are New Hampshire, North Dakota (I suppose that would be from the fracking industry there), and Nebraska.

Could have something to do with the federal aid for the fires of late. Just a guess, not actual numbers.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:41:18am

re: #173 danarchy

Could have something to do with the federal aid for the fires of late. Just a guess, not actual numbers.

Or increased military spending/payroll—that’s counted in some schemes.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:41:20am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:41:43am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Something I’m learning both in my personal ordeals and through the pandemic: Sometimes, things happen that completely redefine “normal”.

Expecting people to put their lives at risk to enable 1% of the population to be able to maintain their 40% of America’s wealth is not normal.

And again, people do not “die of poverty”: they die from improper nutrition, shelter and medical care because our society has decided that poor people do not deserve access to these resources.

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mmmirele  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:42:44am

re: #166 Jay C

Bumper stickers, huh?
OK then….

This sounds like the sort of Fox News “polling analysis” that tries to convince its viewership that a neighborhood that has two houses with one Biden sign each in the yard, vs. one house with twenty Trump signs (and a flag!) is proof-positive that Trump is going to outpoll Biden in that neighborhood by 20-2 .

It’s like those boat parades Trump keeps going on about.

It also doesn’t take into account people like me who got it hammered into us by our parents that bumper stickers were (a) declasse and (b) hard as hell to pull off once they’d been on your car for a while. Basically, it was the car version of getting a tattoo and don’t do it!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:43:18am

re: #175 A Mom Anon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:43:34am

re: #177 mmmirele

It’s like those boat parades Trump keeps going on about.

It also doesn’t take into account people like me who got it hammered into us by our parents that bumper stickers were (a) declasse and (b) hard as hell to pull off once they’d been on your car for a while. Basically, it was the car version of getting a tattoo and don’t do it!

Or living in a place where people will roll your car over if you have the wrong bumper sticker on it.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:46:01am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Matrix (I could play a part right now, I can quote full dialog I’ve watched it so many times.

Live Free or Die Hard

The Princess Bride

The Shawshank Redemption

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:46:11am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Expecting people to put their lives at risk to enable 1% of the population to be able to maintain their 40% of America’s wealth is not normal.

And again, people do not “die of poverty”: they die from improper nutrition, shelter and medical care because our society has decided that poor people do not deserve access to these resources.

No, but that’s my point. To the Republicans, maintaining 40% of America’s wealth in a powerful few is “normal”. They are so strongly attached to that “normal reality” that they are willing to literally put people to death for it. That sounds insane - and it is - but to me, it’s the deep-seated psychological need they have to keep the life they used to have. It is a symptom of their complete moral failure and lack of empathy that the deaths of millions do not weigh heavier on their conscience than the destruction of their normality.

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:46:49am

re: #172 Decatur Deb

Has a Diego Rivera vibe.

Diego Rivera was a New Deal artist.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:47:58am

re: #177 mmmirele

It’s like those boat parades Trump keeps going on about.

It also doesn’t take into account people like me who got it hammered into us by our parents that bumper stickers were (a) declasse and (b) hard as hell to pull off once they’d been on your car for a while. Basically, it was the car version of getting a tattoo and don’t do it!

We use a lot of magnetics—in fact we have magnetic matrices that we put under conventional bumper stickers, varying season by season. Doesn’t work for my old Land Rover, though—it’s mostly aluminum.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:48:12am

Considerate of them to use the crosswalk.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:50:35am

re: #184 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:51:22am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

At least they’re not moose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:51:37am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

We have a salamander crossing between two neighboring villages.

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unproven innocence  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:52:03am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Bambi (9x).

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:52:20am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

We have both. It’s best when they’re kept apart.

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Targetpractice  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:53:11am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Star Trek films. Yes, all of them. Yes, even the ego project whose name we do not speak.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:55:30am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Star Wars (A New Hope) and Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:56:29am

re: #115 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

…

still dont get it ;-)

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:57:34am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Star Wars (the original trilogy)
The Lord of the Rings (barely, but I’ve marathon-watched the extended editions a few times, plus watching the originals in theaters)

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:57:56am

re: #191 PhillyPretzel

Star Wars (A New Hope) and Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson version)

The big question is how many times you’ve watched Downton Abbey. 😉

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:59:18am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

[no not that one, people would think I’m weird]

[no, not that one either, an explanation of “it’s research for Romance novels” would get me all the eyerolls]

[no, not that other one, people would start to get the idea after the first two I really watch some explicit stuff]

“Spaceballs”

There are really too many, any of the original star wars movies, most marvel movies, princess bride, most 80s/90s action flicks, The never ending story and on and on. With HBO back in the day you ended up watching the same movies alot.

Not a particularly interesting question, although I am willing to bet Schindler’s list will be on almost nobody’s list. That’s one of those movies you have to watch once, but doesn’t really have a lot of replayability.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:59:41am

re: #194 Teddy’s Person

I have watched the movie quite a few times but not nearly as many times as Sense and Sensibility.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 8:59:48am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Groundhog Day.

But maybe only once. 🤣

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:00:08am

re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I think it’s a man posing as a woman.

soon you’ll get to a woman pretending to be a man impersonating a woman…

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lizardofid  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:00:27am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

[no not that one, people would think I’m weird]

[no, not that one either, an explanation of “it’s research for Romance novels” would get me all the eyerolls]

[no, not that other one, people would start to get the idea after the first two I really watch some explicit stuff]

“Spaceballs”

Lawrence of Arabia.

Hello everyone!

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:00:43am

AL just checked into Worldometer with a daily high record (2,095) and a very high fatal count (24). That’s really bad because our state numbers are very sensitive to low weekend reporting

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:01:07am

re: #190 Targetpractice

Wife and I are big Trek fans. We went to Star Trek, the Experience at Las Vegas Hilton many years ago. Love TOS, DS9, and most of Next Generation. But that series became a check cashing enterprise (pun intended) at the end

Really like the movies except:

Star Trek V kind of wanders. I liked only enough to watch once

First Contact did not move the Needle and I saw it right after the hype of the Experience

The reboot Star Trek Second movie. That one went to the bad security practice as a plot mover well once too often for my cynical taste

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:01:20am

re: #197 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Groundhog Day.

But maybe only once. 🤣

I see what you did there! 😁

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:01:32am

re: #200 Decatur Deb

AL just checked into Worldometer with a daily high record (2,095) and a very high fatal count (24). That’s really bad because our state numbers are very sensitive to low weekend reporting

Ours too, but late last week we leveled off at a 5% new positive rate, that I’m hoping will come slowly down this week as the effects of the governor’s mandatory mask order kick in.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:01:52am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Kelly’s Heroes

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:02:10am

California GOP Hispanic Assembly Chair.

The New Jerusalem Bible is the most popular Catholic Bible outside the USA. (Inside the USA Catholics generally use the New American Bible.)

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:04:25am

Destiny (1920), Nosferatu (the silent version), Notting Hill, Rocky Horror… I’m sure there are more, but those come to mind.

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:05:23am

re: #168 The Pie Overlord!

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shorter:

Yes we can. (Full stop)

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Decatur Deb  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:06:46am

re: #207 dangerman

shorter:

Yes we can. (Full stop)

[Embedded content]

Somehow, Mnuchin looks more natural in a mask.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:06:49am

re: #170 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s fear of change. I see it here in Czech Republic as well. Industry here is largely on the automotive sector, and that sector and a good many politicians are fighting tooth and nail and electromobility. Mostly because the wide-scale introduction of electric cars would basically put the downstream auto related industry pretty much out of business. They’re also fighting against the EU’s version of the “Green New Deal” because again, a lot of the industrial base here is, quite frankly, only about a decade away from being hopelessly obsolete - and they lack the vision to bring their industries into a new ear.

Right now, things are okay. But in a decade or two, if they don’t put the pedal to the metal and start changing things now, this country’s gonna be in a world of hurt.

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:08:01am

re: #199 lizardofid

Lawrence of Arabia.

Hello everyone!

one of my top 5 faves
seen it more times than i can count

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:08:36am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:09:19am

Here’s a crazy idea: How about paying them MORE to work?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:09:44am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Blade Runner.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:10:41am

re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s a crazy idea: How about paying them MORE to work?

My wife still hasn’t gotten the meager stimulus payment yet.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:11:10am

re: #213 Dr Lizardo

Blade Runner.

I’ve never seen it. I’m a heathen.

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Rightwingconspirator  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:11:13am

HCQ is just climate change all over again. Let me show you.
New Page.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:11:19am

re: #201 So Cal Greek Hippie

The reboot Star Trek Second movie. That one went to the bad security practice as a plot mover well once too often for my cynical taste

You’ll love this then:

Everything Wrong With Star Trek Into Darkness In 7 Minutes Or Less

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:11:42am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:12:59am

re: #214 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My wife still hasn’t gotten the meager stimulus payment yet.

Nor have I.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:14:43am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Oh there is also: “Bee Movie” “Cars” & “Frozen” because those are the movies that my grandkids love to watch when they visit.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:15:02am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:15:38am

That Russian Bible-burning video is starting to make the rounds amongst farm league right-wing accounts. Let’s see if it gets enough traction to make it to FOX News Channel.

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:15:50am

What is a bad movie you have watched more than 5 times:

Red Sonja

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:20:15am

re: #206 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Destiny (1920), Nosferatu (the silent version), Notting Hill, Rocky Horror… I’m sure there are more, but those come to mind.

And how could I have forgotten I Walked with a Zombie?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:20:54am

re: #223 danarchy

What is a bad movie you have watched more than 5 times:

Red Sonja

Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (geez get the title right the first time)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Crack in the World

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:21:55am

re: #223 danarchy

What is a bad movie you have watched more than 5 times:

Red Sonja

Conan the Barbarian

LadyHawke

Both great at the time but cheesy when you watch them now. (And yes, I loved them!)

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:22:23am

re: #223 danarchy

What is a bad movie you have watched more than 5 times:

Red Sonja

Bee Movie.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:23:18am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They used to show that first week of school at U of Arizona theater and I would go every year

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:24:14am

It’s a Wonderful Life. A movie I can now no longer watch.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:25:30am

re: #229 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a Wonderful Life. A movie I can now no longer watch.

I still watch White Christmas every year.

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:25:47am

I feel old now. I was over at an entertainment site reading a write up on Wilfred Brimley, and they called The Natural and Cocoon cult films.

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Teukka  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:28:13am

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:28:22am

re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I still watch White Christmas every year.

See, that’s one I can still watch. I wasn’t forced to watch it Every. Bloody. Year. for the entirety of my middle school and high school existence.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:28:42am

Battlefield Earth. And I don’t know why.

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:30:12am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

We have Elk crossings. Some of them with big warning lights because you really don’t want to hit a full grown bull elk at highway speed…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:30:42am

re: #223 danarchy

What is a bad movie you have watched more than 5 times:

Red Sonja

Airport ‘77. A guilty pleasure.

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Shropshire Slasher  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:31:34am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Full Metal Jacket
Forrest Gump
Oh Brother

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:32:09am

WTFITS

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Nojay UK  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:32:52am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My Neighbour Totoro. I’ve watched about half of Grave of the Fireflies, the other part of the infamous double bill and had to leave the cinema. It reminded me too much of Iain M. Banks’ immortal quote “Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”

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lizardofid  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:33:04am

re: #234 GlutenFreeJesus

Battlefield Earth. And I don’t know why.

Isn’t that what Katie Holmes says, that when asked about her marriage to Tom Cruise?

//

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:33:10am

re: #230 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

One of my daughters named her cats Betty and Judy.

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:34:59am

re: #233 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

See, that’s one I can still watch. I wasn’t forced to watch it Every. Bloody. Year. for the entirety of my middle school and high school existence.

Nothing ruins an experience more than being forced to do it by ones parents.

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:35:48am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All Star Treks
Almost All Star Wars (not the last simply because it’s not on home video yet)
Casablanca
Princess Bride
Die Hard (only the original)
The Man With No Name Series (A Fistful of Dollars, etc)
High Noon
Shane
Stagecoach

Possibly others, but those are the ones I know I’ve watched 5 times or more.

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:35:49am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

[Embedded content]

[no not that one, people would think I’m weird]

[no, not that one either, an explanation of “it’s research for Romance novels” would get me all the eyerolls]

[no, not that other one, people would start to get the idea after the first two I really watch some explicit stuff]

“Spaceballs”

“The Last Starfighter”
“Pride and Prejudice” - Keira Knightley version
“Just Like Heaven”
“Lake House”
“Galaxy Quest”

ETA: “Die Hard”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:37:01am
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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:40:11am
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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:40:43am
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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:40:56am

re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Kelly’s Heroes

Oh, yeah! That one too.

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A Cranky One  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:42:18am

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:43:34am

re: #220 The Pie Overlord!

Oh there is also: “Bee Movie” “Cars” & “Frozen” because those are the movies that my grandkids love to watch when they visit.

Oh, I could list a long list of mostly unknown movies my son loved growing up (hot wheels movies, bionicle movies, the Disney “Atlantis” movie, and so on) but I figured I’d only list the ones I can blame myself on.

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A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:43:54am

And it seems no-one has mentioned The Wizard of Oz, even though some of us of a certain age watched it every year without fail.

(I also love Galaxy Quest.)

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:45:16am

re: #233 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

See, that’s one I can still watch. I wasn’t forced to watch it Every. Bloody. Year. for the entirety of my middle school and high school existence.

Sounds like me and “Its a Wonderful Life” or even worse, “A Christmas Story”. Hate both with a passion.

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:45:23am
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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:45:57am

re: #217 Dr Lizardo

So hilarious.

1 before this movie, only Guiliani types were foolish enough to establish an emergency ops center in a vulnerable spot of a vulnerable building in an earthquake prone city

2 I hope the guy from my favorite Martian and that whale didn’t die in the attack on SF. Or was before and after or irrelevant in this timeline? I’m confused

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:48:48am

re: #215 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’ve never seen it. I’m a heathen.

I only just watched The Matrix and Schindler’s List this year

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:49:21am

re: #254 So Cal Greek Hippie

So hilarious.

1 before this movie, only Guiliani types were foolish enough to establish an emergency ops center in a vulnerable spot of a vulnerable building in an earthquake prone city

2 I hope the guy from my favorite Martian and that whale didn’t die in the attack on SF. Or was before and after or irrelevant in this timeline? I’m confused

I think the J.J. Abrams Star Trek continuity is pretty much done. I’ve read there were plans for a fourth entry in the series, but I don’t know if those plans went anywhere beyond production hell.

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Kilroy was here  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:49:41am

Moms

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:50:09am

re: #210 dangerman

One of the greatest movies of all time.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:50:18am

re: #218 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Funny. That’s exactly what Canada did and their economy grew.

How’s the US economy? Oh, it contracted by almost 40%.

And Canada is reopening while they have mostly contained the virus.

You have no business being in the role you’re in. You’re literally killing Americans.

and impoverishing them, which in America is tantamount to killing them as poor people’s lives are considered expendable

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:52:31am

re: #257 Kilroy was here

Another well done video from the Lincoln Project. I really like their style.

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:52:38am

re: #223 danarchy

The Devil’s Advocate.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:52:53am

re: #251 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And it seems no-one has mentioned The Wizard of Oz, even though some of us of a certain age watched it every year without fail.

(I also love Galaxy Quest.)

Galaxy Quest! Yes, I have re-watched that a ton. Never give up! NEVER SURRENDER!

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:53:21am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Blazing Saddles
Princess Bride
West Side Story
Guys & Dolls

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:53:42am

re: #263 sagehen

Blazing Saddles
Princess Bride
West Side Story
Guys & Dolls

And all of these except for the last one.

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:55:06am

re: #256 Dr Lizardo

I think the J.J. Abrams Star Trek continuity is pretty much done. I’ve read there were plans for a fourth entry in the series, but I don’t know if those plans went anywhere beyond production hell.

Odds are against it. The death of Anton Yelchin really put a damper on it and then the scripts that were being peddled made Into Darkness look good. The third one only happened because they came up with a good enough script and the 50th anniversary. I liked that one best of the three, though it wasn’t without it’s problems. Still, one can have a fun night with Voyage Home, First Contact and Beyond for a “best of each version” set.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:55:31am
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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:55:40am

Fans of Galaxy Quest should check out the making-of documentary “Never Surrender.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:55:47am

re: #265 William Lewis

First Contact was a legendary film. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2020 • 9:58:53am

re: #168 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

1935 Conservatives:

“We don’t need to do anything, in the long run the economy will work itself out.”

1935 Harry Hopkins, who designed and ran the WPA:

“People don’t need to eat in the long run. They need to eat every day.”

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William Lewis  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:00:15am

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

First Contact was a legendary film. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Star Trek First Contact - Captain Picard is confronted about the Borg being his white whale

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:00:25am

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The book is quite good also.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:01:11am

The Thing
Big Trouble in Little China
Escape from New York
The Longest Day
Kelly’s Heroes
Dr. Strangelove
Fail Safe
Captain America
The Hunt for Red October
On the Beach
WarGames
Under Siege
The Siege
Thirteen Days
Dirty War
Groundhog Day
Ghostbusters
Stripes
Quick Change
Zombieland
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (both versions)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Citizen X

This list could probably go on forever

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:01:57am

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

First Contact was a legendary film. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

The next gen movies were ok, but they always just felt like long episodes to me.

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sagehen  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:02:16am

re: #171 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Hmm, interesting list. I wonder how California went from a net “giver” state to a net (barely) “taker” state.

The only three red states listed as giver states are New Hampshire, North Dakota (I suppose that would be from the fracking industry there), and Nebraska.

Forest Fires.

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:04:58am

re: #271 plansbandc

Oh crap. I was thinking about Contact, the Jodie Foster movie. :D

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Ace Rothstein  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:06:27am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Godfather I, II, & III
Goodfellas
Raging Bull
On the Waterfront
Casablanca
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
Casino
The Verdict
The French Connection
Fargo
The Cincinnati Kid
The Hustler
Big Night
Lost in Translation

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:11:02am

George C Scott version of “A Christmas Carol “
Man who Shot Liberty Valance
Back to the Future
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan
Little Big Man

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:19:43am

re: #139 The Pie Overlord!

Mishugah

A long-time acquaintance who was born-and-raised in Metro Detroit (he’s now a patent attorney, prior to that he was an electronics engineer) used to use that phrase when referring to my first employers whose name no longer exists (Michigan National Bank).

He’s a little bit of a renegade - his washing machine is a top-loading horizontal-axis beast made by Staber - when he mentioned that he was surprised that I knew about that manufacturer, but I mentioned to him that Consumer Reports reviewed their hardware….

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Kilroy was here  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:19:55am

Star Wars (IV and V) (I think I’ve owned this movie in more than 5 formats)
The Martian (2015) Love this movie - book is good too
Captain America (Took a character I hated and made me love it)
Star Trek Wrath of Khan
Godzilla (1954) Japanese release - Obvious nuclear and firebombing subtext
Die Hard
Galaxy Quest
Princess Bride
Bridge To Far
Tora Tora Tora
Midway (1976) Saw it in the theater is “Sensurround” or something.
Termors
Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Blazing Saddles
Spaceballs
Aliens
Terminator
T-2
and the list goes on and on…
… Doctor Strangelove

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:21:05am

Will Trump defy the voters? Let him try. by Matt Bai, WaPo

In 2017, Donald Trump became the first American president in history to complain about the fairness of an election he had just won. So it should surprise no one that Trump has already declined to accept the results of an election he is likely to lose.

…

I don’t believe the high court would shield a president who had signaled for months that he had no intention of respecting the electorate. I agree with what the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, said in June — that military leaders would show up at the White House with Trump’s eviction notice if it came to that. I’m pretty sure they’d welcome the opportunity at this point.
And that’s really how this whole dystopian chapter ought to end — not with Trump suddenly discovering his inner statesman and conjuring the illusion that his presidency was just like all the others, but with the guardians of democracy roughly tossing him to the curb.

…

Forty-six years ago, Richard Nixon flashed his silly victory sign as he boarded the chopper that would carry him away from the White House for the last time, cloaked in ignominy. It’s our most enduring image of Nixon — the moment when rule of law triumphed over petty venality.
That’s too good an ending for what Trump has wrought. He deserves a ruder send-off, and so do we.

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A Cranky One  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:22:13am

I often work strange hours and find myself awake but too burned out to focus. This sometimes results in looking for something to watch at crazy hours. I don’t have any type of video/movie collection since I don’t care to see most films twice.

But looking at the lists above, I recognize a bunch of films that I’m happy to find and watch when flipping. Movies that I’ve seen multiple times but will always stop and watch.

One guilty pleasure I don’t see mentioned above:

The Blues Brothers

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A Cranky One  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:24:24am

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Kilroy was here  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:26:12am

Totally forgot a holiday favorite

A Muppet Christmas Carol (VHS version with the sad song)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:29:22am

re: #162 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rocky Horror Picture Show

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:29:59am
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piratedan  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:30:01am

re: #279 Kilroy was here

I’ll try to pile on with movies I haven’t seen mentioned yet…

12 Angry Men
Meatballs
Sixteen Candles
Buckaroo Banzai
The Bank Job
The Town
The Accountant
The Oceans’ series
the Harry Potter series
The Lord of the Rings Series
While You Were Sleeping
Starship Troopers
The Dirty Dozen
Heavy Metal
All The President’s Men
Three Days of the Condor

plus a whole boatload of those mentioned before…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:31:36am
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goddamnedfrank  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:33:05am

re: #280 retired cynic

Will Trump defy the voters? Let him try. by Matt Bai, WaPo

Lately I’ve been been thinking about how we should maybe bring back tar and feathers, but with modern easily dissolved medical grade adhesives so it leans more hilarious and less cruel.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:33:07am

re: #201 So Cal Greek Hippie

We went to Star Trek, the Experience at Las Vegas Hilton many years ago.

I had a picture taken at the Hilton Experience that had Worf and Sisko in it, with Deep Space 9 behind it. And I had a beard which matched my hair color.

Got lots of laughs at work.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:36:37am

Crew Demo-2 Splashdown

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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:38:41am

re: #284 Eric The Fruit Bat

Have no idea how many times I’ve seen it, but it’s in the hundreds.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:39:57am

re: #239 Nojay UK

Kiki’s Delivery Service
Most of my collection is animated movies, series and shorts.

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CleverToad  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:46:34am

Movies you’ve watched five times? Much too long a list, and that’s way too easy a question.

How about some of these (categories will definitely overlap):
Habit-forming — Movies you’ve watched more than ten times and will happily watch again

Guilty pleasures — Movies with scenes or attitudes that are historically inaccurate, non-PC, or downright offensive to current wokeness, but you can enjoy anyway with your ‘that was then’ glasses on

Age-inappropriate — Ostensible “kid movies” that you will watch without a child/grandchild to give you cover

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:46:51am

re: #135 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

We’re real? All of us?

[snip] /

I am, I think

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:51:37am

re: #293 CleverToad

Movies you’ve watched five times? Much too long a list, and that’s way too easy a question.

How about some of these (categories will definitely overlap):
Habit-forming — Movies you’ve watched more than ten times and will happily watch again

I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service out of habit. Monsters, Inc. too.

Guilty pleasures — Movies with scenes or attitudes that are historically inaccurate, non-PC, or downright offensive to current wokeness, but you can enjoy anyway with your ‘that was then’ glasses on

A lot of James Bond films are like this, especially the older ones

Age-inappropriate — Ostensible “kid movies” that you will watch without a child/grandchild to give you cover

Most of my collection is like this. I have Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, Bugs Bunny and too many other things to mention.
Miyazaki? Of course.
I watched Zootopia in French some time ago, and I was entranced; it was a great dub and I got almost all the dialogue and nuance of the film.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 10:52:31am

Rio Bravo
Westworld
Caddyshack
Chinatown
Treasure of Sierra Madre
Stripes
Toy Story
Chisum

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🌹UOJB!  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:01:14am

re: #20 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

Is that the same ass who was a member of The Bundy Bunch?

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Kilroy was here  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:03:15am

007 movies

All the Roger Moore Bond Movies - yes even Octopussy and Moonraker

Goldfinger (Favorite)
Diamonds are Forever

Casino Royal

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:03:42am

SpacEx really should have used some virtual spacecraft views during their return coverage.

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:06:39am

Oh my fucking God! Conservatives going batshit crazy over NHL players locking arms in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The players never knelt down during the national anthem but the Right was still pissed off. It was never about “disrespecting the anthem” but rather “vitue signaling” against racism.

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Sherlock Hound  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:06:52am

re: #299 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

SpacEx really should have used some virtual spacecraft views during their return coverage.

There’s a commercial space visualization software package that all of the launch vendors use (ULA, and Arianespace, amongst others). But SpaceX doesn’t seem to use this software.

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Belafon  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:10:40am

re: #300 DodgerFan1988

The guy who was using his body to try to paint over the Black Lives Matter in New York is the physical representation of what goes on in their minds.

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Marsupial  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:13:08am

Repo Man (the Harry Dean Stanton one)
Night Shift
Used Cars
Sixteen Candles/Breakfast Club/Pretty in Pink
Most Mel Brooks films up to 1990
Mystery Men
Ocean’s Eleven (both)/Twelve/Thirteen
(We’re not counting kids movies that we were forced to watch when we little ones, right? I really don’t want to have to list out the High School Musical series, etc.!)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:15:11am

Samurai Cop. Especially the Rifftrax version.

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A Mom Anon  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:18:12am

re: #300 DodgerFan1988

Most of this is fear driven, once you get past the ridiculous reasons they have for their hate and spite. They know exactly what they do and support. Their fear is that people of color will treat them as awful (or worse, if that’s possible) as they have treated anyone who isn’t Klan Hood White. So, if black folks get any leverage at all, it means white people will be loaded into slave ships and well, you know the rest. It seems like most of these idiots are scared of stereotypes made up by conservatives. Women, Black People, Any Minority, Liberals, doesn’t matter, they are scared and hate shit that doesn’t exist except in their stupid heads. Anything good that anyone tries to do is “virtue signalling” or “community organizing” or has some other negative connotation because they themselves can’t grasp making the world better since all they know how to do is take and hurt others. They are broken and break everything they can.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:18:46am

re: #185 PhillyPretzel

Gator crossing is something one does not see in PA. We have deer crossings. :/

And one thing I could never figure out is how they get the deer to cross where they put those signs.

//

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:23:12am
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HypnoToad  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:25:05am

My influential or go to enjoyable movies:
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Forbidden Planet
Dr. Strangelove
Paths of Glory
Star Wars (Original)
Rouge One
Monty Python’s Holy Grail
Nightmare Before Christmas
Anything Miyazaki
Toy Story trilogy
Ratatouille
Zootopia

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:25:20am

re: #301 Sherlock Hound

There’s a commercial space visualization software package that all of the launch vendors use (ULA, and Arianespace, amongst others). But SpaceX doesn’t seem to use this software.

I mean christ, during Apollo and the Space Shuttle returns they at least had someone holding a freakin’ model, showing what was going on.

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So Cal Greek Hippie  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:26:38am

re: #303 Marsupial

I could compile a list just based on my 1990s parenting. I was freaked when my 3 year old could identify brand names before she could read
and had a one year old with the benefit of the kid learning curve

I pulled the cable and went to video only from 1993-2003. Salzers in Ventura had an enormous collection to rent in those days

Most often rented

Totoro
101 Dalmatians
Toy Story
Beauty and the Beast
Incredible Journey
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:26:57am

re: #244 Hecuba’s daughter

“The Last Starfighter”
“Pride and Prejudice” - Keira Knightley version
“Just Like Heaven”
“Lake House”
“Galaxy Quest”

ETA: “Die Hard”

And forgot: “Strange Magic” — which I only saw originally because a friend from years ago voiced one of the minor characters.

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:31:25am

A friend has turned me on to a twitter feed: Yesterdays Print

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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:32:56am

This one is apropos!

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jaunte  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:33:23am
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cat-tikvah  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:34:40am

re: #225 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Christine Lavin’s aunt appeared in this film, prompting this instant classic:

“Piranha Women Of The Avocado Jungle Of Death” Christine Lavin

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:34:58am

Comms blackout

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:36:42am

Zion National Park 2013

More Zion
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retired cynic  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:37:10am

I have to stop and drive across the state with my cat again… but as I go…

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Teddy's Person  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:39:01am

re: #318 retired cynic

I have to stop and drive across the state with my cat again… but as I go…

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Sounds like Trump talking about himself.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:41:41am

re: #316 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Comms blackout

Comms reacquired

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:44:56am

re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Comms reacquired

Two drogues deployed

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:45:41am

re: #321 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Two drogues deployed

Four mains deployed

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:46:31am

Splash down estimated in about 2 minutes

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:48:11am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:48:22am

Splash down

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:52:23am

re: #293 CleverToad

Movies you’ve watched five times? Much too long a list, and that’s way too easy a question.

How about some of these (categories will definitely overlap):
Habit-forming — Movies you’ve watched more than ten times and will happily watch again

Guilty pleasures — Movies with scenes or attitudes that are historically inaccurate, non-PC, or downright offensive to current wokeness, but you can enjoy anyway with your ‘that was then’ glasses on

Age-inappropriate — Ostensible “kid movies” that you will watch without a child/grandchild to give you cover

Time Bandits

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:55:53am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Aug 2, 2020 • 11:59:14am

Another comet photo from western NY courtesy of my niece. (Taken a week or so ago.)

Hops on a roll

And she sent me a cat photo as well.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:01:00pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:02:39pm

re: #329 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Florida is not a place I usually associate with bears. Is this super common there? I usually think of California or the northern states, such as my own, or Michigan, or Maine.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:06:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:07:11pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:10:53pm

Apparently a couple local sport fishermen in boats have floated in to checkout the Dragon recovery efforts

Florida, man

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danarchy  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:12:44pm

re: #330 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Florida is not a place I usually associate with bears. Is this super common there? I usually think of California or the northern states, such as my own, or Michigan, or Maine.

I think black bears are in all 50 states

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dangerman  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:13:43pm
The White House has no plans to try to delay the Nov. 3 election, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, even as he defended a tweet from President Trump that raised the possibility, the Washington Post reports.

Said Meadows: “We’re going to hold an election on November 3rd, and the president is going to win.”

see, you’re wrong here on two counts, mark.

first - you’re gonna lose

second - the states are going to hold elections on november 3rd. The ‘white house’ has nothing to do with it and absolutely no say in the matter. at all.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:14:01pm

re: #334 danarchy

I think black bears are in all 50 states

It doesn’t surprise me, but I didn’t know that off the top of my head.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:14:11pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:14:35pm

re: #330 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Florida is not a place I usually associate with bears. Is this super common there? I usually think of California or the northern states, such as my own, or Michigan, or Maine.

Last year, pretty much the center of Jacksonville
So, yeah, it’s kind of common in Florida

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:15:57pm

these liars…jfc

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:17:10pm
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plansbandc  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:18:41pm

re: #298 Kilroy was here

Love ‘em too. Always have.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:21:14pm

Dragon is on the boat, getting secured, boat making speed

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:22:21pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:23:28pm

Opening the side hatch

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:23:33pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:23:53pm

re: #239 Nojay UK

My Neighbour Totoro. I’ve watched about half of Grave of the Fireflies, the other part of the infamous double bill and had to leave the cinema. It reminded me too much of Iain M. Banks’ immortal quote “Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”

I’ve seen Totoro at least five times. I had to stop using Grave of the Fireflies after the first time because a couple of students couldn’t stop sobbing at the end. Other I’ve seen many times because using them in class: To Live (Japanese movie), To Live (Chinese movie), Twilight Samurai; a movie I’ve seen at least five times because I love it: Miller’s Crossing. There may be more.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:25:47pm

re: #344 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Opening the side hatch

Delayed, getting some fumes readings

The recovery team looks to only be wearing COVID masks though

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:27:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:28:40pm
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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:37:14pm

re: #251 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

And it seems no-one has mentioned The Wizard of Oz, even though some of us of a certain age watched it every year without fail.

(I also love Galaxy Quest.)

As a kid I never made it past the flying monkeys scene—that terrified me. And YES to Galaxy Quest! (I doubt I’ve seen it five times, though).

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:39:25pm

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

First Contact was a legendary film. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

What a coincidence. i was just reading an article about the documentarian and his wife who made that trilogy and found it on a streaming service: it’s literally queued up on my work computer right now.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:40:21pm

re: #268 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

First Contact was a legendary film. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

Oops—I see you meant Star Trek…. I was thinking of the documentary about Papua New Guinea.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:46:55pm

re: #329 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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When you see bears engaging in this kind of behavior you have to confront them. It’s not easy, but we all have our bears to cross.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:50:47pm

Thanks for the reminder:

Wizard of Oz
Miracle on 34th Street
The first Star Wars release

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Aug 2, 2020 • 12:51:09pm

re: #353 Barefoot Grin

When you see bears engaging in this kind of behavior you have to confront them. It’s not easy, but we all have our bears to cross.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 2, 2020 • 1:09:57pm

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