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FT
it’s almost 3 am local time. I should be sleeping.
I guess I also need to F covid.
FC
FT
FP
And before I pop off to bed…
GOTV!
So, how much would you pay for 50 feet of beach-front property along LaJolla Shores?
How about $27M?
It’s one of those insanely priced new-builds on a tiny city lot.
You and I may be struggling in Trump’s America, but the wildly rich are doing fine.
One is either rich or lazy…
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re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
1995 is only 25 years ago, but so many of these TV shows I don’t remember. OTOH, I didn’t have a TV during most of that decade so I never watched TV and thus probably never saw them to begin with. The new networks (UPN and WB) look like they tried initially before they devolved into nothingness:
I was living in Germany, so I watched very little TV at all. Still don’t, especially since streaming originals became possible. I only started watching the Star Trek spin-offs around 2016
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
1995 is only 25 years ago, but so many of these TV shows I don’t remember. OTOH, I didn’t have a TV during most of that decade so I never watched TV and thus probably never saw them to begin with. The new networks (UPN and WB) look like they tried initially before they devolved into nothingness:
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This forces me to remember the shows I actually cared about while they were on the air…
Julia
Mash
Rockford Files
Logan’s Run
Magnum PI (only the original. That current sh*t needs a fucking nuke missle.)
Hill Street Blues
Various Star Treks
…
Ain’t been much of late.
re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
IIRC, in 1995 I was attempting a career move so I was traveling quite a bit to and from DC. It’s all a blur now.
My dad and I watched Julia together. It was a simpler time.
re: #10 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
IIRC, in 1995 I was attempting a career move so I was traveling quite a bit to and from DC. It’s all a blur now.
German TV in the 90’s was abysmal; only the worst, most common-denominator US shows made it (and then dubbed) so I all but stopped watching TV.
One highlight was seeing The Producers on German TV (with the songs all in the original)
re: #11 Dread Pirate Ron
My dad and I watched Julia together. It was a simpler time.
It was am amazing show for the time. Looked down on by many today but I saw an independent minority woman for the first time there - even before Nyota Uhura because I didn’t know Star Trek at that time - so this was probably the first time I saw a black woman on the TV in our Midwestern Flyover land. What a show…
re: #11 Dread Pirate Ron
My dad and I watched Julia together. It was a simpler time.
Jeez, I recall watching that, too.
re: #9 William Lewis
My dad was a big fan of The Rockford Files. I was pretty young when that originally aired, but I became a fan of the show as I got older. Same with Columbo and McMillan & Wife. I definitely remember Magnum, P.I. when that originally ran and used to watch it regularly.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
My dad was a big fan of The Rockford Files. I was pretty young when that originally aired, but I became a fan of the show as I got older. Same with Columbo and McMillan & Wife. I definitely remember Magnum, P.I. when that originally ran and used to watch it regularly.
I liked McMillan and Columbo but I learned very soon that I had to wait till 15 minutes into the show before I started watching a Columbo episode. I loved watching him figure it out but ONLY if I didn’t know it to start. It was usually easy to figure out but I just couldn’t watch that first bit that showed the solution.
McMillan and Wife was much better than a lot want to give it credit for now a days.
But Jim Rockford remains the “PI” in my mind, even above the classics of noir.
re: #16 William Lewis
I liked McMillan and Columbo but I learned very soon that I had to wait till 15 minutes into the show before I started watching a Columbo episode. I loved watching him figure it out but ONLY if I didn’t know it to start. It was usually easy to figure out but I just couldn’t watch that first bit that showed the solution.
McMillan and Wife was much better than a lot want to give it credit for now a days.
But Jim Rockford remains the “PI” in my mind, even above the classics of noir.
Columbo was - and still is - popular with Czech audiences and has a strong following here. The Rockford Files is pretty much unknown here, but several of my students, past and present, have come to appreciate it greatly. I have the entire series in my collection, and I’ll lend it out and let them discover the magic.
Those who’ve seen it regard it as an almost perfectly well-written blend of humor and action, with the late James Garner as a fantastic actor. For many of them, it’s also something of a time capsule, a peek into 1970s America, when Czech Republic was still sealed off behind the Iron Curtain. One of the greatest prime-time US television series ever.
re: #17 Dr Lizardo
Agreed on every point. Jim, with his typewriter made “Biz Cards” to fit every need was a perfect encapsulation of every good thing in the image of America then. Freedom without the stupidity of the FreeDUMB sector of today.
I’m reminded, suddenly, of the last episode of the original Hawaii-5-0. The ultimate recurring bad guy, Wo Fat, is finally jailed. As the camera looks in at him in his cell, he smiles, pulls out a tiny file and you know he’ll be back out causing trouble again. Near perfect TV storytelling.
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
FT
it’s almost 3 am local time. I should be sleeping.
I guess I also need to F covid.
FC
FT
FP
0335 Mythical Daylight Time here. The ham and beans, they be a simmering for today’s lunch*. Corn bread muffins into the oven around 0500 or so. Salad fixing already at work.
*Once done, they will go into a slow cooker to keep them hot until it’s time to eat.
And yes, FT, FP, FMM and FCOVID19
re: #9 William Lewis
This forces me to remember the shows I actually cared about while they were on the air…
Julia
Mash
Rockford Files
Logan’s Run
Magnum PI (only the original. That current sh*t needs a fucking nuke missle.)
Hill Street Blues
Various Star Treks
…
Ain’t been much of late.
barney Miller
the Muppets
m python
masterpiece theater:
-to serve them all my days
-i, Claudius
-a town like alice
-danger uxb
on and on
re: #22 dangerman
-i, Claudius
Remember watching that. PBS was the only broadcast channel on which one could see boobs.
Then again, we only had NBC, PBS, ABC and CBS, and the latter two channels sometimes had poor reception. We had a local NBC station, and the university PBS station had a repeater in our town.
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
My dad was a big fan of The Rockford Files. I was pretty young when that originally aired, but I became a fan of the show as I got older. Same with Columbo and McMillan & Wife. I definitely remember Magnum, P.I. when that originally ran and used to watch it regularly.
My Dad called him Rockfish for some weird reason.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Remember watching that. PBS was the only broadcast channel on which one could see boobs.
Then again, we only had NBC, PBS, ABC and CBS, and the latter two channels sometimes had poor reception. We had a local NBC station, and the university PBS station had a repeater in our town.
and we had no idea when they were coming!
re: #7 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
1995 is only 25 years ago, but so many of these TV shows I don’t remember. OTOH, I didn’t have a TV during most of that decade so I never watched TV and thus probably never saw them to begin with. The new networks (UPN and WB) look like they tried initially before they devolved into nothingness:.
That was interesting. I didn’t watch much TV back then either but only two shows struck me as hits (JAG and Drew Carey and i think Moesha), and I’d heard of Pinky and the Brain. Of those, I’ve seen one episode of JAG (recently) and that’s it.
The majority of stars I’ve also never heard of but there were a couple of (now) big names (I didn’t know Stanley Tucci had done TV), and a couple of stars whose names popped up a couple of times.
The very first one, Nowhere Man, looked interesting and immediately reminded me of La Femme Nikita (another show I’ve recently learned about and watched, the original, not the one with Maggie Q), and sure enough, it was by Joel Surnow who did the original LFN. I might have watched that one, back in the day. The rest, not so much.
re: #24 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
My Dad called him Rockfish for some weird reason.
Was….was your dad Issac Hayes? 😮
Well fuck. After 102 days without community transmission, four Covid cases in a South Auckland family. Jacinda and Ashley (Director General of Health) broadcast a press conference at 9:15pm.
Auckland goes back to level 3 lockdown for 72 hours while the source is identified. Essential services only to open (supermarkets, pharmacies, has stations), schools open only for children of essential workers, no travel in or out of Auckland unless you are going home or coming home.
Rest of the country into level 2 lockdown for the same period. Gatherings restricted, masks and distancing return.
Friday afternoon or evening we should learn the next move.
re: #12 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
German TV in the 90’s was abysmal; only the worst, most common-denominator US shows made it (and then dubbed) so I all but stopped watching TV.
French TV in the 90’s was so bad we watched Inspector Derrick.
Love love loved The Rockford Files, but let’s not forget Mannix, which was pretty darned good.
And I have to throw in Hart to Hart cuz I liked that one, too.
re: #28 Grunthos the Flatulent
Well fuck. After 102 days without community transmission, four Covid cases in a South Auckland family. Jacinda and Ashley (Director General of Health) broadcast a press conference at 9:15pm.
Auckland goes back to level 3 lockdown for 72 hours while the source is identified. Essential services only to open (supermarkets, pharmacies, has stations), schools open only for children of essential workers, no travel in or out of Auckland unless you are going home or coming home.
Rest of the country into level 2 lockdown for the same period. Gatherings restricted, masks and distancing return.
Friday afternoon or evening we should learn the next move.
I’m sorry. Thankfully, you have a fantastic government dealing with it.
The school thing is brilliant. That never crossed my mind at all.
Once again, Puerto Rico is a cautionary tale for those of us on the mainland. Safeguard the electoral process. It has been 1055 days since Puerto Rico had full power.
— Denise Oliver-Velez 💛 (@Deoliver47) August 11, 2020
re: #28 Grunthos the Flatulent
To further how much I love your PM, when this pandemic hit, she was the one I learned the most from. I watched her talk to your country; open, honest and forthright. Justin did a decent job, but Jacinda was something else, far and away the best globally.
In Belarus, Lukashenko, “Europe’s last dictator”, has ruled for 26 years. Protestors are being violently put down by police. 1,000s locked out of voting. His challenger, Tsikhanouskaya is in hiding. Her CM arrested on election eve & 8 other campaign staff. https://t.co/X355TzWtgC
— Jess O’Connell (@JessOConnell) August 10, 2020
re: #34 Patricia Kayden
In Belarus, Lukashenko, “Europe’s last dictator”, has ruled for 26 years. Protestors are being violently put down by police. 1,000s locked out of voting. His challenger, Tsikhanouskaya is in hiding. Her CM arrested on election eve & 8 other campaign staff.
Tsikhanouskaya was in government custody yesterday, now in Lithuania with her kids. The government made her do a hostage video as a condition of release, saying that she accepts the official complete bullshit results of the election. This seems to have convinced absolutely nobody in Belarus, and general strikes are now on. Lukashenko is also noticeably ill with COVID, so that too.
Its #FunTime. Make sure to watch until the end.
Share and sprinkle the #laughs with #happiness. #TakeATrumpBreak pic.twitter.com/BzWC4ckz0p— John Giovanni Pierni (@jpierni) August 9, 2020
A school board when run by Republicans, Union Public School District in Tulsa.
Parents Calling For Union BOE Member To Step Down (News on 6)
Since this E-mail, the Union School Board has voted to return to in-person schooling.
TULSA, Okla. - Some Union Public Schools parents are calling for board of education member Jeff Bennett to step down after he sent a controversial email to a parent in response to concerns about school starting this month.
The press is still failing. Alternatives for the word “controversial” up there: Racist. Illegible. Full of spelling and grammar errors.
This is a school board on conservatism.
“If you’ve seen the email, it is perplexing,” UPS parent Michelle Palmer said. “It’s just surprising.”
Michelle Palmer and her husband, Adam Palmer, have three children that attend Union Public Schools. All they wanted to do was voice their concerns to the board before Monday’s meeting at the Union Education Service Center.
The Palmers now have more concerns about their children’s safety.
You should have concerns: about their safety, about their education, &c.
The article contains the parents’ original contact E-mail requesting an extension of distance learning for six more weeks, followed by the board member’s racist, anti-science, barely-intelligible response. The board member confirmed he wrote the E-mail.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
A school board when run by Republicans, Union Public School District in Tulsa.
Parents Calling For Union BOE Member To Step Down (News on 6)
Since this E-mail, the Union School Board has voted to return to in-person schooling.
The press is still failing. Alternatives for the word “controversial” up there: Racist. Illegible. Full of spelling and grammar errors.
This is a school board on conservatism.
You should have concerns: about their safety, about their education, &c.
The article contains the parents’ original contact E-mail requesting an extension of distance learning for six more weeks, followed by the board member’s racist, anti-science, barely-intelligible response. The board member confirmed he wrote the E-mail.
Jesus f’in Christ. This letter…
Hello Adam;
Thanks for your opinion.
I’m not convinced anyone, certainly not the experts, most defiantly not me know much about covid. We shut down schools because it is what we had to do in order to defeat the deadly Chinese virus, just 21 days if we shut everything down, more than 2 months later states started to reopen. Then the 2nd wave and cases with numbers never seen before, well actually the group (20 to 50 year olds) that were not aloud in hospitals and clinics because they were not at risk were not being tested well now they are. Tests were not available then Kodak gets resurrected with a $500 million contract to provide chemicals to make tests now we are testing at a rate of nearly a million a day, nation wide. Reporting is faulty as many states are/were counting a positive covid test the same as a positive antibody test, which are the opposite. One sais you have it one sais you have antibodies which help your body fight it off. The press want you to be in tune with the number of cases as bad news sells and those numbers are going up but death rate is going down.
I certainly appreciate the trust you place in myself and the board but there is no right decision, certainly not for everyone…
Jeff
This fucking guy is on the BOE? JFC.
re: #41 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Jesus f’in Christ. This letter…
This fucking guy is on the BOE? JFC.
Donald Trump: I love the poorly educated.
This thread is short and hysterical…
If it’s Kamala, please spare a thought for all of us who will now be shamed at Indian family reunions for being neither doctors nor engineers nor even vice-presidential nominees.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) August 11, 2020
As are some of the responses…
Years ago @TheOnion (America’s Finest News Source) did a bit about merging religions. They came up with HinJews, no matter how many times you reincarnate, you’ll never please your mother.
— Jim Rice (@jimriceva) August 11, 2020
I hate to say this but Shark Week has jumped the shark.
I’m very sad.
Beirut explosion: Where else is ammonium nitrate being stored? (BBC)
In the wake of the blast in Beirut, countries around the world are investigating places where companies may have illegally squirrelled away ammonium nitrate.
It’s been found in an airport air cargo area in Baghdad, in warehouses in India seized by customs for improper documents and sold off to unknown individuals, in Australia 3km from a city centre, and in several cities in the United Kingdom.
A conundrum. I’m pro-vaccine but is have a hard time considering anything that trump might have anything to do with and I trust Russia just as much.
Every word of this press conference will be a lie. I really wish the networks would decide not to cover this live and then air a 20-minute segment of highlights followed by a 40-minute segment of fact-checking. They won’t. But that’s how they could help the republic. https://t.co/IHJXehYF7e
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 11, 2020
Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use (BBC)
Phalanx hits the Russian market.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a locally developed vaccine for Covid-19 has been given regulatory approval after less than two months of testing on humans.
Mr Putin said the vaccine had passed all the required checks, adding that his daughter had already been given it.
Officials have said they have plans to start a mass vaccination in October.
Experts have raised concerns about the speed of Russia’s work, suggesting that researchers might be cutting corners.
Amid fears that safety could have been compromised, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged Russia last week to follow international guidelines for producing a vaccine against Covid-19.
The Russian vaccine is not among the WHO’s list of six vaccines that have reached phase three clinical trials, which involve more widespread testing in humans.
(more)
re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A conundrum. I’m pro-vaccine but is have a hard time considering anything that trump might have anything to do with and I trust Russia just as much.
Possibly to do with the announcement Putin made about a vaccine candidate up there from the BBC?
re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Possibly to do with the announcement Putin made about a vaccine candidate up there from the BBC?
Likely.
Gonna be interesting to see how the trump anti-vax folks are going to cope with this.
re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use (BBC)
Phalanx hits the Russian market.
(more)
Exclusive video of Russia….in about four or five weeks.
re: #38 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Unfortunately because the idiot POTUS call it the “Chinese virus”, he opens the floodgates for racist Americans to do the same.
re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Likely.
Gonna be interesting to see how the trump anti-vax folks are going to cope with this.
Conservatives will follow the prelate of their faith. If he tells them to get a vaccine, they will suddenly forget all their anti-vax positions.
Conservatism has always been like this, all the way back to Edmund Burke. Its goals and aims have never changed (power, not democracy).
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Live-tweet starts at 9:30AM ET. #Flynn https://t.co/6jjvKPBqnm
— Brandi Buchman (@BBuchman_CNS) August 11, 2020
I’m feeling a nom nom nom moment coming on.
NEW: Victoria’s Secret
s Les Wexner accused by Alan Dershowitz as being a part of extortion scam. https://t.co/uXdynJPLBE— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) August 11, 2020
re: #56 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
There is a history: (from a year ago)
The Victoria’s Secret billionaire Leslie Wexner says the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein “misappropriated vast sums of money” from Wexner’s fortune while serving as his financial adviser.
In a letter to members of his namesake Wexner Foundation, seen by The Wall Street Journal, the CEO and founder of L Brands, the parent company to Victoria’s Secret, said that Epstein had “misappropriated vast sums of money from me and my family.”
“This was, frankly, a tremendous shock, even though it clearly pales in comparison to the unthinkable allegations against him now,” Wexner continued in the letter.
Epstein was arrested last month and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking over allegations involving girls as young as 14. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces up to 45 years in prison.It is unclear how much money is believed to have been mismanaged. According to The Journal, tax records indicate that Epstein made a $46 million contribution to a Wexner charitable fund in January 2008. In his letter, Wexner said this amount represented a “portion” of the sum he says Epstein mishandled, according to CNBC.
He added that “every dollar” of that money originally belonged to the Wexner family. A representative for Wexner did not comment to The Journal on whether the “misappropriation” was reported to authorities.
Enough for him to lose? Last I saw he was up over Amy by almost double digits. 😢
Mitch McConnell caught in the middle of Kentucky’s economic crisis - The Washington Post https://t.co/Rmm7oQAegn
— jespanol (@nypapajoe) August 11, 2020
re: #57 Shropshire Slasher
There is a history: (from a year ago)
Wexler have gave Epstein a $70 million dollar Manhattan mansion.
*Fixed
re: #59 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Wexler
haveGAVE Epstein a $70 million dollar Manhattan mansion.
Fucking autocorrect.
re: #58 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Mitch McConnell caught in the middle of Kentucky’s economic crisis - The Washington Post
remember, these are voters who think that letting their economy rot is “owning the liberals”
Startling: Kimberly Karol, of postal service workers’ union in Waterloo, Iowa, tells @noelking the USPS not only banned overtime, but is having sorting machines removed in her area: “That also hinders our ability to process mail.” @NPR
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) August 11, 2020
If I were an evil election-fixing turd, I would have waited until mid-October to pull shit like this. Doing it now makes a lot of GOP demographics (along with all the other people the GOP doesn’t care about) mad as hell early enough to do something about it. I’m guessing the toddler wanted his ice cream NOW NOW NOW.
Some positive news via electoral-vote.com
Georgetown University hired two pollsters to survey the political landscape together. One is Celinda Lake, a widely respected Democratic pollster. The other is Ed Goeas, a widely respected Republican pollster. By teaming up two pros from opposite ends of the spectrum, they got a poll that is probably as honest as one can get.
The poll found Joe Biden ahead of Donald Trump 53% to 40% among all likely voters, with only 7% undecided. Even if all the undecideds went for Trump, he would still lose badly. One subgroup is especially important. In the last poll (in Oct. 2019), white middle-class voters preferred Trump to a generic Democrat by 9 points. Now Biden leads Trump by 8 points. That’s a 17-point swing away from Trump by a key demographic
Heres another observation of theirs:
In other words, in the red districts, the Republicans can tell any lie they want and it could work because the voters don’t have any real understanding of politics, economics, and the world outside their little towns (except what Fox News and OANN tell them). In contrast, suburban voters get their information from multiple sources and have a much better view of what the world is really like. Telling them outright lies will only anger them big-time
re: #63 dangerman
Some positive news via electoral-vote.com
It’s 100% infuriating that anyone could think trump is good at anything (but marketing himself).
We’re to fucking stupid to survive.
Every year I get caught in the same thing, and I don’t remember how it happened last year. I need to re-up my subscription to LGF, but don’t have a paypal account. (I started a paypal account for a nonprofit, and now paypal sends anything I pay with it to the nonprofit. Well, that’s not good!) The subscribe button above shows credit card images, but a click goes straight to paypal, and no option to pay by card. Don’t want to get involved with square.
re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
A conundrum. I’m pro-vaccine but is have a hard time considering anything that trump might have anything to do with and I trust Russia just as much.
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I’m pro-agressive but orderly development and I won’t allow any of that stuff Trump buys from Putin near me or my family.
re: #23 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Remember watching that. PBS was the only broadcast channel on which one could see boobs.
Then again, we only had NBC, PBS, ABC and CBS, and the latter two channels sometimes had poor reception. We had a local NBC station, and the university PBS station had a repeater in our town.
Oh I go all the way back when Pittsburgh only has 2 TV Stations—WQED which was the public station showing instructional TV to schools and WDTV which was the linchpin of the DuMont Network…
re: #67 retired cynic
I just recommended your comment. Charles will see it when he rises & shines.
re: #68 Belafon
I’m pro-agressive but orderly development and I won’t allow any of that stuff Trump buys from Putin near me or my family.
Didn’t we buy a bunch of ventilators from Russia that were all unusable? (Answer after a quick Google search: yes; and not just us, Italy got a whole convoy of medical equipment that was also bogus, blamed Russian gov’t of PR stunt.)
We need to put one of these on every corner, right next to the taco truck: pic.twitter.com/Z7gG3S3s4d
— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) August 10, 2020
Maybe if the government gave people $2,000 a month until the pandemic eases it would incentivize the GOP to actually go to work controlling the pandemic.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 11, 2020
re: #71 Barefoot Grin
Didn’t we buy a bunch of ventilators from Russia that were all unusable? (Answer after a quick Google search: yes; and not just us, Italy got a whole convoy of medical equipment that was also bogus, blamed Russian gov’t of PR stunt.)
Color me skeptical about this vaccine. For all anyone knows, it could well be a placebo, like the Phalanx vaccine in “World War Z”.
Isn’t it weird how a coronavirus death rate of 1% is plenty low to OPEN EVERYTHING, but meanwhile voter fraud incidence of 0.000001% means END VOTE BY MAIL
— David Pakman (@dpakman) August 10, 2020
re: #70 HRH Stanley Sea
I just recommended your comment. Charles will see it when he rises & shines.
Thank you so much!
re: #67 retired cynic
Every year I get caught in the same thing, and I don’t remember how it happened last year. I need to re-up my subscription to LGF, but don’t have a paypal account. (I started a paypal account for a nonprofit, and now paypal sends anything I pay with it to the nonprofit. Well, that’s not good!) The subscribe button above shows credit card images, but a click goes straight to paypal, and no option to pay by card. Don’t want to get involved with square.
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re: #77 BeachDem
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“help my delicate (white) child ate indian food” is just an incredible thing to type out and send off for advice https://t.co/UlskWDqfEO
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 11, 2020
That coronavirus vaccine the Russians are racing to develop? Some researchers worry it could actually make #COVID19 more deadly. https://t.co/l0kn3BNC7b
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 10, 2020
re: #74 Dr Lizardo
Color me skeptical about this vaccine. For all anyone knows, it could well be a placebo, like the Phalanx vaccine in “World War Z”.
Not to mention… Have we even seen any infection statistics from Russia?
I’d rather take my chances on the virus than inject anything from Russia.
This is what happens when you get all your coronavirus information from Fox docs and Trump
F&F Host Ainsley Earhardt: “97,000 kids tested positive? That was such a shock to me because we heard kids really don’t get it.” pic.twitter.com/T8K1spUUtQ— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 10, 2020
re: #79 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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LOL I was eating homemade salsa, prepared by my dad, when I was four years old - and it was plenty spicy, I can tell you that. I was eating fried eggs with Tabasco sauce by the time I was six, thanks to my dad’s friend Al. I’ve been eating spicy foods for most of my life.
re: #78 retired cynic
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re: #83 Dr Lizardo
LOL I was eating homemade salsa, prepared by my dad, when I was four years old - and it was plenty spicy, I can tell you that. I was eating fried eggs with Tabasco sauce by the time I was six, thanks to my dad’s friend Al. I’ve been eating spicy foods for most of my life.
Not to mention that “spicy” doesn’t mean hot.
re: #81 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not to mention… Have we even seen any infection statistics from Russia?
I’d rather take my chances on the virus than inject anything from Russia.
One thing I’ve noticed, and it’s anecdotal, is that the Russians daily new infections rate always seem to be close to, but invariably under, 6,000 per day. Almost like someone gave instructions along the line of, “No matter what you do, make damned sure it’s under 6,000 a day” or something.
Trump: “Some people would say that men are insulted” by Joe Biden committing to picking a female running mate.
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) August 11, 2020
“Far-UVC light” safely kills airborne coronaviruses & is safe to use around humans. Far-UVC has a 222 nm wavelength. It can’t penetrate the eye’s tear layer or the outer dead-cell layer of skin so it can’t reach or damage living cells in the body https://t.co/LIQK1QedAC pic.twitter.com/KYSHSIBSFm
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) August 10, 2020
re: #87 dangerman
The 53% of us that are insulted can go sit down.
re: #78 retired cynic
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re: #84 BeachDem
Aha! Yes, that’s how I did it last year: through the GoFundMe. Charles, my yearly subscription was entered there today. Thank you so much for this great community of peeps.
re: #87 dangerman
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re: #87 dangerman
Trump: “Some people would say that men are insulted” by Joe Biden committing to picking a female running mate.
— Ben Siegel (@benyc) August 11, 2020
Yeah, hey Donnie, why don’t you just take a fucking seat, OK?
Why did the Big Ten seem to abruptly change course over the weekend, you ask?
“Myocarditis, inflammation of the heart muscle, has been found in at least five Big Ten Conference athletes and among several other athletes in other conferences.” https://t.co/xsFUhXkoXy— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) August 10, 2020
re: #94 Belafon
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Hillary wouldn’t have had to cancel football.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 10, 2020
And Gym chimes in:
Jim Jordan demands Ohio State reopen its showers. https://t.co/SKWY5wMCQb
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) August 10, 2020
America needs the USPS; football meh https://t.co/UH4iiFXP8e
— julie ingersoll (@julieingersoll) August 10, 2020
re: #94 Belafon
Yeah, that’s a real concern too. After all, these are young men, athletes, in prime physical condition - and COVID-19 is causing myocarditis in them, WTF is gonna happen to people who can’t even be remotely described as young athletes in prime physical condition?
Meanwhile, VP Biblethumper is Tweeting that college sports are, somehow, absolutely vital to the survival of the American Republic or some such twaddle.
re: #80 Belafon
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— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) August 10, 2020
Consider this situation with any vaccine sped through and approved without proof and adequate testing and the government says take it, it’s safe:
- it flat out just fails as a vaccine…doesn’t work
- serious side effects not immediately apparent ie thalidomide
- outright kills a lot of people
Then another drug comes out, better tested and controlled
You think there’s antivaxxers now? What happens when they have justification?
We’ll be dying from this thing for years.
Effin tuesdays
but now today it must be retconned into some STUNNING NEW LIB TREACHERY as if just last night george soros punched the button to EXECUTE PROTOCOL NO BALL
— kilgore trout, new tone haver (@KT_So_It_Goes) August 10, 2020
“Donald Trump screwed up our pandemic response and now we don’t get college football.
If we re-elect him we won’t get college football next year either.
I’m joe Biden and I approve of this message”
put on every tv
400 electoral vote margin
the end— bdodgy (@bdodgy3) August 10, 2020
It’s a Tuesday, which means it’s an Election Day! Voters in:
🗳️Connecticut
🗳️Georgia
🗳️Minnesota
🗳️Vermont
🗳️Wisconsin
Know your rights, and vote like they depend on it. https://t.co/2dLqz1AolW— ACLU (@ACLU) August 11, 2020
re: #96 Belafon
Only football? Wow so I guess that’s two times you’ve turned your back on college wrestlers
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) August 10, 2020
re: #62 ericblair
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If I were an evil election-fixing turd, I would have waited until mid-October to pull shit like this. Doing it now makes a lot of GOP demographics (along with all the other people the GOP doesn’t care about) mad as hell early enough to do something about it. I’m guessing the toddler wanted his ice cream NOW NOW NOW.
He’s always about instant gratification
He never plays the long game always to his detriment
He’s never learned
and everyone’s figured that out
re: #74 Dr Lizardo
Color me skeptical about this vaccine. For all anyone knows, it could well be a placebo, like the Phalanx vaccine in “World War Z”.
It could be the cancer cure in Smith’s I am Legend.
Thread. With flair.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing an “en banc” (all of judges together) to revisit the Circuit’s decision, led by Judge Rao, on the Writ of Mandamus - forcing Judge Sullivan to stop the Amicus Curiae having Judge Gleason… pic.twitter.com/KgDiQLHB8f— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) August 11, 2020
There are multiple examples of vaccines in trial stages that make subsequent infections by a virus more severe.
re: #81 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Not to mention… Have we even seen any infection statistics from Russia?
I’d rather take my chances on the virus than inject anything from Russia.
The ultimate kick in the head would be if Trump announced that the US was buying millions of doses of the vaccine from Russia…
And making vaccinations mandatory.
re: #104 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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Doesn’t matter. Trump will pardon his fellow traitor.
re: #80 Belafon
Related:
Russia to Vaccinate Medics for Coronavirus in August
The most at-risk groups will be invited to be vaccinated before the end of clinical trials, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said.
re: #63 dangerman
Georgetown University hired two pollsters to survey the political landscape together. One is Celinda Lake, a widely respected Democratic pollster. The other is Ed Goeas, a widely respected Republican pollster. By teaming up two pros from opposite ends of the spectrum, they got a poll that is probably as honest as one can get
What does that even mean? How can you be a “widely respected [ fill in the party ] pollster”?
re: #107 🌹UOJB!
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re: #107 🌹UOJB!
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re: #79 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
The official favorite food of English people is Chicken Tikka Marsala.
Doesn’t stop (some of them) being racist though.
re: #69 🌹UOJB!
Oh I go all the way back when Pittsburgh only has 2 TV Stations—WQED which was the public station showing instructional TV to schools and WDTV which was the linchpin of the DuMont Network…
My step-father’s family in McKee’s Rocks watched Dumont on a coin-operated TV. You put in a quarter to watch a half-hour, and at the end of the month the credit company came by and emptied the box.
Trump’s a fucking lunatic, part (infinity)
Trump then called in to Hugh Hewitt, who also began with football questions. Trump said of Bill Belichick: “If I ever had a military battle I’d call up Belichick and say, ‘What do you think, what do you think? Give me a couple of ideas.’ He’d be as good as any general out there.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020
Trump is good at being a corrupt con man. He thinks that people who tell him what he wants to hear are good at whatever they’re doing.
Belicheck has no clue how to run a military campaign, let alone logistics. But he knows how to lose to Giants in Super Bowl, so there’s that.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) August 11, 2020
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re: #105 BlueSpotinAL
There are multiple examples of vaccines in trial stages that make subsequent infections by a virus more severe.
Notably one of the test vaccines for SARS.
re: #117 John Hughes
I wondered what had stopped that, besides the disease itself fading.
re: #118 retired cynic
Test, trace and isolate. Like what stopped many other epidemics.
It must be admitted that it’s hard doing that with COVID-19 because of the high rate of “asymptomatic” cases, but some countries didn’t even try…
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So, how much would you pay for 50 feet of beach-front property along LaJolla Shores?
How about $27M?
It’s one of those insanely priced new-builds on a tiny city lot.
You and I may be struggling in Trump’s America, but the wildly rich are doing fine.
Hell, no. I’d take that money and buy a decent sized piece of land in Colorado and put a big ass house on it…WITH plenty of funds left over.
He keeps escalating the “threat.” Pretty soon it’ll be “You’re gonna have to eat with chopsticks” and then “You’re gonna have to abort all your kids but one.” This is some “yellow peril” racist bullshit. https://t.co/hDf9FINxls
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) August 11, 2020
re: #122 The Pie Overlord!
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re: #47 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Coronavirus: Putin says vaccine has been approved for use (BBC)
Phalanx hits the Russian market.
(more)
Oh, great. Now Trump is going to buy a shit ton of doses from Vlad and try to push a Russian vaccine on all of us.
That’s one I’m not very keen to line up for.
re: #119 John Hughes
Test, trace and isolate. Like what stopped many other epidemics.
It must be admitted that it’s hard doing that with COVID-19 because of the high rate of “asymptomatic” cases, but some countries didn’t even try…
Going to be fun trying to test, trace and isolate 250,000 wannabe Hell’s Angels from Sturgis.
We’re stupid, and we’re going to die.
Trump said he once asked “a certain highly respected senator” who is “the dumbest” senator, and the person said “Joe, Joe,” and Trump asked who Joe is, and the senator asked you don’t know Joe?, and they went around like this a while, and the senator eventually said “Joe Biden.”
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020
re: #126 The Pie Overlord!
At least he was smart enough to be re-elected.
re: #130 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!
At least he was smart enough to be re-elected.
Six times.
I’m sure that Trump would probably chalk that up to the people of Delaware being dummies as well: as I guess they figure those were three EVs they weren’t going to get anyway…
re: #129 🌹UOJB!
Let me guess…Trump asked that asshole Ron Johnson…
The “highly respected senator” was crying, big tears dripping down his face as he sobbed “Sir! Sir!”
Gotta be Lindsey Graham.
Both Flynn’s lawyer AND the DOJ lawyer are arguing, in substance, that Flynn and Barr are above the law in that the judge could know that there was unethical and/or criminal micdonduct prompting the motion to dismiss the case and the judge can’t even inquire about it. Absurd.
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 11, 2020
Judge Pillard just said, “What self-respecting Article III judge would grant the motion to dismiss WITHOUT trying to understand what the heck is going on when Flynn pleaded guilty & all prior prosecutors (pre-Barr) assured Judge Sullivan the evidence CLEARLY proved he was guilty?
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 11, 2020
48/ That is a really extreme position. This is what Trump has done to our DOJ, backing them into such absurdities. There is no way the DC Circuit would ever accept this legal view.
— Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) August 11, 2020
re: #133 jaunte
That really is the sticking point. The fucker PLED GUILTY. He admitted he did it. You’d have to have a SERIOUSLY legit land legally sound reason for dismissing a case given the plea and I highly doubt the DOJ or Flynns lawyers can come up with one that will satisfy a judge.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
“We can’t tell you our secret confidential argument in favor of Trump being a king.”
53/ “You can’t undo the scrutiny,” Wall says.
That’s DOJ’s argument for why emergency relief is needed to stop a hearing.
It takes us back to what @neal_katyal keeps emphasizing: DOJ’s trying to hide from all of us what it’s done in the Flynn case.
That’s the real bottom line.— Joshua A. Geltzer (@jgeltzer) August 11, 2020
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
That really is the sticking point. The fucker PLED GUILTY. He admitted he did it. You’d have to have a SERIOUSLY legit land legally sound reason for dismissing a case given the plea and I highly doubt the DOJ or Flynns lawyers can come up with one that will satisfy a judge.
Not one that is legal.
Conspiracy to cover up felony conduct.
Their argument would be that Flynn was coerced into a plea deal that was accepted by him and the DOJ where all players were Trump’s own people. And yet once Barr comes in, everything is suspect. The issue isn’t Flynn or the plea deal. It’s Barr subverting the rule of law to protect Trump by any means necessary.
re: #122 The Pie Overlord!
Learning Chinese wouldn’t be so bad. There’s a billion people out there, and China has a deep and fascinating culture. Besides America has a way of taming that shit, not just militarily.
This exchange exposes the weakness in the #Flynn argument. Court has duty to protect integrity of criminal justice process. https://t.co/pNiF77h6pC
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) August 11, 2020
Police in Belarus arrests workers of Minsk Electrotechnical Plant, who went on strike today. For all the leftists in the West, who express their love for Lukashenka just to show how non-mainstream they are: here police of a dictator arrest workers who have dared to go on strike. https://t.co/B2I3L0W76o
— Sergej Sumlenny (@sumlenny) August 11, 2020
You can guess what side the dirtbag left tankies are pulling for.
re: #100 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
ACLU
@ACLU
It’s a Tuesday, which means it’s an Election Day! Voters in:
🗳️Connecticut
🗳️Georgia
🗳️Minnesota
🗳️Vermont
🗳️Wisconsin
Know your rights, and vote like they depend on it.
I early voted in person a couple weeks ago. I was the only voter in the room the whole time I was there. I don’t know if it’s so easy everywhere else in MN, but I am so glad that we’ve always had Secretaries of State that do not fuck around with access to and accuracy of the vote. I hope the best for everyone in Wisconsin and Georgia.
We moved my son on campus Sunday. This morning, his bike was stolen.
re: #79 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
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SRSLY: I can understand if their kid had had some sort of food allergy/sensitivity (which they should have warned the other parents about), or if junior had had some bad reaction - then they might have some cause for complaint. But as it is, their worries about coming across as xenophobic idiots - ? - unfortunately seem justified.
It immediately reminded me of one of the memorable lines from “The Big Bang Theory” - delivered by Kunal Nayyar, of course:
“We can always order out Indian food. Or, as we call it in India, ‘Food’”.
Today is an important day in hip hop history.
47 years ago today, DJ Kool Herc threw a Back to School party at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. Hip Hop was born. Happy Birthday! 🎧 pic.twitter.com/KR4a4IOptQ
— Mon (@smackeddaniels_) August 11, 2020
Pillard is basically defending judicial integrity and Wall thinks judicial integrity has to bow to Exec.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 11, 2020
re: #143 Belafon
We moved my son on campus Sunday. This morning, his bike was stolen.
That’s too bad. They are a hot item right now.
re: #3 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
So, how much would you pay for 50 feet of beach-front property along LaJolla Shores?
How about $27M?
Overpriced. For only 35 million EUR they could have bought 2,000 M^2 in the middle of Paris. With a bonus dead body in the basement.
re: #141 ericblair
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Really?
Is “leftists in the West [ ]express[ing] their love for Lukashenko” actually a thing?
What is it? Soviet nostalgia??
In its zeal to keep executive branch corruption hidden, the DOJ lawyer just indicated the judge must (de facto) help “close the criminal deal” if the defendant bribes the prosecutor in court to dismiss the case. So the judge must participate in the “mockery of justice.”
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 11, 2020
re: #151 Teukka
It’s the story of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 under the aegis of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
re: #150 jaunte
I don’t typically criticize other lawyers, but that is some brazen fuckery there that I don’t think any judge is going to find compelling.
re: #153 KGxvi
I don’t typically criticize other lawyers, but that is some brazen fuckery there that I don’t think any judge is going to find compelling.
One can hope.
re: #9 William Lewis
This forces me to remember the shows I actually cared about while they were on the air…
Julia
Mash
Rockford Files
Logan’s Run
Magnum PI (only the original. That current sh*t needs a fucking nuke missle.)
Hill Street Blues
Various Star Treks
…
Ain’t been much of late.
I loved Julia and has a Barbie-like doll of Julia in her nurse’s uniform.
TV shows I cared about when they were on the air:
Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents/Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Boris Karloff’s Thriller
One Step Beyond
Irwin Allen’s shows—Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Lost In Space, Time Tunnel, Land Of The Giants
UFO
Space:1999
Star Trek TOS
Night Gallery
Journey To The Unknown
Rockford Files
Original Saturday Night Live
Fridays
Moonlighting
Star Trek The Next Generation
And that’s it. Really haven’t watched anything on network TV since the mid 90s.
re: #141 ericblair
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You can guess what side the dirtbag left tankies are pulling for.
Do leftists actually support that guy? Haven’t been keeping up, but why the hell would they be?
Meanwhile, in Czech Republic, local police in Opava (not far from me) ended up with a most unusual passenger.
It’s an autoplay video, so just let it run. It’s funny.
re: #152 Dr Lizardo
It’s the story of Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther Party, who was assassinated in 1969 under the aegis of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI.
That much I figured out, what I was wondering is whether the movie was any good :)
re: #97 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, that’s a real concern too. After all, these are young men, athletes, in prime physical condition - and COVID-19 is causing myocarditis in them, WTF is gonna happen to people who can’t even be remotely described as young athletes in prime physical condition?
Meanwhile, VP Biblethumper is Tweeting that college sports are, somehow, absolutely vital to the survival of the American Republic or some such twaddle.
I can tell you what happens…one of my friends had coronavirus early on (her carrier was a nurse who picked it up in Hong Kong and brought it to California). She had serious gut issues but it wasn’t until later that these were recognized as symptoms of COVID-19.
So here we are in August, almost six months since she got sick and she has tachycardia, BAD. Her heart starts racing when she stands up from a seated position. She’s been in for initial scans but the cardiologists can’t tell if it’s pericarditis or myocarditis. So more testing is called for. And of course there are the insurance issues, which are not helping. But yeah, heart trouble.
#KanyeConJob https://t.co/oGBBwIe0m3
— The Lincoln Project 🏴☠️ (@ProjectLincoln) August 11, 2020
In case anyone forgot what a lying, sadistic prick Mike Pence is. https://t.co/YeEbIlldJW
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) August 11, 2020
meanwhile in Kentucky
From a state news release: “To media: Postponement advisory should have been sent with the following note …
” This morning the First Lady and the Governor began not feeling well and out of an abundance of caution, we are postponing today’s 1 p.m. news conference.” ^JC— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 11, 2020
Cy Vance has your financial records! https://t.co/FBKTQb0xNQ
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) August 11, 2020
re: #160 mmmirele
I can tell you what happens…one of my friends had coronavirus early on (her carrier was a nurse who picked it up in Hong Kong and brought it to California). She had serious gut issues but it wasn’t until later that these were recognized as symptoms of COVID-19.
So here we are in August, almost six months since she got sick and she has tachycardia, BAD. Her heart starts racing when she stands up from a seated position. She’s been in for initial scans but the cardiologists can’t tell if it’s pericarditis or myocarditis. So more testing is called for. And of course there are the insurance issues, which are not helping. But yeah, heart trouble.
There’s almost certainly going to be long-term health issues related to this. And I don’t just mean over the next 18 to 24 months. We could be looking at COVID-19 related health problems many years, maybe even decades, down the road - and that’s something we need to be ready for.
Janet Herold championed Dept of Labor investigations into race and gender bias in pay and promotion at Oracle and Google
This is a huge loss to workers https://t.co/CEUE9oFFa9— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) August 11, 2020
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
Right. It’s a blank check for badly run CONSERVATIVE states.
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
DOL’s chief solicitor, Trump appointee Kate O’Scannlain, informed Herold of the involuntary transfer late last month. Earlier this year, Herold wrote a memo to DOL leadership to complain that Scalia, in her view, was intervening in DOL’s high-profile pay-bias lawsuit against Oracle by attempting to reach a low-ball settlement, the sources said. She’s also clashed with political leadership at DOL headquarters over the last three years, current and former administration officials told Bloomberg Law.
The transfer has yet to be finalized. Herold, who has hired civil rights lawyer Debra Katz, plans to file a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel alleging retaliation against a whistleblower if the department follows its verbal order with a formal notice of involuntary reassignment, the sources said.
re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth
“fighting too much for workers”
God forbid we have a government that actually works FOR THE PEOPLE.
JFC.
This is the most evil administration I’ve ever seen.
YEAH, & MEXICO CALLED, THEY SAID THE CHECK IS IN THE MAIL.
OH WAIT, THERE ARE MAIL DELAYS CAUSED BY YOU, SO IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE LATE.
“I’m one politician that says I’m going to do this & then we do better. I promised & btw the wall is being built”pic.twitter.com/SAUUi9NNLZ 05— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) August 11, 2020
re: #156 🌹UOJB!
One Stop Beyond was an awesome show.
re: #171 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
One Stop Beyond was an awesome show.
It scared the crap out of me as a kid because each episode was based on documented accounts!
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
Boy, he’s really looking bronze in that one. Like he’s been dipped in bronze or something.
Maybe he’s going for that whole God-King Xerxes look that Rodrigo Santoro had in 300.
Imagine Trump in this getup, LOLOL:
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
re: #160 mmmirele
I can tell you what happens…one of my friends had coronavirus early on (her carrier was a nurse who picked it up in Hong Kong and brought it to California). She had serious gut issues but it wasn’t until later that these were recognized as symptoms of COVID-19.
So here we are in August, almost six months since she got sick and she has tachycardia, BAD. Her heart starts racing when she stands up from a seated position. She’s been in for initial scans but the cardiologists can’t tell if it’s pericarditis or myocarditis. So more testing is called for. And of course there are the insurance issues, which are not helping. But yeah, heart trouble.
Remember, that pitcher from the Red Sox had to pack it in because of heart issues due to COVID.
re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’ve only read about it since I was too young, but some of this makes me think of Nixon’s various attempts at price fixing.
re: #174 makeitstop
Remember, that pitcher from the Red Sox had to pack it in because of heart issues due to COVID.
There were also reports yesterday of several football players (college level I think) that have been diagnosed with myocarditis.
“Recovering.”
21-year-old Florida man experiences organ failure after recovering from mild COVID-19 case https://t.co/QVSmLSpc6N
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 11, 2020
Veepstakes chatter….
I’m hearing from multiple sources that Biden’s VP pick is Harris. We’ll see if they’re correct. #BidenHarris2020
— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) August 11, 2020
I hope so. She’ll make Pence cry.
re: #180 makeitstop
Veepstakes chatter….
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I hope so. She’ll make Pence cry.
If he picked Rice Republicans would be beating the Benghazi drum 24/7.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 11, 2020
Guess what. Karfunkel, it turns out, is the *president* and *CFO* of this low-profile synagogue. So he got a mega-tax deduction by transferring his Kodak shares—when the value was pumped up—to a new charity that he runs. See the UPDATE based on WSJ reporting. https://t.co/15Q3Hs1SX5
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 11, 2020
By the way, as I reported, Karfunkel has at least two long-standing foundations that support synagogues. They file IRS 990 tax returns. Why didn’t he donate this stock to one of those? Congregation Chemdas Yisroel, per all religious charities, does not have to file a 990.
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) August 11, 2020
re: #181 🌹UOJB!
If he picked Rice Republicans would be beating the Benghazi drum 24/7.
There will be something they will pick on about every candidate. Harris slept her way to the nomination, Rice killed a diplomat, etc.
re: #181 🌹UOJB!
If he picked Rice Republicans would be beating the Benghazi drum 24/7.
Bass has mucho baggage, too. Kamala is the smartest choice.
(Voting Joe no matter who it is, though.)
re: #183 Belafon
There will be something they will pick on about every candidate. Harris slept her way to the nomination, Rice killed a diplomat, etc.
Tammy Duckworth is a “coward” (yeah they said that)
Last night Twitter was speculating Biden was picking Mayor Pete…
re: #186 🌹UOJB!
Last night Twitter was speculating Biden was picking Mayor Pete…
That wouldn’t be smart. We don’t need two white guys on the ticket this year.
re: #180 makeitstop
Veepstakes chatter….
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I hope so. She’ll make Pence cry.
There’s no great virtue in announcing much before the convention. Keep the GOP from targeting efficiently and keep the media chatter going.
re: #183 Belafon
There will be something they will pick on about every candidate. Harris slept her way to the nomination, Rice killed a diplomat, etc.
re: #181 🌹UOJB!
If he picked Rice Republicans would be beating the Benghazi drum 24/7.
Naturally: Bret Stephens mentions it in his hatchet-job column on Rice in today’s NYT. Along with a lot of other carping. There’s a nugget of truth under the mountain of bullshit, though - US policy in sub-Saharan Africa has been, at best, uneven and rarely “productive”: but it’s been that way for decades (under various Administrations), and blaming Susan Rice for the shortcomings is a huge crock. Though Bret Stephens….
Mind you, I don’t think Rice is a good pick for VP. But not on Benghazi Boogaloo grounds….
re: #189 Decatur Deb
There’s no great virtue in announcing much before the convention. Keep the GOP from targeting efficiently and keep the media chatter going.
In this cycle, no. In a normal cycle, picking someone relatively early gives you the ability to run multiple events.
re: #186 🌹UOJB!
suspect that is Biden cementing the support of the former candidate and feeling out potential involvement in his administration
re: #194 piratedan
suspect that is Biden cementing the support of the former candidate and feeling out potential involvement in his administration
Smart move. A united front is desperately needed right now.
re: #192 Dread Pirate Ron
US - 36 deaths per 100,000
Taiwan - 0.03 deaths per 100,000
Mortality rate (deaths per cases):
US - 3.2%
Taiwan - 1.46%
Current cases:
US - so fucking many we can’t even properly count them
Taiwan - like 30
Yup, we’ve done fanfuckingtastic
Remember, every time Trump does one of these so-called coronavirus briefings, he repeats the same lies over and over so eventually Americans will just accept what he (and his enablers) say as fact. pic.twitter.com/YmWqZltfR3
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) August 11, 2020
re: #194 piratedan
suspect that is Biden cementing the support of the former candidate and feeling out potential involvement in his administration
And since Pete Buttigieg is unemployed at present, it’s probably a smart idea to get him out there stumping for Joe and the (D) ticket (with, perhaps a Cabinet seat as an incentive) rather than sitting around at home in South Bend.
re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg
Smart move. A united front is desperately needed right now.
Some talk of Biden doing something similar to what GW Bush did in 2000 and basically lining up his potential cabinet during the election to give an idea of what his administration would look like. Not a terrible idea, as long as you keep campaigning and don’t start acting like you’ve already won (no prevent defenses, and run up the fucking score)
@jjmacnab From the look of his chonkiness, someone has been abusing the system a tad https://t.co/P2AP36uAMc
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) August 11, 2020
re: #191 Jay C
while Rice has the chops to be National Security Advisor or even Head of the State Department, not holding or running for any national or locally elected position doesn’t make her a wise choice (imho, she’s capable and smart, not denying that) for a great deal of the domestic heavy lifting and repair that is needed to our governmental institutions. I think Harris covers that as she’s well versed in the law and will make fucking mincemeat of those who do not do their homework. She’s not a radical lefty but I believe she’s more from Biden’s cloth of believing in good government and who will help rebuild what was broken. If Biden puts her in charge of fixing and prosecuting what the GOP has done, I would be completely on board for that as these fucks need to finally be stuck with the bill.
re: #68 Belafon
I’m pro-agressive but orderly development and I won’t allow any of that stuff Trump buys from Putin near me or my family.
Trump needs to make a splash dealing with coronavirus before the election — and what could be more of a splash than saying his BFF has a vaccine for the disease. I am certain that Putin told Trump that is the best way to ensure re-election and its safety or efficacy or whether it’s only a placebo is immaterial; voters just have to be told that it’s available and the pandemic is over! They could start the vaccinations immediately and a grateful nation will applaud dear leader! The story only has to hold up through November 3, after that it doesn’t matter to Trump. The millions who continue to believe in hydroxycholoquine will have no problem in accepting this latest lie from Trump.
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
But there’s already Russian doctors* out there ringing the alarm bells that this vaccine isn’t ready for mass distribution and that it’s efficacy has yet to be proven under rigorous clinical conditions.
* - doctors who will, no doubt, mysteriously start falling out of windows in the next couple days.
Flynn arguments wrapping up now. Will be posting a YouTube video summarizing what we heard later today. Given the questions from the judges it seems very likely the court will decide the case against Flynn and Barr/DOJ and return it to Judge Sullivan for a further hearing.
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 11, 2020
re: #199 KGxvi
I liken it to what Obama and Pelosi did in 2008 in their massive unfucking of the US (and tbf, the World) economy by hitting the ground running. Pelosi steered a whole shitpotful of legislation in 2008 to fix the economy, lily ledbetter, voting reform, the ACA etc….(only to have Mitch play the obstruction game really well in delaying a whole lotta shit from hitting the streets as fast as it could have, thank to the delay in seating Franken and making guys like Byrd and Kennedy show up in their death beds to get shit passed while his open caucus openly prayed for their deaths).
I suspect Biden has a serious amount of repair work to perform, from the medical, to the economic, to the post office, to the environment and international relations, justice department, repopulating the government with civil service and also going after the GOP wrecking crew and maybe even killing Putin.
Interesting bit about the Russian vaccine… they passed a law earlier in the year allowing for release without Phase 3 trials. The Phase 3 trials will start this week, and there are Phase 3 trials going on elsewhere in the world… so they’re not really ahead of anyone. This is just more Putin bedazzled bullshit.
re: #207 KGxvi
Interesting bit about the Russian vaccine… they passed a law earlier in the year allowing for release without Phase 3 trials. The Phase 3 trials will start this week, and there are Phase 3 trials going on elsewhere in the world… so they’re not really ahead of anyone. This is just more Putin bedazzled bullshit.
Madness.
re: #186 🌹UOJB!
Last night Twitter was speculating Biden was picking Mayor Pete…
speculation I saw on twitter last night was Pete being considered for a Cabinet position.
re: #114 Decatur Deb
My step-father’s family in McKee’s Rocks watched Dumont on a coin-operated TV. You put in a quarter to watch a half-hour, and at the end of the month the credit company came by and emptied the box.
Mr. w’s family had a coin-operated refrigerator.
re: #208 Dr Lizardo
Madness.
I appreciate them willing to become sacrificial test subjects. Vaccine might actually work, in which case it’s great news. Vaccine might be a shitshow, in which case Vlad just might get overthrown or at least severely weakened. Seems like a win/win to me.
Ted Cruz will fall for anything. https://t.co/bD3RiWlkV4
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 11, 2020
re: #212 JC1
I appreciate them willing to become sacrificial test subjects. Vaccine might actually work, in which case it’s great news. Vaccine might be a shitshow, in which case Vlad just might get overthrown or at least severely weakened. Seems like a win/win to me.
Maybe it’s because I used to read a lot of dystopian sci-fi in my younger days, but I can easily imagine a scenario where this Russian vaccine actually ends up decreasing COVID-19’s infectiousness….but increasing its lethality by several orders of magnitude.
re: #72 Belafon
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The other thing you’ll see pop up suddenly in the first day or two of November in certain districts are fake ballot drop off boxes.
re: #210 KGxvi
Well, it is Vladimir Putin. Also, link with the story.
I’m telling you, Trump will announce he’s acquired millions of doses of the vaccine around the last week of October and Americans will be getting it “very very soon”.
“…Apart from the Ruptly videographer, only one other journalist — a local television reporter — heard about the Bible burning, and noted it with a single sentence buried in a lengthy report on that night’s protests. The story, by KOIN, the local CBS News affiliate, also reported that a group of women calling themselves Moms United for Black Lives Matter attempted to put out the fire — a detail not included in the Ruptly video, which was edited to string together a number of clips from the night. (A New York Times reporter had observed a truck offering free Bibles at the protests earlier that night, though it was not clear whether it provided the book that was burned.)
Ruptly instead made the Bible burning a focus of its protest coverage that night. The news agency tweeted the video twice on Aug. 1 — here and here — and featured it on its website. In the tweets and text that accompany the video on the agency’s website, the Bible burning is presented as the night’s central event; the flag burning is secondary. RT, the network that runs Ruptly, also wrote an entire story about the Bible burning. Ruptly and RT then let Twitter take it from there.
The video was first tweeted by an account that lists two cities — Oklahoma City and Abu Dhabi — as its users’ location and has only a few dozen followers. It was soon after deleted. But before it disappeared, the tweet was picked up by a Malaysian named Ian Miles Cheong who has amassed a large Twitter following by playing a right-wing American raconteur on social media.
Mr. Cheong added his own commentary to the initial tweet, wildly exaggerating what the Ruptly video showed. “Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland,” he wrote.
His tweet quickly became the basis for an entire day of outrage from right-wing news outlets, Republican political figures and alt-right commentators. It was Mr. Cheong whose tweet spurred the younger Mr. Trump, Mr. Cruz and numerous other high-profile Republicans to weigh in. It was also held up as evidence of the protesters’ depravity by prominent alt-right conspiracy theorists like Jack Posobiec, a correspondent for the One America News Network, which is much favored by the president.”
re: #215 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
The other thing you’ll see pop up suddenly in the first day or two of November in certain districts are fake ballot drop off boxes.
We really need to get people to mail ballots on the first day it’s possible to do so.
re: #203 Dr Lizardo
But there’s already Russian doctors* out there ringing the alarm bells that this vaccine isn’t ready for mass distribution and that it’s efficacy has yet to be proven under rigorous clinical conditions.
* - doctors who will, no doubt, mysteriously start falling out of windows in the next couple days.
Good thing Biden wants to abolish windows.
re: #218 Eclectic Cyborg
We really need to get people to mail ballots on the first day it’s possible to do so.
The drop off boxes are meant to counter Trump’s postal service shenanigans. People and cities will have to be very diligent about knowing where the official boxes are.
re: #220 Belafon
The drop off boxes are meant to counter Trump’s postal service shenanigans. People and cities will have to be very diligent about knowing where the official boxes are.
I can totally see the trumpengopenbarr regime putting up fake ones, and also attempting to vandalize/destroy/”disappear” the legit ones from certain neighborhoods. Dems/voting rights groups need to be prepared for any possibility (i.e. instead of asking why they won’t do something horrible, ask “why not?”)
re: #218 Eclectic Cyborg
We really need to get people to mail ballots on the first day it’s possible to do so.
They have to get them first.
re: #200 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Looks like my cat Bean. He doesn’t play an instrument though, he just looks fabulous.
re: #220 Belafon
The drop off boxes are meant to counter Trump’s postal service shenanigans. People and cities will have to be very diligent about knowing where the official boxes are.
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