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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:28:53pm

RIP RBG.

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:29:02pm

The queen is dead, long live the queen!

Praise the Notorious RBG!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:29:47pm

Lindsey’s hands are so tiny.
Now I know why Trump likes having him around

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:32:08pm

“How will Democrats in the Senate vote against a Latina?” Two words: Merrick Garland.

“She’s qualified!” So was Garland.

“She’s already been confirmed by the Senate to a bench!” So had Garland.

“She deserves a hearing!” So did Garland.

“She deserves a vote!” So did Garland.

“Trump won the election!” And Obama won two.

“You just don’t like Trump!” And?

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retired cynic  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:36:04pm

This is gorgeous, Charles. Thank you.

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Belafon  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:37:55pm

re: #98 The Ghost of a Flea

As narcissists they can’t actually conceive of a being bigger than themselves, in the sense of knowing more, being more, being better. When they try to speak about God, they simply describe themselves but with the power to do whatever they want. But since they’re also desperate for external affirmations of legitimacy and value shallow symbolism because they can’t really grasp deeper meaning, they’ll never actually acknowledge that they’ve invented a new God or a new theology.

So…as is pretty much always the case…the “attack and dethrone GOD” thing is a confession masked as an accusation.

I am an atheist, but if I was going to imagine a god that would have created our universe, she would have to be powerful enough the start it 15 billion years ago and have it get to where it is now without intervention. That would be a pretty powerful being.

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:43:34pm

Besides, we already have a Latina woman on the bench, her name is Sonia Sotomayor. Better yet, Obama didn’t put her name up because he was desperate to win reelection and needed a token to tick the “Latino” and “woman” boxes on a checklist.

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William Lewis  Sep 19, 2020 • 9:48:01pm

Another excellent choice Charles.

When I was a senior in high school in 1982 I remember searching through the jazz albums at the local library and found “Blue Sun” by a guy I’d never heard of, Ralph Towner. I read on the cover that he’d played everything on it so I had to check it out.

It remains one of my all time favorite albums.

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BeachDem  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:05:37pm

re: #1 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

RIP RBG.

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Belafon  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:11:52pm

They’re showing Zombie Strippers on Showtime, starring Jenna Jameson and Robert England. The intro seems to imply that Bush stayed in office. He appointed one of his daughters to the Supreme Court.

Zombie Strippers Opening

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:13:43pm

The average time for a SCOTUS appointee to go from nomination to swearing-in is 2 months.

There’s now less than 44 days until the election. And Trump hasn’t even put forward a nominee, he says that’ll happen “next week.” Even assuming that he puts someone forward tomorrow (Mon), that still means 43 days will be left on the calendar.

The Senate was already scheduled to be out of session for the first two weeks of October before Ginsburg’s death. Mitch could force the Senate to stay in-session in order to ram through Trump’s nominee, but that means pulling vulnerable “moderates” from the campaign trail to vote on a nominee who could be toxic to their reelection bids. And it would pretty much kill dead all the Senate Repub work to act as if they care about CV-19 relief when they wouldn’t come back from a month’s vacation to vote on a bill but will cancel a 2 week vacation just to fill a SCOTUS vacancy.

Getting that seat filled is purely short-term thinking, especially if Senate Dems are earnest in their threats to expand the bench and abolish the filibuster should Mitch push to fill that seat before the inauguration.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:30:31pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:31:27pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:34:53pm

re: #6 Belafon

There is a reason that these shitheels also dabble in Flat Earth and YEC, my dude.

They want a small world to be big in. The idea that they are temporary, their value and meaning relatively tiny among billions of people and even smaller compared to geologic time and infinite galaxies…that pisses them off.

(it pisses them off so much they don’t particularly value other, tiny, squishy people or the love they get from them)

So they invented a God that says what they want, and what they want to hear is how they’re the only important people, they don’t have to care about others, and they are special. They worship God on the same terms that Jeffrey Dahmer did dating.

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Sherlock Hound  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:40:37pm

OK, Donnie.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:44:55pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

This is also part of the appeal of QAnon:

Rather than be normal nice people or make the effort to be good, being a Q believer makes you VERY IMPORTANT while doing very little work, and what “work” is required involves a kind of collaborative storytelling in which every decoded Q drop emphasizes how believers are VERY IMPORTANT and that the people the believers feel spite or anger towards are A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY OF CANNIBAL PERVERTS.

You are the ultimate good special people who are right with God and protecting everything good: anybody you’re uncomfortable with is either a complicit dupe who deserves to be hurt or a participant in the ultimate depravity who deserves to be hurt.

It’s not psychotic, it’s narcissistic.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:45:56pm

re: #15 Sherlock Hound

OK, Donnie.

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???? The attendees at the rally are masked???? When did the WH decide that to switch their policy on that?? Of course, they aren’t socially distanced — but baby steps.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:48:18pm
CORDOVA, TN—Praying that the Lord Almighty would help her understand the recent whistleblower reports about Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s treatment of migrant detainees, conservative evangelical woman Melissa Carson reportedly asked God Tuesday to give her strength to incorporate forced hysterectomies into her belief system. “Lord, show me how the forced removal of the uterus from multiple imprisoned women is evidence of our salvation by grace alone,” said the devout evangelical woman, scanning her Bible for a verse or two that might offer a reason for why ICE-affiliated physicians were performing hysterectomies on detained women, many of whom did not speak English and were not given information or choice about the procedures. “I know I’m asking an awful lot of you, Lord, but my religion teaches me that all life is sacred, and although I know you move in mysterious ways, I confess I am confused as to how forced hysterectomies fit into that. You are just testing me, Lord, and I know that, but I am going to need a little bit of divine help to understand this one.” At press time, Carson was praising the Lord for his guidance after remembering that the hysterectomies were completely justified because President Donald Trump was a divine being simply carrying out God’s will.

Conservative Evangelical Asks God To Give Her Strength To Incorporate Forced Hysterectomies Into Belief System (The Onion)

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 10:55:44pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Conservative Evangelical Asks God To Give Her Strength To Incorporate Forced Hysterectomies Into Belief System (The Onion)

“Something something ‘he has a plan,’ something something ‘we must have faith he knows what he’s doing,’ praise Trump!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:07:19pm

nhc.noaa.gov

Post-tropical cyclone Paulette is moving south into warm water. The National Hurricane Center is increasing its chances to regain its tropical characteristics (60%). That leaves me the question of what should happen if ex-Paulette is declared a tropical storm (again) as it makes a lap around the Atlantic.

The storm has never been absorbed into another weather system and is still distinct. Will the NHC keep Paulette as the name (to avoid more Greek letters), or does it get a new name? (When storms cross from the Atlantic to Pacific they get new names. If they reintensify from a depression they keep the same name as long as they don’t become part of another weather system.) Drama from the Weather Office.

A new wave has formed off the east coast of Florida, bringing gale force winds.

Tropical Storm Beta looks as though it will become a major headache for Texas.

Hurricane Teddy looks as though it will miss Bermuda (tropical storm warnings are up for the island), but will slam into Nova Scotia as a post-tropical hurricane.

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:15:54pm

re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The sad truth is that there are millions of Evangelicals actually doing what the Onion is goofing on. But their Pulpit Pimps already have the Talking Points ready for Sunday Sermons provided by Frank Luntz to justify ICE having an uncertified doctor sterilizing detained women…

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Decatur Deb  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:22:43pm

re: #14 The Ghost of a Flea

There is a reason that these shitheels also dabble in Flat Earth and YEC, my dude.

They want a small world to be big in. The idea that they are temporary, their value and meaning relatively tiny among billions of people and even smaller compared to geologic time and infinite galaxies…that pisses them off.

(it pisses them off so much they don’t particularly value other, tiny, squishy people or the love they get from them)

So they invented a God that says what they want, and what they want to hear is how they’re the only important people, they don’t have to care about others, and they are special. They worship God on the same terms that Jeffrey Dahmer did dating.

The first Clock of the Long Now is being built inside a mountain in W Texas. It will tick once a year for 10,000 years. It has chimes that will play when a visitor inputs winding energy, or on its schedule. The tunes of the chimes will not repeat, and most tunes it generates will not be witnessed. The purpose of the clock is to change the thinking of those who perceive it.
longnow.org

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Targetpractice  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:44:06pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:50:31pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 19, 2020 • 11:59:33pm

re: #22 Decatur Deb

The first Clock of the Long Now is being built inside a mountain in W Texas. It will tick once a year for 10,000 years. It has chimes that will play when a visitor inputs winding energy, or on its schedule. The tunes of the chimes will not repeat, and most tunes it generates will not be witnessed. The purpose of the clock is to change the thinking of those who perceive it.
longnow.org

Thanks for the link. That is seriously interesting.

Yet another piece of civilization that would be under threat if the American Taliban take over.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:04:22am

re: #25 EPR-radar

Thanks for the link. That is seriously interesting.

Yet another piece of civilization that would be under threat if the American Taliban take over.

They are not optimists. The clock is made of high-tech stainless, but the specification requires that it be maintainable with Bronze Age technology.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:14:51am

I almost posted this Long Now article few days ago, for freetoken:

Time-Binding and The Music History Survey
blog.longnow.org

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:32:30am

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Thx.

It remains one of my soap boxes, or perhaps a bur in my saddle, that even though we have a vast improvement in access to data and information, most people are intent on ignoring more and more for the sake of escape (e.g., “reality” TV.)

I’m pretty sure our species has not had significant cognitive changes via evolution in the past few short millennia. Human evolution of the brain has taken much longer. A few alleles for some traits - such as lactase persistence - have changed in the whole population over the past 5 millennia or so. But mostly we’re still the same organism as 5kya or even 10kya.

However, our tool making ability has accumulated tools that now allow us to have visual, aural, even tactile access to material that our ancestors could not have imagined.

I find music to be very segmenting, by which I mean that humans will self-group into different tastes in what they want out of music. Yet it remains true that there isn’t really anything new in music other than the addition of technical capabilities we have with automation. The human ear still responds to the same range of frequencies, the human voice can still only reproduce a fraction of those, our hands can only play an instrument so fast, etc. And the mathematical/linguistic abilities applied to music also put their own limits.

Art is the provence of modern humans. We (and perhaps our closest relatives) are/were artists. That is what we are. That is how we can define ourselves against other animals, which themselves have language abilities, social structure, etc.

But we are artists. And it is our art which is our power. Language (spoken and written) is based on art. All of our communication that is seen or heard is based on our artistic abilities.

This is why I think it is good to push children to explore all sorts of creative avenues. Much more than turning in a homework assignment on time, having a child express themselves through some means is central to human development.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:43:57am

Joe Biden made a statement about Brexit and Johnson’s latest maneuvering, and I would not have known it by simply reading my usual sources, but going to see the UK Brexit headlines brought to my attention that it riled up some of the Brexiteers:

What’s the real reason behind Joe Biden’s Brexit threats?

Joe Biden clearly didn’t write the statement on Brexit and borders himself. Left to what remains of his own devices, Biden often rambles like a drunk on a park bench.

The author seems upset.

Also the DailyFail chimes in: US envoy rejects threat from Joe Biden that Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill could harm trade deal with ‘our friend’ the UK
which is mostly an apologetics piece for what Johnson is doing and tries to present the Trump reps (like the ambassador) as supporting Johnson.

Why are these people really upset with Biden?

Because it’s clear that Johnson is creating a mess - he inherited a mess (a mess he desired anyway) - but he’s made more a mess of it.

The reality is that it is not in the best interest of the US, as far as trade is concerned, to roll over for Johnson. Trump only likes Johnson because Trump is a bigot and sees Johnson as true English. But for the US as a whole, our BigAg and BigPharma are pushing hard at knocking down walls into the UK and the British farmers and public know it.

The EU is a bigger trading partner for the US and so we will favor it for our own sake. Brexiteers’ hyper-nationalism is not in the best interest of the US, and it’s only because Trump is a wanna-be strongman new-fascist that the US has not spoken more clearly about this.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:47:27am

re: #28 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The cosmic joke is that much of our evolution involved developing ways to shield us from evolving. Once we figured out the Oldowan toolkit, we pretty much stopped perfecting offensive and materials-processing dentition.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:52:13am

Mmmmm, skunk season is starting early this year.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:53:33am

Speaking of musical canons:

Pop, As Digested by a Classical Musician

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Decatur Deb  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:58:43am

re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of musical canons:

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Still watching—the snarky self-critique graphics are hilarious.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:01:40am

CenturyLink is trying to butter us up after the fiasco over our Internet service.

They sent us a telephone directory, brand new for 2020. The last telephone directory they sent us was in the beginning of 2013.

I checked; they spelled my name correctly.

We now have all the correct telephone numbers for the Panhandle and Goshen County, Wyoming again.

That, and the number for CenturyLink in the phone book is now correct. (They changed it about half-a-dozen times; I have it written in and scratched out several times on the Yellow Pages advert in the old book.)

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Targetpractice  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:29:13am

re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The message in both articles seems pretty clear: “Biden is a puppet of the EU, it’s the EU that is trying to sabotage free trade talks over a border, so if Biden wins the presidency then the EU is to blame for why we’re not getting a US-UK trade deal.” That’s all the Brexiteers have at this moment, an endless list of excuses and blame-shifting for why the country is fast approaching an economic crash.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:38:09am

re: #35 Targetpractice

The Brexiteers are blame shifting, because it will soon become clear that their promises of a glorious UK outside of the EU are going to shipwreck.

The value of being in a trading block where goods and people can travel freely was so deeply ignored by the Brexiteers, but it will be rediscovered when it becomes clear that the UK cannot, and never will be again, able to be self-supporting.

The UK has depended upon, for at least a couple of decades, in generating “wealth” by making London the trading/business capitol of Europe. Unpending that is going to have consequences, and Johnson needs to find a way to keep the modern UK economy from collapsing.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:46:04am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:58:00am

Canonical western music canon:

Fauré: Requiem (1893) — Philippe Herreweghe

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:03:34am

re: #35 Targetpractice

The message in both articles seems pretty clear: “Biden is a puppet of the EU, it’s the EU that is trying to sabotage free trade talks over a border, so if Biden wins the presidency then the EU is to blame for why we’re not getting a US-UK trade deal.” That’s all the Brexiteers have at this moment, an endless list of excuses and blame-shifting for why the country is fast approaching an economic crash.

The Brexiteers goalposts are fastened to atomic-powered rocket sleds.

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Targetpractice  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:11:01am

re: #36 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Brexiteers are blame shifting, because it will soon become clear that their promises of a glorious UK outside of the EU are going to shipwreck.

The value of being in a trading block where goods and people can travel freely was so deeply ignored by the Brexiteers, but it will be rediscovered when it becomes clear that the UK cannot, and never will be again, able to be self-supporting.

The UK has depended upon, for at least a couple of decades, in generating “wealth” by making London the trading/business capitol of Europe. Unpending that is going to have consequences, and Johnson needs to find a way to keep the modern UK economy from collapsing.

The big selling point of Brexit was that classic conservative argument: “All the benefits, none of the responsibilities.” The idea that the EU would have “no choice” but to agree to whatever terms London set in order to have continued access to British markets and thus the switch-over from “EU member” to “sovereign UK” would be a blip on people’s daily lives. They’d go to be one day as members of the EU, and wake up the next day as masters of their own “destiny” once again.

The big issue for the Tories now is none of that has played out as promised. In fact, it’s been the exact opposite, with the threat of being cut off from EU goods sending the British economy into a tailspin. The only thing that has kept the markets from shitting blood so far is the assumption that all this talk about “crashing out” and “no-deal Brexit” was political bravado, that cooler heads would prevail and an equitable deal would be reached before the deadline arrived. And that may well end up being the case, but the idea that any final deal will be in the UK’s favor alone is still childish nonsense.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:49:54am

re: #29 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Joe Biden made a statement about Brexit and Johnson’s latest maneuvering, and I would not have known it by simply reading my usual sources, but going to see the UK Brexit headlines brought to my attention that it riled up some of the Brexiteers:

What’s the real reason behind Joe Biden’s Brexit threats?

Also, putting a solid EU border through Northern Ireland would violate everything that the Good Friday Accords were about and be a threat to security.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:54:23am
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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:55:49am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 2:58:22am

re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Also, putting a solid EU border through Northern Ireland would violate everything that the Good Friday Accords were about and be a threat to security.

And therein lies Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s opposition to the Conservative Party’s no-deal threat, which looks much like they intended that all along.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:00:08am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:03:16am
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:11:09am

Day two of NATO Days livestream. It’s in Czech, but it’s still cool to watch. I can hear the explosions from my apartment - I only live about nine kilometers away.

Dny NATO 2020 - nedělní program

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:16:00am

Nebraska State Patrol seizes a sniper rifle and a crapload of ammunition (pictured).

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:27:34am

re: #48 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Nebraska State Patrol seizes a sniper rifle and a crapload of ammunition (pictured).

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What’s illegal about a BMG-50 rifle with a scope and ammunition?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:47:57am

I keep counting this over and over but I only come up with 9 states. Am I that stoned?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:55:18am

re: #49 Dread Pirate Ron

What’s illegal about a BMG-50 rifle with a scope and ammunition?

NORTH PLATTE, Neb.-A North Platte man who was wanted on a warrant may face additional weapons charges.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office issued the following statement:

On September 15, 2020, at 7:20 a.m., Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputies received information a subject with a warrant for his arrest was in the area of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in North Platte, NE. Deputies responded to the area and located forty-six-year-old North Platte resident Eugene Richter. Mr. Richter was arrested on the warrant for “Stalking” and handcuffed.

During a search of his person Deputies located a concealed .9mm pistol and several magazines. Mr. Richter was in the church at the time of his arrest and this is a prohibited act. He also did not have an active concealed carry permit. Additionally, Mr. Richter has an active protection order against him, which prohibits him from having a firearm. Mr. Richter was transported to the Lincoln County Detention Center and incarcerated for the following charges: Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Carrying a Concealed Weapon in a Prohibited Place, Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person and Possession of a Firearm during a Felony.

Deputies developed information Mr. Richter may have additional firearms and weapons at his residence. Deputies were issued a search warrant for Mr. Richter’s residence. Deputies executed the search warrant 11:50 a.m. on September 15, 2020. Numerous firearms and concealed weapons were located in Mr. Richter’s home and vehicles. The investigation is ongoing and additional charges will follow.

North Platte man wanted on warrant may face additional weapons charges (North Platte, Nebr. Post)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:00:52am

Additionally, MSNBC put out a statement condemning President Trump’s attacks on Mr. Velshi and the free press.

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steve_davis  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:04:41am

re: #12 Dread Pirate Ron

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i’m guessing that elephant died of something smoking-related. that is the ivory of a two-pack a day fella.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:10:34am

7:55, Hillary Clinton on “The Rachel Maddow Show” speaking about Associate Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsberg.

msnbc.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:20:42am

Republicans are desperate for something they can use as a culture war for the election.

The Federalist Has An Argument About ‘Cuties’ And Gay ‘Grooming’, Stop Laughing, It’s TERRIBLE. (Wonkette)

In what appears to be The Federalist’s 85,000th screed about the movie Cuties and why it is bad from someone who definitely has not seen it, writer Matthew Cochran argues that it is a good thing to be “disgusted” by Cuties and that it is important to for parents to “help children understand what is and what is not disgusting.”

According to Cochran, degenerate liberals are pushing movies like Cuties — a movie that criticizes the sexualization of young girls — in hopes of normalizing pedophilia, a thing he is very sure we are all trying to do.

(more)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:20:43am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I thought you were a red state. What’s with all the regulations?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:30:27am

re: #56 Dread Pirate Ron

I thought you were a red state. What’s with all the regulations?

This is a red state. Red flag laws here are a hot-button item. Some counties have them while others don’t. (My county was the first to declare itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” and declare that the county commission would not require the sheriff to enforce any potential statewide red flag law.)

On the other hand, we have the holdover from when this was a very liberal state. All electric utilities are owned by the government, gas lines are common carriers, even drawing water from wells is regulated to ensure the aquifer is not depleted.

Basically what happened is Christian panic was stoked by the Republican Party, and gradually liberal thinking was replaced with religious thinking.

In the case of the weapons seizure, Nebraska is an open-carry state (primarily due to ranching and hunting) but is strict on concealed carry.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:32:28am

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

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I keep counting this over and over but I only come up with 9 states. Am I that stoned?

No, it’s not you. #7 is missing from the list and the map.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:34:01am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:37:50am

re: #59 Dread Pirate Ron

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:39:56am

The frost is on the pumpkin.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:40:21am

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

I keep counting this over and over but I only come up with 9 states. Am I that stoned?

He must have fixed it, since it has ten states.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:47:18am

The hurricane watch for the Texas coastline has been dropped, as Tropical Storm β is not expected to intensify further. It will however go ashore in Texas, then move NE along the Texas shoreline. Tropical storm force winds are onshore in Louisiana.

At 400 AM CDT (0900 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Beta was
located near latitude 27.0 North, longitude 92.7 West. Beta is
moving toward the west-northwest near 3 mph (6 km/h). A slightly
faster motion toward the west-northwest is forecast to occur during
the next couple of days, followed by a slow down and a turn to the
north and northeast Monday night and Tuesday. On the forecast
track, the center of Beta will move toward the coast of Texas and
will likely move inland Monday or Monday night.

Maximum sustained winds are near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts.
Little change in strength is forecast during the next couple of
days before Beta reaches the Texas coast. Weakening is anticipated
once Beta moves inland.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 195 miles (315 km)
from the center.

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Ming5000  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:53:27am

re: #32 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Speaking of musical canons:

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Video

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Subscribed! Fascinating.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:53:32am

re: #61 Shropshire Slasher

The frost is on the pumpkin.

Is that a coded message to be broadcast to agents behind enemy lines? /s

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:55:27am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 4:56:47am
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:01:05am

re: #62 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

He must have fixed it, since it has ten states.

Note also that Minnesota is literally surrounded by stupid. This is my life in a nutshell.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:02:29am

re: #68 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Note also that Minnesota is literally surrounded by stupid. This is my life in a nutshell.

I’ll trade you for South Dakota, Weld County Colorado, and Wyoming.

Thread, six tweets. Busted.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:07:11am
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Ming5000  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:08:43am

re: #66 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I bet that there is another Jason Ravnsborg in the state who is mortified at being mistakenly identified.

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A Cranky One  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:14:32am
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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:21:03am

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

He skipped #7 in his list.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:24:53am

re: #61 Shropshire Slasher

The frost is on the pumpkin.

I have no home…I am the wind.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:25:05am

Off to bed as the sun starts to rise.

Catch y’all later.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:28:53am

Since the growing season has ended here in upstate NY, I think I will make split pea soup and fresh bread for dinner this brisk day.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:29:49am

re: #61 Shropshire Slasher

The frost is on the pumpkin.

John has a long mustache.

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:30:43am

So a new “patriotic” educational initiative is being funded as part of a cynical and corrupt business deal? That sounds pretty American. ///

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:40:16am

Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the candlestick.

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jeffreyw  Sep 20, 2020 • 5:58:01am

Say hello to my lil fren.

Good morning!

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2020 • 6:10:43am

NPR was just about to play a clip of Trump talking about filling RBG’s seat when my wife got up to turn off the radio saying “I don’t wanna listen to this douchebug.”

I like “douchebug.” I think I’ll keep using it.

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A Mom Anon  Sep 20, 2020 • 6:23:10am

re: #81 Barefoot Grin

At our house we use the term Ass Chapeau. Because we’re all classy and shit over here….

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dangerman  Sep 20, 2020 • 6:42:27am
I’ve seen God work in my life in far too many obvious and clear ways for me to ever abandon my faith or deny God’s existence. The church is the one that has failed both God and man, and in her hypocrisy has destroyed her witness. Whatever false religion the evangelical church has taken hold to lately, it in no way represents Christianity anymore. This strange spell the church is under is not the influence of the man Jesus Christ, but of…something else. My faith in Christ is unshaken. My faith in the church and in other Christians, however, is in ruins.

Jonathan Zdziarski

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2020 • 6:52:46am

re: #82 A Mom Anon

At our house we use the term Ass Chapeau. Because we’re all classy and shit over here….

:)

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John Hughes  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:30:13am

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

John has a long mustache.

Les sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.
Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l’heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure;
Et je m’en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m’emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.

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Teukka  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:32:09am

So this scrolled by in mah feeds:

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dangerman  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:33:23am

President’s a pig.

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dangerman  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:34:26am

re: #78 Barefoot Grin

So a new “patriotic” educational initiative is being funded as part of a cynical and corrupt business deal? That sounds pretty American. ///

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Just a way to launder and skim

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Jay C  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:38:46am

re: #35 Targetpractice

The message in both articles seems pretty clear: “Biden is a puppet of the EU, it’s the EU that is trying to sabotage free trade talks over a border, so if Biden wins the presidency then the EU is to blame for why we’re not getting a US-UK trade deal.” That’s all the Brexiteers have at this moment, an endless list of excuses and blame-shifting for why the country is fast approaching an economic crash.

A tad late on the thread, but I’ll put in my tuppence and opine that, despite all the very public posturing and ostentatious worry-mongering about how important it is to negotiate a Brexit “deal” - it’s my theory that - for years: practically since the Referendum votes were tallied - the Tories have operated on the assumption that a “no-deal”/”crash-out”/”hard” Brexit was not only necessary as a contingency plan: but, by this point in time, is the main - desired - outcome. And that all the “negotiations” foofaraw is just so much theater, designed to provide the Government with the facade of good faith, but actually (as others have noted here) intended merely to furnish them with Someone Else - Arrogant Bloody Foreigners, naturally - to blame for as much of any negative fallout for as long as they can. Which, unfortunately, will be for several years into the future, at the least.

I’m sure that somebody - several somebodies, no doubt; who will probably be revealed as major donors to the Tories, purely by coincidence - has already positioned themselves to ensure that a “hard Brexit” is a highly-profitable occurrence for the parties concerned (and it’s a safe bet that “the general population of the UK” is included in that category ONLY by lucky chance).

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dangerman  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:43:00am

Follow the thread

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:45:22am

re: #61 Shropshire Slasher

The frost is on the pumpkin.

The crow flies at midnight.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:50:24am
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:51:41am

re: #92 jaunte

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Lawless and disorderly

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:54:06am
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A Three Hour Tour  Sep 20, 2020 • 7:54:35am

re: #92 jaunte

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Jeez, it’s been almost 20 years since the waaaaaambulance became the go-to dismissive taunt for conservative bullies. Get some new material, you emotionally and mentally stunted hacks.

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Jay C  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:06:12am

re: #95 A Three Hour Tour

Jeez, it’s been almost 20 years since the waaaaaambulance became the go-to dismissive taunt for conservative bullies. Get some new material, you emotionally and mentally stunted hacks.

Or at least save the dismissal for something trivial: crowds of partisans blocking access to voting sites (stretching, if not actually breaking, laws against doing so) is a legitimate and serious cause for complaint.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:06:55am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:09:37am

re: #51 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Funny how cops don’t seem to be all that afraid of white dudes with warrants and illegally possessed firearms.

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jaunte  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:11:20am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:13:37am

Hmm, just seeing now, Robert Gore died Thursday. He was 83

Seinfeld Clip - George And His Gore Tex Coat

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:16:45am

re: #80 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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mmmirele  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:29:45am

re: #19 Targetpractice

“Something something ‘he has a plan,’ something something ‘we must have faith he knows what he’s doing,’ praise Trump!”

My brother got upset with me yesterday when I told him that some followers of Trump worshiped him like an idol. He said I was crazy. I disagreed.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:31:01am

re: #61 Shropshire Slasher

The frost is on the pumpkin.

And then she dies.

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:34:28am

re: #103 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

And then she dies.

I thought it was “And then the wars began.”

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Teukka  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:37:05am

Moar memes from mah feedz:

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:39:57am

Thread, ultimately supporting Harrison in South Carolina:

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:41:03am

re: #105 Teukka

Moar memes from mah feedz:

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if the government can make microchips small enough to track us, we already have them.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:42:48am

re: #107 Belafon

if the government can make microchips small enough to track us, we already have them.

we already have them in our phones and household devices…

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:43:17am

re: #104 Belafon

I thought it was “And then the wars began.”

Could be. That phrase triggered the memory of this song.

Cal Smith - Country Bumpkin

I misremembered the ending of the song though.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:53:24am

re: #91 sagehen

The crow flies at midnight.

Understood
The cock crows at midnight.

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Teukka  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:55:22am

re: #110 Shropshire Slasher

Understood
The cock crows at midnight.

“The woods are lonely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Remember Lizardim, miles to go before you sleep.”

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stpaulbear  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:57:54am

re: #99 jaunte

Joe Scarborough goes back to that deficit hill all the time as if it were the essence of the republican party. He wants to go back to those days so badly. It’s a drag because 90% of his guests and co-hosts are worth watching.

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 8:59:54am

re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Is that a coded message to be broadcast to agents behind enemy lines? /s

[Embedded content]

That first graphic with the Statue of Liberty burying her head in her hands was used as an album cover for the album Friendly As A Hand Grenade by the band Tackhead.

Pretty subversive stuff in its day. I’ve got the CD somewhere, gonna have to dig it out and listen again.

tackhead - ticking time bomb

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:00:05am

Not gonna lie, this wasn’t quite what I expected when I got a genealogical service notification that I’m apparently related to the late great RBG….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:03:03am
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mmmirele  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:04:52am

re: #59 Dread Pirate Ron

Wish I’d read down in the thread before my first post. But thanks for coming across this. Saving for my next discussion with my brother.

Oh, btw, did I mention that the “Trump Patriotic” store sets up from about 9 am to 6 pm on the northeast corner of Recker and Brown in Mesa, AZ every day (maybe not today)? It’s hot as hell out there and these fanatics are selling TrumpCrap (TM). I did learn something from my brother, though—the companies that rent the tents/awnings people put up for these types of things must have an occupancy permit and a ground rental agreement in hand before the tent company will put up a tent. So someone is renting to them.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:05:23am

re: #111 Teukka

“The woods are lonely dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Remember Lizardim, miles to go before you sleep.”

While that was perhaps not the greatest film, it was nonetheless entertaining.

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Teukka  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:06:37am

re: #117 Dr Lizardo

While that was perhaps not the greatest film, it was nonetheless entertaining.

Indeed it was.

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stpaulbear  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:08:49am

re: #113 makeitstop

That first graphic with the Statue of Liberty burying her head in her hands was used as an album cover for the album Friendly As A Hand Grenade by the band Tackhead.

Pretty subversive stuff in its day. I’ve got the CD somewhere, gonna have to dig it out and listen again.

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Remember this one from April 2017?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:08:50am

#TdF2020
They’re on the Champs-Élysées.
Bizarre without the crowds. What spectators that are allow are pushed way back on the sidewalks

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:09:53am

re: #109 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Could be. That phrase triggered the memory of this song.

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I misremembered the ending of the song though.

The woman still dies though

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:13:18am

re: #34 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I’m trying to remember the last time phonebooks were delivered to my apartment building…think the last time they dropped them off was 15 years ago…or maybe even 20…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:15:25am

re: #122 🌹UOJB!

I’m trying to remember the last time phonebooks were delivered to my apartment building…think the last time they dropped them off was 15 years ago…or maybe even 20…

Nowadays they are made available at the post office or other public offices for those who want to take them home. Cannot recall the last time I used one to look up an address…

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:15:40am

re: #122 🌹UOJB!

I’m trying to remember the last time phonebooks were delivered to my apartment building…think the last time they dropped them off was 15 years ago…or maybe even 20…

We still get a local phone book, they drop one at the end of our driveway every Spring. I guess someone is still making money selling the ads, otherwise I see no point at all.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:16:40am

re: #124 makeitstop

I get mine dropped at the front door about once a year.

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Sufficient unto the day...  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:17:22am

re: #124 makeitstop

They put phones in books?

How does that even work?

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:21:20am

re: #114 (((Archangel1)))

Not gonna lie, this wasn’t quite what I expected when I got a genealogical service notification that I’m apparently related to the late great RBG….

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:21:40am

re: #124 makeitstop

We still get a local phone book, they drop one at the end of our driveway every Spring. I guess someone is still making money selling the ads, otherwise I see no point at all.

Mine fits in my mailbox, interestingly enough.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:22:58am
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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:27:15am

re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Laughing at that as I make a few eggs this morning.

Just because we all sat up and paid attention. Mt Wilson in Morning Light (Webcam with a touch of color and contrast)

Looking Good

hpwren.ucsd.edu
.

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:31:48am

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:33:37am

re: #59 Dread Pirate Ron

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Memories of my insane Aunt’s prayer altar with President Pruneface’s picture adorned on it. Yes she actually did pray to Reagan because her Pulpit Pimping Preacher said he was God’s Anointed Judge over America.

When Dad saw her praying to Pruneface he lost his temper and called her an insane ignorant asshole…

Just more proof that Religion does one thing very, very well…it makes people stupid—really, really stupid!

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:33:38am

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

Excellent idea. I have a boulder with his name written all over it. /half

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:36:39am

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

God sometimes chooses imperfect tools to work His Divine Will, and what Tool is more imperfect than Donald Trump?

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:37:31am

re: #109 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

Could be. That phrase triggered the memory of this song.

[Embedded content]

I misremembered the ending of the song though.

I was just making a joke, back to the whole “take the opening sentence of any book and add ‘and then the wars began after it.”

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Barefoot Grin  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:40:22am

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

[Life of Brian]
“Are there any women here today?”

muffled: “no, no, no”

[/Life of Brian]

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i(m)p(each)sos  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:40:31am

re: #127 sagehen

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:41:18am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:44:03am

re: #135 Belafon

I was just making a joke, back to the whole “take the opening sentence of any book and add ‘and then the wars began after it.”

Well if that’s the case.

It was a dark and stormy night and then the war began after it.

(Channeling my favorite Beagle & WW1 fighter ace.)

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HypnoToad  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:47:30am

re: #130 Rightwingconspirator

Got a email bulletin from Mt. Wilson. Some of the fires around the perimeter of the observatory (particularly two days ago on the south side) were actually controlled backfires to reduce the fuel load. The Station fire several years ago had significantly reduced that on the North side. The lookdown angle of the webcam on the 150’ solar tower made it look closer to structures than it was. Firefighters plan on remaining on site through the end of this month to watch for flare-ups.

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:48:24am
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sagehen  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:51:13am

re: #137 i(m)p(each)sos

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Absolutely. You and I are 24,852 and 24,853 on the waiting list.

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:52:31am

re: #127 sagehen

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:52:55am

re: #83 dangerman

Jonathan Zdziarski

This is what passes for Church these days!

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:55:03am

re: #140 HypnoToad

Got a email bulletin from Mt. Wilson. Some of the fires around the perimeter of the observatory (particularly two days ago on the south side) were actually controlled backfires to reduce the fuel load. The Station fire several years ago had significantly reduced that on the North side. The lookdown angle of the webcam on the 150’ solar tower made it look closer to structures than it was. Firefighters plan on remaining on site through the end of this month to watch for flare-ups.

When it all reopens, let us buy you lunch at the Cosmic Cafe. That chili on Doritos thing somehow tastes better there than anywhere else. I so look forward to going back.

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:55:27am

All year we have heard from “Silent Majority” Republicans about a certain re-election win for Trump. So then, what’s the hurry on SCOTUS all about?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 9:58:03am

re: #142 sagehen

Absolutely. You and I are 24,852 and 24,853 on the waiting list.

If that’s the case you’ll need to send her a few bags of this.

king-arthur-flour-unbleached-all-purpose-flour

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:01:59am

re: #142 sagehen

Absolutely. You and I are 24,852 and 24,853 on the waiting list.

Make sure you don’t lose your ticket. I lost mine and am now 57,328 in the waiting list.
I think we’re all in agreement that it’s worth the wait… :)

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HypnoToad  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:02:00am

re: #145 Rightwingconspirator

When it all reopens, let us buy you lunch at the Cosmic Cafe. That chili on Doritos thing somehow tastes better there than anywhere else. I so look forward to going back.

When we’re back to regular operations, come up when the LAAS holds a public starparty in the CC parking lot and look through my scope.

Los Angeles Astronomical Society public starparty. Mt. Wilson upper parking lot.
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retired cynic  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:02:34am

Speaking of music, as they were at the top of this thread, a friend sent me this, which is interesting (his talk) and gorgeous (his playing).

SLSO Music Director Stéphane Denève Welcomes You To The 20/21 Season

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:06:05am

re: #149 HypnoToad

Oh yes. What a rig!

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:19:09am

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

My relatives reply—God forgave Trump of his sins.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:19:20am

SUPPORT MASS SHOOTINGS! VOTE TRUMP!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:19:58am

re: #152 🌹UOJB!

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My relatives reply—God forgave Trump of his sins.

Yeah but sinners are also supposed to repent I.e try to STOP SINNING.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:20:32am

re: #152 🌹UOJB!

My relatives reply—God forgave Trump of his sins.

But Democrats can never be forgiven unless they stop allowing abortions.

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gwangung  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:22:47am

I heard a rumor that Pelosi is already floating the idea of having impeachment proceedings ready to go on 11/4, to prevent any lame-duck SC nominations (since impeachment takes precedence in Senate proceedings).

I would be all for that.

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:23:33am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But Democrats can never be forgiven unless they stop allowing abortions.

Brainwashed relatives are STILL blaming Jimmy Carter. They insist he let the Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission infiltrate America…

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:24:12am

re: #153 Eclectic Cyborg

How about saving the rest of the Amendments? They are worthy of saving.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:25:13am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

But Democrats can never be forgiven unless they stop allowing abortions.

Can someone direct me to the biblical passage that condemns abortion?

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:25:31am

re: #156 gwangung

I heard a rumor that Pelosi is already floating the idea of having impeachment proceedings ready to go on 11/4, to prevent any lame-duck SC nominations (since impeachment takes precedence in Senate proceedings).

I would be all for that.

It would be fitting for The Tangsnorter to go down in the history books as the only President impeached twice…oh if Nancy didn’t stop there and she pushed to impeach Pence and the entire cabinet as well…trial after trial…

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Belafon  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:25:49am

re: #156 gwangung

I heard a rumor that Pelosi is already floating the idea of having impeachment proceedings ready to go on 11/4, to prevent any lame-duck SC nominations (since impeachment takes precedence in Senate proceedings).

I would be all for that.

We need to do everything we can to save our democracy, but it definitely fells like all we’re going to be missing is the shooting.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:28:38am

re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter

Can someone direct me to the biblical passage that condemns abortion?

In a small group I was in some years ago, one of my mentors stood up and made a very convincing argument that God is actually Pro-CHOICE. Needless to say, some of the folks in the group weren’t on board with that.

But the guy WAS right. God ultimately does give people the power to make their own decisions.

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:29:58am

Josh at TPM goes after the DC Press Corpse!

I’ve told you many times that elite DC journalism is wired for the GOP. That continues to be the case, notwithstanding the political shifts in the country over the last twenty years. It continues to be the case evan as it is driven by stakeholders who in many cases are not themselves Republicans or conservatives.

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:33:30am

re: #163 🌹UOJB!

I’ve told you many times that elite DC journalism is wired for the GOP.

They are there to generate ratings, and Trump is the ultimate politician for them; a media star who gives them a 24/7 political reality/scandal/crime show starting with his morning tweets and moving on to the indictments of his aides & associates, gaffes and blunders by his family, inhumane acts by law enforcement and other government agencies under his direction, and now his failure to contain Covid…

Why would they want that show to end just when it is reaching its shark-jumping climax?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:35:29am

Maybe its time to research the movie “Network” and see just how prescient it was.

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William Lewis  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:37:06am

re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg

In a small group I was in some years ago, one of my mentors stood up and made a very convincing argument that God is actually Pro-CHOICE. Needless to say, some of the folks in the group weren’t on board with that.

But the guy WAS right. God ultimately does give people the power to make their own decisions.

If there is one lesson to take away from the Bible it is that God is all about free will. “You chose your path. Here is a map but you chose how to get there. I’d prefer if you behave like, say, Mathew 25: 31 or James 2, but it’s up to you. ” And so on.

As for abortion, there are three bits to me - cause a miscarrage? Fined. Kill a person? Executed. Difference? Life (ensoulment) comes with the first breath of God’s spirt.

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:37:10am

Looks like Murkowski’s refusal to join the ‘fill that seat’ mob is legit.

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:39:13am

re: #165 Eric The Fruit Bat

Maybe its time to research the movie “Network” and see just how prescient it was.

Almost too prescient.

I’ve always said the network in the film was the prototype for Fox News. The only difference was that the crazy shows were left-leaning instead of…Fox.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:40:49am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They are there to generate ratings, and Trump is the ultimate politician for them; a media star who gives them a 24/7 political reality/scandal/crime show starting with his morning tweets and moving on to the indictments of his aides & associates, gaffes and blunders by his family, inhumane acts by law enforcement and other government agencies under his direction, and now his failure to contain Covid…

Why would they want that show to end just when it is reaching its shark-jumping climax?

Why his administration could provide for several years’ worth of episodes on L&O. Some of the plotlines would have more easily fit into the original series but SVU has figured out to expand its range. They’ve always adapted real life events to fit stories and Trump has made it far easier for them.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:42:36am

re: #165 Eric The Fruit Bat

Maybe its time to research the movie “Network” and see just how prescient it was.

NETWORK, Sidney Lumet, 1976 - The Tube Lies

One of the greatest monologues in cinema history. Absolute masterpiece.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:45:16am

re: #167 makeitstop

Looks like Murkowski’s refusal to join the ‘fill that seat’ mob is legit.

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William Lewis  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:47:23am

re: #167 makeitstop

Looks like Murkowski’s refusal to join the ‘fill that seat’ mob is legit.

I find Murkowski easier to believe than Collins. She’s just holding her hand out and when the bribe is enough the vote will be there.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:52:57am

Let’s not forget Murkowski and Collins both voted to save the ACA. Of course, they weren’t expecting McCain to ride in and provide the third vote — but they did vote the right way.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:54:33am

I was in Fort Worth and Weatherford this morning and happened to notice that the fundy and fundy-leaning churches are packed, overflow crowds in all of them. A contact in Lubbock says the same thing is going on there. Is there something special going on, a day of prayer for deliverance from Democrats perhaps, or is this just their usual MO these days?

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:55:27am

re: #174 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I was in Fort Worth and Weatherford this morning and happened to notice that the fundy and fundy-leaning churches are packed, overflow crowds in all of them. A contact in Lubbock says the same thing is going on there. Is there something special going on, a day of prayer for deliverance from Democrats perhaps, or is this just their usual MO these days?

Could be as simple as 200,000 dead in the pandemic.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:56:29am
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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:56:33am

re: #175 Rightwingconspirator

Could be as simple as 200,000 dead in the pandemic.

And they want to add to the total?

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retired cynic  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:59:10am

re: #115 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

@FuzzyMarth
imagine thinking “the president must be allowed to rush through a justice for the explicit purpose of the justice confirming his re-election, without recusing” is an “excellent point” and not a “staggering admission of intent of naked corruption”

Or even, “like in 2016?”

Which leads me to this article by Margaret Sullivan in WaPo.

The tortured logic from right-wing media about replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:59:29am

re: #174 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I was in Fort Worth and Weatherford this morning and happened to notice that the fundy and fundy-leaning churches are packed, overflow crowds in all of them. A contact in Lubbock says the same thing is going on there. Is there something special going on, a day of prayer for deliverance from Democrats perhaps, or is this just their usual MO these days?

MacArthur’s Pulpit Pimp Palace in the San Fernando Valley is still packed in defiance of court orders. Oh, the Pulpit Pimp Palace 3 blocks away from me has the crowds there too. I saw the marks lining up as I took the garbage out.

I’m sure they have their latest set of Republican Party talking points provided by Frank Luntz to defend locking down the Court for a generation. Based on what I see from what my brainwashed family posts they are praising Gawd for the death of RBG…

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Rightwingconspirator  Sep 20, 2020 • 10:59:48am

re: #177 Hecuba’s daughter

And they want to add to the total?

Believing in God and Trump.. Not necessarily in that order.

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:00:16am

re: #179 🌹UOJB!

MacArthur’s Pulpit Pimp Palace in the San Fernando Valley is still packed in defiance of court orders. Oh, the Pulpit Pimp Palace 3 blocks away from me has the crowds there too. I saw the marks lining up as I took the garbage out.

I’m sure they have their latest set of Republican Party talking points provided by Frank Luntz to defend locking down the Court for a generation. Based on what I see from what my brainwashed family posts they are praising Gawd for the death of RBG…

Oh and they ain’t wearing none of them Satanic masks…

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sagehen  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:06:49am

re: #159 Hecuba’s daughter

Can someone direct me to the biblical passage that condemns abortion?

There’s biblical passages that talk about abortions, and talk about the sanctity of the unborn, but they certainly don’t say what the anti-abortion folk would like us to believe they say.

Exodus 21:22 et seq — if you assault a pregnant woman in such a way as to cause a miscarriage… it’s not murder. The lost fetus is not a person. The penalty is financial compensation to the woman and her husband, but ABSOLUTELY NOT the penalty that would apply to killing a human being.

Numbers 5:11 et seq — if a pregnant woman’s husband suspects he’s not the father, there’s a ritual and potion to allow God to judge whether or not husband is right. If it turns out that the pregnancy was caused by adultery, terminating the pregnancy is REQUIRED.

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makeitstop  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:08:08am

re: #172 William Lewis

I find Murkowski easier to believe than Collins. She’s just holding her hand out and when the bribe is enough the vote will be there.

Me, too, since she’s cast votes in opposition to Trump in the past.

Collins is desperate to save her job, nothing more.

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BeachDem  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:10:44am

re: #165 Eric The Fruit Bat

Maybe its time to research the movie “Network” and see just how prescient it was.

And to watch (or re-watch) The Newsroom.

“And with a straight face, you’re gonna tell students that America’s so star-spangled awesome, that we’re the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom, Japan has freedom, the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. So 207 sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom…

there’s absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we’re the greatest country in the world. We’re 7th in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, 3rd in median household income, number 4 in labor force, and number 4 in exports. We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined. 25 of whom are allies…

so when you ask, ‘What makes us the greatest country in the world?’ I dunno know what the fuck you’re talking about! Yosemite? It sure used to be. We stood up for what was right. We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons, we waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors. We put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and we cultivated the world’s greatest artists and the world’s greatest economy. We reached for the stars, acted like men. We aspired to intelligence, we didn’t belittle it, it didn’t make us feel inferior.

We didn’t identify ourselves by who we voted for in our last election, and we didn’t we didn’t scare so easy…Huh. We were able to be all these things, and to do all these things, because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered. First step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one. America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.” -Will McAvoy

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cat-tikvah  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:11:23am

re: #183 makeitstop

Collins is a fraud. I don’t trust her on anything.
But maybe, just maybe, having been one of the hundreds who chanted in the packed hall outside her office before the Kavanaugh vote…I’m thinking she’d prefer not to be the most hated woman in Maine.

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jeffreyw  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:11:32am

re: #179 🌹UOJB!

…and registering folks to vote. A shot at Roe v Wade may not come another time. I would expect that they are getting pumped for the coming selection.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:14:04am

re: #182 sagehen

The salient passage that most Bible-thumpers quote when they oppose abortion is out of Jeremiah 1:5:

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:14:06am

re: #59 Dread Pirate Ron

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As every hinterland fatcat knows, pulpit pimps are the easiest people in the world to buy off. What are the chances that this long-standing truth of American life has escaped the attention of the GRU and its auxiliaries?

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:16:06am

re: #187 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The salient passage that most Bible-thumpers quote when they oppose abortion is out of Jeremiah 1:5:

The first time I heard that used, my thought was, “which trimester?”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:17:32am

I wonder if the pig goes by “Junior?”
As I’ve said before, there are many potential ways to deal with these people, but starving them to death does not appear to be an option.

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🌹UOJB!  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:23:31am

re: #186 jeffreyw

…and registering folks to vote. A shot at Roe v Wade may not come another time. I would expect that they are getting pumped for the coming selection.

That’s the standard operating procedure for these Pulpit Pimp Palaces. Remember the last time I was forced by my nutso aunt to go to a Foursquare church and in the bulletin was a stuffer from the Republican Party and postcards for both Senators and Congressmen calling for repeal of the un-Christian Capital Gains tax…and right on cue the Pulpit Pimp Preacher whipped out the Party Talking Points about how UNGODLY taxing the rich is. And he even quoted from Atlas Shrugged during his “sermon”…

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:37:49am

re: #187 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

The salient passage that most Bible-thumpers quote when they oppose abortion is out of Jeremiah 1:5:

Irrelvant to their position, as this is before even conception

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(((Archangel1)))  Sep 20, 2020 • 11:42:59am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:05:58pm

re: #192 BlueSpotinAL

Irrelvant to their position, as this is before even conception

and it was directly specific to Jeremiah himself, and Jeremiah only.

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Shropshire Slasher  Sep 20, 2020 • 12:13:03pm

re: #156 gwangung

I heard a rumor that Pelosi is already floating the idea of having impeachment proceedings ready to go on 11/4, to prevent any lame-duck SC nominations (since impeachment takes precedence in Senate proceedings).

I would be all for that.

George Stephanopolous asked her that question this morning and I honestly don’t remember her answer. You could tell she had a lot to say in not enough time.

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John Hughes  Sep 20, 2020 • 1:00:00pm

re: #139 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

A genius.

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EPR-radar  Sep 20, 2020 • 3:46:48pm

re: #173 Hecuba’s daughter

Let’s not forget Murkowski and Collins both voted to save the ACA. Of course, they weren’t expecting McCain to ride in and provide the third vote — but they did vote the right way.

I’m convinced that McCain promised McConnell a vote against the ACA and went back on that because McConnell pissed him off.

So McConnell giving out permission slips to some of his senators to deviate from party line can bite him in the ass, but it doesn’t happen nearly often enough.


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