Scary Pockets Ft. Monica Martin: “Karma Police” (Radiohead)

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A cover of “Karma Police” by Scary Pockets.

CREDITS
Lead vocal: Monica Martin
Drums: Rob Humphreys
Bass: Jon Button
Synth: Zac Rae
Keys: Jack Conte
Guitar: Ryan Lerman
BGVs: Jeremy Most

Recording Engineer: Caleb Parker
Mixing/Mastering: Caleb Parker
Cinematography: Ricky Chavez
Video Edit: Caleb Diaz
Produced by Jeremy Most

Recorded Live at 64Sound in Highland Park, CA.

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1
Barefoot Grin  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:33:49pm

Teleskiguy probably already posted this, but this video of an encounter between a trail runner and a mountain lion in Colorado is tense:

outtherecolorado.com

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:40:49pm

Ditto

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:41:52pm

Cook County IL let’s you track your ballot. Sent mine in via USPS.

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Jay C  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:44:09pm

CL’ed:

re: #322 The Pie Overlord!

World Food Program won the [Noble Peace] prize. So close, Chef Jose. So close.

Well there’s always next season year!

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:44:47pm

Dangerously delusional.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:50:04pm

re: #3 GlutenFreeJesus

San Diego County. The middle steps where the USPS notifies the registrar that I mailed it are missing because I dropped it off directly there.

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mmmirele  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:51:10pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Teleskiguy probably already posted this, but this video of an encounter between a trail runner and a mountain lion in Colorado is tense:

outtherecolorado.com

This was actually in Slade Canyon, which is near Provo, Utah. But yeah, seriously tense moments.

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:51:18pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:54:52pm

I have yet to receive my ballot. Maybe I missed it in a pile of mail I got this week but I just checked my box and still not there.

The State tracker says it was mailed on the 4th.

I hope I don’t have to go wait in line, with my poor knees.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:57:33pm

re: #9 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have yet to receive my ballot. Maybe I missed it in a pile of mail I got this week but I just checked my box and still not there.

The State tracker says it was mailed on the 4th.

I hope I don’t have to go wait in line, with my poor knees.

Mine was mailed out on the 4th and got to me the next day. My GF got hers a day or two later.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:59:25pm

re: #7 mmmirele

This was actually in Slade Canyon, which is near Provo, Utah. But yeah, seriously tense moments.

Thank you for the correction. I just watched it and assumed from the website that it was Colorado.

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 12, 2020 • 5:59:37pm

re: #9 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I have yet to receive my ballot. Maybe I missed it in a pile of mail I got this week but I just checked my box and still not there.

The State tracker says it was mailed on the 4th.

I hope I don’t have to go wait in line, with my poor knees.

I don’t have mine yet either, but it always seems to arrive late — compared to when they start mailing them. I wonder whether they do them by zip codes.

13
Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:03:07pm
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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:03:35pm
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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:03:45pm

And here’s the proof of my latest act in the war on clowns:

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:04:59pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:09:05pm
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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:13:56pm
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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:14:41pm

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

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Uh oh. That’s the trials that Yvette d’Entremont (aka SciBabe) is in.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:20:29pm
21
Kilroy was here  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:21:16pm
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Jay C  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:21:29pm

re: #15 Jack Burton

And here’s the proof of my latest act in the war on clowns:

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So Kanye West is on a Presidential ballot after all?!?!
As Rocky de la Fuente’s Veep?
Cool.

What state are you voting in?
Never mind, I see it’s CA

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:22:28pm

re: #15 Jack Burton

Kanye wasn’t on my ballot here in Maryland.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:24:35pm
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:25:29pm
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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:28:09pm

re: #22 Jay C

So Kanye West is on a Presidential ballot after all?!?!
As Rocky de la Fuente’s Veep?
Cool.

What state are you voting in?
Never mind, I see it’s CA

In states where he could get on the ballot as a Presidential candidate he did. In others if he could weasel his way on to the ballot, this is the way he did.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:30:31pm
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:30:46pm

Jerk

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stpaulbear  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:30:54pm

re: #25 Patricia Kayden

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“I’m feeling proud as my God has come to India. I worship Trump as God and believe that I shall meet him soon. He has played a major role in fight against terrorism,” he said earlier this year, according to Asian News International.

He just might get to meet him soon at the rate Trump is going.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:32:26pm

re: #29 stpaulbear

What major role has Trump played in fighting terrorism? Even his foreign supporters are delusional.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:33:37pm

re: #30 Patricia Kayden

What major role has Trump played in fighting terrorism? Even his foreign supporters are delusional.

I think he’s the world leader in calling them funny names.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:33:43pm

That it was hot and dry and windy this afternoon took me by surprise as even yesterday it was pleasantly cool.

It’s going to get hotter:

10/12/2020 Weekly Outlook: Hot Temperatures with Elevated Fire Weather Conditions

..

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:33:56pm

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:41:10pm

Did you know that this Wednesday is National Fossil Day?

National Fossil Day Livestream!

..

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Charles Johnson  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:43:21pm
36
The Pie Overlord!  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:43:45pm
37
William Lewis  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:44:44pm

Bird House, Autumn Field.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:46:29pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:46:32pm

re: #33 The Pie Overlord!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Well it seems to be true. When you’re posting TPUSA bullshit, you don’t have your wallet out. Truth be told. I’ve donated 25 bucks twice to Joe and 10 bucks to Doug Jones. Might be sending some Dr. Cameron Webb (Congressional candidate in Va-5) soon too.

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sizzzzlerz  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:46:33pm

re: #1 Barefoot Grin

Teleskiguy probably already posted this, but this video of an encounter between a trail runner and a mountain lion in Colorado is tense:

outtherecolorado.com

Isn’t that rather abnormal to stalk and charge an adult human? Usually, attacks are from behind. I wonder if it’s sick or starving?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:47:25pm

re: #40 sizzzzlerz

Isn’t that rather abnormal to stalk and charge an adult human? Usually, attacks are from behind. I wonder if it’s sick or starving?

She had kittens.

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plansbandc  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:47:45pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Whoa! I didn’t know I had my own day!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:48:45pm

re: #36 The Pie Overlord!

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They really spend too much time on social media. But yeah Lindsay what a pity that your party is the rotten weisswurst party.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:49:39pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:50:37pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:51:31pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

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Wisconsin I thought was gonna be the most difficult to flip of the MI-WI-PA trio. That it’s in lean Biden is great news. If I were Ron Johnson, I’d be worried about the 2022 midterms.

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:52:31pm

re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s high on my list of despicable people. Out goes he.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:55:30pm

re: #47 retired cynic

He’s high on my list of despicable people. Out goes he.

Makes me sad for WBL and our other Wisconsin lizards that twice they rejected Feingold instead of this guy. Feingold had integrity.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:55:38pm

Still in the Twitter gulag. Looking like my appeal isn’t going to be approved and I am going to have to delete that tweet. Assholes!

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stpaulbear  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:56:41pm

re: #34 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Did you know that this Wednesday is National Fossil Day?

I wonder if I’ll get any cards.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:58:54pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

Dear Politico… don’t say this out loud yet please.

DON’T GET HAPPY.

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garzooma  Oct 12, 2020 • 6:59:42pm

re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Wisconsin I thought was gonna be the most difficult to flip of the MI-WI-PA trio. That it’s in lean Biden is great news. If I were Ron Johnson, I’d be worried about the 2022 midterms.

Five-thirty-eight says Biden has a better chance of winning Texas than Trump has in any of those states.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:01:14pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

This is the one thing I’m worried about with Joe. That he will just let the last 4 years slide and assume they’ll want to work with him in good faith.

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:01:37pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:03:14pm
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A Mom Anon  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:06:49pm

re: #54 jaunte

That location is the main office of the county board of elections. I am glad to see turnout up, but they also could have opened up some of the early voting locations that have been open in years prior and that might have helped.

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plansbandc  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:07:01pm

Off topic ramble again.

So I started to notice how much the music in Halt and Catch Fire sounded like Tangerine Dream.

Good reason for that. Paul Haslinger. Adds a nice air of eighties authenticity.

Also, I LOVE Tangerine Dream.

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Jay C  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:08:32pm

re: #46 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Wisconsin I thought was gonna be the most difficult to flip of the MI-WI-PA trio. That it’s in lean Biden is great news. If I were Ron Johnson, I’d be worried about the 2022 midterms.

Myself, I thought PA would be the harder “flip”, but a hat trick is just fine and dandy with me….
Also, I think I read somewhere that Johnson had announced his retirement - good news if true, WI might be a good pickup

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:08:32pm

re: #56 A Mom Anon

That location is the main office of the county board of elections. I am glad to see turnout up, but they also could have opened up some of the early voting locations that have been open in years prior and that might have helped.

Well, yes, but the Republicans don’t want people to vote. Hell, I just found out today that they tried to get the ballot extension in Minnesota thrown out - all it did was move the deadline for ballots from “must arrive by Election Day” to “must be postmarked by Election Day”. And they took it to federal fucking court!

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:10:10pm

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:10:17pm

R.E.M. - “Superman”

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William Lewis  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:11:46pm

re: #58 Jay C

Myself, I thought PA would be the harder “flip”, but a hat trick is just fine and dandy with me….
Also, I think I read somewhere that Johnson had announced his retirement - good news if true, WI might be a good pickup

Yeah, he’s planning on a Crimean dacha for his retirement home.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:12:31pm

re: #59 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I think there needs to be a uniform set of rules and regulations for voting. I get that states make the rules and why, but this is just craziness. It should not be this difficult or complicated. And it should be far more uniform from state to state.

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:13:49pm

re: #60 teleskiguy

NPR had a bit about Indigenous Peoples Day, and a woman (came in part way through her segment; didn’t catch her name) who works in theatre pushing Indigenous People in all phases of the performing arts, and who had won a MacArthur Genius Grant.

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gwangung  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:14:47pm

re: #64 retired cynic

NPR had a bit about Indigenous Peoples Day, and a woman (came in part way through her segment; didn’t catch her name) who works in theatre pushing Indigenous People in all phases of the performing arts, and who had won a MacArthur Genius Grant.

Larissa Fasthorse. Have bounced off a panel or two with her.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:15:17pm

re: #63 A Mom Anon

I think there needs to be a uniform set of rules and regulations for voting. I get that states make the rules and why, but this is just craziness. It should not be this difficult or complicated. And it should be far more uniform from state to state.

I concur. This is part of what I do in my day job, setting standards that are supposed to be applied across disparate teams - similar to the way the federal government should be advising the states. There are ways to do it that don’t nullify state sovereignty.

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calochortus  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:15:51pm

re: #20 Patricia Kayden

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Why bring up Obama’s news coverage? Does Trump think he won the Peace Prize and it wasn’t mentioned on the news?

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:16:20pm
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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:18:25pm
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Decatur Deb  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:23:08pm

re: #67 calochortus

Why bring up Obama’s news coverage? Does Trump think he won the Peace Prize and it wasn’t mentioned on the news?

That might be what they’re telling him. Dude is fucking crazy.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:30:13pm

re: #70 Decatur Deb

That might be what they’re telling him. Dude is fucking crazy.

Weren’t there photos of what looked like the Reagan 1984 electoral map on the Resolute desk? No logical reason for him to have that unless his staff is telling him he had an epic landslide win and he sure acts like it. He’s never once acknowledged he lost the popular vote. It’s gonna crush him when he loses.

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i(m)p(each)sos  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:30:39pm

I couldn’t figure out why some Lizards were talking about how good yesterday’s Doonesbury was, when all it was was a lame Jimmy Thudpucker gag.

And then, when I picked up the other out-of-town Sunday paper I also read, I found out my shitty Gannett paper censored Garry Trudeau and ran a substitute strip instead.

Assclowns.

dailycartoonist.com

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calochortus  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:35:04pm

re: #71 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Weren’t there photos of what looked like the Reagan 1984 electoral map on the Resolute desk? No logical reason for him to have that unless his staff is telling him he had an epic landslide win and he sure acts like it. He’s never once acknowledged he lost the popular vote. It’s gonna crush him when he loses.

Fine with me.
Some random Freeper was predicting an electoral blowout for Trump. His methodology? He started by giving Trump all the states he won in ‘16 (why? who knows?) and then added in some others (because reasons.) Results? Trump would sail to a huge victory.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:35:26pm

re: #6 Jack Burton

San Diego County. The middle steps where the USPS notifies the registrar that I mailed it are missing because I dropped it off directly there.

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I put my ballot in the county collection box last Monday. Ballottrax still shows that it’s in the mail to me…

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William Lewis  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:38:05pm

re: #72 i(m)p(each)sos

I couldn’t figure out why some Lizards were talking about how good yesterday’s Doonesbury was, when all it was was a lame Jimmy Thudpucker gag.

And then, when I picked up the other out-of-town Sunday paper I also read, I found out my shitty Gannett paper censored Garry Trudeau and ran a substitute strip instead.

Assclowns.

dailycartoonist.com

Reading that article, I note that The Stars And Stripes ran the good strip. Good for them.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:44:15pm

Practical matters:
Lyft has given grants to 12 League of Women Voters regional groups. They provide vouchers for rides to and from the polls in their cities, including early voting days. Our new area LWV got a grant, and it will help a bunch of people. Might check your city’s League.

League of Women Votes receives grant to provide free rides to go vote
dothaneagle.com

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:44:38pm

re: #73 calochortus

Fine with me.
Some random Freeper was predicting an electoral blowout for Trump. His methodology? He started by giving Trump all the states he won in ‘16 (why? who knows?) and then added in some others (because reasons.) Results? Trump would sail to a huge victory.

It’s honesty sad. I’ve tried to be realistic in my assessments over the years. I genuinely thought Clinton would win last time and I feel the same about Joe this time. I’m trying not to be a homer but all objective measures tell me Joe will win and win pretty big. I think people are exhausted by Trump and his goons.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:47:22pm

re: #68 jaunte

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dangerman  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:47:57pm

re: #63 A Mom Anon

I think there needs to be a uniform set of rules and regulations for voting. I get that states make the rules and why, but this is just craziness. It should not be this difficult or complicated. And it should be far more uniform from state to state.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:50:44pm

re: #73 calochortus

Fine with me.
Some random Freeper was predicting an electoral blowout for Trump. His methodology? He started by giving Trump all the states he won in ‘16 (why? who knows?) and then added in some others (because reasons.) Results? Trump would sail to a huge victory.

Our brother has periodically told us that Trump was going to get an overwhelming victory. That seems to be the standard talking point. Maybe their polls only interview white people. Or only interview men.

In any case, I cannot rest easy until the votes are counted and confirm that truth has won. The morning of November 8, 2016 I was joking about the coming apocalypse that night — but before the votes were counted that evening, I was sure the results would be catastrophic. I just cannot take this.

This afternoon I went through Indivisible training on Thrutext to use for a project to text to voters in Wisconsin and Michigan and realized that my hostile responses to Trump/GOP texts may indeed have been viewed by a human being, instead of an automated system. I’m not sure that I will actually sign up to do the texting since the process seemed cumbersome.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:56:24pm
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Belafon  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:56:37pm

re: #44 Patricia Kayden

We are trying our hardest to make this a horse race, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so.

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:57:02pm

re: #81 Patricia Kayden

It’s sickening, that’s what it is.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:57:46pm

re: #81 Patricia Kayden

Disgusting reptile.

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jamesfirecat  Oct 12, 2020 • 7:57:52pm

re: #82 Belafon

We are trying our hardest to make this a horse race, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so.

I repeat myself, the 1973 Belmont Stakes was a horse race.

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Ace Rothstein  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:01:22pm

re: #85 jamesfirecat

I repeat myself, the 1973 Belmont Stakes was a horse race.

So much so, Ron Turcotte (Secretariat’s jockey) had to look behind him to see how far back the field was. Secretariat won by 31 lengths (roughly 80 yards).

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Decatur Deb  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:01:49pm

re: #82 Belafon

We are trying our hardest to make this a horse race, but it’s getting harder and harder to do so.

We are 2 lengths behind.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:01:51pm

re: #81 Patricia Kayden

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He can laugh now but Karma will bite that son of a CENSORED in the ass.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:02:48pm

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:03:22pm
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dangerman  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:04:34pm

re: #74 🌹UOJB!

I put my ballot in the county collection box last Monday. Ballottrax still shows that it’s in the mail to me…

we drove to the supervisor of elections and dropped off three on Friday

my ballot, mrs dms, and my moms have all been counted

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jaunte  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:08:16pm
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dangerman  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:10:52pm

“The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post are among the major outlets that have declined to assign reporters to travel with Mr. Trump as he returns to the trail this week, saying they do not have assurance that basic precautions will be taken to protect reporters’ health.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:11:40pm

This is great.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:12:24pm

re: #94 NO SMOCKING GUN!

What the actual FUCK.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:12:59pm

re: #74 🌹UOJB!

I put my ballot in the county collection box last Monday. Ballottrax still shows that it’s in the mail to me…

I dropped mine off on the 6th I think and it took 4 days for that to show up.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:15:39pm

re: #92 jaunte

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So penalize them. If this is a crime, arrest them. Stop just talking to them as if they’re normal human beings.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:15:45pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:19:28pm

re: #78 Patricia Kayden

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The Republicans shrank the Court to 8 members in 2016, then expanded it back to 9 a year later to pack it. If Clinton had won, we would probably have a 7 member Court now.

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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:21:38pm

re: #99 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Or six.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:21:43pm

re: #95 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

What the actual FUCK.

At least the shooting and the covid weren’t serious, since his wife was cheating on him.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:23:26pm

re: #100 retired cynic

Or six.

Right you are. RBG would be the third vacany Mitch would be holding open, if Kennedy had gone ahead and retired.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:24:14pm

re: #101 NO SMOCKING GUN!

At least the shooting and the covid weren’t serious, since his wife was cheating on him.

“So, what’s new with you?”

“Oh, I got shot.”

“Holy FUCK. Are you okay?!”

“Oh, yeah, I’m fine. I also have COVID.”

“Dude, what the FUCK. How are you still alive?!”

“I just am. But, here’s the kicker…”

[Oh, shit.]

“My wife cheated on me.”

“I’m … I’m sorry, man.”

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CleverToad  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:24:40pm

re: #49 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:25:02pm

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:25:38pm

re: #96 Jack Burton

I dropped mine off on the 6th I think and it took 4 days for that to show up.

My wife and I mailed ours in September. I figured that would be enough time. I got confirmation they were accepted on October 8.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:31:47pm

No receiving of the PDB, no meeting with the VP or members of Congress, just watching fucking TV all day and tweeting bulkshit by the ton until he leaves for another superspreader event.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:32:02pm

re: #104 CleverToad

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:35:07pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

No receiving of the PDB, no meeting with the VP or members of Congress, just watching fucking TV all day and tweeting bulkshit by the ton until he leaves for another superspreader event.

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This is the real reason he wants to be on the road until Election Day. He doesn’t want to be responsible for anything except for showing up, glad-handing his cronies, and whipping up some hatred in some corner of America.

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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:35:45pm

re: #105 Patricia Kayden

Based on my readings, many Native Americans in North America called America something similar to “Turtle Island” or some variation of that, and in their own languages of course. In Mesoamerica it was generally some variation of “Land Surrounded by water” and South America “Land of Life”. I’m sure there were dozens or hundreds of other names used as well.

But “Ours” gets the point across the best while there are idiots who don’t get why today isn’t a day to be celebrated.

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plansbandc  Oct 12, 2020 • 8:42:08pm

Charles, that is a beautiful version of Karma Police!

Love the original, but this is really damn good.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:05:16pm

This is just sooooooooo wrrrroooonnngggg…

YMCA

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:07:27pm

Do not reply with “we’re still two points behind” or “don’t get complacent”:

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:10:13pm

re: #114 Belafon

Do not reply with “we’re still two points behind” or “don’t get complacent”:

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He’s polling better than any challenger since 1936????????

Reminder—in 1936 Alf Landon got slaughtered by FDR winning only Maine and Vermont and getting only 36% of the popular vote….

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:18:00pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:19:47pm

re: #115 🌹UOJB!

He’s polling better than any challenger since 1936????????

Reminder—in 1936 Alf Landon got slaughtered by FDR winning only Maine and Vermont and getting only 36% of the popular vote….

Er, this is a case of you need to RTWT in order to avoid being taken in by a not-specific-enough headline:

But a look through history reveals that Biden is in a better position at this point than any challenger since 1936, when the first scientific polls were taken in a presidential race.
…
In the 21 previous presidential elections since 1936, there have only been five challengers who led at this time. Of those five, only one (Bill Clinton in 1992) was ahead by more than 5 points. None of those five were earning more than 48% of the vote in the polls.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:30:23pm

This is lab confirmation of the case from a month or so ago.

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Belafon  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:31:15pm

I’m decorating for Halloween. We have some of those full size skeletons, one of which has had his head come off. So I decided to have a little fun:

Who will get it first?
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Ace-o-aces  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:35:11pm
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retired cynic  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:36:47pm

re: #120 Ace-o-aces

That’s in complete, grammatical sentences. Did he write that??

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:38:56pm

Gee that’s a shame. That’s what happens when The Baked Asshole “milked You Tube for all it’s worth”!

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plansbandc  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:41:02pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:41:04pm

🤔

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 12, 2020 • 9:42:34pm

re: #115 🌹UOJB!

He’s polling better than any challenger since 1936????????

Reminder—in 1936 Alf Landon got slaughtered by FDR winning only Maine and Vermont and getting only 36% of the popular vote….

The infamous 1936 Literary Digest poll was seriously flawed; the poll had 2 million respondents, certainly far greater by orders of magnitude than modern polls. Unfortunately for them the selection criteria for respondents produced a highly skewed sample — akin to my comment above of only selecting white males for a modern poll.

But it did demonstrate the importance of choosing a sample that is truly reflective of the voting population. The question remains whether that is really possible in a time when people don’t answer phones, don’t respond to texts, don’t reply to emails, and may lie if they actually get back to the pollster.

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:00:39pm

re: #124 Interesting Times

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:13:41pm

re: #126 Ace-o-aces

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The GOP thought they stuck Cunningham in a honey trap…until Tillis’ ex-wife’s divorce statements surfaced and showed Thom was rather cruel to her…

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BeachDem  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:17:58pm

re: #123 plansbandc

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Should probably include the Orangeburg Massacre as well.

blackpast.org

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:19:37pm

Friends suggested tonight that Amy Klobuchar presented the best statement today in the critique of the GOP rush to seat Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court: WATCH: Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s full opening statement in Barrett Supreme Court confirmation hearing

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:30:26pm

Over 50 years ago, back when orchids were thought of as more exotic, an example of full color educational films of that era:

Orchid Nursery (1967)

..

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:32:29pm
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Jack Burton  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:33:39pm

re: #118 Dread Pirate Ron

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This is lab confirmation of the case from a month or so ago.

So it’s only been confirmed to have happened 5 times, and all that hand-wringing from Asia about re-infection back in the spring was way overblown.

Based on this, it means reinfection has happened 0.000013226979% of known cases, which we know to be lower than the true number.

There’s many possible reasons why, but my guess is that “it can happen to everyone and we don’t even get short term immunity to it” is not one of them.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:33:53pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

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Those Federalist Society Assholes will do anything to tilt the table toward Republicans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:34:09pm

re: #130 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The narrator speaks, in the first part after a example of pollinating Odontoglossums, about deep in the Amazon. Thing is, Odontoglossums don’t grow deep in the Amazon heat but are from high up in the mountains and prefer cooler temperatures.

A whole lot of presumptions sneak into just about any presentation.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:43:09pm
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plansbandc  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:48:38pm

re: #131 teleskiguy

A tiny taste of what’s coming from tRump courts for the next few decades.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:54:58pm

We want the long-form test results.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 10:56:56pm
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ckkatz  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:03:30pm

re: #130 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Interesting trailer!

The Brits have a history with orchids going back to at least William Cattley. I suspect that you know the story, so I will defer to your telling of it.

Growing up in the 1960’s, a neighbor who was a doctor, had a hobby of raising orchids in his own greenhouse which was attached to his house. As I suspect that you already know, the rare, exotic, expensive nature of orchids has been mostly ended by tissue culturing.

For grins, I tried keeping some orchids back in the 1990s. Sadly, it did not turn out too well for the orchids.

Thanks for posting!

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:12:36pm

We’ve all known for some time that the nature of American society, with Trump having found such die-hard marks that they are willing to be suicidal for him, is not going to go away.

And that this election, saving a last minute revelation of the likes US elections have not seen before, was determined a long time ago.

This is not an accident.

Today’s state of America is directly tied to the publication and proliferation of The Fundamentals. An explicit movement to keep people from accepting the discoveries of the modern world, The Fundamentals and those who adhered to them and propagated the ideas throughout American churches set up the culture wars in which we are engaged today.

We are in a religious war, but only a few American commentators are willing to admit this in public. But this is where we are at in 2020.

Democrats, not all but I’d say at least 90% of them, are too afraid to talk about this. In no small part this is because religion, and often conservative religion, plays a large part in the Black community and in the Latino community.

Again I will say, a person being religious is not a problem for the United States.

But when that person believes (and acts like) their religion is a prescription for the rest of society then we have a problem.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:21:09pm

re: #140 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The Trump fanatics of my acquaintance are not motivated by these religious ideologies: they are either
(a) Netanyahu acolytes who will follow anything Bibi supports or
(b) xenophobes or
(c) racists or
(d) those who care only about their bottom line and have financially benefited during this administration or
(e) Ron Paul isolationists or
(f) 2nd Amendment fanatics.

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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:26:19pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:31:04pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:33:00pm

re: #139 ckkatz

The genus that bears Cattley’s name did make a big splash in Victorian England. One of the ironic things is that plants of that genus were simply used as packing material for other plants which were sought after by collectors. When the orchid plants bloomed, though, the impact was large.

But that is where the misconceptions began. For the most part, showy orchids of the Americas do not grow in the hottest, low altitude parts of the Amazon. (A large part of the Amazon basin is at sea level and will flood if all the ice in Antarctica melts.)

Continental US native orchids are almost all terrestrial (only a few epiphytes found in Florida and along the GoM coastal waters.) Most of these terrestrials are lovely but are hard to grow, and are threatened with extinction. I would not try to grow them (and it’s illegal to collect them.)

As you noted, mericloning has made the availability of the finest orchids common to any Home Depot shopper. Many of these, phalaenopsis mostly, are imports from low-labor cost areas of SE Asia. The hobbyist orchid business in the US is struggling, like so many hobby specialties that are now considered old-fashioned.

The fad of houseplants, that emerged in the early years of this century, among the formerly-known-as-Yuppies urban apartment dwellers has been focused mostly on foliage, not exotic flowers. I think this fad is fading a bit already, as the Youtube channels that were hot in this field just a couple of years ago don’t seem to be growing much any more.

I don’t see a lot of young people interested in horticulture. Perhaps I am blind to their presence. But to me it seems the computer gaming generation doesn’t have much use for the real living things in this world (flora or fauna.) I consider it a generational sin for the parents of this generation to let the precious years of youth that used to be expended on exploring the outdoors (whether gardening, hiking, etc.) or constructing complex projects (models, woodworking, etc.) now be spent sitting in front of a small screen acting out some violent confrontation with an inanimate thing.

So yes, orchids have an interesting history that can be found entwined with the rest of human history the past two centuries. As can be said of the rest of horticulture. The long arc of our species during the late Pleistocene and Holocene is tied to mastering how to exploit and grow plants.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:37:07pm

re: #141 Hecuba’s daughter

Our circles probably come from different cultures.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:46:37pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 12, 2020 • 11:56:54pm

I learned Alouette, gentille alouette when I was 3. I just looked up the English translation 60+ years later. Why would somebody pluck a lark’s head?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:03:39am
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John Hughes  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:23:25am

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

I learned Alouette, gentille alouette when I was 3. I just looked up the English translation 60+ years later. Why would somebody pluck a lark’s head?

Because otherwise the feathers get stuck between your teeth.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:35:47am

re: #28 Patricia Kayden

Jerk

Then he can talk by video chat…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:40:58am

re: #149 John Hughes

Because otherwise the feathers get stuck between your teeth.

Are lark heads a thing? The seem kinda crunchy outside the brains.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:44:58am

re: #123 plansbandc

When will white people just let us live?

…when you learn to be good Conservatives (to paraphrase Lindsey Graham)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:46:51am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:48:24am

re: #143 teleskiguy

Inside this box is Christopher Columbus. This is the Democrats attempt to rob us of our history. This is not just anti-Catholic, this is anti-Italian.

I was raised at a time when Columbus was held up as a hero, a symbol of determination and triumph of the pioneering human spirit.

There is a lot more to his story than that, though…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:49:47am

re: #151 Dread Pirate Ron

Are lark heads a thing? The seem kinda crunchy outside the brains.

Larks’ tongues in aspic.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:49:57am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I was raised at a time when Columbus was held up as a hero, a symbol of determination and triumph of the pioneering human spirit.

There is a lot more to his story than that, though…

…besides he never set foot in North America.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:05:23am
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Sherlock Hound  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:06:00am

re: #143 teleskiguy

To quote the king from a Bugs Bunny cartoon, “Is FLAT like your head!”

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John Hughes  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:09:23am

re: #151 Dread Pirate Ron

Are lark heads a thing? The seem kinda crunchy outside the brains.

flickr.com

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:12:01am

re: #159 John Hughes

flickr.com

..as soon as I asked I knew there was an answer I never wanted to know coming.

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John Hughes  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:13:54am

re: #160 Dread Pirate Ron

Notice the difference between refined French cuisine — 12 larks — and pig-out anglo cuisine — four and twenty blackbirds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:15:18am

re: #161 John Hughes

Notice the difference between refined French cuisine — 12 larks — and pig-out anglo cuisine — four and twenty blackbirds.

I prefer a bucket containing three deep-fried chickens

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Jack Burton  Oct 13, 2020 • 1:36:30am

re: #156 Dread Pirate Ron

Columbus was such a tyrannical monster in Hispaniola, not only to the Natives but also to other Spanish living there, that he was replaced as Governor and brought back to Spain in chains. He was imprisoned in Spain for 6 weeks. He lost his official position but was eventually set free and the Spanish crown financed his last voyage but barred him from any governorship.

During his last voyage he beached in Jamaica and was stranded there for over year. The current governor of Hispaniola despised him and obstructed any attempt to rescue him.

This how hated this asshole was.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 2:38:44am

I saw Pandora season 2 was on Amazon Prime. I decided to watch season 1. I realized I had seen part of S1 before, on episode 6 I was sure I haven’t been past this point. I was wrong and now I’m on episode 10 and I’ve seen this too. 3 more episodes of season 1 to go, I’m sure I haven’t seen the last 3….

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 13, 2020 • 2:39:16am

re: #143 teleskiguy

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Actually, Columbus is inside this box in Sevilla, Spain,

The Dominican Republic also makes a claim for a collection of bones in this tomb inside the Columbus Lighthouse outside Santo Domingo. The Spanish authorities have allowed DNA tests while the Dominicans have not. The tests established that the guy in Sevilla is definitely related to Columbus’s family.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Oct 13, 2020 • 2:49:03am

~260,000 US deaths from Covid.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 3:02:42am

re: #97 Patricia Kayden

So penalize them. If this is a crime, arrest them. Stop just talking to them as if they’re normal human beings.

and stop behaving like you have no power or options

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 3:03:57am

re: #98 Patricia Kayden

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this is egregiously fucked up

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 3:07:09am

re: #109 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

This is the real reason he wants to be on the road until Election Day. He doesn’t want to be responsible for anything except for showing up, glad-handing his cronies, and whipping up some hatred in some corner of America.

his idea of presidenting
you dont actually do anything just delegate

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 3:12:04am

re: #169 dangerman

his idea of presidenting
you dont actually do anything just delegate

which is fine if you have people you can delegate to and trust their decisions and back them up. he just expects his people to read his tweets and act accordingly.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 3:34:07am

/162/12574522” class=”rep”>#162 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I prefer a bucket containing three deep-fried chickens

Every couple years this comes up—I’ve eaten a roasted sparrow entire. If I’d had a better grasp of Italian All Souls’ Day etiquette, I could have avoided swallowing the beak.

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Teukka  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:00:40am

Monday (morning) PSA:

[Sauce]
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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:09:31am

This flies against the wisdom of the moment. Writing off reformed Trump voters might be an act of self-defeating frustration.

Trump Defectors Help Biden Build Leads in Wisconsin and Michigan
nytimes.com

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:13:24am

Here in Texas, early voting starts at 8AM today!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:23:03am

I will soon be heading for the courthouse to cast my vote. Neither wild horses nor Trump “army” goons nor minefields, roadblocks, interlocking fields of fire, officious officials, imperious lackeys, or Putin gun-goobers can keep me from voting to remove the traitorous Cheeto and bring him and his flying monkeys to justice. Over the top, people! This is it!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:27:55am

re: #175 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Don’t forget your swagger stick.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Oct 13, 2020 • 4:33:53am

More astounding color from Babel:

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 13, 2020 • 5:05:40am

OMFG it’s amazon prime day! Is it still no more two day shipping? I’ll pass.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2020 • 5:30:40am
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jeffreyw  Oct 13, 2020 • 5:39:45am

Gabe and Homer

Good morning!

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 13, 2020 • 5:49:28am
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PrairieQueen  Oct 13, 2020 • 5:50:39am

re: #153 Dread Pirate Ron

I repeat: Saudi Arabia is no friend to the United States. We fawn over and support them because we need their cooperation and their resources. We hesitate to inflame their delicate sensibilities, no matter how inflammatory their behavior. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to call them our ally, but every administration in recent memory goes through those contortions.

FWIW The United States has yet to rise to the level of how Saudi and Russian dissidents are hunted and silenced, but I believe if we continue with the current administration, it’s likely. We currently have all the self proclaimed ‘monarchs in high places’ necessary to ignore the rule of law, and they become more emboldened by the hour.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:08:53am

WEIRD: Trump Boards Air Force One Through Cargo Hold Instead Of Normal Stairs

Maybe they had the cargo area all setup with his medical equipment needed to keep him going. Just my thoughts on the matter.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:18:58am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

WEIRD: Trump Boards Air Force One Through Cargo Hold Instead Of Normal Stairs

Maybe they had the cargo area all setup with his medical equipment needed to keep him going. Just my thoughts on the matter.

Could just be WWE playacting. Someone the other day posted a report that they had toyed with acting disabled to set up a miraculous recovery. Nothing is too stupid or too crazy for this pack of clowns.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:25:32am

re: #173 Decatur Deb

This flies against the wisdom of the moment. Writing off reformed Trump voters might be an act of self-defeating frustration.

Trump Defectors Help Biden Build Leads in Wisconsin and Michigan
nytimes.com

That is why I don’t condemn them, and it’s why, even though I quote some of them, I’m not going to heap a lot of praise on them. They are people. And people fuck up (who hasn’t). And if they realize it and help fix it, all I’m going to say is “Let’s get this fixed.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:27:13am

re: #185 Belafon

That is why I don’t condemn them, and it’s why, even though I quote some of them, I’m not going to heap a lot of praise on them. They are people. And people fuck up (who hasn’t). And if they realize it and help fix it, all I’m going to say is “Let’s get this fixed.”

lots of different people had lots of different reasons for voting for Trump in 2016

as long as they are not voting for him again, they are on our side

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:27:22am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

WEIRD: Trump Boards Air Force One Through Cargo Hold Instead Of Normal Stairs

Maybe they had the cargo area all setup with his medical equipment needed to keep him going. Just my thoughts on the matter.

The cargo hold has a ramp, right, instead of stairs? He may be sick enough he can’t get up stairs.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:27:28am

A small bit of comforting news from electoral-vote.com today

Joe Biden has not trailed in any poll of Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin that is in our database, and there hasn’t even been a “close” poll of those states since early September. Meanwhile, that is eight Florida polls in a row where he has led

Since me and mine already voted there’s not much more we can do* so were going the optimistic route

They also explain why it’s likely that
-Biden will be declared winner on election night
-If trump were somehow to win there is no way it could be called for him on election night

*(Oh but we’re still writing gotv postcards)

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:29:42am

re: #187 Belafon

The cargo hold has a ramp, right, instead of stairs. He may be sick enough he can’t get up stairs.

Photo shows stairs. But much fewer stairs than the ones leading to the passenger area.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:30:16am

Biden going over 50% in a lot of key states gives me a great feeling. It’s not over yet but I feel good. I should be getting my mail in ballot soon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:31:09am

re: #187 Belafon

The cargo hold has a ramp, right, instead of stairs? He may be sick enough he can’t get up stairs.

I thought he had an issue with ramps as well…

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Sufficient unto the day...  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:33:26am

re: #184 Decatur Deb

Could just be WWE playacting. Someone the other day posted a report that they had toyed with acting disabled to set up a miraculous recovery. Nothing is too stupid or too crazy for this pack of clowns.

Donald J. Trump will NEVER appear weak if he can help it.

re: #187 Belafon

The cargo hold has a ramp, right, instead of stairs? He may be sick enough he can’t get up stairs.

The hold does have stairs, just that the hold stairs are less than half the height of the passenger stairs.

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Jay C  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:33:57am

re: #182 PrairieQueen

I repeat: Saudi Arabia is no friend to the United States. We fawn over and support them because we need their cooperation and their resources. We hesitate to inflame their delicate sensibilities, no matter how inflammatory their behavior. It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to call them our ally, but every administration in recent memory goes through those contortions.

But the Trump Administration has “contorted” a lot more than others.
And the power dynamics wrt KSA are somewhat different now than in previous years: the Kingdom has pursued a more-aggressive policy of influence on the Arabian Peninsula (such as its disgraceful war in/on Yemen), and - tacitly - encouraging better relations with Israel mainly as a counterweight to Iranian influence. And since, as far the US is concerned, Iran (especially in Trump’s Admin) is still more-or-less the Official Boogeyman Of Evil, it’s unlikely the US can/will/cares-enough-about to do anything to shift them. And yes, that oil is still a valuable resource….

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:34:00am

re: #189 Eventual Carrion

Photo shows stairs. But much fewer stairs than the ones leading to the passenger area.

OK. I was imagining most cargo planes. But the fewer stairs might be a reason.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:34:02am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I thought he had an issue with ramps as well…

Forklift One is down for maintenance.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:38:43am

Here’s a way to frame arguments:

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:40:03am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:41:03am

Llre: #196 Belafon

Here’s a way to frame arguments:

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He does it a lot better than Bernie does.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:42:47am

re: #192 Sufficient unto the day…

Donald J. Trump will NEVER appear weak if he can help it.

The hold does have stairs, just that the hold stairs are less than half the height of the passenger stairs.

so we do not see him getting winded and having to pause…

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:46:40am

I doubt the vaccine does much, but as long as it doesn’t kill, and China doesn’t charge Indonesia, it’ll probably be seen as a good thing:

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:47:41am

re: #200 Belafon

I doubt the vaccine does much, but as long as it doesn’t kill, and China doesn’t charge Indonesia, it’ll probably be seen as a good thing:

China is using Indonesians as guinea pigs…they should be paying Indonesia for the service.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:49:25am
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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:49:52am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

China is using Indonesians as guinea pigs…they should be paying Indonesia for the service.

I think China’s been using it on its own citizens as well.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:51:42am

re: #200 Belafon

I doubt the vaccine does much, but as long as it doesn’t kill, and China doesn’t charge Indonesia, it’ll probably be seen as a good thing:

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Do we have any data on those vaccines? Just wondering if anybody knows anything about their efficacy.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:53:58am

re: #203 Belafon

I think China’s been using it on its own citizens as well.

PLA I would guess.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:56:29am

Decided to look in on the hearings on a lark. And Barrett’s just punting on any questions from Feinstein regarding hypothetical cases, saying (in essence) that it’s wrong for justices to offer opinions outside the confines of a specific case.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:56:29am

re: #204 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Do we have any data on those vaccines? Just wondering if anybody knows anything about their efficacy.

It almost doesn’t matter for the short term. Between well-founded distrust of Trump’s impact on US development and a couple generations of anti-vax paranoia. There aren’t going to be many Americans vaccinated in the next 12 months.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:57:08am

re: #123 plansbandc

Regarding the 1943 pogrom, or “race riot” as it was called, ISTR reading, a long time ago, comparing the 1943 event to the 1967 event, that what happened in 1943 may have been a result of Axis psy-ops, spreading rumors that “A Black man raped a white woman!” among whites and “A White man killed a Black mother and her baby!” among blacks.

As for 1967, I was in high school, my friends (of all races) and I were interns at the DIA and we were having a bunch of fun until the riots ruined it.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:58:50am

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

I learned Alouette, gentille alouette when I was 3. I just looked up the English translation 60+ years later. Why would somebody pluck a lark’s head?

Lark pie!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 6:59:31am

re: #207 Decatur Deb

It almost doesn’t matter for the short term. Between well-founded distrust of Trump’s impact on US development and a couple generations of anti-vax paranoia. There aren’t going to be many Americans vaccinated in the next 12 months.

Oh, I don’t care at all about that part yet. I’m mostly trying to establish a baseline for just how effective the vaccines in test actually are. I’m trying to get a handle on just how “normal” our post-vaccine life will actually be. I mean, if the vaccine is only minimally effective, much of what we’re doing today will have to remain in place, possibly forever.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:01:44am

re: #189 Eventual Carrion

Photo shows stairs. But much fewer stairs than the ones leading to the passenger area.

is the back of the plane closer to the ground? //

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i(m)p(each)sos  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:02:19am

re: #206 Targetpractice

Decided to look in on the hearings on a lark. And Barrett’s just punting on any questions from Feinstein regarding hypothetical cases, saying (in essence) that it’s wrong for justices to offer opinions outside the confines of a specific case.

I had it on for a little bit while driving around from an early work emergency.

It’s all a farce, of course - we know who”ll vote which way, and the only suspense that’s left is whether there’s any procedural maneuver the Democrats can use to delay (Schumer apparently hinted something about denying a quorum over the weekend?), or, the long shot, whether senators get sick and become unable to vote.

But having said that: for all the legit criticism of DiFi as being too old for the job, she brought it this morning, using her personal experience from the 1970s with women’s rights and LGBT rights to lay into Barrett. Not that it made any difference.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:04:19am

re: #211 dangerman

is the back of the plane closer to the ground? //

Not if they do it right.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:07:05am

re: #206 Targetpractice

Decided to look in on the hearings on a lark. And Barrett’s just punting on any questions from Feinstein regarding hypothetical cases, saying (in essence) that it’s wrong for justices to offer opinions outside the confines of a specific case.

then explain why all the Rs think you’re a perfect fit for the court. how did they all come to that same conclusion before your specific name was even announced,,?

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:07:59am

re: #213 Decatur Deb

Not if they do it right.

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He needs one of these suits:

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:09:37am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

He needs one of these:

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That works, but I don’t see Sting as Don Jr or Eric.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:12:24am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

That works, but I don’t see Sting as Don Jr or Eric.

Jared. He probably likes his son-in-law better than his sons.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:12:51am

re: #215 Shropshire Slasher

His name was Vladimir as well.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:13:59am

re: #213 Decatur Deb

Not if they do it right.

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well…

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:19:13am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:22:20am

re: #219 dangerman

well…

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My first commercial flight was on one of those—Ozark Airlines, 1965.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:24:02am

re: #221 Decatur Deb

My first commercial flight was on one of those—Ozark Airlines, 1965.

Would love to fly on a DC-3. Lufthansa still has an old Junkers-52 Trimotor that does panorama flights, but it costs something like €180 Euros for a 20-minute jaunt.

I keep dropping thinly-veiled hints every year around my birthday…

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:32:38am

re: #37 William Lewis

Bird House, Autumn Field.

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Another one with fantastic composition!

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:32:45am

re: #206 Targetpractice

Decided to look in on the hearings on a lark. And Barrett’s just punting on any questions from Feinstein regarding hypothetical cases, saying (in essence) that it’s wrong for justices to offer opinions outside the confines of a specific case.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:32:54am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Would love to fly on a DC-3. Lufthansa still has an old Junkers-52 Trimotor that does panorama flights, but it costs something like €180 Euros for a 20-minute jaunt.

I keep dropping thinly-veiled hints every year around my birthday…

Island Airlines flew a Ford tri-motor until a decade or so ago. Kids used it as a school bus, IIRC. It’s been restored, and still does fun hops.
putinbayreservations.com

After the corona bug and some re-certification you might be able to get a ride in a B17 for about $500. Before last year’s crash, their predecessor B17 made the flight to Europe for a WWII commemoration. Don’t know how comfortable that would make your German neighbors.
wbur.org

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:34:48am
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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:35:30am

re: #224 jaunte

Here’s what I want Feinstein to say to her: I was once like you, young, naïve, into bondage.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:37:18am
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stpaulbear  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:37:35am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

WEIRD: Trump Boards Air Force One Through Cargo Hold Instead Of Normal Stairs

Maybe they had the cargo area all setup with his medical equipment needed to keep him going. Just my thoughts on the matter.

I’m wondering if the pilots told him that if he came within 20’ of the cockpit, they wouldn’t leave the ground. I also wonder if it’s possible to isolate the air that the cockpit receives from the air in the rest of the plane? It would make safety sense to have separate systems.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:38:05am

re: #226 jaunte

“So, what you’re saying, is that you shouldn’t be on the court?”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:38:59am

re: #230 Belafon

“So, what you’re saying, is that you shouldn’t be on the court?”

Bingo.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:39:12am

An originalist interpretation of the constitution would preclude women from being appointed to the Supreme Court.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:39:54am

re: #228 jaunte

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ACA? “Sorry, can’t comment on that because it’s wrong for justices to look prejudiced.”

Abortion? “Same.”

EEOC? “Same.”

LGBT rights? “Again, the same.”

2nd Amendment? “Oh, I’m perfectly happy to offer my opinion on that.”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:40:00am

Racist President is being Racist again:

Also, pet peeve: He didn’t discover this place, it was already FUCKING HERE (ask the natives about that). Rather, he was one of the first Europeans to arrive here (and even that is debatable).

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:42:01am
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Egregious Philbin  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:42:08am

re: #222 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

A few years back, I flew on one in Anchorage, flew all around the area. The airplane was all done up like the 1940’s, old magazines, FA uniforms. Got to go up to cockpit too. And got to do it for half off the price, airline employee discount. Great old bird!

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:43:31am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Racist President is being Racist again:

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Also, pet peeve: He didn’t discover this place, it was already FUCKING HERE (ask the natives about that). Rather, he was one of the first Europeans to arrive here (and even that is debatable).

The only thing that saved Columbus from being “lost at sea” was that he’d conned the crew into not mutinying for longer that they might have been willing to go on by promising them a generous pension for the rest of their lives as the first person to spot new land.

In keeping with everything we know about the man, he later claimed the pension for himself by lying that he was the first to spot land.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:45:25am
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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:46:48am

few things as life-affirming as getting head bunted by a cat. they really let you know that they appreciate seeing you!

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:47:09am

How many unethical, testy, immature justices does one SCOTUS need?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:47:13am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

After the corona bug and some re-certification you might be able to get a ride in a B17 for about $500. Before last year’s crash, their predecessor B17 made the flight to Europe for a WWII commemoration. Don’t know how comfortable that would make your German neighbors.
wbur.org

My dream flight would be to have them load me onto the Ju-52 in the dead of winter on a stretcher while a horde of desperate, starving soldiers chase the last plane out of Stalingrad down the runway…But I don’t imagine my German neighbors would appreciate that, either…

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:47:55am

re: #238 jaunte

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Feinstein brought up this case. Barrett dodged with the “Can’t comment, would politicize the process” BS excuse.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:48:58am

Originalism is an absurd philosophy. I just wish it would be discredited already. Then again it fits in with how they interpret scripture.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:49:37am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Racist President is being Racist again:

“The Radical Left is trying hard to undermine the Christopher Columbus legacy. A great Italian opened new chapter in history of humanity by discovering the Americas”.

Also, pet peeve: [Columbus] didn’t discover this place, it was already FUCKING HERE (ask the natives about that). Rather, he was one of the first Europeans to arrive here (and even that is debatable).

He was the European who opened regular trade and contact…but again, we need to take a more nuanced and balanced view of his role in history.

We were all taught about him in the context of the triumph of the human spirit and perseverance in pursuing a dream and a goal, but his actual personal history is a lot less savory…

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:50:47am

If “originialism” says you follow the Constitution as written, then how does one square that with “Nothing in the amendments counts” when items like the 2A and 4/5As are all amendments that were added at the last minute?

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:50:56am

An honest man amongst liar, cheats, thieves, scumbags.

Dr. Fauci should get a Nobel prize for patience and humanity.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:51:32am

re: #243 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Originalism is an absurd philosophy. I just wish it would be discredited already. Then again it fits in with how they interpret scripture.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:51:34am

re: #243 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Originalism is an absurd philosophy. I just wish it would be discredited already. Then again it fits in with how they interpret scripture.

You said it. What’s giving me cognitive dissonance is that they are strictly originalist when it comes to reading books - which is an insanely literal philosophy - and yet they can’t even live in reality and have to invent their own, which is the extreme of imagination.

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A Cranky One  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:51:48am

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

I learned Alouette, gentille alouette when I was 3. I just looked up the English translation 60+ years later. Why would somebody pluck a lark’s head?

To make larks tongue in aspic of course.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:51:57am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:52:07am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Racist President is being Racist again:

Also, pet peeve: He didn’t discover this place, it was already FUCKING HERE (ask the natives about that). Rather, he was one of the first Europeans to arrive here (and even that is debatable).

The Columbus legacy? Yeah it’s called genocide. I have no problem with acknowledging the explorers but we should be celebrating indigneous people. They left far more of an imprint on us than Columbus did. You can see that every fucking day at the dinner table, on the roads, and when we look at our maps.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:52:42am

re: #251 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

The Columbus legacy? Yeah it’s called genocide. I have no problem with acknowledging the explorers but we should be celebrating indigneous people. They left far more of an imprint on us than Columbus did. You can see that every fucking day at the dinner table, on the roads, and when we look at our maps.

God Bless Vespucciland!

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:53:16am

re: #250 The Pie Overlord!

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And I’m going to win the lottery and retire on the winnings to a South Pacific island where the women are all beautiful, darkly tanned, and think I’m a sex god.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were describing things that are never going to happen.

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William Lewis  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:53:20am

re: #223 Jebediah, RBG

Another one with fantastic composition!

Thank you, I appreciate hearing that.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:53:44am
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piratedan  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:54:00am

re: #242 Targetpractice

yeah, that’s bullshit, she already “commented” with her position and her very presence in front of the Senate already is example enough of just how political it is. Maybe if Feinstein started to refer to her as Handmaiden Barrett in addressing her, she could even make that point more succinctly, because if “n*****” doesn’t constitute a workplace environment, why should that? After all, this is just a job interview, amirite?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:54:18am

re: #248 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

You said it. What’s giving me cognitive dissonance is that they are strictly originalist when it comes to reading books - which is an insanely literal philosophy - and yet they can’t even live in reality and have to invent their own, which is the extreme of imagination.

It’s just lazy and I blame Scalia for legitimizing it. Scalia wasn’t a stupid man but I do think his judicial philosophy was both lazy and hypocritical- see his votes on Lawrence and Obergfell in which he let his pre-existing biases against LGBT people override the 9th amendment.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:55:45am

re: #250 The Pie Overlord!

He’s missing a decimal. 9.5 not 95. He really lives in a fantasy world and it spreads to his supporters. Then again he actually seems to think New York is in play even though he got his fat ass handed to him there.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:55:47am

re: #256 piratedan

yeah, that’s bullshit, she already “commented” with her position and her very presence in front of the Senate already is example enough of just how political it is. Maybe if Feinstein started to refer to her as Handmaiden Barrett in addressing her, she could even make that point more succinctly, because if “n*****” doesn’t constitute a workplace environment, why should that? After all, this is just a job interview, amirite?

The whole thing’s a farce and she’s made it an art by trying to invoke RBG’s name to insist potential justices not comment on any issues that may come before the USSC.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:55:58am
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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:57:03am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:57:04am

re: #253 Targetpractice

And I’m going to win the lottery and retire on the winnings to a South Pacific island where the women are all beautiful, darkly tanned, and think I’m a sex god.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were describing things that are never going to happen.

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Seriously, this man really lives in a fantasyland. And I can see it everytime I see his Twitter feed. Full of blatant bots and if not bots deluded cultists who not only think he’s winning the election right now but will win in a landslide.

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Jay C  Oct 13, 2020 • 7:57:35am

re: #250 The Pie Overlord!

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Maybe that poll should be taken literally: as in this was the preference of 19 out of the (only) 20 members of the “African Americans Voting For Trump” club??

And I’d like to know who that 20th guy was….
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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:00:06am

re: #180 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:00:14am

re: #263 Jay C

Maybe that poll should be taken literally: as in this was the preference of 19 out of the (only) 20 members of the “African Americans Voting For Trump” club??

And I’d like to know who that 20th guy was….
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I guess Mrs. Cain didn’t want to commit to vote for the guy whose stupidity got her husband sick and dead.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:00:24am

re: #261 jaunte

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The coaching seems to have been on giving “answers” that are a lot of words that, when strung together into long sentences, really mean nothing at all.

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sagehen  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:00:39am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Also, pet peeve: He didn’t discover this place, it was already FUCKING HERE (ask the natives about that). Rather, he was one of the first Europeans to arrive here (and even that is debatable).

well, um… I discovered a terrific BBQ restaurant the other day.

(it was absolutely there long before I knew about it, and lots of other people had already visited and enjoyed it. But the day I found out, is the day I discovered it).

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Jay C  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:00:40am

re: #258 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s missing a decimal. 9.5 not 95. He really lives in a fantasy world and it spreads to his supporters. Then again he actually seems to think New York is in play even though he got his fat ass handed to him there.

Didn’t he also tweet that he was going to win California as well?
(Despite polling showing him losing to the Joe/Kamala ticket by something like 35-65%? - Obviously “fake news”!)

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:01:23am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:02:31am

re: #268 Jay C

Didn’t he also tweet that he was going to win California as well?
(Despite polling showing him losing to the Joe/Kamala ticket by something like 35-65%? - Obviously “fake news”!)

Yeah I think he did. He really is in denial about how popular he is. As I said last night, I think he really believes he actually won in a landslide rather than the slim margins he did.

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:02:32am

re: #61 Barefoot Grin

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i discovered yesterday listening to underground garage that this song originally from the Clique, circa 1967. I’d always just assumed that was pure REM.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:02:41am

re: #268 Jay C

Didn’t he also tweet that he was going to win California as well?
(Despite polling showing him losing to the Joe/Kamala ticket by something like 35-65%? - Obviously “fake news”!)

If he says that he has a girlfriend who goes to school in Canada, that might be believable.

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b_sharp  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:02:49am

re: #119 Belafon

My wife got a real kick out of that scene. Kudos.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:03:30am

re: #272 Decatur Deb

If he says that he has a girlfriend who goes to school in Canada, that might be believable.

You don’t know her eh.

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:04:35am

re: #243 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Originalism is an absurd philosophy. I just wish it would be discredited already. Then again it fits in with how they interpret scripture.

originalism is just the conservative side of legal realism. it’s still “whatever the judge had for breakfast,” but just squeezed through the icing bag of “we must find it in the founder’s intent,” something which jefferson knew damned well shouldn’t be done by future generations.

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b_sharp  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:04:38am

re: #121 retired cynic

That’s in complete, grammatical sentences. Did he write that??

Shocking that the POTUS can’t be trusted to write a grammatically correct sentence.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:04:53am

Willard has a concern:

The guy who got caught on camera basically admitting he thinks almost half of the country votes for “free stuff” and infamously was photographed smirking after giving a speech immediately after the Benghazi attack…thinks things in politics have gotten too “toxic.”

The man is desperately trying to position himself as the 2024 candidate.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:05:45am

re: #237 Targetpractice

The only thing that saved Columbus from being “lost at sea” was that he’d conned the crew into not mutinying for longer that they might have been willing to go on by promising them a generous pension for the rest of their lives as the first person to spot new land.

In keeping with everything we know about the man, he later claimed the pension for himself by lying that he was the first to spot land.

No wonder Trump loves this guy.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:07:08am

re: #277 Targetpractice

Willard has a concern:

The guy who got caught on camera basically admitting he thinks almost half of the country votes for “free stuff” and infamously was photographed smirking after giving a speech immediately after the Benghazi attack…thinks things in politics have gotten too “toxic.”

The man is desperately trying to position himself as the 2024 candidate.

It’s not going to end well for Mitt. The great unwashed GOP masses aren’t going to forget that Mitt voted to remove Trump on one count. Mitt having slightly more integrity than the rest of the GOP Senators just means he has slightly some and they have completely none.

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b_sharp  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:07:19am

re: #274 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Ehhhh. Now, now. We don’t all talk like that, eh.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:07:30am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:08:49am

re: #280 b_sharp

Ehhhh. Now, now. We don’t all talk like that, eh.

I know. I’m just ribbing.

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:10:22am

re: #258 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s missing a decimal. 9.5 not 95. He really lives in a fantasy world and it spreads to his supporters. Then again he actually seems to think New York is in play even though he got his fat ass handed to him there.

Move the decimal point one more: 0.95 %

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:10:57am

re: #207 Decatur Deb

It almost doesn’t matter for the short term. Between well-founded distrust of Trump’s impact on US development and a couple generations of anti-vax paranoia. There aren’t going to be many Americans vaccinated in the next 12 months.

Well, Fauci has been saying that he doesn’t expect a safe and effective vaccine until the end of 2021, which puts us in the same place as distrust and paranoia. (I will get a vaccine as soon as one is available — I’m hoping that the post-election cleanup will mean we can rely on the US government again to tell us what is safe and reliable.)

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b_sharp  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:10:58am

re: #282 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I know. I’m just ribbing.

Turkey ribs I hope. It was just Canuckian Thanksgiving.

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retired cynic  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:11:14am

re: #264 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con

Western good morning!

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What tree is that!?

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:12:14am

Building our own Dirlewanger Brigade.

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b_sharp  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:12:20am

re: #286 retired cynic

What tree is that!?

Western good morning wood.

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gocart mozart  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:12:34am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:14:29am

re: #283 BlueSpotinAL

Move the decimal point one more: 0.95 %

It’s going to be closer to that than 95% for damn sure. He’s not even going to get 95% of the white vote. The delusional bullshit Trump says is a big part of his problem.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:14:46am

re: #258 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

He’s missing a decimal. 9.5 not 95. He really lives in a fantasy world and it spreads to his supporters. Then again he actually seems to think New York is in play even though he got his fat ass handed to him there.

I am pretty sure that his handlers reverse all the poll numbers before telling him.

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calochortus  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:14:58am

re: #286 retired cynic

What tree is that!?

Bottlebrush (a.k.a. callistemon) An Australian plant that is grown all over the place in the S F Bay Area. They’re large shrubs/small trees that attract hummingbirds among others.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:15:11am

Enough with this “militia” horseshit, they’re terrorists! If they were “Antifa” or “BLM,” you can be sure that these assholes wouldn’t shy away from calling them terrorists.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:15:37am

re: #291 The Pie Overlord!

I am pretty sure that his handlers reverse all the poll numbers before telling him.

“You’re up 150% with gay coal miners in San Francisco, sir.”

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:16:44am

re: #293 Targetpractice

Enough with this “militia” horseshit, they’re terrorists! If they were “Antifa” or “BLM,” you can be sure that these assholes wouldn’t shy away from calling them terrorists.

They are fucking terrorists. I really am dreading this though because this could be the 20’s where we have to worry about elected officials being fucking kidnapped by right wing douchebags like this.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:16:45am

In a very hypothetical Biden team list of possible cabinet members, Doug Jones is the only name for Attorney General. He could choose far, far, worse.

Doug Jones as Joe Biden’s Attorney General? Alabama Senator’s name thrown into mix
al.com

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bratwurst  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:16:48am

Mitt Romney’s strong condemnation of Keith Olbermann today really brought me back to LGF circa 2009!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:16:49am

So I was just thinking about stuff as I ate breakfast alone. Specifically the topic of court packing and how some organizations are trying to attack Biden for even considering this.

Then it occurred to me: If this situation was reversed (and of course we know that likely wouldn’t happen because Dems would probably wait until after an election to fill a vacancy, but work with me here) and the Democrats were on the verge of setting up a 6-3 supermajority on SCOTUS for themselves…

…Think of the bricks the GOP would be shitting.

…Think of the near heart attack Rush Limbaugh would be having.

…Think about the endless stream of talking heads on Fox News who would be FUCKING DEMANDING the GOP pack the court ASAP when they regain power.

…Think of the bullshit pieces WaPO and NYT would be running SUPPORTING court packing as a “good idea” and “necessary step forward for American Conservatism”

…Think about all the religious wackos telling us we must pack the court to restore a “balance to America”

…Think about the Militias threatening war if the GOP DIDN’T pack the court to stop a 6-3 Dem majority.

Think about all that, then try to come up with a good reason why the Democrats should not consider packing the court.

I bet you can’t, because there isn’t one.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:17:44am

re: #296 Decatur Deb

In a very hypothetical Biden team list of possible cabinet members, Doug Jones is the only name for Attorney General. He could choose far, far, worse.

Doug Jones as Joe Biden’s Attorney General? Alabama Senator’s name thrown into mix
al.com

Doug for AG or head of the civil rights division. I still hope he wins though I know he has the toughest road of any Dem incumbent.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:18:07am

re: #297 bratwurst

Mitt Romney’s strong condemnation of Keith Olbermann today really brought me back to LGF circa 2009!

Right? I was thinking the other day about Keith Olbermann, and our epithet of “Olberdouche”, and wondering what in the world has changed since then.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:18:18am

re: #293 Targetpractice

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Enough with this “militia” horseshit, they’re terrorists! If they were “Antifa” or “BLM,” you can be sure that these assholes wouldn’t shy away from calling them terrorists.

Imagine if you will, the GOP shrieking and law enforcement crackdown that would inevitably follow confirmed reports of a kidnapping plot against a Republican governor.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:19:26am

re: #300 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Right? I was thinking the other day about Keith Olbermann, and our epithet of “Olberdouche”, and wondering what in the world has changed since then.

What has brought him out of the woodwork? He was convinced that Trump would not last a year in office, iirc…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:19:26am

re: #301 Eclectic Cyborg

Imagine if you will, the GOP shrieking and law enforcement crackdown that would inevitably follow confirmed reports of a kidnapping plot against a Republican governors.

Had to bold ya.

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:21:26am

I don’t give to political campaigns, because I hate spammy emails and would prefer to volunteer my time and skills instead.

But I just gave to ActBlue to get rid of Lady G aka Lindsey Graham.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:21:27am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What has brought him out of the woodwork? He was convinced that Trump would not last a year in office, iirc…

ESPN let him out of his contract so he’s free to talk about politics again I think.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:21:41am

re: #302 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

What has brought him out of the woodwork? He was convinced that Trump would not last a year in office, iirc…

What brought him out was his contract with ESPN finally ended.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:25:09am

re: #299 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Doug for AG or head of the civil rights division. I still hope he wins though I know he has the toughest road of any Dem incumbent.

He gets one chance in four from 538. That’s bad, but better than he had in the last race. (It’s also absurdly optimistic, but What The Hell Ya Gonna Do?)

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sagehen  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:26:50am

re: #286 retired cynic

What tree is that!?

Bottle brush.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:27:11am

re: #307 Decatur Deb

He gets one chance in four from 538. That’s bad, but better than he had in the last race. (It’s also absurdly optimistic, but What The Hell Ya Gonna Do?)

I’m not counting him out. It’s just that I think your direct loss might be the nation’s gain.

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:27:50am

re: #286 retired cynic

What tree is that!?

Bottlebrush tree.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:29:37am

Ah my phone wakes me up, text message from the Los Angeles County Registrar/Recorder that they have received my ballot and it will be counted…

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh it feels soooooooooo goooooooooooood

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:31:11am

re: #304 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I don’t give to political campaigns, because I hate spammy emails and would prefer to volunteer my time and skills instead.

But I just gave to ActBlue to get rid of Lady G aka Lindsey Graham.

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Harrison has $83M on hand for the last month. There are now plenty of other candidates that need money. I think Hegar needs more money, though I can’t quite figure out how much she has.

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sagehen  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:31:24am

re: #296 Decatur Deb

In a very hypothetical Biden team list of possible cabinet members, Doug Jones is the only name for Attorney General. He could choose far, far, worse.

Doug Jones as Joe Biden’s Attorney General? Alabama Senator’s name thrown into mix
al.com

Not if he wins his election.

Don’t give up a D senator in a state that will replace him with an R.

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:32:19am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was the European who opened regular trade and contact…but again, we need to take a more nuanced and balanced view of his role in history.

We were all taught about him in the context of the triumph of the human spirit and perseverance in pursuing a dream and a goal, but his actual personal history is a lot less savory…

Plus 400 years earlier, Leif Ericsson was already building dry docks for ship repair in Newfoundland.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:32:38am

re: #313 sagehen

Not if he wins his election.

Don’t give up a D senator in a state that will replace him with an R.

I think it’s safe to assume that if he wins re-election, he will stay in the Senate but if he doesn’t, he will be considered for AG or another DOJ job. Honestly, I like him for AG. He’ll be a breath of fresh air after Sessions and Barr.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:32:49am

re: #313 sagehen

Not if he wins his election.

Don’t give up a D senator in a state that will replace him with an R.

We wouldn’t, but it’s likely he’ll be available—Alabama, an’ all.

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PrairieQueen  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:32:53am

re: #289 gocart mozart

They have no rhythm because they have no soul.

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steve_davis  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:34:14am

re: #296 Decatur Deb

In a very hypothetical Biden team list of possible cabinet members, Doug Jones is the only name for Attorney General. He could choose far, far, worse.

Doug Jones as Joe Biden’s Attorney General? Alabama Senator’s name thrown into mix
al.com

depends. if he’s reelected, there’s no way in hell we’d give up that senate seat to make him attorney general. Hillary Clinton is available. It would be hysterical.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:35:34am

re: #143 teleskiguy

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:36:17am
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:37:28am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

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Last time I checked, it was only 9. Fuck that guy.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:37:56am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

Those are not victims, those are volunteers.

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sagehen  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:39:01am

re: #318 steve_davis

depends. if he’s reelected, there’s no way in hell we’d give up that senate seat to make him attorney general. Hillary Clinton is available. It would be hysterical.

Preet Bharara.
Sally Yates.

are the fired FBI guys lawyers? McCabe, Strozck, etc…

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:40:39am

re: #188 dangerman

A small bit of comforting news from electoral-vote.com today

Since me and mine already voted there’s not much more we can do* so were going the optimistic route

They also explain why it’s likely that
-Biden will be declared winner on election night
-If trump were somehow to win there is no way it could be called for him on election night

*(Oh but we’re still writing gotv postcards)

Where are you getting the postcards?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:41:06am

re: #323 sagehen

Preet Bharara.
Sally Yates.

are the fired FBI guys lawyers? McCabe, Strozck, etc…

Doug Jones made his name prosecuting the Klan. That’s what the times require. Again.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:41:31am

re: #320 The Pie Overlord!

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How many of them were not associated with Trump rallies, and who were they associated with?

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:43:06am

So how much Trump cash went to produce this?

Kanye West releases presidential campaign ad, invokes God, prayer, family

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:43:36am

re: #325 Decatur Deb

Doug Jones made his name prosecuting the Klan. That’s what the times require. Again.

Yep. All three of those names are great names though and all three I think could fit in somewhere. That’s the good news. There’s a lot of people who could fill multiple positions. If Jones isn’t AG, I think putting him in charge of the civil rights division would be great due to exactly what you’re talking about.

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Jay C  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:44:37am

re: #188 dangerman

A small bit of comforting news from electoral-vote.com today

Since me and mine already voted there’s not much more we can do* so were going the optimistic route

They also explain why it’s likely that
-Biden will be declared winner on election night
-If trump were somehow to win there is no way it could be called for him on election night

*(Oh but we’re still writing gotv postcards)

OHIO as “exactly tied”?
Excellent news - along with that persistent lead in Florida.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:46:52am

re: #326 Belafon

How many of them were not associated with Trump rallies, and who were they associated with?

I’m trying to find that out, but the local news has nothing.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:46:57am

Trump is going to declare himself winner election night regardless of the outcome. Fraud if he loses big. Most secure legitimate election in the history of the world if he’s at any point in the lead.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:47:12am

re: #329 Jay C

OHIO as “exactly tied”?
Excellent news - along with that persistent lead in Florida.

Florida’s had a lot of polls with Joe at plus 50. That’s very encouraging along with Biden’s growing strength with seniors. I’m optimistic about Ohio. It won’t be as big as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota but I think Joe will nip Trump there.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:48:00am
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:48:25am

re: #333 jaunte

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Kavanaugh didn’t do it for you?

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DodgerFan1988  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:48:32am
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:51:23am

re: #265 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I guess Mrs. Cain didn’t want to commit to vote for the guy whose stupidity got her husband sick and dead.

Or she thought he was an asshole and was all like Good Riddance.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:52:36am

Originism re: #335 DodgerFan1988

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We need a federal VRA for a new century. And Roberts’ weakened of the original VRA is his legacy. Thanks for upholding ACA, Justice Roberts but you’re still an asshole for this.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:52:43am

re: #335 DodgerFan1988

If Alabama can process registration until 19 Oct, so can Virginia. Find a judge.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:52:52am

re: #336 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Or she thought he was an asshole and was all like Good Riddance.

That was a joke.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:53:18am

re: #304 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I don’t give to political campaigns, because I hate spammy emails and would prefer to volunteer my time and skills instead.

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I have a burner email I use so I can donate and avoid the harassment. I know how to actively seek out volunteer opportunities if I want one.

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stpaulbear  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:53:51am

re: #304 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I don’t give to political campaigns, because I hate spammy emails and would prefer to volunteer my time and skills instead.

But I just gave to ActBlue to get rid of Lady G aka Lindsey Graham.

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I’ve been giving to a lot of candidates. I went nuts yesterday and made over $300 in small donations to close races. I will get hundred’s of email messages from their campaigns, but they’re easy to recognize and I can delete all of them in less than a minute.

The donation binge yesterday was because I realized that this may be the last chance I have to affect this election. I don’t want to be a poll worker or driver as I’m 66 with a couple medical conditions that put me at risk, and my temperament would be a lousy match for phone banking.

This may be the last chance we get. I can deal with junk mail.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:54:06am

re: #285 b_sharp

Turkey ribs I hope. It was just Canuckian Thanksgiving.

It’s turkey Tetrazzini day! That’s the day after Canadian Thanksgiving.

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A Cranky One  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:55:23am

So this is fascinating. But it must be watched until the end.

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:55:38am

Here I am with the Utah Outcasts gang as we goof on KKKim Davis!

Good Lord! Kim Davis is Still Relevant in 2020?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:55:48am

The IT guy in me is screaming: WHY THE FUCK WEREN’T THERE AT LEAST TWO BACKUPS?!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 8:57:17am

re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg

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The IT guy in me is screaming: WHY THE FUCK WEREN’T THERE AT LEAST TWO BACKUPS?!

Because it’s not a Criticality 1 service.

/half

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:07:31am

re: #343 A Cranky One

The original video - LOL

Spiders On Drugs

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Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:09:23am

re: #341 stpaulbear

I’ve been giving to a lot of candidates. I went nuts yesterday and made over $300 in small donations to close races. I will get hundred’s of email messages from their campaigns, but they’re easy to recognize and I can delete all of them in less than a minute.

The donation binge yesterday was because I realized that this may be the last chance I have to affect this election. I don’t want to be a poll worker or driver as I’m 66 with a couple medical conditions that put me at risk, and my temperament would be a lousy match for phone banking.

This may be the last chance we get. I can deal with junk mail.

I’ve been volunteering my digital skills (design, coding and data analysis) to campaigns. Would love to do more, but my clients went into meltdown last month, and I’m just digging my way out.

Feel guilty that I’m not doing more. Thinking about heading to Wisconsin to help my mom drive vanloads of little old ladies to the polls.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:10:16am

re: #330 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I’m trying to find that out, but the local news has nothing.

Sorry, I meant to imply the question was directed at him. I doubt there were any. He’s just being dodgy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:17:14am

re: #224 jaunte

Greg Pinelo
@gregpinelo
Women, you’re now unregistered to vote.

Black folk, prepare for plantation life.

Says so right here in the Constitution.

Sincerely,

Originalists
9:25 AM * Oct 13, 2020

Not quite fair because originalists will interpret the amendments as originally written. But that does mean that literacy tests could be reinstated; after all Roberts gutted the VRA. And the Civil Rights Act could be similarly demolished to allow public non-state run facilities to discriminate once again.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:18:01am
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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:19:36am

re: #351 Patricia Kayden

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President Pissface will tweet that the Klan are good people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:20:18am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

Island Airlines flew a Ford tri-motor until a decade or so ago. Kids used it as a school bus, IIRC. It’s been restored, and still does fun hops.
putinbayreservations.com

After the corona bug and some re-certification you might be able to get a ride in a B17 for about $500. Before last year’s crash, their predecessor B17 made the flight to Europe for a WWII commemoration. Don’t know how comfortable that would make your German neighbors.
wbur.org

I flew on that plane back in the mid-70s when it was a ferry service between Sandusky and Put-in-Bay. (annual trip to stock up on wine)

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:21:54am

re: #244 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He was the European who opened regular trade and contact…but again, we need to take a more nuanced and balanced view of his role in history.

We were all taught about him in the context of the triumph of the human spirit and perseverance in pursuing a dream and a goal, but his actual personal history is a lot less savory…

Also a question of when someone would next make the attempt to go west, given that the size of the earth was not a secret and the technology then available was unable to support travelling that distance from Europe to Asia by sea. Would it be 100 years before anyone would try again? Our entire world would be very different.

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Shropshire Slasher  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:22:18am

I did have a V8.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:27:22am

re: #349 Belafon

Sorry, I meant to imply the question was directed at him. I doubt there were any. He’s just being dodgy.

I understood. I was trying to find an actual answer to the question, because it intrigued me.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:28:13am

re: #327 🌹UOJB!

So how much Trump cash went to produce this?

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Kanye has already made it plain that the only point of his dumb campaign is to hurt Biden. He won’t hurt Biden though as no one takes him seriously. What a joke.

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Targetpractice  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:29:18am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:30:00am

re: #257 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

It’s just lazy and I blame Scalia for legitimizing it. Scalia wasn’t a stupid man but I do think his judicial philosophy was both lazy and hypocritical- see his votes on Lawrence and Obergfell in which he let his pre-existing biases against LGBT people override the 9th amendment.

IANAL but that was the decision that led me to lose all respect for Scalia and to reach the conclusion that a person’s heart was more important than their mind in deciding who should serve on SCOTUS. I read the dissenting opinions of both Scalia and Thomas. While I disagreed with Thomas, his opinion was sane and logical given his philosophy, and expressed in acceptable moderate language. OTOH Scalia issued an offensive screed with objections based on fanaticism and not the law. The last thing we need on the court is another lying religious fanatic and Scalia clone who is guided by theocratic principles and RW ideology.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:33:43am

re: #359 Hecuba’s daughter

IANAL but that was the decision that led me to lose all respect for Scalia and to reach the conclusion that a person’s heart was more important than their mind in deciding who should serve on SCOTUS. I read the dissenting opinions of both Scalia and Thomas. While I disagreed with Thomas, his opinion was sane and logical given his philosophy, and expressed in acceptable moderate language. OTOH Scalia issued an offensive screed with objections based on fanaticism and not the law. The last thing we need on the court is another lying religious fanatic and Scalia clone who is guided by theocratic principles and RW ideology.

Lawrence or Obergfell? I have to say while I didn’t doubt his intelligence, I found him very intellectually dishonest and disingenuous. That he’s the model conservative Supreme Court Justice says a lot.

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Jay C  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:36:56am

re: #357 Patricia Kayden

Kanye has already made it plain that the only point of his dumb campaign is to hurt Biden. He won’t hurt Biden though as no one takes him seriously. What a joke.

Yes. Kanye’s running mate in CA (Rocky de la Fuente) is a “joke” candidate, and even HE is (and has been) more serious about running for President than West.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:37:37am

re: #360 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Lawrence or Obergfell? I have to say while I didn’t doubt his intelligence, I found him very intellectually dishonest and disingenuous. That he’s the model conservative Supreme Court Justice says a lot.

Sorry. The 2003 Lawrence decision.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:39:52am

I make it a point to not randomly sign stuff “on my way out of church”. If I am signing something, I am damn sure going to want the time to read and process it first.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:41:52am

Has Amy or Kamala been up to bat in this hearing?
In a manner of speaking, someone needs to trigger this b*tch.

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Citizen K  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:42:14am

God…the court is going to be a fascistic disaster if we can’t get some court expansion during Biden’s administration.

If we can’t do this now, we honestly may be looking at enshrined second-class citizenship for millions of Americans for a generation and a half.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:47:44am

re: #363 Eclectic Cyborg

I make it a point to not randomly sign stuff “on my way out of church”. If I am signing something, I am damn sure going to want the time to read and process it first.

it is a rather irrelevant matter as a private citizen, but for someone who is under consideration for a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest judicial body, it is of great importance.

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A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:48:00am

re: #341 stpaulbear

I’ve been giving to a lot of candidates. I went nuts yesterday and made over $300 in small donations to close races. I will get hundred’s of email messages from their campaigns, but they’re easy to recognize and I can delete all of them in less than a minute.

The donation binge yesterday was because I realized that this may be the last chance I have to affect this election. I don’t want to be a poll worker or driver as I’m 66 with a couple medical conditions that put me at risk, and my temperament would be a lousy match for phone banking.

This may be the last chance we get. I can deal with junk mail.

There is also text banking.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:49:08am

At one time or another in one way or another LGF members have identified everything in this Jared Yates Sexton thread. But it’s a pretty good reminder of how we got here:

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retired cynic  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:51:32am

Local propaganda, by Judd Legum

39%!!!

As the election heads into its final stretch, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest operator of television stations in the United States, is amplifying Trump’s misinformation about mail-in voting.

Sinclair owns and operates dozens of affiliates of NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX. In some areas that may determine the next election, Sinclair controls multiple local news stations. In Columbus, Ohio, Sinclair controls the local ABC and FOX stations. In Pensacola, Florida, Sinclair controls the local ABC and NBC stations. In San Antonio, Texas, Sinclair controls the local NBC and FOX stations. According to its latest disclosures to the SEC, Sinclair produces “approximately 2,550 hours of news per week at 129 stations in 81 markets.” In total, Sinclair reaches “thirty-nine percent of American viewers.”

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:51:51am

re: #363 Eclectic Cyborg

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I make it a point to not randomly sign stuff “on my way out of church”. If I am signing something, I am damn sure going to want the time to read and process it first.

If she had signed such a petition in 1996, she would be entitled to a pass. This court will definitely overturn Roe v Wade; the question is what additional restrictions, if any, will it impose on women seeking abortions in states where it is legal. She and Alito may both favor outlawing it nationwide, but it is doubtful that Gorsuch, Roberts, or Thomas shares that view.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:55:46am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:57:23am

Best friend’s wife in Zurich has Covid. She has been laid up since Sunday and just got results back today. She is doing well but it is still scary as hell.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:57:33am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:58:44am

re: #373 Dave In Austin

I’ve seen tons of ads for Mike Espy over the last couple of weeks and not one for Cindy Hyde-Smith.

Longshot, but still Espy is doing everything right.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 13, 2020 • 9:59:50am

This MF is doing it again. Report his ass. and retweet.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:01:32am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

Where are you getting the postcards?

we’re working with postcardstovoters.org for who to write to
they have their own etsy store link

we’ve been buying cards from amazon - they have patriotic looking cards 100 for $12

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JC1  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:03:07am

re: #369 retired cynic

Local propaganda, by Judd Legum

39%!!!

Nowhere near that many people actually tune in.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:03:43am

re: #344 🌹UOJB!

Here I am with the Utah Outcasts gang as we goof on KKKim Davis!

I just watched that. Vote was 7-2 (Alito, Thomas dissented)

Local news:

According to the state ballot lookup site, my wife’s and my ballots went in the mail today.

I WON THE LOTTO! (two free tickets)

The church is having some sort of rummage sale out on the lawn. So far no customers as far as I can tell.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:05:04am

re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Best friend’s wife in Zurich has Covid. She has been laid up since Sunday and just got results back today. She is doing well but it is still scary as hell.

I hope she comes out okay.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:08:35am

re: #304 Khal Wimpo (not drinking damn fish tank cleaner)

I don’t give to political campaigns, because I hate spammy emails and would prefer to volunteer my time and skills instead.

But I just gave to ActBlue to get rid of Lady G aka Lindsey Graham.

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earlier this year, mrs dm asked about who to donate to
we discussed it for a bit and i said you’re in charge, go ahead and use your judgment

well the paypal account is in my name, so is the credit card she used, and she also used my email address

i’ve been getting hit with easy 50 emails a day
her inbox is clean

i dont actually mind them but most are way too over the top to really be effective

on a side note lisa murkowski (AL) is asking me for money (FL)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:10:40am

Scandal in Nebraska.

The governor’s office hired an outside consultant (who happens to be a long-time friend and lives next door to him in Omaha) to “right-size” the Health and Human Services Department, specifically the part which oversees the pandemic. That cost the state $500,000.

On top of that, the outside consultant recommended a complete reorganisation (in the middle of a pandemic), firing a bunch of people, and placing the state epidemiologist under the oversight of the “CEO” (yes, Governor Ameritrade renamed the department head CEO) as an advisor.

He also moved the state medical officer, who has no experience in epidemiology (he’s a surgeon) into his briefings to the public instead of the state epidemiologist.

Elect conservatives, get corruption (both theft and trying to hide Nebraska’s shameful epidemic numbers). A Democratic state senator has oversight of HHS and is enquiring where did this $500,000 come from, how the governor picked his neighbour, why are we reorganising during a pandemic, why is the epidemiologist now in an “at the pleasure of firing of his boss” job, &c.

However, the legislature is out of session, so it seems unlikely much will happen.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:11:32am

re: #376 dangerman

we’re working with postcardstovoters.org for who to write to
they have their own etsy store link

we’ve been buying cards from amazon - they have patriotic looking cards 100 for $12

I wish I had known about this site earlier. I had written a few for postcards2swingstates but they’ve reached their goal. I’ve committed this week to voteforward.org which involves letters (which I hate) but maybe I can do this after completing my current task.

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Belafon  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:13:56am

re: #364 Dave In Austin

Has Amy or Kamala been up to bat in this hearing?
In a manner of speaking, someone needs to trigger this b*tch.

Amy was yesterday.

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:17:06am
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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:18:15am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:21:54am

re: #384 jaunte

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:22:17am

re: #379 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I hope she comes out okay.

She is healthy and relatively young, and buddy says she is doing okay, jut like an extreme flu.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:22:55am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:24:43am

re: #388 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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These people need to be committed.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:26:14am

re: #372 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Best friend’s wife in Zurich has Covid. She has been laid up since results back today. She is doing well but it is still scary as hell.

it’s scary as hell when you try to do everything right and it still nails you

for those people ducking, dodging and skirting it, then it’s no big deal / what’s all the fuss.

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The Pie Overlord!  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:28:33am

Not a dog whistle but a fucking tornado siren.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:29:34am

re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg

People need to relax. Apparently there was a wide ranging internet outage in Virginia.
It wasn’t just the damn cable leading to the Virginia voter registration system

Fucking people need less caffeine in their lives sometimes

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:29:44am

re: #382 Hecuba’s daughter

I wish I had known about this site earlier. I had written a few for postcards2swingstates but they’ve reached their goal. I’ve committed this week to voteforward.org which involves letters (which I hate) but maybe I can do this after completing my current task.

helping anywhere is still helping…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:31:28am

re: #391 The Pie Overlord!

Not a dog whistle but a fucking tornado siren.

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Fuck you Marsha, go back to Russia with your antisemitic bullshit.

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dangerman  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:32:11am

one trick pony

“President Trump asked the Supreme Court to block lower court decisions that would give the Manhattan District Attorney’s office access to years of his income tax returns,” CNBC reports.

“Trump’s lawyers filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court asking the court to issue a stay on a grand jury subpoena demanding those tax returns and other financial records from his accountants.”

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jaunte  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:34:59am
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:36:29am

re: #388 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Absolutely appalling the number of respondents who believe this and want the MSM to investigate. But our brother reveals the same attitude whenever politics is discussed. Deep State — Russiagate — orange jump suits for Obama, Biden, Hillary, etc — Trump a brilliant negotiator — America First!!

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:37:51am

re: #391 The Pie Overlord!

Not a dog whistle but a fucking tornado siren.

Scratch a conservative, find a racist or bigot. Even top Republicans don’t care who knows.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:39:50am

re: #392 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

People need to relax. Apparently there was a wide ranging internet outage in Virginia.
It wasn’t just the damn cable leading to the Virginia voter registration system

Fucking people need less caffeine in their lives sometimes

Doesn’t matter if it was a meteor strike—the (dilatory) people in Virginia are deprived of a chance to register. Get it extended.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:39:50am

re: #396 jaunte

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Yeah, this isn’t your traditional confirmation hearing, this is a kangaroo committee and everybody knows it. Amy Coney Barrett is effectively pleading the 5th on every single question, and the Judiciary Committee will vote to send her to the floor no matter how bad she makes herself look.

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cat-tikvah  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:49:45am

re: #324 Hecuba’s daughter

You can write postcards for targeted campaigns via Postcards to Voters.
Eugene DePasquale in PA would be a great choice for your efforts.
postcardstovoters.org

You may have to sign up with them first and send a photo of a sample card but then can re-up by texting “hello” to Abby the Address Bot (they’ll provide the #)

Vote Forward is still looking for people to write letters to infrequent voters - these need to go out this Saturday.
votefwd.org

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🌹UOJB!  Oct 13, 2020 • 10:51:54am

re: #391 The Pie Overlord!

Not a dog whistle but a fucking tornado siren.

[Embedded content]

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 13, 2020 • 12:14:34pm

re: #119 Belafon

Is the headless skeleton named Lucy?


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