Just Beautiful: Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, “Over the Rainbow”

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Official Video by Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott, performing “Over the Rainbow” from “Songs of Comfort and Hope”
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227 comments
1
i(m)p(each)sos  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:13:46pm

GOT(Ga.)V!

2
retired cynic  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:18:18pm

Yo-Yo Ma never does anything that is not worth listening to. (bad sentence structure)

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Targetpractice  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:20:02pm

So I see that the Repubs entertaining the “fraud” BS in order to keep the natives at a constant state of frothing lunacy is beginning to turn into liability.

Who could have seen that coming?///////

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EPR-radar  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:25:19pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

So I see that the Repubs entertaining the “fraud” BS in order to keep the natives at a constant state of frothing lunacy is beginning to turn into liability.

Who could have seen that coming?///////

Trump taking away the Fox News audience with a pied piper act after his loss in this election will be an even greater dose of karma for the GOP establishment than Trump doing that to the whole GOP base in 2016.

I just hope the country can survive the resulting political convulsions.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:29:23pm

re: #2 retired cynic

Yo-Yo Ma never does anything that is not worth listening to. (bad sentence structure)

Everything Yo-Yo Ma performs is worth listening to.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:29:24pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

So I see that the Repubs entertaining the “fraud” BS in order to keep the natives at a constant state of frothing lunacy is beginning to turn into liability.

Who could have seen that coming?///////

We haven’t talked to our brother since the election but are going to see if he’s available tomorrow. Will be interesting — he was so confident that Trump would win re-election in a landslide, because who would want to vote for senile Sleepy Joe, who is the most corrupt candidate for President and is so definitely owned by China!! Waiting to see if he’s switched to OAN, given Fox calling the election for Biden.

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Targetpractice  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:34:07pm

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

We haven’t talked to our brother since the election but are going to see if he’s available tomorrow. Will be interesting — he was so confident that Trump would win re-election in a landslide, because who would want to vote for senile Sleepy Joe, who is the most corrupt candidate for President and is so definitely owned by China!! Waiting to see if he’s switched to OAN, given Fox calling the election for Biden.

I already had my “Repub family member-inspired headache” this week from my own dad. There was a family discussion on Monday after a grocery run about people beginning to panic buy again due to rising infection rates and restored restrictions. He almost immediately snarked that people “wanted to live in a socialist country,” as though that had anything to do with TP shortages. I immediately had to point out that this shit happened before the election, but didn’t go any farther as I just didn’t want an argument and he tends to lock down if too many of his assumptions are challenged at once.

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:40:16pm

Awwwww. Pennsylvania RepubliKKKlans don’t like the flags that Lt. Governor John Fetterman flies outside his office…

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 20, 2020 • 9:58:53pm

Bullies bail out bullies…

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Belafon  Nov 20, 2020 • 10:11:16pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 20, 2020 • 10:20:00pm

I really don’t give a flying F what half of Republicans think about anything.

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thecommodore  Nov 20, 2020 • 10:37:59pm

re: #11 I Would Prefer Not To

I really don’t give a flying F what half of Republicans think about anything.

Republicans are whiny ass bitches.

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 20, 2020 • 11:01:53pm

re: #12 thecommodore

Republicans are whiny ass bitches.

And right now police are being called to the Mayor’s residence in Los Angeles because there are a bunch of MAGATS protesting the newest mask orders. They are violating the 10PM curfew order that came into effect tonight.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 20, 2020 • 11:09:19pm

re: #13 🌹UOJB!

And right now police are being called to the Mayor’s residence in Los Angeles because there are a bunch of MAGATS protesting the newest mask orders. They are violating the 10PM curfew order that came into effect tonight.

Geez, if the uber-conservative rancher cowboy types in Wyoming have no problem with this, what’s up with conservatives in LA?

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🌹UOJB!  Nov 20, 2020 • 11:14:21pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Geez, if the uber-conservative rancher cowboy types in Wyoming have no problem with this, what’s up with conservatives in LA?

I’m sure a big chunk of them will show up in churches on Sunday getting their next brainwashing treatment.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 20, 2020 • 11:50:22pm

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”THE WAY NOT TAKEN” (channel trailer)

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Jack Burton  Nov 20, 2020 • 11:53:21pm

re: #13 🌹UOJB!

And right now police are being called to the Mayor’s residence in Los Angeles because there are a bunch of MAGATS protesting the newest mask orders. They are violating the 10PM curfew order that came into effect tonight.

AFAIK that curfew doesn’t go into effect until tomorrow night.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:05:08am

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Climate 2020 update and record hot summer with an outlook for winter 2020-21 - NWS San Diego



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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:05:27am

Pharmacist, one-time friend land in prison after plot to blow up small-town Nebraska rival (Omaha World-Herald)

This crazy plot to cover up the sale of opiods on the so-called dark Web with Bitcoin by burning down his competition has been in the papers here most of the year.

Today these asshats (one from Auburn, Nebr. and the other from Maryland) are off to the federal pen.

The drug sales were discovered by the FBI when they saw large transfers of Bitcoin to the pharmacist in Auburn.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:06:21am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:30:09am

re: #18 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

National Weather Service Cheyenne Regional Weather Office

Based on the area map, we’re having no weather at all here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:36:35am

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:38:00am

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

National Weather Service Cheyenne Regional Weather Office

Based on the area map, we’re having no weather at all here.

Due to technical difficulties, your weather today has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Teukka  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:44:51am

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

National Weather Service Cheyenne Regional Weather Office

Based on the area map, we’re having no weather at all here.

re: #23 Dr Lizardo

Due to technical difficulties, your weather today has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience.

No, it means Anymouse 🌹🏡😷 will have a re-run.

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Jack Burton  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:45:05am

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m not praising Jack for doing literally the bare minimum possible.

Even if he banned Clownstick’s account now, which he should have the second that fucking piece of shit went on TV on Election Day and just declared himself the winner, not to mention the million or so times before that he violated the TOS and the law. EVEN then, I wouldn’t praise him. He might get a “thanks for the bare minimum jackass.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 12:55:34am

A Wonketteer sent me a link to a Webcomic (not really my thing but hey) manga in which the main character, a teen-age boy, is dressed as a girl by his elder sister and he embarks on a journey of gender discovery. The person thought this would be worthwhile for me.

Thanks?

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 21, 2020 • 1:05:14am

re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter

We haven’t talked to our brother since the election but are going to see if he’s available tomorrow. Will be interesting — he was so confident that Trump would win re-election in a landslide, because who would want to vote for senile Sleepy Joe, who is the most corrupt candidate for President and is so definitely owned by China!! Waiting to see if he’s switched to OAN, given Fox calling the election for Biden.

You should ask him about Fox giving the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Canada as well.
/

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 21, 2020 • 1:07:54am

re: #20 Dread Pirate Ron

How many tweets of bleach pictures will be required to clean those accounts before they can be used by the new administration?
///

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 1:27:22am

re: #28 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

How many tweets of bleach pictures will be required to clean those accounts before they can be used by the new administration?
///

Nuke them from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 1:48:40am

I’m going to head off to bed.

We’re still left with no response to Covid-19 coming down the pike. State Senator Matt Hansen put up a three-tweet thread to explain to constituents what the problem is, and why the governor is calling all the shots.

Unless Gov. Ricketts calls a special session of the Unicameral, they cannot meet again until next year. Nebraska law is pretty strict on multiple people in government even being in the same place due to the state Sunshine Law being so strict.

It was an issue when I was on my village board: Three people in the same place in theory constituted a quorum of the board, and if it wasn’t announced then it was illegal.

In practice of course three people can be anywhere they want, including the same market or bar. But if someone got a burr up their butt they would make a complaint to the state there was an illegal meeting, everyone involved had to explain there was no meeting and no one was discussing government business, &c.

The same applies to the Unicameral, so they can’t even have the appearance of meetings.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 1:58:45am

Casper, Wyo. Star-Tribune

Natrona County face mask order now in effect

Natrona County’s mask order is now in effect.

“The reason to do this is simple,” Natrona County Health Officer Dr. Mark Dowell said Thursday during a virtual press conference. “We want to keep this county and its citizens healthy. We want to keep the businesses open and we want to keep the schools open.”

Dowell said he signed the order late Wednesday.

COVID-19 has become a medical emergency in Natrona County and around the state, Dowell said, and officials expect things to get worse based on current trends.

“We don’t want this to get worse,” he said. “We don’t want to make this so hard on medical providers that they can’t take care of you.”

The order runs through Dec. 4, but could be extended longer.

The order mirrors those passed or being considered in half of Wyoming’s 23 counties, and requires face coverings inside all retail or commercial businesses or any government facility that is open to the public, according to a copy of the order released Wednesday. It will also require masks in health care facilities and on public transportation.

(more)

and

More than 11,000 virus cases were active in Wyoming as of Thursday when including probable cases. Hospitalizations have topped 200, and deaths have doubled in the last month, with 89 of the state’s 176 COVID-19 deaths announced in November.

Health officials, including Dowell, have called on Gov. Mark Gordon to enact a statewide mask order. In a Nov. 12 letter, 21 county health officers asked Gordon to institute the measure, rather than deferring to local officials to pass their own, jurisdictional decrees, because “a statewide mandate sends a more powerful and effective message in a more timely manner.”

The governor has yet to act on that request, but has said he is considering it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:06:37am

Sia is getting dragged by the autism community in particular, and the disability community in general.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:11:32am

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

So, liberals are back at tearing each other apart?

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:12:45am

Riiight. Because ethnic Russians are always cast to play ethnic Russians in Hollywood?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:24:10am

re: #33 Nyet

So, liberals are back at tearing each other apart?

This isn’t about liberals.

Singer and songwriter Sia spent a lot of time making a film about her friend who has autism.

She refused to audition actors who have autism for the role. When several people and organisations called her out on this, she attacked them instead.

People from other disability communities then joined in, and all are trying to point out that anyone with a disability tends to be portrayed poorly in film, or are used as spectacals for the able-bodied.

Sia stans are also involved in the discussion, also attacking those with autism in defence of their particular celebrity (this seems to be a common occurrence to defend them even when they do crappy things then double down when called out on it). It would not surprise you to know that it is able-bodied and neurotypical people defending Sia against the mean disabled people.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:26:45am

re: #34 Nyet

Riiight. Because ethnic Russians are always cast to play ethnic Russians in Hollywood?

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One of these Spanish princes is not like the other. And Yo-Yo Ma can play Bach.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:29:49am

re: #34 Nyet

Riiight. Because ethnic Russians are always cast to play ethnic Russians in Hollywood?

Well, there’s the issue of “Hamilton” and its actors.

That said, the caricatures of disabled persons in film are legendary, whether autism, or epilepsy, or mental illness, &c.

Those stereotypes sell films though, and Hollywood production companies are in the business of making money, not being education outfits. Playing to stereotypes and bigotry makes big bucks.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:32:06am

re: #37 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, there’s the issue of “Hamilton” and its actors.

That said, the caricatures of disabled persons in film are legendary, whether autism, or epilepsy, or mental illness, &c.

Those stereotypes sell films though, and Hollywood production companies are in the business of making money, not being education outfits. Playing to stereotypes and bigotry makes big bucks.

There is one rule in the biz: Put asses in seats.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:33:48am

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

There’s critique and constructive pointing out of faults (which I don’t deny also happened); and then there’s simply dismissing an apparently well-intentioned film as a “kick in the bloody teeth”, tearing it down and then the star in question responding in an equally immature manner.

Seems like my description.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:38:41am

re: #34 Nyet

Riiight. Because ethnic Russians are always cast to play ethnic Russians in Hollywood?

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One of the more popular “Russians” to grace Hollywood’s silver screens from time to time is Czech actor Karel Roden.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:40:52am

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

One of the more popular “Russians” to grace Hollywood’s silver screens from time to time is Czech actor Karel Roden.

Outrage./

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:42:22am

re: #38 Decatur Deb

There is one rule in the biz: Put asses in seats.

Pretty much.

It took a very long time before (most of) society found blackface to be unacceptable. It will take a long time before disabled actors are acceptable and disabled people are not portrayed poorly as well.

I’m more sensitive to poor portrayals of people with epilepsy for purely personal reasons, however, seeing poor portrayals of other disabled communities grinds my gears as well.

There’s a whole list of bad portrayals of epilepsy in film and television and why they are bad

yourlifeprotected.co.uk

There is also a list of portrayals of people with autism, from decent to horrible
autism.org

FOX News Channel has picked up on the backlash against Sia.

Sia addresses backlash to new film’s portrayal of autism: ‘I believe this movie is beautiful’ (nine hours ago)

Sia is addressing the backlash she’s received after casting former “Dance Moms” star Maddie Ziegler as a character with autism in her new movie “Music” even though the 18-year-old is not autistic in real-life.

After Sia tweeted out the trailer for the upcoming movie on Thursday, which she directed and co-wrote, a Twitter user responded: “It’s a mighty shame that someone with such a colossal platform is using it to exclude disabled and neuro diverse actors from their own narratives. I’ve been a long time fan of your work, so this is really disappointing.”

The tweet caught the attention of the 44-year-old singer who hit back, stating that it’s “f—king sad nobody’s even” seen the movie and that her “heart has always been in the right place.”

(more)

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:45:06am

re: #41 Nyet

Outrage./

Funnily enough, well-known Czech comedy actor Jan Werich was originally cast to play Ernst Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

After five days, they replaced him with Donald Pleasance. Werich looked more like a grandfatherly Santa Claus than Ian Fleming’s supervillain criminal mastermind.

Jan Werich as Blofeld (production still)
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William Lewis  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:48:57am

re: #43 Dr Lizardo

Funnily enough, well-known Czech comedy actor Jan Werich was originally cast to play Ernst Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

After five days, they replaced him with Donald Pleasance. Werich looked more like a grandfatherly Santa Claus than Ian Fleming’s supervillain criminal mastermind.

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I’d have loved to see that go forward. Would have been far more interesting.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:49:09am

A German singer named Hans-Rolf Rippert sold himself as “Russian” folk singer Ivan Rebroff even though he was born in Berlin to German parents.

He played Tevye in the German version of Fiddler on the Roof.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:53:59am

re: #44 William Lewis

I’d have loved to see that go forward. Would have been far more interesting.

Yeah, it could’ve been interesting to see how Werich would’ve played the role. He’s a rather normal-looking gent and the best supervillains don’t need to be disfigured or look vaguely monstrously….I’d say the more they look like your everyday Joe, the more memorable they could be. Hell, look at Jeffrey Dahmer; that guy could’ve been alone in an unfurnished room and he’d still blend in with the wallpaper.

Imagine a supervillain with a jovial disposition - and plans to conquer the world and kill off half the population with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:55:49am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

Imagine a supervillain with a jovial disposition - and plans to conquer the world and kill off half the population with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

Hollywood supervillains need to stand out. Real-life ones blend in.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 21, 2020 • 2:56:26am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

Imagine a supervillain with a jovial disposition - and plans to conquer the world and kill off half the population with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

Mel Brooks is going to continue to be a problem.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:03:06am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

Imagine a supervillain with a jovial disposition - and plans to conquer the world and kill off half the population with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

Mary Tyler Moore plays a kind-hearted and well-known television journalist, but she has a secret. In her underground lair with her minions, she seeks to take over the world’s communications satellites and use them to hold governments hostage for her demands. She is frequently seen during the film with the kitten at the end of the “Mary Tyler Moore” credits, playing with it as she plots world domination.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:09:17am

When Hiromi Omura as Cio-Cio San sings sings Un Bel Di, whose culture is being appropriated?

Hiromi Omura sings “Un Bel Di, Vedremo” from Madama Butterfly

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:09:20am

re: #49 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Mary Tyler Moore plays a kind-hearted and well-known television journalist, but she has a secret. In her underground lair with her minions, she seeks to take over the world’s communications satellites and use them to hold governments hostage for her demands. She is frequently seen during the film with the kitten at the end of the “Mary Tyler Moore” credits, playing with it as she plots world domination.

Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas and Karen Valentine played a key role in helping me determine and define my heterosexual gender eternity at an early age. And my ongoing preference for brunettes over blondes…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:13:41am

Although her neighbours in Fernwood primarily know her as a somewhat clueless homemaker who most often worries about waxy yellow buildup on her floors, they don’t know Mary Hartman’s secret.

She’s built from scratch a supercomputer system to take over the US nuclear force, using the knowledge she gained from Cleveland Institute of Electronics distance learning courses, with the aid of the Pickett slide ruler which comes with their course materials.

She is foiled when Mr. Clean discovers that the waxy yellow buildup on her floor is actually the electric generator for her supercomputer. By swapping out the liquid in her Future floor wax bottle with Mr. Clean, Mary Hartman destroys her own power supply the next time she waxes her kitchen floor.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:18:39am

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Mary Tyler Moore, Marlo Thomas and Karen Valentine played a key role in helping me determine and define my heterosexual gender eternity at an early age. And my ongoing preference for brunettes over blondes…

I actually didn’t know the colour of my wife’s hair before I met her after long-distance chatting from the specialty dating service we were both on. I explicitly asked her not to send me a picture. She had no picture of me either.

When I flew out to Oklahoma from South Carolina, we’d been chatting on the telephone and in letters and E-mail but had never seen a picture of each other.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:26:24am
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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:27:56am

re: #47 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Hollywood supervillains need to stand out. Real-life ones blend in.

Yeah, that’s true. Like that Robot Chicken sketch where Palpatine finds out the Death Star was blown up.

The Emperor’s Phone Call | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim

As far as I’m concerned, yeah, this is canon.

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Belafon  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:38:50am

re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It is called acting, where people constantly play roles they aren’t. Should pregnant women only be played by pregnant women? How would that movie about Stephen Hawking have been made? Find someone who is just starting out with ALS and film their progression?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 3:52:53am

re: #56 Belafon

It is called acting, where people constantly play roles they aren’t. Should pregnant women only be played by pregnant women? How would that movie about Stephen Hawking have been made? Find someone who is just starting out with ALS and film their progression?

The problem is not acting.

Aside from Sia’s dismissive tweet “maybe you’re a bad actor,” the claim she made “there wasn’t time to cast autistic actors because I don’t have time to work with them,” and working with Autism Speaks for their take on how an autistic person should be portrayed, there are studies which show when disabled people are not included in media about disabled people, it damages people’s opinions of disabled people.

People with autism are consistently portrayed badly in film and television precisely because producers make more money portraying them in a fashion which promotes bigotry.

Should only pregnant women portray women who are pregnant is not equivalent, though it is common even today to sideline actresses when they become pregnant, and not for health reasons.

Skipping from autism into more familiar territory, I have never seen, not once, epilepsy portrayed accurately in any visual media. Films and television are big on misrepresenting how seizures actually appear for shock value, continue to promote demonic possession as the source of seizures, portray people with epilepsy as non-functional members of society, &c.

It’s not even because Sia cast someone in this role while openly discriminating against people with autism from applying for it; it’s the dismissive way in which she’s taking criticism from people with autism and other disabilities.

She has plenty of ableist stans though, including FOX News.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 4:01:00am

Skipping away from epilepsy into another area I’m familiar with and how media consistently portrays the group poorly

How often is a homeless person portrayed other than a raggedy-ass old guy, usually drunk, mostly unwashed, probably mentally ill, &c.

How often does media portray rural people as “dumb hicks” (for that matter how often do liberals do it) who are uneducated, slovenly, &c?

These portrayals matter to those who are part of those communities. The argument appears to be “well, blackface, that’s obviously bad” (and by the way, Sia has also appeared in blackface and her fans defend that too), but telling someone with autism she never met who criticised her “well maybe you can’t act” is acceptable? When scores of people with autism or other disabilities criticise her responses, she doubles down? Gets a write-up in FOX (poor wealthy singer/songwriter/actress is being beat up by the disabled community)?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Nov 21, 2020 • 4:05:27am

I said I was going to go to bed some time ago … I’m going to do that now.

G’night y’all.

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William Lewis  Nov 21, 2020 • 4:25:43am

Far more important than the actors in cases like this is the quality of the writing and what you or others consider to be acceptable compromises in the accuracy for the sake of drama.

Everyone here has areas of expertise where watching movies or (usually worse) TV will drive you straight up a wall. Scripts that get having to reload after the right number of shots are still rare and even rarer are those that get the physical actions correct. I won’t even mention the numerous farces that computers face from the technical illiterates writing about, say, hacking.

Very few would be able to write about a character with autism or epilepsy accurately and still provide a real dramatic context for their issues. Most writers have never met a homeless person such as the woman I met in Westwood LA living out of a grocery cart and who was quite content to not be part of the rat race the students in the bars were living.

Sturgeon’s Law says “90% of Science Fiction is crap because 90% of all writing is crap”. That’s the context here; for every great screenplay there are hundreds cranked out to meet a deadline and never checked for any kind of accuracy, just “can this be filmed on time and under budget”?

The best actors, even those with the issue at hand, can’t do squat with a bad script.

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dat_said  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:06:54am

re: #58 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

How often does media portray rural people as “dumb hicks” (for that matter how often do liberals do it) who are uneducated, slovenly, &c?

Reminded me how disappointed my father was with the television sitcoms in the early 70s. He grew up in small northern prairie town and could relate to the rural southern comedies like Mayberry, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbilllies, Green Acres, Hee Haw. They all got cancelled in 1971 in the network rural purge. He didn’t like or understand the big city characters of Mary Tyler Moore and Bob Newhart. At least he had Bonanza and Gunsmoke for a few more years.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:18:27am

What a great idea!

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:20:58am

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

What a great idea!

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To answer the replier’s question, we’ve always had psyops. Think about it, how else would lizard overlords implement their evil plans? It’s not like we can just tell people to do evil and get away with it.

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Jay C  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:26:07am

Morning, all.

For those of us keeping score at home, I’ve seen a bunch of notes on the ‘Net re the
Presidential popular vote: with the latest batch of reports, the Biden/Harris ticket has (finally) increased its winning margin to (just) over 6 million (51.1%), and is closing in on an 80 million total figure (just under as of now).

These figures aren’t precise: no two sources seem to give the same numbers, but these will do quite nicely.

I guess we owe Hugo Chavez a hearty muchas gracias…,

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:39:16am

re: #64 Jay C

I guess we owe Hugo Chavez a hearty muchas gracias…,

Yes, I’m sure he cast a vote for Biden/Harris as well…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:45:24am

In 1992, Michelle Schocked, before she really went off the deep end, did an album, The Arkansas Traveller, a reworked collection of old-timey tunes dedicated to the Minstrel tradition of the South and their contribution to the American musical tradition.

In the liner notes, she said that she had considered appearing in blackface on the album cover but knew that she would face a shitstorm of controversy that would only detract from the point she was trying to make.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:49:34am

re: #11 I Would Prefer Not To

I really don’t give a flying F what half of Republicans think about anything.

QFT and worth repeating.

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William Lewis  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:51:26am

Home from work; it’s beer o’clock.

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ericblair  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:53:56am

re: #63 thedopefishlives

To answer the replier’s question, we’ve always had psyops. Think about it, how else would lizard overlords implement their evil plans? It’s not like we can just tell people to do evil and get away with it.

I dunno, but anecdotally it sure looks like the GOP is still split between more-or-less institutionalists who think Trump is, er, not great, but he’s the GOP guy so we vote for him; and the Trumpenproletariat who don’t give a shit about the GOP and are in it for the fascism.

So, if Trump had conceded, grudgingly, or said he wasn’t going to contest it, the GOP would have an easier time of GA right now. They could sell Loeffler and Purdue as a necessary check on the Biden administration. Instead, the yam goes nuts, demands all the state GOP officials do blatantly illegal shit which have a passing chance of getting them hung from lampposts, and the state goobers balk. So now they’re the enemies too, and any other goobers who won’t bend the knee.

So Loeffler and Purdue have to pick a side, more or less. From what I’ve heard, they’ve decided to go full Trump, which has two problems: they’re scaring the institutionalists who split their tickets in the general, and a good number of the MAGAts won’t vote for them anyways because FOX News is bad now Dominion mail-in vote fraud bananapants.

Plus, screaming that the elections are fixed doesn’t make people get off their butts to get to the polls, especially when still telling them that mail-in ballots are The Debbil.

It’s not like the Dems have this in the bag by any means, but Trump is doing his best to fuck things up, like he always does.

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:58:37am

re: #69 ericblair

I was trying to jest, hence the “lizard overlords” comment; next time, I will include the sarc tags. You are quite correct in that Loeffler and Perdue are in a pickle of their own making, thanks to Trump’s insanity, and it is delicious to watch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 5:59:23am

re: #69 ericblair

So, if Trump had conceded, grudgingly, or said he wasn’t going to contest it, the GOP would have an easier time of GA right now.

He is not about to put anybody else’s interests above his own and he has to maintain his brand and his image, which means never admitting that he lost.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:00:05am

re: #3 Targetpractice

So I see that the Repubs entertaining the “fraud” BS in order to keep the natives at a constant state of frothing lunacy is beginning to turn into liability.

Who could have seen that coming?///////

Do not create a Parler account and pretend to be a Georgia Patriot to promote #boycottgeorgiarunoffs to protest the rigged election because that would be very naughty.

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sagehen  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:06:07am

re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I actually didn’t know the colour of my wife’s hair before I met her after long-distance chatting from the specialty dating service we were both on. I explicitly asked her not to send me a picture. She had no picture of me either.

When I flew out to Oklahoma from South Carolina, we’d been chatting on the telephone and in letters and E-mail but had never seen a picture of each other.

So how did you ID each other at the airport?

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Jay C  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:06:08am

re: #65 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, I’m sure he cast a vote for Biden/Harris as well…

More than one, I’m sure…..

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:06:41am

re: #74 Jay C

More than one, I’m sure…..

//

in multiple states

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:07:34am

re: #73 sagehen

So how did you ID each other at the airport?

Each wearing a Bertrand Russel T-shirt?

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Jay C  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:08:51am

re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

in multiple states

And in-person* AND by mail!

*Yes, I know Hugo Chavez is dead. That’s what makes his voting scam so impressive…..

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:09:32am

re: #72 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Do not create a Parler account and pretend to be a Georgia Patriot to promote #boycottgeorgiarunoffs to protest the rigged election because that would be very naughty.

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Stop. Helping. Them.

Everyone tweeting this makes it less likely to happen.

Let them burn it down.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:22:04am

OT, but I’m convinced that the people who write ad copy for insurers like Geico, Liberty Mutual, and Progressive just sit around getting high and throwing out ideas.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:23:58am

re: #79 Barefoot Grin

OT, but I’m convinced that the people who write ad copy for insurers like Geico, Liberty Mutual, and Progressive just sit around getting high and throwing out ideas.

That is how all the best add copywriters work…”playing darts all day and smoking mary jane”, as I recall the quote from Mad Men

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:26:12am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:30:38am

Matt was onto this back in 1987.

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jeffreyw  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:34:16am

Random Raccoon

Good morning!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:34:25am
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dangerman  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:36:34am

re: #64 Jay C

Morning, all.

For those of us keeping score at home, I’ve seen a bunch of notes on the ‘Net re the
Presidential popular vote: with the latest batch of reports, the Biden/Harris ticket has (finally) increased its winning margin to (just) over 6 million (51.1%), and is closing in on an 80 million total figure (just under as of now).

These figures aren’t precise: no two sources seem to give the same numbers, but these will do quite nicely.

I guess we owe Hugo Chavez a hearty muchas gracias…,

Which is why the only narrative that matters is the one after *all* the counting is done

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dangerman  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:40:08am

re: #73 sagehen

So how did you ID each other at the airport?

Red Carnations?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:43:20am
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dangerman  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:48:20am

re: #87 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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So like the other guys they do they trip
Get to say they’ve been to the white house
And change absolutely nothing

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:49:37am

re: #88 dangerman

So like the other guys they do they trip
Get to say they’ve been to the white house
And change absolutely nothing

Because Trump knows he cannot talk to them safely over the phone without the risk of others listening in to his ranting about Steiner’s offensive…

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 6:52:22am

re: #8 🌹UOJB!

Well played, Fetterman.

Him and his wife are adorable. Reminds me of me and my Wife Unit. I’m not 6-8 tho. He’s a large man.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:01:43am

re: #64 Jay C

Morning, all.

For those of us keeping score at home, I’ve seen a bunch of notes on the ‘Net re the
Presidential popular vote: with the latest batch of reports, the Biden/Harris ticket has (finally) increased its winning margin to (just) over 6 million (51.1%), and is closing in on an 80 million total figure (just under as of now).

These figures aren’t precise: no two sources seem to give the same numbers, but these will do quite nicely.

I guess we owe Hugo Chavez a hearty muchas gracias…,

Thanks you Hugo, where ever you are.

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William Lewis  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:01:52am

re: #90 BigPapa

Well played, Fetterman.

Him and his wife are adorable. Reminds me of me and my Wife Unit. I’m not 6-8 tho. He’s a large man.

Get him to play Harry Dresden in the TV reboot :D

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:02:57am
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sizzzzlerz  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:03:37am

Beautiful rendition of a beautiful song. It is a real pleasure to listen to a true master of their craft like Yo-Yo Ma.

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ericblair  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:06:16am

I know that I as a liberal would be terrified and completely owned if the Republican voters boycotted the GA runoffs.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:07:09am

re: #84 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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So where is the fucking tear gas and fucking rubber bullets? Hell they’re blatantly armed in violation of the law, cops should have real bullets and fucking water cannons.

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:12:56am

10 mins on Parler.

There will be no coming together or reaching across the aisle with these crazed mfers.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:17:24am

Heads up Cali Space Lizards.

SpaceX is targeting Saturday, November 21 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The instantaneous launch window is at 9:17 a.m. PST, 17:17 UTC, and a backup opportunity is available on Sunday, November 22 with an instantaneous launch window at 9:04 a.m. PST, 17:04 UTC.

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land on Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The spacecraft will deploy approximately 53 minutes after liftoff

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:20:32am

7tFcUNtprZXWB8ym2VzH+Mz2SFV1hkeV3azozAvd+QLdJYAYZZu1s3m3aL1tnmv1ttaJ5Aivirb4/GnarYk5PllDZ//qMhMLv3hSJeye1cq8RkJiHiwUHxQNKVFKv+llQmLTAG6z7ur+RWTlV2fDG5R3l5Bgt75hbc7m6lyUXdVIeBsFNpOJPXZCXTrI8IyR

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:24:56am

re: #97 BigPapa

Did you have to send them photos iof your ID in order to register?

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:29:12am

re: #100 GlutenFreeJesus

Did you have to send them photos iof your ID in order to register?

No. But I registered in June. They do make you use a phone number and text a code to it.

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:36:27am

Bill Mitchell on Parler saying ‘I think Team Trump is about to bring the pain.’

Reply:

Yes they are! Everyone had better prepare for rioting and destruction. Soon the truth and proof will come out! TRUMP won this Election! TRUMP 2020!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:37:09am

re: #102 BigPapa

Bill Mitchell on Parler saying ‘I think Team Trump is about to bring the pain.’

Reply:

Release the Cracken!

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:38:12am

re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Release the Cracken!

SEAL TEAM NOOB!

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:39:38am

I gotta say, shits been all fucked up and shit for 4 years, cult and pandemic and fasism and all that. But it’s been hilarious.

Rudy’s November to Remember
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Belafon  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:40:56am

re: #101 BigPapa

No. But I registered in June. They do make you use a phone number and text a code to it.

I do wonder how many FBI accounts there are.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:41:27am

re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Release the Cracken!

Which were really simply squid and were promptly breaded, deep-fried, and consumed as calamari with a nice remoulade sauce.

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:42:00am
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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:43:48am

re: #106 Belafon

I do wonder how many FBI accounts there are.

As actual members or just spying on watching them?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:46:46am

re: #101 BigPapa

No. But I registered in June. They do make you use a phone number and text a code to it.

Too bad. They aren’t accepting any of my Google Voice numbers.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:47:00am

I can’t believe this is real. Wait a minute. I totally can.

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:47:22am

re: #107 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Which were really simply squid and were promptly breaded, deep-fried, and consumed as calamari with a nice remoulade sauce.

I’ve always thought small fried squid nodules should be marketed as Krackenlins! but nobody listened to me. THEY WILL NOW.

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Belafon  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:48:15am
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:50:54am

re: #110 GlutenFreeJesus

Too bad. They aren’t accepting any of my Google Voice numbers.

Put things in perspective you don’t need a cell number to sign up for Twitter. But yeah liberals and their safe spaces. I’ve only blocked one person on FB and that was because I didn’t want to get in the middle of a family feud which has since resolved.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:52:23am

re: #113 Belafon

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Awesome. I wrote a piece on rural broadband expansion when I co-edited a small business newsletter at the law firm. The delegate candidate I worked for also championed this. My old district had tons of rural areas.

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:53:29am

re: #113 Belafon

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Oh, I like him even more now. Yes please.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:54:35am

re: #88 dangerman

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So like the other guys they do they trip
Get to say they’ve been to the white house
And change absolutely nothing

Until votes are certified on Monday/Tuesday, we don’t know what those Michigan Republicans are going to do. They are Republicans — one cannot believe any statements they make. We don’t know what threats or promises that Trump subjected them to. We don’t know who is behind the efforts to undermine our electoral system. Trump may be getting his marching orders directly from Putin or perhaps Barr is orchestrating this behind the scenes. Too many Trumpsters seem confident that this is going to end up in Congress.

We are facing an unprecedented attack on our country — a coup that will rip our nation apart unless it’s stopped now. And it cannot be stopped without the Senate Republicans acknowledging that Biden won and telling Trump that he cannot continue this game.

Trump’s life experiences have been that he can lie and bully his way out of everything. The entire Republican Party in Washington has been subservient to his demands, with only a few rare dissents. Biden’s team must be more aggressive in asserting the truth, instead of letting the Trump lies continue to propagate. Or maybe their measured tone is exactly the right approach at this time and that by Tuesday the Trump attack will have proved itself to be a total failure? Hoping that is true.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 7:59:58am

re: #116 thedopefishlives

Oh, I like him even more now. Yes please.

I think broadband internet expansion is akin rural electrification in this era. I also think Biden as a lifelong public transit commuter also sees how important transportation infrastructure aside from communications which is what this is.

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Belafon  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:03:57am
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A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:08:03am

re: #83 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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sagehen  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:12:16am

re: #113 Belafon

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This is how we get coastal liberals of reproductive age to move from high cost of living cities, if they can mostly work from home, to sparsely populated states where 5 acres with a creek costs less than their NY or SF 500 sq ft studio.

Put enough of those liberals in a small town, it’s going to need schoolteachers, a coffee shop, a diner and an ethnic restaurant, a community theater/concert venue, etc. Suddenly, the red state turns purple.

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steve_davis  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:16:17am

re: #11 I Would Prefer Not To

I really don’t give a flying F what half of Republicans think about anything.

I don’t give a Flying F what 100% of Republicans think about anything, except as a really strong contrarian indicator.

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:18:22am

Why are we even fact checking GOP any more? It’s a waste of time.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:18:52am

re: #19 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The use of Bitcoin is, as Yves Smith says over at Naked Capitalism: “Prosecution Futures”.

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Belafon  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:19:38am

re: #122 steve_davis

I don’t give a Flying F what 100% of Republicans think about anything, except as a really strong contrarian indicator.

I only care because they vote and currently control a lot of states.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:25:23am

re: #107 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Which were really simply squid and were promptly breaded, deep-fried, and consumed as calamari with a nice remoulade sauce.

but they thought it was onion rings and gagged and spat them back out

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:26:27am

re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

but they thought it was onion rings and gagged and spat them back out

Not a fan, I take it…?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:27:51am

re: #127 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Not a fan, I take it…?

I like them if they are done right and not too rubbery, but I know a number of people who had never seen calamari rings before and reacted that way.

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garzooma  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:31:18am

re: #112 BigPapa

I’ve always thought small fried squid nodules should be marketed as Krackenlins! but nobody listened to me. THEY WILL NOW.

We can call this guy in again…

RI Calamari
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:32:39am

re: #129 garzooma

We can call this guy in again…

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I think Rhode Island has the highest percentage of Italian Americans in the 50 states, bet they make great calamari there.

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steve_davis  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:32:55am

re: #46 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, it could’ve been interesting to see how Werich would’ve played the role. He’s a rather normal-looking gent and the best supervillains don’t need to be disfigured or look vaguely monstrously….I’d say the more they look like your everyday Joe, the more memorable they could be. Hell, look at Jeffrey Dahmer; that guy could’ve been alone in an unfurnished room and he’d still blend in with the wallpaper.

Imagine a supervillain with a jovial disposition - and plans to conquer the world and kill off half the population with a song in his heart and a smile on his lips.

that would be the midget from the Wild Wild West, who interlaced attempts to kill everyone West of the Mississippi with the occasional duet with a lady interest of his. He also, as I recall, set a really gourmet spread.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:33:15am

re: #123 BigPapa

Why are we even fact checking GOP any more? It’s a waste of time.

they will just insist that your fact checker is fake news

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:33:46am

So Trump is still failing and flailing his way in trying to stage a coup d’etat.

You know what? Fuck these clowns. The courts need to quickly deem these lawsuits as frivolous and place sanctions and penalties against Trump’s legal teams, who will in turn, require recompense from Trump himself. There are two things attorneys hate - losing cases, and losing money.

When all the remaining results are officially certified, Trump should be immediately charged with sedition for his attempts to overthrow democracy in America.

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calochortus  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:34:02am

Mr. C. is rather fond of crunchy squid threads but of course they have soy sauce in them, so we have to make them at home with Tamari (he’s celiac.) Fortunately there’s a Korean grocery that sells the appropriate fine cut squid threads. It also lets me crisp them up a bit more than the commercially packaged ones, since “squid” and “crisp” aren’t really a natural match.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:35:18am

re: #40 Dr Lizardo

British actor Sam Neill has played Russian characters at least twice: “Amerika” mini-series and the “Hunt for Red October” movie as the XO for Red October.

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calochortus  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:35:59am

re: #131 steve_davis

that would be the midget from the Wild Wild West, who interlaced attempts to kill everyone West of the Mississippi with the occasional duet with a lady interest of his. He also, as I recall, set a really gourmet spread.

Dr. Miguelito Loveless. A villain one could like.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:36:14am

re: #135 Eric The Fruit Bat

Yes. He did. He was good in The Hunt for Red October.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:36:36am
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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:38:24am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:40:52am

re: #138 jaunte

After meeting w/ Pres. Trump, Michigan Republicans—including Speaker Lee Chatfield—closed down the Trump Hotel bar last night, drinking $500/bottle Dom Perignon and flaunting CDC pandemic guidelines.

I recall the video of the Michigan Congressman ignoring a reporter’s questions on his way to board the flight by singing a church hymn…

All so very much in character.

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LadyBehir  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:41:31am

re: #112 BigPapa

I always thought VW missed the marketing boat by not marketing their electric vehicles as a Lightning Bug.

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steve_davis  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:42:21am

Playing in a chess tournament in an hour. I now have the zoom feed running in the background so I don’t have to look at 75 people in brady bunch format. Mental note: don’t inadvertently—or advertently for that matter—begin playing with yourself on zoom call. that rarely works out well.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:42:27am

Trolling some Georgians mad at Raffensperger and Kemp. LOL.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:42:58am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:43:21am

re: #143 Nyet

Trolling some Georgians mad at Raffensperger and Kemp. LOL.

Southern US Georgians or Caucasus Georgians?

/

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:43:34am

re: #133 Dr Lizardo

So Trump is still failing and flailing his way in trying to stage a coup d’etat.

You know what? Fuck these clowns. The courts need to quickly deem these lawsuits as frivolous and place sanctions and penalties against Trump’s legal teams, who will in turn, require recompense from Trump himself. There are two things attorneys hate - losing cases, and losing money.

When all the remaining results are officially certified, Trump should be immediately charged with sedition for his attempts to overthrow democracy in America.

Until sufficient states certify the votes to get Biden to at least 270, we cannot be certain that the coup d’etat will fail as it so deserves to. The entire Republican Party is complicit in sedition; it’s not just Trump.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:43:55am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel

Yes. He did. He was good in The Hunt for Red October.

“No papers?”

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:44:07am

re: #143 Nyet

Are they threatening to tear apart the Republican party?

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BigPapa  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:44:49am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Southern US Georgians or Caucasus Georgians?

/

They’re not the same? WTF?

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:46:21am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Southern US Georgians or Caucasus Georgians?

/

Oooops! /

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:46:28am

re: #147 Ace Rothstein

Only monetary paper aka cash.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:46:49am

re: #148 jaunte

Are they threatening to tear apart the Republican party?

No, just whining.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:46:50am

re: #148 jaunte

Are they threatening to tear apart the Republican party?

Yes. It would be just terrible if that happened.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:47:36am

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

They could build several much more intense parties.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:47:58am

re: #134 calochortus

Mr. C. is rather fond of crunchy squid threads but of course they have soy sauce in them, so we have to make them at home with Tamari (he’s celiac.) Fortunately there’s a Korean grocery that sells the appropriate fine cut squid threads. It also lets me crisp them up a bit more than the commercially packaged ones, since “squid” and “crisp” aren’t really a natural match.

We use Tamari too. My wife isn’t celiac but gluten does cause terrible rashes for her. Given the choice, I’d go for octopus, though.

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:48:06am

re: #154 jaunte

They could build several much more intense parties.

That would split a lot of votes.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:48:21am

re: #152 Nyet

Biden Wins საქართველო!

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:48:26am

Space X feed is now live.

spacex.com

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:48:44am

re: #153 Ace Rothstein

Yes. It would be terrible if that happened.

It would be downright tragic just desserts for enabling this fucked up excuse of a Presidency.

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lizardofid  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:49:03am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel

Yes. He did. He was good in The Hunt for Red October.

He also, if I remember correctly, played a fairly convincing Aussie in The Dish.

//

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:49:44am

How did I miss this last week?

A Star Trek actor tries to one-up his co-star in his return to Hollywood. | Brentwood

..

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Decatur Deb  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:52:48am

re: #160 lizardofid

He also, if I remember correctly, played a fairly convincing Aussie in The Dish.

//

And in Sirens.

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calochortus  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:56:22am

Time to try updating to the Big Sur OS again. Maybe this time it will deign to do the install?

BBL

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 8:59:23am

re: #137 PhillyPretzel

He was good in The Hunt for Red October

Everyone was in that movie was outstanding: and the list of actors who starred in the movie is something to behold. Alec Baldwin was as close as you can get to perfection as Jack Ryan, leaving Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck as poor substitutes.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:00:27am

re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Southern US Georgians or Caucasus Georgians?

/

I’ve been trolling Caucasians either way.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:00:40am
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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:01:45am

re: #164 Eric The Fruit Bat

Everyone was in that movie was outstanding: and the list of actors who starred in the movie is something to behold. Alec Baldwin was as close as you can get to perfection as Jack Ryan, leaving Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck as poor substitutes.

I didn’t know Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan at some point. Which movie?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:01:59am

re: #166 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Perdue’s been channeling Trump this entire campaign. So has Loeffler but it’s more obvious with Perdue.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:04:17am

re: #167 thedopefishlives

I didn’t know Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan at some point. Which movie?

Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:06:55am

re: #169 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Clear and Present Danger and Patriot Games

Ah, gotcha. Obviously, I haven’t seen either one. I might have to look into them. I already know Ben Affleck was … not good; The Sum of All Fears really kinda turned me off to the genre.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:09:35am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:10:00am

re: #167 thedopefishlives

I didn’t know Harrison Ford played Jack Ryan at some point. Which movie?

Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:10:10am
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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:10:39am

re: #168 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Perdue’s been channeling Trump this entire campaign. So has Loeffler but it’s more obvious with Perdue.

Republican voters love Trump: his racism, his graft, his bullying, his corruption, his treason to the United States. Republicans in Florida love Rick Scott, a criminal who stole hundreds of millions from the federal government before he got caught. The more outrageous the behavior, the more it endears a candidate to the Republican base — except if the behavior involves helping the poor or minorities or the environment. This will only help Perdue and Loeffler.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:11:27am

re: #165 Nyet

I’ve been trolling Caucasians either way.

In Soviet Georgia, election steal you!

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:12:17am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

Republican voters love Trump: his racism, his graft, his bullying, his corruption, his treason to the United States. Republicans in Florida love Rick Scott, a criminal who stole hundreds of millions from the federal government before he got caught. The more outrageous the behavior, the more it endears a candidate to the Republican base — except if the behavior involves helping the poor or minorities or the environment. This will only help Perdue and Loeffler.

They love Trump, yes but Trumpism without Trump on the ballot is weaker. I think Warnock and Ossoff can do it.

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jamesfirecat  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:13:26am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

Republican voters love Trump: his racism, his graft, his bullying, his corruption, his treason to the United States. Republicans in Florida love Rick Scott, a criminal who stole hundreds of millions from the federal government before he got caught. The more outrageous the behavior, the more it endears a candidate to the Republican base — except if the behavior involves helping the poor or minorities or the environment. This will only help Perdue and Loeffler.

If Republicans love Trump, why did Trump underpreform so many other Republicans candidates in this election?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:13:27am

T -5 minutes.

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:13:29am

re: #174 Hecuba’s daughter

Republican voters love Trump: his racism, his graft, his bullying, his corruption, his treason to the United States. Republicans in Florida love Rick Scott, a criminal who stole hundreds of millions from the federal government before he got caught. The more outrageous the behavior, the more it endears a candidate to the Republican base — except if the behavior involves helping the poor or minorities or the environment. This will only help Perdue and Loeffler.

Republicans in Wisconsin loved Scott Walker, until they didn’t. Anything can happen.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:14:01am

re: #179 thedopefishlives

Republicans in Wisconsin loved Scott Walker, until they didn’t. Anything can happen.

Yep.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:14:44am

Strong back has retracted

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Sherlock Hound  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:15:05am
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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:15:06am

re: #178 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

T -5 minutes.

Link to the launch?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:16:17am

T -1

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:16:27am

In start up.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:16:42am

go for launch

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:16:52am

30 sec

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:17:19am

ignition & lift off.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:17:53am

vroom and no boom (yet)

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HRH Stanley Sea  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:17:54am

re: #171 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:18:35am

max Q

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:19:44am

meco & stage separation.

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:20:00am

second engine start

194
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:20:24am

fairing seperation

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:20:35am

re: #193 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

second engine start

I love seeing the second stage engine bell heating up. That looks so cool.

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Nyet  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:21:00am

What else was to expect from a modern blood libel movt?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:21:04am

re: #191 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

max Q

Have we finally reached max Q?

I wish

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:21:36am

re: #195 thedopefishlives

I love seeing the second stage engine bell heating up. That looks so cool.

yep. The M-Vac is one hell of an engine. Grid fins deployed

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:24:10am

reentry burn

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:24:21am

meco 2

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:24:54am

re: #199 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

reentry burn

what Elon Musk does when he gets home

202
Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:25:06am

landing burn.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:25:33am

re: #202 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

landing burn.

what he does before bedtime

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:25:37am

stuck it.

205
Dave In Austin  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:25:46am

Folks really need to learn the difference between treason and sedition.

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:26:08am

re: #204 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire

stuck it.

Picture perfect.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:26:20am

A couple minutes ago, there was a chyron on CNN saying that the Michigan GOP is seeking 2 week delay in certification of votes. Is that true? Can they do that?

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:27:12am

re: #206 thedopefishlives

Picture perfect.

The sonic boom was great as well.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:27:42am

re: #207 Hecuba’s daughter

Sure. They can ask. If it’ll happen is another thing.

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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:29:09am

re: #209 GlutenFreeJesus

Sure. They can ask. If it’ll happen is another thing.

As I understand it, the Michigan election apparatus is on record as saying that they are certifying the election, full stop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:29:41am

re: #210 thedopefishlives

As I understand it, the Michigan election apparatus is on record as saying that they are certifying the election, full stop.

Means that a lot of Dom Perignon went to waste this weekend…

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TarHellion  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:31:46am

re: #164 Eric The Fruit Bat

Baldwin killed it as Jack Ryan. He was supposed to be in the next one, then the studio learned Ford was available. Ford being the bigger star at the time led to Baldwin being dumped.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:31:51am
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Jebediah, RBG  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:35:50am

re: #79 Barefoot Grin

OT, but I’m convinced that the people who write ad copy for insurers like Geico, Liberty Mutual, and Progressive just sit around getting high and throwing out ideas.

Probably. I am a little jealous.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:44:41am

re: #212 TarHellion

Baldwin killed it as Jack Ryan. He was supposed to be in the next one, then the studio learned Ford was available. Ford being the bigger star at the time led to Baldwin being dumped.

Oh, God yes, did Baldwin kill it as Ryan - but if you look at all of the actors in that movie, you couldn’t have asked for such a great ensemble cast: Sean Connery, Neill, Fred Thompson, Tim Curry, Courtney Vance, Scott Glenn, Richard Jordon, Stellan Skarsgård, etc.

I bought that on LaserDisc when it came out.

And if any of you lizards out there have never seen it - watch it - it’s that good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:46:15am

re: #213 Charles Johnson

….Trump has made it extremely clear that he does not give a single solitary shit about Americans getting sick and dying by the thousands. He doesn’t even pretend any more….

Trump never cared. From the beginning of the pandemic, he was focused only on the economy and not the lives that would be lost to this disease (or, as it turned out, those who would be sickened for months and perhaps suffer permanent damage). Most of the GOP base shares his perspective.

To be more accurate — Trump never cared about the well-being of anyone other than himself anyway. His cavalier attitude about hurricanes and wildfire demonstrated that repeatedly.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:48:22am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:51:47am
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thedopefishlives  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:53:10am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s … not how this works, folks.

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retired cynic  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:53:45am

About Kyle Rittenhouse’s bail: WaPo says that Wisconsin requires the full amount of the bail paid. His attorney Lin Wood set up a fund raising non profit to help “free speech” advocates, and that raised the money.

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BeachDem  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:54:48am

re: #214 Jebediah, RBG

Probably. I am a little jealous.

You think it’s easy coming up with complex lyrics like the Liberty Mutual jingle?

Liberty liberty liberty LIBERTY

When I think of the jingles I sweated over to write and produce, I can either laugh or cry whenever I hear it.

My dad was on the client side of the ad game in NY and I was an advertising copywriter for many years, so I bailed on Madmen after about 2 episodes as it just seemed so stereotypical and phony. YMMV

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:57:46am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:57:49am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump has just painted a bullseye on anyone who is willing to throw the election to him.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:58:02am

re: #219 thedopefishlives

That’s … not how this works, folks.

Trump’s gonna try to get this all run past SCOTUS.

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jaunte  Nov 21, 2020 • 9:58:34am

re: #213 Charles Johnson

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 21, 2020 • 10:00:11am

re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

He wants rioting.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 21, 2020 • 10:01:13am

re: #222 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

And as I said a few days ago DT has a quiet but powerful enemy in Al Schmidt. In the future I think DT will not be welcome in the city maybe in the suburbs.


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