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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:29:17am
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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:31:14am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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Posted on Fark under the headline “Don’t flag me bro”, which I lol’d.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:31:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:31:57am

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:32:30am

Doesn’t a “Christmas miracle” imply that GOD himself is on Biden’s side?

Which, in turn, implies that Trump is aligned with Satan?
/

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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:33:08am

re: #5 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Doesn’t a “Christmas miracle” imply that GOD himself is on Biden’s side?

Which, in turn, implies that Trump is aligned with Satan?
/

Never apply logic to Republicans.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:33:20am

re: #5 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Doesn’t a “Christmas miracle” imply that GOD himself is on Biden’s side?

Which, in turn, implies that Trump is aligned with Satan?
/

Would sure as hell explain a lot of things.

/

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:33:39am

AUDIO: Republican-appointed judge tears into Sidney Powell

LISTEN: Republican-appointed judge tears into Sidney Powell

Judge: “Finally, in their complaint, the plaintiffs essentially ask the court for perhaps the most extraordinary relief ever sought in any federal court in connection with an election and they want this court to substitute its judgment for that of 2.5 million Georgia voters who voted for Joe Biden, and this I am unwilling to do.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:34:05am
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sagehen  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:34:09am

Hamilton has announced they’ll reopen on July 4.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:34:18am

The last week of the fall 2020 quarter - otherwise known as the quarter from hell - has begun. I’m starting to think I might just might make it.

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:34:48am

Why you should give good instructions. May be NSFW.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:36:11am
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:36:26am

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:39:10am

re: #14 Teddy’s Person

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TRUFAX.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:39:50am
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:45:53am

Listen to this beat down.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:48:22am

re: #16 jaunte

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Maybe the comment section of most blogs should be shut down.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:48:33am

The AP is out of fucks.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:49:41am
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:49:47am

re: #19 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The AP is out of fucks.

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The most recent change to the AP style guide is that Biden will be the next president.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:50:34am

re: #20 Charles Johnson

Even if they have to destroy the constitution.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:51:54am

re: #19 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

The AP is out of fucks.

Hopefully the rest of the MSM follows their lead.

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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:53:10am

re: #22 Belafon

Even if they have to destroy the constitution.

When they say “our” they mean a very exclusive club. They only mean cis white “Christians”. In other words, a group that voted primarily for Trump. They want to go back to the 50s when everyone else knew their place and they won by default.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:54:09am

Finally. Can we hope?

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:54:25am

re: #16 jaunte

During the 2016 campaign, one organization (don’t recall which) rated candidates by their honesty: Trump lied the most but a close second was Ted Cruz.

Ted knows better but has observed how someone who lies even more was successful in conquering the GOP base; he’s just trying to up his game. He understands 230, but the truth has always been irrelevant to him; winning is all that matters and the GOP base wants candidates who promote the lies that comfort them and justify their racism.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:54:27am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:55:47am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:57:31am
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Jay C  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:58:27am

re: #18 Belafon

Maybe the comment section of most blogs should be shut down.

Present company excepted, of course….

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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 10:59:31am

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well, no. It is an objective fact that Newt believes that Trump carried Georgia. It is also an objective fact that he is 110% dead wrong. It is also an objective fact that he is a deluded old moron.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:00:10am

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You have your morons, and then you have your improved Oxy-morons, with more staining power.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:00:30am

re: #31 thedopefishlives

Well, no. It is an objective fact that Newt believes that Trump carried Georgia. It is also an objective fact that he is 110% dead wrong. It is also an objective fact that he is a deluded lying old moron.

FIFY

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:00:38am

re: #30 Jay C

Present company excepted, of course….

Definitely. Only those that are willing to put in true moderation.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:01:53am
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danarchy  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:05:36am

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Who is Robert Decker?

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gocart mozart  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:06:06am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:09:17am

Goodyear ad: “Oh these tires I-am a changin’!”

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:11:30am

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:11:45am

re: #31 thedopefishlives

Well, no. It is an objective fact that Newt believes that Trump carried Georgia. It is also an objective fact that he is 110% dead wrong. It is also an objective fact that he is a deluded old moron.

It is not an objective fact that Newt believes Trump carried Georgia. The only objective fact is that Newt is a liar and therefore nothing he says should EVER be taken at face value.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:14:01am

re: #39 Eventual Carrion

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:14:23am

Here we go. The murder conspiracy…..

Pro-Trump attorney suggests Georgia GOP campaign staffer was murdered in post-election plot

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:15:14am

re: #36 danarchy

Who is Robert Decker?

ag.ny.gov

…arrest and arraignment of Robert Decker (66, of Amsterdam) on an 11-count indictment in connection with his theft of more than $6,000 in unemployment insurance benefits issued by the state of New York under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). Decker filed for and collected the unemployment funds despite the fact that he was working for National Home Exteriors, a home contractor based in Athens, New York. The indictment — unsealed in Albany County Court before Judge Andra Ackerman — charges Decker with both Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, class D felony, and Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the First Degree, a class E felony.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:16:16am

re: #42 Dr. Matt

Here we go. The murder conspiracy…..

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Pro-Trump attorney suggests Georgia GOP campaign staffer was murdered in post-election plot

Kemp cashed fire signature verification? When?

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:17:34am

Here’s some non-political internet content.

The 15 Quintessential SNL Holiday Sketches

(I think #4 should be #1)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:18:18am

re: #44 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kemp cashed fire signature verification? When?

GAH! Called for. When did Kemp call for this?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:18:40am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:19:02am

re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

GAH! Called for. When did Kemp call for this?

he said so in a tweet to trump

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:19:15am

Oy.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:20:06am

re: #44 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Kemp cashed fire signature verification? When?

To try to appease Trump, Kemp said thinks their should be a signature verification audit, which is something that can’t be done as voters sign the envelope and once the signature is verified the ballot and envelope are separated.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:20:59am
There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end,” CNN reports.

“Following the news of Rudy Giuliani’s coronavirus hospitalization, staffers only speculated further that it’s a matter of time before their legal efforts come to a halt completely. “

because the president of the united states’ entire legal team that’s trying to gain his second term consists of just one man

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:21:35am

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

he said so in a tweet to trump

Yes he did.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:22:21am
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:23:45am

re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

GAH! Called for. When did Kemp call for this?

See this article for example: augustachronicle.com

Of course, it’s an impossible task. I wouldn’t put anything past Kemp but at this point I believe it’s too late to stop Georgia electoral votes going to Biden.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:23:55am

re: #37 gocart mozart

Edwin Mix@TheEdMix
Tangled up and blue? Try Blue Moon Belgian White

Invokes a great song/poem:

Early one mornin’ the sun was shinin’
I was layin’ in bed
Wondrin’ if she’d changed at all
If her hair was still red
Her folks they said our lives together
Sure was gonna be rough
They never did like
Mama’s homemade dress
Papa’s bank book wasn’t big enough
And I was standin’ on the side of the road
Rain fallin’ on my shoes
Heading out for the east coast
Lord knows I’ve paid some dues
Gettin’ through
Tangled up in blue…
- Bob Dylan

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:24:45am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:25:47am
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Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:26:41am

re: #49 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

These asshats need to slapped as vexatious litigants and told - in legalese - to go fuck themselves.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:27:29am

So Kemp basically wants the death threats to stop so he puts the target on the Republican SOS. KKKlassy move.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:27:39am

re: #56 lawhawk

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White privilege. Of course, white privilege vanishes when it’s in support of black lives; cf Reinoehl in Portland.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:28:45am

re: #56 lawhawk

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:30:52am

re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter

See this article for example: augustachronicle.com

Of course, it’s an impossible task. I wouldn’t put anything past Kemp but at this point I believe it’s too late to stop Georgia electoral votes going to Biden.

first, they ‘find’ one questionable signature
then they say “where’s the ballot”? (yes they already know)
the response is the ballots are separated and cant be rematched to the signatures/envs

then they say “well then the entire election has to be invalidated”

not realizing that since they arent claiming software changed presidential votes only, etc but that people voted who shouldnt have, it also has to invalidate every other Georgia race as well

we have entered the silly place

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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:31:37am

Apparently the Quacken-loonies’ talking point, now that MI and GA have applied MAXIMUM SMACKDOWN, is best summarized as BUTBUTBUT APPEALS!

How about no.

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garzooma  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:36:51am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wavy brick walls can be thinner, requiring fewer bricks for stability. Learn more about these ‘crinkle crankle’ barriers as well as ‘fruit walls’ (which used thermal mass and hidden hot water pipes to help things grow in the era before greenhouses):

There’s a prominent one of these in Cambridge, MA. I always thought it was for diminishing traffic noise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:37:06am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:37:13am

re: #54 Hecuba’s daughter

See this article for example: augustachronicle.com

Of course, it’s an impossible task. I wouldn’t put anything past Kemp but at this point I believe it’s too late to stop Georgia electoral votes going to Biden.

And what does it do - simply confirm that the envelopes had valid signatures on them?

E.G. Can you from there trace to ballots and really claim they are invalid? And that’s assuming you can find a sufficient number of “bad signatures”.

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:38:10am

re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

GAH! Called for. When did Kemp call for this?

I think he said on Friday or Saturday that he had called for it three times, when he said he wouldn’t call for a special session of the lege.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:40:53am

Leaders from the San Carlos Apache Tribe have accused the federal government of fast-tracking an environmental review in an effort to give Rio Tinto Ltd and its partners more than 2,400 acres of the land in the Tonto National Forest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:42:26am
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John Hughes  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:42:59am

re: #66 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Oh, it’s simple. All votes from people with black sounding names obviously have bad signatures, so should be thrown out. “But we don’t know which votes they were” you cry. Silly person. They were all votes for Biden of course.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:45:28am

A Georgia Superior Court judge rejected a pro-Trump election lawsuit because the attorneys didn’t pay the proper filing fee or fill out the paperwork correctly, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:46:50am
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:48:09am
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:53:59am

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

Leaders from the San Carlos Apache Tribe have accused the federal government of fast-tracking an environmental review in an effort to give Rio Tinto Ltd and its partners more than 2,400 acres of the land in the Tonto National Forest.

San Carlos brings this to mind:

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:55:32am

It begins.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 11:59:06am

re: #74 wrenchwench

San Carlos brings this to mind:

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Also, this.

“When you realize the land is forever, you realize you’re forever, we are forever.”
DOUGLAS MILES

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:01:53pm

Now the election results are official. //

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:02:57pm

Now sanction the United States.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:03:42pm
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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:16:02pm

I missed this one earlier, from the GA Quackenslaying where the judge ruled from the bench to dismiss the case:

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:17:06pm
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Jay C  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:17:14pm

re: #77 Teddy’s Person

Now the election results are official. //

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Why is Mme Tussaud’s dresser wearing a mask? Is she afraid she’ll get the Trump Cooties, even though he’s wax??

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:18:36pm

re: #5 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Doesn’t a “Christmas miracle” imply that GOD himself is on Biden’s side?

Which, in turn, implies that Trump is aligned with Satan?
/

Don’t think Trump is aligned with anybody except himself.

Which makes him a useful tool for things like Satan and Putin.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:18:38pm

This needs to be scored with Flight of the Valkyries

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:29:59pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:30:35pm

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

The google maps street view of the wavy walls in Dearborn is pretty good
google.com

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:31:00pm

re: #75 makeitstop

It begins.

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Unfortunately…

The office said it was submitting its report to Trump for “appropriate disciplinary action.” But it remains uncertain whether such action will come.

In recent years, several high-profile members of the Trump administration — including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and former White House social media director Dan Scavino — have been reprimanded by the OSC for violating the Hatch Act.

In Conway’s case, Trump said last year he would not take disciplinary action over the repeated violations, defending Conway as “loyal” and “a tremendous spokeswoman.”

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garzooma  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:35:12pm

re: #86 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

The google maps street view of the wavy walls in Dearborn is pretty good
google.com

Here’s a street view of the Cambridge wall:

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:36:27pm

re: #87 BeachDem

Depends on the statute of limitations, and whether Trump will issue everyone in his administration pardons for violations of the Hatch Act.

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:39:04pm

They’re starting to treat him like the loser he is.

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calochortus  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:39:31pm

OT: I wove a couple pillow covers for the Christmas season last year. I got them out this year and looking at this one, I think the ornament on the bottom left looks a little coronavirus-y. I will never be able to unsee this.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:39:41pm
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mmmirele  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:40:11pm

If people are wondering why I drag myself out of bed on a Sunday to protest a church, well here you go.

So many things I could say here, starting with what about my rights? and I didn’t vote for a theocracy, what is this? and so on

In other news, the people who came out on Sunday to talk to me were told to do so by Pastor Profit. But, as I said, not a one of them had mask discipline, as in, they did not wear masks.

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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:41:00pm

re: #92 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Some of us can’t get help immediately because we need to wait until it gets serious, because otherwise, we’ll just be turned away at the door. Because of fuckfaces like you who refused to acknowledge reality until it bit you on the ass. Sorry you’re dead, sorta. Asshole.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:41:40pm

Thread

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:42:10pm

Jennifer Rubin:
Media: Stop broadcasting election denialism

Closing paragraph:

The media should consider a simple approach to interviewing a Republican official or candidate. First ask, “Do you recognize Joe Biden won and that there is zero evidence of fraud that could have changed the result?” If the answer is no, inform the audience this is delusional and send the guest home. If the official does recognize the election results and acknowledges that refusing to accept the election results is undemocratic and anti-American, press him to justify why he can still support candidates that engage in such deplorable conduct. And do not let up.

washingtonpost.com

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calochortus  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:42:17pm

re: #94 thedopefishlives

Some of us can’t get help immediately because we need to wait until it gets serious, because otherwise, we’ll just be turned away at the door. Because of fuckfaces like you who refused to acknowledge reality until it bit you on the ass. Sorry you’re dead, sorta. Asshole.

Yeah. Funny he didn’t notice we had a problem when other people got sick and died.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:43:01pm

re: #94 thedopefishlives

Some of us can’t get help immediately because we need to wait until it gets serious, because otherwise, we’ll just be turned away at the door. Because of fuckfaces like you who refused to acknowledge reality until it bit you on the ass. Sorry you’re dead, sorta. Asshole.

I mean I feel bad for his family losing a loved one but the way his party with a few exceptions has responded to this pandemic is one of the most disgusting and politically cynical displays I could imagine.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:45:43pm
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calochortus  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:47:46pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron

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Generally immigrants are people with get-up-and-go because, you know, they got up and came here.

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:48:43pm

I have not seen a comment posted on this Nature article.

Basically, a huge part of battling covid is not shutting down per se, but strictly limiting the numbers present at any potential superspreader event. That is, a superspreader event infects 10 instead of dozens, if only a few people are around.

Figure 2 is for Chicago, and from the caption:

Compared to full reopening, capping at 20% of the maximum occupancy in Chicago reduces the number of new infections by more than 80%, while only losing 42% of overall visits.

And yes, don’t eat at full service restaurants. I have only eaten/drank around people only outdoors. Over Thanksgiving I saw a lot of “outside” tents in Ohio, but with plastic walls. Nope, gonna shiver outside thank you very much. Or go back home to Birmingham.

Also, minorities are hit hardest not because of genetic reasons, but reasons related to mobility (are they free to avoid crowds in their lives).

The link is flagged as a telephone number, so just google the article title: “Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening”

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:49:46pm

I got a translation, but no context. I guess reality is the context.

Something like that but in the year 1325

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calochortus  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:51:41pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

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I got a translation, but no context. I guess reality is the context.

Isn’t 1325 around the time Mexico City was founded-the bird with the snake in its talons and all that?

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:53:31pm

re: #103 calochortus

Isn’t 1325 around the time Mexico City was founded-the bird with the snake in its talons and all that?

I thought of the Mexican flag (echoed in the flag of New Mexico), but the year’s meaning escaped me. Thanks.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:53:50pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

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I got a translation, but no context. I guess reality is the context.

Something related to the Mexican flag, I’d guess.

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gwangung  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:54:02pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron

Immigrants….they get the job done.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:54:19pm

re: #103 calochortus

Isn’t 1325 around the time Mexico City was founded-the bird with the snake in its talons and all that?

Which goes back to the legend of the sign that told the Aztecs where to found their city of Tenochtitlan.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:54:53pm

re: #99 Dread Pirate Ron

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January will mark 100 years since my grandmother’s mother came here at the age of 21 years old alone. My connection to immigration is a big part of who I am. I’ve sought out relatives that still live where my family lived before we came here.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:55:22pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

I thought of the Mexican flag (echoed in the flag of New Mexico), but the year’s meaning escaped me. Thanks.

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Mexican civilization of the Mexica people, founded in 1325. Wikipedia

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:56:46pm

re: #109 Teddy’s Person

Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Mexican civilization of the Mexica people, founded in 1325. Wikipedia

Look at all you peeps doin’ my work for me…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:56:50pm

re: #108 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

January will mark 100 years since my grandmother’s mother came here at the age of 21 years old alone. My connection to immigration is a big part of who I am. I’ve sought out relatives that still live where my family lived before we came here.

It was 60 years ago last October when I came to the US.

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calochortus  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:57:09pm

re: #101 BlueSpotinAL

I have not seen a comment posted on this Nature article.

Basically, a huge part of battling covid is not shutting down per se, but strictly limiting the numbers present at any potential superspreader event. That is, a superspreader event infects 10 instead of dozens, if only a few people are around.

Figure 2 is for Chicago, and from the caption:

An yes, don’t eat at full service restaurants. I have only eaten/drank around people only outdoors. Over Thanksgiving I saw a lot of “outside” tents in Ohio, but with plastic walls. Nope, gonna shiver outside thank you very much. Or go back home to Birmingham.

Also, minorities are hit hardest not because of genetic reasons, but reasons related to mobility (are they free to avoid crowds in their lives).

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The link is flagged as a telephone number, so just google the article title: “Mobility network models of COVID-19 explain inequities and inform reopening”

I don’t get the latest restrictions in CA. You can go shopping indoors (limited number of people and masked) but you can’t go next door to your neighbors and have 4 people sit outside 6 feet apart, with masks on.
I understand what they’re trying to do, but it strikes me that being that draconian won’t help, and will encourage people to just say to hell with it and go indoors so no one can see them socializing.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:58:37pm

I hope Biden turns it into a dog house

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:59:06pm

re: #111 Dread Pirate Ron

It was 60 years ago last October when I came to the US.

Congrats. Have to admit I was moved hearing DHS designatee Mayorkas talk about his story at Biden’s unveiling of his national security team.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 7, 2020 • 12:59:41pm
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stpaulbear  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:01:39pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I hope Biden turns it into a dog house

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It’s not the only building on the white house grounds where love = 0.

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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:02:40pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I think that’s bigger than my house.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:02:47pm

re: #115 DodgerFan1988

Whose fucking boneheaded idea was THIS?

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:03:05pm

re: #88 garzooma

Here’s a street view of the Cambridge wall:

If you turn onto Brattle Street you can see a collapsed (?) section

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:04:15pm

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:07:05pm

This is a popcorn delivery system I could get behind!!

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:09:35pm

re: #87 BeachDem

Unfortunately…

The office said it was submitting its report to Trump for “appropriate disciplinary action.” But it remains uncertain whether such action will come.

In recent years, several high-profile members of the Trump administration — including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and former White House social media director Dan Scavino — have been reprimanded by the OSC for violating the Hatch Act.

In Conway’s case, Trump said last year he would not take disciplinary action over the repeated violations, defending Conway as “loyal” and “a tremendous spokeswoman.”

good thing it was just the Hatch Act and not some actual, you know, felony

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:10:12pm

re: #89 KGxvi

Depends on the statute of limitations, and whether Trump will issue everyone in his administration pardons for violations of the Hatch Act.

he’ll be the first president to issue pardons to everyone in his administration

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:12:16pm

The Hatch Act needs to have some hefty fines and sanctions attached.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:12:34pm

re: #93 mmmirele

If people are wondering why I drag myself out of bed on a Sunday to protest a church, well here you go.

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So many things I could say here, starting with what about my rights? and I didn’t vote for a theocracy, what is this? and so on

In other news, the people who came out on Sunday to talk to me were told to do so by Pastor Profit. But, as I said, not a one of them had mask discipline, as in, they did not wear masks.

i though you’re supposed to talk to Jesus

isn’t it a problem if you think Jesus talks to you and tells you what he wants?

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:12:43pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I hope Biden turns it into a dog house

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I hope Mrs. Biden uses that tennis area in this manner- appoint Serena and Venus Williams as youth fitness ambassadors and use the facility to live-stream under-privileged kids to get them into WASPy sports like tennis.

That should send Melania into fits of rage over a facility she thought would be for herself for years to come.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:14:33pm

re: #126 Florida Panhandler

I hope Mrs. Biden uses that tennis area in this manner- appoint Serena and Venus Williams as youth fitness ambassadors and use the facility to live-stream under-privileged kids to get them into WASPy sports like tennis.

That should send Melania into fits of rage over a facility she thought would be for herself for years to come.

I hope she puts in some ramps and walls and makes a skate park, open to the people of DC.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:14:36pm

re: #96 BeachDem

Jennifer Rubin:
Media: Stop broadcasting election denialism

Closing paragraph:

The media should consider a simple approach to interviewing a Republican official or candidate. First ask, “Do you recognize Joe Biden won and that there is zero evidence of fraud that could have changed the result?” If the answer is no, inform the audience this is delusional and send the guest home. If the official does recognize the election results and acknowledges that refusing to accept the election results is undemocratic and anti-American, press him to justify why he can still support candidates that engage in such deplorable conduct. And do not let up.

washingtonpost.com

we’ve been saying that here for weeks

she gets paid for it - and for being late to the party

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stpaulbear  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:14:43pm

re: #121 Teddy’s Person

This is a popcorn delivery system I could get behind!!

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Hot Butter- Popcorn Song

The early days of synthesizers weren’t always pretty.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:15:40pm

Does Trumpfanning cause mental problems or vice versa?

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:17:13pm
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thedopefishlives  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:17:21pm

re: #130 jaunte

Does Trumpfanning cause mental problems or vice versa?

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It’s vice versa, I’m pretty sure.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:18:33pm

re: #130 jaunte

Does Trumpfanning cause mental problems or vice versa?

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I thought Trump was the alien that escaped from Roswell but then I remembered that Roswell was 1947 and not 1946.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:19:18pm

re: #131 wrenchwench

I can’t watch the video at work. What happened?

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:19:23pm

re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Could be a timeshifter as well.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:20:40pm
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:20:47pm

re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I thought Trump was the alien that escaped from Roswell but then I remembered that Roswell was 1947 and not 1946.

The aliens came to warn us about Trump.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:21:01pm

re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I thought Trump was the alien that escaped from Roswell but then I remembered that Roswell was 1947 and not 1946.

Maybe they sent a scouting party ahead of Roswell??

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:21:18pm

re: #130 jaunte

I get why aliens would communicate with the US government. But why would they communicate with Israel as opposed to, say China or a European power? Given that the most commonly spoken languages are English, Mandarin, and Spanish, you’d think Israel would be way down on the list, no?

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:21:33pm

re: #126 Florida Panhandler

I hope Mrs. Biden uses that tennis area in this manner- appoint Serena and Venus Williams as youth fitness ambassadors and use the facility to live-stream under-privileged kids to get them into WASPy sports like tennis.

That should send Melania into fits of rage over a facility she thought would be for herself for years to come.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:21:37pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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They eventually just start suing random people from the phone book.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:22:04pm

re: #141 Belafon

They eventually just start suing random people from the phone book.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:23:17pm

re: #134 Belafon

I can’t watch the video at work. What happened?

A Coke label turned into a festive bow. ‘Well shit’ was a funny comment, in my head.

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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:23:18pm

re: #139 KGxvi

I get why aliens would communicate with the US government. But why would they communicate with Israel as opposed to, say China or a European power? Given that the most commonly spoken languages are English, Mandarin, and Spanish, you’d think Israel would be way down on the list, no?

I thought they spoke with the UK via UNIT.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:23:22pm

re: #133 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

I thought Trump was the alien that escaped from Roswell but then I remembered that Roswell was 1947 and not 1946.

that’s just what they told us

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:24:00pm

re: #144 DesertDenizen

I thought they spoke with the UK via UNIT.

Only one alien does that.

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garzooma  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:24:11pm

re: #119 Jebediah, RBG

If you turn onto Brattle Street you can see a collapsed (?) section

Apparently, it had an encounter with an SUV last year.

But I see you can have the property if you have $4.4M lying around. The damage must be the reason for the bargain price :-).

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:24:48pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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would love to see a simple “No.”

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:25:40pm
Ted Cruz is ON IT!!
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:25:50pm

re: #135 jaunte

Could be a timeshifter as well.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:25:51pm

re: #139 KGxvi

I get why aliens would communicate with the US government. But why would they communicate with Israel as opposed to, say China or a European power? Given that the most commonly spoken languages are English, Mandarin, and Spanish, you’d think Israel would be way down on the list, no?

“from Israel, it’s a local call”

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:26:14pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Do their lawyers not read the entire code section?

(a) Any elector of a municipality who is registered to vote whenever required and who qualifies under ss. 6.20 and 6.85 as an absent elector may make written application to the municipal clerk of that municipality for an official ballot by one of the following methods:
1. By mail.
2. In person at the office of the municipal clerk or at an alternate site under s. 6.855, if applicable.
3. By signing a statement and filing a request to receive absentee ballots under sub. (2) or (2m) (a) or s. 6.22 (4), 6.24 (4), or 6.25 (1) (c).
4. By agent as provided in sub. (3).
5. By delivering an application to a special voting deputy under s. 6.875 (6).
6. By electronic mail or facsimile transmission as provided in par. (ac).

Also, since they didn’t raise this issue before the election, I’m guessing they’re going to get hit with laches or some other equitable doctrine even if they are technically right

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:26:54pm

re: #141 Belafon

They eventually just start suing random people from the phone book.

what’s biden even got to do with this?

is he even the right party?

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:27:21pm
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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:27:46pm

re: #144 DesertDenizen

I thought they spoke with the UK via UNIT.

UNIT is under United Nations control now… or was it disbanded in one of the later series? I can’t remember any more.

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stpaulbear  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:28:04pm

re: #136 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I’m glad to see that Pence has his name firmly attached to this bullshit. He’s been too much in hiding.

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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:28:55pm

re: #155 KGxvi

I honestly don’t recall. After the Xygon incident I don’t remember seeing them again.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:30:37pm

re: #156 stpaulbear

I’m glad to see that Pence has his name firmly attached to this bullshit. He’s been too much in hiding.

Yep. Don’t want him to rehabilitate himself as the “reasonable one” when he’s been Trump’s most loyal toady.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:31:29pm

re: #149 Teddy’s Person

Yeah, I’m sure the person they’ll want to conduct oral arguments is someone who hasn’t practiced law for nearly a decade. That makes sense.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:32:11pm
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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:34:05pm

re: #157 DesertDenizen

I honestly don’t recall. After the Xygon incident I don’t remember seeing them again.

I just had to check the fanwikia… UNIT disbanded by the UK due to lack of funding (possibly due to Brexit), in one of 13’s episodes.

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aatharuv  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:34:06pm

re: #159 KGxvi

Yeah, I’m sure the person they’ll want to conduct oral arguments is someone who hasn’t practiced law for nearly a decade. That makes sense.

Ted Cruz is orders of magnitude more competent and has actually presented oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, as Texas Attorney General.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:34:44pm

re: #159 KGxvi

Yeah, I’m sure the person they’ll want to conduct oral arguments is someone who hasn’t practiced law for nearly a decade. That makes sense.

When is the last time Rudy practiced law? 1992? Practicing law doesn’t seem to be a prerequisite for Trump lawyers.

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William Lewis  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:35:54pm

I see Ohio is reminding Black America that they do not have 2nd Amendment rights.

Police In Ohio Say Slain Black Man Brandished A Gun; Family Says He Held A Sandwich

Authorities in Ohio have identified a long-time Franklin County Sheriff’s deputy as the law enforcement officer who shot and killed a Black man in Columbus last Friday.

Law enforcement said the man was waving a gun. His family said he was carrying a sandwich.

The sheriff’s office said the deputy who fired the shots, Jason Meade, a 17-year veteran of the force, was assigned full-time to the U.S. Marshal’s Service Fugitive Task Force at the time of the incident.

The task force had wrapped up an unsuccessful search for “violent suspects,” according to police investigators, when the shooting took place.

The man killed, 23-year-old Casey Goodson, was not an object of the search, nor was he wanted by law enforcement prior to the incident, according to police.

Family members said Goodson was shot three times in the back. An autopsy will be conducted by the Franklin County Coroner, according to investigators.

Columbus Police are leading the investigation of the incident, which occurred within its jurisdiction but did not involve police. As of Sunday afternoon, roughly 48 hours after the shooting, Meade had still not been interviewed by investigators.

And you know damn well the Pig will walk for this murder.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:36:30pm

re: #163 Teddy’s Person

Oh!! I get it now. Melania remodeled the Rose Garden in preparation for the return of JFK Jr.

When is the last time Rudy practiced law? 1992? Practicing law doesn’t seem to be a prerequisite for Trump lawyers.

if you’re not willing to pay ‘professional’ rate, you’re only gonna get those who are still ‘practicing’

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:36:47pm

re: #162 aatharuv

Ted Cruz is orders of magnitude more competent and has actually presented oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, as Texas Attorney General.

Oh, no doubt. But he first ran for the Senate in 2012, so it’s been at least 8 years (and realistically probably more) since he’s conducted oral arguments before any court, let alone SCOTUS… which is a whole other category of practice from anything else a lawyer can do.

This would be like the Bengals calling a mid-level starting QB that hasn’t played in 8 years to see if he wants to start for them next week.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:36:50pm

re: #164 William Lewis

I see Ohio is reminding Black America that they do not have 2nd Amendment rights.

Police In Ohio Say Slain Black Man Brandished A Gun; Family Says He Held A Sandwich

And you know damn well the Pig will walk for this murder.

Sandwich, gun, same difference.//

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Sinistershade  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:37:15pm

re: #162 aatharuv

Ted Cruz is orders of magnitude more competent and has actually presented oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court, as Texas Attorney General.

At the same time, having one of the creepiest, least charismatic humans in history making your case…

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:37:27pm
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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:37:50pm

re: #82 Jay C

Why is Mme Tussaud’s dresser wearing a mask? Is she afraid she’ll get the Trump Cooties, even though he’s wax??

Ceronavirus.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:37:56pm
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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:38:02pm

re: #166 KGxvi

Oh, no doubt. But he first ran for the Senate in 2012, so it’s been at least 8 years (and realistically probably more) since he’s conducted oral arguments before any court, let alone SCOTUS… which is a whole other category of practice from anything else a lawyer can do.

This would be like the Bengals calling a mid-level starting QB that hasn’t played in 8 years to see if he wants to start for them next week.

It’d be less a train wreck than Rudy but Rudy was a train wreck wrapped in diarrhea wrapped in a Trump stump speech.

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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:38:12pm

re: #168 Sinistershade

At the same time, having one of the creepiest, least charismatics humans in history making your case…

Are you referring to Rudy or Ted?

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:38:16pm

re: #168 Sinistershade

At the same time, having one of the creepiest, least charismatics humans in history making your case…

well, when rudy’s not available…

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:38:40pm

re: #173 DesertDenizen

Are you referring to Rudy or Ted?

All of em Katie.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:39:32pm

re: #171 Dread Pirate Ron

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There is not enough marijuana in the world that would allow me to endure that hot mess.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:40:19pm

re: #171 Dread Pirate Ron

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Critics say it’s a fingerlicking classic.

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TedStriker  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:40:54pm

re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Sandwich, gun, same difference.//

At least it wasn’t a phone or a game controller…

///

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:41:37pm

2020

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:42:13pm
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:43:06pm
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:45:38pm

re: #161 KGxvi

I just had to check the fanwikia… UNIT disbanded by the UK due to lack of funding (possibly due to Brexit), in one of 13’s episodes.

I think that was the Christmas episode against the dalek that took control of the anthropologist.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:46:04pm

re: #181 Teddy’s Person

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Good to hear. I’ve been happy with the picks so far. I actually thought Becerra who got HHS would be AG but he like many of these men and women is a versatile talent.

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Florida Panhandler  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:46:56pm

re: #156 stpaulbear

I’m glad to see that Pence has his name firmly attached to this bullshit. He’s been too much in hiding.

The appearance of Pence probably means one of two things- Trump is blackmailing him by dangling a Pardon over his head in exchange for public support of the election bullshit, or Pence is going to run in ‘24 regardless of Trump’s status.

My guess it’s #2 as I think Pence is tired of being Trump’s water carrying bitch. This and Pence realizes if Trump gets in the White House again in ‘24 that Elections in the US will essentially be over and he has no shot of being Prez ever again. If Trump gets in again we will be a family monarchy with the Republican Party’s blessing and help.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:47:17pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:53:04pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:55:00pm

re: #141 Belafon

They eventually just start suing random people from the phone book.

Voters. Each individual voter.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:56:08pm

Olympic sport?????

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A Cranky One  Dec 7, 2020 • 1:56:20pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:00:51pm

re: #188 wrenchwench

Olympic sport?????

If you have curling, you have to have breakdancing.

It’s a yin and yang thing.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:03:44pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:04:45pm

re: #190 The Ghost of a Flea

If you have curling, you have to have breakdancing.

It’s a yin and yang thing.

Curling is also highly suspect. Brooms, for heaven’s sake…

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:07:00pm

re: #186 wrenchwench

I’d be okay with this as long as Air Force One takes off in the middle of his speech so that President Biden can use it.

With a low pass over the rally, throttles set to “military” power.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:10:15pm

re: #192 wrenchwench

Curling is also highly suspect. Brooms, for heaven’s sake…

Given how the Olympic Committee seems to work, everything about the Olympics is suspect.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:11:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:13:37pm

re: #90 makeitstop

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They’re starting to treat him like the loser he is.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:15:14pm

re: #195 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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A meaningless EO.

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retired cynic  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:19:58pm
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:20:23pm

I’m perfectly fine with EVERY health care worker EVERYWHERE getting it before I do.

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A Three Hour Tour  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:20:47pm

re: #155 KGxvi

UNIT is under United Nations control now… or was it disbanded in one of the later series? I can’t remember any more.

UNIT was always under U.N. control and was headquartered in Geneva, per “The Invasion” (1968), but the host nations had a certain amount of say in how UNIT operated on their soil, which would lead to tensions and turf battles in “The Ambassadors of Death,” “The Claws of Axos,” and “the Green Death.”

international partners pulled funding for UNIT operations in the UK a few seasons back, apparently as a result of Brexit.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:21:52pm

re: #195 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Yeah but name the vaccine after him right Geraldo?

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gocart mozart  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:22:23pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:23:56pm

re: #186 wrenchwench

Katelyn Burns@transscribe
I’d be okay with this as long as Air Force One takes off in the middle of his speech so that President Biden can use it.

Once Trump is no longer president, Palm Beach Airport takeoffs and landings flight paths will resume over Mar-a-Largo.

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:24:21pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

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I got a translation, but no context. I guess reality is the context.

Is that the Gadsden snek getting kilt by that bird?

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mmmirele  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:25:10pm

re: #42 Dr. Matt

Here we go. The murder conspiracy…..

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Pro-Trump attorney suggests Georgia GOP campaign staffer was murdered in post-election plot

Wow, I’m blocked from seeing Lin Wood’s Tweets. I wonder what I did to deserve that?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:25:11pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:26:28pm

re: #198 retired cynic

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The masks will come off slowwwly

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:27:56pm

re: #94 thedopefishlives

Some of us can’t get help immediately because we need to wait until it gets serious, because otherwise, we’ll just be turned away at the door. Because of fuckfaces like you who refused to acknowledge reality until it bit you on the ass. Sorry you’re dead, sorta. Asshole.

and truth be told, most people can’t afford the treatment even WITH insurance.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:29:59pm

re: #191 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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even giant military cats?

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:30:40pm

The whiteness is out of control.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:31:20pm

re: #197 Belafon

A meaningless EO.

yup

make ‘em

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:31:32pm

re: #209 dangerman

even giant military cats?

Leading experts suggest not

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:34:25pm

re: #203 BeenHereAwhile

Once Trump is no longer president, Palm Beach Airport takeoffs and landings flight paths will resume over Mar-a-Largo.

at precisely 12pm whatever plane he’s on or near is no longer AF1 anyway

12:00:01pm biden could climb into a Cessna 337 and it would be AF1
(because i love the Super Skyrockets)

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:34:35pm

re: #143 wrenchwench

A Coke label turned into a festive bow. ‘Well shit’ was a funny comment, in my head.

In mine, too.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:36:01pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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i hope she’s got offsite / cloud backups

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:37:10pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I hope Biden turns it into a dog house

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If I was president, I’d turn it into a swimming pool. (which there used to be one, where the bowling alley is now.)

Actually, if I were president and I asked for a swimming pool, they’d probably point me towards the one in the capitol, for Senators and House members. And I’d try very hard to hide my smirk when I insist it have women-only hours scheduled to suit my convenience. Then we’d have naked women-only leadership meetings in the sauna; the majority and minority leaders, the party whips, all those positions would have to go to women if that party wants to be included in the negotiations.

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:37:13pm

re: #210 The Pie Overlord!

The whiteness is out of control.

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The poor widdle Trump supporters don’t have a racist President to make them feel better about being losers.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:38:02pm

re: #215 dangerman

i hope she’s got offsite / cloud backups

I hope her lawyers go up against Rudy and Powell.

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:38:32pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Rebekah Jones@GeoRebekah
1/
There will be no update today.

At 8:30 am this morning, state police came into my house and took all my hardware and tech.

They were serving a warrant on my computer after DOH filed a complaint.

They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids.

They’re looking for her DOH sources.

It’s entirely possible Rebekah Jones was able to publish COVID-19 data on her dashboard only using public information.

I had a friend tell me in April 2020, that Florida’s DOH COVID-19 figures made no sense and were waaay understated, based on his computations using public information.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:38:37pm

re: #113 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

I hope Biden turns it into a dog house shelter

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fixed that

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:38:49pm

re: #169 Teddy’s Person

Why did it take me so long to figure that out?

I’m ashamed of me. Alex would have been ashamed of me. 😢

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:40:51pm

re: #147 garzooma

Apparently, it had an encounter with an SUV last year.

But I see you can have the property if you have $4.4M lying around. The damage must be the reason for the bargain price :-).

I’d better rush an offer before they get around to fixing that wall and raise the price. Just gotta call the bank and confirm that I have that much.
[ring ring ring blah blah blah]
OK - I have just had it explained to me that hundreds of dollars are actually LESS than millions of dollars. Oh well - the commute to Los Angeles would just suck.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:41:04pm

re: #216 sagehen

If I was president, I’d turn it into a swimming pool. (which there used to be one, where the bowling alley is now.)

Actually, if I were president and I asked for a swimming pool, they’d probably point me towards the one in the capitol, for Senators and House members. And I’d try very hard to hide my smirk when I insist it have women-only hours scheduled to suit my convenience. Then we’d have naked women-only leadership meetings in the sauna; the majority and minority leaders, the party whips, all those positions would have to go to women if that party wants to be included in the negotiations.

McConnell would transition.

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:41:16pm

re: #181 Teddy’s Person

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fwiw

“Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin, once viewed as a long-shot candidate to be President-elect Joe Biden’s defense secretary, is now considered a leading contender for the position,” Politico reports.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:42:09pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:42:20pm

re: #192 wrenchwench

Curling is also highly suspect. Brooms, for heaven’s sake…

HEY! Curling ROCKS! 🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:43:25pm

re: #139 KGxvi

I get why aliens would communicate with the US government. But why would they communicate with Israel as opposed to, say China or a European power? Given that the most commonly spoken languages are English, Mandarin, and Spanish, you’d think Israel would be way down on the list, no?

Because Yahweh is an extra-terrestrial, duh. Remember that chariot of fire that came for Elijah?

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:44:29pm

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

HEY! Curling ROCKS! 🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌🥌

you need some stones to play that game

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:45:35pm

re: #116 stpaulbear

This is a quality post.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:47:42pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

How is this not a bigger story? This should be all over the news.

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:47:47pm

re: #125 dangerman

Words cannot adequately express how much I hate these people. This is the thing we were warned against from the very beginning of our country.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:47:56pm

re: #228 dangerman

you need some stones to play that game

And the ability to sweep nothing furiously.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:51:52pm

re: #221 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Why did it take me so long to figure that out?

I’m ashamed of me. Alex would have been ashamed of me. 😢

Alex would gently chide you to humorous effect. That’s just how he rolled.

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A Cranky One  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:53:45pm

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:54:35pm

re: #228 dangerman

you need some stones to play that game

Along with a capacity to understand geometry and physics and possess the skill to use both.

If skiing and shooting is an Olympic sport, curling, which requires more skill, belongs.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:55:48pm

I really hope he does this. I suspect it would be very meaningful for his family.

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:57:00pm

re: #199 Belafon

I’m perfectly fine with EVERY health care worker EVERYWHERE getting it before I do.

As far as I am concerned, all first responders, too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:58:27pm

re: #230 Patricia Kayden

How is this not a bigger story? This should be all over the news.

I don’t trust anything out of Florida — including election results. This is what happens when you have someone thoroughly evil as governor heading a thoroughly evil party, where voter suppression is the name of the game and suppression of health statistics in accord with the presidential wishes is the primary motivation for reports on the health of the state.

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gwangung  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:58:57pm

re: #237 Jebediah, RBG

As far as I am concerned, all first responders, too.

Actually, I expect it….was there any question?

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)  Dec 7, 2020 • 2:59:35pm

re: #236 Teddy’s Person

I really hope he does this. I suspect it would be very meaningful for his family.

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I hope he can do that.

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:00:26pm

re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

My in laws just moved to Florida. Really REALLY dumb thing to do.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:00:29pm

re: #239 gwangung

Actually, I expect it….was there any question?

Someone posted a NYT app that calculates roughly where your spot in line is. Wife and I will bring snacks and folding chairs.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:00:39pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

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Jebediah, RBG  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:02:50pm

re: #239 gwangung

Actually, I expect it….was there any question?

I don’t think so, just reiterating my ok-ness with waiting til all of them have gotten theirs first, I guess.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:03:27pm

re: #232 wrenchwench

And the ability to sweep nothing furiously.

Physics.

Why you hating on my favorite sport? 😢😢😢😢

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:05:07pm

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Physics.

Why you hating on my favorite sport? 😢😢😢😢

Anytime I see curling on TV, I always think it would be a fun sport to try.

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:06:03pm

re: #246 Teddy’s Person

Dude and I are fascinated by curling. We love watching it during the Olympics.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:07:26pm

Republicans are still trying to overturn the election & Fox News is cheering them on.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:08:16pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

It’s hitting the local media: tallahassee.com

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:08:45pm

re: #245 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Physics.

Why you hating on my favorite sport? 😢😢😢😢

Ever since I saw Aunt Muggsy and Uncle Bob curling in Green Bay, the ridicule has flowed like melted…sorry, I’ll stop.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:09:47pm

re: #248 The Pie Overlord!

Republicans are still trying to overturn the election & Fox News is cheering them on.

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In Alabama we specialize in stupid Republican politicians. Now that Roy Moore is gone, Mo brooks is our masterpiece.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:10:26pm

re: #203 BeenHereAwhile

Once Trump is no longer president, Palm Beach Airport takeoffs and landings flight paths will resume over Mar-a-Largo.

and the maralardo helipad gets shut down

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:10:39pm

re: #226 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I had a math teacher in high school back in metro Detroit who was a curler aficionado - he also introduced us to Tom Lehrer and backgammon.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:11:03pm

The vile, deplorable motherfuckers.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:12:18pm

re: #253 Eric The Fruit Bat

I had a math teacher in high school back in metro Detroit who was a curler aficionado - he also introduced us to Tom Lehrer and backgammon.

Tom Lehrer is good.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:13:40pm

re: #251 Decatur Deb

In Alabama we specialize in stupid Republican politicians. Now that Roy Moore is gone, Mo brooks is our masterpiece.

Is he stupid or is he evil? Given that Ted Cruz has offered to argue in favor of throwing out legally cast votes and 90% of Washington GOP legislators refuse to acknowledge that Biden won, I’m going with they are all participating with full understanding in undermining our Constitution and overturning legitimate election results. They are all traitors to our nation.

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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:14:22pm

re: #253 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:14:40pm

re: #246 Teddy’s Person

Anytime I see curling on TV, I always think it would be a fun sport to try.

I had a chance 40 years ago and thought it was a dumb sport. I mercilessly teased the girl I worked with who was a member of the Chicago curling club. I regret that all the time.

First off, it’s like a high end golf, sailing club where I could have met doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc. As a 20 year old that might have interested me. Maybe. But now that I’m a curling fanatic, thanks to insomnia during the 2014 Olympics, watching all the games at 2:00 am, the Canadian men’s and women’s teams take the gold, I was hooked and so bummed that I had the chance and blew it.

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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:14:46pm

re: #236 Teddy’s Person

I really hope he does this. I suspect it would be very meaningful for his family.

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Great optics, but the SS would go nuts. That’s a lot of track to inspect just before the inauguration. In January, no less. Easy to knock a train off the tracks.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:15:01pm

re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter

Is he stupid or is he evil? Given that Ted Cruz has offered to argue in favor of throwing out legally cast votes and 90% of Washington GOP legislators refuse to acknowledge that Biden won, I’m going with they are all participating with full understanding in undermining our Constitution and overturning legitimate election results. They are all traitors to our nation.

He’s stupid from birth, evil by persistent effort.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:15:14pm

re: #104 wrenchwench

I thought of the Mexican flag (echoed in the flag of New Mexico), but the year’s meaning escaped me. Thanks.

The eagle and snake on a cactus is on NM’s state seal, not the flag.

Curling is probably a real sport, too.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:17:42pm

re: #250 wrenchwench

Ever since I saw Aunt Muggsy and Uncle Bob curling in Green Bay, the ridicule has flowed like melted…sorry, I’ll stop.

It’s cool. I was exactly like that for a very long time.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:17:52pm

re: #236 Teddy’s Person

I really hope he does this. I suspect it would be very meaningful for his family.

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Track-1.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:18:38pm

re: #223 Decatur Deb

McConnell would transition.

he’ll send elaine because NO ONE wants to see mitch nekkid

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:18:48pm

re: #241 plansbandc

My in laws just moved to Florida. Really REALLY dumb thing to do.

i never considered politics when i moved here in 96
now, i’d leave if i could. it’s just not possible.

since i’m here, we do what we can to push things back to the blue side

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A Cranky One  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:19:02pm

OMG.

Happened to glace at my karma and it was 22,222.

Does this mean I CAN finally even?

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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:19:13pm

re: #261 wrenchwench

The eagle and snake on a cactus is on NM’s state seal, not the flag.

Curling is probably a real sport, too.

Wait, wait….

There’s a NEW Mexico?!?!?!

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:20:42pm

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

and the maralardo helipad gets shut down

i swear they’re gonna pave it over //

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A Cranky One  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:21:23pm

re: #267 austin_blue

Wait, wait….

There’s a NEW Mexico?!?!?!

Version 15.3.14. Didn’t you get the update notice?

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Dangerman; Not a Dr. & don't play one on TV  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:22:36pm

re: #266 A Cranky One

OMG.

Happened to glace at my karma and it was 22,222.

Does this mean I CAN finally even?

well, for a second anyway

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:22:38pm

re: #267 austin_blue

Wait, wait….

There’s a NEW Mexico?!?!?!

The t-shirt says it’s not new, and its not Mexico.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:23:15pm

re: #266 A Cranky One

Does this mean I CAN finally even?

Sure. Personally, in at the I FUCKING CAN’T EVEN place myself. 😁

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:23:20pm

re: #255 wrenchwench

Tom Lehrer is good.

And he released all of his works into the public domain recently. I can sing many of his songs by memory-“I hold your hand in mine”, “The Masochism Tango”, “The irish Ballad”, “Poisoning pigeons in the park”, I got down cold.

I believe every high-schooler should be exposed to his works as a mandatory class.

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ckkatz  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:23:39pm

From last thread. I finally got a chance to listen. Wonderful music and lovely videography! Thanks for posting. Also appreciate you filling in a little bit on the background of the ‘Variations’ piece.

re: #88 austin_blue

This is a 15-minute piece of contemplative semi-holiday music performed by She Who Must Be Obeyed (SWMBO) on her Celtic lever harp for one of her small symphonies. The last piece, the Variations, was written for Tournier, who was SWMBO’s teacher’s teacher (Eileen Malone) at the Eastman School.

The big ass harp in the still shots in the first piece is her regular concert harp, a Salvi which sounds like a cannon at the bottom and an angel at the top. It’s also a pain in the ass, weighs 100 lbs., and cost $30,000.

Hope you enjoy.

youtube.com

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:25:05pm

re: #257 The Pie Overlord!

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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:25:12pm

re: #274 ckkatz

From last thread. I finally got a chance to listen. Wonderful music and lovely videography! Thanks for posting. Also appreciate you filling in a little bit on the background of the ‘Variations’ piece.

Glad you enjoyed it!

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retired cynic  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:27:13pm

re: #276 austin_blue

Glad you enjoyed it!

So did I, and sent it on to a bunch of my friends, who also loved it.

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mmmirele  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:29:34pm

re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg

Whose fucking boneheaded idea was THIS?

From working in a bank, I can tell you that it’s not a boneheaded idea. Traders are ALWAYS looking for new markets. They’ll make s market in ANYTHING.

That aside, I think trading commodities like water is, as I said on Twitter, evil and satanic. It also reminds me of Revelation 6:6:

“Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, ‘Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!’”

which appears to be talking symbolically about trading in necessary goods.

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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:30:17pm

re: #277 retired cynic

So did I, and sent it on to a bunch of my friends, who also loved it.

Forwarding makes the Views grow fonder!

Thank you!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:31:48pm

re: #190 The Ghost of a Flea

If you have curling, you have to have breakdancing.

It’s a yin and yang thing.

Why not compromise?

Break dancing…on Ice!

/

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BeenHereAwhile  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:32:00pm

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

and the maralardo helipad gets shut down

It will be interesting to see how many members his private club retains once he is no longer president.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:32:54pm

re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg

Why not compromise?

Break dancing…on Ice!

/

Curling in the parking lot.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:35:32pm

re: #282 wrenchwench

Curling in the parking lot.

Do you lose points or get extra for hitting cars?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:35:43pm

Now that the topic of curling has surfaced, it’s time to break out the infamous BBC clip with David Attenborough:

BBC Radio 1: Sir David Attenboroughs Alternative CURLING Commentary

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garzooma  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:36:16pm

re: #256 Hecuba’s daughter

Is he stupid or is he evil? Given that Ted Cruz has offered to argue in favor of throwing out legally cast votes and 90% of Washington GOP legislators refuse to acknowledge that Biden won, I’m going with they are all participating with full understanding in undermining our Constitution and overturning legitimate election results. They are all traitors to our nation.

Zeynep Tufekci has an article in the Atlantic that describes the seriousness of the situation:

Much debate has ensued about what exactly to call whatever Trump is attempting right now, and about how worried we should be. It’s true, the whole thing seems ludicrous—the incoherent lawsuits, the late-night champagne given to official election canvassers in Trump hotels, the tweets riddled with grammatical errors and weird capitalization. Trump has been broadly acknowledged as “norm shattering” and some have argued that this is just more of his usual bluster, while others have pointed out terminological issues with calling his endeavors a coup. Coup may not quite capture what we’re witnessing in the United States right now, but there’s also a danger here: Punditry can tend to focus too much on decorum and terminology, like the overachieving students so many of us once were, conflating the ridiculous with the unserious. The incoherence and incompetence of the attempt do not change its nature, however, nor do those traits allow us to dismiss it or ignore it until it finally fails on account of that incompetence.
[…]
We’re being tested, and we’re failing. The next attempt to steal an election may involve a closer election and smarter lawsuits. Imagine the same playbook executed with better decorum, a president exerting pressure that is less crass and issuing tweets that are more polite. If most Republican officials are failing to police this ham-handed attempt at a power grab, how many would resist a smoother, less grossly embarrassing effort?
[…]
In Turkey, the leader of the 1980 coup, the one that my mom had been warned about, was Kenan Evren. He was a military-academy classmate of many who had taken part in a particularly incompetent coup attempt in the early ’60s that failed spectacularly—its missteps included tanks being accidentally sent to a neighborhood in Ankara at the wrong time. But the coup Evren led many years later was anything but farcical: Hundreds of thousands were detained, and more than 100 were tortured to death. A new, restrictive constitution was enacted, under repressive conditions. The failure of multiple attempted coups in the ’60s was not a reason to dismiss the risk of a subsequent coup—but a warning that such an effort might well succeed in more competent hands.
[…]
we should react to the frightening substance of what we’re facing, even if we also believe that the crassness and the incompetence of this attempt may well doom it this time. If the Republican Party, itself entrenching minority rule on many levels, won’t stand up to Trump’s attempt to steal an election through lying and intimidation with the fury the situation demands; if the Democratic Party’s leadership remains solely focused on preparing for the presidency of Joe Biden rather than talking openly about what’s happening; and if ordinary citizens feel bewildered and disempowered, we may settle the terminological debate in the worst possible way: by accruing enough experience with illegitimate power grabs to evolve a more fine-grained vocabulary.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:43:58pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:44:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:48:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:49:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:49:44pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:50:13pm

re: #287 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Surprising absolutely no one (except trump morons).

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:50:55pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:51:33pm
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DesertDenizen  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:51:51pm

re: #291 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

“Arbitrary and Capricious”. Two words those of us in the working levels of government dread. Especially when they are in reference to the actions of the elected officials.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:52:41pm
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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:54:46pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 3:59:29pm
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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:00:11pm

re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth

OMG, please tell me she is going to primary El Pendejo Rubio in two years!

Or even better, she’s going to be the test case for a hostile take over of the Constitution Party because Donald thinks the elected Republicans didn’t support him enough?

Almost Famous It’s All Happening

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:00:25pm
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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:00:29pm
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jamesfirecat  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:00:47pm

re: #223 Decatur Deb

McConnell would transition.

Ask why he isn’t in favor of banning himself if he favors laws that prevent trans people from using the restroom of their new gender.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:02:06pm

re: #299 Backwoods_Sleuth

Fascist beige interior decor. What’s the point of those chairs?

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:02:57pm

re: #297 Dread Pirate Ron

I don’t like this part of the nomination:

Austin’s candidacy has been met with resistance from some national security experts, who noted that he has not been out of the military for the required seven years and would need a waiver from Congress to become secretary of Defense. If chosen, he would be the second Pentagon chief in just four years to require such a waiver, after President Donald Trump chose Jim Mattis, another former Central Command chief, for his first defense secretary in 2017.

Former generals/admirals probably shouldn’t immediate transition to civilian leadership positions in the DOJ.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:02:59pm

Konversationsplatz.

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retired cynic  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:06:51pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:07:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:10:41pm

morons, everywhere

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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:10:47pm

re: #294 DesertDenizen

“Arbitrary and Capricious”. Two words those of us in the working levels of government dread. Especially when they are in reference to the actions of the elected officials.

Or any Department when it comes to the Comments on any proposed rule changes.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:10:51pm
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gwangung  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:12:38pm

re: #309 Dread Pirate Ron

Somehow they’ll try to blame Biden for this.

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:14:11pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

Twitter may be too big a distraction for the leisured political classes.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:15:17pm

Trumpco can’t even do a simple ceremony right.

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DodgerFan1988  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:15:32pm
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:16:49pm

re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg

Why not compromise?

Break dancing…on Ice!

/

Unless you’re wearing skates is there any other choice?

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Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:17:24pm

re: #167 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

Sandwich, gun, same difference.//

A number of years ago, we had to handle the case where a LA Sheriff’s Deputy freaked out while directing traffic around Dodger Stadium. Emptied his gun into a station wagon full of Mexican kids. Turns out one of the kids had a Dodger Dog in a shiny aluminum wrapper and the trigger happy idiot said he thought it was a gun.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:18:59pm

re: #312 Teddy’s Person

that’s what happens when one is just a political prop

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:19:21pm
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:21:37pm

re: #312 Teddy’s Person

Trumpco can’t even do a simple ceremony right.

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President leaves, kid to the right of the desk immediately puts on mask.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:23:38pm

re: #318 wrenchwench

President leaves, kid to the right of the desk immediately puts on mask.

Great catch! I missed that.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:24:09pm
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austin_blue  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:25:04pm

re: #293 Dread Pirate Ron

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Huh, speaking of Tom Lehrer, we have this (notice that a lot of the laughter is kinda nervous. Tom can be as sharp as cold steel.)

Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:27:21pm

We’re going to be the last developed country in the world to come out of this Pandemic, aren’t we?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:27:25pm

GOOD

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:30:35pm

As of tomorrow, official Covid deaths in the United States will exceed the number of American combat losses in World War II.

For the curious, the deadliest military conflict for the U.S. was the Civil War in which just over 655 000 soldiers died.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:35:32pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:35:54pm

My jackass Republican Governor doing what jackass Republicans do:

MS governor plans Christmas parties despite his own orders and record COVID-19 cases

Gov. Tate Reeves has planned several Christmas parties at the Governor’s Mansion, despite warnings from state health experts against such gatherings amid the pandemic, and the governor’s own orders limiting the number of people allowed at such events in Hinds County.

This follows a fundraiser held by a hospital executive on the Coast last week for Reeves for more than 20 people, despite Reeves’ orders limiting gatherings in Harrison County because of record COVID-19 outbreaks.

Statewide and districtwide elected officials received an invite for a governor’s Christmas party for Wednesday evening, several officials told Mississippi Today. The governor has also invited lawmakers to separate parties for the House and Senate next week, several lawmakers said.

As COVID-19 statistics continue to set new records almost by the day, State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs and the health department have warned Mississippians to avoid holiday gatherings beyond closest family and to avoid any groups beyond school, work or “essential gatherings.” Dobbs called the holidays a “perfect storm” for “explosive outbreaks” of COVID-19 and warned, “We will see deaths, absolutely, around holiday gatherings.” Health officials warn that Mississippi hospitals are overloaded with patients as pandemic cases spike to record levels.

Reeves has in recent weeks issued executive orders for 54 of Mississippi’s 82 counties that require wearing of masks in public and limiting gatherings to no more than 10 indoors and no more than 50 outdoors where social distancing is not possible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:40:48pm

sure, why the fuck not…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:41:55pm
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jaunte  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:42:52pm

re: #326 Eclectic Cyborg

Jesus pass the eggnog.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:46:47pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:57:26pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Dec 7, 2020 • 4:58:19pm

Very weird, Ben Garrison’s first cartoon in which Trump is portrayed as something other than sexy ripped hunk. (Behind the tag because Garrison)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:02:43pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:13:49pm

re: #287 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

…New: US District Judge in DC says Trump administration exceeded its authority in its TikTok restrictions, calling actions “arbitrary and capricious.” Judge orders that Commerce Department’s ban be blocked “in full.”….

So a judge ruled that Trump’s decision to destroy a company because teenagers used the platform to interfere peacefully with a political rally is not a thoughtful and appropriate federal policy. Huh. Who would have guessed? Actually, there are probably Trump appointed judges who might have agreed completely with Trump.

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danarchy  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:15:23pm

re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So Pfizer being an American company and the vaccine being produced in Michigan if I recall correctly, would those other commitments mean a thing if whoever is president(either Trump now or Biden later) invokes the defense production act?

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:15:49pm

re: #261 wrenchwench

Yep, they coopted the Zia symbol. It’s a gorgeous flag, but it wasn’t the state’s symbol to use.

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stpaulbear  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:24:00pm

re: #228 dangerman

you need some stones to play that game

In 1970, my high school tried to introduce curling to the general phys ed program because we had a new indoor ice rink. They tried to get around not purchasing stones by filling up coffee cans with concrete with an imbedded bent metal rod for the handle. You had to set them down perfectly flat or else the rim of the can would gouge into the ice and they’d just tip over. It was pretty sad and I think we only did it one day. You couldn’t learn any curling skills with that equipment anyway.

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garzooma  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:26:13pm

re: #309 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]
SCOOP: States estimated vaccine supplies with outdated figures, HHS says

From the Bloomberg article:

Quantities estimated during planning exercises were labeled with disclaimers that they were for planning purposes only, the spokesperson said.

Because why would you need accurate data for planning?//

I expect we’re going to find out this is due to the administrations penchant for spreading bullshit happy talk.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Dec 7, 2020 • 5:26:26pm

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