The Photo of Georgia GOP Senator David Perdue Throwing a “White Power” Sign Is Legit

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Yesterday I came across a photograph of Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga) on Twitter, showing him posing with two campaign workers, throwing the alt-right’s “ironic” white power sign. I posted this retweet of the image with a comment:

Almost immediately I started getting replies saying the image looked like it had been altered, focusing on this area in particular:

But since the image posted on Twitter was not a high-resolution image, it was difficult to prove either way. I’ve seen many low-res JPEG images that exhibit similar oddities, especially when you zoom in and look closely at a pixel level, because JPEG format uses a “lossy” compression algorithm that can distort sections of an image in unpredictable ways.

Today @BlueATLGeorgia posted a link to the original high-resolution (2048x1536) image on Facebook, and now the issue is settled — this photograph has not been altered. It’s perfectly legitimate.

In fact, it was posted at Facebook by a Republican campaign staffer.

Here’s that same section zoomed in to a similar level, but using the less distorted high-resolution image from the Facebook link above.

The higher-resolution image makes it very clear that it’s not an altered photo. The part that looks strange in the low-res image is actually part of Perdue’s thumb visible behind the bent index finger.

In the Trump era it’s no longer very shocking to see a major Republican politician — a US Senator — expressing this kind of gutter racism. He could claim ignorance, of course, or say he was tricked into it by the guys posing with him, but don’t let them get away with claiming the picture was “photoshopped.” It was not.

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497 comments
1
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:04:33pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:05:10pm

If you look hard enough at the enlarged photo, you can just make out the globular clusters.

/oldie

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:07:50pm

For the record…none of those white power hand signs are even remotely close to resembling the well-known “OK sign”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:08:46pm

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

I really do not care

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

Plus, I already know how to do that, I do not need instruction should I choose to delete.

Just a comment in that same thread.

I’ll endeavour to keep controversial comments to myself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:09:36pm

Perdue is also putting some serious muscle/tendon pressure into making that hand sign. Look at those freaking white knuckles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:10:30pm

re: #4 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just a comment in that same thread.

I’ll endeavour to keep controversial comments to myself.

then why the need to drag it upstairs?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:12:42pm

Yes, it takes effort to make those three fingers look like the W in white power.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:16:06pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Our Texas bro’s reaction to these efforts: they are a waste of time. So he’s not expecting anyone to overturn the results of the election.

Of course, he insisted today that Biden will be 25th Amendmented out by April; my sister pointed out that is a 2 month delay from his original prediction that will happen in February. He also is confident that the GOP will have a major landslide in the 2022 elections — taking back the House and a major increase in the Senate — because Americans will be so disgusted by the actions under a Democratic administration. And Warnock is unfit for office and should be in prison, though he had no rebuttal to our assertions that it is Loeffler who should face prison time for her insider trading which far exceeded anything that Martha Stewart did.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:17:38pm

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

then why the need to drag it upstairs?

I was only explaining where I got it (the same Twitter thread).

I need a break. I’ve become too controversial here. Give me a few days and I’ll be my happy-go-lucky self again. Maybe it’s being locked up in my house so long or something.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:18:37pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was only explaining where I got it (the same Twitter thread).

I need a break. I’ve become too controversial here. Give me a few days and I’ll be my happy-go-lucky self again. Maybe it’s being locked up in my house so long or something.

Take care of yourself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:20:37pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I was only explaining where I got it (the same Twitter thread).

I need a break. I’ve become too controversial here. Give me a few days and I’ll be my happy-go-lucky self again. Maybe it’s being locked up in my house so long or something.

downstairs is still active with comments.

really, this need to drag stuff up to new threads to continue controversy that no one really cares about is just tiring, but you know that.

Have fun during your break.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:24:11pm

2020 Census SNAFU.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:28:42pm

Congress threw out the 1920 Census because of disputes from the pandemic.

They should throw out the 2020 Census because of the sabotage from Trump and Ross.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:30:45pm

I’ll just say this once here and not bring it up again.

I get tired of being shamed for using Facebook and Twitter, especially by people WHO DO NOT USE THOSE PLATFORMS.

I get tired of being lumped into the Republican party nightmare just because I am registered just so I can vote in primaries where it makes a difference locally and statewide.

I get tired of constant religous shaming (even though I’m born and raised RC and now an atheist).

And I get so VERY FUCKING tired of the college/university education shaming (even though I was poor and paid for every dime of my BA even though it took me 12 years to get that degree).

Oh, and I’m pretty sure that Tesla does NOT deliver to my zip code. UPS does. FedEx does when it’s convenient for them. USPS is now completely problematical.

So let’s not talk about who is being controversial and needs to take a break from here, because it ain’t gonna be me and I will not apologize for it.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:33:42pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

One reason of many why I do not use Facebook or Twitter.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:34:52pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

For the record…none of those white power hand signs are even remotely close to resembling the well-known “OK sign”

Send a note to the ADL.

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stpaulbear  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:37:04pm

Looks like it might be a good night to check out some other sites…

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:37:36pm

re: #17 stpaulbear

Looks like it might be a good night to check out some other sites…

…?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:38:40pm

re: #17 stpaulbear

Looks like it might be a good night to check out some other sites…

not to worry, I just needed to finally get that out after a very long time of being quiet.
Tonight just hit my redline.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:38:58pm

The Post Office is FUBAR thanks to Trump and DeJerk.

Folks complaining that Christmas packages they sent still are in limbo. Oh and I posted how I got my October dental insurance bill AFTER my November bill that invoked the grace period.

And the mail delivery is all fucked up. Mail for me goes in other boxes and my mail winds up scattered in other people’s boxes as well. Our reliable post lady found herself reassigned across town and she was given double the amount of blocks to deliver.

We now have a new hire and yes you guessed it he’s a Trumper based on his snide comments to Latinos in my building…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:39:50pm

::looking for the cookie stash to share:::

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:43:57pm

Sideways Cleo says an itchy hello

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did someone say cookies?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:44:18pm

Philly is supposed to get another Sunday storm of freezing rain or sleet.
weather.gov

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:45:07pm

re: #22 A Mom Anon

Did someone say cookies?

Cleo’s ears are things of beauty. 😍

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jeffreyw  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:45:57pm

re: #21 Backwoods_Sleuth

::looking for the cookie stash to share:::

have a ding dong

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:47:52pm

re: #25 jeffreyw

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Yes, please.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:48:49pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

We are all on edge here — but it’s not just because of the pandemic. We’ve been on edge since the election of Trump November 8, 2016. That’s disrupted any equanimity we possessed when Obama was in charge. Trump’s whole term of office was promotion of racism and bullying and an attack on morality, kindness, decency, and progress. And when November 3, 2020 seemed to signal the end of the nightmare — Trump started with his refusal to concede and continued with his efforts to undermine our election process and incite a second Civil War.

Let’s hope that January 6 will start the process of healing. Actually let’s hope that January 5th will be the real start, with the Dems winning Georgia (as unlikely as that is).

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:49:22pm

re: #25 jeffreyw

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My mom made gobs when I was a kid. This pic is the closest I could find that look like the ones she made. In many of the online pics, the cookie was too dark.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:49:53pm

The prick is going all in on overturning the election!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:51:17pm

Hey now, they have a new claim! Now they’re saying Perdue was proud of the campaign workers for knocking on 3000 doors.

Those aren’t the fingers people normally use to symbolize “3”, of course. It’s much easier to use the middle three fingers. I almost wonder if those two Trumpite kids posing with him tricked him into it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:51:34pm

re: #25 jeffreyw

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have a ding dong

put that straight into mah veins…

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:52:57pm

re: #25 jeffreyw

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have a ding dong

I need these…

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:52:57pm

re: #30 Charles Johnson

Hey now, they have a new claim! Now they’re saying Perdue was proud of the campaign workers for knocking on 3000 doors.

Those aren’t the fingers people normally use to symbolize “3”, of course. It’s much easier to use the middle three fingers. I almost wonder if those two Trumpite kids posing with him tricked him into it.

Hanlon’s Razor is definitely in play here. Perdue isn’t the sharpest crayon in the litter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:53:38pm

re: #33 thedopefishlives

Hanlon’s Razor is definitely in play here. Perdue isn’t the sharpest crayon in the litter.

he’s that flesh colored one…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:54:53pm

re: #27 Hecuba’s daughter

understood.
I just finally had enough of the passive aggresive stuff.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:56:49pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

understood.
I just finally had enough of the passive aggresive stuff.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:57:42pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

understood.
I just finally had enough of the passive aggresive stuff.

and this ragging on the beliefs and lifestyle choices of fellow lizards just pushed me over the edge.

OK, I’m done now.

Carry on, everyone.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:58:44pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

understood.
I just finally had enough of the passive aggresive stuff.

It has been insulting. For a long time. I just keep my pie hole closed. Thank you for saying it for me Sleuth.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 3:59:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:00:37pm

re: #36 thedopefishlives

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:02:24pm

Back to binging Bridgerton & fresh snapper.

Drove back from FL & stopped by seafood market at inlet. My god, why don’t I do fresh seafood more often?

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:02:47pm

re: #41 HRH Stanley Sea

Back to binging Bridgerton & fresh snapper.

Drove back from FL & stopped by seafood market at inlet. My god, why don’t I do fresh seafood more often?

Mrs. Fish binge-watched that. It looked like a neat concept.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:03:34pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:04:07pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

he’s that flesh colored one…

You mean like Band-Aid flesh color.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:04:18pm

re: #41 HRH Stanley Sea

Back to binging Bridgerton & fresh snapper.

Drove back from FL & stopped by seafood market at inlet. My god, why don’t I do fresh seafood more often?

I binged it last weekend and thought it was fun.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:04:22pm

We’re all stressed out and on edge and snapping at each other because of the ongoing slow motion attempt to destroy our Republic. The repeated attacks on the election results are getting on our last nerve.

We hang out here to find comfort, let’s not take that away from one another.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:04:33pm

How did they celebrate knocking on 1,488 doors?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:05:16pm
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:05:37pm

re: #47 jaunte

How did they celebrate knocking on 1,488 doors?

I see what you did there.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:05:38pm

re: #42 thedopefishlives

Mrs. Fish binge-watched that. It looked like a neat concept.

I love it & I’m only on 3!!

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:06:21pm

This site is so reliably reasonable. It bums me out when we fight. But all families have spats, I guess. Sigh.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:06:26pm

re: #41 HRH Stanley Sea

Back to binging Bridgerton & fresh snapper.

Drove back from FL & stopped by seafood market at inlet. My god, why don’t I do fresh seafood more often?

When we went to Apalachicola we’d get fresh from a little trailer in a parking lot. Sometimes we would have to wait for a boat to get in.

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jeffreyw  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:06:52pm

re: #32 🌹UOJB!

I need these…

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:07:19pm

re: #52 Decatur Deb

When we went to Apalachicola we’d get fresh from a little trailer in a parking lot. Sometimes we would have to wait for a boat to get in.

I would marry a fisherman or shrimper.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:07:35pm

re: #51 plansbandc

This site is so reliably reasonable. It bums me out when we fight. But all families have spats, I guess. Sigh.

We’ve actually become too reasonable. I miss a bunch of our departed assholes.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:08:22pm

Now I want seafood. Not the optimal place for it.

When we went to Maryland several years ago, we had seafood every meal. And oh was it fantastic.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:09:11pm

re: #54 HRH Stanley Sea

I would marry a fisherman or shrimper.

Our friend in Korea was married to a tanker captain. She said it was lovely when he was in the Persian Gulf.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:09:42pm

re: #33 thedopefishlives

Hanlon’s Razor is definitely in play here. Perdue isn’t the sharpest crayon in the litter.

That’s a mixed metaphor that deserves an upding.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:09:59pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

The highest paid employees at almost every US college are the football coaches and staff. It’s just wrong. There has to be a better way to do things and take sports out of school. At every grade level. I knew kids in high school who got full scholarships who barely passed finals. I wanted college, but even in my time, when it was cheap, I couldn’t afford it. There just has to be a better idea than the way we do it now.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:10:37pm

re: #55 Decatur Deb

We’ve actually become too reasonable. I miss a bunch of our departed assholes.

and sometimes it’s time to say enough is enough.
I’m sorry if I made people uncomfortable because I was finally fed up enough to say ENOUGH ALREADY.

But I’m not sorry to have said it because it needed saying.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:11:02pm

re: #47 jaunte

How did they celebrate knocking on 1,488 doors?

Ouch.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:11:12pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

I totally get it.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:11:22pm

I am finishing off my chocolate ice cream.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:12:30pm

re: #58 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That’s a mixed metaphor that deserves an upding.

Thank you. I worked on that one.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:13:51pm

re: #56 plansbandc

Now I want seafood. Not the optimal place for it.

When we went to Maryland several years ago, we had seafood every meal. And oh was it fantastic.

I have a bit of a craving for a good fish and chips. Not something you really get around here; if you want fresh seafood, it’s almost all walleye, and while it’s very good, it’s always prepared quite differently from the stereotypical beer battered greasy goodness.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:14:44pm
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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:15:05pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

Fish and chips. NOM NOM NOM

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:15:32pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:16:21pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:16:39pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

I have a bit of a craving for a good fish and chips. Not something you really get around here; if you want fresh seafood, it’s almost all walleye, and while it’s very good, it’s always prepared quite differently from the stereotypical beer battered greasy goodness.

Our town had a mock Irish pub for a while. The fish and chips was dredged in cornmeal.

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nines09  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:17:02pm

My mind right now….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:17:08pm

pathetic

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:17:17pm

re: #70 Decatur Deb

Our town had a mock Irish Pub for a while. The fish and chips was dredged in cornmeal.

I wonder if the Irish pub in the nearby lake town is still in business. I know the restaurant where Mrs. Fish and I celebrated our engagement is gone, as are a couple of other places.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:17:40pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

I have a bit of a craving for a good fish and chips. Not something you really get around here; if you want fresh seafood, it’s almost all walleye, and while it’s very good, it’s always prepared quite differently from the stereotypical beer battered greasy goodness.

has to be cod

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:18:18pm

re: #70 Decatur Deb

Our town had a mock Irish Pub for a while. The fish and chips was dredged in cornmeal.

OMFG!

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:18:37pm

re: #46 The Pie Overlord!

We’re all stressed out and on edge and snapping at each other because of the ongoing slow motion attempt to destroy our Republic. The repeated attacks on the election results are getting on our last nerve.

We hang out here to find comfort, let’s not take that away from one another.

This. So much this.

I think I’m one of only two Lizards who’s ever met ‘Mouse (and Mrs. ‘Mouse) in person, and he’s the only Lizard I’ve ever met in person.

He’s a quirky guy. He’s lived through things none of us have ever experienced (I hope), and he has a bunch of very strong beliefs, not all of which I endorse or agree with. And when he gets his back up about something, he gets his back way up about something - and I totally understand why it can be infuriating to BWS and others, for very valid reasons.

But he’s on our team, ultimately. And our team isn’t as big as it ought to be.

I’m with the rest of you - jumpy as hell right now, in a constant doom-scrolling state of anxiety waiting to see what bullshit emerges on an hourly basis between now and January 20, counting down the minutes till we can get Georgia election results and we find out how good our odds are of beginning to fix all the vandalism inflicted on our country over the last four years.

I hate to see us start taking out our tensions on each other. I want to see us all survive this as a community, because it’s a damn good community with some of the funniest, smartest, nicest people anywhere on the intertubes, and I want to start enjoying better times with all y’all very soon.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:18:38pm

re: #75 Backwoods_Sleuth

OMFG!

It’s a crime against food, is what it is.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:18:45pm

re: #70 Decatur Deb

The O’Hushpuppy.

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gocart mozart  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:18:46pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:19:41pm

re: #71 nines09

My mind right now….

Yeah. Used to love temporary duty trips to Aberdeen Proving Ground.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:20:13pm

re: #77 thedopefishlives

It’s a crime against food, is what it is.

fish and chips ain’t catfish, JFC…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:20:51pm

re: #77 thedopefishlives

It’s a crime against food, is what it is.

re: #78 jaunte

The O’Hushpuppy.

Suthren’ Irish, of course.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:21:22pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

fish and chips ain’t catfish, JFC…

Seriously! I LOVE fried catfish; it’s the quintessential meal of my childhood, my grandmother had a damn family recipe. But fish and chips is FISH AND BLOODY CHIPS, and that means cod, beer batter, and THICK CUT POTATOES.

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nines09  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:21:30pm

Someone mention Irish Pub? BBL Lizards

The Rumjacks - An Irish Pub Song

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:22:13pm

So, there’s talk of refusing to seat the assholes, but whose call is that? Does security escort them out of the building - and so, whose security is on deck? How would that even work?

I’m tired of the Dems being aggrieved and doing nothing. I’m tired of the party living up to its reputation for being wimps. It’s becoming the left’s version of thoughts and prayers, while the Nazis whip the right into a dangerous fervor and hijack.every.process.

I mean, I think Biden’s dogs are neat and all, but what’s the fucking plan next week? I don’t suffer a doormat mentality, so this is really difficult to stomach.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:23:07pm

proper fish and chips…now THIS is what LGF team building is all about.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:23:25pm

re: #59 A Mom Anon

The highest paid employees at almost every US college are the football coaches and staff. It’s just wrong. There has to be a better way to do things and take sports out of school. At every grade level. I knew kids in high school who got full scholarships who barely passed finals. I wanted college, but even in my time, when it was cheap, I couldn’t afford it. There just has to be a better idea than the way we do it now.

Every one of the 35 boys that graduated with me in high school who got football scholarships failed to get a degree.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:24:03pm

re: #87 🌹UOJB!

Every one of the 35 boys that graduated with me in high school who got football scholarships failed to get a degree.

and never made the big leagues, eh?

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:25:40pm

re: #87 🌹UOJB!

Every one of the 35 boys that graduated with me in high school who got football scholarships failed to get a degree.

Daughter1’s undergraduate gig at Auburn was English tutor to the Bowden-era team.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:25:55pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

and never made the big leagues, eh?

Two of the guys I was in college with did get to the pros—Tony Dorsett and Tom Perko.

Perko killed himself when he was cut from the Packers during their training camp. He never got to play a pro game…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:27:24pm

re: #90 🌹UOJB!

Two of the guys I was in college with did get to the pros—Tony Dorset and Tom Perko.

Perko killed himself when he was cut from the Packers during their training camp. He never got to play a pro game…

but initially you were talking about the 35 guys in your high school.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:28:29pm
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:28:52pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

but initially you were talking about the 35 guys in your high school.

Nope. They all shared the same fate as Al Bundy. Their life peaked at 18…

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A Three Hour Tour  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:29:41pm

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:29:51pm

re: #93 🌹UOJB!

Nope. They all shared the same fate as Al Bundy. Their life peaked at 18…

Whose doesn’t?

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:30:42pm

Photo break anyone?
On the Los Angles river, they built a nice pedestrian/biking bridge. Right near Griffith park. Snuck over there to snap a few views.

All Angles
Cable
B & W
Looking Up
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:31:23pm

re: #89 Decatur Deb

Daughter1’s undergraduate gig at Auburn was English tutor to the Bowden-era team.

My college wasn’t big on football, but I had a couple of friends who were studying computer-related degrees (one was Comp Sci with me, one was Computer Graphic Arts) who were on the school’s lacrosse team, and I mentored them. Hardest damn day of my life up until then, when I was in class on a Monday after spring break and my comp sci student comes into class. He was about to find out what the rest of my wing already knew - three days before, one of our brothers and the wing’s future RA had been killed in a tragic accident when he was run over on his morning run back home. He came into class, and I had to break the news to him and keep him on the rails as we tried to finish class.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:36:13pm

re: #87 🌹UOJB!

I know two I went to school with who had to drop out to take care of babies they fathered. My son went to school with a kid who got a full ride baseball scholarship and flunked his freshman year. He works in the garden center at Home Depot now. He was also a bully who made my son’s life miserable. Karma worked rather quickly-ish on that one.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:36:43pm

40 seconds in, more White Power signs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:37:19pm

re: #95 Decatur Deb

Whose doesn’t?

actually, MrBWS might have peaked last week when he was on storm for 5 days in New York.
He didn’t even discuss it with me when he got the call, but I didn’t say a thing, just made sure he had everything he needed for the trip.
(He’s been laid off since May 7 and had mentioned several times that going on storm would be a good option since jobs have dried up).
Money earned was insane, but he drove 13 hours straight to come home on Sunday and I said “So, you now remember why retirement is a viable option?”
Yeppers..he’s ready for retirement.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:38:22pm

re: #98 A Mom Anon

I know two I went to school with who had to drop out to take care of babies they fathered. My son went to school with a kid who got a full ride baseball scholarship and flunked his freshman year. He works in the garden center at Home Depot now. He was also a bully who made my son’s life miserable. Karma worked rather quickly-ish on that one.

What goes around comes around, and it’s always nice when you get to see it come ‘round.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:39:08pm

A good friend of mine is opening a bar in town here…next FUCKING week.

Now, of course I’m in a red state where the governor has vowed there will never be another lockdown and there is no enforcing of any punishment for people who fail to follow Covid guidelines.

I tried to convince him to push his opening date back to at least the spring but he wasn’t having it.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:39:12pm
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:40:26pm
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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:42:45pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

pathetic

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No, he’s quite right — Cruz et al are indeed trying to steal a landslide win.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:43:05pm

re: #105 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

No, he’s quite right — Cruz et al are indeed trying to steal a landslide win.

I had the same thought. Heh.

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gocart mozart  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:43:32pm
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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:43:53pm

re: #103 jaunte

Scorn doesn’t work on people with no shame. I know what they are. Millions of people know what these people are. And they keep getting away with it no matter how much outing, scorn, or shame people post on social media.

I want to see something meaningful with serious legal consequences that is highly publicized, and not just reactionary opinions.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:44:43pm

re: #105 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

No, he’s quite right — Cruz et al are indeed trying to steal a landslide win.

lol…tilting at windmills they are

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:45:23pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:45:50pm

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

actually, MrBWS might have peaked last week when he was on storm for 5 days in New York.
He didn’t even discuss it with me when he got the call, but I didn’t say a thing, just made sure he had everything he needed for the trip.
(He’s been laid off since May 7 and had mentioned several times that going on storm would be a good option since jobs have dried up).
Money earned was insane, but he drove 13 hours straight to come home on Sunday and I said “So, you now remember why retirement is a viable option?”
Yeppers..he’s ready for retirement.

Knew it would be good for him.

On my 17th birthday I was walking to the grocery and said to myself “It’s all downhill from here”. It’s been a VERY gradual decline, with some surprising uplifts.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:46:33pm

re: #110 The Pie Overlord!

Schiff is right. They are afraid.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:48:12pm
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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:49:17pm

re: #76 i(m)p(each)sos

Gotta say… this is perilously close to both-siderism. I’m not aware of anyone here proselytizing Christianity (or Judaism or Islam), nor calling for the rest of us to join twitter or facebook. Nor do we flaunt our educational attainments — except a few Ph.D.s who are temporarily compelled to because somehow they aren’t real if girls do them.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:51:02pm
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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:51:15pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes it does.

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b.d. (We Won!)  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:51:23pm

The MF’er is on to us!!!

btw, the GOP just don’t get to pretend they weren’t all on his train a week ago.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:51:48pm

re: #114 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Gotta say… this is perilously close to both-siderism. I’m not aware of anyone here proselytizing Christianity (or Judaism or Islam), nor calling for the rest of us to join twitter or facebook. Nor do we flaunt our educational attainments — except a few Ph.D.s who are temporarily compelled to because somehow they aren’t real if girls do them.

no, it is not.

not even close

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b.d. (We Won!)  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:52:27pm

re: #117 b.d. (We Won!)

The MF’er is on to us!!!

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:54:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:55:09pm
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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:55:13pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:55:27pm

So GOHMERT!’s appeal is… well, it’s a piece of work. A thread.

They filed a motion for expedited appeal, and they filed it as “unopposed”, by which they mean, “We emailed the VP, he didn’t get back to us before we filed it, so we’re filing it and claiming it’s unopposed.”

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:56:12pm

re: #115 jaunte

Fun Fact: If they don’t certify the election, then per the Constitution, Nancy Pelosi will become acting President.

I’m Ok with that. Our Bubble Comrade gave us both “46” t-shirts for Christmas. I can go find a “47” in a couple months.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:56:23pm

Good to hear sanity from Will Hurd, but I’m not ready to agree with him on “what the GOP stands for.” I think we have enough examples to know.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:57:47pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:59:12pm

re: #126 jaunte

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Say it with me, kids, louder for the slow people (the Republicans); ALLEGATIONS ARE NOT PROOF.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 4:59:21pm

re: #119 b.d. (We Won!)

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why are her boobs hanging around her waist?

I ask because I do not wear a bra (haven’t since high school just so my clothes would fit) and at age almost 69, my boobs are still around armpit level…definitely no where near waist level.

I don’t get it.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:00:49pm
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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:02:46pm

re: #129 jaunte

“We built a straw man, and he scares us. We’re very concerned about our straw man.”

If there was a death penalty for lying…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:02:48pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

Many years ago my hairdresser told me that one of the reasons why she wore a bra is because her boobs were knee knockers. Now I never asked for proof but some women hang lower than others.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:04:42pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:04:44pm

IANAL & CMIIW but I imagine that the piles and piles of “allegations” and “affidavits” were handled like this:

1. Lowest level legal professionals (interns) are given the “evidence” and sort it into “obvious BS” and “not obvious BS.” They pass on the “not obvious BS” to the next level professionals.

2. Second level takes the “not obvious BS” and winnows it again according to their abilities. They then pass what’s left to the next level.

3. Repeat until the pile has reached the top level and pass this to the judges.

The judges then decide it is BS (in 59 cases already).

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:04:56pm

re: #131 PhillyPretzel

Weight loss and gain and loss, etc can do that. Pregnancy and nursing and weight loss and gain also don’t help.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:05:22pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:06:04pm

re: #134 A Mom Anon

Yes. Those factors must be considered.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:06:33pm

re: #131 PhillyPretzel

It depends on knocker size also. That old song about boobs hang low, tie ‘em in a knot, tie ‘em in a bow, throw ‘em over your shoulders? Yeah. I get those lyrics. :D

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:06:55pm

re: #130 PrairieQueen

“We built a straw man, and he scares us. We’re very concerned about our straw man.”

If there was a death penalty for lying…

set that strawman on fire…

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:07:24pm

I nursed 9 children.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:08:07pm

re: #131 PhillyPretzel

Many years ago my hairdresser told me that one of the reasons why she wore a bra is because her boobs were knee knockers. Now I never asked for proof but some women hang lower than others.

so they wear bras so their boobs are at waist level?

wow

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:09:04pm

re: #132 jaunte

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well, Perdue’s term ends before the 6th…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:09:39pm

re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know that I do not and my hairdresser did not. I am sure some do but I personally cannot see why.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:09:44pm

re: #129 jaunte

“Cosplay overthrow”

I am so stealing that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:10:11pm

re: #134 A Mom Anon

Weight loss and gain and loss, etc can do that. Pregnancy and nursing and weight loss and gain also don’t help.

yep, but it’s the bra at waist level thing…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:11:00pm

re: #137 plansbandc

jfc…now I havethat GS camp song earworm…

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:11:45pm

THREAD from a former professional Republican:

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:12:34pm

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wouldn’t it be nice to see the Dems come out swinging and knock this shit back? Or Nancy to say, “Fine, I’ll take over from here. Be careful what you wish for.”

If this isn’t actionable as a coup, just what the fuck is? It’s like when Whoopie said something like, “It’s not like it was ‘rape’ rape.” This is a coup and it’s real and we know who is responsible.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:14:04pm
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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:15:14pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

no, it is not.

not even close

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:16:05pm

re: #139 The Pie Overlord!

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:16:09pm

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:18:07pm

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve done good work today.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:19:05pm

re: #151 jaunte

Dude needs a big Castro Corona.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:20:50pm

re: #149 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:21:23pm
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mmmirele  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:22:09pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is the kind of thing that makes for damn sure that UT Austin, my alma mater, sees not one red cent from me. The whole thing is *obscene*.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:22:53pm

re: #155 jaunte

Hey, Chuck, I said it first!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:25:46pm

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b.d. (We Won!)  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:26:50pm

Geraldo the lion tamer has quite a job ahead of him:

Deep State Geraldo!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:30:30pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

no, it is not.
tonot even close

ETA that my comment was not meant to C1nnabar, but to Ipsos’s comment.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:31:47pm

Good Evening Lizardz.

Erotic City

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:34:29pm

re: #159 b.d. (We Won!)

Geraldo never comes out and says there is no proof, stop acting insane. He’s sympathizing, not calling out. That’s the difference. It’s more the Mitt Romney flavor of sorry your feelers are hurt, I know you’re hurting, can we move on?

What the acting GOP needs is cold water in their face from every direction. They need a boot up their ass. They need consequences, not coddling or affirmation.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:35:43pm

re: #161 Dave In Austin

They played this near the end of the night at my fave bar in Boulder (Eighties). God I love Prince. RIP that genius dude.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:35:55pm

re: #155 jaunte

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:37:01pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:37:26pm

Prairie Queen beat me by 20 seconds.

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:38:57pm

re: #166 The Pie Overlord!

But the news is good!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:40:20pm

OT: “Your Honor” with Bryan Cranston is some good TV.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:40:32pm

re: #114 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Gotta say… this is perilously close to both-siderism. I’m not aware of anyone here proselytizing Christianity (or Judaism or Islam), nor calling for the rest of us to join twitter or facebook. Nor do we flaunt our educational attainments — except a few Ph.D.s who are temporarily compelled to because somehow they aren’t real if girls do them.

That wasn’t my intent - but it’s been a long day/week/year, and I’m probably not writing as clearly as I’d like. (See the rest of what I said about how we’re all strung out right now.)

Let me try to be clearer?

I’m not trying to defend the obsessive posting about certain pet topics - I don’t blame BWS for getting fed up with those posts or for reacting to them strongly. I’m a college graduate and a Jew who finds comfort and value in my religious tradition, and nothing anyone here writes is likely to change my mind about those things. And while I’ve largely taken myself off FB to save my sanity for the last few months, I don’t judge anyone who still uses the platform - and in fact I’m trying to find a way to get back some of the value that FB brought to me, at least where it comes to keeping tabs on a lot of far-flung friends and colleagues who aren’t easily reached elsewhere.

All I was trying to say is that I think it’s possible both to be annoyed at some of those posts - and to find value in the other things that ‘Mouse brings to the table here. I really enjoy the tales of life in a part of the country that’s so very different from my own. I’ve learned a lot about Nebraska politics (and follow State Senator Megan Hunt avidly now - she’s awesome!)

What I was trying to get at is that I think the present level of stress we’re all enduring has made us quicker than we might otherwise be to take offense. That’s not aimed at BWS… it was really aimed more at how quick Anymouse has been to threaten to flounce here over the years. (Which, in turn, may have some explanation in the things that he’s endured in his life… I try to be very conscious of all the struggles others are going through and to be as understanding as I can.)

I don’t post a lot about my particular obsessions here, in part because I have reasons to want to keep my IRL identity private, but also because I don’t want to annoy all of you whose good humor and kindness I value so much. I hope if I did get too annoying with anything I’m posting, that I’d react gracefully if some of you tell me as much.

And having had the pleasure (and it was!) of meeting ‘Mouse and his spouse when they drove through this way a few years ago, I hope he can do the same, because this space wouldn’t be the same without him, and I’d hate to lose his voice here completely.

Does that make sense, or am I being too squishy?

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:42:21pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:46:20pm

re: #170 The Pie Overlord!

How many losses is that now? Sixty-one? Geez. Even the Phillies in a bad season had a few good wins.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:46:25pm

re: #151 jaunte

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:46:37pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:48:39pm

Get
The
F*
Out
of
My
Courtroom

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Charles Johnson  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:50:45pm
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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:51:58pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:52:36pm

Stephen Harper is a piece of work.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:52:49pm

Looks like we need a national multiyear anti Cruz/Hawley effort.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:53:18pm

re: #175 Charles Johnson

Senators Ted Cruz, Jim Inhofe, Ron Johnson, James Lankford, Steve Daines, John Kennedy, Marsha Blackburn, Mike Braun, Cynthia Lummis, Roger Marshall, Bill Hagerty, and Tommy Tuberville.

May they forever be linked to this, the stupidest of all coup attempts.

They have a cunning plan.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:55:20pm

re: #179 Decatur Deb

With prayer and lots of anointing oils (hence Tedbo’s hair)

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Dave In Austin  Jan 2, 2021 • 5:55:34pm

Bootsy Collins - The Power of The One Music Video [feat. Buckethead]

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Dave In Austin  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:00:45pm
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:01:00pm

re: #87 🌹UOJB!

Every one of the 35 boys that graduated with me in high school who got football scholarships failed to get a degree.

My wife has a masters in corporate wellness. Had a lot of top level Big Ten athletes in her classes. Would come home from class in tears at the massive cheating going on, even from her test papers, which she had to aggressively protect with her arms and body from copying during tests.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:04:15pm
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mmmirele  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:09:07pm

re: #183 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

My wife has a masters in corporate wellness. Had a lot of top level Big Ten athletes in her classes. Would come home from class in tears at the massive cheating going on, even from her test papers, which she had to aggressively protect with her arms and body from copying during tests.

Reminds me of the University of North Carolina academic scandal:

An unusual B-plus grade on a football player’s transcript has unearthed an academic fraud scandal involving athletics at UNC-Chapel Hill. That grade ultimately pointed to nearly 190 lecture-style classes that never met from 1999 to 2011, as well as hundreds of bogus independent studies that had no instructor and date back to 1993.

A new report by a former top U.S. Justice Department official found that keeping athletes eligible was at the heart of the scheme. Nearly half the students enrolled were athletes, with some football and basketball players relying heavily on these “GPA booster” classes. Even a professor who later became UNC’s faculty leader steered athletes to the classes.

Lots more detail here:
newsobserver.com

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:09:55pm

An observation: Our enemies are turning on each other like trapped rats. They are days from ripping each other to shreds. It is time for us to stay united, to avoid turning on ourselves in turn, even in a minor way. American conservatism’s 70 year campaign for absolute power is about to collapse completely. After decades of heartbreaking struggle, victory is in sight. We can see this through. 18 days.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:14:56pm

re: #186 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Unfortunately I can’t completely agree with you.

The religious right will not give up their theocratic hopes so easily.

They’ll just reorganize.

Sort of like putting a living sponge in a blender, they will simply come back together.

And as long as the Republicans control the Senate, they will do to Biden even worse than they did to Obama.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:15:11pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:15:15pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:18:21pm
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lawhawk  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:21:40pm

Yeah, Perdue’s a fucking white nationalist throwing down the white power symbols.

All this discussion about the three finger salute reminds me of the scene from Inglorious Basterds where the Brits are found out by the German soldier because he ordered his liquor with the wrong three fingers.

You have to actually try to do that…

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:25:13pm

re: #189 Dread Pirate Ron

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Nifty truck. I count 22 wheels but I’m not 100% sure the last set is 3 to a side rather than 2.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:25:23pm

re: #177 Sherlock Hound

Stephen Harper is a piece of work.

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That’s terrifying. Harper is pulling the strings in Alberta which is angering Albertans in a big way. From completely botching the COVID response to screwing with healthcare (trying to keep doctors from leaving the province - by policy - an actual written policy [honestly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen], starving doctor payments, which created the exodus). I mean I’m not sure they could have fucked everything up any worse than they have.

Cons up here are emulating trump. I can only hope they become a permanent minority party.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:25:31pm

Freep informs us that people at the 6 Jan Nuremberg Trump rally must be approached carefully. Those who look like Proud Boys are Antifa. Those who look like Antifa are lost tourists. “Lost tourists” are FBI. Those who look like FBI are underage girls. More to come.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:27:48pm

re: #194 Decatur Deb

“When challenged, everyone will deny who they really are.”

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:28:29pm

re: #195 jaunte

“When challenged, everyone will deny who they really are.”

“I am Spartacus.”

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:28:40pm

re: #191 lawhawk

Yeah, Perdue’s a fucking white nationalist throwing down the white power symbols.

All this discussion about the three finger salute reminds me of the scene from Inglorious Basterds where the Brits are found out by the German soldier because he ordered his liquor with the wrong three fingers.

You have to actually try to do that…

I don’t remember that scene. Which three fingers did he hold up & which 3 fingers should he have used?

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:29:30pm

re: #191 lawhawk

Yep. And whether or not Loeffler knew who she was getting her pic taken with, you gotta ask why would white nationalists/kkk/or other assorted assholes would want to stand next to you for a photo op? Because they LIKE you? Why would that be? It’s funny, I’ve gone through my whole life without racist sacks of shit wanting to be my buddy. It’s just never happened. Maybe it has something to do with common goals and beliefs or some other Unsolved Mystery.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:29:53pm

Fuck, just fuck…

280,000 new cases of Covid today in the US (WashPost).
2,300 deaths.

Not winning.

I’ve still tired a lot of time. (Nine months latter).

I am alive and thankful for that.

Peace, love, and FT

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:30:49pm

re: #196 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

“We’re here in support of Incontinentia Buttocks.”

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steve_davis  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:32:34pm

re: #22 A Mom Anon

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Did someone say cookies?

I so want to just gently squeeze each giant ear like a soft glove that I am running through each hand.

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lawhawk  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:32:48pm

re: #197 The Pie Overlord!

It’s the scene in the basement bar. He threw down the middle three fingers, and should have done the pinky-forefinger-middle. thumb, pointer, middle.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:34:51pm

re: #197 The Pie Overlord!

I don’t remember that scene. Which three fingers did he hold up & which 3 fingers should he have used?

Americans count index, middle, ring (123) fingers.

Germans count thumb, index, middle (123) fingers.

It’s what started the shooting in the bar scene.

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lawhawk  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:35:40pm

re: #202 lawhawk

Oops.. had the German 3 reversed.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:36:21pm

re: #199 I Would Prefer Not To

Stay safe and healthy. I hope you can continue healing and keep getting stronger. I go back and forth between being angry and scared out of my mind over this. And then mad again because those responsible for making it worse will never suffer consequences for any of it.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:37:10pm

For safety’s sake, always order drinks in fives.

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:37:46pm

re: #203 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Americans count index, middle, ring (123) fingers.

Germans count thumb, index, middle (123) fingers.

It’s what started the shooting in the bar scene.

Good to know. Regardless, I’m naming my next pet Hugo, for Hugo Stiglitz.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:37:49pm

re: #206 jaunte

For safety’s sake, always order drinks in fives.

THAT’S the correct takeaway. 😂

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:38:12pm

re: #201 steve_davis

She rarely if ever puts those ears back or down either. Satellite dishes, lol. They are up even when she sleeps most of the time.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:41:46pm

re: #169 i(m)p(each)sos

I also value his perspective, therefore wouldn’t want to lose him. I have also refrained from responding to his obsessive attacks on his favorite targets because of his history. But a miserable past really isn’t an excuse for making other people miserable. (I’ve called him out a couple of times before now — once he did a mini-flounce, and another… never mind, the point is it does no good. Not being a confrontational sort, mostly, these days I just skip over his posts when he gets onto one of his hobby horses.)

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BeachDem  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:41:54pm

re: #197 The Pie Overlord!

I don’t remember that scene. Which three fingers did he hold up & which 3 fingers should he have used?

The 3-Finger Gesture In Inglourious Basterds Explained

screenrant.com

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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:42:53pm

Sideways Cleo on her first day with us. Halloween 2019. She had her spay surgery that morning and was very groggy. About 7 months old.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:45:24pm

re: #196 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

“I am Spartacus.”

“I am Groot.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:49:17pm

re: #187 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Unfortunately I can’t completely agree with you.

The religious right will not give up their theocratic hopes so easily.

They’ll just reorganize.

Sort of like putting a living sponge in a blender, they will simply come back together.

And as long as the Republicans control the Senate, they will do to Biden even worse than they did to Obama.

A lot of my optimism is based on the abject desperation I see in the GOP’s rush to support the Trump coup. THEY believe they are doomed if it fails and they know where they buried the bodies and how many there are. For their part, the pulpit pimps have abandoned any pretense of political disinterest, completely sacrificing their future tax exemptions if the attempt to keep a cult friendly president in office fails.
All this also suggests that the rot is much deeper and more rancid than we have typically suspected.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:49:17pm

re: #193 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That’s terrifying. Harper is pulling the strings in Alberta which is angering Albertans in a big way. From completely botching the COVID response to screwing with healthcare (trying to keep doctors from leaving the province - by policy - an actual written policy [honestly the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen], starving doctor payments, which created the exodus). I mean I’m not sure they could have fucked everything up any worse than they have.

Cons up here are emulating trump. I can only hope they become a permanent minority party.

Is he the former Prime Minister?

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:50:28pm

re: #194 Decatur Deb

Freep informs us that people at the 6 Jan Nuremberg Trump rally must be approached carefully. Those who look like Proud Boys are Antifa. Those who look like Antifa are lost tourists. “Lost tourists” are FBI. Those who look like FBI are underage girls. More to come.

Has anyone figured out what the dogs are?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:51:17pm

re: #215 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Is he the former Prime Minister?

Yes.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:51:30pm

re: #194 Decatur Deb

Freep informs us that people at the 6 Jan Nuremberg Trump rally must be approached carefully. Those who look like Proud Boys are Antifa. Those who look like Antifa are lost tourists. “Lost tourists” are FBI. Those who look like FBI are underage girls. More to come.

I am ded.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:51:50pm

re: #216 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Has anyone figured out what the dogs are?

Cats, of course. Cats in drag.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:52:34pm

re: #216 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Has anyone figured out what the dogs are?

Chinese spies.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:52:36pm

I was so lucky that I had a rich and kind roommate who let me use his to write my senior honors thesis.

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gocart mozart  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:52:55pm
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So Cal Greek Hippie  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:53:25pm

This is getting like when those two skanky women and the kid tried to take over the Klingon High Council with parliamentary tricks and a few goons.

Damn.

I hoped we would get the whale timeline— or at least one of those timelines where the ladies wore some sexy space fashions

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Decatur Deb  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:55:05pm

re: #216 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Has anyone figured out what the dogs are?

Dogs are Good Bois.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:55:05pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:56:44pm

re: #215 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Is he the former Prime Minister?

Yes.

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:57:02pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:57:11pm

re: #226 Sherlock Hound

Yes.

I presume we’re referring to George W. Bush’s former BFF Stephen Harper? Ugh.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:57:34pm

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

I was so lucky that I had a rich and kind roommate who let me use his to write my senior honors thesis.

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The carrying case I had!!!!!! Bought it 36 years ago…YOW!!!!!!

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:58:23pm

re: #228 thedopefishlives

I presume we’re referring to George W. Bush’s former BFF Stephen Harper? Ugh.

Exactly.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:59:33pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 6:59:41pm

re: #228 thedopefishlives

I presume we’re referring to George W. Bush’s former BFF Stephen Harper? Ugh.

I think he used to be called Bush’s poodle.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:00:17pm

re: #227 jaunte

If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Treasonweasels.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:01:12pm

re: #232 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I think he used to be called Bush’s poodle.

That tracks. I’m not Bush’s biggest critic, but he made plenty of mistakes and Harper was always at his heels, being a good little toady. I never thought about what he might be doing after Trudeau came along. Sorry to hear that he’s fucking things up right in line with the great conservative tradition.

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plansbandc  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:03:32pm

Joe Nichols - Baby Got Back (Official Video)

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jaunte  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:05:28pm
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:08:22pm

rawstory.com

Trump supporters are threatening violence at Wednesday’s march on DC — and he’s egging them on

I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster if my asshole relatives go to DC and hurt people I want them locked up for the rest of their disgusting lives!

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A Cranky One  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:13:17pm

re: #212 A Mom Anon

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This Cleo?

Good girls should sit on the ground instead of the walls.
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A Mom Anon  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:21:11pm

re: #238 A Cranky One

I can’t get the pics to rotate on my phone. I know I should turn the phone sideways, but I just grab and take the pic. I’ll learn one day, lol.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:21:34pm

re: #239 A Mom Anon

I can’t get the pics to rotate on my phone. I know I should turn the phone sideways, but I just grab and take the pic. I’ll learn one day, lol.

I wind up having to rotate ‘em on a computer before I post to LGF.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:23:46pm

re: #240 thedopefishlives

I wind up having to rotate ‘em on a computer before I post to LGF.

On Android, i use a photo resize app, which reduces it down to a good size and removes whatever causes them to rotate here.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:25:54pm

re: #241 Belafon

On Android, i use a photo resize app, which reduces it down to a good size and removes whatever causes them to rotate here.

It’s usually an iOS problem. Apple does something weird with rotational attributes that causes them to post sideways. I remember having to deal with it when I helped write an iOS app that used photo data.

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austin_blue  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:27:48pm

re: #188 jaunte

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Two refueling racetracks over our two of our three biggest bases in Irag. Two 135Rs departing each space, two entering them. Looks like all four are based out of Kuwait.

No telling who or what’s getting the JP-4.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:30:16pm

re: #239 A Mom Anon

I can’t get the pics to rotate on my phone. I know I should turn the phone sideways, but I just grab and take the pic. I’ll learn one day, lol.

Open pictures, load the picture you want, hit “edit,” rotate it to upside down, hit “save.” Then “edit” again, do it again, so it’s right side up. Now it will post properly.

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sagehen  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:34:09pm

re: #191 lawhawk

Yeah, Perdue’s a fucking white nationalist throwing down the white power symbols.

All this discussion about the three finger salute reminds me of the scene from Inglorious Basterds where the Brits are found out by the German soldier because he ordered his liquor with the wrong three fingers.

You have to actually try to do that…

In one of the Die Hard movies, the bad guys were some red faction European terrorists… they had exactly perfect NYPD uniforms, they’d learned English with the proper American accent…

But Bruce Willis found them out when they told him to take the lift down to the car park.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:34:56pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:41:00pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:42:05pm

re: #241 Belafon

On Android, i use a photo resize app, which reduces it down to a good size and removes whatever causes them to rotate here.

I do the same on my iPhone.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:52:01pm
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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 7:53:28pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:02:17pm

The dog is not impressed…

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austin_blue  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:05:43pm

re: #249 The Pie Overlord!

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It’s Nancy’s first opportunity to put a shot across the R’s bow by stating the obvious:

“If these 140 men and women don’t believe that the Presidential voting results are legitimate, then they cannot believe the results that have brought them here today are legitimate. Until that simple conflict of interest is resolved in their own minds, they cannot in good faith join this House of Representatives.”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:06:38pm

Lots of shit happening, but this is great!

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:08:20pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:08:50pm

re: #252 austin_blue

It’s Nancy’s first opportunity to put a shot across the R’s bow by stating the obvious:

“If these men and women don’t believe that the Presidential voting results are legitimate, then they cannot believe the results that have brought them here today are legitimate. Until that simple conflict of interest is resolved in their own minds, they cannot in good faith join this House of Representatives.”

Technically, they aren’t challenging the results in all states— only, at most, 6 states. So only representatives from those states could be barred under that rationale.

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retired cynic  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:09:20pm

re: #254 Dread Pirate Ron

ABSOLUTELY

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:11:36pm
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Sherlock Hound  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:35:24pm

No.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:37:24pm

re: #203 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Americans count index, middle, ring (123) fingers.

Germans count thumb, index, middle (123) fingers.

It’s what started the shooting in the bar scene.

I saw Inglorious Basterds in a theater when it came out, and I remember that scene very well - having lived here in Czech Republic for so long, when I saw that, my first thought was, “Aw shit, he just gave himself away as an American.” Czechs also do the thumb, index and middle fingers for three, just like Germans do.

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CleverToad  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:38:06pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

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austin_blue  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:38:18pm

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

Technically, they aren’t challenging the results in all states— only, at most, 6 states. So only representatives from those states could be barred under that rationale.

It doesn’t matter where they are from. If the D’s could pull off that kind of fraud in Michigan and Georgia, why couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t they pull it off in Cali, Texas, or anywhere else?

Everyone who believes Sedition is OK should sit out the Legislative Session. All 140 of the signatories fit the description, QED.

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cat-tikvah  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:41:57pm

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

Includes 9 GOP U.S. congressmen from PA - who apparently want to throw out the votes of the same people who elected them.

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Belafon  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:45:49pm

re: #242 thedopefishlives

It’s usually an iOS problem. Apple does something weird with rotational attributes that causes them to post sideways. I remember having to deal with it when I helped write an iOS app that used photo data.

I have it happen on Android as well. And the weird thing is that it occurs on vertical photos.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:47:26pm

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

Technically, they aren’t challenging the results in all states— only, at most, 6 states. So only representatives from those states could be barred under that rationale.

DO IT, NANCY! DO IT! DO IT!

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:48:29pm

This reminds me of when I could barely walk and was in the grocery store checking out and had left my wallet in the car. As I’m hobbling out to the car a random stranger paid my $265 tab. I kept telling him my wallet was in the car but her insisted.

I came home and immediately donated to people who needed it.

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CleverToad  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:49:19pm

Brother-in-law posted this gem. Anyone know which movie they’re ripping off this time?

Rolling my eyes and biting my tongue soooo hard…

Something vaguely Caesar-ish. Emphasis on the ‘ish’
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Ace-o-aces  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:49:55pm
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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:50:58pm

re: #265 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What a nice thing from the stranger, and what a nice turn on your part. I love hearing things like that. {{hearts}}

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DesertDenizen  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:51:06pm

re: #266 CleverToad

Brother-in-law posted this gem. Anyone know which movie they’re ripping off this time?

Rolling my eyes and biting my tongue soooo hard…

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Gladiator with Russell Crowe.

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PrairieQueen  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:52:23pm

re: #266 CleverToad

I want to say Gladiator, near the beginning where they’re fighting the Germanic hordes. Maybe not, but has that feel.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:55:27pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:55:53pm

re: #262 cat-tikvah

Includes 9 GOP U.S. congressmen from PA - who apparently want to throw out the votes of the same people who elected them.

Yes, and those 9 definitely should not be seated under that particular rationale. Under the broader issue, of course, that this is actually sedition, everyone challenging the election should be denied their seat under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. It’s not that they have detected a real problem with the votes in any of the states — their only problem is that their candidate lost.

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CleverToad  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:56:55pm

re: #269 DesertDenizen

Thanks. BIL posts a lot of Republican & religious memes, but this is the most blatantly Trumpist thing I’ve seen out of him yet.

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austin_blue  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:57:23pm

re: #266 CleverToad

Brother-in-law posted this gem. Anyone know which movie they’re ripping off this time?

Rolling my eyes and biting my tongue soooo hard…

[Embedded content]

Gladiator. The opening scenes in Germania.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 8:58:31pm

re: #268 PrairieQueen

What a nice thing from the stranger, and what a nice turn on your part. I love hearing things like that. {{hearts}}

I felt guilty talking his money knowing that there were others who needed it way more. Sure, my knee was all messed up but I had money.

I’d never have been able to look myself in a mirror if I had kept it.

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danarchy  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:07:11pm

re: #28 Dr. Teddy’s Person

My mom made gobs when I was a kid. This pic is the closest I could find that look like the ones she made. In many of the online pics, the cookie was too dark.

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Ok, those are whoopie pies not ding dongs

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:08:55pm

Unhappy Albertans. The premier is horrid. Epically so. As are everyone in his cabinet.

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A Cranky One  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:15:21pm

re: #275 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I felt guilty talking his money knowing that there were others who needed it way more. Sure, my knee was all messed up but I had money.

I’d never have been able to look myself in a mirror if I had kept it.

I believe acts of kindness can only be thanked by paying it forward.

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austin_blue  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:16:10pm

Night all. Sweet dreams.

Let’s hope Nancy stirs the pot tomorrow. I love to see rats squirm.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:19:05pm
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Belafon  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:44:55pm

I wanted a 2-in-1 laptop, so I ended up buying a Samsung. It came with a 8gb of ram, which had me a little worried, but I can tell you that you don’t really notice it. Between my experience with this and other computers, I think that solid state drives may have been the most significant computer invention since the CPUs went 32 bit and supported multitasking.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:57:45pm

re: #273 CleverToad

Thanks. BIL posts a lot of Republican & religious memes, but this is the most blatantly Trumpist thing I’ve seen out of him yet.

I’m glad I’m an only child.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 9:58:18pm

And the wife only has a Berkeley hippy sister.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 2, 2021 • 10:12:23pm

I’m surely becoming more curmudgeonly as time goes by.

So I’m watching the latest season of Celebrity IOU, the show where the Scott brothers team up with someone famous to do good for said celebrity’s friend.

And I’m just offended by the whole thing.

First off, there is the underlying guilt-complex of celebrities who evidently think they need to help their public image.

Then there are the Scott brothers, who keep pushing their schtick, the center of which is convincing the English-speaking world that your kitchen just isn’t good enough.

Then there are the friends, the receivers of the help. Now obviously the show is as fake as the next “reality” TV show, but it’s worse than that. We’re supposed to believe that people with houses in SoCal, that have list prices above $1M (and perhaps substantially above a million), need the $100k or so to makeover a kitchen. And then somehow a design in which they were not involved is exactly what they want.

But here’s the thing: in the houses they’ve shown so far the places are fine, even good. The first episode has them tearing up a place that was already recently remodeled (according to Zillow the property was bought in April 2019 and the description describes the recent upgrades.)

The whole thing reeks of the problems of which we were warned in the documentary some time back The Century of the Self.

Now these shows on HGTV are not really about houses. Really. They are about emotions and relationships (in the first episode this means Jonathan Scott and his current squeeze Zoey. D. ) These shows are taking the place of what soap operas were 30 years ago combined with the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

This is what is wrong with America. This is why America elected a reality TV celebrity as President.

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BeachDem  Jan 2, 2021 • 10:15:49pm

re: #282 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m glad I’m an only child.

My mother advised me to marry an orphan with no siblings. I came close—only child with widowed mother, but it still didn’t work out.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 10:37:42pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 2, 2021 • 10:41:51pm

Fucking idiots.

Even if the Inauguration Ceremony was cancelled for some reason, DONALD TRUMPS TERM ENDS ON 1/20.

HARD stop.

There is absolutely NO feasible path that will keep Trump in office past that date except for unprecedented military action and the military has already said “Fuck no” to that.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 10:47:13pm

What qualifies someone to “sing” at Trump’s New Year’s Party…

…someone who got booed at the Soul Train Awards…

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ckkatz  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:01:10pm

re: #259 Dr Lizardo

I saw Inglorious Basterds in a theater when it came out, and I remember that scene very well - having lived here in Czech Republic for so long, when I saw that, my first thought was, “Aw shit, he just gave himself away as an American.” Czechs also do the thumb, index and middle fingers for three, just like Germans do.

This discussion reminds me of the old joke :

A Roman Centurion walks into a bar and holds up two fingers, saying: “Five beers please.”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:02:37pm

re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg

Peter Navarro says Pence has the authority to give them a ten day window and also says the inauguration date can be rescheduled

Fucking idiots.

Even if the Inauguration Ceremony was cancelled for some reason, DONALD TRUMPS TERM ENDS ON 1/20.

HARD stop.

There is absolutely NO feasible path that will keep Trump in office past that date except for unprecedented military action and the military has already said “Fuck no” to that.

I iz confused. Where did Peter Navarro get his law degree? Did he pass the bar while working for Trump?

OTOH Josh Hawley does have a law degree from Yale and taught constitutional law so maybe having a law degree and passing the bar is worthless in understanding the Constitution or our legal institutions. Or maybe shameless lying is the only credential needed in the era of Trump to espouse legal and constitutional concepts to support the President.

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ckkatz  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:04:36pm

For the heck of it, another one…

I thought that my wife was joking when she said that she wanted to see a Monkees cover band currently playing in Switzerland.
Then I saw her face; Now I’m in Geneva…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:18:09pm

If we have to have a revolution who the fuck are we supposed to shoot? It’s a dilemma.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:29:13pm

The hits keep on coming.

Just lost a high school pal to COVID. Pete died a couple hours ago…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 2, 2021 • 11:53:20pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 3, 2021 • 12:31:28am

I trimmed my beard the other day. It unfortunately looks more like Charlie Manson right now than the expected future look of my hero, John Muir. (I live within 5 miles of his house.)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 3, 2021 • 12:34:01am

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 12:45:08am

re: #295 Dread Pirate Ron

I trimmed my beard the other day. It unfortunately looks more like Charlie Manson right now than the expected future look of my hero, John Muir. (I live within 5 miles of his house.)

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A mask hides a multitude of sins — also trimming malfunctions.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 3, 2021 • 12:49:15am

re: #297 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

Yes, it does.

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fern01  Jan 3, 2021 • 1:00:02am

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

pathetic

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Pathetic ain’t the half of it. Cannot believe so many in congress support his attempts to overthrow democracy. The world has not believed what has come out of the US in the past 4 years. This takes the case.

I don’t post much - but I always like your take on things. Thanks for being here.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 3, 2021 • 1:19:50am
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Jan 3, 2021 • 1:34:04am

.

Ruud Brink & Ray Kaart - Just You Just Me Just Jazz - 08 - Sunday

..

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Sherlock Hound  Jan 3, 2021 • 2:38:56am

You think you have Brexit problems? Some people…

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 3, 2021 • 2:44:34am

re: #302 Sherlock Hound

You think you have Brexit problems? Some people…

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Looks like the Brits are about to suffer through the sex arsepocalypse.

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 2:50:50am
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 3:58:11am

re: #276 danarchy

We called them gobs.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 4:07:20am

re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg

[Embedded content]

Fucking idiots.

Even if the Inauguration Ceremony was cancelled for some reason, DONALD TRUMPS TERM ENDS ON 1/20.

HARD stop.

There is absolutely NO feasible path that will keep Trump in office past that date except for unprecedented military action and the military has already said “Fuck no” to that.

including military action

he declares martial law or martial arts or martian law or marital law, his term still ends.

chain of succession kicks in

yes granted, by taking force the whole game is over, but he’s not the president anymore. it would be something else

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 4:19:14am

re: #306 Dangerman

including military action

he declares martial law or martial arts or martian law or marital law, his term still ends.

chain of succession kicks in

yes granted, by taking force the whole game is over, but he’s not the president anymore. it would be something else

A tanks-on-the-street putsch does not change the de jure facts, it simply erases them together with the Republic.

But yes, a mere martial law “without the tanks” does nothing.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 4:27:09am
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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 4:30:14am
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PrairieQueen  Jan 3, 2021 • 4:33:41am

It really is perfect.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:10:03am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:18:32am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:21:47am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:23:48am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:25:46am

Us Texans just reelected this guy, so we asked for it:

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:29:41am
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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:38:30am

re: #316 Patricia Kayden

They will be exercising the rights given to them by the Constitution, so legally it’s neither violating the Constitution nor sedition.

It’s violating the spirit of democracy, but that’s another thing altogether.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:39:22am

re: #29 🌹UOJB!

The prick is going all in on overturning the election!

They’ve brought forth their “evidence” in multiple court cases and lost each and every time. Enough.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:41:38am

As far as the jay could see, No Fucks!

Good morning!

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:42:16am

re: #319 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

There are some behind the trees.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:44:23am

re: #317 Nyet

They will be exercising the rights given to them by the Constitution, so legally it’s neither violating the Constitution nor sedition.

It’s violating the spirit of democracy, but that’s another thing altogether.

In the same way that everything the Nazis did was legal.

Part of the Constitution’s general wording, in my opinion, was meant to make actions that violate the spirit of the law illegal even if they could be argued to be legal by the letter.

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:45:24am

I really hope Biden scraps all the unity crap in regard to the Trumpist fucks. (He will be pretty much forced to make concessions to the likes of Romney and McConnell to reach compromises, but he and his DOJ should be unforgiving against the treasonweasels).

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:46:59am
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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:47:07am

re: #321 Belafon

In the same way that everything the Nazis did was legal.

Part of the Constitution’s general wording, in my opinion, was meant to make actions that violate the spirit of the law illegal even if they could be argued to be legal by the letter.

Thank god the courts won’t see it this way. And no, most of the Nazi crimes were obvi not legal by the book.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:48:24am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:49:50am

re: #324 Nyet

Thank god the courts won’t see it this way. And no, most of the Nazi crimes were obvi not legal by the book.

The point being that the Nazis ultimately gained power by doing everything legally. They didn’t lead a revolution; the existing government gave them the power, and from there they rewrote everything in their favor.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:52:39am

re: #326 Belafon

Thankfully, this charade by Republicans will come to nought. Trump lost. It’s over. Playing these stupid games gets Republicans nowhere. I guess they’re trying to stay in Trump’s good graces for some reason.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:53:37am

re: #311 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

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unless someone is responsible, no one is responsible.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:58:35am

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?
I have a package that’s been sitting in Atlanta, somewhere, since Dec 22. Meanwhile, The Husband got stuff that was ordered after Christmas yesterday. I have another package I ordered yesterday, I guess we’ll see how that goes. I wonder if some parts of the country are worse than others with this. I also worry that the kid’s car payments aren’t going to get to where they need to be by the time he needs them to.(He pays by check and often will pay a few payments at once when he has extra money, I tried to talk him into paying online, but he keeps forgetting to set up the account) Hopefully USPS can get caught up now that holiday demand is about done. Just wondering if anyone else has stuff stuck in limbo and what part of the country you’re in.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 5:59:47am

re: #327 Patricia Kayden

Thankfully, this charade by Republicans will come to nought. Trump lost. It’s over. Playing these stupid games gets Republicans nowhere. I guess they’re trying to stay in Trump’s good graces for some reason.

I think they’re playing to Trump’s base.

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:01:26am

re: #314 Belafon

H-E-B says its pharmacies in Texas could administer about 100k COVID-19 vaccine doses a week.

The chain has just received 28k vaccines so far.

Early in the pandemic I remember reading an article about how exceptionally well-prepared H-E-B was for lockdowns, distancing, one-way traffic in store aisles etc. And protective gear for their staff. And early stocking up on paper products and shelf-stable foods.

Because middle-management had people who studied up on other countries and other pandemics and knew what needed doing, and upper management had people who listened to their staff and authorized all the preparations and expenses to pay for them.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:03:40am

re: #320 Nyet

There are some behind the trees.

Those are deer pellets.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:06:44am

re: #330 Belafon

Trump’s base which couldn’t deliver the election for Trump. A losing base. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:11:28am

re: #326 Belafon

The point being that the Nazis ultimately gained power by doing everything legally. They didn’t lead a revolution; the existing government gave them the power, and from there they rewrote everything in their favor.

That’s a different thesis from “everything the Nazis did was legal” and they didn’t really rewrite everything, most of their crimes were still against the laws on their own books, and the thesis “they came to power legally” is at the very least controversial (and in my opinion outright wrong, since they did not have the 2/3 of the votes necessary for the Ermächtigungsgesetz, their parliamentary trick being unconstitutional - tho there may be other opinions about that, but it’s far from proven that they came to power legally).

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:20:02am

Chutzpah is usually defined as a person who killed their parents asking for clemency because he is an orphan.

After Ted Cruz’s stunt the def needs to be updated.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:22:35am

re: #333 Patricia Kayden

Trump’s base which couldn’t deliver the election for Trump. A losing base. 🤷🏽‍♀️

No, but the GOP can’t win without them, especially in their current form.

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i(m)p(each)(again!)sos  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:25:16am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?

It’s been awful in western NY. I have Priority Mail packages that still haven’t arrived from the first week of December, and don’t even get me started on how far behind they are delivering magazines. I got one on Dec. 30 that had been mailed Nov. 30.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:26:21am

re: #334 Nyet

That’s a different thesis from “everything the Nazis did was legal” and they didn’t really rewrite everything, most of their crimes were still against the laws on their own books, and the thesis “they came to power legally” is at the very least controversial (and in my opinion outright wrong, since they did not have the 2/3 of the votes necessary for the Ermächtigungsgesetz, their parliamentary trick being unconstitutional - tho there may be other opinions about that, but it’s far from proven that they came to power legally).

My sentence wasn’t a thesis, though I will say that my definition of legal means “can do it unless you can be punished,” the definition Republicans like to use. And the rest of your paragraph really describes the GOP. Think of their blocking Garland from the Supreme Court.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:42:05am

re: #338 Belafon

My sentence wasn’t a thesis, though I will say that my definition of legal means “can do it unless you can be punished,” the definition Republicans like to use. And the rest of your paragraph really describes the GOP. Think of their blocking Garland from the Supreme Court.

Or, more importantly, their 2017 tax cut.

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mmmirele  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:43:52am

re: #314 Belafon

My local CVS (Arizona) has a big sign at the entrance:

We do NOT(highlighted) have the COVID-19 vaccine.

Given the number of 55+ communities in the area, they have likely been hammered with old folks asking if the vaccine is ready yet.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:45:42am
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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:46:36am

re: #338 Belafon

My sentence wasn’t a thesis, though I will say that my definition of legal means “can do it unless you can be punished,” the definition Republicans like to use. And the rest of your paragraph really describes the GOP. Think of their blocking Garland from the Supreme Court.

Their blocking was evil but entirely legal and cannot be punished legally, nor should it be. It should be punished politically, like expanding the SCOTUS etc.

Unlike, *arguably*, the Enabling law vote (as it was). Now, I will agree that tricks notwithstanding, the situation could have arisen where the Nazis would have truly legally overridden the Weimar Constitution with a real 2/3 majority (instead of the fictive one they conjured up). That was a built-in flaw in that Constitution, a one-shot democracy suicide option.

There’s no such *easy* option in the US constitution, but I think almost any Constitution pretty much provides an option for the death of a democracy. The US Constitution is no exception, it’s just the process is much longer.

I mean, *theoretically*, since the Constitution can be amended, the next amdt., if the voters so decide, could be the one that kills the Bill of Rights and the quasidemocratic voting process. That this won’t happen in the foreseeable future doesn’t mean that the option is not there.

The power of the Congress to kill the electoral votes is the closest it gets to the democracy-suicide-button (as elucidated in the very same ECA that Gohmert wants to kill). And this should be corrected somehow. Probably by a constitutional amdt. (there’s dreaming). But until then there’s simply no legal case for sedition or unconstitutional actions on the part of those who choose to vote that way (like there was no such case against those Dems who objected to the Ohio EVs in 2005).

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:48:19am

re: #165 PrairieQueen

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“We need say no more.” LOL!

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 6:50:47am
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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:15:14am

*pokes thread with a stick*
Good morning peeps!

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:17:50am

re: #45 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I binged it last weekend and thought it was fun.

eldest sister recommended this. I may have to bridge-watch bingerton. Oh, and the cat is looking fluffy and relaxed a month into her stay:

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:18:41am

re: #345 Rightwingconspirator

*pokes thread with a stick*
Good morning peeps!

Thread is dead, baby. Thread is dead.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:19:41am

Breakfast at the neighbors… “Live feed” lol

Live Hummingbird Feeder Cam, Bird Feeder, Studio City, California

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:19:49am

re: #346 steve_davis

eldest sister recommended this. I may have to bridge-watch bingerton. Oh, and the cat is looking fluffy and relaxed a month into her stay:

She looks more than relaxed; she looks like she owns the place. As it should be. 😉

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:22:14am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?
I have a package that’s been sitting in Atlanta, somewhere, since Dec 22. Meanwhile, The Husband got stuff that was ordered after Christmas yesterday. I have another package I ordered yesterday, I guess we’ll see how that goes. I wonder if some parts of the country are worse than others with this. I also worry that the kid’s car payments aren’t going to get to where they need to be by the time he needs them to.(He pays by check and often will pay a few payments at once when he has extra money, I tried to talk him into paying online, but he keeps forgetting to set up the account) Hopefully USPS can get caught up now that holiday demand is about done. Just wondering if anyone else has stuff stuck in limbo and what part of the country you’re in.

I am having a problem with receiving some medications that are sent by mail. Some stuff I ordered on Amazon gets delivered the next day but I am still waiting for two prescriptions that were ordered BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:23:08am

Okay, now Ann Coulter is a traitor too. Look at the subtweets.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:24:20am

re: #335 Nyet

Chutzpah is usually defined as a person who killed their parents asking for clemency because he is an orphan.

Yeah, the Menendez brothers LITERALLY did that back in the 90’s.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:32:43am

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:33:37am
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:39:12am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:41:12am

None other than Ann Coulter re-tweeted this back in 2015:

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:44:01am

re: #350 The Pie Overlord!

I am having a problem with receiving some medications that are sent by mail. Some stuff I ordered on Amazon gets delivered the next day but I am still waiting for two prescriptions that were ordered BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

I had a package make it to the greensboro hub, only to wind up in Illinois a day later. Dejoy is just messing with us until he’s fired.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:44:04am

re: #355 Patricia Kayden

Nah, Trump wouldn’t do the work of minions. He’d have to do something besides golf, photo ops and Twitter, no way. I honestly thought the homes of high ranking government officials had more security than this. I guess the security only follows them around and doesn’t pertain to residences unless the official person is there physically.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 7:50:03am

re: #357 steve_davis

My stuff that’s “lost” left the vendor in Aurora CO on Dec 2. It made it to Birmingham, AL on Dec 21 and then to Atlanta on Dec 22. It’s been sitting at one of 4 distribution centers since then. I can’t find an actual human to speak to, so I have no idea where it is exactly. I filed a missing mail report 2 days ago, got one standard response and then nothing else. This is the second report I’ve filed. The first one was ruled “resolved” because it was “on its way”. Next step is to file an insurance claim since it was sent out Priority Mail. What a pain in the ass.

(also, that kitty of yours is gorgeous, I love hearing about her adjusting to her new life with you)

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:02:32am

re: #319 jeffreyw

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:03:25am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:03:25am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?
I have a package that’s been sitting in Atlanta, somewhere, since Dec 22. Meanwhile, The Husband got stuff that was ordered after Christmas yesterday. I have another package I ordered yesterday, I guess we’ll see how that goes. I wonder if some parts of the country are worse than others with this. I also worry that the kid’s car payments aren’t going to get to where they need to be by the time he needs them to.(He pays by check and often will pay a few payments at once when he has extra money, I tried to talk him into paying online, but he keeps forgetting to set up the account) Hopefully USPS can get caught up now that holiday demand is about done. Just wondering if anyone else has stuff stuck in limbo and what part of the country you’re in.

Yes I posted before about getting my October AND November Dental insurance bills IN DECEMBER. Lots of complaints here in Los Angeles about people not getting their Christmas packages. USPS did major reshuffling here of personnel and post office assignments. Our reliable postlady was transferred across town and her delivery route doubled. Sorting machines were junked and never replaced so workers now have to hand sort everything. AND they’re sorting it wrong! I’m getting mail for other people in my building and they’re getting my mail! Our new postman is a MAGAT who has been awfully rude to Latinos in my building.

I lay the blame on that motherfather DeJoy and Fuckface Von KKKlownstiKKK.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:04:01am

Wow wow wow Chuck Todd grows a pair.

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nines09  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:04:58am

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:06:44am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?
I have a package that’s been sitting in Atlanta, somewhere, since Dec 22. Meanwhile, The Husband got stuff that was ordered after Christmas yesterday. I have another package I ordered yesterday, I guess we’ll see how that goes. I wonder if some parts of the country are worse than others with this. I also worry that the kid’s car payments aren’t going to get to where they need to be by the time he needs them to.(He pays by check and often will pay a few payments at once when he has extra money, I tried to talk him into paying online, but he keeps forgetting to set up the account) Hopefully USPS can get caught up now that holiday demand is about done. Just wondering if anyone else has stuff stuck in limbo and what part of the country you’re in.

One package lost, one sat in a warehouse somewhere for weeks, but eventually arrived. The first class mail I’ve sent (I have a couple of bills I can only pay with checks) has all arrived.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:07:31am

re: #349 Dr. Teddy’s Person

She looks more than relaxed; she looks like she owns the place. As it should be. 😉

…as they all do

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:13:35am

re: #340 mmmirele

My local CVS (Arizona) has a big sign at the entrance:

We do NOT(highlighted) have the COVID-19 vaccine.

Given the number of 55+ communities in the area, they have likely been hammered with old folks asking if the vaccine is ready yet.

In my locality:

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:15:15am

re: #366 Dangerman

The second a cat comes into your life, you are no longer the boss of anything. No exceptions. Doggos are this to some degree, but they can go through obedience training which takes the wind out of their sails a little. Cleo hasn’t figured out that I am not her personal servant, but she has figured out that this lady person won’t give her what she wants til she listens and does as she’s asked. Try doing that with a cat, lol, I crack myself up.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:17:34am

re: #337 i(m)p(each)sos

It’s been awful in western NY. I have Priority Mail packages that still haven’t arrived from the first week of December, and don’t even get me started on how far behind they are delivering magazines. I got one on Dec. 30 that had been mailed Nov. 30.

Oh magazines—-I haven’t received the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin since October. And as for Consumer Reports I’ve gone digital like I did with The Economist because the November Consumer Reports showed up in my mailbox shredded.

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:18:08am

re: #350 The Pie Overlord!

I am having a problem with receiving some medications that are sent by mail. Some stuff I ordered on Amazon gets delivered the next day but I am still waiting for two prescriptions that were ordered BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

I was able to switch medications from mail order to a local pharmacy, so I’m not relying on the mail for that one essential.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:18:58am

re: #356 Eric The Fruit Bat

None other than Ann Coulter re-tweeted this back in 2015:

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“Even Ann Coulter thinks pineapple on pizza is bad” will be my argument whenever people argue against it.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:23:21am

re: #361 Dangerman

Unfortunately, Pelosi has already said that she will seat the traitors. Not sure why but I guess there’s no point in adding fuel to the fire when what they’re doing is so pointless.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:24:32am

re: #370 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!

I was able to switch medications from mail order to a local pharmacy, so I’m not relying on the mail for that one essential.

I couldn’t sleep last night because my ambien prescription was not delivered. I finally fell asleep at about 4:00 am and then

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:24:32am

re: #350 The Pie Overlord!

I am having a problem with receiving some medications that are sent by mail. Some stuff I ordered on Amazon gets delivered the next day but I am still waiting for two prescriptions that were ordered BEFORE CHRISTMAS.

So did a man in my apartment building who didn’t get his insulin from the VA on time and the paramedics had to take him to the ER. Kaiser got so many complaints from people not getting their prescriptions delivered in time by the Post Office that they started a delivery service that will bring the RX to your home. $7.50 per RX.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:26:08am

re: #373 The Pie Overlord!

I couldn’t sleep last night because my ambien prescription was not delivered. I finally fell asleep at about 4:00 am and then

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A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:27:04am

re: #373 The Pie Overlord!

I couldn’t sleep last night because my ambien prescription was not delivered. I finally fell asleep at about 4:00 am and then

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mmmirele  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:28:29am

I went out to picket Evident Life Church Gilbert today, with my current signs, you’ve seen them before. I did think about not going back at the top of the hour for the second service, but you know, I turned on the church service when I was in my car (Internet FTW) and heard a guy say that God was going to flip the election.

Nope, and they get special signs for that, which I’m working on now.

“ERIC JONES IS A FALSE PROPHET” and “GOD DOES NOT FLIP ELECTIONS. PEOPLE DO.”

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:34:26am

Going thru my e-mail and I have 22 e-mails from Ossoff asking for $$$ from Saturday & today…I gave $$$ to Stacey’s Fair Fight instead. She REALLY knows how to get the votes out!

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:34:35am

re: #327 Patricia Kayden

Vying for tRump’s base.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:35:07am

re: #373 The Pie Overlord!

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:35:23am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Absolutely. 4 packages now.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:36:30am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

Unfortunately, Pelosi has already said that she will seat the traitors. Not sure why but I guess there’s no point in adding fuel to the fire when what they’re doing is so pointless.

She is making the only play possible. To refuse them seats lends credence to their claims. Here’s your seat, now sit down and shut up.

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:37:02am

re: #221 Barefoot Grin

I was so lucky that I had a rich and kind roommate who let me use his to write my senior honors thesis.

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In fairness, at the time, Apple was basically it if you did graphics, photography, or presumably writing/publishing, because their monitors were damned good, and my remembrance, dim as that remembrance is, is that even the physics department had folks using Apple computers because they had some serious computing power compared to microsoft/intel.

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lizardofid  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:37:48am

Good morning!

I rolled thru the Sunday morning shows and came out with a couple of observations.

1. Chuck Todd is trying to grow a spine (too little too late obviously).

2. Brett Baier is going to primary Chris Wallace isn’t he.

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A Mom Anon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:38:07am

re: #381 plansbandc

Sigh. Hopefully now that the holiday madness is subsiding this will clear up some. This is a textbook case of why just appointing any “business leader” into a position like DeJoy is just fucking stupid. Mr Supply Chain Expert my ass.

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:38:39am

re: #372 Patricia Kayden

Unfortunately, Pelosi has already said that she will seat the traitors. Not sure why but I guess there’s no point in adding fuel to the fire when what they’re doing is so pointless.

Could be her way to relegitimize the results

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Dangerman  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:40:42am

re: #385 A Mom Anon

Sigh. Hopefully now that the holiday madness is subsiding this will clear up some. This is a textbook case of why just appointing any “business leader” into a position like DeJoy is just fucking stupid. Mr Supply Chain Expert my ass.

Not an expert
A campaign donor

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:43:43am

re: #387 Dangerman

Not an expert
A campaign donor

De Joy is a corporate pimp. A parasite.

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:45:02am

re: #369 🌹UOJB!

Back in the olden days, I had a Sports Illustrated subscription. I would always get it a couple of days later than I should have and it was obviously pawed through. My mailman, or someone in the postal orifice liked Sports Illustrated.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:46:28am

re: #378 🌹UOJB!

Going thru my e-mail and I have 22 e-mails from Ossoff asking for $$$ from Saturday & today…I gave $$$ to Stacey’s Fair Fight instead. She REALLY knows how to get the votes out!

All three of them performed above average.

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mmmirele  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:49:05am

“Bean Dad” is trending on Twitter right now, because some apocalypse dad had his hungry 9 YO daughter struggle with a can opener for six hours before he showed her how to use it to open a can of beans. Oh yeah, and dad was working a jigsaw puzzle at the same time. While a few people are cheering him for treating his daughter like this, most people are telling him he was a jerk. I agree with the latter. This is sucky parenting.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:52:26am

I’m obviously not a Georgian. Since I’m in Texas, I would love to be in the position Georgia Democrats are in. But, in the general election, Warnock led Loeffler, while Perdue led Ossoff. The only reasonable explanation for that is that the accusations of trading and other issues hurt Loeffler. Thus, being able to get out a message is still important.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:54:05am

re: #391 mmmirele

That’s not how you teach, unless your pupil is Stephen Strange.

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:59:59am

re: #389 plansbandc

Back in the olden days, I had a Sports Illustrated subscription. I would always get it a couple of days later than I should have and it was obviously pawed through. My mailman, or someone in the postal orifice liked Sports Illustrated.

when you eventually got the swimsuit issue, were the pages stuck together?

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 8:59:59am

re: #391 mmmirele

“Bean Dad” is trending on Twitter right now, because some apocalypse dad had his hungry 9 YO daughter struggle with a can opener for six hours before he showed her how to use it to open a can of beans. Oh yeah, and dad was working a jigsaw puzzle at the same time. While a few people are cheering him for treating his daughter like this, most people are telling him he was a jerk. I agree with the latter. This is sucky parenting.

What kind of can opener would take a 9 year old six hours and noy figure out how to use?
This one?

This one?

Or this one?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:04:06am

re: #361 Dangerman

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:04:48am

Kelly Loeffler Admits to Fox Anchor She Won’t Give Straight Answer: ‘That’s Right’

thedailybeast.com

She’s nothing more than a Chatty Cathy doll. Pull the sting in her back and it’s one of ten sentences this automaton will utter.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:05:19am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

That first one would be especially hard for anyone who’s used to taking the “lid” off vs the entire top of the can. Because you latch it on completely differently.

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retired cynic  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:05:42am

re: #383 steve_davis

In fairness, at the time, Apple was basically it if you did graphics, photography, or presumably writing/publishing, because their monitors were damned good, and my remembrance, dim as that remembrance is, is that even the physics department had folks using Apple computers because they had some serious computing power compared to microsoft/intel.

Graphics, it is still it, as far as I am concerned!

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:07:54am

We’re going to overthrow the legal order, but first sign this NDA.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:08:55am

re: #317 Nyet

They will be exercising the rights given to them by the Constitution, so legally it’s neither violating the Constitution nor sedition.

It’s violating the spirit of democracy, but that’s another thing altogether.

If I go to my local police department and tell them my house has been burglarized and provide a list of items taken, that action is perfectly legal if my report is true or is what I believe to be true. If, however, I am lying, my action is a crime.

The members of the Senate and most of the members of the House who are taking this action are lying and they know they are lying. That is a crime and it is sedition because it is a deliberate attempt to overturn the results of an election. If both Houses were controlled by Republicans, they could very well get away with this.

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lizardofid  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:09:00am

re: #398 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That first one would be especially hard for anyone who’s used to taking the “lid” off vs the entire top of the can. Because you latch it on completely differently.

I’ve struggled with his one.

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nines09  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:09:12am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:09:46am

Trump is attacking Loeffler and Perdue on twitter again. He doesn’t want them to win a state he lost.

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:10:20am

re: #391 mmmirele

John Roderick. He’s cohost with Ken Jennings of a podcast I really like called “The Omnibus.”

Really shitty and abusive parenting, in my opinion. Pushed a lot of buttons for me. I need to be shown how to do things, it’s how I learn.

Fun part is, instead of even trying to see how shitty he was, he’s pouting and defending himself. Dick.

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:11:14am

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:11:21am

re: #394 sagehen

Thankfully, that was the one issue that was wrapped in plastic. :D :D

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:11:30am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:12:08am

re: #404 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Trump is attacking Loeffler and Perdue on twitter again. He doesn’t want them to win a state he lost.

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To be clear, Trump retweeted Amy Kremer’s attack on Perdue and Loeffler.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:12:12am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

What kind of can opener would take a 9 year old six hours and noy figure out how to use?
This one?

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Wow, we own 2 of the 3 pictured.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:12:24am

re: #398 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

That first one would be especially hard for anyone who’s used to taking the “lid” off vs the entire top of the can. Because you latch it on completely differently.

Yes, that one is hard to figure out if you are used to the bottom kind that bites into the can. The middle kind is one that my grandmother had and I never learned how to use it because why would I, when we had the “biter” and also an electric can opener?

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:12:38am

re: #398 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I bought that one and absolutely cannot work it. Had to buy an old school one instead.

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:12:45am
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Renaissance_Man  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:14:18am

re: #392 Belafon

I’m obviously not a Georgian. Since I’m in Texas, I would love to be in the position Georgia Democrats are in. But, in the general election, Warnock led Loeffler, while Perdue led Ossoff. The only reasonable explanation for that is that the accusations of trading and other issues hurt Loeffler. Thus, being able to get out a message is still important.

There are other explanations. A black preacher is going to have more credibility with the Democratic base in Georgia than a white liberal. Furthermore, people have elected Perdue, and that incumbency counts for something, while an out of touch rich white woman who is an outsider and was given her seat isn’t going to command the same advantage. Overall I think Warnock has a chance. Not a good one, but a chance.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:14:29am

re: #410 Eventual Carrion

Wow, we own 2 of the 3 pictured.

Yeah, we have 2 of the 3. The top one, Pampered Chef, locks in place horizontally and removed the top of the can below the rim. Zedie likes to use it once he figured it out. I prefer the bottom photo which is the can opener that most of us are used to.

That middle one is for antique lovers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:14:32am

re: #340 mmmirele

My local CVS (Arizona) has a big sign at the entrance:

We do NOT(highlighted) have the COVID-19 vaccine.

Given the number of 55+ communities in the area, they have likely been hammered with old folks asking if the vaccine is ready yet.

I was in a CVS yesterday and saw the same thing. But it also occurred to me Pharmacies are probably an ideal distribution method for the vaccine.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:14:59am

re: #402 lizardofid

I’ve struggled with his one.

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I’ve never even seen that. How does it work?

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:15:35am

re: #402 lizardofid

I’ve struggled with his one.

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Was it a Reading or a Shelby? Shelby made was the best.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:16:52am

re: #416 Eclectic Cyborg

I was in a CVS yesterday and saw the same thing. But it also occurred to me Pharmacies are probably an ideal distribution method for the vaccine.

CVS near me is advertising they will have it.

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lizardofid  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:18:03am

re: #417 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

I’ve never even seen that. How does it work?

Link

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:18:22am

re: #412 plansbandc

I bought that one and absolutely cannot work it. Had to buy an old school one instead.

It’s easy once you figure it out. Kinda harder to “turn”. I have an electric one that does that. It’s nice because there’re no sharp bits.

I use a standard OXO opener. Easier on my hands.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:18:48am

re: #402 lizardofid

I’ve struggled with his one.

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Mom AND Dad struggled to get that one to work. Remember the time Dad brought a box of old school C-Rations home and out of curiosity we TRIED to open the cans with that gizmo. Mom joked that it would probably take 3 weeks of Basic Training to figure out how to get it to work…Finally Mom just put the cans in our regular opener and the main dish was lima beans with chunks of ham which tasted pretty good!

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:20:08am

re: #369 🌹UOJB!

Oh magazines—-I haven’t received the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin since October. And as for Consumer Reports I’ve gone digital like I did with The Economist because the November Consumer Reports showed up in my mailbox shredded.

my grandfather used to tell a wonderful story about how back in the 1960’s he subscribed to Mother Jones, only to have it never be delivered. He finally wandered down to the post office, after having been assured by the publisher that they were indeed sending it to him. Surprise, surprise! They were all in the back, in a bundle. It was redneck-ville Pennsylvania, and the postmaster apparently decided Tom Davis wasn’t getting copies of Mother Jones.

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lizardofid  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:20:56am

re: #418 jeffreyw

Was it a Reading or a Shelby? Shelby made was the best.

I’m not sure. It was handed to me on a camp trip. (I never received training from Uncle Sam)

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:21:40am

re: #420 lizardofid

Link

Ah. That makes sense when you’re in a foxhole. Not great for general kitchen use. 😁

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:22:51am

America, 2021:

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:23:30am

re: #421 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

It’s easy once you figure it out. Kinda harder to “turn”. I have an electric one that does that. It’s nice because there’re no sharp bits.

I have a Hamilton-Beach can opener that does a process where the lid gets separated from the can, so it can be sealed up by putting the lid back on cleanly - no sharp edges. And i believe OXO has the same kind of opener but it’s manual.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:23:34am

re: #371 Belafon

“Even Ann Coulter thinks pineapple on pizza is bad” will be my argument whenever people argue against it.

Everything Ann Coulter says and endorses is performative malice bounded only by whimsical authoritarianism and her assent is an argument for pineapple on pizza.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:24:00am

There is one special type of can opener for opening cans of evaporated milk, which have no rim.

I never learned how to open that type of can because I never buy evaporated milk.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:24:24am

re: #427 Eclectic Cyborg

America, 2021:

Trump continues to work for a constituency of one.

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nines09  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:25:46am

re: #430 The Pie Overlord!

It’s called a knife? That’s what my mother did and every other mom when I was younger. Puncture and twist. One larger one smaller, and pour.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:26:32am

re: #422 🌹UOJB!

…Finally Mom just put the cans in our regular opener and the main dish was lima beans with chunks of ham which tasted pretty good!

I opened a can of them once and it had no ham, no beans. The can was full of water. It did have a glob of floating fat.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:27:33am

re: #392 Belafon

I’m obviously not a Georgian. Since I’m in Texas, I would love to be in the position Georgia Democrats are in. But, in the general election, Warnock led Loeffler, while Perdue led Ossoff. The only reasonable explanation for that is that the accusations of trading and other issues hurt Loeffler. Thus, being able to get out a message is still important.

That’s not exactly what happened in the Loeffler race. There were 3 serious contenders, two of whom were Republican. Warnock got 32.9%, Loeffler 25.9%, and Collins 20%. It’s really unclear what would have happened in a 2 person race; Warnock may have won.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:30:58am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:32:22am
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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:32:49am

re: #399 retired cynic

Graphics, it is still it, as far as I am concerned!

Yeah, I just glanced at the Mac Pro when I saw your reply. “Up to 28 core.” Holy smokin’ toledo.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:34:25am

re: #437 steve_davis

Yeah, I just glanced at the Mac Pro when I saw your reply. “Up to 28 core.” Holy smokin’ toledo.

I’m still getting used to how fast my new Mac Mini M1 is compared to my older Intel version. Been playing chess between them and the M1 calculates faster and deeper with the same program.

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nines09  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:35:45am
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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:36:28am

re: #435 Dr. Teddy’s Person

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Goofball Greene doesn’t wear a mask, don’t swear her in and ban her from the chamber.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:37:12am

By the way did that QAnon Asshole Bobbert bring her gun to the chamber when she was sworn in?

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:45:17am

After some quick googling, she applied for a conceal carry permit for DC and is waiting for a response. Nothing about whether she got the permit.

We’ll know she got it if she walks onto the House floor like this:

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:46:46am

re: #432 nines09

It’s called a knife? That’s what my mother did and every other mom when I was younger. Puncture and twist. One larger one smaller, and pour.

it’s called a bottle opener. you want to use the side that has the triangular piece on it, as oopposed to the part with the more oval piece that is actually used for bottle caps. It punches two holes in the can so it can be poured.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:49:18am

re: #442 🌹UOJB!

By the way did that QAnon Asshole Bobbert bring her gun to the chamber when she was sworn in?

I was just about to say the assholes bitching about masks are the same ones who want to bring loaded guns into the chamber.

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nines09  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:52:38am

re: #444 steve_davis

Yep.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:52:49am
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Belafon  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:55:05am

re: #402 lizardofid

I’ve struggled with his one.

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I have one of those on my keyring, mostly for show, though it does make it rough to toss them to someone else.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 3, 2021 • 9:56:39am

re: #329 A Mom Anon

Has anyone else experienced late mail delivery or lost packages from late Nov, til now?
I have a package that’s been sitting in Atlanta, somewhere, since Dec 22. Meanwhile, The Husband got stuff that was ordered after Christmas yesterday. I have another package I ordered yesterday, I guess we’ll see how that goes. I wonder if some parts of the country are worse than others with this. I also worry that the kid’s car payments aren’t going to get to where they need to be by the time he needs them to.(He pays by check and often will pay a few payments at once when he has extra money, I tried to talk him into paying online, but he keeps forgetting to set up the account) Hopefully USPS can get caught up now that holiday demand is about done. Just wondering if anyone else has stuff stuck in limbo and what part of the country you’re in.

I have not seen a few boxes still that were sent to me around Christmas. And a card from the western part of the state took over a week to reach me.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:00:39am

A woman I used to go to church with posted on FB this morning asking for prayers for her son. He has Covid and double pneumonia. He lives in a rural area. Went to the ER, no beds available so they gave him a steroid shot and sent him home.

This woman is furious the hospital could not find a bed for her son.

Oh, did I mention this family are mostly Trumpers?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:01:21am

re: #450 Eclectic Cyborg

A woman I used to go to church with posted on FB this morning asking for prayers for her son. He has Covid and double pneumonia. He lives in a rural area. Went to the ER, no beds available so they gave him a steroid shot and sent him home.

This woman is furious the hospital could not find a bed for her son.

Oh, did I mention this family are mostly Trumpers?

So she’s pissed at Biden then?

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Nojay UK  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:02:21am

re: #437 steve_davis

Yeah, I just glanced at the Mac Pro when I saw your reply. “Up to 28 core.” Holy smokin’ toledo.

AMD-based Threadripper CPUs have 64 cores, 128 threads and comfortably outperform anything Apple sells, dollar for dollar. The big downside is some programs like Lightroom only run on the Apple operating system and you can’t legally run OS/X on a VM on better hardware than Apple sells.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:04:13am

re: #368 A Mom Anon

The second a cat comes into your life, you are no longer the boss of anything. No exceptions. Doggos are this to some degree, but they can go through obedience training which takes the wind out of their sails a little. Cleo hasn’t figured out that I am not her personal servant, but she has figured out that this lady person won’t give her what she wants til she listens and does as she’s asked. Try doing that with a cat, lol, I crack myself up.

Cats have been known to just pick up stakes and move out if they don’t like the place. One of a friend’s cats decided the neighbors were a better place to live and essentially moved in with them.

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:06:39am

We are all stressed out in this house. I find that I am making everyone’s comfort foods at least once a day. For Z, it’s burgers and matzah brie. For my son, pizza and chicken shnitzel. For me, waffles and mac & cheese. Obviously not all at the same meal.

Oh yeah and sourdough bread every day.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:07:34am

re: #453 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Cats have been known to just pick up stakes and move out if they don’t like the place. One of a friend’s cats decided the neighbors were a better place to live and essentially moved in with them.

That’s precisely what happened with my friends Nancy and Tom. A neighbor’s cat decided to move in with them. Kitty wouldn’t go back to her previous owners so Nancy and Tom took Boots in. Boots is a cuddly critter loves to be rubbed and boy does he puuuurrrrrr!

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:08:29am

re: #395 The Pie Overlord!

And you need some torque to make some of those manual can openers work.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:10:08am

re: #454 The Pie Overlord!

We are all stressed out in this house. I find that I am making everyone’s comfort foods at least once a day. For Z, it’s burgers and matzah brie. For my son, pizza and chicken shnitzel. For me, waffles and mac & cheese. Obviously not all at the same meal.

Oh yeah and sourdough bread every day.

I miss the gym. Working out every day gave me a chance to indulge on Friday Nights and weekends. Now I’ve just been walking 2-3 miles after work and on weekends it’s in the late afternoon…Not the same as working out on an elliptical for 45 minutes twice a day at the YMCA…

Latest from the YMCA is that they will still be closed indefinitely.

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:12:31am
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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:12:56am

re: #423 steve_davis

my grandfather used to tell a wonderful story about how back in the 1960’s he subscribed to Mother Jones, only to have it never be delivered. He finally wandered down to the post office, after having been assured by the publisher that they were indeed sending it to him. Surprise, surprise! They were all in the back, in a bundle. It was redneck-ville Pennsylvania, and the postmaster apparently decided Tom Davis wasn’t getting copies of Mother Jones.

And this was what southern postmasters were doing to anti-slavery materials previous to the Civil War.

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:13:32am

re: #401 Hecuba’s daughter

If I go to my local police department and tell them my house has been burglarized and provide a list of items taken, that action is perfectly legal if my report is true or is what I believe to be true. If, however, I am lying, my action is a crime.

The members of the Senate and most of the members of the House who are taking this action are lying and they know they are lying. That is a crime and it is sedition because it is a deliberate attempt to overturn the results of an election. If both Houses were controlled by Republicans, they could very well get away with this.

“If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:15:16am

re: #458 jaunte

This lying, cheating motherfucker needs to spend the remainder of his days behind bars. Not surprising, but infuriating.
🤬🤬🤬

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:15:28am

JFC listen to this. He is literally threatening the state of Georgia unless they “do him a little favor.”

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:18:19am

re: #462 The Pie Overlord!

JFC listen to this. He is literally threatening the state of Georgia unless they “do him a little favor.”

He’s supposed to be having a rally tomorrow in GA for the runoff. I wonder what he’ll talk about. //

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The Pie Overlord!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:20:51am

My GD that phone call makes the Ukraine phone call seem “perfect.”

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Semper Fi  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:21:19am

re: #461 Dr. Teddy’s Person

This lying, cheating motherfucker needs to spend the remainder of his days behind bars. Not surprising, but infuriating.
🤬🤬🤬

It is so close to treason that it damn sure is.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:22:49am

re: #423 steve_davis

my grandfather used to tell a wonderful story about how back in the 1960’s he subscribed to Mother Jones, only to have it never be delivered. He finally wandered down to the post office, after having been assured by the publisher that they were indeed sending it to him. Surprise, surprise! They were all in the back, in a bundle. It was redneck-ville Pennsylvania, and the postmaster apparently decided Tom Davis wasn’t getting copies of Mother Jones.

Typical of Pennsyltucky. Remember when I subscribed to The Nation in the 70s and the same thing happened to me. Postmaster did not agree with the antiwar sentiments they expressed and wouldn’t deliver them. Oh but he gladly distributed the National Review and Bircher American Opinion to neighbors…just another reason why I gave up on PA and moved to California and I would NEVER go back…

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:23:55am

re: #433 jeffreyw

I opened a can of them once and it had no ham, no beans. The can was full of water. It did have a glob of floating fat.

Lucky! (Ham and Lima beans was universally hated when I was on Active in the early 80’s before we got MRE’s)

Ham and Eggs, Chopped or Turkey Loaf were almost as horrific.

I did like the Spaghetti meal and if you had the time to stew them, the Track Pads and Road Wheels (aka slices of beef and potato, interleaved.) could be made edible.

Pound cake & fruit cocktail were major wins too. For some reason, apricots were considered bad luck in Armor units and forbidden on tanks.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:26:08am

re: #451 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So she’s pissed at Biden then?

No doubt that’s who she will blame…

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:26:12am
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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:27:48am

re: #467 William Lewis

Lucky! (Ham and Lima beans was universally hated when I was on Active in the early 80’s before we got MRE’s)

Ham and Eggs, Chopped or Turkey Loaf were almost as horrific.

I did like the Spaghetti meal and if you had the time to stew them, the Track Pads and Road Wheels (aka slices of beef and potato, interleaved.) could be made edible.

Pound cake & fruit cocktail were major wins too. For some reason, apricots were considered bad luck in Armor units and forbidden on tanks.

Why apricots are the most despised fruit in the military

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:28:22am

re: #458 jaunte

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An hour? Good Lord, it was awful listening to 4.5 minutes of that.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:30:37am

re: #462 The Pie Overlord!

JFC listen to this. He is literally threatening the state of Georgia unless they “do him a little favor.”

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Wow.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:30:37am

re: #464 The Pie Overlord!

My GD that phone call makes the Ukraine phone call seem “perfect.”

Let’s remember — we have never heard the actual Ukraine call nor have we seen a complete transcript of that call, but only what Trump released.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:31:32am

Nice to know that advanced civilizations on other worlds have self-annihilated…

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.

That’s the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent life in time and space across the Milky Way. Their results amount to a more precise 2020 update of a famous equation that Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence founder Frank Drake wrote in 1961. The Drake equation, popularized by physicist Carl Sagan in his “Cosmos” miniseries, relied on a number of mystery variables — like the prevalence of planets in the universe, then an open question.

This new paper, authored by three Caltech physicists and one high school student, is much more practical. It says where and when life is most likely to occur in the Milky Way, and identifies the most important factor affecting its prevalence: intelligent creatures’ tendency toward self-annihilation.

space.com

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:32:04am

Lenigrad Lindsey is on the hot seat and all in on gender studies apparently.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:36:28am

re: #474 🌹UOJB!

That has always been my main theory on why we have no evidence of advanced life on other star systems: every intelligent life form with technological capabilities eventually self-destructs. There may be aliens who live a pastoral life and have shunned technology, but we wouldn’t detect their presence.

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HRH Stanley Sea  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:37:46am

His voice is so high pitched & whiny. He’s impaired.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:40:03am

re: #474 🌹UOJB!

Nice to know that advanced civilizations on other worlds have self-annihilated…

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.

That’s the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent life in time and space across the Milky Way. Their results amount to a more precise 2020 update of a famous equation that Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence founder Frank Drake wrote in 1961. The Drake equation, popularized by physicist Carl Sagan in his “Cosmos” miniseries, relied on a number of mystery variables — like the prevalence of planets in the universe, then an open question.

This new paper, authored by three Caltech physicists and one high school student, is much more practical. It says where and when life is most likely to occur in the Milky Way, and identifies the most important factor affecting its prevalence: intelligent creatures’ tendency toward self-annihilation.

space.com

That is a lot of speculation since we still haven’t found any life on any other planet, much less technologically advanced life. Though the one example we do have does seem determined to annihilate itself.

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jeffreyw  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:41:37am

re: #467 William Lewis

Lucky! (Ham and Lima beans was universally hated when I was on Active in the early 80’s before we got MRE’s)

Ham and Eggs, Chopped or Turkey Loaf were almost as horrific.

I did like the Spaghetti meal and if you had the time to stew them, the Track Pads and Road Wheels (aka slices of beef and potato, interleaved.) could be made edible.

Pound cake & fruit cocktail were major wins too. For some reason, apricots were considered bad luck in Armor units and forbidden on tanks.

We called the ham and motherfuckers. I would eat them. I was going to eat the can of them that I opened. “Godammit! I didn’t really expect to see any ham, they didn’t even add the motherfuckers!’
I would eat H&MFers before I opened a can of chopped ham and eggs. That shit was vile. Peaches and pound cake was the prize.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:42:50am

I imaging Emperor Orange is stomping through the West Wing trying to find out who leaked the phone call.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:43:51am

re: #476 Hecuba’s daughter

That has always been my main theory on why we have no evidence of advanced life on other star systems: every intelligent life form with technological capabilities eventually self-destructs. There may be aliens who live a pastoral life and have shunned technology, but we wouldn’t detect their presence.

That is one theory. We still don’t know how often life arises when liquid water is present, how often life evolves into multicellular animals, how often those animals develop intelligence, and how often intelligent animals develop technologically sophisticated civilizations.

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BeachDem  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:44:15am

re: #472 HRH Stanley Sea

Wow.

If this isn’t a mafia don talking, I don’t know what is:

“So tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it’s not fair to take it away from us like this,” Trump said. “And it’s going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say that you’re going to reexamine it, and you can reexamine it, but reexamine it with people that want to find answers, not people who don’t want to find answers.”

Just when I think he can’t possibly be more repulsive, he proves me wrong.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:44:25am

re: #480 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I imaging Emperor Orange is stomping through the West Wing trying to find out who leaked the phone call.

He’s screaming for lunch so I wonder what flunky is going to McDonalds to pick up a dozen Bic Macs…

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:44:39am

re: #422 🌹UOJB!

Mom AND Dad struggled to get that one to work. Remember the time Dad brought a box of old school C-Rations home and out of curiosity we TRIED to open the cans with that gizmo. Mom joked that it would probably take 3 weeks of Basic Training to figure out how to get it to work…Finally Mom just put the cans in our regular opener and the main dish was lima beans with chunks of ham which tasted pretty good!

We were required to maintain a couple emergency cases of C-rats in Korea. All my kids self-qualified on the P-38 when they found out about the date-nut cake.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:45:41am
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:45:50am

re: #480 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I imaging Emperor Orange is stomping through the West Wing trying to find out who leaked the phone call.

Probably Raffensperger or someone in his office.

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🌹UOJB!  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:46:54am

re: #484 Decatur Deb

We were required to maintain a couple emergency cases of C-rats in Korea. All my kids self-qualified on the P-38 when they found out about the date-nut cake.

I remember the cakes They were quite tasty. Was surprised to find Postum included in the ration packs along with 2 Chesterfield cigarettes and of course the tightly wrapped toilet paper…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:48:15am

re: #480 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I imaging Emperor Orange is stomping through the West Wing trying to find out who leaked the phone call.

I would suspect that Raffensperger did

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:48:29am

re: #486 NO SMOCKING GUN!

I just glanced at the article in WaPo. DT is desperate. He truly does not grasp that you cannot horse trade an election. He lost and is refusing to accept it.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:49:18am

re: #480 Dr. Teddy’s Person

I imaging Emperor Orange is stomping through the West Wing trying to find out who leaked the phone call.

I’m going to bet it came from Atlanta.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:51:41am

re: #476 Hecuba’s daughter

That has always been my main theory on why we have no evidence of advanced life on other star systems: every intelligent life form with technological capabilities eventually self-destructs. There may be aliens who live a pastoral life and have shunned technology, but we wouldn’t detect their presence.

High tech means force multiplication of manpower, which means it takes fewer and fewer people to create a situation that destroys the planetary civilization, whether that’s a single spectacular accident or the people with power playing brinksmanship with what nature can bear.

It’s not just that there’s a bunch of dead planets out there, it’s that there’s a bunch of murdered planets and planets that died because of someone’s stupid stunt.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2021 • 10:59:51am

re: #487 🌹UOJB!

I remember the cakes They were quite tasty. Was surprised to find Postum included in the ration packs along with 2 Chesterfield cigarettes and of course the tightly wrapped toilet paper…

If they had cigarettes, you had really old ones. We had the last generation, remaindered in the commissaries after the into of MREs.

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Dr. Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2021 • 11:01:46am

re: #486 NO SMOCKING GUN!

re: #490 Barefoot Grin

re: #488 Backwoods_Sleuth

The West Wing is within stomping distance, and he needs his pound of flesh. Logic and facts be damned.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 3, 2021 • 11:04:38am

re: #489 PhillyPretzel

I just glanced at the article in WaPo. DT is desperate. He truly does not grasp that you cannot horse trade an election. He lost and is refusing to accept it.

The hubris of Trump and his gang is unbelievable. Openly discussing a criminal conspiracy to subvert an election. Everyone who was with Trump in his office on that call should be indicted.

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2021 • 11:06:33am

re: #474 🌹UOJB!

Nice to know that advanced civilizations on other worlds have self-annihilated…

The Milky Way is probably full of dead civilizations

Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.

That’s the takeaway of a new study, published Dec. 14 to the arXiv database, which used modern astronomy and statistical modeling to map the emergence and death of intelligent life in time and space across the Milky Way. Their results amount to a more precise 2020 update of a famous equation that Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence founder Frank Drake wrote in 1961. The Drake equation, popularized by physicist Carl Sagan in his “Cosmos” miniseries, relied on a number of mystery variables — like the prevalence of planets in the universe, then an open question.

This new paper, authored by three Caltech physicists and one high school student, is much more practical. It says where and when life is most likely to occur in the Milky Way, and identifies the most important factor affecting its prevalence: intelligent creatures’ tendency toward self-annihilation.

space.com

How many civilizations can dance on the head of a pin?

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2021 • 11:48:00am

re: #460 Nyet

re: #460 Nyet

“If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”

Sedition:
(1) Conspire to overthrow
(2) Put down, or
(3) destroy by force the government of the US, or
(4) to levy war against them,
(5) or to oppose by force the authority thereof,
or prevent.

Force is not prerequisite for all elements of sedition. It’s for some. You can engage in sedition without use force. Conspiring to overthrow is sufficient.

What these GOPers are doing right now is conspiring to overthrow the government legitimately elected.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2021 • 12:18:40pm

re: #475 Dr. Teddy’s Person

Lenigrad Lindsey is on the hot seat and all in on gender studies apparently.

Given that girls going to school in Pakistan risk getting shot and killed, I’m okay with aiding gender studies over there.


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