Yo-Yo Ma and Kayhan Kalhor: “Morgh E Sahar” by Ostad Morteza Naydavoud

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I have to admit I’ll post anything that comes from Yo-Yo Ma, because it’s always the best of the best.

With my dear friend Kayhan Kalhor “Morgh e Sahar” (Bird of the Dawn) by Ostad Morteza Naydavoud #songsofcomfort #songsofchange

برای ایران بهمراه دوست عزیزم کیهان کلهر. مرغ سحر ساخته استاد مرتضی‌ نی داوود

#مرتضی_نی_داوود
#ایران
#یو_یو_ما
#مرغ_سحر
#کیهان_کلهر
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This video was originally released on July14, 2020, as part of Yo-Yo Ma’s #SongsOfComfort project, which was launched at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide comfort in a time of anxiety and fear. The project inspired thousands of people around the world to upload their own songs of comfort in the months that followed.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:13:38pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:17:23pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:21:21pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:22:07pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:22:26pm

I really hate tweets that begin: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but….” Anyway, I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you cannot set fire to the rain.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:23:20pm
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No Malarkey!  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:23:36pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:23:50pm
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Teukka  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:25:50pm

Now playing in this Lizardim’s lair (playlist):

Erased : 01 - Only I am missing

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Jack Burton  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:26:49pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Erasing Mike Lindell”

I wish.

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A Cranky One  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:27:23pm

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Charles Johnson  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:27:36pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:29:05pm

I fucking love this new custom embedded tweet code, goddammit. It’s the grease on the bearings that’s been needed for too long.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:30:48pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:31:24pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:32:19pm

Lindsey very eager to “get this behind us.”

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No Malarkey!  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:32:52pm

re: #15 jaunte

Call every single terrorist who says they were there because Trump asked them to be.

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No Malarkey!  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:33:21pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:33:55pm

re: #17 No Malarkey!

A big showy trial with witnesses would be very educational. And we know how the GOP feels about educating people.

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:34:20pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:39:37pm

Shameless page promotion in the right-hand column of Little Green Footballs:

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The Confusing History of Presidents’ Day

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:39:54pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:41:05pm
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No Malarkey!  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:41:27pm

He’s not dead yet.

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:41:31pm

Guilty guilty guilty guilty.

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:42:19pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:45:30pm
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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:48:39pm
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EstebanTornado1963  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:51:34pm

re: #28 jaunte

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teleskiguy  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:52:37pm

Fuck this. Republicans are setting up the next insurrection, with people like Kaine helping.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:55:36pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:56:40pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jan 26, 2021 • 6:58:18pm

I love my dog so much. In fact, I just wrote her a letter telling her of my love, but I sealed and hid it because I don’t want her to read it before I die.

//

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:05:06pm

Heh. Former big-league pitcher and current All-Star asshat Curt Schilling requested to be removed from the Hall of Fame balloting after failing to get in this year.

“I will not participate in the final year of voting. I am requesting to be removed from the ballot. I’ll defer to the veterans committee and men whose opinions actually matter and who are in a position to actually judge a player,” Schilling wrote. “I don’t think I’m a hall of famer as I’ve often stated but if former players think I am then I’ll accept that with honor.”

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:05:07pm

I cleared the room. That’s how all great comics start.

ETA: oh there’s one in the back.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:06:13pm

re: #34 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Heh. Former big-league pitcher and current All-Star asshat Curt Schilling requested to be removed from the Hall of Fame balloting after failing to get in this year.

Ketchup sox?

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:06:42pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:07:41pm

re: #37 jaunte

We’ll move on, Ted. From you and people like you who will do anything, including literally incite a mob to storm the Capitol, to cling to your power. Guess what: White power is ending. The rise of multiculturalism is at hand. Fear us, bitch.

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sagehen  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:10:41pm

re: #5 Barefoot Grin

I really hate tweets that begin: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but….” Anyway, I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you cannot set fire to the rain.

“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain… I’ve seen lonely days that I thought would never end…”

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:10:41pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:11:47pm

Republicans still using bioterrorism to shut down governance (no masks, no social distancing, treating everything as normal, &c). At this point it’s deliberate.

LINCOLN — Close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19 forced an entire Nebraska legislative committee into quarantine on Tuesday.

The nine-senator Appropriations Committee, which draws up a state budget, ended an informal budget review meeting at midafternoon on Tuesday after learning of the exposure.

The exposure marked the first time an entire legislative committee has been forced into quarantine during the pandemic, which disrupted the schedule of last year’s session and has prompted some alterations in the 90-day meeting this year.

State Sen. John Stinner of Gering, who chairs the committee, said members will be lining up tests and hope to be back at work in a week. He said that in the interim, the committee is trying to organize Zoom meetings to continue its review work remotely. Formal public hearings by the Appropriations Committee do not begin until Feb. 5.

“We’re working on a workaround. I think we’ll be in pretty good shape,” the senator said.

Stinner, on Tuesday evening, said he was unaware of any senators showing symptoms.

To avoid risking a quarantine of the entire 49-member unicameral Legislature, floor debate, when all senators would be present, has been delayed. Instead, committees — which typically number seven or eight legislators — have been holding public hearings all day long this week. To reduce the number of people coming to the State Capitol, testimony is also being allowed via text message this session.

(more)

Legislators are “encouraged” to wear facemasks (in line with Gov. Ricketts’s policy) but it is not enforced in the Unicameral.

A Nebraska legislative committee is in quarantine after COVID-19 exposure (Omaha World-Herald)

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thecommodore  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:12:32pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:14:31pm

Rassmussen seems to have swinged to the Lowest Presidential Approval of the polling companies. What changed to cause that?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:15:39pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron

Rassmussen seems to have swinged to the Lowest Presidential Approval of the polling companies. What changed to cause that?

[Embedded content]

When Americans are finally getting their vaccines, and seeing actual action from the government to help them, even Rasmussen will eventually be forced to admit he’s more favorable than Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:30:02pm

Reported as “news” and not “opinion,” the Pine Bluffs, Wyo. Post continues to propagate debunked Republican talking points about Covid-19 and reporting of cases.

The national news media continues to rant about the increasing “spike” in the number of COVID cases. Being the media they really don’t say how cases are being counted though. Wyoming is no different. The reporting is confusing and doesn’t state the facts so they can be understood by most people. Our cumulative numbers are continuing to rise but the rate of positive results based on the number of tests performed has only increased by 0.038%. That’s not a great change since we have increased the number of tests performed by 20.75%. As of January 14th we have tested 542,316 people in Wyoming. The Wyoming Department of Health does place a disclaimer on the test results stating essentially that positive results may be duplicated since patients may have been tested multiple times. The case numbers and test results may not match. Another factor that will confuse understanding these results is that they’re cumulative. That is, the number of cases is the total of all cases since reporting started. We would expect to see that value increasing because we keep adding to it. The important fact is that the rate of positive tests is decreasing (down 0.02 %) indicating that the spread of the disease is slowing. Kathy Emmons, the Executive Director of the Laramie County Heath Department has stated in interviews that the slowing spread is due to the Governor’s mask mandate. RED FLAG! The spread was already slowing before the mask mandate had a chance to effect the spread of the virus.

To date, Wyoming has had 522 deaths or 0.03 % of the entire population. That means that 99.97 % of the population has survived the virus. I understand that the number of deaths will continue to grow since it is a cumulative number since we keep adding to it as time moves forward. The more informative value is the death rate among those who have tested positive. It shows an increase of 0.33 %. The total rate of deaths among those who tested positive since recording began is now at 1.25 % or 12.5 people per every 1,000 who have tested positive or 1.25 people per every 100. That’s a 98.75 % survival rate, the number that’s never reported.

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COVID Update January 2021 (Goes to the Pine Bluffs, Wyo. Post)

Like other conservative outlets, they combine the fallacy of small numbers (0.03%) and ignore other things (such as permanent damage to the heart or kidneys from the disease). They also do not acknowledge the numbers are underreported since not everyone is tested.

In areas like mine, there is no counter-narrative to right-wing propaganda, and local newspapers such as the Post are where a lot of people get their information. The competitors to the Pine Bluffs Post also lean right-wing though don’t publish unsubstantiated right-wing propaganda. Its principle competitor for regional news is the right-leaning Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald (which keeps opinions on the opinion page).

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jaunte  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:33:33pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“Being the media they really don’t say”

Nice of them to put that Warning, Bullshit Ahead sign early in the piece.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:36:37pm

re: #39 sagehen

“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain… I’ve seen lonely days that I thought would never end…”

Adel.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:37:08pm
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Jack Burton  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:39:37pm

re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron

Rassmussen seems to have swinged to the Lowest Presidential Approval of the polling companies. What changed to cause that?

[Embedded content]

I smell something

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:46:48pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Trying to tackle some of the obvious bullshyte in that article:

Number of people tested in Wyoming: 213,169. The claim of 542,000+ as reported by the Wyoming Department of Health is false. The disclaimer of multiple tests for some people is there, but there is a lie by omission: The health department accounts for that.

health.wyo.gov

Percentage of tests showing a decrease in infections (0.02%) is statistically insignificant. That figure is presented as an achievement.

The number of deaths is misreported: It is 596, or a deviation of nearly 1/6 of what the Pine Bluffs Post reports.

The two largest groups by age are <18 (first) and 19-29 (second). The Post does not report that some of these will have lifelong disabilities (indeed, they don’t mention that anywhere in their article).

The “already slowing before Gov. Gordon’s mask mandate” leaves out the part where several counties had already imposed mask mandates, including the two largest cities (Cheyenne and Casper). Gov. Gordon imposed the statewide mask mandate in Wyoming after clear evidence (and a lot of lobbying by public health outfits) showed that in the areas where mask mandates were in place, they worked.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:48:44pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:49:53pm

re: #48 (((Archangel1)))

Objection: If Trump is “godless” that is not the reason for him being a treasonweasel and genocidaire.

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Belafon  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:50:39pm

Frontline has already put out an episode about the insurrection and the lead up to it.

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(((Archangel1)))  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:51:03pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:51:11pm

Conservatism is white nationalism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 7:54:38pm

re: #48 (((Archangel1)))

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:05:20pm

re: #45 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

To date, Wyoming has had 522 deaths or 0.03 % of the entire population. That means that 99.97 % of the population has survived the virus.
………………………

The total rate of deaths among those who tested positive since recording began is now at 1.25 % or 12.5 people per every 1,000 who have tested positive or 1.25 people per every 100. That’s a 98.75 % survival rate, the number that’s never reported.

What is this “99.97% of the population has survived the virus” nonsense? That’s a meaningless statement that would be true ONLY if the rest of the population actually had the virus and recovered.

Then they minimize the 1.25% death rate among those who tested positive. It might have been more informative if they had mentioned that the worst flu season over the past 40 years killed 61,000 Americans — while this disease has killed over 430,000 Americans in its first year here.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:05:54pm

re: #46 jaunte

Nice of them to put that Warning, Bullshit Ahead sign early in the piece.

They also apparently don’t consider themselves part of “the media.” Last time I checked, newspapers qualified for that designation.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:10:19pm

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

What is this “99.97% of the population has survived the virus” nonsense? That’s a meaningless statement that would be true ONLY if the rest of the population actually had the virus and recovered.

Then they minimize the 1.25% death rate among those who tested positive. It might have been more informative if they had mentioned that the worst flu season over the past 40 years killed 61,000 Americans — while this disease has killed over 430,000 Americans in its first year here.

Well, almost everyone in Wyoming has survived hurricanes as well. That’s sort of the same claim.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:17:18pm

re: #59 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Well, almost everyone in Wyoming has survived hurricanes as well. That’s sort of the same claim.

True, except we don’t make that claim while in the middle of the hurricane — only after it’s gone. COVID is still ravishing the land; it’s premature to assert that the other residents “survived” the disease because they haven’t yet fallen ill.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:19:38pm

re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The only good thing I saw travelling through Pine Bluffs twice on Monday was both times my wife and I were there, we saw no people without masks.

Governor Gordon’s order seems to be sticking. Right across the east city limits of Pine Bluffs though is Nebraska, where mask wearing is mostly an opinion (and most people in the Panhandle don’t hold that opinion, despite the severity of the outbreak here).

Wyoming is doing much better than the Nebraska Panhandle.

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Rightwingconspirator  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:23:50pm

re: #57 Hecuba’s daughter

What is this “99.97% of the population has survived the virus” nonsense? That’s a meaningless statement that would be true ONLY if the rest of the population actually had the virus and recovered.

Then they minimize the 1.25% death rate among those who tested positive. It might have been more informative if they had mentioned that the worst flu season over the past 40 years killed 61,000 Americans — while this disease has killed over 430,000 Americans in its first year here.

Los Angeles has 1.4%

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:29:31pm

South of Pine Bluffs, Wyo. is Weld County, Colorado, which is doing better than the Panhandle.

193 people so far have died in Weld County. That would be about 15% of Pine Bluffs.

weldgov.com

173 are dead now in the Panhandle, and our weekly positivity rate is rising again (currently 25.6%).

pphd.org

Grant County (the non-Panhandle county in PPHD) deaths jumped from 1 to 4. They’ve had 23 cases out of a total population of 649. Grant County has no doctors or clinics.

They are really rural. The only village (and county seat), Hyannis, was not connected by road to the rest of the state until the Sixties.

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austin_blue  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:34:13pm

re: #62 Rightwingconspirator

Los Angeles has 1.4%

Let’s average it out and call the fatality rate of COVID-19 at 1.33%.

So if we go for herd immunity and all 330,000,000 million of us get the virus, we will total (checks notes) we’ll have 3.99 million dead.

If we get to that point, LA would have been individually wiped out (3.98 million), leaving only the city so nice they named it twice remaining at just over 8 million.

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Belafon  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:34:22pm

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:34:43pm

re: #62 Rightwingconspirator

Los Angeles has 1.4%

Worldometer shows about 1.67% for the United States. That said, all these numbers are unreliable because so many infections are not included in the official tally of cases since they were never tested; some are asymptomatic and others become ill but the symptoms can be handled at home without requiring a visit to get an official diagnosis.

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stpaulbear  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:36:25pm

re: #39 sagehen

“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain… I’ve seen lonely days that I thought would never end…”

In this life I’ve seen everything I can see woman
I’ve seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand
I’ve seen babies dancing in the midnight sun
I’ve seen dreams that came from the heavenly skies above
I’ve seen old men crying at their own grave sides
And I’ve seen pigs all sitting watching picture slides
But I….
Never seen nothing like you

The Move - Do Ya (1972 HQ)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:40:38pm

re: #66 Hecuba’s daughter

Worldometer shows about 1.67% for the United States. That said, all these numbers are unreliable because so many infections are not included in the official tally of cases since they were never tested; some are asymptomatic and others become ill but the symptoms can be handled at home without requiring a visit to get an official diagnosis.

And though those cases might go unreported, people who are only mildly ill (or not ill at all) can spread the disease to others.

The whole way Republicans sowed doubt into attacking the problem of the epidemic has created an exponentially worse problem.

Even if you think the disease is somehow a biological attack on the United States by the Chinese government, you’d think the ol’ patriotism of fighting off an attack would be the natural response. If this was World War Two and someone said “well, blacking out my windows at night is just an opinion, man” their neighbours would probably have burned down their house.

There is so much contradictory propaganda held in the minds of conservative citizens now I don’t know how to untangle it, other than by making examples out of scofflaws (and then liberals get accused of being draconian).

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Teukka  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:42:16pm

re: #9 Teukka

Now playing in this Lizardim’s lair (playlist):

[Embedded content]

For the anime this soundtrack came from, see the Wikipedia Article. Composer is Yuki Kajiura, which is rapidly securing a place as a favorite composer of mine.

Random Clip from the Anime (Eps. 8):

Kayo’s Breakfast

Backstory

Click to Reveal

Kayo sleeps over at Satoru’s, and is served the first real breakfast in a really long time.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:44:44pm

More people have died in the Nebraska Panhandle than live in this incorporated city.

en.wikipedia.org

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thecommodore  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:45:02pm

Just now, Brian Williams called Mitch McConnell “The editor-in-chief of Nihilist Magazine.”

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sagehen  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:45:04pm
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stpaulbear  Jan 26, 2021 • 8:50:14pm

re: #71 thecommodore

Just now, Brian Williams called Mitch McConnell “The editor-in-chief of Nihilist Magazine.”

Brian Williams is really good at zingers that sting.


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