John Oliver Digs Into Another Serious Problem: Police Raids
John Oliver explains how raids became a favorite tool of police, how few guardrails there are on their use, and what we should do about that.
John Oliver explains how raids became a favorite tool of police, how few guardrails there are on their use, and what we should do about that.
Senate Judiciary Cmte approves Merrick Garland’s nom as AG on 15-7 vote
Rs who voted yes: Grassley, Cornyn, Tillis, Graham— Sam Brodey (@sambrodey) March 1, 2021
Hawley and Cotton voted against.
Garland now goes to the floor for the final confirmation vote.
re: #1 lawhawk
Hawleys really gunning for the top of the assholemeter these days, isn’t he?
re: #1 lawhawk
Hawley and Cotton voted against.
Garland now goes to the floor for the final confirmation vote.
Hawley and Cotton have reason to fear Garland. Fuck them.
So glad to see it was a bipartisan vote - Garland must not be an Asian or Native American woman.
Trump called on his cult to “get rid” of Republican politicians who don’t support him, and I hope they’ve arranged for extra security because it was basically a call to murder, and everybody knows it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 1, 2021
re: #180 jeffreyw
Geese are nasty to have around. I went to a Dr. appointment at a place with small ponds scattered about, a few geese came and they made the mistake of feeding them. They never left. Goose shit everywhere.
The bike paths around the small lake in the local city park that is literally in my backyard used to be nearly impassable for a couple months because of droppings and because of aggressive geese parents. I finally convinced the city park guy to stop mowing the area between the bike paths and the shoreline.
Problems with the geese are now nearly gone, shore erosion has stopped, and now there’s a nice buffer of milkweed, cattails, and other native flowers lining the shore.
re: #1 lawhawk
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Hawley and Cotton voted against.
Garland now goes to the floor for the final confirmation vote.
As he sometimes does, Graham did the right thing.
Figured it was about to be time for the downstairs to close:
re: #129 DodgerFan1988
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“This” is attempting to move from “general anti-AZN slur—that the live markets created the virus and that only Asia has them”—to “HEY! We’re not anti-Asian; we blame COMMUNISM. And BTW, we’re especially suggesting this thing is a Mainland Chinese bioweapon”.
— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 1, 2021
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
I’d chalk that up to dumb fucking luck more than anything else. And Garland is a white guy who had been previously confirmed by the Senate for the judiciary.
The rest of the treasonweasel caucus doesn’t care. They know that the DOJ should be investigating their actions too.
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Hawleys really gunning for the top of the assholemeter these days, isn’t he?
Hawley needs to die in Leavenworth at the old age end of a “life at hard labor” sentence.
re: #6 Hecuba’s daughter
As he sometimes does, Graham did the right thing.
Wasn’t he a JAG officer once? Might have been a kneejerk in respect of real law enforcement…
Most likely possibility: a coincidence. 2nd most likely: a MAGA troll on the stage design crew. I don’t think it was a deliberate choice. But it actually was an exact replica of the Odal Rune. That wasn’t imaginary. And when informed about it, they defended it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 1, 2021
re: #2 Eclectic Cyborg
Hawleys really gunning for the top of the assholemeter these days, isn’t he?
He has to climb to the top of shit mountain if he wants to be king.
re: #3 darthstar
Hawley and Cotton have reason to fear Garland. Fuck them.
So glad to see it was a bipartisan vote - Garland must not be an Asian or Native American woman.
Plus no twitter history to use against him
I’ve come to learn that there are several castles/chateaus and such in Europe for sale at relatively reasonable prices. Some needing repairs/rehabilitation, others not so much, and I’ve never had a stronger desire to fuck off to Europe and live in a castle in my life.
You should look it up then, because you apparently missed something in your studies of WWII history: it was used as an insignia by several Nazi military divisions, including the SS.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 1, 2021
re: #14 No Malarkey!
He has to climb to the top of shit mountain if he wants to be king.
If the CPAC straw poll is worth anything (it is not), Hawley doesn’t have much chance of being anything other than a Senate agitator for a couple of decades… unless we get real lucky in Missouri one of these cycles.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also said the U.S. would look to find legal pathways for separated families to stay in the U.S. if they choose to be reunited in the U.S.
That is a major step.— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) March 1, 2021
re: #17 KGxvi
Restorations can be so expensive, because even though you’re allowed to buy the property there will be restrictions on what you can do. If you’re required to keep the design and use any existing materials that are safe to use, expect to pay big bucks.
The UK shows Grand Designs and George Clarke’s Restoration Man have many episodes about these things. Some people are so passionate that they dive in, exhaust themselves and their bank accounts.
The final results can be impressive, though.
re: #20 Patricia Kayden
Go Joe. He is turning back everything that DT started.
re: #17 KGxvi
I’ve come to learn that there are several castles/chateaus and such in Europe for sale at relatively reasonable prices. Some needing repairs/rehabilitation, others not so much, and I’ve never had a stronger desire to fuck off to Europe and live in a castle in my life.
There are entire towns in Italy that are for the wanting… I’d learn Italian to go do that…
Also note that in 2016, the leaders of the neo-Nazi National Socialist movement announced that they were replacing the swastika with the Odal Rune in an attempt to enter mainstream politics.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 1, 2021
“Oh, he didn’t really mean it,” people say as his cult goes on a violent rampage.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 1, 2021
No. pic.twitter.com/1I2oh5Y2B5
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) March 1, 2021
Goddamned Nazis and fascists love their symbolism and numerology. They impart significance in the numbers and images they use as code to help spread their message.
It’s what they do. It’s why there are 14 words, 88, and they use runes and other images to spread their message of hate.
This is where the imagery has gone mainstream, because they have a willing platform: CPAC went full fascist and the GOP itself is showing itself to be in the thrall of a strongman who was more than happy to burn everything down to stay in power.
Our institutions of government are not that strong. The next attempt will be far more horrifying, and 1/6 was plenty destructive. That we haven’t seen the arrests of the ringleaders is problem 1. You can keep arresting the insurrectionists but without the ringleaders, you’re just biding time to the next attack.
re: #17 KGxvi
I’ve come to learn that there are several castles/chateaus and such in Europe for sale at relatively reasonable prices. Some needing repairs/rehabilitation, others not so much, and I’ve never had a stronger desire to fuck off to Europe and live in a castle in my life.
define “relatively reasonable”.
also, does owning the property include a peerage title?
re: #27 lawhawk
Goddamned Nazis and fascists love their symbolism and numerology. They impart significance in the numbers and images they use as code to help spread their message.
It’s what they do. It’s why there are 14 words, 88, and they use runes and other images to spread their message of hate.
This is where the imagery has gone mainstream, because they have a willing platform: CPAC went full fascist and the GOP itself is showing itself to be in the thrall of a strongman who was more than happy to burn everything down to stay in power.
Our institutions of government are not that strong. The next attempt will be far more horrifying, and 1/6 was plenty destructive. That we haven’t seen the arrests of the ringleaders is problem 1. You can keep arresting the insurrectionists but without the ringleaders, you’re just biding time to the next attack.
This is why I can’t completely dismiss the possibility that somebody at CPAC did this deliberately. I think it’s unlikely but there’s too much recent history around these symbols and the GOP.
Love having a real President again, and I’m glad he isn’t falling for GOP BS about “unity” and “bipartisanship.” The Democrats must pass what they can without getting bogged down in bad faith negotiations with Republicans.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) March 1, 2021
re: #27 lawhawk
This is why there’s no doubt in my mind that stage was intentional. They all loved the symbol and love the deniability while owning the Libs. It’s what they’ve been doing with that stupid hand gesture. “We were just saying OK, you idiot Libs.”
Greetings from Charlottesville. pic.twitter.com/KLim0DfPjz
— Cholula Bankhead (@foonhammer) March 1, 2021
Here’s something fun. This is possibly Jackson Browne’s most famous song, created on tour and the core of an album recorded on tour. This is a Video Montage of Joel Bernstein photos from the 1977 Jackson Browne Running On Empty Tour.
I would see him in concert many years (20?) later - with Heart opening! - and it remains one of my all-time favorite concerts.
re: #29 Charles Johnson
This is why I can’t completely dismiss the possibility that somebody at CPAC did this deliberately. I think it’s unlikely but there’s too much recent history around these symbols and the GOP.
Trump has repeatedly recycled Nazi language from the 1930s, and that’s no mistake either. He does everything on purpose. America First was the whole Nazi effort to keep the US out of the War in Europe. Much of Trump’s rhetoric is recycled white supremacist/white nationalist/goddamned Nazi language.
Same as here.
All that pro-infection back-flipping is paying off for “Desnatis”:
Everyone on this “poll” is a dictator-aspirant. Including
“Ron DeSnatis,” who apparently struck such fear into the trumpers they decided to misspell his name! 🤡🦈 https://t.co/jYpPNT3Fnq— bleusharque (@bleusharque) March 1, 2021
‘Emboldened by Donald Trump’s victory in the election…The National Socialist Movement, rooted in the original American Nazi Party, has replaced it’s swastika insignia for an a pre-Roman symbol known as the Othala Rune also embraced by the Nazis’https://t.co/iDLjY99cKH
— MiseryX ~This Machine Kills Fascists 📷 (@MiseryXchord) March 1, 2021
re: #33 William Lewis
This is so beautiful and yet so sad. Worlds away from where we are now.
re: #32 Charles Johnson
The next 4 years are a critically important period of time. The fascists are going to try to overthrow Democracy, and we have to take the threat deadly seriously and do what we can to stop it. We cannot pretend that the GOP is anything other than a fascist cult, bent on taking power by any means necessary.
re: #38 No Malarkey!
Not all Republicans or those who vote for GOP candidates are fascists.
It has been evident for some time that the religious right’s attempt to take over the GOP has been successful.
And there is overlap between American fundamentalism’s desire for authoritarian theocracy and the fascists’ love of authoritarian strongmen.
This is most clearly seen in Trump.
But in my own experience, with people I know (or who are on my Facebook timeline), the overwhelming common element of Trump support comes from the Christian fundamentalists.
They are in cults for sure. This can be determined by their beliefs and actions completely independent of elections.
My soap box here has been that the real issue in American politics and social order today lay around the death-of-god issue.
Trump played on that like the expert con-man that he is.
The practiced and polished indoctrination of needing a “savior” by the religious fundamentalists is played like an instrument by any authoritarian strongman.
Many religious fundamentalists exhibit strong personal needs for a powerful father figure.
This is why those of us who want an enduring democracy know that fundamentalism has to be totally called out and not allowed to be the dominating influence in our governance.
Thought experiment: You have been tasked to devise a failsafe stage for a very important event. How many attempts will you make before you accidentally stumble into the CPAC design?
Got the Moderna second shot. Upper arm slightly sore 4 hours later. A couple days will tell the tale.
re: #40 Decatur Deb
Ooohh … is this a combinatorics question??
For a two dimensional object, I think we can use the number of vertices as a measure of complexity.
re: #37 plansbandc
This is so beautiful and yet so sad. Worlds away from where we are now.
Yeah, there is just something special to me in his strange cross of hope and hopelessness… and though there was so much in that 70’s era where the whole hippie love peace and understanding had gone rancid we still had Jackson talking about The Pretender and Elvis (the REAL one, damn it) asking what’s so funny about it…
On the other hand, I’ve been up way too long and I’m sitting here drinking beer and rum with Jackson blasting in my headphones. “for true love could have been a contender.”
re: #33 William Lewis
Here’s something fun. This is possibly Jackson Browne’s most famous song, created on tour and the core of an album recorded on tour. This is a Video Montage of Joel Bernstein photos from the 1977 Jackson Browne Running On Empty Tour.
I would see him in concert many years (20?) later - with Heart opening! - and it remains one of my all-time favorite concerts.
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Nice. Wife and I caught him back about 5 years ago in Cleveland. Great show.
re: #42 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Ooohh … is this a combinatorics question??
For a two dimensional object, I think we can use the number of vertices as a measure of complexity.
Step 2—explain the nonfunctional “wings” (serifs) using the evolutionary principle: “Everything that does not contribute, detracts.”
re: #40 Decatur Deb
Thought experiment: You have been tasked to devise a failsafe stage for a very important event. How many attempts will you make before you accidentally stumble into the CPAC design?
I’d have had a five pointed star with “wings” ala a full colonel’s insignia leading off to the sides. Nothing that these fucks would have come up with.
re: #23 lawhawk
There are entire towns in Italy that are for the wanting… I’d learn Italian to go do that…
Enough lizards and we can buy the whole town
(As long as there’s WiFi)
re: #40 Decatur Deb
Thought experiment: You have been tasked to devise a failsafe stage for a very important event. How many attempts will you make before you accidentally stumble into the CPAC design?
Me or a thousand monkeys I guess it would be about the same amount of time
re: #41 Decatur Deb
Got the Moderna second shot. Upper arm slightly sore 4 hours later. A couple days will tell the tale.
My wife got an appointment for her first shot on Wednesday. I apparently still don’t qualify, though the website didn’t explain why I couldn’t book my appointment.
re: #23 lawhawk
There are entire towns in Italy that are for the wanting… I’d learn Italian to go do that…
There are places all over this country where once a small town existed but is now greatly ignored. You can buy property with structures for a few thousand dollars.
re: #49 Dangerman
Me or a thousand monkeys I guess it would be about the same amount of time
It speeds up if you take the ribbons out of their typewriters.
re: #48 Dangerman
Enough lizards and we can buy the whole town
(As long as there’s WiFi)
I’m in. I don’t have much to contribute to funding, but I could work off my shares as the town schoolmarm. 😉
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Speaking of Elvis, the most highly watched (as in, best ratings) ever for a TV entertainment show was Elvis’ “live” (it was taped) from Hawaii show. It owned TV worldwide.
The king got a large, deep stage, with one runway down the middle:
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Total of four vertices on the front surface.
I remember watching that with my grandma, she loved Elvis. Her being a Mississippi girl I guess that was natural :-)
re: #41 Decatur Deb
Got the Moderna second shot. Upper arm slightly sore 4 hours later. A couple days will tell the tale.
Tonight will tell you.
Apparently, @ChuckGrassley is concerned that Congress will force Merrick Garland to turn DOJ over to me and that I will have guns.👀 pic.twitter.com/xYAY73MpuD
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) March 1, 2021
re: #57 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
If only CPAC would have used two “X”s…
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They couldn’t use the double cross because Charlie Chaplin was a Commie. That slander on Charlie was always recited by Fucked Up Xtian Freak Francis Schaeffer, the architect of the Xtian Right.
Music to my ears. Biden made comments during the campaign that made us worry he would be an easy mark for McConnell.
I hoped it was just happy talk because voters like the concept of bipartisanship, and I’m glad he isn’t letting his agenda be held hostage to the GOP’s bad faith.
WH senior adviser Cedric Richmond tells Axios the admin will continue overtures to Republicans, but Biden is prepared to pass his relief plan with a couple or even zero GOP votes.
“If our choice is to wait and go bipartisan with an insufficient package, we’re not gonna do that.”— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 1, 2021
The moment a Sacramento, CA. judge was about to start the traffic trial of the defendant (Dr. Scott Green) who was in the operating room, helping to operate on a patient, when he jumped on zoom to be present for his trial. The judge wasn’t having any of it pic.twitter.com/4zt70gvZ3S
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) March 1, 2021
re: #60 No Malarkey!
Music to my ears. Biden made comments during the campaign that made us worry he would be an easy mark for McConnell.
I hoped it was just happy talk because voters like the concept of bipartisanship, and I’m glad he isn’t letting his agenda be held hostage to the GOP’s bad faith.
Obama needed to play the bipartisan game because it defused some (no where near enough but still…) of the racism. Joe don’t need to play that game. Homie going to do what’s right for America and fuck McConnell.
I just hope our new AG can pin something on the scumbag from Kentucky.
re: #61 darthstar
Yikes. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who was on the operating table.
re: #60 No Malarkey!
Music to my ears. Biden made comments during the campaign that made us worry he would be an easy mark for McConnell.
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‘bipartisan’ means we’re driving and you jump on board
it does not mean we let you steer us into a U-turn
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Yikes. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who was on the operating table.
If you’re going to fight a ticket, fight the ticket. Obviously the cop felt like an ass. He gets paid time off to go to court.
re: #17 KGxvi
I’ve come to learn that there are several castles/chateaus and such in Europe for sale at relatively reasonable prices. Some needing repairs/rehabilitation, others not so much, and I’ve never had a stronger desire to fuck off to Europe and live in a castle in my life.
Can I go, too? I don’t need too much space…
Outdoor zoom room is open for business. #March1st pic.twitter.com/PTfDUmwuD5
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 1, 2021
re: #66 retired cynic
Can I go, too? I don’t need too much space…
That dungeon isn’t going to fill itself.
“Candace Owens … who mostly says common sense things.” - bwahahaha….
Owens is a gimmick, someone who discovered how to make money off the amount of melanin in her skin by assuaging the consciences of the American right.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 1, 2021
re: #67 darthstar
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Outdoor zoom room is open for business. #March1st pic.twitter.com/PTfDUmwuD5
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 1, 2021
Living in a castle would give me the perfect excuse to start that collection of Medieval weaponry I’ve always wanted.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
She needs to prove Owens is capable of common sense by providing examples.
re: #70 Dangerman
i thought you were taller
I’ve learned to slouch. Better shot from this morning…not of me obviously.
Monday pic.twitter.com/gWc5PRCvGk
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 1, 2021
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
And it serves a practical purpose as well as decorative.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Common sense.
As in she says the things I believe in, and no one can make me question my own values or piss poor judgment.
RE: The CPAC stage thing.
I’m not looking to get into a lengthy debate about this, but I’m with Charles.
When it was pointed out to them, CPAC could have issued a statement along the lines of: “A member of our team chose this design as they felt it would be a good option given the space available. We did not realize the implication of the shape chosen at the time and we apologize to those who were offended.”
But they didn’t. They issued a statement that was VERY defensive, suggesting at least a few people involved with the event probably knew EXACTLY what the symbol meant and it was a deliberate choice.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
She says a lot of dishonest things, and “firebrand” is just a euphemism for lying demagogue. Candice is more of a grifter than a demagogue, but she does lie a lot.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 1, 2021
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
She’s looking at the world from the perspective of a wingnut.
re: #77 sagehen
not the most flattering angle, dude…
I know…but I wanted the sky…still looks better than it did 30lbs ago.
Excellent.
Now what about all these Nazis? https://t.co/kqiXSzoJqS— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 1, 2021
re: #82 darthstar
I know…but I wanted the sky…still looks better than it did 30lbs ago.
Oh god…I do have one.
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re: #76 Eclectic Cyborg
And if there was an alternative design rationale to emphasize that particular shape in the stage, they could have stated it.
re: #63 Eclectic Cyborg
Yikes. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who was on the operating table.
Appendix transplant.
Yay! Just got my first vaccine dose! (Pfizer)
Though unfortunately Mrs. Jay was unable to come with me.
We got our appointments through Northwell Heslth (the medical megacorp most of our doctors are associated with): somewhat inefficient in the process, but - as I read hear earlier- still an improvement over triaging ICU beds.. And worth waiting 53 minutes on hold for.
re: #77 sagehen
not the most flattering angle, dude…
Better than any angle of me :D
Still…
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re: #88 William Lewis
You forgot left bracket on last tag.
re: #89 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
You forgot left bracket on last tag.
Saw it and fixed it. Thank you for mentioning it though, I appreciate it.
It’s as effective at keeping an already-airborne virus OUT as that, yes.
But when it comes to GETTING INTO THE AIR IN THE FIRST PLACE, your rhetorical mosquito is trapped in a 5-inch-diameter plastic ball. THAT would be the aerosol viruses need to ride in to leave your body.— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 1, 2021
Since it seems to be Selfie Day at LGF, here’s yrs. truly recently jabbed
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And take my word for it, leaving the mask on is an improvement.
re: #62 William Lewis
Obama needed to play the bipartisan game because it defused some (no where near enough but still…) of the racism. Joe don’t need to play that game. Homie going to do what’s right for America and fuck McConnell.
I just hope our new AG can pin something on the scumbag from Kentucky.
McConnell made sure to legalize his corruption, to ensure unlimited dark money can flow as “free speech.”
re: #93 No Malarkey!
McConnell made sure to legalize his corruption, to ensure unlimited dark money can flow as “free speech.”
Isn’t that the fault of the Roberts’ Court? Roberts has inflicted a lot of harm on our nation during his time as Chief Justice.
re: #88 William Lewis
Better than any angle of me :D
Still…
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While we are putting out pics of ourselves, this is me and the princess.
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re: #91 Chrysicat
Was watching a report about masks and face coverings and the medical grade face coverings and maskings like the N95 don’t just filter based on micron size, but use particle charges to attract the virus particle to attach them to the filters.
That means it can and does capture particles that are smaller in size, because they’re attracted to the mask the same way that moths are attracted to a flame or bugs to a bug zapper.
re: #97 🌹UOJB!
Selfie Flashback Monday—when I got my first batch of toilet paper after the shortage last March…
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I didn’t start worrying about the shortage for another 10 days. The day I left the office for the last time - and I still have not returned - I stopped at the grocery store in that town, and they had some. I remember feeling a little bit foolish, with one 6-pack of toilet paper in hand, walking by people with cartfuls of the stuff. I refused then, and still refuse now, to succumb to hyper-sensationalism. I planned prudently (Amazon FTW) and bought only what I needed.
re: #98 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I didn’t start worrying about the shortage for another 10 days. The day I left the office for the last time - and I still have not returned - I stopped at the grocery store in that town, and they had some. I remember feeling a little bit foolish, with one 6-pack of toilet paper in hand, walking by people with cartfuls of the stuff. I refused then, and still refuse now, to succumb to hyper-sensationalism. I planned prudently (Amazon FTW) and bought only what I needed.
Meanwhile folks at the Costco filled up 2-3 carts full of toilet paper, paper towels and disinfectant wipes…
re: #99 🌹UOJB!
Meanwhile folks at the Costco filled up 2-3 carts full of toilet paper, paper towels and disinfectant wipes…
Paper towels wound up being the hardest to come by. Toilet paper I was able to find on Amazon, and I even bought some for my family back in fish country to bail them out.
It’s funny, one of my co-workers was having trouble with her laptop, and she wound up having to go into the office. She took video inside our bullpen workspace, showing everything exactly the way it was when we left it. The computer from which I am working right this instant was on my desk behind her. It felt surreal.
re: #33 William Lewis
Here’s something fun. This is possibly Jackson Browne’s most famous song, created on tour and the core of an album recorded on tour. This is a Video Montage of Joel Bernstein photos from the 1977 Jackson Browne Running On Empty Tour.
I would see him in concert many years (20?) later - with Heart opening! - and it remains one of my all-time favorite concerts.
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I saw that show. It was good.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
She should ask Candace’s uncle.
re: #96 lawhawk
Plus, the covid19 particles are themselves embedded in mucus or water, which means that they’re captured in the masks.
re: #47 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Speaking of Elvis, the most highly watched (as in, best ratings) ever for a TV entertainment show was Elvis’ “live” (it was taped) from Hawaii show. It owned TV worldwide.
The king got a large, deep stage, with one runway down the middle:
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Total of four vertices on the front surface.
i just don’t have any interest in elvis from 1973, when he’d become a bloated vegas lounge lizard producing music that was geared to blue-haired grandmothers. I think the Beatles lost respect for him when they came to America and discovered that even then his world was basically him sitting around watching television, surrounded by a posse of yes men.
Floof Cat and I have returned from the vet. Initial issue there was that the vet office moved last August (current building is condemned!) and I had to find the new location. Luckily it was only a few blocks away.
They sedated her in order to do the exam and give her shots etc. Some blood work being done as part of regular wellness exam. And vet examined her bare/irritated spot on the back and gave her some antibiotics and a steroid to hopefully deal with that; e.g. make it stop irritating and hopefully heal without further intervention.
She also weighs 15.1 lbs now.
Got her home and out of the carrier. Sort of pathetic watching a woozy cat try to eat chow. Though she is still hissing at me if I get too close as well. Hopefully she will go nap somewhere for the rest of the afternoon.
re: #98 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I didn’t start worrying about the shortage for another 10 days. The day I left the office for the last time - and I still have not returned - I stopped at the grocery store in that town, and they had some. I remember feeling a little bit foolish, with one 6-pack of toilet paper in hand, walking by people with cartfuls of the stuff. I refused then, and still refuse now, to succumb to hyper-sensationalism. I planned prudently (Amazon FTW) and bought only what I needed.
Amazon was out for a long time. I got lucky and had forgotten a case in my closet, and reordered before the pandemic. Sometimes being forgetful pays off.
A few days before March last year, I went to a Dollar General and bought the biggest pack of toilet paper they had.
My wife thought I was nuts.
re: #107 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Amazon was out for a long time. I got lucky and had forgotten a case in my closet, and reordered before the pandemic. Sometimes being forgetful pays off.
I’ve heard that a lot, but I never had problems getting an order to go through. I may have just been lucky.
re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg
A few days before March last year, I went to a Dollar General and bought the biggest pack of toilet paper they had.
My wife thought I was nuts.
We have our suspicions as well, but they’re nothing to do with TP.
re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t that the fault of the Roberts’ Court? Roberts has inflicted a lot of harm on our nation during his time as Chief Justice.
McConnell worked for decades to get the Roberts Court in place.
re: #109 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I’ve heard that a lot, but I never had problems getting an order to go through. I may have just been lucky.
Weird off-brands that turned out to be high quality showed up at Amazon for me eventually.
To give you a sense of how old this complaint is, the Supreme Court’s decision against state-mandated prayer in public schools came when Tommy Tuberville here was just seven years old. https://t.co/PRpGLUptKS
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 1, 2021
I listened to this news conference when I was out walking the boys this morning. He didn’t pull punches. The amount of damage the Trump administration did to our immigration system is beyond belief. It will take months to rebuild.
“It takes time to rebuild an entire system and to process individuals at the border in a safe and just way,” DHS Sec. Mayorkas says.
“It takes time to build out of the depths of cruelty that the administration before us established.” https://t.co/3XtW7w1HEP pic.twitter.com/eNenTodMgs— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) March 1, 2021
re: #113 jaunte
What moral values would those be, Tommy? The right for white men to no be afraid of losing their place at the top?
Because what they are learning is how to duck and hide in the case of a mass shooter, and that has nothing to do with what they are learning in classrooms.
“We’ve got to start teaching our young people moral values again.”
Too late, they saw what you support when you voted for Trump.
re: #78 William Lewis
Saw them live several times at a Carbondale bar. Arrow Memphis was another very good band that never made it to the big time. A St Louis band iirc.
“We’ve got to start teaching our young people moral values again.”
Your party was worshipping a fucking golden statue this past weekend. Shut the fuck up.
The CPAC 2021 stage IS a Nazi symbol. Whether or not design was intentional can be discussed, but not whether the symbol is the symbol.
This is a troll op by CPAC. They are shifting the narrative onto our reactions, instead of: WHY THE F*CK DID YOU MAKE YOUR STAGE A NAZI SYMBOL? https://t.co/mMGH5bpsWj— Lincoln’s Bible (@LincolnsBible) March 1, 2021
“Orchestrated assault.”
re: #102 nines09
Wife of my drummer caught this a few years back.
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Nice strat. My wife got me one for Xmas and I’m learning how to noodle.
CPAC 2022 is going to be at Mar-A-Lago, isn’t it?
re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg
CPAC 2022 is going to be at Mar-A-Lago, isn’t it?
It will be at a Trump property, almost certainly.
re: #122 Eclectic Cyborg
CPAC 2022 is going to be at Mar-A-Lago, isn’t it?
Not if he is in prison or if his properties have been forfeited due to tax evasion.
re: #85 jaunte
And if there was an alternative design rationale to emphasize that particular shape in the stage, they could have stated it.
no matter what actually occurred (or didnt) they would never ‘admit’ any kind of error, mistake, overlook, accident, insensitivity, etc
re: #12 William Lewis
Wasn’t he a JAG officer once? Might have been a kneejerk in respect of real law enforcement…
A JAG off, yes.
re: #91 Chrysicat
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People in China were wearing masks before the Covid scam because of pollution. A mask at best filters down to three microns. A virus is .1 micron. Your mask is as effective stopping the virus as a chain link fence is stopping a mosquito.
— Pelon Guapo (@pelonguappo) March 1, 2021
re: #124 Hecuba’s daughter
Not if he is in prison or if his properties have been forfeited due to tax evasion.
He’ll never see the inside of a prison because even if we strip his passport, Putin will smuggle him out of the country on a cargo plane if he has to and he’ll simply continue to claim to be president while actually in exile like Yanukovych.
And while his 2024 candidacy if he’s still alive will be completely illegal, I don’t see anything keeping the GQP from taking the chance anyway.
re: #125 Dangerman
no matter what actually occurred (or didnt) they would never ‘admit’ any kind of error, mistake, overlook, accident, insensitivity, etc
Following the Trump philosophy: I am perfect and incapable of error. After all, Trump said himself that he’s never asked G-d for forgiveness.
re: #113 jaunte
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We’ve surely got trouble!
Right here in River City
Right here!
Gotta find a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble
To give you a sense of how old this complaint is, the Supreme Court’s decision against state-mandated prayer in public schools came when Tommy Tuberville here was just seven years old. https://t.co/PRpGLUptKS
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 1, 2021
re: #127 Dangerman
+1 for your analogy
Still no way to report covid disinformation on Twitter. Letting users identify these morons would go a long way toward removing them.
re: #113 jaunte
Tommy is example no.1 in my constant claim that the loss-of-god problem is now the GOP’s donors’ top tool to work the masses.
re: #120 jaunte
They also shifted the narrative from what fascists said at the convention, to the stage design.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 1, 2021
I wonder if the GOP realizes there are no restrictions on students praying in schools?
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re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
Well that would ruin the bumper sticker, wouldn’t it?
first i want to say to all who posted pix, that i thought all ya’ll were taller.
(it’s my joke and i love using it)
from the marathon, valentines day
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re: #121 darthstar
Took me years to find that gem. Lucked out. Then I had it set up. Boom.
Enjoy it.
It really is an individual experience. And you have YouTube, which is amazing.
If you can navigate YouTube, cut through the yakkers and jakkers, you will be fine.
I have favs.
Learn your open chords and play till you scream.
What I could have been, but we were reduced to putting nickels on the “tone arm” to slow the album or 45 down to try and figure out the slurs, double tracking and reverb tricks.
And actual chords.
Tuning is everything.
And play till your fingers really really hurt.
Clean/new strings is everything.
Now enjoy yourself
Go forth and buy a tube amp.
Oh and may I add, get a good capo and learn that magic.
Then if you ever get a hardtail (look it up) learn open tunings.
Magic.
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP realizes there are no restrictions on students praying in schools?
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I have prayed in every school building and public government building that I have entered since 1988 when my oldest child began kindergarten. Not once have I been stopped or asked not to.
It makes a great response to the “no prayer in school” liars, which was my motivation! 🤗
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP realizes there are no restrictions on students praying in schools?
//
How about religious schools preying on their students?
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP realizes there are no restrictions on students praying in schools?
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As long as there are pop quizzes, there will be prayer in school.
re: #28 sagehen
define “relatively reasonable”.
also, does owning the property include a peerage title?
Well, there are actual castles in the same price range as a 2 bed/2 bath Craftsman in Long Beach…
re: #33 William Lewis
Here’s something fun. This is possibly Jackson Browne’s most famous song, created on tour and the core of an album recorded on tour. This is a Video Montage of Joel Bernstein photos from the 1977 Jackson Browne Running On Empty Tour.
I would see him in concert many years (20?) later - with Heart opening! - and it remains one of my all-time favorite concerts.
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Jackson Browne:
Songwriters Hall of Fame? Yes.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Yes.
Grammy Awards? Not a one (six noms).
Go figure.
Paul Waldman: “If you aren’t attuned to the subtleties of presidential rhetoric about union organizing and business-labor relations, the video President Biden released on Sunday about a union drive at an Amazon warehouse might have seemed a little vague. It didn’t mention the word ‘Amazon’ at all, in fact, and didn’t take an explicit position on whether workers there should vote to unionize.”
“But labor advocates are saying it’s the most pro-union statement a president has ever made.”
re: #140 nines09
Took me years to find that gem. Lucked out. Then I had it set up. Boom.
Enjoy it.
It really is an individual experience. And you have YouTube, which is amazing.
If you can navigate YouTube, cut through the yakkers and jakkers, you will be fine.
I have favs.
Learn your open chords and play till you scream.
What I could have been, but we were reduced to putting nickels on the “tone arm” to slow the album or 45 down to try and figure out the slurs, double tracking and reverb tricks.
And actual chords.
Tuning is everything.
And play till your fingers really really hurt.
Clean/new strings is everything.
Now enjoy yourself
Go forth and buy a tube amp.
Oh and may I add, get a good capo and learn that magic.
Then if you ever get a hardtail (look it up) learn open tunings.
Magic.
I’ve got an instructor - he actually played at my wedding 11 years ago - and he’s great. Recommended the guitar and amp to my wife so she got me set up. We do zoom calls every Friday. Right now learning some Jerry licks to be able to do a full cover on Terrapin Station.
He taught me power chords last fall, then worked me up to bar chords, pick patterns, country strum, bluegrass licks…also sight reading music so I can pick up more bluegrass on the acoustic. He’s doing a great job of picking the right songs for me to learn based on my skills, and I continually add songs that I want to learn on top of it.
After the pandemic, I’m going to be annoying as hell around a drunken campfire.
from politicalwire.com Kansas Republicans Seek to Use Relief Funds for Tax Cut
“Early Saturday morning, Kansas’ three Republican U.S. House members voted against the massive Biden administration pandemic relief package that will send an estimated $1.6 billion to the state,” Kansas City Star reports.
One of them called it “a bailout for liberal states.”
“Their GOP counterparts in the Kansas Legislature? They’ve effectively spent much of it already.”
“Republican lawmakers are eyeing the relief dollars to fund $500 million in tax cuts, heavily targeted to multinational corporations and wealthy and retired Kansans.”
re: #137 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP realizes there are no restrictions on students praying in schools?
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A lot of them don’t. The rest understand it’s about coercing students to pray to White American Jesus.
Breaking: Georgia’s GOP-controlled House passes new voter suppression bill #HB531 cutting weekend voting, restricting mail ballot drop boxes, adding voter ID for mail ballots, giving voters less time to return ballots & dramatically limiting runoff time after Dems won in Nov/Jan
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) March 1, 2021
re: #145 darthstar
He was awful quiet at CPAC
It’s a little bit unfortunate that he didn’t live long enough to see young Conservatives choose to not show up this year.
re: #151 Dangerman
from politicalwire.com Kansas Republicans Seek to Use Relief Funds for Tax Cut
What is wrong with these people? The only purpose of this money is to give tax cuts to the wealthy? Kansas faced disaster because of Brownback’s policies and rescinded them and now they want to use our tax money to return to them? Can the Democratic governor prevent implementation of such programs?
She’s still trying to play the serious card:
“their hate for her ” - who said anything about “hating” her?
Instead, I think people (like you @arizeddt ) who present Owens and her ilk (grifters) as worthy of some sort of praise are marks. Plain and simple: marks.
Don’t be a mark.— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 1, 2021
re: #149 Eric The Fruit Bat
Head East also did this little ditty….
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Head East! They were just a bit before my time in Champaign, but over time playing in the area I got to know folks who were associated with them, Star Castle, The Shoes, REO, etc. (usually former sound people or roadies). Fogelberg came out about that time, too. Urbana-Champaign has a good track record for turning out reliable bands and music (oh, and Allison Krauss and her brother Todd went to my high school, but they are both several years younger).
re: #156 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Telling a Ben Shapiro fan to stop being a mark isn’t going to pay off. She’s in deep, and might even be a 2nd generation wingnut like Ben.
re: #144 KGxvi
Well, there are actual castles in the same price range as a 2 bed/2 bath Craftsman in Long Beach…
Oh, I thought you said relatively reasonable… //
re: #158 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Yeah, I was going to list all the grifters she follows: Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Prager, etc.
It’s the all-too-common delusion of the online “thinkers” - they buy into fluffy repackaging of the nonsensical stuff, but because those guys I listed above can actually speak and write in proper sentences and paragraphs, all of a sudden they are held up as some sort of intellectual giants.
I don’t think Hoarse is right here. The bigger take away is the obvious “lessons not learned” part about both-sidesing things: Ken equates Trump elevating propaganda meant to precipitate attacks on the media—“wacky ‘enemy of the people’ stuff”—with a press room operation that is trying to get things right.
Wait… Ken Dilanian is calling Biden’s press office “thin-skinned”?
The same Ken Dilanian who blocked anyone who pointed out he was dead wrong about the Mueller Report? pic.twitter.com/BhrcbeNIoq— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) March 1, 2021
re: #161 Barefoot Grin
I don’t think Hoarse is right here. The bigger take away is the obvious “lessons not learned” part about both-sidesing things: Ken equates Trump elevating propaganda meant to precipitate attacks on the media—“wacky ‘enemy of the people’ stuff”—with a press room operation that is trying to get things right.
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What did Geoff Bennett say about the minimum wage?
re: #162 The Pie Overlord!
What did Geoff Bennett say about the minimum wage?
That I don’t know. I’ll see if I can find out.
re: #162 The Pie Overlord!
What did Geoff Bennett say about the minimum wage?
“The White House doesn’t have 50 votes to confirm Neera Tanden as OMB director, and yet we heard the White House chief of staff say that the White House is going to fight their guts out — ‘fight our guts out’ was the phrase he used — to get her confirmed. So why push for that and not push as hard, one could say, for raising the minimum wage? You could make the argument that the American people stand to benefit more from a higher wage than they would from a chosen OMB director.”
Psaki responded, “I think that’s mixing a few things kind of irresponsibly, if I’m just being totally honest.”
I’ve been getting a lot of joy lately from watching videos of Yoyoka Soma.
She’s an 11-year-old drummer from Japan. There are those saying she’s not just one of the best child drummers in the world, but one of the best drummers in the world, period.
Here she is playing Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times.” Those bass drum triplets could make a professional drummer cry. She was eight.
re: #69 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Candace Owens is not simply just grifting . She is a true believer who will gladly help round up and diminish or exterminate those people who are the targets of her white overseers. She is a member of the Cult of Whiteness.
Throughout nearly all historical pogroms and extermination efforts individuals have sought to help oppress and kill members of their own identity group that is under attack. There are always those that will help the oppressors meet their goals if it promises to help their own place in the new society. Candace thinks she will prosper under a white power authoritarian rule. That is why she does what she does.
re: #165 Sinistershade
I’ve been getting a lot of joy lately from watching videos of Yoyoka Soma.
She’s an 11-year-old drummer from Japan. There are those saying she’s not just one of the best child drummers in the world, but one of the best drummers in the world, period.
Here she is playing Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times, Bad Times.” Those bass drum triplets could make a professional drummer cry. She was eight.
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She’s even got that signature John Bonham giggle at the end.
Normally the rats flee before the ship sinks, but better late than never.
Public Utility Commission chair resigns after Texas officials criticize management of power outages
re: #113 jaunte
Aw hell naw.
NOPE. Fifty three years ago today I started at a new elementary school. And my very sweet 2nd grade teacher told me, when I started eating my lunch time, “Deana, we are not pigs. We pray before we eat.” No kid should ever have to go through that. Later I learned it was illegal.
— Dee *There are “Little Cults Everywhere”* Holmes (@mmmirele) March 1, 2021
re: #160 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Yeah, I was going to list all the grifters she follows: Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Prager, etc.
It’s the all-too-common delusion of the online “thinkers” - they buy into fluffy repackaging of the nonsensical stuff, but because those guys I listed above can actually speak and write in proper sentences and paragraphs, all of a sudden they are held up as some sort of intellectual giants.
i never read a book, now let me tell you why i’m an expert…
re: #169 mmmirele
Back at my elementary school in Venezuela, they had us sing Church of England hymns every morning, but it didn’t take.
re: #167 darthstar
She’s even got that signature John Bonham giggle at the end.
I’ve heard people say she’s Bonzo reincarnated. I hope she drinks less.
Religious man wants to play serious:
“And psychologists …. say it is a mental problem. “
Um… ok, show me. I bet you’ve misunderstood, or even misrepresenting, what the standard diagnostic manual is on this topic.
“and plain common sense” - hahahaha…— freetoken fights fecking fascists (@freetoken) March 1, 2021
re: #174 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
He believed what Fox News told him about Mr. Potatohead.
re: #171 jaunte
Back at my elementary school in Venezuela, they had us sing Church of England hymns every morning, but it didn’t take.
We had a Mass every morning before breakfast and class, short prayer before each class, a student reading aloud from a religious text at each lunch, evening prayer in chapel.
And here I am with you heathens.
re: #176 jaunte
He’s faculty at Southern, a major school, and a reserve AF chaplain.
So he’s more than a fly-by tweeter.
But his views are the standard ones in conservative religious circles.
re: #177 Decatur Deb
We had a Mass every morning before breakfast and class, short prayer before class, a student reading aloud from a religious text at each lunch, evening prayer in chapel.
And here I am with you heathens.
The food and the music are better
re: #179 Dangerman
The food and the music are better
The food was hideous, the Bach and Palestrina divine.
re: #178 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
He’s quite insistent on remaining ignorant.
re: #169 mmmirele
No. Religious extremists caused the Trump disaster.
We need to put civics and critical-thinking classes back in our schools to get the far-right anti-democratic menace under control.
We do not need to produce more derpsters who are easily manipulated by preachers and demagogues.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 1, 2021
Gee
I wonder why he didn’t publicize it
Trump and the Mrs got the vaccine at the White House in January
re: #51 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
There are places all over this country where once a small town existed but is now greatly ignored. You can buy property with structures for a few thousand dollars.
Rabbit Hash, KY, was up for sale back in the day.
We need more disabled people in public office. Especially those not rich.
NEW Elevate Blog: Can you run for office if you’re on Social Security? We’ve been asked this a lot, and so we reached out to the Social Security Administration to get an answer: https://t.co/Z5mkPDKpZY #CripTheVote
— Sarah Blahovec (@Sblahov) March 1, 2021
re: #177 Decatur Deb
We had a Mass every morning before breakfast and class, short prayer before class, a student reading aloud from a religious text at each lunch, evening prayer in chapel.
And here I am with you heathens.
Mandatory chapel and couldn’t dance on campus at my university.
re: #187 BeenHereAwhile
Mandatory chapel and couldn’t dance on campus at my university.
Yep, same here.
re: #187 BeenHereAwhile
Mandatory chapel and couldn’t dance on campus at my university.
No girls. Dancing would have been “awkward”. In the parts of the complex where the teachers and older students who had taken vows lived, no visiting family women ever entered. That’s a bit softer than the Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, where female livestock are not permitted.
re: #189 Decatur Deb
No girls. Dancing would have been “awkward”. In the parts of the complex where the teachers and older students who had taken vows lived, no visiting women ever entered. That’s a bit softer than the Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, where female livestock are not permitted.
You know the young men are a real problem at a site that can’t allow female livestock.
Meet Mildred Blount. Blount became the first African American member of the Motion Pictures Costumers Union. Her hats are in the collections of California African American Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
🚴+ Physics = winner pic.twitter.com/z060e7eZsk
— Physics (@WElRDPHYSICS) March 1, 2021
re: #177 Decatur Deb
We had a Mass every morning before breakfast and class, short prayer before each class, a student reading aloud from a religious text at each lunch, evening prayer in chapel.
And here I am with you heathens.
Me too!
Wait? Now I are one?
Dog save may soul.
re: #192 darthstar
The recovery to get the feet back on the pedals was pretty slick. That’s clearly a practiced maneuver.
re: #190 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You know the young men are a real problem at a site that can’t allow female livestock.
Why take chaaaaances?
re: #194 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The recovery to get the feet back on the pedals was pretty slick. That’s clearly a practiced maneuver.
Aerodynamics though…now all the bikers are going to do it.
I am so fucking tired of the willful ignorance that is celebrated and rewarded by the GOP.
Well it’s damn sure not Putin! https://t.co/8DB87p0ELi
— USNCPO - Cruz & Hawley are TRAITORS 🇺🇸⚓✈️ (@CraigCo62) March 1, 2021
re: #197 Teddy’s Person
I am so fucking tired of the willful ignorance that is celebrated and rewarded by the GOP.
Lauren, you dumbfuck, you said it yourself: “BIDEN White House”. Seems like you have a perfectly good idea who is running it.
re: #197 Teddy’s Person
I am so fucking tired of the willful ignorance that is celebrated and rewarded by the GOP.
There is nothing anyone can say to you that will help you understand how utterly stupid you make yourself look, is there?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 2, 2021
re: #198 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s because you don’t know anything. A failed, radicalized political party that has parted with reality put you in office to harm the federal government. You’re already caught. Tick tock.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 2, 2021
re: #199 darthstar
If she didn’t come across as stupid, her voters would get upset. Stupid put her in Congress.
re: #177 Decatur Deb
We had a Mass every morning before breakfast and class, short prayer before each class, a student reading aloud from a religious text at each lunch, evening prayer in chapel.
And here I am with you heathens.
Same. Catholic schools 1st grade, 2nd thru 6th public, then back to them from 7th through graduation.
re: #187 BeenHereAwhile
Mandatory chapel and couldn’t dance on campus at my university.
Old county law in Georgia restricted more than 3 unsupervised women from cohabitating, so the sororities only had “officers’ cottages” and the women basic had to conduct functions at cooperating frat houses.
Wow…that fucker has been dead 9 years already?
Nine years ago today, Andrew Breitbart relieved us of his existence. I’m still here. He’s not. pic.twitter.com/IHGFVqHdI8
— Daryle Lamont Jenkins (@DLamontJenkins) March 2, 2021
re: #203 Barefoot Grin
Old county law in Georgia restricted more than 3 unsupervised women from cohabitating, so the sororities only had “officers’ cottages” and the women basic had to conduct functions at cooperating frat houses.
If you allow that sort of thing you get lesbianism, witchcraft, and women telling each other that they should expect more in life than being an accessory to a man. Georgia doesn’t want that.
One of the better felony stories in Alabama.
Alabama mother steals baby goat, dyes it blue, sheriff’s office says
Deputies learned the suspect had stolen the goat from owner’s yard to show it to her daughter, the sheriff’s office says.
But “at some point,” she told investigators, she decided to use food coloring and “blue shampoo” to paint the goat.
re: #206 Decatur Deb
One of the better felony stories in Alabama.
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I wonder if she makes a habit of stealing things to show to her daughter?
Too many people have kids without first becoming responsible adults themselves.
re: #207 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I wonder if she makes a habit of stealing things to show to her daughter?
Too many people have kids without first becoming responsible adults themselves.
The only shock is that it didn’t involve Auburn. War Eagle.
re: #207 Punish Domestic Terrorists
I wonder if she makes a habit of stealing things to show to her daughter?
Too many people have kids without first becoming responsible adults themselves.
Did it never cross her mind to maybe take her daughter over there? Call me old-fashioned, but that’s what my parents would do when I was young.
re: #209 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Did it never cross her mind to maybe take her daughter over there? Call me old-fashioned, but that’s what my parents would do when I was young.
But she was already near the goat, and her daughter wasn’t there. What’s a mom to do?
re: #210 Punish Domestic Terrorists
But she was already near the goat, and her daughter wasn’t there. What’s a mom to do?
Wait until later like a not-crazy person? Sheesh. Kids these days. No respect, I tell ya.
Let me guess Joe Manchin
— Slim Shady (@SlimShady274) March 2, 2021
re: #205 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If you allow that sort of thing you get lesbianism, witchcraft, and women telling each other that they should expect more in life than being an accessory to a man. Georgia doesn’t want that.
Yes, but it depended on the county regarding habitation rules. Anyway, my mom was a big sorority girl at UGA, but she left the south immediately after graduating and went to Illinois to serve in a Christian foundation at the University of Illinois (McKinley Foundation) through a grant from the Danforth Foundation, which was a Christian organization run out of Missouri by the family of the Purina animal foods company. She met her future mother-in-law there who introduced her to my dad. It was actually through this program that she met her first lesbians, though they only learned that many years later of that fact at a reunion. Most had at one time been married and some had children, but several of the women had joined the program in the 1950s not to spread the Word, but to travel and get out of their confining communities. I’m not really trying to make a point; I’m just reliving some stuff I had forgotten about.
Tonight on WHYY American Experience will be contralto Marian Anderson. As conductor Arturo Toscanini said her voice was one heard once in a hundred years. This will also be another one of those shows you can watch through the live TV button.
whyy.org
It’s always those dang wire transfers that getcha!
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) March 1, 2021
As the vaccine rollout continues, and with a limited supply, people in some rural areas of the U.S. say they are getting slighted in favor of urban centers. https://t.co/udLdbR26hQ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 2, 2021
well, we in eastern Kentucky age 65+ (category 1-C) can get appointments if we are willing to drive almost 200 miles roundtrip, twice.
and hope that Ohio people WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT don’t show up before we do.
Lordy, there is a photograph. pic.twitter.com/Su6IlVBZVJ
— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) March 2, 2021
Cuomo must go.
we had some vaccines allocated to our county health department.
all of the appointment slots were filled before anyone knew about it.
My shocked face…
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
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well, we in eastern Kentucky age 65+ (category 1-C) can get appointments if we are willing to drive almost 200 miles roundtrip, twice.
and hope that Ohio people WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT don’t show up before we do.
With luck the J&J vaccine can help get out to really rural areas since it doesn’t need fancy freezers and 2 doses.
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
well, we in eastern Kentucky age 65+ (category 1-C) can get appointments if we are willing to drive almost 200 miles roundtrip, twice.
and hope that Ohio people WITHOUT AN APPOINTMENT don’t show up before we do.
Sounds like a job for the Frontier Nursing Service. Needs more mules.
frontier.edu
re: #220 calochortus
With luck the J&J vaccine can help get out to really rural areas since it doesn’t need fancy freezers and 2 doses.
And now that Pfizer has decided its vaccine doesn’t need the fancy freezers either, hopefully that will allow supplies to get out to more rural areas, too.
Uh huh. Sure.
Trump laced into his successor on Sunday, excoriating Biden for what he called “the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history” and suggesting he may run again in 2024 https://t.co/LzL2fUAA7H
— POLITICO (@politico) March 1, 2021
Tomorrow morning the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a pair of voting rights cases involving Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which prohibits policies or laws that result in racial discrimination in voting. pic.twitter.com/E9fHBuc6DU
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) March 2, 2021
re: #216 Dread Pirate Ron
A.G. Garland has some work to do. Trump paid people to try to undo an election he lost.
Maybe Trump can see the future. He used the phrase “trying to undo an election” over and over when first impeached, and it made no sense in the context, but then he really tried to undo an election.
Senate Republicans opposing the minimum wage spent the last twelve months calling workers “essential” and “heroes”.
If that wasn’t just empty rhetoric, join us to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour.— Sherrod Brown (@SenSherrodBrown) March 1, 2021
re: #223 The Pie Overlord!
Uh huh. Sure.
He has the support of a cult brainwashed by far-right media, but I don’t think he can run and win from prison.https://t.co/wKxTbsAn9Z
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 2, 2021
self-leveling meerkat
❤️🤗 pic.twitter.com/3ZFIMqG4aA
— Köksal Akın (@newworlddd555) February 28, 2021
Congratulations to @teachcardona—our new Secretary of Education. This is a moment of crisis, and I know Dr. Cardona’s experience will allow him to tackle the many challenges facing students, educators, and schools head-on. https://t.co/UVecz6wJTX
— Senator Patty Murray (@PattyMurray) March 1, 2021
Trump and former First Lady Melania both received covid vaccine at the WH back in January, a Trump adviser confirms.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 1, 2021
I’m sure he’ll learn his lesson this time. pic.twitter.com/rte2wX5vTu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2021
I didn’t watch Trump’s speech at CPAC last night, but I know that any party that remains in the grips of a man who still - even after inciting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol - continues to spread his Big Lie that the election was stolen, has turned their backs on democracy.
— Alex Padilla (@AlexPadilla4CA) March 1, 2021
NEWS: Senator @ossoff just secured unanimous consent to pass his first piece of legislation, which honors his hero and mentor, the late Congressman John Lewis, for his towering achievements in the nonviolent struggle for civil rights. #GAPol pic.twitter.com/hcP5ZypPil
— Jake Best (@Jake_Best_) March 2, 2021
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
Way to go Sen Ossoff.
It’s amazing how quickly the covid vaccines were developed. But Trump deserves NO credit. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if he had simply gotten out of the way and followed the advice of scientists and researchers a year ago?
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2021
He’s a monster who caused half a million deaths with his incompetence and self-obsessions and malicious actions. He should be on trial in the Hague.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2021
thread for #WomensHistoryMonth
This is my great-grandmother, Bahiyeh, who grew up in Damascus. When her husband’s family wanted to marry her 8-year-old daughter, my teta, to a cousin in his 20s, she took her child and escaped to Lebanon, where they lived in hiding for years, so their family wouldn’t kill them. pic.twitter.com/0ap2gwc8dT
— Sulome (@SulomeAnderson) March 1, 2021
re: #231 Charles Johnson
There are people who should be banned from the entire Internet. Rudy’s one of them.
re: #147 austin_blue
Jackson Browne:
Songwriters Hall of Fame? Yes.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Yes.
Grammy Awards? Not a one (six noms).Go figure.
No surprise to me. In any category look at the nominee’s sales - who ever sold the most wins. That’s all the Grammy’s are.
Kill the filibuster now. Kill it with fire.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2021
I kinda miss the days when I had no idea what a fucken filibuster was.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 2, 2021
Trump and Pompeo almost got their war.
Chilling footage of the ballistic missile attack on al-Asad airbase last year. Quite a revelation: the U.S. intelligence was forewarned of the attack due to Iranian purchases of commercial satellite imagery of the base for targeting purposes! https://t.co/9DKMde9KN7
— Sebastien Roblin (@sebastienroblin) March 1, 2021
There’s so much I admire about the French: their sophistication, their cinema, their willingness to prosecute former presidents.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) March 2, 2021
The tallest tree in Wales got damaged by a storm and was supposed to be cut down, instead chainsaw artist Simon O’Rourke found a better solution to symbolise the tree’s last attempt to reach the sky. pic.twitter.com/dTRkiCcoJj
— Rob N Roll (@thegallowboob) March 1, 2021
All I learned about classical music…
THREAD: Lots of us learned classical music from watching old cartoons, so I’m going to identify the pieces that frequently popped up.
One of the most recognizable is Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2,” performed by those great piano virtuosos Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry. pic.twitter.com/SmyKbMpw3e— Vincent Alexander (@NonsenseIsland) March 1, 2021