Seth takes a closer look at Texas and Mississippi lifting their COVID-19 restrictions and Republicans staying silent on the drive to unionize Amazon workers.
More from @Reuters on the explosion in Holland.https://t.co/z68wTMvBeo
— Dena Grayson, MD, PhD (@DrDenaGrayson) March 3, 2021
Damn socialism
— Bry_by_Night (@bry_night) March 4, 2021
Charles, one of the popup ads on transition is for “Media Player 10”.
I’m pretty sure that rather than a legitimate company having bought that trademark from Microsoft once Windows Media Player was discontinued, that’s a malware.
Anything that can be done about it for someone who may have had her financial situation improve during the pandemic, but not even arguably enough to subscribe?
And what I was originally coming here for:
Do we HAVE to live under minority rule under those circumstances?
They talk up the original secession as legal all the time; if it’s obvious we can’t hold ANY Federal branch until 2080, is it worth forcing them to put our money where their mouth is?— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) 🏳️⚧️ (@chrysicat) March 4, 2021
re: #2 Dread Pirate Ron
Republican governor’s coronavirus grant fund gave $600,000 to her family’s ranchhttps://t.co/YIpUSEkrn8
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 4, 2021
She is a perfect replacement for Trump in 2024: keeps her state open, no statewide mask mandate, second in cases per population, 8th in deaths per population, and with this abysmal record, she is held up as a model for the libertarian freedumb faction. Boasts of how well her state is doing because she is as good a liar as Trump, but speaks coherently. And a grifter.
And don’t think for a second I can pass off a burnt quesadilla by scraping off the burned layer. I’ve tried. pic.twitter.com/R5IjNcBPN2
— Vipin Narang (@NarangVipin) March 4, 2021
re: #60 IngisKahn
Charles Johnson:
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He forgot to quote some “.”s I think.
Maybe:
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(To get some of those “\“‘s through LGFs posting software I had to double them).
“Bipartisanship sounds great on paper, but a $1,400 check sounds even better” … WH has it exactly right.
— Jennifer ‘pro-reality’ Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 3, 2021
Why does bipartisanship sound good on paper? It doesn’t to me. The results sound good to me. Bipartisanship doesn’t.
re: #9 Nyet
Why does bipartisanship sound good on paper? It doesn’t to me. The results sound good to me. Bipartisanship doesn’t.
The only people that give a shit about Bipartisanship are in the media or DC.
Bipartisanship is good when you’re doing something bad - “but but but they did it too!”. When you’re doing something good, you might as well do it in a partisan way.
We’re running out of rain/snow season in California. A chance of rain next Tuesday will add to our massive 4.37” so far. Our snow pack is 60% of normal (or about 40% of what was normal back in the 60-80s). The state is asking people to conserve water.
Morning all.
Dancing Stink Weasel by the light of the moon pic.twitter.com/7mRs7MvCQd
— And The Wind Cries: “I’m Tired of Donald Trump” (@DaveoutofAustin) March 4, 2021
re: #13 Dave In Austin
That’s a good stinkweasel, unlike the GQP treasonweasels.
re: #13 Dave In Austin
He’s ready for a fight.
re: #15 Dread Pirate Ron
He’s ready for a fight.
Is actually a female. Pepe Le Pew Is off screen. Skunk love is not pretty.
— Inglorious (@BlindGrigori) February 16, 2021
Idaho state Rep. Karey Hanks (R) said she has “done some research” and concluded that face masks can cause injuries to “even our souls,” KTVB reports.
but of course she has
-“done some research”
- and concluded
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, who was relentlessly attacked by Donald Trump for refusing to help overturn the presidential election, told Fox News that he would “absolutely” back Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee in 2024
a wealthy gated enclave in the Florida Keys had been vaccinated by mid-January, according to an emailed newsletter obtained by the Miami Herald.
It’s also home to many wealthy donors to the Florida Republican Party and GOP candidates, including Gov. Ron DeSantis.
In fact, the only people from Key Largo who gave to DeSantis’ political committee live in Ocean Reef. All 17 of them had given the governor contributions of $5,000 each through December 2020, according to the Florida Division of Elections.
Since DeSantis started using the state’s vaccine initiative to steer special pop-up vaccinations to select communities, his political committee has raised $2.7 million in the month of February alone, more than any other month since he first ran for governor in 2018, records show.
re: #22 Nyet
Great illustration—cross in one hand, knout in the other.
re: #22 Nyet
Yep, and he even looks a bit like John Wayne…
re: #6 Dread Pirate Ron
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That’s funny. I burned my son’s bacon once, and he’s never let me forget.
re: #26 Mike Lamb
That’s funny. I burned my son’s bacon once, and he’s never let me forget.
My mom would get distracted—she was trying to make lunches and breakfast at the same time often—and burn our toast. It wasn’t uncommon for me to come home from my morning paper route to find the charred scrapings from toast in the snow outside the kitchen door. I don’t like burnt toast, but there’s something nostalgic in the smell.
re: #27 Barefoot Grin
My mom would get distracted—she was trying to make lunches and breakfast at the same time often—and burn our toast. It wasn’t uncommon for me to come home from my morning paper route to find the charred scrapings from toast in the snow outside the kitchen door. I don’t like burnt toast, but there’s something nostalgic in the smell.
we had an old toaster that always burned the toast, so my mom used to tell my sisters that eating burnt toast helps make your hair curly, as they were jealous of their younger brother’s curly hair.
that has become a running gag in our family
my son also inherited the curly hair genes in the family…
Senators can’t do anything:
Abbott might have surrendered, but we don’t have to.
Join us as we go door to door (masked and socially distanced) to register Texans for the covid vaccine this weekend.
Vaccine canvasses taking place in 18 different cities:https://t.co/YVL7RWH3ME— Beto O’Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 3, 2021
Fair enough, I guess?
Q never said anything about March 4th. None of us on this “prominent Qanon forum” will be in Washington DC tomorrow. None of us think that Trump will be announced President tomorrow. Tomorrow will just be a regular day.
posted 14 hours ago by Nyc999944 +878 / -0
And this isn’t a lie or disinformation or any of that. We legit won’t be anywhere near the Capitol lol
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like Trump’s ice skating rinks are on thin ice. Seems that in this age of venmo, credit cards, and e-commerce, they operate solely as a cash business.
NEW: Prosecutors investigating Donald Trump are now looking into one of his weirdest businesses: a NYC ice rink that — in the year 2021 — only accepts payments in cash.https://t.co/dSCVf3vo86
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 4, 2021
And that’s just weird. That allows them to play games with not only the amounts they have to report as taxes, but they can also play games with their lease/rental agreement payments.
re: #32 Eventual Carrion
If anything happens it will be antifa of course.
Nope, Michigan Militia in Antifa letter jackets, a particularly false false-flag.
Just noticed everyone is beaming at Trump in that pic except Barron, who appears to be distracted by something about Chief Justice Roberts. pic.twitter.com/M2dvzoWy4D
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
re: #35 darthstar
Weird. Trump must be a time traveler who got all wibbly wobbly about the timeline, because he claimed that he inherited American carnage, and yet that’s exactly what he left in his wake:
500,000+ Americans dead
Tens of millions out of work.
Far higher unemployment.
Worst economic crash since Great Depression.
An economy in shambles (Wall Street isn’t Main Street).
So I see SpaceX had a successful flight and landing yesterday. Just make sure you’re seated in first class because you only have about 8 minutes after the flight to deplane before it goes boom.
Pigeons, man. They don’t fuck around.
https://t.co/y1iuux2nJt
NOT A GOOD WAY TO BEGIN THE MORNING.
SCREAMS OF HUMAN ANIMALS AS FEATHERED ANIMALS WREAK REVENGE IN (WHERE ELSE) NYC SUBWAY.— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 4, 2021
What Abbott wants to open up in:
Cases of #COVID19 are on the rise.
As of March 1, the 7-day moving average of new cases is 66,010, a 3.5% increase from the previous week. Now is not the time to relax prevention measures. Wear a well-fitting mask. Stay 6 feet apart. Avoid crowds. More: https://t.co/YT7LKi6sF2. pic.twitter.com/5fjf0h0G9e— CDC (@CDCgov) March 3, 2021
re: #39 darthstar
You know that the $1.9 trillion relief bill is going to pass despite GOP obstructionism, chicanery, and delays, because the Post is doing all it can to distract from that fact.
In addition to trying to kill off more city people, I think Abbot is trying to lay the groundwork for arguing that Biden was ineffective at controlling the virus:
Houston: 1st city to have almost all major coronavirus variants in circulation. The as yet unpublished findings arrive as public health measures are lifted in Texas. Houston Methodist researchers confirmed the UK, Brazil, S. Africa & Calif variants in Houston patients (from @CNN) pic.twitter.com/s2MBlajBkR
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) March 3, 2021
if you say so pic.twitter.com/obGtiRXDBX
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) March 4, 2021
It’s just the two of us tonight on The Fireside Sessions. We’re excited to invite you in for a special evening of music from the Trucks household, tonight at 8pm on @nugsnet. https://t.co/PCfjk4scQk pic.twitter.com/6uV8BixLDB
— Tedeschi Trucks Band (@DerekAndSusan) March 4, 2021
Republicans in the Arizona senate demanded that Maricopa county send them the ballots from the election, and they did, and now the Senate doesn’t know what to do with them:
Which the County did Monday—delivering 73 pallets stacked with 2.1 million ballots to the Senate chambers. That would be the same Senate that demanded the ballots, but now has no fucking clue what to do with them. They didn’t even have a plan to count the votes after it became known that they initially hired a firm with ties to Trump to conduct the audit, the same firm that had botched an earlier count.
On Jan. 29, the Senate announced that it had hired “an independent, qualified forensic auditing firm to analysis the 2020 election results” though [Senate President Karen] Fann quickly backtracked once the public got wind of the fact that her idea of “independent, qualified” auditors was Trump’s crack Allied Security crew.
Stockton, CA, gave 125 people $500/month, no strings attached, and here are some of the findings from that:
The researchers Stacia Martin-West of the University of Tennessee and Amy Castro Baker of the University of Pennsylvania collected and analyzed data from individuals who received $500 a month and from individuals who did not. Some of their findings are obvious. The cash transfer reduced income volatility, for one: Households getting the cash saw their month-to-month earnings fluctuate 46 percent, versus the control group’s 68 percent. The families receiving the $500 a month tended to spend the money on essentials, including food, home goods, utilities, and gas. (Less than 1 percent went to cigarettes and alcohol.) The cash also doubled the households’ capacity to pay unexpected bills, and allowed recipient families to pay down their debts. Individuals getting the cash were also better able to help their families and friends, providing financial stability to the broader community…
The researchers also found that the guaranteed income did not dissuade participants from working—adding to a large body of evidence showing that cash benefits do not dramatically shrink the labor force and in some cases help people work by giving them the stability they need to find and take a new job. In the Stockton study, the share of participants with a full-time job rose 12 percentage points, versus five percentage points in the control group. In an interview, Martin-West and Castro Baker suggested that the money created capacity for goal setting, risk taking, and personal investment.
Did I miss the “inauguration”?
Is there a countdown website?
re: #38 darthstar
So I see SpaceX had a successful flight and landing yesterday. Just make sure you’re seated in first class because you only have about 8 minutes after the flight to deplane before it goes boom.
Yep. The people live streaming it refused to cut away as they just KNEW something was going to happen. I think they thought it was going to fall over because of the angle it it was on after landing with no gear deployed as did I. The BOOM! was unexpected.
re: #46 Belafon
Stockton, CA, gave 125 people $500/month, no strings attached, and here are some of the findings from that:
They all stopped working and became dependent and entitled and now Stockton is a socialist hellhole?
I’ll wait to see whole interview, but this portion raises lots of Qs re: how softly CBS treated this terrorist https://t.co/L21YCUdNpM
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 4, 2021
Let me get this straight; Republicans are upset about President Joe Biden calling Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Nance,” but okay with Majorie Taylor Greene calling for the Speaker’s execution?
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) March 4, 2021
re: #51 Dangerman
You know like, people sometimes will get confused and think polygamy is what the Mormons still do and they will confront some Mormon about it and the Mormon will deny it and won’t be lying, but there still are fundamentalist Mormon sects around (condemned by the LDS Church) that actually do marry by the dozen? It’s kind of like that but much dumber, I guess.
1/2 @NicolaSturgeon being asked if she should apologise to the nation for trusting Alex Salmond & encouraging others to took my breath away. Her answer: ‘The only person who should apologise for Alex Salmond’s behaviour is Alex Salmond’ was bang on. What a question to ask. I feel
— Leah MacRae (@leah_macrae) March 3, 2021
2/2 I feel like she answered clearly, concisely and what looked like completely honestly for eight hours, questions that were often repeated. She never wavered in her reply. She spoke from the heart several times. What more could anyone ask for. #IStandWithNicola
— Leah MacRae (@leah_macrae) March 3, 2021
This is so upsetting to watch. How many of us have had to reassess what we thought we knew about a person? How many of us have then been expected to apologise for that person’s actions? This is way beyond the scope of politics. Yesterday was a disgraceful display. Total shitshow. https://t.co/Z1ilzDVsdE
— Sarah Faichney (@SarahFaichney) March 4, 2021
Murdo Fraser trying to get Nicola Sturgeon to apologise for something she didn’t do, angered me so much last night I joined the SNP.
It’s 2021, I’ve had enough. pic.twitter.com/rLYoR76saI— The Vegan Gorilla (@DarrenConnell87) March 4, 2021
re: #52 DodgerFan1988
Normally, it’s wingnuts using these phrases.
This is the first time I’ve seen the phrase “let me get this straight,” where it’s not followed by showing that they misinterpreted every aspect of the topic they thought they got straight. This is usually as reliable as “make no mistake” being followed by a lie or delusion.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 4, 2021
re: #52 DodgerFan1988
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They want biden(as president) to call pelosi what trump (as president) called her
Let me get this straight; Republicans are upset about President Joe Biden calling Speaker Nancy Pelosi “Nance,” but okay with Majorie Taylor Greene calling for the Speaker’s execution?
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) March 4, 2021
re: #55 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Also, “common sense”.
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’ll wait to see whole interview, but this portion raises lots of Qs re: how softly CBS treated this terrorist
“we were waved in by police officers”…
They are letting him promote all the bullshit RW talking points
re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth
Now we know why this guy wore the stupid hat. He’s just another balding jack wagon.
And his Shamen “talk” makes me want to hurl. Funny how these cowards will say anything to try to stay out of the clink.
So I booked the missus for her vaccine next Wednesday about an hour away and this morning San Mateo county texted her to say her turn was coming up so now she’s booked for Saturday morning 20 minutes away. So yeah, she gets the jab in two days and will free up the other appointment for someone up in San Rafael.
This thread WOW
I think I may know why white people are so upset about this Dr. Seuss/cancel culture thing. I was reminded of this story today.
It goes back to the second-most devastating day of my life:
The day I found out the Hardy Boys were white.
A thread— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 4, 2021
re: #1 Dread Pirate Ron
Re those explosions in Holland, yesterday I read an article in Spanish on Deutsche Welle and it pointed out a couple of things:
* Not the first time a diagnostic clinic was targeted. When the Dutch lockdown with curfew started in January, a diagnostic clinic in Urk (why yes, that’s the town name) was set on fire.
* Both Bovenkarspel and Urk are in the Dutch “Bible Belt” and the article points out that there’s a tradition of anti-vaxxer stupidity (my editorial comment) among the conservative Protestants.
* This particular area has 81 infected per 100,000 persons, compared to 27.2 persons per 100,000 in the rest of Holland.
There’s a lot going on there, and gee, it’s quite similar to what’s going on here.
dw.com (in Spanish)
ETA: I just have to point out that there’s a Dutch group against reasonable restrictions during the pandemic, called “Viruswaarheid” (Truth over the virus) and it was founded and led by a professor of *dance* who uses the group as a vehicle to promote conspiracy theories. Sound familiar?
Me and my gf have our first shots scheduled for tomorrow
re: #63 EstebanTornado1963
Me and my gf have our first shots scheduled for tomorrow
My wife and I have ours this evening, and I would trade mine if I could get my 16 year old a shot.
re: #65 Belafon
I would guess within 3 weeks that could happen depending where you live.
re: #33 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like Trump’s ice skating rinks are on thin ice. Seems that in this age of venmo, credit cards, and e-commerce, they operate solely as a cash business.
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And that’s just weird. That allows them to play games with not only the amounts they have to report as taxes, but they can also play games with their lease/rental agreement payments.
There’s always money in the banana stand?
Jewish children with their teacher in Samarkand, circa 1905–1915
Original color photo by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky pic.twitter.com/VivkivLTD9— Mordechai Lightstone (@Mottel) March 4, 2021
re: #62 mmmirele
Re those explosions in Holland, yesterday I read an article in Spanish on Deutsche Welle and it pointed out a couple of things:
* Not the first time a diagnostic clinic was targeted. When the Dutch lockdown with curfew started in January, a diagnostic clinic in Urk (why yes, that’s the town name) was set on fire.
* Both Bovenkarspel and Urk are in the Dutch “Bible Belt” and the article points out that there’s a tradition of anti-vaxxer stupidity (my editorial comment) among the conservative Protestants.
* This particular area has 81 infected per 100,000 persons, compared to 27.2 persons per 100,000 in the rest of Holland.
There’s a lot going on there, and gee, it’s quite similar to what’s going on here.
dw.com (in Spanish)
ETA: I just have to point out that there’s a Dutch group against reasonable restrictions during the pandemic, called “Viruswaarheid” (Truth over the virus) and it was founded and led by a professor of *dance* who uses the group as a vehicle to promote conspiracy theories. Sound familiar?
Not quite related but it is, that same conservative protestant church tradition was the basis of the Afrikaner Calvinism that made such a mess out of South Africa.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
I’ve seen that one before. I always liked it.
re: #70 William Lewis
Not quite related but it is, that same conservative protestant church tradition was the basis of the Afrikaner Calvinism that made such a mess out of South Africa.
I recall reading about some rather extreme anti-lockdown protests in the Netherlands.
And don’t forget, a lot of those Calvinists also emigrated to America…
re: #53 Nyet
You know like, people sometimes will get confused and think polygamy is what the Mormons still do and they will confront some Mormon about it and the Mormon will deny it and won’t be lying, but there still are fundamentalist Mormon sects around (condemned by the LDS Church) that actually do marry by the dozen? It’s kind of like that but much dumber, I guess.
Yes, there a few sects but a lot of polygamists aren’t part of any groups. The two sects I’m familiar with are:
* FLDS, currently located at the Utah/Arizona border. Led by the incarcerated Warren Jeffs. God only knows what’s going on inside there, but what I’ve heard is weird. They have/had hidey holes all over the West (e.g., that place in Texas). One of my friends in Rapid City, SD, went to an tax sale last week of some FLDS property relatively (oh, 30-40 miles) nearby. The property sold for ~$675,000. It’s uncertain if anyone is still living there.
* AUB, Apostolic United Brethren. Their HQ is in Bluffdale, UT, near one of the penitentiaries. They try to present themselves as sane polygamists, but boy, they have their own crazy.
As I said, most of the polygamists are basically their own thang. They definitely exist, probably even some within five miles of my house here in Arizona, because Mesa is old Mormon country. But the Mormon church will ABSOLUTELY drop kick anyone they catch practicing polygamy. There’s not even a question about it.
Baldwin does not have the right kind of personality to be on social media. He’ll lose his shit on Instagram too. It’s just a matter of time.
Alec Baldwin Deactivates Twitter After ‘A—holes’ Slam Gillian Anderson Joke(US Weekly via MSN)
re: #73 mmmirele
Yes, there a few sects but a lot of polygamists aren’t part of any groups. The two sects I’m familiar with are:
* FLDS, currently located at the Utah/Arizona border.
* AUB, Apostolic United Brethren. Their HQ is in Bluffdale, UT, near one of the penitentiaries.
The strip of Arizona north of the Grand Canyon used to be directly inaccessible from within Arizona, which made it a desirable spot. There was an FBI raid on Short Creek (now called Colorado City) in the 50’s that broke up a polygamist community, but did not end polygamy, just drove it more underground.
re: #61 The Pie Overlord!
This thread WOW
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This is an amazing thread. Definitely worth a read.
A Happy March 4th to all.
And a really big FU to the QAssholes deluded enough to believe His Ass-Holeyness was going to overthrow Joe today!
!! WHOA: US Capitol defendant Richard Barnett — man accused of putting feet on Pelosi desk - is *screaming* at attorneys and judge during his court hearing right now.
Upset he’s been locked up “for a whole month”… “it’s not fair”
Judge just recessed hearing for “5 mins” pic.twitter.com/ayaO4d6lb0— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) March 4, 2021
I certainly hope so. The more Republicans steal, the less they have for supplementing voter suppression, gerrymandering and GRU instigated Big Lies in their depraved quest for power.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) March 4, 2021
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
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F that cracker. And that goes double for that Asshole Shaman whom CBS endlessly tossed softballs at.
re: #79 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
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Wondering if Gym Neighbors Jordan used that $3 million to pay hush money to blackmailers?
Here is why “If I Ran The Zoo” was discontinued:
(In spoilers because you will see why it was discontinued)
This is an image of Africans from “If I Ran the Zoo”. This might give you an idea of why the Seuss trust made the decision to stop publishing that particular title. pic.twitter.com/qcfvAJnqU3
— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) March 4, 2021
re: #81 🌹UOJB!
Wondering if Gym Neighbors Jordan used that $3 million to pay hush money to blackmailers?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
re: #82 The Pie Overlord!
Here is why “If I Ran The Zoo” was discontinued:
(In spoilers because you will see why it was discontinued)
Just because certain things were accepted back then does not make them acceptable nowadays.
re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I’ll wait to see whole interview, but this portion raises lots of Qs re: how softly CBS treated this terrorist
“we were waved in by police officers”…They are letting him promote all the bullshit RW talking points
doesnt make it any less illegal
whether they were complicit, derelict or overrun
Giuliani Gets Dunked On For Crying Foul Over ‘Misinformation’ He Peddled
ROTFLMAO at this ass trying to wiggle out of his lawsuit!
And he is stupid enough to tweet this!
Misinformation has become a daily occurrence on social media platforms. If continued unaddressed, it will eventually lead to Jefferson’s worst nightmare of a poorly informed citizenry, which he saw as the greatest danger to democracy.
My analysis, HERE: https://t.co/PYZ8DYFn1H pic.twitter.com/KZnB11mkvl— Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) March 3, 2021
He’s begging to get his ass and Planters Peanuts to get repeatedly kicked in the courtroom!
re: #63 EstebanTornado1963
Me and my gf have our first shots scheduled for tomorrow
i’m gonna be envy-jealous of all y’all who get vaccinated
until around june when maybe i’ll get lucky
florida/Desantis you know -
(don’t hate me)
though dangermom is getting her second shot on sunday (92 y/o)
still no word on what can be done for mrsdm given her acute lung condition since she’s ‘only’ 62 (did i just publish that)
Late yesterday, according to Worldometer, COVID-19 deaths exceeded 531,576, which is greater than the population of this city in 2019:
Got my second Pfizer in So Cal here yesterday. A moderate sore arm is the only symptom I have this morning, similar to the first vaccination.
Oddly, a slight soreness developed at the same time in my other arm, at the site of the first shot! Sympathetic symptom?
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just because certain things were accepted back then does not make them acceptable nowadays.
Quite true.
But I’m just curious why the Seuss Estate decided to stop distributing the titles, rather than simply excising the offensive material. I guess they would probably not want to re-draw or overtly replace anything old Ted actually drew, but I wonder how much “If I Ran the Zoo” would suffer if the “African” pic was missing….?
That said, I generally agree with their decision.
re: #82 The Pie Overlord!
Here is why “If I Ran The Zoo” was discontinued:
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The question is why discontinue the book and not just update the artwork in the couple of pages where it is an issue? Personally I think the whole thing was to generate controversy and goose sales, which are apparently way up. Something like 5 of the top 6 books on amazon yesterday were Dr. Seuss books.
Full pic. It’s a rare day when I don’t take a picture of my dogs. pic.twitter.com/Me0HQL5Erg
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
re: #92 danarchy
The question is why discontinue the book and not just update the artwork in the couple of pages where it is an issue? Personally I think the whole thing was to generate controversy and goose sales, which are apparently way up. Something like 5 of the top 6 books on amazon yesterday were Dr. Seuss books.
Heh. GMTA……
re: #92 danarchy
The question is why discontinue the book and not just update the artwork in the couple of pages where it is an issue? Personally I think the whole thing was to generate controversy and goose sales, which are apparently way up. Something like 5 of the top 6 books on amazon yesterday were Dr. Seuss books.
Maybe they wanted to deplete the current stocks of the six books, which may not be selling well, prior to taking the books out of print. :)
Lol
I think the order of vaccination is:
1. Elders
2. Healthcare workers
3. Essential Workers
4. People with underlying conditions
5. Wu Tang Clan (to be fair, they ain’t nothing to fuck with)
6. No, not Mike yet
7. Random muhfuckas
8. Aye, you want some vaccine?
9. Mike— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 4, 2021
re: #87 🌹UOJB!
Giuliani Gets Dunked On For Crying Foul Over ‘Misinformation’ He Peddled
ROTFLMAO at this ass trying to wiggle out of his lawsuit!
And he is stupid enough to tweet this!
He’s begging to get his ass and Planters Peanuts to get repeatedly kicked in the courtroom!
A few idiots are pretending that Rudy is a serious person who isn’t a disinformation cannon. Mostly people are laughing in his face.
re: #96 Patricia Kayden
Lol
The order should be:
1 Catamites
2 Thespians
3 Lacto-ovo-vegetarians
4 Trainspotters
5 Slackers
6 People with chinbeards
7 Parrot trainers
8 Lava-lamp repairpersons
9 Zoroastrians
10 People on record denying the Armenian Genocide
re: #96 Patricia Kayden
I think I’m in that last classification too.
re: #95 mmmirele
Maybe they wanted to deplete the current stocks of the six books, which may not be selling well, prior to taking the books out of print. :)
Anyone who had insider knowledge of the change is making a lot of money selling the books to reactionaries and collectors.
The publisher is making a fortune right now selling dummies Suess books that are not being discontinued.
re: #78 The Pie Overlord!
Our right-wing terrorists think attacking the Capitol was some kind of game.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 4, 2021
re: #102 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Our right-wing terrorists think attacking the Capitol was some kind of game.
they refuse to see it as a crime of any sort
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The order should be:
1 Catamites
2 Thespians
3 Lacto-ovo-vegetarians
4 Trainspotters
5 Slackers
6 People with chinbeards
7 Parrot trainers
8 Lava-lamp repairpersons
9 Zoroastrians
10 People on record denying the Armenian Genocide
ok Panurge
re: #102 Punish Domestic Terrorists
“He walked through open doors.” - Martha Chansley, defends the actions of her son — aka the QAnon Shaman — during the Capitol siege. This exchange was one of the most telling from the piece. Would watch the full clip. pic.twitter.com/Ie1YJ0YXPf
— Laurie Segall (@LaurieSegall) March 4, 2021
re: #107 jaunte
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“No one even bothered to stop the bank robber until he demanded money.”
Rage Over Cancelled Dr. Seuss Books Leads to Massive Sales, Lining Pockets of the Very People Who Cancelled Him in the First Place https://t.co/a9i1UYqiBH
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 4, 2021
Penguin Random House is laughing all the way to the bank.
re: #106 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Afterwards I wiped my tail with a hen, with a cock, with a pullet, with a calf’s skin, with a hare, with a pigeon, with a cormorant, with an attorney’s bag, with a montero, with a coif, with a falconer’s lure. But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains. And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus.
re: #90 HypnoToad
Got my second Pfizer in So Cal here yesterday. A moderate sore arm is the only symptom I have this morning, similar to the first vaccination.
Oddly, a slight soreness developed at the same time in my other arm, at the site of the first shot! Sympathetic symptom?
Thought I detected the same mild effect. Not much above fogey background pain.
re: #107 jaunte
I think we know whose fault it is that he doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong.
re: #107 jaunte
“He walked through open doors.” - Martha Chansley, defends the actions of her son — aka the QAnon Shaman — during the Capitol siege. This exchange was one of the most telling from the piece. Would watch the full clip.
“He was escorted in!”
They keep notching it up a peg.
re: #107 jaunte
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‘open doors’ dont make it legal
neither would -
non-manned doors
or
no one stopped him
or
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“He walked through open doors.” - Martha Chansley, defends the actions of her son — aka the QAnon Shaman — during the Capitol siege. This exchange was one of the most telling from the piece. Would watch the full clip. pic.twitter.com/Ie1YJ0YXPf
— Laurie Segall (@LaurieSegall) March 4, 2021
re: #110 lawhawk
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aint free enterprise grand?
Rage Over Cancelled Dr. Seuss Books Leads to Massive Sales, Lining Pockets of the Very People Who Cancelled Him in the First Place https://t.co/a9i1UYqiBH
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 4, 2021
re: #116 Dangerman
‘open doors’ dont make it legal
neither would -
non-manned doors
or
no one stopped him
or
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“But the pension fund was just sitting there!”
re: #109 Belafon
“No one even bothered to stop the bank robber until he demanded money.”
Ha, another “should have read down a couple more”
re: #110 lawhawk
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A fool and his money…..
There is probably a big overlap between these would-be Seuss speculators and the Gold Bugs.
So in Massachusetts they have opened vaccinations up to Educators. While I don’t have an issue with educators getting vaccinated, my parents who are over 75 have been trying to sign up for the vaccine for weeks and still have not been able to. It is a limited resource and it really should be given to the highest risk folks before opening it up to an additional 400000 people. There were about 13000 new first doses available yesterday and those appointments were all booked in minutes.
re: #118 Eventual Carrion
So do bank robbers many times
it’s even easier when guard at the front door is in on the heist
re: #93 darthstar
I had to look up garlic fries. They sound so yummy.
re: #114 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“He was escorted in!”
They keep notching it up a peg.
“Had an engraved invite over Pelosi’s signature block.”
re: #122 danarchy
So in Massachusetts they have opened vaccinations up to Educators. While I don’t have an issue with educators getting vaccinated, my parents who are over 75 have been trying to sign up for the vaccine for weeks and still have not been able too. It is a limited resource and it really should be given to the highest risk folks before opening it up to an additional 400000 people. There were about 13000 new first doses available yesterday and those appointments were all booked in minutes.
Who’s a higher risk person: Someone over 75 and relatively isolated, or someone in their 40s that’s around a lot of people.
re: #125 Decatur Deb
“Had an engraved invite over Pelosi’s signature block.”
He was booked on a guided tour!
re: #122 danarchy
So in Massachusetts they have opened vaccinations up to Educators. While I don’t have an issue with educators getting vaccinated, my parents who are over 75 have been trying to sign up for the vaccine for weeks and still have not been able too. It is a limited resource and it really should be given to the highest risk folks before opening it up to an additional 400000 people. There were about 13000 new first doses available yesterday and those appointments were all booked in minutes.
i’m not gonna keep dwelling on this, because, Florida/DeSantis, man
I figure nothing’s gonna change for me down here till June maybe.
so everything stays in place
rare outings - i do all the errands, mrsdm stays home.
masks
distance
hand washing
if mrsdm gets lucky, our dynamic reverses. she can go out and i’ll stay home until…
Yes, I wrote a long thread on J&J vaccine. I think it’s underrated and quite excellent. https://t.co/pO0PTmxi4O
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 4, 2021
re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was booked on a guided tour!
“He’s the Senate shamanic chaplain!”
so full of shit
Joe Biden is still choosing union bosses over students and the science.
Outraged parents from across the country are writing to me about the devasting impact that is having on their kids.
Read their stories here ↓ https://t.co/mA9YKAZ5l4— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) March 4, 2021
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit
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And a lot of other parents want to keep things closed until the kids can be safe.
re: #124 Patricia Kayden
They are. Had some when I went to PacBell years back for a ballgame and also at Gordon Biersh in SFO (think they have locations elsewhere as in DC).
Garlic makes most anything better.
re: #126 Belafon
Who’s a higher risk person: Someone over 75 and relatively isolated, or someone in their 40s that’s around a lot of people.
from the government / public policy perspective, the decision has to be made macro - by groups
the micro - individual comparison perspective - is an entirely different dynamic
Dear god! This means Americans will be able to vote even if they’re Democrats. End of times. https://t.co/BLrQ2x5Pf9
— Fernando Espuelas (@EspuelasVox) March 4, 2021
:)
If ya know me at all, then ya KNOW: I just HAD to do it ;)
QAnon Shaman pic.twitter.com/FBtZW5CYxm— Paul Lee Teeks (@PaulLeeTeeks) March 4, 2021
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
So….this means you just isolate a month longer with J&J and you get close to the same efficacy?
re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth
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additionally, from yesterday’s electoral-vote.com
…reports that it’s less effective than the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. That “fact” is actually somewhat misleading, since the J&J trials were conducted later than the Pfizer and Moderna trials were, meaning that J&J trial subjects may have been subject to a wider range of COVID variants than Pfizer and Moderna trial subjects. Further, the J&J vaccine is either equally effective as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, or nearly so, when it comes to combating severe COVID cases (those leading to hospitalization or death). And preventing severe cases is really the goal of vaccines.
The point is that the J&J shot could be a godsend to the Biden administration, allowing for the timeline-to-herd-immunity to be sped up, and making it easier to vaccinate populations that are hard to reach once, much less twice (poor communities, rural communities, minority communities, etc.).
further, no one knows yet if/when/whether boosters will be necessary
6 months, a year or more into the future???
the goal now is to get everyone vaccinated with something that’s been approved, because they all work enough
re: #139 Dangerman
Does it work against the SA variant?
Patriotic Americans don’t go along with Republican lies.
Sane people don’t keep lying for a failed party after the party’s mad leader tried to get them killed.— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 4, 2021
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit
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you’re a rep from one district in louisiana
who from ‘across the country’ even know (or cares) who you are, let alone is writing to you about this?
Joe Biden is still choosing union bosses over students and the science.
Outraged parents from across the country are writing to me about the devasting impact that is having on their kids.
Read their stories here ↓ https://t.co/mA9YKAZ5l4— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) March 4, 2021
Quarantine is going great. pic.twitter.com/aMW9DS5oqZ
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) March 4, 2021
re: #140 Nyet
Apparently, yes, as well as the other vaccines.
6) But wait, didn’t we just see the J&J vaccine being 64% efficacious overall and 81.7% efficacious against severe #COVID19 in South Africa 🇿🇦 after 28 days? YES!!!
That means the J&J vaccine is quite good even for the #B1351 variant that was 56% of all cases in SA! pic.twitter.com/QV5rWPKXse— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) March 2, 2021
Another one bites the dust.
CEO Of Texas Power Grid Fired After Massive Cold Weather Power Outages
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ power grid manager was fired Wednesday amid growing calls for his ouster following February’s deadly blackouts that left millions of people without electricity and heat for days in subfreezing temperatures.
Bill Magness, CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, becomes the second senior official to depart in the wake of the one of the worst blackouts in U.S. history. The state’s top utility regulator resigned Monday.
Magness was given a two-month termination notice by ERCOT’s board in a meeting Wednesday night.
“During this transition period, Bill will continue to serve as President and CEO and work with state leaders and regulators on potential reforms to ERCOT,” the organization said in a statement.
Magness, who made more than $876,000 in salary and other compensation in 2019, was the target of much of the outrage over the blackouts that began Feb. 15 when a winter storm plunged temperatures into single digits across Texas, causing skyrocketing demand for electricity to heat homes.
re: #144 gwangung
Apparently, yes, as well as the other vaccines.
concern is not so much that the vaccines won’t work on mutated strains (or cannot be quickly modified) but that they might be more virulent or deadly.
re: #134 lawhawk
They are. Had some when I went to PacBell years back for a ballgame and also at Gordon Biersh in SFO (think they have locations elsewhere as in DC).
Garlic makes most anything better.
two rules in the danger household
- there cant be too much garlic or too many onions
- double any cinnamon measure in a baked product
re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m glad you recovered, sir. But a near-death experience changed George Wallace for the better. Too bad it didn’t do a d*mn thing for you.
— Janice Hough (@leftcoastbabe) March 4, 2021
re: #126 Belafon
Whose a higher risk person: Someone over 75 and relatively isolated, or someone in their 40s that’s around a lot of people.
Well the state had decided that 75 and over would be the first group after first responders and then before they got very many of those done they opened it up to anyone over 65 which added about a million people and pretty much crushed the sign up sites, and then even before making a dent in that group they have now opened it up to another 400000 people. The process just seems suboptimal.
re: #90 HypnoToad
Got my second Pfizer in So Cal here yesterday. A moderate sore arm is the only symptom I have this morning, similar to the first vaccination.
Oddly, a slight soreness developed at the same time in my other arm, at the site of the first shot! Sympathetic symptom?
I mentioned he other day, that I have an allergic reaction to raw onions if I touch them with my hands — and not otherwise. This sounds similar — maybe the cells that encountered the vaccine built up a specific response that others don’t have?
re: #143 darthstar
She’s right that that isn’t normal. Normal cats would have drawn some blood as they scrambled away from the water.
re: #33 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Looks like Trump’s ice skating rinks are on thin ice. Seems that in this age of venmo, credit cards, and e-commerce, they operate solely as a cash business.
And that’s just weird. That allows them to play games with not only the amounts they have to report as taxes, but they can also play games with their lease/rental agreement payments.
Years ago for my partner’s birthday, we went to Wollman Rink in the SE corner of Central Park. That was a minor bucket list item for her; she had seen it in all of these romantic movies over the years.
We had no idea Trump was “maintaining” it. This was around the time The Apprentice was starting up. It was pretty nasty, to be honest. Can’t tell you how disappointed she was.
re: #140 Nyet
Does it work against the SA variant?
Notably, Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine was tested in South Africa, where the dominant strain was the B.1.351 variant, which is believed to be more contagious. There, the vaccine showed a 64% efficacy rate.
Offering protection against the variant could give the Johnson & Johnson vaccine a “slight edge,” Wen said, since neither Pfizer’s nor Moderna’s vaccine was tested in that environment.
re: #149 danarchy
Well the state had decided that 75 and over would be the first group after first responders and then before they got very many of those done they opened it up to anyone over 65 which added about a million people and pretty much crushed the sign up sites, and then even before making a dent in that group they have now opened it up to another 400000 people. The process just seems suboptimal.
It would go better if they lowered the age by one or two years at a time, rather than a decade.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
concern is not so much that the vaccines won’t work on mutated strains (or cannot be quickly modified) but that they might be more virulent or deadly.
AstraZeneca seems to barely work on the SA mutant so it’s a concern.
re: #151 Punish Domestic Terrorists
She’s right that that isn’t normal. Normal cats would have drawn some blood as they scrambled away from the water.
Has he drugged the cats or something?
Little Man has it all figured out. Work smarter…pic.twitter.com/XKQifyyf19
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) March 4, 2021
re: #132 Backwoods_Sleuth
so full of shit
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re: #155 Nyet
AstraZeneca seems to barely work on the SA mutant so it’s a concern.
that is cause for concern.
re: #152 Mattand
Years ago for my partner’s birthday, we went to Wollman Rink in the SE corner of Central Park. That was a minor bucket list item for her; she had seen it in all of these romantic movies over the years.
We had no idea Trump was “maintaining” it. This was around the time The Apprentice was starting up. It was pretty nasty, to be honest. Can’t tell you how disappointed she was.
Skated there a lot in the early 60s, before it reportedly became nasty. It was always a mixed crowd, including a guy in tux and top hat.
re: #154 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would go better if they lowered the age by one or two years at a time, rather than a decade.
it would go better if you could sign up and wait in line and be able to go back and check your status in the line
instead everyone is trying like a maniac every few days to get a ticket from ticketmaster
re: #147 Dangerman
two rules in the danger household
- there cant be too much garlic or too many onions
- double any cinnamon measure in a baked product
I agree though the Mrs. needs to make sure that the onions are cooked; she gets indigestion from raw onions.
I’d also add doubling vanilla extract in recipes helps significantly too (and I make my own vanilla extract from the raw beans).
re: #143 darthstar
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They seem fine. They’re not even trying to get out when she opened the door. My cat HATES her baths. Now that they have torn down the burnt out house across the street I don’t think I will need to bathe her near as much as I did when she would go into the house hunting and come out with soot all over her.
Texas doesn’t exactly elect their best or brightest.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Joe Biden’s son is the real ‘Neanderthal’ because his name is ‘Hunter’ https://t.co/1Cp5AfwYh0
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 4, 2021
re: #161 Dangerman
it would go better if you could sign up and wait in line and be able to go back and check your status in the line
instead everyone is trying like a maniac every few days to get a ticket from ticketmaster
Watch for vaccination centers in your area that maintain an “all-hands” roster for those who can pop in for vax lots about to expire. Sam’s Club does that here in Lower Alabama.
Sociopaths just don’t care who they kill. The Republican party is a pro-death party, and Matt Gaetz is an alcoholic who lied about an election to attack our democracy.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 4, 2021
re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
that is cause for concern.
Moderna’s already working on a booster for the SA variant and an overall vaccine that will work on all SARS-COV2 variants which would prevent the next pandemic.
re: #160 Decatur Deb
Skated there a lot in the early 60s, before it reportedly became nasty. It was always a mixed crowd, including a guy in tux and top hat.
The clientele was fine; the usual mix of tourists and locals. The rink itself and the concession area were obviously being neglected.
While disappointing, it wasn’t surprising, having read about Trump’s Atlantic City faceplants in the news over the years.
re: #126 Belafon
Who’s a higher risk person: Someone over 75 and relatively isolated, or someone in their 40s that’s around a lot of people.
A lot of teachers are in their 50’s and 60’s. And the ones who are younger, because teachers are not very well-paid, live with their parents and/or grandparents.
re: #168 darthstar
Moderna’s already working on a booster for the SA variant and an overall vaccine that will work on all SARS-COV2 variants which would prevent the next pandemic.
Europe is stuck with AZ.
re: #164 darthstar
Texas doesn’t exactly elect their best or brightest.
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Hasn’t this asshole sacrificed himself yet? He’s 70, one of the old folks he said should sacrifice themselves for the good of the Texas economy. Personally, I think we could try tossing him into a volcano to appease the virus gods. It couldn’t hurt.
— Lord Piltdown (@jimreynolds54) March 4, 2021
Ismael Martinez helped hundreds of migrant families over the years at his Juárez shelter. About 180 will leave in coming weeks as the U.S. ends the “Remain in Mexico” program for asylum seekers. He says they have become family, @CorrieBoudreaux reports. https://t.co/W4cHckAHAt
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) March 4, 2021
[..]Pan de Vida, which Martinez runs together with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law, was originally founded 30 years ago as a comedor (a facility similar to a soup kitchen) for local neighborhood children. Its services expanded to offer a residential shelter for local single mothers, particularly those escaping from domestic violence.
[…]
We’re fortunate that his refusal means nothing outside of his cult. He finished off the Conservative movement by giving permission to right-wing authoritarians to drop their “Conservative” masks, as we saw at CPAC. Now we just need to crush the right-wing authoritarians.
— Jeff Flanagan (@JeffMFlanagan) March 4, 2021
re: #169 Mattand
The clientele was fine; the usual mix of tourists and locals. The rink itself and the concession area were obviously being neglected.
While disappointing, it wasn’t surprising, have read about Trump’s Atlantic City faceplants in the news over the years.
Even then, it was nice but not fancy—had a good affordable Coney Island vibe. If you wanted to spend money and be seen, you went to the much smaller rink at Rockefeller Center.
re: #164 darthstar
Texas doesn’t exactly elect their best or brightest.
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having to listen to this makes us all idiots
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Joe Biden’s son is the real ‘Neanderthal’ because his name is ‘Hunter’ https://t.co/1Cp5AfwYh0
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 4, 2021
re: #171 Nyet
Europe is stuck with AZ.
which I will happily take as I am still under 65
But Germany is only doing marginally better than the Czech Republic when it comes to vaccines…
re: #172 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
He’s speaking to someone so mentally limited that a magazine cover confused her.
The American-right is made up of morons and the terrible people who exploit them.
re: #173 wrenchwench
Man’s a fuckin’ hero.
Martinez does not collect any salary or pay for the work he does, but he dismisses any suggestion that his efforts are worthy of recognition.
“When you do something out of love, it is a pleasure. We work with governments and with foundations here and in El Paso, and, thank God, doors are opened to us. But sacrifice? No, for me it is not that. It is something that I like to do. It’s like if your child told you, ‘I am hungry,’ well, you’d feed him and you’d feel good about feeding your child.”
re: #174 Punish Domestic Terrorists
From the tweet:
He finished off the Conservative movement by giving permission to right-wing authoritarians to drop their “Conservative” masks, as we saw at CPAC.
For fuck’s sake, we’ve been hearing about the death of the American Conservative movement for years.
They’re not. Going. Away. I do not understand why people refuse to believe this. As long as Americans have someone to scapegoat for all of their problems, Republicans and conservatives will always be a presence in American politics.
Why do people keep pushing this bullshit? Look at the alleged GOP civil war right now. Mike Pence literally could have been fucking murdered by a mob that Trump set loose on the Capitol, and he’s giving speeches saying the election was stolen.
Trump tried to have him killed for insufficient toadying, and Pence is somehow following in Jesus’s footsteps by crawling back to his attempted murderer.
Enough with the fucking conservative movement obituaries.
re: #180 🌹UOJB!
Yes my scraped knee still hurts…
Wear your protective corduroy long pants next time.
re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
which I will happily take as I am still under 65
But Germany is only doing marginally better than the Czech Republic when it comes to vaccines…
I hope JJ will soon get the permit and replace the 2nd class AZ.
re: #181 Mattand
From the tweet:
For fuck’s sake, we’ve been hearing about the death of the American Conservative movement for years.
They’re not. Going. Away. I do not understand why people refuse to believe this. As long as Americans have someone to scapegoat for all of their problems, Republicans and conservatives will always be a presence in American politics.
…
Enough with the fucking conservative movement obituaries.
A combination of gullible marks and cynical rich people to finance the movement.
They came damn close to clinching power for decades if not permanently and they are not about to give up…
A senator whining about pork is one of the most disingenuous things in all of politics. Winning appropriations for your home state/district is more or less the prime directive for ALL members of Congress. https://t.co/jlJCAfSlgq
— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 4, 2021
Qaren CT.
Does anyone else 👀 what I 👀 pic.twitter.com/qtDC9q46px
— Kai_🙌🏿 (@KaiLightBringer) March 3, 2021
Is it my imagination or is today’s Trump Inauguration even smaller than his first one?
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) March 4, 2021
I washed both my cats yesterday. In the middle of the first bath, Schrader jumped up, out of the tub, and onto my back as I leaned over. I laughed, but today I have a pulled muscle in my back, right where he landed.
re: #152 Mattand
Years ago for my partner’s birthday, we went to Wollman Rink in the SE corner of Central Park. That was a minor bucket list item for her; she had seen it in all of these romantic movies over the years.
We had no idea Trump was “maintaining” it. This was around the time The Apprentice was starting up. It was pretty nasty, to be honest. Can’t tell you how disappointed she was.
The Central Park Zoo was also pretty disappointing. The seals were all retired circus performers, the penguins I guess didn’t mind being super-crowded because penguins are like that, but the snow leopard enclosure was less than 1/3 the size it needed to be, and the polar bear enclosure was so small Gus needed a therapist to keep from clawing his own fur off from the boredom of swimming back and forth in a pool the size of the one at my gym.
In 1994 zoo officials began noting Gus’ unusual behavior in his habitat. He was seen swimming back and forth in a figure eight pattern, again and again, for up to 12 hours a day. Such behavior in captive animals usually points to boredom and stress. The zoo hired an animal behavioral therapist at a cost of $25,000 to determine the reason for Gus’ obsessive swimming. According to the therapist, “Gus is just bored and mildly crazy in the way that a lot of people are in New York”. He ordered an “enrichment program” for the polar bear that included a redesigned habitat, “challenges” at mealtime, new toys and “positive-reinforcement training sessions”. In 2002 the BBC reported that zookeepers had installed a jacuzzi to “cheer up” Gus. Gus was also the first zoo animal in history to be treated with Prozac. After a few months, Gus’ obsessive swimming tapered off, but never disappeared entirely.
re: #154 Punish Domestic Terrorists
It would go better if they lowered the age by one or two years at a time, rather than a decade.
That would be far too confusing and more complicated to maintain. Even with the simpler approach, too many people have difficulty finding an appointment. There needs to be a better handling of distribution.
re: #181 Mattand
From the tweet:
For fuck’s sake, we’ve been hearing about the death of the American Conservative movement for years.
They’re not. Going. Away. I do not understand why people refuse to believe this. As long as Americans have someone to scapegoat for all of their problems, Republicans and conservatives will always be a presence in American politics.
Why do people keep pushing this bullshit? Look at the alleged GOP civil war right now. Mike Pence literally could have been fucking murdered by a mob that Trump set loose on the Capitol, and he’s giving speeches saying the election was stolen.
Trump tried to have him killed for insufficient toadying, and Pence is somehow following in Jesus’s footsteps by crawling back to his attempted murderer.
Enough with the fucking conservative movement obituaries.
The repugs were on life support twice in the last century (after FDR and after Goldwater) and were saved both times by things that can’t be repeated now. Third time’s the charm.
Reducing the Republican party to a regional nuisance won’t end conservatism, but we can work on making it small enough to drown in a bathtub.
It may not be Christmas, but Secret Santa is still lurking about, and they’ve granted an ad-free subscription to… Chrysicat!
Please enjoy.
re: #190 Hecuba’s daughter
That would be far too confusing and more complicated to maintain. Even with the simpler approach, too many people have difficulty finding an appointment. There needs to be a better handling of distribution.
It’s always going to be painful until we get to the point where we have enough vaccine to cover 75% of the population. And that’s even if we didn’t have Republican governors doing everything they can to mess it up, looking at you Texas, Florida, and Missouri for starters.
re: #192 Charles Johnson
It may not be Christmas, but Secret Santa is still lurking about
Sweet dreams.
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re: #90 HypnoToad
Got my second Pfizer in So Cal here yesterday. A moderate sore arm is the only symptom I have this morning, similar to the first vaccination.
Oddly, a slight soreness developed at the same time in my other arm, at the site of the first shot! Sympathetic symptom?
I got my first Pfizer shot and the next day woke up with some soreness in the other arm as well! Though for me the soreness seemed to be centered around the “inside” section of the arm that didn’t get the shot, while obviously it was on the “outside” section of the arm that did get the shot.
I didn’t get the Fauchi Ouchie & probably won’t until June or July. But I did get my first dose of the shingles vaccine. SOB! That sucker hurt going in and my arm is still sore from it. Next dose sometime in May.
re: #181 Mattand
You’re thinking of fascism. Conservatism is done. Conservatives were shocked to look around and see that 80% of the movement was fascists.
re: #196 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I got caught up on a few vaccines 6 years ago. The shingles one (old version) hurt longer than the tetanus one. Still shorter than the case of shingles I had a few years earlier.
Mother elephant can’t wake her sleeping baby and asks the keepers for help.. 🥺 pic.twitter.com/83jWORrCXR
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) March 4, 2021
re: #196 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
I didn’t get the Fauchi Ouchie & probably won’t until June or July. But I did get my first dose of the shingles vaccine. SOB! That sucker hurt going in and my arm is still sore from it. Next dose sometime in May.
Before I got the Shingles vaccine I would get BAD attacks that would not let up for a week. Now I still get them but they are not as severe. And there is NOTHING worse than having one in your ear canal…
re: #197 Punish Domestic Terrorists
You’re thinking of fascism. Conservatism is done. Conservatives were shocked to look around and see that 80% of the movement was fascists.
Conservatives thought they could motivate the fascists to support them but quickly got co-opted by the more influential partner
Yes, because clearly none of those attributes apply to Republicans. https://t.co/t8QsqTOROk
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2021
Democracy scares you, I see.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
Cartoon for March 4th, 2021. #trump #March4th #March4Justice #QAnons #QAnonCult #Trump2024 pic.twitter.com/JiVNYEap0F
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) March 4, 2021
re: #191 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
The repugs were on life support twice in the last century (after FDR and after Goldwater) and were saved both times by things that can’t be repeated now. Third time’s the charm.
Reducing the Republican party to a regional nuisance won’t end conservatism, but we can work on making it small enough to drown in a bathtub.
That would be delightful but Mattand is right. They keep coming back. They are the descendants in spirit of those who tried to destroy the union to maintain slavery; they aren’t going away — the Lost Causers are still here mourning their defeat in 1865 and attempting to infect the entire nation with the white supremacist ideology that motivated their original struggle.
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While Democrats are fighting to raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, @Sen_JoeManchin says he opposes it.
But he won’t say whether he has a vested interest in doing so.
Turns out, he has a stake in at least one company that pays less than $15/hour.https://t.co/pLxPnvvzBD— Jonathan Larsen (@jtlarsen) March 4, 2021
re: #205 Hecuba’s daughter
That would be delightful but Mattand is right. They keep coming back. They are the descendants in spirit of those who tried to destroy the union to maintain slavery; they aren’t going away — the Lost Causers are still here mourning their defeat in 1865 and attempting to infect the entire nation with the white supremacist ideology that motivated their original struggle.
I didn’t say they were going away.
Also they are “Nationalists” he thought to himself. It was the combination that intrigued Glenn. What was it about the whole that was greater than the some of it’s parts? This puzzle would eventually consume Greenwald’s life.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 4, 2021
Found some old photos. This is me at Woodstock ‘94. i don’t have a color scanner so they are in b&w.
Woodstock 1994 pic.twitter.com/WFvAfa1Eax
— Edwin (@EdMix13) March 4, 2021
There’s no shame in being a delivery man. I hope they tipped him.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) March 4, 2021
re: #198 wrenchwench
re: #200 🌹UOJB!
So I understand, not only from a lady at work, but my brother as well. I’ll put up with the pain if it keeps me from getting/breaking out. What really sucks about it is that I had 5mg Hydrocodone onboard from my oral surgery and it didn’t help. Nor did the dose I took the morning after.
Republicans are aware this wasn’t the first time Joe Biden called them Neanderthals, right?
But after four years of Donald Trump’s vile insults directed at *everyone*, they should just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
They have lost the right to complain about this.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2021
Psaki says Biden’s “Neanderthal” comments reflect “his frustration and exasperation” with governors who aren’t listening to public health experts pic.twitter.com/AcyePIGSX9
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 4, 2021
Bishop in Lexington, KY
Due to unnecessary confusion regarding the moral acceptability of vaccinations, please heed the Holy See’s declaration on this issue. The Pope considers it a moral obligation to get vaccinated for the common good and to help bring an end to the pandemic.https://t.co/VacLpIzctC
— Bishop John Stowe (@BpStowe) March 4, 2021
re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth
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US Military Budget
2013: $600B
2014: $605B
2015: $584B
2016: $606B
2017: $633B
2018: $694B
2019: $715B
2020: $737B
2021: $740B
Federal Minimum Wage
2013: $7.25
2014: $7.25
2015: $7.25
2016: $7.25
2017: $7.25
2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
🇺🇸#1u #UnionStrong— Marc Perrone (@Marc_Perrone) March 4, 2021
If they don’t want to be called Neanderthals, maybe they should stop dragging their knuckles and clubbing people over the head.
— Michael Wearamask Ditto (@janus303) March 4, 2021
Kinetic announced it will participate in the FCC’s Emergency Broadband Benefit program, giving eligible customers a bill credit of up to $50 per month towards broadband service.
The FCC did not give an official start date. We’ll share more as we know more: https://t.co/nS1eJO1g0v pic.twitter.com/5272P5emq3— Windstream (@Talk2Windstream) March 4, 2021
I believe we all have a stake in the future of our country, and that everyone shares a common bond: our love for the outdoors and a desire and obligation to keep our nation livable for future generations. Thank you to the Senate ENR Committee for their vote of confidence today. https://t.co/PViY0wc16Q
— Deb Haaland (@DebHaalandNM) March 4, 2021
re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth
Bishop in Lexington, KY
Bishops are like taxi drivers—they’re not uniformly assholes.
Anybody who paid attention could tell you Republicans have nothing to offer. And their addiction to opposing anything from the Democrats means they oppose helping their own voters. https://t.co/EDfNOXSJkx
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
re: #218 Backwoods_Sleuth
The 9 who opposed had no real argument against her.
They just wanted to block Biden at every turn.
re: #191 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
The repugs were on life support twice in the last century (after FDR and after Goldwater) and were saved both times by things that can’t be repeated now. Third time’s the charm.
Reducing the Republican party to a regional nuisance won’t end conservatism, but we can work on making it small enough to drown in a bathtub.
I see what you did there, you magnificent bastard…
re: #202 Charles Johnson
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Why is she talking in the present tense?
GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Fox Business: “Neanderthals are hunter-gatherers, they’re protectors of their family, they are resilient, they’re resourceful, they tend to their own. So, I think Joe Biden needs to rethink what he is saying.”
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 4, 2021
re: #211 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
So I understand, not only from a lady at work, but my brother as well. I’ll put up with the pain if it keeps me from getting/breaking out. What really sucks about it is that I had 5mg Hydrocodone onboard from my oral surgery and it didn’t help. Nor did the dose I took the morning after.
I know the feeling, Sending a hug, Michelle!
re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth
These poor people have no broadband and you are going to inflict windstream on them. That’s not nice.
re: #212 Charles Johnson
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If he had used australopithicus instead they’d be ranting something something about Australia right about now
Republicans are aware this wasn’t the first time Joe Biden called them Neanderthals, right?
But after four years of Donald Trump’s vile insults directed at *everyone*, they should just SHUT THE FUCK UP.
They have lost the right to complain about this.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 4, 2021
re: #221 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The 9 who opposed had no real argument against her.
They just wanted to block Biden at every turn.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) will slow down the confirmation of Merrick Garland to lead the Department of Justice, Politico reports.
“The hold that Cotton has placed on Garland’s nomination means that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will need to clear a procedural hurdle before a final confirmation vote. Democrats had hoped that Republicans would agree to skip that step, particularly given that several of them — including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — plan to support the nominee.”
re: #220 darthstar
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Biden has them in a bind. He’s offering help to blue collar people, but Republicans can’t work with him.
re: #223 Dangerman
Why is she talking in the present tense?
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Makes my brow ridge itch.
Oh gee
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), who has claimed without evidence that migrants expose Texans to the coronavirus, is stalling a federal offer to test people released from custody, CNN reports.
re: #230 Belafon
Biden has them in a bind. He’s offering help to blue collar people, but Republicans can’t work with him.
They can’t work with him because they’re still afraid of (even deplatformed) Trump.
re: #232 Dangerman
The Foreignness of Germs: The Persistent Association of Immigrants and Disease in American Society
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So Three GOP assholes decided to forge signatures on another member to change his vote on the Police Reform bill!
Guess which 3!
i love that this guy from my kindergarten class has been dreaming of my mom’s fry bread for over 20 years AND THAT HE MESSAGED ME FOR THE RECIPE !!! pic.twitter.com/aJSjMwAarn
— Persephonē (@steviaplath) March 3, 2021
Thread. Mom’s in it.
cre: #237 Dangerman
Crystal Gayle song right?
Don’t you make my brow ridge,
Don’t you make my brow ridge,
Don’t you make my brow ridge,
itch…
Thanks for the ear worm.
Nobody could have predicted neanderthals would be such snowflakes.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
This is how I imagined that being said pic.twitter.com/K0a0BHvQCO
— inner monologue of (@lowiniyia) March 4, 2021
re: #238 wrenchwench
Thread. Mom’s in it.
Fry bread is THE reason to go to the powwow every summer here.
During Brett Girard’s tenure as “COVID czar” over 293 people died after taking hydroxychloroquine because Trump promoted it saying “what do you have to lose?”
Vaccine orders were intentionally cancelled & their “stockpile” was a complete fabrication.https://t.co/J8BiMJG6wL pic.twitter.com/WxfPGTQ29g— Fascism flattened, but never the webrant🕺———🕺 (@web_rant) March 4, 2021
re: #238 wrenchwench
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Thread. Mom’s in it.
When I was a kid, Saturday mornings when like this: dad went to the grocery store, older brother and I cleaned the house (sans kitchen), and mom cleaned the kitchen and made rolls. At 11:00am, the bread dough had risen and mom was ready to make the rolls. But first, she fried some of the bread dough and tossed them in powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar. We called them doflitchits. Spelling is phonetic because I’m not sure it’s actually a word.
Jack the Kangaroo has been recaptured. Alabamians can stand down from Marsupial Condition 3.
I’m just here to protect the muffins! pic.twitter.com/pTynoJaPYU
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 4, 2021
re: #223 Dangerman
Why is she talking in the present tense?
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IIRC, Neanderthals went extinct (for reasons not 100% clear) ~40,000 years ago*. Maybe the Senator doesn’t know that.
*there is evidence for survival of an isolated Neanderthal pocket on the Iberian Peninsula until ~37,000 years ago.
re: #231 jaunte
Makes my brow ridge itch.
Mine keeps the rain out of my eyes when I’m hunting and gathering.
re: #242 William Lewis
Fry bread is THE reason to go to the powwow every summer here.
Still, the story of fry bread and Native Americans is a complicated one at best. For those who aren’t aware of it, it was created “in 1864 using the flour, sugar, salt and lard that was given to them by the United States government when the Navajo, who were living in Arizona, were forced to make the 300-mile journey known as the “Long Walk” and relocate to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, onto land that could not easily support their traditional staples of vegetables and beans; New Mexican cuisine style sopapillas also share this origin due to Pueblos and Hispanos of New Mexico having a similar subsistence at this time.[1][2] Boarding schools also helped to spread frybread in Native American diets.[3]”
It’s a symbol of colonialism, repression and, paradoxically, of overcoming those and perseverance, ingenuity and resilience despite the white attempts at genocide.
re: #220 darthstar
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They lack the capacity to consider whether voting for the stimulus bill would be something that they could campaign on in their appeal to the white working class. (Hint: it would be.).
We sell some strange food where I work. One such item is Corn Dogs. Whenever I sell one, I offer mustard to go with it. I ‘explain’ that mustard goes with corn dogs. Always has. Then, to my co-workers, I say that I haven’t had a corndog since the 70s. This is especially funny to those co-workers born in the 90s.
re: #251 wrenchwench
We sell some strange food where I work. One such item is Corn Dogs. Whenever I sell one, I offer mustard to go with it. I ‘explain’ that mustard goes with corn dogs. Always has. Then, to my co-workers, I say that I haven’t had a corndog since the 70s. This is especially funny to those co-workers born in the 90s.
Corn dogs were a staple of every county fair I went to growing up. So were elephant ears (also referred to as funnel cakes), but while I had them a few times, my dad would mysteriously disappear whenever I got one. Eventually he finally told me why; he worked in a funnel cake booth at the county fair as a teenager, and he still can’t stand the smell of the things.
re: #251 wrenchwench
We sell some strange food where I work. One such item is Corn Dogs. Whenever I sell one, I offer mustard to go with it. I ‘explain’ that mustard goes with corn dogs. Always has. Then, to my co-workers, I say that I haven’t had a corndog since the 70s. This is especially funny to those co-workers born in the 90s.
My son loves corn dogs and many mornings when he stays here he wants them for breakfast. No catchup or mustard, plain old corn dogs :)
re: #253 William Lewis
My son loves corn dogs and many mornings when he stays here he wants them for breakfast. No catchup or mustard, plain old corn dogs :)
Every so often I get a craving. One of the stores around here sells frozen mini corn dogs that I can dump in the air fryer. Nom.
re: #226 danarchy
These poor people have no broadband and you are going to inflict windstream on them. That’s not nice.
I have to suffer with Windstream’s “DSL Lite”, which is usually no better than the old dialup…
re: #249 William Lewis
Still, the story of fry bread and Native Americans is a complicated one at best. For those who aren’t aware of it, it was created “in 1864 using the flour, sugar, salt and lard that was given to them by the United States government when the Navajo, who were living in Arizona, were forced to make the 300-mile journey known as the “Long Walk” and relocate to Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, onto land that could not easily support their traditional staples of vegetables and beans; New Mexican cuisine style sopapillas also share this origin due to Pueblos and Hispanos of New Mexico having a similar subsistence at this time.[1][2] Boarding schools also helped to spread frybread in Native American diets.[3]”
It’s a symbol of colonialism, repression and, paradoxically, of overcoming those and perseverance, ingenuity and resilience despite the white attempts at genocide.
Kinda like matzo. (1/2)
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
we had an old toaster that always burned the toast, so my mom used to tell my sisters that eating burnt toast helps make your hair curly, as they were jealous of their younger brother’s curly hair.
that has become a running gag in our family
my son also inherited the curly hair genes in the family…
My uncle used to tell me that eating burnt toast gives one a good singing voice
re: #253 William Lewis
My son loves corn dogs and many mornings when he stays here he wants them for breakfast. No catchup or mustard, plain old corn dogs :)
I mix the ketchup and mustard together and dip the corn dog into the mix. I love them that way.
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