Marcin - “Kashmir” on One Acoustic Guitar

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Kashmir produced and performed by Marcin. Originally by Led Zeppelin.
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Video concept: Marcin, Mortvideo
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DOP, Editing, Color Grading: Marcin Kopiec (Mortvideo)
Assistant: Krystian Tuzimski
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Opening logo: Empadé Design Studio
Recording engineer: Pawel Slusarczyk (Bring The Noize)
Special thanks: Piotr, Lidia & Michal Patrzałek, Wiktoria Lewandowska

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Recorded in downtown Warsaw, Poland.

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211 comments
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austin_blue  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:33:07pm

Good try, skilled slinger, but you just can’t do it justice on one axe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:35:13pm

Fuque rural areas and people who can’t qualify for a credit card.

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gwangung  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:49:10pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Urban poor, too. That sentiment comes from a rather privileged place.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:54:37pm

I. AM. DED.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:56:26pm

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2021 • 7:56:32pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fuque rural areas and people who can’t qualify for a credit card.

Issue a free national ID card that can be hooked - again required to be free - to a bank account. Can’t get credit? You can still have a debit card for your checking account; I certainly can’t get credit but my debit card works just fine. If everyone has such a card, even vendors in rural areas will want to take them.

Hook licenses and EBT to the card as well so that it’s the only one you need to carry.

Now there are going to be holdouts but they aren’t the 1% being worried about here and you can make it possible for anyone to participate when making it required for the ones you want to be required.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:01:41pm

re: #5 retired cynic

That’s my task right now, and exactly the way I’m attacking it.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:07:53pm

re: #6 William Lewis

People can’t afford a bank account and don’t want to go to a legal loanshark?

Reinstate postal banking with no fees. Let people go to the Post Office to set up checking and savings accounts!

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austin_blue  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:11:14pm

re: #6 William Lewis

Issue a free national ID card that can be hooked - again required to be free - to a bank account. Can’t get credit? You can still have a debit card for your checking account; I certainly can’t get credit but my debit card works just fine. If everyone has such a card, even vendors in rural areas will want to take them.

Hook licenses and EBT to the card as well so that it’s the only one you need to carry.

Now there are going to be holdouts but they aren’t the 1% being worried about here and you can make it possible for anyone to participate when making it required for the ones you want to be required.

We have a free Nat’l ID card. It has 9 numbers and goes by “SSN”.

If you want banks to issue you a Debit Card based on a valid SSN and a minimum deposit, okay.

But you better put a limit on Bank fees, otherwise they will bleed poor folks dry.

Just like they always do.

I have no bank fees because I am well to do. I get interest on my accounts. I get money back every time I use my credit card, same reason. I get offers for new Credit Cards three times a week.

Poor folks are brutalized by banks. They fuck them every day and six ways on Sunday.

It’s a scam, and it’s uncontrolled, by and large.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:12:38pm

re: #8 🌹UOJB!

People can’t afford a bank account and don’t want to go to a legal loanshark?

Reinstate postal banking with no fees. Let people go to the Post Office to set up checking and savings accounts!

That’s one way; requiring fee free banking for anyone with an annual total under $50k is another. The reality is there are plenty of things that can be done once we get rid of the filibuster.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:17:17pm

re: #5 retired cynic

That pile of books on the far left next to the pile of National Geographics look like Hebrew sefarim. Looks like Zaidy’s set of Talmud.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:19:44pm

re: #11 The Pie Overlord!

That pile of books on the far left next to the pile of National Geographics look like Hebrew sefarim. Looks like Zaidy’s set of Talmud.

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Looks like my dad’s army jacket hanging on the wall.

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JC1  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:21:32pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Fuque rural areas and people who can’t qualify for a credit card.

Yeah, it’s a silly proposal. There’s nothing wrong with cash, there’s nothing wrong with anonymous transactions. Just because I’m not doing anything wrong, doesn’t mean that I want it tracked. And it’s not like the top 1% is failing to report income by somehow stashing suitcases of cash.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:23:49pm

re: #12 retired cynic

Looks like my dad’s army jacket hanging on the wall.

Looks like a LtCol from the JAG office.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:26:03pm

re: #14 William Lewis

Looks like a LtCol from the JAG office.

I knew I’d get caught on a technicality. No, my dad wasn’t a LtCol from the JAG office.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:27:41pm

“…Any veteran or service member who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 forfeited their moral entitlement to privileged benefits at the expense of the people of the United States,” wrote Gallego, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
……
Title 38 of the U.S. code governs VA benefits for veterans and their dependents, according to a brief from the Congressional Research Service.

“Under Sections 6104 and 6105, veterans and other individuals receiving VA benefits who commit mutiny or treason or who are convicted of ‘subversive activities,’ as listed in Section 6105(b), forfeit their right to VA benefits,” according to the CRS report.

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William Lewis  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:32:00pm

re: #15 retired cynic

I knew I’d get caught on a technicality. No, my dad wasn’t a LtCol from the JAG office.

No, I just was looking at it; what your dad did was likely very similar looking. Just having been a old army fart, I automatically look for all the “stuff” I can remember..

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:33:53pm

re: #17 William Lewis

No, I just was looking at it; what your dad did was likely very similar looking. Just having been a old army fart, I automatically look for all the “stuff” I can remember..

It probably wouldn’t be similar to someone who knew what they were looking at, like you. To someone like me, who is ignorant of all that, it has a similar shape. It is hanging on a door not 20 feet from me! I keep it there to remind me of him.

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austin_blue  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:38:16pm

Should active duty and vets lose any and all benefits if they participated in the Capitol invasion?

Hell yes. Plus jail time.

As a vet, the son of a vet, and the grandson of a vet, that’s a no brainer.

Night all, sleep well.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:38:42pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:41:42pm

re: #10 William Lewis

That’s one way; requiring fee free banking for anyone with an annual total under $50k is another. The reality is there are plenty of things that can be done once we get rid of the filibuster.

Let’s get some Internet service in the vast areas of the country where it costs more than electric bills or rent. While we’re at it, maybe some cell service.

Forcing every single transaction to be recorded would do little to collect income tax.

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jaunte  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:43:15pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:43:44pm

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Secret ANTIFA Operative  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:44:03pm

re: #4 The Pie Overlord!

I. AM. DED.

He could just shovel some cash to GAB or Parler for the naming rights, and then take credit for building either from scratch. He probably doesn’t have that kind of cash handy, however, as evidenced by his 757 rusting outside on a tarmac.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:44:40pm

re: #13 JC1

Yeah, it’s a silly proposal. There’s nothing wrong with cash, there’s nothing wrong with anonymous transactions. Just because I’m not doing anything wrong, doesn’t mean that I want it tracked. And it’s not like the top 1% is failing to report income by somehow stashing suitcases of cash.

I want to buy a bag of chips and a soda pop.

Okay sir, that will be $1.99 plus the $5 credit card fee for a purchase under the minimum allowed.

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:47:03pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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NRO was given the opportunity to issue a retraction and apology. They instead chose to double down. They’ve been trying to hide behind (their interpretation of) the law and character assassination ever since.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 8:52:12pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:05:58pm

re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I want to buy a bag of chips and a soda pop.

Okay sir, that will be $1.99 plus the $5 credit card fee for a purchase under the minimum allowed.

Which they can’t actually charge, BTW.

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danarchy  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:09:09pm

re: #25 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I want to buy a bag of chips and a soda pop.

Okay sir, that will be $1.99 plus the $5 credit card fee for a purchase under the minimum allowed.

That’s illegal in Massachusetts, didn’t realize that was uncommon.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:09:49pm

re: #28 Belafon

Which they can’t actually charge, BTW.

And yet they do (credit card companies that is).

And since at least in this area credit card companies started charging both merchants and purchasers to use a credit card for any purchase, credit card machines have evaporated from various businesses. (If you drive through here, don’t depend on a credit card to purchase gas or you’ll be stranded miles from anywhere.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:14:00pm

re: #29 danarchy

That’s illegal in Massachusetts, didn’t realize that was uncommon.

Can I impose a minimum transaction of $10 for card purchases? (Creditcard dot com, January 13, 2021)

Federal law permits it, but the minimum must be the same for all credit card issuers and payment card networks

Yes. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 permits businesses to impose a minimum purchase amount of up to $10 for credit card use, but the minimum must be the same for all credit card issuers and payment card networks.

Additionally, the card processing networks have their own set of rules for imposing a minimum transaction amount.

(more)

For example, Visa says you cannot impose fees on debit cards. Accidentally push the “credit” button though, and good-bye $10.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:17:51pm

re: #31 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I belong to a tiny nonprofit, and bank, credit card, paypal and other online shopping software, all collect a chunk from us. But you have to offer the services. People just don’t write checks and mail them anymore.

I don’t, for that matter! But we pay for the convenience.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:20:11pm

re: #32 retired cynic

I belong to a tiny nonprofit, and bank, credit card, paypal and other online shopping software, all collect a chunk from us. But you have to offer the services. People just don’t write checks and mail them anymore.

I don’t, for that matter! But we pay for the convenience.

[stares in mailed cheques to electric company and telephone company yesterday]

Lots of people write cheques.

Plus the conservative argument on Voter ID “you need ID to cash a cheque” is also nonsense: Anywhere I shop in the Panhandle, if they know me, they do not ask for ID. One or two places might ask me to write my telephone number in the memo line.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:21:37pm

Even the largest companies take cheques.

When I make an Amazon order, it is held until they receive my cheque.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:22:08pm

re: #33 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I realize you do, but our customers just do not. We handle just a handful of checks in a year. Everything else is done online.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:24:24pm

re: #35 retired cynic

I realize you do, but our customers just do not. We handle just a handful of checks in a year. Everything else is done online.

But you do take cheques.

The original post about this was some douchecanoe wanted to ban money to make collecting income tax harder to evade.

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danarchy  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:25:04pm

re: #35 retired cynic

I realize you do, but our customers just do not. We handle just a handful of checks in a year. Everything else is done online.

My town finally started accepting online payments for the water bill. That was the last regular bill I had that I used checks for. I expect my current check book to last me virtually forever.

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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:26:18pm

re: #37 danarchy

The only check I write now for regular payments is for the Rid-All service, quarterly.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:32:06pm

The last check I wrote was in December 2018 to renew my California Drivers license.

Now it’s going over 2 years that I’ve written a check for anything.

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:33:30pm

re: #24 Secret ANTIFA Operative

He could just shovel some cash to GAB or Parler for the naming rights, and then take credit for building either from scratch. He probably doesn’t have that kind of cash handy, as evidenced by his 757 rusting outside on a tarmac.

The bolded is why he’s not announcing this himself but is instead using his lackeys to spread rumors about it. He’s gauging to see how many suckers he could potentially part from their money, both initial investors who will be responsible for helping him get the con started, and then victims of the con who will be left holding the bag when it folds. He has no intention of trying to create a rival service to existing ones, he’s just desperate for money and is looking to see whose pockets he can pick clean next.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2021 • 9:52:42pm

re: #37 danarchy

My town finally started accepting online payments for the water bill. That was the last regular bill I had that I used checks for. I expect my current check book to last me virtually forever.

I occasionally have to write them for school related stuff and to friends because we don’t all use the same money transfer apps, but my box of checks has lasted over ten years. I figure I have about four or five years left in it.

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Belafon  Mar 21, 2021 • 10:00:26pm
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retired cynic  Mar 21, 2021 • 10:02:35pm

re: #42 Belafon

I’d trust those two to have their fingers on the pulse of what is going on on the border.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 21, 2021 • 10:07:08pm

Sharks of the Corn (2021)
Strange things are happening in Druid Hills, Kentucky, known mainly for its voluminous corn output. Victims of monsters in cornfields begin cropping up, and witnesses are saying there are large Great White sharks swimming in the corn stalks.

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2021 • 10:07:40pm

re: #42 Belafon

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Even before Covid, there were reports of disease and health issues in those detention centers. But Trump was in the WH, so they downplayed the reports when they weren’t accusing Dems of being responsible by not supporting Trump.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 21, 2021 • 10:28:19pm

Amazing how they suddenly care about immigrants when a Democrat is in charge.

//

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Targetpractice  Mar 21, 2021 • 11:23:57pm

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

Amazing how they suddenly care about immigrants when a Democrat is in charge.

//

What fails to surprise me anymore is that the media spent 4 years watching Repubs either dodge questions about Trump’s border policies or speak up in support of them even when they were in violation of laws both domestic and foreign, yet now they act ignorant of all that to entertain bad faith arguments made by those same Repubs that Biden’s actions have created a “crisis” that must be solved.

Of course, the GQP have no solutions and the media aren’t going to grill for such because doing so might endanger their “access.” The same as reporting about this “crisis” in the context of Trump’s inhumane immigration policies, the CV epidemic, and the gang violence that continues past our southern border because of our foolish insistence on continuing the “War on Drugs.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 21, 2021 • 11:29:14pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 11:39:56pm
Texas senator John Cornyn is pointing fingers and whining again instead of finding solutions and fixing problems.

Some of the migrants are being brought to Dallas. They will be temporarily housed in the Dallas Convention Center.

Okay, so they are giving the vaccine outside. The migrants will be inside. Two, it’s a big joint. You can do two things at once there. Three, last time I was in Dallas, they had more than one big ole place with a big parking lot. Four, Dallas has opened up a three additional distribution point this weekend. And five …

— 100 days, 100M COVID vaccine shots guaranteed. 42 days ahead of schedule.

That’s got be eating at Cornyn’s skanky nasty old heart. Competence is one battlefield he can’t fight on.

(Juanita Jean’s, the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon)

Dumb as Bean Dip

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 21, 2021 • 11:58:12pm

Your politics when conservatives are in charge, via Daily Beast and a study.

The Golden Era for Political ‘Con Artists’ Posing as Charities

Much to the delight of conservatives, Donald Trump changed politics in a number of seismic ways. But one smaller consequence of his presidency has proven a true parasite for conservatives: the rise of scam Political Action Committees posing as charities.

Legal and campaign finance experts say these groups—many of which have chosen causes championed by former President Trump to prey on his supporters—stand out precisely because they mislead donors into thinking their contributions aren’t political and will benefit a legitimate charitable cause. But the reality is these cleverly named PACs are exploiting loose election laws to funnel contributions back to the scammers.

Of note are police and veteran scam PACs.

The Daily Beast surveyed the top 25 grossing PACs that style themselves as law enforcement and veterans support groups. We found they collectively pulled in more than $85 million over the last four years. For perspective, that’s about $18 million more than the two top-raising House campaigns combined over that same time period.

Of the 25 super PACs in The Daily Beast’s survey, the biggest moneymaker was Law Enforcement for a Safer America, which CNN profiled in October for exploiting mostly elder donors under the guise of support for “Blue Lives Matter.” Like most scam PACs, the group primarily spent on fundraising efforts—$12.8 million of the $13.9 million it raised—and devoted just a little more than $500,000 on political expenditures, per OpenSecrets data.

(more)

On veteran PACs in particular:

For comparison, a PAC called Veterans for Responsible Leadership spent only $191 of its $400,000 on fundraising and $238,000 on federal election spending.

Of the 34 functional PACs established over the last four years that support veterans’ special interests, The Daily Beast only identified four that appeared to spend most of their money on political efforts. In contrast, all the veterans’ affairs PACs established before 2016 appear legitimate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2021 • 12:07:12am

On the issue of scam PACs, the FEC says it is hamstrung by the statute governing fundraising, literally over one word: a PAC may not fraudulently misrepresent a group. (How does someone not fraudulently misrepresent a person or group?)

The FEC recommended changing the statute, so Reps. Katie Porter (D-CA) and Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) have introduced a bill to strike the word “fraudulent” from the statute.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2021 • 12:33:55am

In the category of “insane archaeologists” (three tweets):

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2021 • 12:59:37am

Drone footage of the volcano (1:47)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 22, 2021 • 1:01:36am

I’m sure somehow Tucker Carlson could find a way to blame BLM for the demonstrators:

Police attacked as ‘Kill the Bill’ demo turns violent @BBC News live 🔴 BBC



..

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2021 • 1:03:18am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 22, 2021 • 1:13:19am

My right hand is really painful tonight, so I’m going to log out.

A guinea pig on my way out (I miss trading guinea pig photographs with Curious Lurker) … g’night.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 2:20:54am

re: #9 austin_blue

We have a free Nat’l ID card. It has 9 numbers and goes by “SSN”.

We just need to make it a photo ID.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 3:03:36am

new smacks is smacking it:

Biden Spends $86 Million in Hotel Rooms for Illegal Aliens

Endeavors, a San Antonio-based organization, will oversee what it calls “family reception sites” at hotels in Texas and Arizona, the two sources said. The organization, in partnership with other nonprofits, will initially provide beds in seven different brand-name hotels for families deemed vulnerable when caught at the border.

In other words, asylum seekers, not “illegals”.

And what is wrong with providing material assistance to a hotel/motel industry that is suffering a major Covid slump?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 3:15:36am

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

Amazing how they suddenly care about immigrants when a Democrat is in charge.

//

Just wait until I tell you about deficits! 👀

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Ming5000  Mar 22, 2021 • 3:53:40am

This was a fun diversion. This is a quiz to determine your “education level”.
postfun.com

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:07:55am

re: #60 Ming5000

This was a fun diversion. This is a quiz to determine your “education level”.
postfun.com

The ads on that site make it completely unusable.

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Ming5000  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:11:05am

re: #61 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I used Edge and the quiz was in the main screen area, ads on the side. No pause for a commercial. Post Fun didn’t seem abusive. Worked OK for me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:11:47am

re: #61 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

The ads on that site make it completely unusable.

Have that problem a lot. But I persevered and got “PhD Level”, which is nonsense, those are all questions that any fairly well-read person who is interested in the world around them would know.

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Ming5000  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:15:28am

Ok, I take it back: “This was a fun diversion”.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:15:42am

re: #60 Ming5000

It seems to think I have a Master’s degree even after missing far too many questions. And how does knowing who the lead singer of the Rolling Stones have any relationship to higher education? Maybe it was a control question.

It was fun, don’t get me wrong, but I think it’s stated purpose is bunk.

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:17:45am

Evidence the government obtained in the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol most likely meets the bar necessary to charge some of the suspects with sedition, Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who had been leading the Justice Department’s inquiry, said in an interview that aired on Sunday,” the New York Times reports.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:21:52am

re: #63 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Have that problem a lot. But I persevered and got “PhD Level”, which is nonsense, those are all questions that any fairly well-read person who is interested in the world around them would know.

I managed to make it through, got 41/50, for “Ph.D. level”. I agree with you, that seems to be a dramatic overstatement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:25:58am

re: #67 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I managed to make it through, got 41/50, for “Ph.D. level”. I agree with you, that seems to be a dramatic overstatement.

but one of the questions reminded of a cartoon I saw recently that showed Einstein and Pythagoras both fighting over the rights to “c²”

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 22, 2021 • 4:41:42am

re: #28 Belafon

Which they can’t actually charge, BTW.

That’s illegal a lot of places… and completely ignored and charged anyway in many of those same places.

AFAIK, I was illegally charged for using a card in two places, just today.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:35:23am

First dose of Pfizer scheduled tomorrow. I said I’d get which ever one became available first. And I’m glad I’m getting the one I would have chosen if I had the choice.

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jeffreyw  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:36:12am

Good morning!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:41:53am

Got appointment for covid jabs next Monday morning at the county health department (17 miles away) for me and MrBWS.

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A Mom Anon  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:48:49am

My hubby got an appointment for his first covid shot on 3/31. I’m still looking for an appointment for me. His doc is giving them out by appt but you have to be a patient.

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:52:11am

re: #21 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Let’s get some Internet service in the vast areas of the country where it costs more than electric bills or rent. While we’re at it, maybe some cell service.

Forcing every single transaction to be recorded would do little to collect income tax.

Income taxes are based on…income.

rarely can a net worth case based in expenditures and lifestyle be successfully made (ie Capone)

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:56:12am

I’m eligible as of today, but of course the registration system is not working. I’ll try a couple more times and then call 211.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:56:28am

re: #74 Dangerman

Income taxes are based on…income.

rarely can a net worth case based in expenditures and lifestyle be successfully made (ie Capone)

but centralizing transactions would put a lot of financial power in a few hands…which is what our system is about - authority without oversight.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:57:00am
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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 5:57:17am

re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg

Amazing how they suddenly care about immigrants when a Democrat is in charge.

//

And deficits

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:00:49am

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

It’s not that they fail to report 21% of their income. It’s that they’ve figured out how to shield 20% of their income from federal tax law under the rules they helped develop. Lax enforcement makes it even easier to build these tax shelters that allow free flow of billions into these businesses and tax devices.

The poor can’t take advantage of any of it because they’re not able to access those same kinds of sophisticated tax vehicles or have the income worth it for tax advisers to carry out.

But the IRS will focus on the EITC instead of the tens of billions squirreled away by a handful of multi-millionaires and billionaires.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:06:07am

re: #74 Dangerman

For most income tax scenarios, the IRS already has the income - wage statements are sent from the IRS and can match up with taxpayer records in their returns. Same with interest statements from banks and brokerage statements from financial services companies.

It’s just when you start dealing with significant investment income and most millionaires make more from their investments than actual wages, the long term cap gains means they pay far less on their accrued wealth in a year than 90% of Americans.

Short term cap gains are taxed at the person’s marginal tax rate, so someone who buys and holds for the long term (over 1 year) gets to save considerably - 15% instead of 35%. You can also offset cap gains with losses, so you can net out to zero, despite making money during the year. For businesses, you can also see NOLs, which is something Trumpworld took advantage of to the point of not paying any income tax at all for a decade because of billion dollar NOL (biggest single NOL individual taxpayer in our history). His business acumen sucked, but took advantage of the huge loss to write off gains over next 10 years.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:10:27am

re: #80 lawhawk

For most income tax scenarios, the IRS already has the income - wage statements are sent from the IRS and can match up with taxpayer records in their returns. Same with interest statements from banks and brokerage statements from financial services companies.

It’s just when you start dealing with significant investment income and most millionaires make more from their investments than actual wages, the long term cap gains means they pay far less on their accrued wealth in a year than 90% of Americans.

Which is also why they throw fits over a simple flat-rate revenue-based tax on interstate or international Internet or financial transactions. That robs them of their ability to hide their profits away under lawyers of deferments, offsets and exemptions.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:27:21am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:28:11am
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A Mom Anon  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:32:20am

I just got Cleo to respond to a touch command. That’s where they are walking ahead of you and you get them to come touch your hand with their nose. Or just come touch your hand so you can put them on leash, give them meds etc.

She has the same birthday as my son, she will be 2 tomorrow. The human kid will be 27. Time goes too fast.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:32:48am

When I see articles like this, it just makes me think of how short-sighted the writer is. They had a bigger problem, dude, you know, fighting and surviving the disease:

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:35:00am

re: #85 Belafon

When I see articles like this, it just makes me think of how short-sighted the writer is. They had a bigger problem, dude, you know, fighting and surviving the disease:

Not to mention, we didn’t even know Long COVID was a thing until we were already several months into it. How, exactly, should we have been prepared for it?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:35:04am

re: #82 Belafon

Kitten realizes he has more than one paw.

one thing I did with all my kids the first time I had them on the changing table was to touch the fingers on each hand to the toes on the the opposite foot. You could see their eyes light up like a pinball machine because those were nerve sensations that they had not previously experienced.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:36:58am

re: #86 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Not to mention, we didn’t even know Long COVID was a thing until we were already several months into it. How, exactly, should we have been prepared for it?

I am still worried we are going to get hit by a mutation that is much more virulent/contagious, or immune to current vaccines and we will be back to square one.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:39:52am

re: #85 Belafon

Getting someone to survive the initial contact with the disease after coming into a hospital in severe respiratory distress, multiorgan failures, etc., is more important than the long haul crisis to come after that. We managed to avoid a complete collapse of the health care delivery system, but only just. In some areas of the country, we came damned close.

Now that we have some better idea about treatment and care, we can focus on the long haulers who have significant issues even after surviving the initial contact with the disease. We are more than a year into the pandemic, and don’t have any cures - only treatments that can reduce symptoms in some cases.

It’s the long haulers that will have a preexisting condition going forward of the kind that GOPers wanted to deny access to health insurance (they were still fighting to repeal Obamacare’s preexisting condition protections by any means necessary).

One such longhauler was the founder/ceo of Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain. He committed suicide rather than deal with the symptoms, which for him included tinnitus. Many others see long term change in smell or taste, brain fog, or memory issues. Still others see respiratory issues, and some children have seen significant health issues as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:47:35am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:48:23am

re: #89 lawhawk

Getting someone to survive the initial contact with the disease after coming into a hospital in severe respiratory distress, multiorgan failures, etc., is more important than the long haul crisis to come after that. We managed to avoid a complete collapse of the health care delivery system, but only just. In some areas of the country, we came damned close.

Because once the case rate exceeds IC Units, then mortality skyrockets.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:48:24am

Do not click if you’re afraid of spiders.

Thousands of spiders escape NSW floodwaters (news.com.au)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:49:22am
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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:49:52am

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:51:49am

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

President Biden has instead emphasized the humane treatment of immigrants, regardless of their legal status

I can understand the idea behind a policy of deterrence (although I do not at all agree with it) - with regard to adult refugees and immigrants - but these people are also bringing children with them.

And it is inexcusable and outright criminal to treat those children in anything but a humane manner.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:52:04am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:53:40am

Odds that the Dzhokar will be played by Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming Boston Bomber movie?

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:54:35am

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

new smacks is smacking it:

Biden Spends $86 Million in Hotel Rooms for Illegal Aliens

Endeavors, a San Antonio-based organization, will oversee what it calls “family reception sites” at hotels in Texas and Arizona, the two sources said. The organization, in partnership with other nonprofits, will initially provide beds in seven different brand-name hotels for families deemed vulnerable when caught at the border.

In other words, asylum seekers, not “illegals”.

And what is wrong with providing material assistance to a hotel/motel industry that is suffering a major Covid slump?

Because its not just a bio!ding with beds, you knkw they’re getting maid service daily, splashing in the pool, ordering room service…. //

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:54:51am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Odds that the Dzhokar will be played by River Phoenix in the upcoming Boston Bomber movie.

Which will be interesting since River died like 20 years ago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:57:38am

re: #98 Dangerman

Because its not just a bio!ding with beds, you knkw they’re getting maid service daily, splashing in the pool, ordering room service…. //

ordering hookers and blow

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:57:51am

re: #99 Belafon

Which will be interesting since River died like 20 years ago.

fixed that

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 6:58:56am

O_o

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:00:05am

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

What a maroon.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:00:41am

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

US Sen Ron Johnson on how Greenland got its name from NY Times profile.

basically he fell for 1,000-year-old Fake News

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:02:03am

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

Branding.

Johnson’s still on brand for the GOP. Xenophobic, Reactionary know nothings, white supremacists, treasonweasels.

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:02:58am

re: #79 lawhawk

It’s not that they fail to report 21% of their income. It’s that they’ve figured out how to shield 20% of their income from federal tax law under the rules they helped develop. Lax enforcement makes it even easier to build these tax shelters that allow free flow of billions into these businesses and tax devices.

The poor can’t take advantage of any of it because they’re not able to access those same kinds of sophisticated tax vehicles or have the income worth it for tax advisers to carry out.

But the IRS will focus on the EITC instead of the tens of billions squirreled away by a handful of multi-millionaires and billionaires.

Spot on
Untaxed income etc is money the govt never got. Sad but tolerable (to many)

Eitc is govt money (my tax dollars) going out. (to those people). Scandal!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:03:34am

re: #98 Dangerman

Because its not just a bio!ding with beds, you knkw they’re getting maid service daily, splashing in the pool, ordering room service…. //

No, no.

We should be paying the exact same amount of money per night for these people to be locked up in private detention facilities with terrible food and COVID circulating around, because that would create more shareholder value for people who lobby Republicans.

Note that no one is presenting this as “Biden props up flagging hotel industry during pandemic, provides safe and clean facilities for asylum seekers during dual crises.” Because this is America, and we have a fundamental fear that somebody unimportant, somewhere, might be getting something extra that they didn’t earn that makes them content and comfortable. And that dog just won’t fucking hunt; people have to be punished so they understand how shit works.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:04:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:05:21am

re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea

Because this is America, and we have a fundamental fear that somebody unimportant, somewhere, might be getting something extra that they didn’t earn that makes them content and comfortable. And that dog just won’t fucking hunt; people have to be punished so they understand how shit works.

Because that will ruin their work ethic?

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:06:53am

re: #80 lawhawk

For most income tax scenarios, the IRS already has the income - wage statements are sent from the IRS and can match up with taxpayer records in their returns. Same with interest statements from banks and brokerage statements from financial services companies.

It’s just when you start dealing with significant investment income and most millionaires make more from their investments than actual wages, the long term cap gains means they pay far less on their accrued wealth in a year than 90% of Americans.

Short term cap gains are taxed at the person’s marginal tax rate, so someone who buys and holds for the long term (over 1 year) gets to save considerably - 15% instead of 35%. You can also offset cap gains with losses, so you can net out to zero, despite making money during the year. For businesses, you can also see NOLs, which is something Trumpworld took advantage of to the point of not paying any income tax at all for a decade because of billion dollar NOL (biggest single NOL individual taxpayer in our history). His business acumen sucked, but took advantage of the huge loss to write off gains over next 10 years.

that’s mostly only true for single document compliance income - like you said
w-2’s
1099’s etc

once you add an entity in the middle that involves income and expenses and recording transactions to arrive at net income, it’s a whole nother problem

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:07:20am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Greg Locke is also one of those raging anti-Semites who want to round up my people and send us to Israel to trigger Armageddon.

Just another typical Xtian Pulpit Pimp filled with the love of Jay-Zuss.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:07:57am
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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:10:51am

re: #110 Dangerman

that’s mostly only true for single document compliance income - like you said
w-2’s
1099’s etc

once you add an entity in the middle that involves income and expenses and recording transactions to arrive at net income, it’s a whole nother problem

Pass-through entities (LLCs, LLPs, S corps) are a huge beast that allows individuals and companies to shield income and move money around seamlessly and without transparency.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:20:34am

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

wHy wOnt bIDen GIvE tRUmp mORe cReDiT

same ex-Prez who flew off in a huff before Biden’s inauguration, breaking over 100 years of Precedent…(last President who boycotted his successor’s inauguration for personal political reasons was Andrew Johnson, who refused to attend U.S. Grant’s ceremony)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:21:07am

re: #113 lawhawk

Pass-through entities (LLCs, LLPs, S corps) are a huge beast that allows individuals and companies to shield income and move money around seamlessly and without transparency.

or send those earnings offshore

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:21:16am
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jeffreyw  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:24:18am
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darthstar  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:25:44am

Happy Monday…some awesome drone footage for you to start your day.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:26:29am

A Japanese (amateur - no one who persists this long is an amateur) astronomer discovered a new star in the constellation Cassiopeia on March 18, measured at +9.6. By the end of the 19th, it was measuring +7.5. Seems we’ve got a nova.

dailykos.com

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:27:17am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Because that will ruin their work ethic?

That’s part of it, but “work ethic” only exists as a way of ascribing ethical implications to the task of being slotted into a hierarchy defined by capital. I work hard actually has no right/wrong dimensions about whether a person is good or bad, it’s an indication that a person is compliant with top-down-dictated social norms. “Meritocracy” is a scam because there’s no objective umpire: a bullshit job that makes lots of money because its services the needs of the investor class is seen as having more merit than a job that directly helps people through service. A stock broker who profits by destroying shit through speculation can be seen as having a better work ethic, and thus be a better person that has earned their leisure; a low-paid agricultural worker who does nothing but feed people is suspect in their moments of idleness…did they do enough to earn their place in this country?

I swear, asylum seekers generate so much contempt and anger because by their very nature they demand that our society act on its own stated principles of equality of men and natural rights, when the background culture rooted in capitalism declares that people are not equal and must constantly prove their utility to capital to deserve their humanity.

But even that’s not an adequate representation, because this whole “earn your life” thing ties into pre-existing concepts of racial and class hierarchy, where it’s simply wrong that certain kinds of people can attain comfort and ease that suggest they’re the equal of traditional elites (white, Protestant, conservative, old money, etc.). If the wrong kind of person works hard and earns enough to technically have “merit” they are still judged differently. I mean, that’s a big chunk of what happened in places like Tulsa and Rosewood—when blacks actually did the stuff that should have ticked the boxes for “merit” and thus franchise, white people used the first excuse to steal or destroy their shit. Same thing happened after the internment of the Japanese—assets they had accumulated were just fucking stolen. Doubtless there’s other examples.

I realize you’re probably being jocular, but…I think probably the single most important thing right now is the contest between what America says it is, and what it actually has been…because to survive we need to be more of the former, and if we continue on the path set by the latter we’re just going to be a people colonized by their own upper class.

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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:28:30am

re: #40 Targetpractice

The bolded is why he’s not announcing this himself but is instead using his lackeys to spread rumors about it. He’s gauging to see how many suckers he could potentially part from their money, both initial investors who will be responsible for helping him get the con started, and then victims of the con who will be left holding the bag when it folds. He has no intention of trying to create a rival service to existing ones, he’s just desperate for money and is looking to see whose pockets he can pick clean next.

Trump wants to be the next (amazing, beautiful, best, brilliant, fabulous, how does he know that?), Rush Limbaugh.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:28:30am

re: #118 darthstar

That’s awesome footage, and the operator is lucky that none of the exploding lava struck the drone as it flew over the vent.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:30:07am
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:32:24am
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:34:40am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:36:27am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:36:38am

re: #120 The Ghost of a Flea

Terms like “work ethic” and “the dignity of labor” are just GOP talking points.

At least the Libertarians do not shy from admitting that they regard work as a pure commodity, to be bought and sold according to market rates regardless of the human factors involved.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:43:37am

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

Back when I had a house, a couple of large raccoons came in the cat door one night. I got up to see what the noise in my kitchen was, and one of them ran out, while the other ran further into my house.

After some searching, I found it hiding in a corner in my storage room, hanging from a shelf trying to be invisible. I went back to bed. No good was going to come from trying to move the animal.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:47:52am

I just realized something: Biden is testing the theory that if Democrats pass progressive policies that progressives will come out to vote.

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:50:56am

re: #128 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Back when I had a house, a couple of large raccoons came in the cat door one night. I got up to see what the noise in my kitchen was, and one of them ran out, while the other ran further into my house.

After some searching, I found it hiding in a corner in my storage room, hanging from a shelf trying to be invisible. I went back to bed. No good was going to come from trying to move the animal.

And now its treated like any other member of the family?

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:52:00am

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:52:22am

re: #129 Belafon

I just realized something: Biden is testing the theory that if Democrats pass progressive policies that progressives will come out to vote.

I think one of the things dems need to do better is be loud and proud of the legislation they pass

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:54:40am

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danarchy  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:55:39am

re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Odds that the Dzhokar will be played by Joaquin Phoenix in the upcoming Boston Bomber movie?

Jaoquin is a good actor, but he is 46, Dzokar is only 27 now and was a teenager when he bombed the marathon. Not seeing it

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:56:53am

re: #130 Dangerman

And now its treated like any other member of the family?

As expected, it left on its own as soon as its fear passed. If that hadn’t worked, I’d have ditched it when I lost my job and house in the recession.

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:58:08am
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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:58:09am

re: #132 Dangerman

I think one of the things dems need to do better is be loud and proud of the legislation they pass

Democrats: We passed the American Recovery Act to help Americans get —
Republicans: BIDEN IS LETTING ILLEGALS BRING THE VIRUS INTO THE US TO TAKE YOUR JOBS!
Media: Why won’t Biden take care of the American people?

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 7:58:43am

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:03:27am

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Terms like “work ethic” and “the dignity of labor” are just GOP talking points.

At least the Libertarians do not shy from admitting that they regard work as a pure commodity, to be bought and sold according to market rates regardless of the human factors involved.

Yep.

What freaks me out is that we’re now at the point where people are still using those terms, but also restructuring labor such that people have less work and less compensation. The powerful are saying “earn your humanity” but making it harder to hit that minimum buy-in by devaluing labor…meaning that more and more people are being assigned into the “unnecessary, deserves nothing” category. The ladder is being pulled up fast and the scapegoating of those who work hard but could never get ahead (because of other-ness like race) is expanding.

This is what underpins Trumpism: white people are becoming aware that they’re being hosed, but they refuse to abandon the value system that tells them they have entitlements that lesser kinds of people do not deserve…and therefore they are incapable of perceiving what is actually harming them—the power systems that grant them their identity as “good people”—and must instead invent invisible power systems composed of those lesser people they’ve kept away from power and franchise

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:07:13am

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

Remember LBJ’s Truth said in 1967 and still true today.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:07:30am

re: #134 danarchy

Jaoquin is a good actor, but he is 46, Dzokar is only 27 now and was a teenager when he bombed the marathon. Not seeing it

Joker, Dzokar…get it?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:08:40am

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

What freaks me out is that we’re now at the point where people are still using those terms, but also restructuring labor such that people have less work and less compensation. The powerful are saying “earn your humanity” but making it harder to hit that minimum buy-in by devaluing labor…meaning that more and more people are being assigned into the “unnecessary, deserves nothing” category.

This is not a new thing. In fact, it’s been going on for millennia across various cultures.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:08:50am

re: #71 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:11:52am

Remember, if you are earning minimum wage, say working at Wal-Mart, and trying to support a family of four, then you are eligible for SNAP

And if you are a Wal-Mart worker, where are you going to spend those food stamps?

I read a statistic that every Wal-Mart in the USA “generates” an average of around $900K in government aid for its employees per year.

In other words, we are paying the Walton family a wage subsidy.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:16:19am

re: #142 Eclectic Cyborg

This is not a new thing. In fact, it’s been going on for millennia across various cultures.

Yes, and each time this happens a group of people are left to die in a ditch, figuratively and sometimes literally.

I’m not claiming that what’s happening is novel, I’m claiming that it’s a precursor to yet another horror show.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:19:52am

My atheist prayers have been answered. Ghost Stories is on Prime. A failed anime that some guys in America bought the rights to and dubbed it in the best way possible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:20:18am

re: #145 The Ghost of a Flea

Yes, and each time this happens a group of people are left to die in a ditch, figuratively and sometimes literally.

I’m not claiming that what’s happening is novel, I’m claiming that it’s a precursor to yet another horror show.

The American Dream is about making a better life for you children, but how can you do that if you cannot afford to raise and help educate them?

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:26:21am

re: #134 danarchy

Jaoquin is a good actor, but he is 46, Dzokar is only 27 now and was a teenager when he bombed the marathon. Not seeing it

Robert Pattinson.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:33:05am

WTFITS

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:37:37am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:39:15am

re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth

SCOTUS denies review in challenge to Obama-era designation of 3.2 million acres of Atlantic Ocean as national monument under the Antiquities Act; Chief Justice John Roberts has statement regarding the denial.

Thank you for saving Atlantis from grave robbers, plunderers and treasure hunters!!!

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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:55:13am

I see Project Very-Ass is trending again, for the reason you might expect thanks to the media’s new-not-new obsession with holding Dems accountable for things Republicans did and pretending the Dems were doing it all along.

And sadly, the usual suspects are falling straight for it.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:56:54am

re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The American Dream is about making a better life for you children, but how can you do that if you cannot afford to raise and help educate them?

Each and every family unit within the fullness of humanity dreams about making a better life for their children.

There’s just also a group of people that are basically Pennywise the Clown: yeah you want your kids to safe and happy but how do I address my gratification needs for feeding on terrified, tortured children to sustain my way of life?

The most powerful institutions and people on Earth don’t want a better off next generation, they want a generation that’s devalued so that labor and sex and deference and compliance can be purchased cheaper…ideally, free. Desperate people are easier to buy, whether you’re a pimp, an industrialist, or a missionary. These people have basically wandered around the planet making people’s lives worse while they extracted as much labor and raw material as possible, and they’ve built up a durable belief system about why they’re allowed to do it and why they’re not responsible for anything that goes wrong. Now they’re tired of international commutes and want to set up the same system at home: sure things in the country are bad, but if things get worse then so much more value can be extracted.

And while money is the easiest example this isn’t just about money, value is really the totality of what can be obtained with power. Users that simply want capital have solidarity with users that want power/control in more direct, predatory ways. More poor people isolated from community and family means laborers become servants that become slaves…*gestures at Saudi Arabia; but also at Florida tomato farms; but also at Nick Casablanca/Donald Trump/Jeffrey Epstein doing the same model trafficking scam*. These people create demimondes via their ability to stigmatize and make illegal through institutional power, but they also love to the visit the demimonde to sample what it offers with the knowledge that they can leave untainted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 8:57:35am

re: #152 Citizen K

I see Project Very-Ass is trending again..

They need more Political Theater now that the Number One Clown has left the ring…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:00:26am

re: #153 The Ghost of a Flea

The most powerful institutions and people on Earth don’t want a better off next generation, they want a generation that’s devalued so that labor and sex and deference and compliance can be purchased cheaper…ideally, free. Starving people are easier to buy, whether you’re a pimp, an industrialist, or a missionary.

this is what is behind the sham that passes for US immigration and labor legislation and policy. They want to make it harder for people to come here, nut not impossible: too many industries depend on a large, desperate, easily exploitable labor force to keep wages low and benefits nonexistent.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:01:49am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

this is what is behind the sham that passes for US immigration and labor legislation and policy. They want to make it harder for people to come here, nut not impossible: too many industries depend on a large, desperate, easily exploitable labor force to keep wages low and benefits nonexistent.

If Thulsa Doom ran a chicken plant in Sebree Kentucky….

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:06:29am

re: #149 The Pie Overlord!

WTFITS

Fortunately, I see no S. It’s extremely weird, but probably harmless.

Speaking of weird and probably harmless. There are kids who sleep in VR now. They’re in multiuser experiences asleep. This isn’t my world anymore.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:07:04am

re: #156 The Ghost of a Flea

If Thulsa Doom ran a chicken plant in Sebree Kentucky….

I recall listening to an NPR radio documentary about the chicken catchers in Texarkana: they are paid per bird to go into those massive halls and scoop up chickens, I think they get something like 25 cents per bird, which can be good money for a whole night of chasing chickens.

No benefits, just “free lance” piecework.

Uberchicken

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:07:28am

re: #156 The Ghost of a Flea

If Thulsa Doom ran a chicken plant in Sebree Kentucky….

Thulsa Doom is a fictional character created by American author Robert E. Howard, as an antagonist for the character Kull of Atlantis. Thulsa Doom debuted in the story “Delcardes’ Cat”. He has since appeared in comic books and film as the nemesis of Kull and, later, one of Howard’s other creations, Conan the Barbarian.

I don’t think I’ve seen Conan the Barbarian. That name did not ring a bell.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:08:44am

re: #157 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Fortunately, I see no S. It’s extremely weird, but probably harmless.

Speaking of weird and probably harmless. There are kids who sleep in VR now. They’re in multiuser experiences asleep. This isn’t my world anymore.

If that was a new toilet or one thoroughly cleaned and repurposed only for washing hair, then what is the difference?

I fall asleep to reruns of various Star Trek series, nearly the same as VR…

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:10:55am

re: #159 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I don’t think I’ve seen Conan the Barbarian. That name did not ring a bell.

Thulsa Doom was played by James Earl Jones in the original “Conan”
movie (1982) - so therefore a great performance (as usual).

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:14:48am

re: #160 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If that was a new toilet or one thoroughly cleaned and repurposed only for washing hair, then what is the difference?

I fall asleep to reruns of various Star Trek series, nearly the same as VR…

None, it’s just extremely weird because of the normal purpose of that device, and our normal aversion to poop.
I see sleeping in a social space as a lot different than sleeping in your recliner at home. I guess the Zoomers don’t.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:15:12am

re: #159 Punish Domestic Terrorists

I don’t think I’ve seen Conan the Barbarian. That name did not ring a bell.

I’m really talking about the version performed by James Earl Jones in the first Conan film, which isn’t an identical character to the Howard version.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:17:20am

re: #162 Punish Domestic Terrorists

None, it’s just extremely weird because of the normal purpose of that device, and our normal aversion to poop.
I see sleeping in a social space as a lot different than sleeping in your recliner at home. I guess the Zoomers don’t.

Yeah, and the way that Americans and Brits react to bidets. Great devices, always wanted one, we considered having one installed but opted for a urinal instead, also massively useful, totally pre-empts the whole toilet seat discussion.

They have no boundaries between the personal, social and online spheres of existence

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William Lewis  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:17:30am

re: #161 Jay C

Thulsa Doom was played by James Earl Jones in the original “Conan”
movie (1982) - so therefore a great performance (as usual).

Frankly a better movie than many thought at the time. I always loved this bit at the end where Thulsa’s henchman is attacking Conan with the sword his father forged:

Conan the Barbarian - Do you want to live forever?

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:18:47am

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Wonder if he will pay their medical bills if they get a little too in-someone’s-face and they get beaten down for it?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:39:05am

re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

re: #152 Citizen K

I see Project Very-Ass is trending again..

They need more Political Theater now that the Number One Clown has left the ring…

That’s because the NYTimes lost a dismissal of a Project Veritas lawsuit against the Times for libel/defamation - so now they’re facing two libel/defamation lawsuits that the Times has lost and where discovery will start (The other one being Caribou Barbie)

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:41:36am

This cancer has a very high 5-year survival rate.

“Dark and creepy,” The account wrote. “Bad art. Thick with conspiracy theories. Replacing Rush. Fake news/real bozo. 0/10.”

Only, Bongino was not filming from his home or office. The conservative commentator made the appearance from a hotel room in Houston — as part of a trip related to his ongoing cancer treatment.

Bongino, 46, was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma last year. He replaced the late Rush Limbaugh on radio in some markets after Limbaugh’s February death, which came after a protracted battle with lung cancer.

Room Rater Trashes Dan Bongino For Decor in Hotel Room He Stayed at to Receive Cancer Treatment (MediaIte via MSN)

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:48:28am

re: #113 lawhawk

Pass-through entities (LLCs, LLPs, S corps) are a huge beast that allows individuals and companies to shield income and move money around seamlessly and without transparency.

Yep. I have an S Corp and two LLCs and, boy, does my accountant make that work. And, no, I am not rich but we make what we have work well.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 9:59:26am

President Biden isn’t moving fast enough on X.

President Biden isn’t doing X.

President Biden is putting kids in cages.

Reality. It’s just over 60 days since Biden took office with zero transition assistance across much of the US government. Biden can’t unilaterally change all policies with a stroke of a pen; even if he could, the GOP would have a stroke and sue to stop his policies, and they’re doing so on multiple fronts including a lawsuit to stop part of the Biden relief act since it gives states money and the GOP considers that coercion if they can’t use that money to deliver more tax cuts to millionaires.

Immigration has been a problem for decades and we don’t have a system in place that handles it in a humane and prompt fashion. That’s by design, and Trump made every aspect worse through cruelty, ignoring international and federal law, and pushing for enforcement that maximized pain and cruelty as a deterrent.

Now that President Biden is in office, many people who would have come to the US are considering doing so now, and the policies are not ready to address a surge.

So what to do? Biden already said that people should slow their roll on this, and that the Congress has to take up an immigration bill. I’ve had a blockfest on Twitter this morning people a lot of bots/trolls/idiots don’t know how any of this works.

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plansbandc  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:00:24am
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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:05:47am
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sagehen  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:07:59am

new today: Tiny Desk Concert is Sting.

Sting: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:09:02am

So Dr. Oz starts his two week stint in @Jeopardy tonight. We’re avid, always watchers but we’re giving it a full pass for two weeks.

Please feel free to share your thoughts with them.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:11:54am

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So Dr. Oz starts his two week stint in @Jeopardy tonight. We’re avid, always watchers but we’re giving it a full pass for two weeks.

Please feel free to share your thoughts with them.

[Embedded content]

Ken Jennings did a good job. The exec producer Mike Richards did a great job. Katie Couric was meh. I will skip Oz entirely. He has no business being on the show, and is a crank.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:12:39am

Oz hosting Jeopardy is an insult to Trebeks memory.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:13:08am

re: #170 lawhawk

Reality. It’s just over 60 days since Biden took office with zero transition assistance across much of the US government.

Am I dated, or do I recall a time when a President got 100 days into a new administration before it was considered appropriate to jump on him?

So far the big things are that he slipped on the steps to AF1 and that he doesn’t want dope smokers in the WH. Oh and the border is (still) a clusterf*ck - as it has been since around the 1980’s.

Oh, and he was not “grateful enough” to the man who first disrupt certification of his election by inciting a mob to storm congress and then flying off in a huff before his inauguration.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:14:15am

re: #175 lawhawk

Ken Jennings did a good job. The exec producer Mike Richards did a great job. Katie Couric was meh. I will skip Oz entirely. He has no business being on the show, and is a crank.

Whatever happened to Levar Burton?

179
Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:15:15am

re: #175 lawhawk

Ken Jennings did a good job. The exec producer Mike Richards did a great job. Katie Couric was meh. I will skip Oz entirely. He has no business being on the show, and is a crank.

I hate him with the heat of 1000 Suns. My MIL wanted to listen to that quack over her doctor. It took all of us bitching at her to get her to stop listening to him. And my MIL isn’t stupid or gullible in any sense.

Oz has no place anywhere near Jeopardy or any other human being.

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lawhawk  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:15:40am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I don’t see him on the list of guest hosts.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:15:53am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Whatever happened to Levar Burton?

There was a big social media push from people who wanted him but I don’t think the Jeopardy folks ever made the call.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:16:20am

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Whatever happened to Levar Burton?

He wasn’t every confirmed as being a guest host.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:16:21am

re: #60 Ming5000

This was a fun diversion. This is a quiz to determine your “education level”.
postfun.com

According to the results, I have “Ph.D” level of knowledge. And that’s kinda scary, because most of those questions are pretty much basic knowledge that I’d like to think every adult has. 🤔

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:17:15am

And for the record, I would watch the shit out of Levar Burton on Jeopardy.

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Citizen K  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:23:52am

re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg

And for the record, I would watch the shit out of Levar Burton on Jeopardy.

I would absolutely watch if they made a theme mashup for Reading Rainbow and the Final Jeopardy theme.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:26:49am

re: #156 The Ghost of a Flea

If Thulsa Doom ran a chicken plant in Sebree Kentucky….

James Earl Jones was great in that role - he made a good villain.

But….what was his goal? I mean, clearly he had a lot of followers, but what was he planning on doing with them (aside from turning a few of them into stew every so often or commanding them to jump to their deaths)? Take over the Hyperborean world or something?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:27:12am
188
Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:27:48am
189
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:29:53am
190
Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:33:09am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky gets two no votes, not all of them, Mitch.

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:33:48am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ending gun violence is radical. We could do it with nuclear weapons, by wiping out mankind, but anything less won’t get the job done.
Reducing gun violence is the real goal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:35:51am
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sagehen  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:36:44am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Oh, and he was not “grateful enough” to the man who first disrupt certification of his election by inciting a mob to storm congress and then flying off in a huff before his inauguration.

You mean the guy who wouldn’t allow any of his appointees, including HHS, DHS, and the Pentagon, to cooperate in any transition matters?

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:37:25am

Former President Trump said that Republicans need “stronger” and “better” leadership than Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I mean, he can’t rein in his own people. We have the Mitt Romneys of the world and, you know, the Ben Sasses of the world. These are not good for the Republican Party.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:38:23am
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BeenHereAwhile  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:40:32am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I recall listening to an NPR radio documentary about the chicken catchers in Texarkana: they are paid per bird to go into those massive halls and scoop up chickens, I think they get something like 25 cents per bird, which can be good money for a whole night of chasing chickens.

No benefits, just “free lance” piecework.

Uberchicken

One of Shannon Sharpe’s part time jobs while growing up.

He was paid $1.00 per 1,00 chickens caught.

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:41:03am

re: #174 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So Dr. Oz starts his two week stint in @Jeopardy tonight. We’re avid, always watchers but we’re giving it a full pass for two weeks.

Please feel free to share your thoughts with them.

[Embedded content]

OMG!
All the possible guest-hosts they could think of, and they pick this charlatan?
Even getting Ken Jennings back would have been better…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:43:21am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:45:02am
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darthstar  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:47:46am

So apparently Trump’s inauguration yesterday wasn’t televised.

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Belafon  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:48:10am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

How many car dealerships does DC have?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:49:10am

re: #200 darthstar

So apparently Trump’s inauguration yesterday wasn’t televised.

“Note: this is not a request.”

Hahahahahahahahaha.

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aatharuv  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:49:48am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think Georgia’s statehood, South Carolina’s Statehood, and Florida’s statehood should be called into question. They were all admitted to the union without having any car dealerships.

All hail the United States of Alaska, Hawaii, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, and a couple of others…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:51:14am

this is so adorable…
i. am. ded.

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Jay C  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:51:50am

re: #201 Belafon

How many car dealerships does DC have?

Why does that sound reminiscent of Stalin’s old jibe “How many divisions does the Pope have?”

re: #200 darthstar

So apparently Trump’s inauguration yesterday wasn’t televised.

[Embedded content]

“All ballots to be counted by high school students”??

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:55:28am

re: #205 Jay C

“All ballots to be counted by high school students”??

They can’t vote, and presumably have no vested interest in the outcome of the election.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 22, 2021 • 10:57:04am

re: #204 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is so adorable…
i. am. ded.

Talk about being beyond her my years!

That was amazing. Ded is right!

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 11:00:30am

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Why mcconnelL really fears abolishing the filibuster.
See today’s electoral-vote.com. a 2 minute read

” in this view, McConnell sees [keeping] the filibuster as an excuse he can offer to the base when they demand things he knows are very unpopular. He can just say: “Democrats will filibuster it” so he is off the hook.”

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 11:01:19am

re: #191 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Ending gun violence is radical. We could do it with nuclear weapons, by wiping out mankind, but anything less won’t get the job done.
Reducing gun violence is the real goal.

I’d settle for no excuses gun accountability

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Dangerman  Mar 22, 2021 • 11:03:17am

re: #197 Jay C

OMG!
All the possible guest-hosts they could think of, and they pick this charlatan?
Even getting Ken Jennings back would have been better…..

Its like they’re doing a Colonel Sanders on jeopardy

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sagehen  Mar 22, 2021 • 11:04:47am

re: #191 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Ending gun violence is radical. We could do it with nuclear weapons, by wiping out mankind, but anything less won’t get the job done.
Reducing gun violence is the real goal.

In the 1960’s (when our population was about 250 million), we used to have more than 50,000 fatalities every single year from car wrecks. My dad used to shake his head, and note that all the Americans killed in the Vietnam war was the same as every year’s auto deaths.

But Congress did something about it. They appropriated money for research, and when the results of that research came in we got seat belt laws, air bags, stricter drunk driving limits, new materials for windshields, better shielding around gas tanks, better tire treads and paving materials that were less slippery, speed bumps and stoplights and guardrails in selected locations…

These days, even with our 30% higher population and generally longer commutes, auto fatalities are about 30,000 a year.


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