Seth takes a closer look at Sen. Ted Cruz refusing to wear a mask when talking to reporters and President Biden holding his first press conference as president.
So, Sleepy Joe was informative, funny, on-point, prepared and, well, didn’t give them sound bites.
He also snubbed a Faux News reporter who had a “binder” full of gotcha questions.
And the Gov of Georgia signed a bill to disenfranchise several tens of thousands of his citizens, was so embarrassed by it that he tried to sign it behind closed doors, and when a member of the legislature knocked on the door and asked to see the signing, had her arrested, thrown in jail, and charged with a felony.
Fun day in America/Amerikkka!!
Big stuck ship update https://t.co/vfISUvfGYY
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) March 25, 2021
I have had the TV and radio shut off all day. I had a work deadline that had me working 12 hours a day since last Friday. Seeing Twitter burning up but I’m bone tired…
re: #2 Dave In Austin
What’s the fight about in LA??
The lack of affordable housing has led to a squatters town of homeless there. LAPD is pretending they’re MacArthur against the Bonus Army.
From previous thread:
re: #91 plansbandc
Dude is supposed to get his first shot tomorrow (Pfizer) but it’s a difficult walk from the parking lot to the center. Not sure it’s going to happen. Dude has serious mobility issues.
Here’s the thing. Why, when we do the health survey to sign up for the vax, do we not get a question about mobility? Wouldn’t that weed out the places that make you walk?
Dude is frantic to get the vaccine, but has absolutely been stressing out about this for the week since he signed up.
SMDH
If someone accompanies Dude that someone can walk across the parking lot to the center while Dude remains in the car. Once at the center the companion can explain the circumstances and I think they may figure a way to get Dude his shot.
re: #5 William Lewis
Homelessness has EXPLODED all over the city and LAPD continually harasses folks living in sidewalk tents. There are whole blocks filled with tents on the sidewalks.
re: #7 🌹UOJB!
Homelessness has EXPLODED all over the city and LAPD continually harasses folks living in sidewalk tents. There are whole blocks filled with tents on the sidewalks.
Here, too. Every underpass in town is an encampment. Every creek bed is full.
Sigh. If the rich don’t see it, it isn’t happening.
By this logic, shouldn’t they be arresting themselves for also violating the dispersal order?
— Erick Galindo (@ErickGEEE) March 26, 2021
re: #2 Dave In Austin
the LAPD just detained @JamesQueallyLAT, who recently reported on LAPD targeting journalists for arrest for failure to disperse by covering LAPD use of force and then tweeted this https://t.co/XIxo2ZqucB
— (probably) not your mom (@straterize) March 26, 2021
Warnock visits Georgia Rep. Cannon at jail following arrest: “She did not deserve this” https://t.co/7cqirzhxSA pic.twitter.com/kTC8SDZxWv
— The Hill (@thehill) March 26, 2021
To save people a click, and since the article didn’t actually link to it, this is the tweet. Musk threatened to strip stock options from workers if they unionize. https://t.co/u2LXk5Rc8C
— OSINT Wire (@OSINTWire) March 26, 2021
Report from @lreiley that should shut down, “Oh, no, there is no systemic racism.” From the new Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack: “We saw 99 percent of the money going to White farmers and 1 percent going to socially disadvantaged black farmers.” https://t.co/Bv2ysMKYSb
— Michelle Singletary (@SingletaryM) March 25, 2021
Conversation that must have happened according to QAnon:
“We’ve arrested Hillary Clinton for being a Satanic baby eater. We must inform the world!”
“Should we put out a press release?”
“No, let’s post cryptic message on 8Chan and then get a big boat stuck in the Suez Canal.”— Ace-o-aces (@aceoaces) March 26, 2021
re: #14 Belafon
Yeah, yeah, but those people! If they get more, we get less, and they are those people!”
It’s institutionalized racism all the way down.
Night all. It was an odd day, seeing Constitutional America represented by Biden, and The Other Amerikkka represented by Kemp in Georgia.
We’ll see just how much fascism and disenfranchisement the Courts will tolerate when this freight train of new State election laws comes rumbling toward them. Or the Senate could pass the new voting rights bill and make all of the new State laws moot.
Odd, and very, very disturbing.
Facebook has shut down the page the town in which Telltale Atheist on YouTube set up to harass and threaten him and his daughter and threaten to burn down his house. The page had 1,600 people (45% of the town).
FFRF has gone after the teacher using her position to proselytise Christianity and bash LGBT people. (17:03)
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) March 26, 2021
re: #19 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Looks like it was a fairly substantial object.
re: #19 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
The Falcon 9 second stage from the Mar 4 Starlink launch failed to make a deorbit burn and is now reentering after 22 days in orbit. Its reentry was observed from the Seattle area at about 0400 UTC Mar 26. pic.twitter.com/FQrBrUoBHh
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) March 26, 2021
Ack. Popped open a bottle of red wine. 1/2 Pinot and 1/2 Zin, should be ok, right? Way sweet alas. Just barely in the drinkable catagory. Good thing it was a gift!
FOX News is going round the bend because the US Military is going to hold a “stand-down” event in April to address extremism (particularly Nazis).
How to hold an extremism stand-down (Military Times)
Five-time champion with the New York Yankees. Highest World Series batting average of anyone with at least 35 plate appearances. Veteran of World War II and the Korean War. Prominent cardiologist. American League president.[Bobby] Brown died at 96 on Thursday in Fort Worth, Texas, the Yankees said. They said he was last remaining person to play for the team in the 1940s.
Bobby Brown, 96, a life of Yankees, military, medicine, dies (Military Times)
re: #23 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My Internet service is intermittent.
Two things kill my shitty twisted pair phone lines. Rain and workers in splice boxes wiggling my splice while working on other’s line problem. It’s been this way for 27 years now. I have 2-6 outages a year, about a 50/50 split between rain and TPC working on the line. The direct-bury cable they used back in 1968 was shit, it should have been replaced 30 years ago at least. The cheap bastards won’t replace it because they would have to do horizontal boring and pull conduit and cable (preferably fiber) through the bore. I have VOIP through my internet modem so when internet goes down the landline goes down too.
The Power of Political Disinformation in Iowa (The New Yorker, March 24, 2021)
Republicans demonized Democratic candidates in 2020. It worked, and their narrative remains largely intact, posing challenges for the Biden Administration.
Whatever their emerging record, Democrats must also overcome a fearsome wall of mistrust, and a broad willingness among Republicans to believe the worst about them. Nowhere is this clearer than in Iowa, where Republicans rolled to one victory after another last November, powered by support for Trump and disdain for the Democrats. Trump beat Biden there by eight points, a dozen years after the Obama-Biden ticket carried the state by nine. Senator Joni Ernst, once considered vulnerable, was outpolled by Trump, but still collected fifty-two per cent of the vote to defeat her Democratic challenger, Theresa Greenfield. Democrats lost six state House seats and two congressional seats, including one by an excruciating six votes out of nearly three hundred and ninety-four thousand cast. (The Democrat, Rita Hart, is continuing to contest the results.) The other seat belonged to Abby Finkenauer, an energetic first-term Democrat, who was blindsided by her defeat.
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It is time for businesses and sports teams to boycott Georgia. This is racist voter suppression.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 26, 2021
Religious job discrimination in Pennsylvania goes to federal court (via The Friendly Atheist)
Pagan Employee Sues Panera Bread Citing Religious Discrimination by Her Managers
But according to a federal lawsuit she just filed against the company, she was taking a break during a shift last May along with General Manager Lori Dubs and Assistant General Manager Kerrie Ann Show (spelled “Kerri” in the lawsuit) when the latter asked her about her faith. McCoy answered honestly. Things went downhill from there.
Show made a face and immediately said, “You’re going to hell.” Dubs, standing near by, vigorously nodded her head in agreement…
A couple of days later, on or about June 2, 2020, the plaintiff asked Show when the work schedule would be posted. Show told the plaintiff, “Your hours are being cut until you find God.” She reiterated that the plaintiff needed to “find God” before she would return the plaintiff to her previous schedule.
…
Over the next couple of weeks, Dubs and Show created and subjected the plaintiff to a hostile work environment because of religion. They frequently told the plaintiff things like that her religion is false, that she needs to believe in God, that her soul will be condemned to hell and that they would pray for her soul.
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re: #24 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
FOX News is going round the bend because the US Military is going to hold a “stand-down” event in April to address extremism (particularly Nazis).
How to hold an extremism stand-down (Military Times)
Units have been conducting their individual stand-downs since February. All commands must ensure that they have been done by early April. There is no DOD-wide simultaneous stand-down in April
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Units have been conducting their individual stand-downs since February. All commands must ensure that they have been done by early April. There is no DOD-wide simultaneous stand-down in April
Some troops disappointed by check-the-block extremism stand-downs, others laud commanders
” Every unit in the military has until April 1 to sit down with its troops and talk about what extremism is and why it’s incompatible with military service, but that training has proven to look very different across formations. …”
re: #32 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Units have been conducting their individual stand-downs since February. All commands must ensure that they have been done by early April. There is no DOD-wide simultaneous stand-down in April
I got the date wrong in that.
Bear taking a bath in someone’s backyard jacuzzi.. pic.twitter.com/P28TXsL5Ke
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) March 26, 2021
Guns and churches don’t mix well.
Mar. 25—A 25-year-old Dayton woman is accused of shooting her friend during an argument about an issue at their church.
Al-Lamontau Shantal Brooks, who is charged with two counts of felonious assault, is free after posting bail Monday following her preliminary hearing in Dayton Municipal Court, where her case was bound over to a Montgomery County grand jury for review.
Brooks went out to dinner with two friends from church Sunday night and then accused the woman who gave her a ride home of “being disloyal and a liar” and of not backing her up on an issue at their church, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.
Brooks then pulled a gun from under her jacket and fired one shot that struck the other woman — a 28-year-old from Dayton — in the right side of her stomach. Brooks then ran inside her home, the document stated.
The gunshot victim and third woman in the car both identified Brooks as the shooter, according to the affidavit.
Woman accused of shooting friend during argument about church (Yahoo!)
— Bodega Cats (@Bodegacats_) March 25, 2021
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Guns and churches don’t mix well.
Woman accused of shooting friend during argument about church (Yahoo!)
Y’know, as angry as I’ve been with other people in the past, I’ve never felt so angry that shooting them looked like an option. Yeah, I’ve busted up shit and screamed a lot of things I regretted later, but shooting them has never crossed my mind.
re: #18 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Facebook has shut down the page the town in which Telltale Atheist on YouTube set up to harass and threaten him and his daughter and threaten to burn down his house. The page had 1,600 people (45% of the town).
FFRF has gone after the teacher using her position to proselytise Christianity and bash LGBT people. (17:03)
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Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. Over.
Special election in Culpepper County, Virginia, to fill the term of the county clerk. She is retiring. The election is on March 30.
There are two candidates, Interim Clerk Carson Beard (who currently works in the office), running as an independent. The other is Marshall Keene, a Republican.
The Culpepper County Chamber of Commerce held a debate for the position.
Chamber hosts Culpeper court clerk candidates’ Q&A (Goes to the Culpepper, VA Star-Exponent)
Mr. Carson’s platform for the position is modernisation of the clerk’s office, to allow better access through both modern and traditional methods.
Mr. Keene’s platform is the imperative of putting “In God We Trust” on all forms and paperwork, as well as in the office (he wants to expend tax money to make a welcoming environment for Jews, Muslims, Hindus, and atheists), and support for the II Amendment. (A Virginia county clerk has no authority over that, it is simply catnip for conservative voters.)
re: #42 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
For what it’s worth, Keene (the Republican) is getting torn apart in the local newspaper’s letters to the editor section. There are no letters in support.
Orbital mechanics will fuck up your brain.
Biden Order Hits Private U.S. Prisons’ Credit Ratings (more)
(Bloomberg) — For years, private U.S. prison companies have faced scrutiny from social justice advocates, politicians and investors. Now that the Biden administration is severing the federal government’s ties, the industry’s creditworthiness is taking a hit.
On Wednesday, S&P Global Ratings lowered its credit ratings on Geo Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc. — the nation’s largest operators of private detention facilities — citing growing questions about the outlook for the companies’ profits and concerns over their ability to refinance debt. A few hours later, Moody’s Investors Service took similar actions on both companies.
(more at Yahoo!)
Extremely local news update:
Flaming pain in my recovering right hand just woke me up. My wife is not feeling very well after her first Moderna vax, though after two days the arm pain is starting to subside.
The risk of transmission here in Wyobraska is falling; I’m really hoping that when the weather warms that tourist season (especially folks going to the Black Hills) don’t screw this up.
Four towns now show as low risk of transmission (Harrisburg in Banner County, Big Springs in Deuel County, Oshkosh in Garden County, and Harrison in Sioux County).
Two towns are at high risk (Sidney in Cheyenne County, and Bayard in my county).
Three towns are at no risk (there are no cases in my village, and none in Llewellen and Lisco in Garden County). The remainder are at moderate risk.
The positive test rate has climbed again, to 17% as of March 14.
The total number of complete vaccinations stand at 19,178 (almost 25%).
The most cases by age are 40-49, then 20-29.
189 people have died (it has been a couple weeks now since the last recorded death); 5 people are in hospital.
European Union leaders have stopped short of banning vaccine exports after a protracted row with the Anglo-Swedish manufacturer AstraZeneca.At a summit on Thursday they gave backing in principle for toughening export controls.
But a post-summit statement emphasised the importance of global supply chains needed to produce vaccinations.
Elements of the AstraZeneca vaccination are manufactured in a number of EU states.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said AstraZeneca must “catch up” on deliveries to the EU before exporting doses elsewhere.
French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters this marked “the end of naivety” from the EU.
Vaccine rollouts in EU states have started sluggishly, and the bloc has blamed pharmaceutical companies - primarily AstraZeneca - for not delivering promised doses. AstraZeneca has denied that it is failing to honour its contract.
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re: #52 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In extremely local news here, Governor Walz is set to announce today that all Minnesotans 16 and older will be eligible for a vaccine starting at the beginning of April. (Link goes to KARE 11, a local TV station.) Minnesota has been quietly among the leaders in the country as far as managing the pandemic, thanks to the governor’s effective leadership and the local GOP nutters’ relative impotence. Hopefully Mrs. Fish and I can both get lined up for our shots soon.
Unravelling a 2,700 year old piece of fake news from Assyria and how they did it.
(long read at the BBC)
A single piece of jewellery reveals the true meaning of Assyrian reliefs from the 7th-Century BC. Kelly Grovier explores how images depicting a staged lion hunt were used to proclaim a king’s greatness.
The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: The 2700-year-old ‘fake news’
(Interestingly, Ashurbanipal is in my computer’s dictionary. My town wasn’t though until I added it.)
re: #6 Semper Fi
From previous thread:
re: #91 plansbandc
Dude is supposed to get his first shot tomorrow (Pfizer) but it’s a difficult walk from the parking lot to the center. Not sure it’s going to happen. Dude has serious mobility issues.
Here’s the thing. Why, when we do the health survey to sign up for the vax, do we not get a question about mobility? Wouldn’t that weed out the places that make you walk?
Dude is frantic to get the vaccine, but has absolutely been stressing out about this for the week since he signed up.
SMDH
If someone accompanies Dude that someone can walk across the parking lot to the center while Dude remains in the car. Once at the center the companion can explain the circumstances and I think they may figure a way to get Dude his shot.
I haven’t seen a vaccine spot here in Kansas without wheel chairs and volunteers to push those chairs.
re: #36 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Guns and churches don’t mix well.
Woman accused of shooting friend during argument about church (Yahoo!)
-demonstrated irresponsibility
-lose your freedom finances future
-others will take note and start behaving better
Cold Desert Climates (Wikipedia)
Köppen climate classification BWh is mostly a narrow band of temperate areas found in the rain shadow of high mountain ranges, such as Mongolia or the Nebraska Panhandle.
With no furnace (still), I’d really like to trade in those letters for a different set. It’s fookin’ cold in my house. (Is the climate like Scrabble?)
re: #56 Thanos
I haven’t seen a vaccine spot here in Kansas without wheel chairs and volunteers to push those chairs.
Same here at the vaccination site in my county.
re: #54 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
On Monday, 16 and up here in Texas can get a vaccine.
re: #38 Targetpractice
Y’know, as angry as I’ve been with other people in the past, I’ve never felt so angry that shooting them looked like an option. Yeah, I’ve busted up shit and screamed a lot of things I regretted later, but shooting them has never crossed my mind.
this is a big part of the problem.
besides the proliferation of the guns themselves:
the idea that shooting or scaring someone will solve something. is the way to solve something. that you have some right. and that doing so won’t fuck up your life
re: #60 Belafon
On Monday, 16 and up here in Texas can get a vaccine.
Technically, the governor’s announcement says we’ll be eligible on Tuesday, so slightly before the beginning of April. It’s good to see that multiple states are getting to that point, and especially ones like Texas that are in the middle of letting everybody kill each other while the vaccine rollout is still underway.
Republicans in my state are back to cutting their way to a (worse) education system by cutting taxes. (Nebraska property taxes are some of the highest in the nation, but cutting them is always real fight in the Unicameral because they fund schools and local government.)
LINCOLN — Residents of rural school districts would see an additional property tax cut under a proposal advanced to the full Nebraska Legislature on Wednesday.
Also voted out of the Legislature’s Revenue Committee was an amended bill that pairs a long-sought-after tax credit for donations to private school scholarships with a proposal that would grant similar tax credits for contributions to early childhood education programs.
Both bills would require three rounds of approval by state lawmakers and a signature from Gov. Pete Ricketts to become law. Ricketts has been a consistent supporter of tax cuts, and set aside money in his budget for tax credits for donations to private and parochial school scholarships.
The Omaha Public Schools have already signaled that they will oppose Legislative Bill 454, which would provide $65 million in extra state “stabilization” aid to 170 mostly rural school districts that do not receive any state equalization aid currently. That amount would rise to $167 million after four years, providing money for 207 K-12 school districts. The bill would require districts to use the extra money for property tax relief.
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I have always been eligible for the state Homestead Exemption as a disabled veteran. According to the state Department of Revenue, my exemption has been 100% ever since I moved here.
That said, I’ve never taken the exemption (I like public schools).
Lawmakers advance bill to cut rural Nebraskans’ property taxes (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)
re: #62 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Technically, the governor’s announcement says we’ll be eligible on Tuesday, so slightly before the beginning of April. It’s good to see that multiple states are getting to that point, and especially ones like Texas that are in the middle of letting everybody kill each other while the vaccine rollout is still underway.
We’re definitely doing the strange contradiction thing. We have a governor wanting to kill people, but even in a place that went over 70% for Trump where I live they want the vaccine so that they can get back to normal and not get sick.
The University of Southern California (USC) has agreed to pay more than $1bn (£730m) to patients treated by a former campus gynaecologist accused of sexual abuse.It is the biggest sex abuse-linked pay-out in higher education history.
George Tyndall was arrested in 2019 and charged with sexually assaulting 16 female patients, allegations he denies.
More than 350 women have spoken out about their experiences as patients of the gynaecologist.
Dr Tyndall, now 74, is awaiting trial. In a 2019 statement he said he “remains adamant” he would be “totally exonerated”.
Lawyers for a final group of 710 women suing the university told a judge at the Los Angeles Superior Court they had settled their claims for $852m.
(more at the BBC)
It’s amazing the damage one doctor can do.
USC to pay $1bn over abuse claims against gynaecologist George Tyndall
Here’s what Trump had to say on Fox tonight about the Capitol riots:
“It was zero threat, right from the start… Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards… a lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out” pic.twitter.com/tPCwuzrlOd— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 26, 2021
Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing the cable news giant falsely claimed in an effort to boost faltering ratings that the voting company had rigged the 2020 election.Dominion argues that Fox News, which amplified inaccurate assertions that Dominion altered votes, “sold a false story of election fraud in order to serve its own commercial purposes, severely injuring Dominion in the process,” according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by The Associated Press.
Dominion has also sued Giuliani, Powell and the CEO of Minnesota-based MyPillow over the claims. A rival technology company, Smartmatic USA, also sued Fox News over election claims. Unlike Dominion, Smartmatic’s participation in the 2020 election was restricted to Los Angeles County.
Dominion lawyers said they have not yet filed lawsuits against specific media personalities at Fox News but the door remains open. Some at Fox News knew the claims were false but their comments were drowned out, lawyers said
Huffpo
re: #66 Dangerman
“It was zero threat, right from the start… Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards… a lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out”
Officer Brian Sicknick was unavailable for comment…
re: #66 Dangerman
Three dead police officers unavailable for comment.
I assume that nobody on Fox took Trump to task or asked him which parallel reality he inhabits.
re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I assume that nobody on Fox took Trump to task or asked him which parallel reality he inhabits.
They don’t know they’re in a parallel reality.
re: #68 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Officer Brian Sicknick was unavailable for comment…
The man’s delusional
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Three dead police officers unavailable for comment.
Delusional and three months ago he was the effing president
re: #22 William Lewis
Ack. Popped open a bottle of red wine. 1/2 Pinot and 1/2 Zin, should be ok, right? Way sweet alas. Just barely in the drinkable catagory. Good thing it was a gift!
I discovered recently that if I pour the Bota Box reds into one of the big-ass glasses
Walmart thinks is the size of what mortals think a wine glass should look like, it actually tastes better. I’m guessing the extra surface area helps the wine aerate or something.
re: #73 Dangerman
Delusional and three months ago he was the effing president
and he got away with statements like that all the time, unchallenged by his interviewers
re: #74 steve_davis
I discovered recently that if I pour the Bota Box reds into one of the big-ass glasses
Walmart thinks is the size of what mortals think a wine glass should look like, it actually tastes better. I’m guessing the extra surface area helps the wine aerate or something.
Mix it with black cherry Kool-Aid. Trust me on this.
re: #74 steve_davis
I discovered recently that if I pour the Bota Box reds into one of the big-ass glasses
Walmart thinks is the size of what mortals think a wine glass should look like, it actually tastes better. I’m guessing the extra surface area helps the wine aerate or something.
red wines all do better when decanted and aerated
My wife needs a new computer monitor. It’s developing red lines across the screen.
Ack. Next trip to Scottsbluff is an unscheduled stop at the computer shop.
re: #62 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Technically, the governor’s announcement says we’ll be eligible on Tuesday, so slightly before the beginning of April. It’s good to see that multiple states are getting to that point, and especially ones like Texas that are in the middle of letting everybody kill each other while the vaccine rollout is still underway.
Douglas County could be vaccinating people 16 and older by mid-April (Omaha World-Herald)
I have to think that President Biden’s team was working on a development and distribution plan before the election, so they’d be ready to go when the maladministration was ousted.
re: #78 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My wife needs a new computer monitor. It’s developing red lines across the screen.
Ack. Next trip to Scottsbluff is an unscheduled stop at the computer shop.
My nearest computer shop is run by an anti-mask moron, and supporter of the AfD, the right-wing German political party…
re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My nearest computer shop is run by an anti-mask moron, and supporter of the AfD, the right-wing German political party…
That sounds like a reason to shop elsewhere if you can.
re: #66 Dangerman
I wish our stupid media would show the damage, and talk to the clean up crews who went in after. Ask staffers where all the piss and shit was that had to be cleaned and sanitized away. Plus there’s a lot of hostility directed towards the cops on video, tons of it. Yeah so much love in the room for cops that one died because he was doing his job and two took their own lives over it. Why the fuck are we even being subjected to his voice?
A small group of top Trump health officials recently held a series of discussions to coordinate their accounts of the administration’s troubled Covid-19 response, worried they will be scapegoated by old colleagues - including their onetime boss, former health secretary Alex Azar, according to six people with knowledge of their interactions
Politico
re: #63 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I take it that digging into rural property taxes in Nebraska will show that this is not a bill really designed to help the little people?
I’m going to stagger back to bed. My hand pain is down enough I think I can get to sleep (and the sun is coming up anyways).
So the press screams for Biden to meet the press
Biden meets the press
Biden does fine. Do they think he’s an amateur like the last idiot?
The press falls on its face
Is everybody happy now?
re: #75 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and he got away with statements like that all the time, unchallenged by his interviewers
But Biden didn’t call on Fox. //
If you want to understand how white Supremacy works,
135 white people just rigged an election in broad daylight and they arrested a Black woman for knocking on the door to watch— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) March 26, 2021
BREAKING: Fox News sued by Dominion Voting for $1.6 billion over election fraud claimshttps://t.co/88mdNvGPdO
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) March 26, 2021
Local 10 news
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Broward County judge set bond for a Fort Lauderdale police officer accused of online sex chats with a minor and sending nude pictures of himself.
Louis James Walsh was arrested Wednesday and appeared in court Thursday in front of Judge Tabitha Blackmon. He is charged with two counts of transmitting harmful material to a minor.
Blackmon set bond at $35,000 for each count. She also instructed the 29-year-old that he could not have, or use, any devices that had internet capabilities. “At that includes a smartphone, sir. Do you understand?”
Walsh responded, “Yes, ma’am.”
According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, they were tipped off by a human trafficking investigation in Minnesota. The person that Walsh was chatting with online was an undercover detective.
Detectives said in addition to being a Fort Lauderdale police officer, Walsh also worked special security detail at Cardinal Gibbons High School and St. Anthony Catholic Church and is an assistant wrestling coach at Cardinal Gibbons.
“Everyone’s shocked*,” one student told Local 10 News on Thursday
*of course
“Both the arsonist and the firefighter interact with fire. But the firefighter’s efforts are being hailed as anti-fire, while the arsonist is being slammed as pro-fire.” https://t.co/iOvoLmawSP
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 26, 2021
I dare you to find a more both-sidery description than this (i haven’t read the link):
Both parties are trying to game the election rules to their advantage. But the Democratic effort in the House is being hailed as a reform, while GOP efforts are slammed as voter suppression.@HotlineJosh’s latest “Against the Grain” https://t.co/ywLydTi3yg pic.twitter.com/7Zfu32yhxK
— National Journal (@nationaljournal) March 25, 2021
from dkos
As Reuters reports, a conference at the Brookings Institute this past week included the introduction of a series of research papers on the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The conclusion of those researchers: “The United States … could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy …” And it could have done so while spending billions of dollars less.
The researchers aren’t actually claiming that Trump is responsible for over 4 out of every 5 deaths, because they’re projecting that 400,000 lives saved against an expected total for the pandemic—which they believe will end up being around 670,000 lives lost. Had Trump taken prompt action, they believe the total would have been under 300,000.
What would have made this difference? All the things Trump failed to do: mandating mask use, enforcing social distancing, and a program of uniform testing. As one of the researchers pointed out, the way the the rules were put in place—with each state adopting its own regulations, and a tendency to drop those regulation at the first sign of improvement—was a system that was almost purpose-built to drive the caseload ever higher, while making the public more and more frustrated with both state and federal action.
The other major finding of the research is that by not addressing the pandemic quickly and consistently, the end cost is enormously higher in dollars, as well as lives
re: #93 Belafon
The assumption that is is all about “gaming the rules to their advantage”
can only be valid if one side has an interest in seeing fewer people voting, especially in certain districts and segments of the population…
re: #96 Dangerman
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) is the recipient of this year’s John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial “and his consistent and courageous defense of democracy,” NBC News reports.
Who awards this thing?
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Why is he currying favor with Mitt? Are they planning to start a new party?
I forgot to include // considering JFK Jr’s status.
Shot:
https://t.co/Pt6UyqtFz0 pic.twitter.com/lcG8xSQEs7
— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) March 25, 2021
Chaser:
Biden kicks off his first press conference by announcing his administration has set a goal of administering 200 million shots by his 100th day in officehttps://t.co/G4Mpwq7m4j
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) March 25, 2021
“No shit, Sherlock.” – The families of the 500,000 Americans who died as a result of this negligence/incompetence/malevolence. https://t.co/Km3yiYKxFU
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) March 26, 2021
re: #100 Belafon
I forgot to include // considering JFK Jr’s status.
Personally, I think that would of ruined it ; )
Oh, hello and good morning!
Struggling to secure vaccines for its 7 million people, Paraguay says it has been offered Chinese vaccines by individuals whose connections to Beijing are unclear — in exchange for breaking diplomatic ties with Taiwan https://t.co/kS0BgS2m9U
— Chris Horton 何貴森 (@heguisen) March 24, 2021
We were hitting that number if I remember correctly, but we’re also a much bigger country:
Brazil hits record 100,000 coronavirus cases in a day, piling pressure on Bolsonaro https://t.co/HjEOtct6gu pic.twitter.com/4KzsQuQ5n8
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 26, 2021
Here’s a picture of the new wave in Michigan.
About 25.1% of the Michigan population has been given at least one vaccine dose — almost identical to the U.S. as a whole.
So, 25% of population is not nearly enough to quash a wave. We need more. pic.twitter.com/PjBN0nV4Qg— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) March 25, 2021
Got red dandelion greens in our CSA box this week. Had never cooked them so I found a quick recipe online.
Fresh dandelion greens w/shrimp & angel hair.
Didn’t suck. pic.twitter.com/mqwhOeS8nB— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 26, 2021
About that hospital exec in Chicago that resigned:
Seriously, look at this. This is a real menu for a real restaurant, where a Chicago hospital exec reportedly gave out early vaccines to the staff.
There’s a prix-fixe dinner where you say “I don’t give a fuck!” and then pay $200. pic.twitter.com/ddY88AGnUK— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 25, 2021
re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Who awards this thing?
JFK library foundation
re: #111 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
That’s the joke.
There was a guy who used to stand on Montgomery Street in the FiDi in San Francisco every morning shouting at people walking to their offices that he was JFK’s other son and he had proof. I wonder if he ever found his way to the Q.
He was about my age so it’s possible he was born on or around the time JFK was shot.
Ted Cruz Decries Voting Rights Bill As Shameless Power Grab By American People To Control Country https://t.co/yhtG7KoYjz pic.twitter.com/JA6SCAmNBa
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 25, 2021
re: #115 Belafon
When did The Onion start reporting factual information?
re: #113 darthstar
There was a guy who used to stand on Montgomery Street in the FiDi in San Francisco every morning shouting at people walking to their offices that he was JFK’s other son and he had proof. I wonder if he ever found his way to the Q.
Maybe he is Q
re: #116 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
When did The Onion start reporting factual information?
When the GOP made satire look more reasonable than fact.
Which corporation is controlling this Democrat:
🇺🇸 “I want to change the paradigm, where we start reward work, not just wealth.”
Key takeaway from first Biden press conference is that he clearly views himself as a transformational president
The passed American Rescue Plan and the coming infrastructure bill speak to that.— Michael Knigge (@kniggem) March 25, 2021
9.30am Electoral-vote isn’t up yet for today
Its as bad as no coffee
One common theme to Manchin, King, and other filibuster skeptics: They keep sending the message to the GOP, help us out here, we need you to give us something to show 60-vote bills on major issues are possible. Similar to Biden, they’re aware of how easily they can be played.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) March 24, 2021
re: #118 darthstar
When the GOP made satire look more reasonable than fact.
The GOP is taking Poe’s Law to its logical extreme. It is impossible to parody or satirize a Republican, because eventually they will say exactly what they were lampooned as saying.
Net Favourabilities:
Biden: +18%
Harris: +10%
Democrats in Congress: +5%
Schumer: -8%
Pence: -12%
Pelosi: -13%
McCarthy: -17%
Trump: -19%
Republicans in Congress: -24%
Jinping: -33%
McConnell: -39%
Putin: -60%
Morning Consult / March 22 / n=1994 / Onlinehttps://t.co/ZjvmoDQauG— Polling USA (@USA_Polling) March 24, 2021
On the good news front
We installed the low voltage disconnect between the battery and the pumps.
Its working like it should and how we planned
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 26, 2021
re: #125 darthstar
I love how an incident that is costing the world economy $10 billion per day got turned into memes before the second day was through.
I like that the ship has become a meme…keeps me from worrying some Saudi prince isn’t rubbing his chin watching this and thinking about how another event like this could benefit him.
— 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 💀 (@DeadsoundApp) March 26, 2021
Gop buries their own lede, again.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: “The arrest of state Rep. Park Cannon — who faces two felony charges — far overshadowed the victory lap that Kemp and other Republicans hoped to take with the signing Thursday of Senate Bill 202, legislation that imposed new ID requirements, limited drop boxes and instituted other restrictions.”
“The image of Cannon, an Atlanta Democrat, being forcibly dragged from the statehouse lobby was hard to watch and the arrest could be legally questionable, since state law protects sitting lawmakers from arrest during a session except for charges of treason, felonies or breach of the peace.”
re: #126 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I love how an incident that is costing the world economy $10 billion per day got turned into memes before the second day was through.
Funny, I didn’t have auto scroll enabled so I didn’t see this until I hit post. Memes are how we deal with tragedy anymore.
re: #129 darthstar
Funny, I didn’t have auto scroll enabled so I didn’t see this until I hit post. Memes are how we deal with tragedy anymore.
how we deal with most anything that happens, tragic or not
…..Former RNC head Michael Steele had this to say about Georgia’s full scale voter suppression jihad……“The question to reps and voters in Georgia and Arizona and elsewhere, who are taking rights away from Black people across this country in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit, how do you think this ends? How do you think this ends? Do you think black folks will just sit by and let you get away with this?”
“Every last one of your names will go on a ballot,” he noted. “Enjoy your time in office. Because you will see the power of the vote come back like a hammer. Like a hammer, for the action you have taken and the bill that was signed into law today.”
re: #109 Belafon
About that hospital exec in Chicago that resigned:
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I think he should be charged for diverting medicine.
re: #131 Dangerman
Steele can go F himself.
He’s the same Michael Steele who gladly encouraged McConnell to block everything Obama tried.
He’s the same Michael Steele who gladly accepted the help from the Koch Brothers in creating the teabaggers.
He’s the same Michael Steele who cranked the GOP 24/7 Bullshit Machine up to 11 with birther lies about Obama.
And when they no longer needed him as a front the GOP tossed him into the trash.
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
how we deal with most anything that happens, tragic or not
When we’re with people we make little joke comments in response to serious news and stories about our friends’ children. Internet memes are just the digital version of those.
re: #134 Belafon
When we’re with people we make little joke comments in response to serious news and stories about our friends’ children. Internet memes are just the digital version of those.
Yes, I tried explaining the concept of a “pre-Internet meme” to my children. Hard for them to grasp because all but the oldest do not understand the notion of a world without Internet memes.
re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes, I tried explaining the concept of a “pre-Internet meme” to my children. Hard for them to grasp because all but the oldest do not understand the notion of a world without Internet memes.
When I tell new folks at work about mimeograph machines, a single Telex machine for component communications and microfiche readers which we had when I started work at Social Security in 1975 as a Stay In Schooler…oh and endless rows of file cabinets…
re: #137 🌹UOJB!
When I tell new folks at work about mimeograph machines, a single Telex machine for component communications and microfiche readers which we had when I started work at Social Security in 1975 as a Stay In Schooler…
Telling my children about a time before the Internet, when rotary phones were a thing and when a computer was primarily meant for doing word processing and other work-related stuff until my dad agreed to buy games for it.
re: #138 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Telling my children about a time before the Internet, when rotary phones were a thing and when a computer was primarily meant for doing word processing and other work-related stuff until my dad agreed to buy games for it.
First exposure to computers for me was going to Vo-Tech school in the summer and seeing an IBM System 360 in action with punch cards and memory drives consisting of six metallic plates. in a plastic container
re: #139 🌹UOJB!
First exposure to computers for me was going to Vo-Tech school in the summer and seeing an IBM System 360 in action with punch cards and memory drives consisting of six metallic plates. in a plastic container
My dad used a punch-card FORTRAN machine to do his engineering undergrad courses in college. Those went away for general-purpose use before I came along. Personally, the first computers I interacted with were an Atari that was my dad’s, and an IBM 286 that he bought when he realized that computers were becoming the big thing. It was on that machine that I learned how to upgrade hardware and to operate DOS, the early foundation of my computing career. My first programs were written in Apple BASIC on a set of Apple IIe computers in the school library during lunch hour.
Oops.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/Dpev6gNgsL
— Buitengebieden (@BuitengebiedenB) March 26, 2021
Now that we’re going all-in on vaccines in Minnesota, I am finally preparing myself to be proactive and get an appointment on the calendar. It’s time.
re: #104 Belafon
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So Paraguay has 7 million people who need the vaccine? I see a good opportunity for positive PR here: the Biden Admin ought to offer them a couple of million doses for free - and make a BFD production out of giving it to them also free of political/diplomatic “conditions”. Maybe rolling refrigerated pallets of the stuff off a big cargo jet: each one marked with an American flag and a sticker saying “Un regalo para el pueblo de Paraguay de Tio Joe”
Though the “Chinese connections” thing sounds moderately dubious to me, tbh…
Extremely local news:
Our new mattress is getting delivered in a couple hours.
re: #144 Eventual Carrion
Extremely local news:
Our new mattress is getting delivered in a couple hours.
Did you decide on the new one right away, or did you have to sleep on it?
re: #138 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Telling my children about a time before the Internet, when rotary phones were a thing and when a computer was primarily meant for doing word processing and other work-related stuff until my dad agreed to buy games for it.
and the whole concept of how phones, cameras, video & audio reproduction and playback devices were separate and could only interact indirectly via bulky analog technology…
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the whole concept of how phones, cameras, video & audio reproduction and playback devices were separate and could only interact indirectly via bulky analog technology…
The new tv sitting on top of the old broken tv.
re: #147 Belafon
The new tv sitting on top of the old broken tv.
The 400-pound TV set resting on a folding TV dinner tray.
Meanwhile, in England…a similar crisis ensues. pic.twitter.com/qkoKHmlofr
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) March 26, 2021
re: #140 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
My dad used a punch-card FORTRAN machine to do his engineering undergrad courses in college. Those went away for general-purpose use before I came along. Personally, the first computers I interacted with were an Atari that was my dad’s, and an IBM 286 that he bought when he realized that computers were becoming the big thing. It was on that machine that I learned how to upgrade hardware and to operate DOS, the early foundation of my computing career. My first programs were written in Apple BASIC on a set of Apple IIe computers in the school library during lunch hour.
my first course in high school was with these
and these
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first year and a half of college was punch card batch programming and a 2-3 day turnaround
today a millisecond delay is ‘my internet is too slow’ and a couple of minutes to download gigabytes to my phone while im in my car “sucks”
re: #91 Dangerman
Local 10 news
*of course
Just like the saying from the beginning days of the Internet.
All men on the internet are men
all women on the internet are men
and all kids on the internet are FBI agents
Original, in case anyone else wants to play.
The UK has entered the chat.
Pic: unknown. pic.twitter.com/6gamxR9dFb— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) March 26, 2021
re: #153 Dangerman
i intend to have a blissful day
that is all
I intend to get some enhancements to several Power BI reports done. Your day will probably be better.
re: #153 Dangerman
i intend to have a blissful day
that is all
I had a long walk up in the vineyards into the forest. Ca. 10K steps, half of them uphill.
re: #149 darthstar
LOL, I am also amazed at how many friends and people on Facebook are obviously engineers in the science of ship unstucking.
re: #156 b.d. (America is Great Again)
LOL, I am also amazed at how many friends and people on Facebook are obviously engineers in the science of ship unstucking.
Loose lips unstick ships
re: #156 b.d. (America is Great Again)
LOL, I am also amazed at how many friends and people on Facebook are obviously engineers in the science of ship unstucking.
Clearly, WD-40 is needed.
re: #156 b.d. (America is Great Again)
LOL, I am also amazed at how many friends and people on Facebook are obviously engineers in the science of ship unstucking.
My hubby is an engineer and he said he fully knows how to unstick it. He said they need to break the suction underneath to get it out using industrial high pressure water. He said that until the suction breaks it’ll keep digging into the muck.
re: #160 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Engineer spouses unite!
re: #105 Belafon
We were hitting that number if I remember correctly, but we’re also a much bigger country [ than Brazil ]
No all that much bigger, about 55% bigger.
USA: 328 million
Brazil: 211 million
(edit, remove dangling unfinished phrase).
I still think Michael Moore is a bit of a twit and a gadfly, but every once in a while he is on the mark. A recent MM Tweet:
“The life of Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa shows that people can come from all over the world and truly assimilate into our beloved American culture.”
re: #162 John Hughes
No all that much bigger, about 55% bigger.
USA: 328 million
Brazil: 211 millionYou’re
And now that I looked it up, Brazil still has a few thousand more cases/day to go before they reach the same population ratio. It looks like we were hitting about 240K cases/day, which means Brazil will have to hit about 160K before it’s equivalent. Our death rate was about 3K per day. I’ll have to look up later to see what Brazil’s death rate is.
So, latest on side effects of CoViD-19 vaccines:
Scientists considering whether how the injection is given (specifically, if it hits a blood vessel instead of its intended target) can be a possible cause:
nyteknik.se ( translate.google.com )
re: #165 Belafon
re: #166 Teukka
So, latest on side effects of CoViD-19 vaccines:
Scientists considering whether how the injection is given (specifically, if it hits a blood vessel instead of its intended target) can be a possible cause:
nyteknik.se ( translate.google.com )
Original sauce:
sverigesradio.se ( translate.google.com )
re: #141 darthstar
Fancy having that in your vacation picture collection.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and the whole concept of how phones, cameras, video & audio reproduction and playback devices were separate and could only interact indirectly via bulky analog technology…
when there was a TV show you wanted to watch, you had to be sitting in front of a TV at the appointed time. So was everyone else.
And the next day everyone would talk about it, together. There was no yelling about SPOILERS!! because people who hadn’t seen it might never get to see it.
Roots. OMG. That was when “Event Television” was a real thing.
re: #169 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Fancy having that in your vacation picture collection.
Wish I had my camera on me when my oldest son and I watched a baby giraffe being born at the Houston zoo. Those new born tykes take a hell of a fall after exit.
re: #167 John Hughes
Accumulated deaths normalized by population but if you examine recent statistics, both new case count and deaths, not normalized, are significantly higher there than here. This may reflect the more virulent Brazil variant.
re: #170 sagehen
when there was a TV show you wanted to watch, you had to be sitting in front of a TV at the appointed time. So was everyone else.
And the next day everyone would talk about it, together. There was no yelling about SPOILERS!! because people who hadn’t seen it might never get to see it.
Roots. OMG. That was when “Event Television” was a real thing.
Oh, and film and TV continuity was not such a massive issue because we did not have the chance to re-watch and free-frame shots to find inconsistencies.
re: #172 Hecuba’s daughter
Accumulated deaths normalized by population but if you examine recent statistics, both new case count and deaths, not normalized, are significantly higher there than here. This may reflect the more virulent Brazil variant.
Just looking at the slopes of the curves on his graph can tell you that their normalized rate is higher.
re: #165 Belafon
And now that I looked it up, Brazil still has a few thousand more cases/day to go before they reach the same population ratio. It looks like we were hitting about 240K cases/day, which means Brazil will have to hit about 160K before it’s equivalent. Our death rate was about 3K per day. I’ll have to look up later to see what Brazil’s death rate is.
Brazil had over 2600 deaths yesterday. They have also only done 1/10th the testing the US has done. I suspect they have a lot more cases that are going undetected.
re: #150 Dangerman
my first course in high school was with these
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first year and a half of college was punch card batch programming and a 2-3 day turnaround
today a millisecond delay is ‘my internet is too slow’ and a couple of minutes to download gigabytes to my phone while im in my car “sucks”
re: #174 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Just looking at the slopes of the curves on his graph can tell you that their normalized rate is higher.
Yes, I thought that was obvious, that’s why I didn’t post the new cases or new deaths graphs. The US line is flattening at the end, which means the number of deaths per day is falling, the Brazil line is steepening, which tells you the number of deaths per day is rising.
(I rarely bother with graphs of cases because it’s so much easier to miss a case than a death. This seems particularly true in the case of Brazil).
re: #175 danarchy
Brazil had over 2600 deaths yesterday. They have also only done 1/10th the testing the US has done. I suspect they have a lot more cases that are going undetected.
And using worldometer, we had only 1100 deaths. However, in terms of normalized rates among states with at least one million citizens, the Czech Republic remains highest in both accumulated cases and accumulated deaths.
just now an easy 5 foot iguana on the deck behind the waterfall
(it’s a lotta tail)
it ran before we got pix.
two of us saw it. that’s confirmation as far as im concerned.
So, here in Czech Republic, looks like the pandemic is running out of steam - partly the result of a district lockdown (though widely flouted…indeed, mobile phone data showed only a 0.75% reduction in overall movement), partly the result of slowly ramping-up vaccination and mostly because…well, the virus is running out of people to infect.
Two epidemiologists earlier today on Czech TV noted, somewhat ruefully, that when the percentage of vaccinated people (about 10% of the population) is added in with what they calculate to be the actual percentage of the population that’s already gone through COVID-19 - that takes us to about 65% of the population.
We did it guys!! We’ve almost achieved herd immunity!! And it only cost us ~25,500 dead and future financial problems up the wazoo!! 🙄
re: #151 Eventual Carrion
Just like the saying from the beginning days of the Internet.
All men on the internet are men
all women on the internet are men
and all kids on the internet are FBI agents
re: #178 Hecuba’s daughter
And using worldometer, we had only 1100 deaths. However, in terms of normalized rates among states with at least one million citizens, the Czech Republic remains highest in both accumulated cases and accumulated deaths.
Good god, you’re right. And probably the steepest upward curve (i.e. highest current death rate).
re: #176 sagehen
good song, but it really has SFA to do with Country and everything to do with straight-up mass-produced commercial music
re: #182 John Hughes
Looking at the fatality numbers here, thus far, no one under the age of 55 has died of COVID-19 yet. The vast majority of deaths here are in the 65 - 85+ age groups.
re: #185 GlutenFreeJesus
*199,999,999 vaccines administered*
Crenshaw: BIDEN IS A FAILURE!
And an ingrate at that, he refused to thank Trump for Operation Warped Reality.
re: #179 Dangerman
just now an easy 5 foot iguana on the deck behind the waterfall
(it’s a lotta tail)it ran before we got pix.
two of us saw it. that’s confirmation as far as im concerned.
Motion-detector cameras. Talk to jeffreyw.
Posted by a local hospital in the Philippines as the country reaches its highest case number ever. [Sauce]
Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of life on the 19th-century frontier and in contemporary small-town Texas, died on Thursday. He was 84. https://t.co/Qp3oJgXtke
— New York Times Books (@nytimesbooks) March 26, 2021
Lonesome Dove.
Shocking. from new smax
Biden Used Cheat Sheets at Press Conference - including one with photos and names of reporters he was planning to call on.
The New York Post said the printed note cards are clearly visible in photos taken Thursday. He also used the cards to assist with facts concerning the U.S. infrastructure.
Imagine not just getting up and saying whatever occurs to him at the moment and not having to worry about answering for it…
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Nice to see SNOOZEMAX reciting Russian propaganda.
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Shocking. from new smax
Biden Used Cheat Sheets at Press Conference - including one with photos and names of reporters he was planning to call on.
The New York Post said the printed note cards are clearly visible in photos taken Thursday. He also used the cards to assist with facts concerning the U.S. infrastructure.
Imagine not just getting up and saying whatever occurs to him at the moment and not having to worry about answering for it…
Shocking. Everyone knows you should use 3” x 5” cards. Hasn’t he seen how DT did it?
The Biden administration highlight how much our press atrophied in those media soundbyte-friendly years under Trump when it was all about superficial sensation and no need to worry about substance, policy or actual accomplishments…
Just posted this:
“The Lies Were Good For Fox’s Business” - Dominion $1.6 BN Suit Sums It All Up https://t.co/QtdWkEdyFz pic.twitter.com/g29vLJN27q
— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) March 26, 2021
There has to be a reckoning for the last 20 years of Fox News lies that:
1. Got us into the war in Iraq
2. Assured us that banks knew what they were doing in 2008
3. Told us that Obamacare would result in gulags and mass murder
4. Sold America on the notion that Trump was a smart leader
5. Assured us tax cuts for the rich pay for themselves
6. Dismissed the COVID-19 pandemic, then touted quack cures
7. Lied about the election being stolen
These are just some of the greatest hits
If Fox News just has to pay a fine - even a relatively large one, in the hundreds of millions or billions - this will not dissuade them.
THEY MUST GO TO JAIL
If even a few bankers had gone to jail in 2009, the rest would have been so shit-scared of winding up in orange jumpsuits that we maybe wouldn’t have the dystopian economy we now have …
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Shocking. from new smax
Biden Used Cheat Sheets at Press Conference - including one with photos and names of reporters he was planning to call on.
The New York Post said the printed note cards are clearly visible in photos taken Thursday. He also used the cards to assist with facts concerning the U.S. infrastructure.
Imagine not just getting up and saying whatever occurs to him at the moment and not having to worry about answering for it…
accuracy and sunshine
citations and verification
yawn
re: #193 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Shocking. Everyone knows you should use 3” x 5” cards. Hasn’t he seen how DT did it?
This isn’t high school. There are no extra points for quoting everything off of the top of your head.
re: #65 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
(more at the BBC)
It’s amazing the damage one doctor can do.
USC to pay $1bn over abuse claims against gynaecologist George Tyndall
That takes me back: I went to USC, and while - as a healthy-young-guy student - I rarely had to utilize the college’s health services, I recall that they were famous for their comprehensive coverage and cheap treatment*. My one instance was when I was injured on a class-sponsored ski trip: I got (the then-high-tech) ultrasound treatments on my bone-bruised shoulder for a cost to me of $3 per session. Which, even in 1973, was cheap. But then again, “guy”: I’m sure the experience of coeds going for GYN issues might be a different matter….
*having a top-notch medical school attached probably helped.
re: #200 Teukka
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Well, one of his 3 manifestations is a spook. Father, son and holy spook.
re: #201 Eventual Carrion
Well, one of his 3 manifestations is a spook. Father, son and holy spook.
This is true.
re: #201 Eventual Carrion
Well, one of his 3 manifestations is a spook. Father, son and holy spook.
Aren’t they the Father, The Son and this Divine Revelation given to The Bar-Kays?
re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Shocking. from new smax
Biden Used Cheat Sheets at Press Conference - including one with photos and names of reporters he was planning to call on.
The New York Post said the printed note cards are clearly visible in photos taken Thursday. He also used the cards to assist with facts concerning the U.S. infrastructure.
Imagine not just getting up and saying whatever occurs to him at the moment and not having to worry about answering for it…
here’s a thought:
did any of those reporters take notes or record the press conference?
why?
to have something to refer to later?
why would they need that kind of assistance?
arent they professionals?
isn’t that cheating?
Gee, I wonder what fits the DC Press Corpse would throw if Joe used an iPad?
re: #204 Dangerman
here’s a thought:
did any of those reporters take notes or record the press conference?
why?
to have something to refer to later?
why would they need that kind of assistance?
arent they professionals?
isn’t that cheating?
again, they are used to a guy getting up and just rattling off whatever falls out of his pie hole and not worrying about it, the press and his staff will explain what he “really” said or meant to say
re: #196 Khal Wimpo (exhaling for 1st time in 4 yrs)
If Fox News just has to pay a fine - even a relatively large one, in the hundreds of millions or billions - this will not dissuade them.
THEY MUST GO TO JAIL
If even a few bankers had gone to jail in 2009, the rest would have been so shit-scared of winding up in orange jumpsuits that we maybe wouldn’t have the dystopian economy we now have …
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Completely disagree. The government should not be arresting journalists, even if they spew a bunch of nonsense. The 1st amendment clearly protects them. This action isn’t the government charging Fox with anything; it’s another private company suing them for damages.
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