Friday Roots: John Hiatt With the Jerry Douglas Band: “Mississippi Phone Booth”

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From the new album ‘Leftover Feelings,’ out May 21 (@New West Records): http://newwst.com/leftoverfeelingsID

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Directed by Ted Roach and Lagan Sebert

LYRICS:
Mississippi phone booth
In the middle of the night
Bugs flyin’ everywhere
Crazy in the gas station light

Heart pounding through my t-shirt
Pumping change in a call to you
Mississippi phone booth
Operator could you get me through

Flat black 84 Camaro
Run it up from New Orleans
Everything south of I-10
I just blew it all to smithereens

I’m somewhere close to Jackson
I need Memphis on the line
Mississippi phone booth
Tell Jesus I’m outta dimes

Quart of vodka eight ball cocaine
Not enough to change my mind
Mississippi phone booth
Please don’t hang up on me this time

I’m running straight outta time

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 4:53:10pm
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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:08:43pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is the very reason why we must always be on guard regarding voting rights. It should be a very easy to vote. That is why mail-in ballots were such a success in PA (also COVID-19 had a lot to do with it).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:11:40pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:12:12pm

“President Joe Biden”

(No particular reason, just like to see it.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:13:16pm

re: #2 PhillyPretzel

This is the very reason why we must always be on guard regarding voting rights. It should be a very easy to vote. That is why mail-in ballots were such a success in PA (also COVID-19 had a lot to do with it).

Plus the shameless hypocrisy of conservatism when my state’s AG decided Nebraska tax money would be better spent on trying to overthrow your vote.

When asked about Nebraska’s mandatory mail voting in rural areas, he unabashedly stated that’s different because Nebraska runs fair elections.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:13:20pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Same here. :)

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:18:19pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

They all look very much like the fools they are.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:18:26pm

re: #4 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:19:25pm

Omaha World-Herald:

Florida to feds: Allow cruise ships to operate or we’ll sue

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped into the federal government’s continued pandemic ban on cruise ships using U.S. ports, threatening Friday to file a lawsuit if one of the state’s biggest tourism sectors is not allowed to resume operations soon.

Appearing at Port Canaveral with leaders from Carnival, Norwegian, Disney and Royal Caribbean cruise lines, DeSantis and Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody said they are exploring the state’s legal options if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not allow U.S.-based cruising to resume by summer.

The state is the nation’s cruise capital with three of the world’s busiest ports: Miami, Port Canaveral near Kennedy Space Center, and Port Everglades near Fort Lauderdale. Millions typically cruise from Florida each year and the industry generates billions for the state’s economy.

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Money over lives.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:20:21pm

re: #9 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Omaha World-Herald:

Florida to feds: Allow cruise ships to operate or we’ll sue

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Money over lives.

Fuck you, Governor DeathSantis. You can just go piss up a rope.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:25:03pm

I can see it now.

When Florida sinks under the ocean DeSADIST will sue Biden for negligence.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:28:19pm

Republican state senator John McCollister (the guy who called out the Nebraska Republican Party for a Nazi problem, and who the NGOP is trying to eject from their party for that statement), has introduced Legislative Bill 125.

LB 125 would provide ranked-choice voting in Nebraska.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:32:34pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:36:37pm

Got an update from the Chester County Health Dept on Covid vaccination progress.

67,000 partially vaccinated.
72,000 full vaccinated.

County population of ~550,000.

They are receiving about 10,000-15,000 doses of vaccine to give out per week. So this, in addition to the vaccinations a number of pharmacies are giving out will hopefully help things improve a lot over the next month or so.

(I am hoping to get an appointment or have my name come up on the list sooner rather than later since I’d like to go attend a wedding ceremony in New Mexico in June.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:36:42pm
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:36:59pm
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HRH Stanley Sea  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:38:45pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A Cranky One  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:39:36pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:42:04pm

re: #17 HRH Stanley Sea

BUT THE CARTEL HECKLERS!!111!!!!

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:45:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:50:28pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:53:40pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:54:55pm

re: #22 Charles Johnson

No. Apparently, they’re addicted to shitshows.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:56:08pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:56:46pm
It’s Supreme Court season again, and our first one with our new 6-3 fascist conservative majority, so over here at Wonkette, we are … concerned about where this is going to go.

But guess what! Today we have actual good SCOTUS news! Because yesterday, in a case styled Torres v. Madrid, our Supreme Court managed to actually rule in favor of a person who was shot by the police.

The decision is a good one — and it sets an important precedent for the future, just by ruling something as simple as “shooting a person counts as seizing them.” (Yeah, the United States Supreme Court had somehow never really said that until now.)

TL; DR: Police shot a woman driving a car. She got away initially, but ended up being arrested after having to go to the hospital for the gun shot wounds. The cops tried to say shooting her didn’t count as a seizure, because she wasn’t so incapacitated that she had to stay at the scene. NOT AN UNREASONABLE RULING.

and

In July 2014, New Mexico State Police officers went to arrest someone at an apartment complex in Albuquerque. Neither Roxanne Torres nor the person she was with was the target of the arrest warrant, but the cops approached their car anyway, I guess for funsies.

Torres, who was going through withdrawal, didn’t notice that the people walking up to her were cops — she just saw people with guns trying to get into her car, thought she was being carjacked, and drove away.

Despite the fact that they knew she wasn’t the target of their arrest and she hadn’t committed any crimes in front of them, the cops decided that they should use deadly force, and shot 13 bullets at Torres, with two of them hitting her in the back. She eventually stole another car and drove to Grants, New Mexico. As Chief Justice John Roberts quipped in the opinion,

The good news for Torres was that the hospital in Grants was able to airlift her to another hospital where she could receive appropriate care. The bad news was that the hospital was back in Albuquerque, where the police arrested her the next day.

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John Roberts Tells Cops They Can’t Even Shoot Somebody Who Didn’t Do A Crime, Like What? (Wonkette)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 26, 2021 • 5:59:09pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:10:03pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:10:24pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:22:51pm
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Acemarilllion  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:24:56pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

The boat of the not-so-swift.

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:25:59pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

Durham was in North Carolina, last I heard.

Well, there’s one in England, too: maybe the report got sent there by mistake?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:26:50pm

re: #28 gocart mozart

What’s the point of Twitter tossing Trump if media presenters are going to continue putting his drivel on Twitter?

They really miss having to work for a story.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:27:00pm

And we’re off….

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:27:40pm

re: #33 Dave In Austin

And we’re off….

That was unexpectedly quick. MLB is becoming a bit of a progressive organization.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:30:47pm

re: #33 Dave In Austin

And we’re off….

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The only All-Star game that matters and it doesn’t.

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Good on the MLB union, 1st non-selfish and laborish thing I remember them doing.

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DesertDenizen  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:30:53pm

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

That was unexpectedly quick. MLB is becoming a bit of a progressive organization.

Progressive policies are generally popular. Business is smart enough to follow the money.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:32:32pm

re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron

Biden may be the best Senate manager since LBJ.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:32:49pm
KEARNEY — As COVID-19 vaccines are administered and spring sports draw crowds again, Heather Beans is disheartened.

She tested positive for COVID-19 right after Christmas, but at the beginning of spring she’s still suffering from unexplained medical problems that began with COVID. That makes her a “long-haul” COVID-19 patient.

She’s discouraged. She’s impatient. She’s hurting. Next month, she will spend a week at National Jewish Health in Denver, a research facility that, among other things, treats COVID-19 patients from all over the world who have stubborn symptoms.

“I never thought I’d end up like this,” Beans, 44, said. “People need to be aware it can happen to anybody.”

(more at the Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

‘Long-haul’ Kearney COVID patient can’t seem to get well

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:32:50pm

re: #36 DesertDenizen

Progressive policies are generally popular. Business is smart enough to follow the money.

It’ll be interesting to see if the owners follow suit. The MLBPA represents a fair number of Black players, so it stands to reason that they would have a strong stance on this issue. The owners are considerably less diverse - I think, to a man, they are rich white men, though I may be wrong - so the direction that the owner’s association and the MLB office themselves go will be telling.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:35:20pm

re: #39 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

It’ll be interesting to see if the owners follow suit. The MLBPA represents a fair number of Black players, so it stands to reason that they would have a strong stance on this issue. The owners are considerably less diverse - I think, to a man, they are rich white men, though I may be wrong - so the direction that the owner’s association and the MLB office themselves go will be telling.

At this pace the pro bowling tour is going to be the only sport the wingnuts can watch.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:35:51pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:36:38pm

re: #40 b.d. (America is Great Again)

At this pace the pro bowling tour is going to be the only sport the wingnuts can watch.

Nahh, they’ll always have NASCAR and bass fishing. Those are the sports my parents watch. When my dad isn’t sneaking guilty peeks at the NFL and NCAA.

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DesertDenizen  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:38:04pm

re: #42 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Nahh, they’ll always have NASCAR and bass fishing. Those are the sports my parents watch. When my dad isn’t sneaking guilty peeks at the NFL and NCAA.

I thought the wingnuts abandoned NASCAR once they put the kibosh on the treason rag.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:38:14pm

re: #17 HRH Stanley Sea

Protecting white people from a lower level of human. That’s what they are projecting.

End of story.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:38:53pm

re: #43 DesertDenizen

I thought the wingnuts abandoned NASCAR once they put the kibosh on the treason rag.

You’d think that, wouldn’t you? But no, apparently, they got over that. I dunno if it’s inertia, or just the fact that there isn’t much else they can watch where literally 99% of the people involved are white, or what.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:39:06pm

re: #42 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Nahh, they’ll always have NASCAR and bass fishing. Those are the sports my parents watch. When my dad isn’t sneaking guilty peeks at the NFL and NCAA.

NASCAR banned the Confederate flag so they’re out too. Is there a White Bass fishing tournament circuit? Though the largemouth also covers the MAGAs nicely.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:40:13pm

Lets see what MLB does coming out of the gate with the Atlanta Baseball Team….

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:40:26pm

re: #46 b.d. (America is Great Again)

NASCAR banned the Confederate flag so they’re out too. Is there a White Bass fishing tournament circuit? Though the largemouth also covers the MAGAs nicely.

I suppose it depends on the brand of racism. For those fine patriotic Yankee racists, who never identified with the Rebel flag, they’re OK with still continuing to watch NASCAR after this change.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:41:41pm

re: #41 Belafon

Another member of the “law and order party”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:43:26pm
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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:43:47pm

re: #48 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

I suppose it depends on the brand of racism. For those fine patriotic Yankee racists, who never identified with the Rebel flag, they’re OK with still continuing to watch NASCAR after this change.

Wingnut boycotts really only last on things they weren’t going to support anyways. I wish there was a list of the things the boycotted, they’d starve to death naked.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:44:25pm

re: #51 b.d. (America is Great Again)

Wingnut boycotts really only last on things they weren’t going to support anyways. I wish there was a list of the things the boycotted, they’d starve to death naked.

Yeah. As I alluded to, my dad went back to the NFL after the “boycott” ceased to be cool. As far as I know, his NFL Sunday Ticket is still in good standing.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:46:12pm

Tomorrow I will be attending another election class for the up-coming primary. Which means I have to be there at 9 AM. Good Night to my fellow Lizards and I will give a brief report of said class.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:49:08pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

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Utter nonsense. The modern Republican cares about none of these things.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:49:55pm

re: #50 Dread Pirate Ron

They need to cut those numbers and add a ‘Racist Mother Fuckers’ group.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:50:16pm

re: #27 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Save the fetus and kill the gay.

Another reason to stay the hell out of Arkansas.

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:50:37pm

re: #55 Dread Pirate Ron

It’s Group 6.

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:51:11pm

“Oldest group within the GOP.”
Racists hiding behind ‘law and order.’

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:51:47pm

re: #52 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yeah. As I alluded to, my dad went back to the NFL after the “boycott” ceased to be cool. As far as I know, his NFL Sunday Ticket is still in good standing.

My wingnut relatives still boycott what they call the “N-word” Football League and oh they double down on the N word with basketball…

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:53:36pm

Since the gas tax is being discussed here:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:53:52pm

re: #56 🌹UOJB!

Save the fetus and kill the gay.

Another reason to stay the hell out of Arkansas.

And how long before someone tries to invoke that against a protected class (such a religion)?

Sure it’s illegal, but you can’t sue if you’re dead. That law is a definite reason for minority religious groups and atheists to stay the hell away from Arkansas.

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:54:04pm

re: #56 🌹UOJB!

Save the fetus and kill the gay.

Another reason to stay the hell out of Arkansas.

I’m counting on Arkansas as being the state my great-grandchildren talk about, once the liberals take over, as being an undiscovered treasure. Nice of them to “conserve” it until enough normal humans can show up and run it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:55:45pm

re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron

good fucking grief

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:55:56pm

Missouri Republicans block funds for voter-approved Medicaid expansion (Kansas City Star)

The vote went by party lines.

Democrats slammed the vote as an attempt to subvert Missourians’ wishes to implement the expansion, which several Republicans said was unpopular in their own districts.

Democrats plan to re-introduce the funds into the rest of the state budget on the House floor. Budget Chair Cody Smith, a Carthage Republican, said he will introduce another bill to spend the money elsewhere.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:57:28pm
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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:58:41pm

re: #56 🌹UOJB!

Save the fetus and kill the gay.

Another reason to stay the hell out of Arkansas.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be their next governor, it is going to get worse with that demon destroying evil eye shooting around.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 6:59:17pm

WHY THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THIS LONG??????????????

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b.d. (America is Great Again)  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:01:10pm

re: #67 🌹UOJB!

WHY THE FUCK DID IT TAKE THIS LONG??????????????

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The people on the other side of the cases liked him paying their fees?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:12:01pm

Regional news:

Business owners, entrepreneurs and advocates have formed the Cannabis Industry Association of South Dakota as the state prepares for legal marijuana.

Executive Director Ned Horsted said the association came together just before the start of the 2021 legislative session in January.

After voters approved Amendment A that legalizes recreational marijuana and Initiated Measure 26 that legalizes medicinal marijuana, Horsted said many people and businesses expressed interest in the cannabis industry.

“The purpose is to build a strong, vibrant industry in the state. We hope to continue to work with [the state government] and share industry best practices, what’s been learned in other states, and how to do it to benefit the people of South Dakota,” Horsted told the Journal.

Part of group’s initial work included lobbying in Pierre to prevent “damaging changes” to Initiated Measure 26. Beyond that, their mission is to create a well-regulated cannabis industry that is good for businesses.

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Group forms Cannabis Industry Association to help develop state’s marijuana industry (Rapid City, SD Journal)

So around me:
South (Colorado): Legal
West (Wyoming): Working on it
North (South Dakota): Setting up shops now
East: Pete Ricketts invokes “Reefer Madness” to continue opposition.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:12:23pm
Boise State Public Radio reports that Montana’s [Governor Gianforte] trapped and shot—in that order—a black wolf that had wandered outside the boundaries of Yellowstone Park. And not just any wolf. This was Wolf No. 1155. It was a 6-year-old adult male, born inside Yellowstone, who had been tracked by biologists for the last three years as part of the Wapiti Lake Pack. This was a wolf who was wearing a tracking collar.

Exactly how Gianforte trapped the wolf isn’t clear. What is clear is that he didn’t have a permit and didn’t take a required class on how to trap wolves ethically. The Washington Post reported that such violations can result in fines up to $500 and a permanent loss of hunting rights. But Gianforte is getting off for the low, low price of $0 and no consequences at all. He’s even being allowed to keep the wolf’s hide and skull. Because who wouldn’t want the skull of an animal he shot while it was writhing in a trap?

m.dailykos.com

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:15:58pm
Postmaster Louis DeJoy has made a very powerful enemy: the U.S. Congress. Well, the Democrats who control the House, anyway. A group of House Democrats has introduced the “Delivering Envelopes Judiciously On-time Year-round Act.” Yes, the DEJOY Act, which is a crime against legislative nomenclature. But the lawmakers are serious, intent on blocking DeJoy from implementing the service changes he intends, including slowing delivery of first-class mail to as long as five days.

m.dailykos.com

The one thing I worry about with this is that it becomes the bill that proves Republicans can vote for a bill and it gives worried democrats cover.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:18:27pm

re: #71 Belafon

m.dailykos.com

The one thing I worry about with this is that it becomes the bill that proves Republicans can vote for a bill and it gives worried democrats cover.

Rural Republicans (such as my own Republicypher representative Adrian Smith) generally oppose fuquery with the Post Office, as it directly affects their constituents.

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:19:19pm

re: #70 Belafon

I hate that man.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:24:03pm

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas fires almost every member of Homeland Security Advisory Council

The Homeland Security Advisory Council is made up of 30 members — both Democrats and Republicans. Some of those who were fired included allies of former President Donald Trump, such as former acting DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli and former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Thomas Homan.

abcnews.go.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:28:29pm

re: #29 Dread Pirate Ron

Whatever works!

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Jay C  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:30:37pm

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“The purpose is to build a strong, vibrant industry in the state. We hope to continue to work with [the state government] and share industry best practices, what’s been learned in other states, and how to do it to benefit the people of South Dakota,…

And if SoDak’s state government is smart (dubious assumption as that may be), they will keep in mind that a significant “benefit” of a “strong, vibrant” cannabis industry is a nice, steady flow of tax dollars into the state coffers.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:31:24pm

re: #8 Renaissance_Man

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:34:32pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:35:14pm

More conservative lawyers drawing sanctions:

MN lawyer sanctioned $10,000 for filing election challenges without plaintiffs’ knowledge (Twin Cities Pioneer Press)

‘To my horror, I saw that I had sued Steve Simon and Ilhan Omar,’ a plaintiff said.

A Minnesota attorney who filed legal challenges to the November election of five congressional Democrats was given a $10,000 sanction Friday after a judge found she “bamboozled” voters into signing on as plaintiffs without their knowledge or permission.

“Susan Shogren Smith … perpetrated a fraud against this court and, more importantly, perpetrated a fraud against these plaintiffs,” Ramsey County Chief District Judge Leonardo Castro said from the bench.

Shogren Smith is a member of the MN Election Integrity Team, a conservative group that sought to prevent the state from certifying its election results while President Donald Trump and his allies promoted unfounded claims of election fraud.

On Dec. 1, she filed five complaints in Ramsey County District Court, naming as defendants Secretary of State Steve Simon and the Democratic candidates who won their Congressional races.

Those legal challenges were filed in the names of 14 separate voters, at least four of whom had no idea they were participating.

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The people who were named as plaintiffs and didn’t know it were removed from the case by the judge.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:45:49pm

I knew someone would invoke the “A” word (apartheid) in reference to Georgia’s new Jim Crow measures, Keith just beat me to it.

I’m seeing a lot of call as well for an entertainment boycott similar to the highly successful Apartheid-era boycott of South Africa’s Sun City.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:47:55pm

According to MSNBC, support for the voting act is at 77% for Democrats and 56% for Republicans.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:50:17pm

re: #72 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rural Republicans (such as my own Republicypher representative Adrian Smith) generally oppose fuquery with the Post Office, as it directly affects their constituents.

Oh, it definitely needs to be fixed.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:55:38pm

re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

One problem with this proposed boycott is that many, if not most, white supremacist red states have introduced similar measures.
The criminal Repug cartel that runs Texas, for example, has introduced more than 20 bills aimed at restricting early voting. facebook.com

A boycott might end up being applied to a large percentage of the states, which does not seem workable, at least not at the national, as opposed to international, level. I could see foreign entertainers and sports figures applying such a boycott to 15 or 20 red states, though, and it might be a good thing.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 7:58:01pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:00:31pm

As a reminder, Brian Kemp has always been a racist.

How a criminal investigation in Georgia set an ominous tone for African-American voters (Yahoo!, August 6, 2019)

The early-morning arrest began a multiyear nightmare for the mother of two. The state government, operating under the authority of a newly appointed secretary of state named Brian Kemp, arrested Dennard and 11 of her political allies and charged them with 120 separate felonies.

To [Nancy] Dennard and her allies, who became known as the Quitman 10+2, the reasons for their arrests were simple. They were black candidates who won an election in the Deep South, upsetting a white-dominated power structure.

“They thought they could make an example out of me, and that would kill the spirit of this movement,” said Dennard, who has a master’s degree in speech pathology, as well as an educational doctorate. “I knew we had done nothing wrong.”

Yet the mug shots taken at the jail that first day of African-Americans wearing orange jumpsuits would be an enduring image. The photos were plastered across newspaper front pages, broadcast repeatedly on local TV news and finally displayed on the screens of Fox News viewers as evidence of voter fraud.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:03:01pm

Hey, Georgia Repug evangelicals, you may want to reconsider that water thing.

“And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” Matthew 10:42 (NIV)

Verily, those who refuse will be cast into the everlasting lake of socialism, there to be forever tortured by gay marriage and racial equality.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:04:42pm
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stpaulbear  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:05:45pm

re: #83 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

One problem with this proposed boycott is that many, if not most, white supremacist red states have introduced similar measures.
The criminal Repug cartel that runs Texas, for example, has introduced more than 20 bills aimed at restricting early voting. facebook.com

A boycott might end up being applied to a large percentage of the states, which does not seem workable, at least not at the national, as opposed to international, level. I could see foreign entertainers and sports figures applying such a boycott to 15 or 20 red states, though, and it might be a good thing.

I’m wondering if any of the companies that have relocated or expanded into TX are going to re-evaluate that decision and try to take action (legal or financial) against the TX cartel, basically telling the state to get fucked, we value our employees.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:08:21pm

re: #88 stpaulbear

I’m wondering if any of the companies that have relocated or expanded into TX are going to re-evaluate that decision …

If corporate America is really about the bottom line (and it is), then Texas’ atavistic suppression measures just makes labor all the more cheaper.

Remember, slavery in this country was about economics, not morality.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:10:05pm

re: #88 stpaulbear

I’m wondering if any of the companies that have relocated or expanded into TX are going to re-evaluate that decision and try to take action (legal or financial) against the TX cartel, basically telling the state to get fucked, we value our employees.

At least some of them will, especially when combined with the doubts raised by the power grid fiasco. In both cases, deeply embedded aspects of the local political culture are involved. They will change eventually, but it is a slow process and many companies might postpone a move until they do.

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:11:11pm

re: #88 stpaulbear

I’m wondering if any of the companies that have relocated or expanded into TX are going to re-evaluate that decision and try to take action (legal or financial) against the TX cartel, basically telling the state to get fucked, we value our employees.

I would think that their power grid would be another incentive to leave.

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gocart mozart  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:11:19pm
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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:13:25pm

I’m sorry, but it looks like Marvel is going to save the DCCU:

The Suicide Squad - Official Red Band Trailer (2021) Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena

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jamesfirecat  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:16:11pm

re: #93 Belafon

I’m sorry, but it looks like Marvel is going to save the DCCU:

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Well didn’t IBM step into to keep Mac from going bankrupt at one point?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:16:56pm

During World War II, the Japan’s giant I-400 class aircraft-carrying submarines were designed specifically for a strike at the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal. The target was switched to the allied base at Ulithi Atoll at the last minute and the subs were underway when the surrender order came down.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:18:10pm

re: #94 jamesfirecat

Well didn’t IBM step into to keep Mac from going bankrupt at some point?

Microsoft, sort of. MS was an early and important developer of Apple Mac (original) software, and even used the Mac and an innovation platform.

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:19:43pm
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Renaissance_Man  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:20:23pm

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:30:21pm

re: #88 stpaulbear

I’m wondering if any of the companies that have relocated or expanded into TX are going to re-evaluate that decision and try to take action (legal or financial) against the TX cartel, basically telling the state to get fucked, we value our employees.

There’s also the issue of employees wanting to move. Certain educated or skilled employees can’t simply be magicked out of Texas libertarianism. Employees also want things states provide like libraries and parks.

While former governor Rick Perry made a big deal out of trying to get California businesses to move, not many actually did. His attempt to get a Maryland gun manufacturer to move failed (the manufacturer said they could not replace their skilled workers in Texas, and none of their workers wanted to live in Texas).

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jaunte  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:30:49pm
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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:36:34pm

re: #80 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I knew someone would invoke the “A” word (apartheid) in reference to Georgia’s new Jim Crow measures, Keith just beat me to it.

I’m seeing a lot of call as well for an entertainment boycott similar to the highly successful Apartheid-era boycott of South Africa’s Sun City.

Hell, just boycott the State and make the Atlanta Baseball Team play its home games in Columbia, Charlotte, or Birmingham.

And yes, the reputation of Georgia will never recover.

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plansbandc  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:39:12pm

re: #32 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I block people who tweet tRump’s bullshit. If it’s a follower I’ve had forever, I kill their tweet. If they do it again, they’re gone.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:40:47pm

re: #97 jaunte

Several southern states already have laws against feeding or giving money to homeless people. They have been upheld by courts.

When I was in Little Rock, I noted that they have a law against giving money to homeless people; they have little blue boxes for donations to a Christian charity which allegedly provides for homeless people (but being a Christian charity, you cannot get financial reports).

While I was there I made a point of giving money when asked directly. (Something something having been homeless myself once.) No one ticketed or arrested me, but I was prepared for it.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:45:58pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Memories when I worked SSI in the Pennsylvania Welfare Department. We had a transfer from the South Carolina Welfare Bureau who told us that they would buy one way bus tickets and force GUESS WHICH COLOR of people in South Carolina to leave the state and they would send them North.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:47:59pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:48:51pm

re: #104 🌹UOJB!

Why It’s Illegal to Feed the Homeless in Cities Across America (January 16, 2018, Newsweek)

Generally the reason city councils bring up for criminalising homelessness is feeding the homeless spreads disease.

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:50:36pm

re: #106 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Someone is sick, but it’s the people who write those laws.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:52:37pm

re: #107 retired cynic

Someone is sick, but it’s the people who write those laws.

Plenty of NIMBYs in both parties.

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2021 • 8:56:16pm

re: #108 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Plenty of NIMBYs in both parties.

There are NIMBY’s (Not In My Backyard) and NAMBI’s (Not Against My Business Interests).

Guess who normally wins in zoning fights?

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austin_blue  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:01:39pm

Stonekettle Retweeted

Michael Harriot
@michaelharriot

Mar 25

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.

And that’s all I can take today.

Night all, sweet dreams.

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mmmirele  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:04:57pm

I saw that tweet by the Senate Republicans claiming they were heckled at the border today. What a *joke*. I’ve been practicing my Spanish and you’re supposed to do it by reading things you’re interested in. Well, for me, it’s narcotrafficking, cartels, and suchlike.

So far as I can tell, no non-US Spanish outlet even mentioned the senators’ trip to the border in reports today. Instead, it’s articles about the tentacles of various cartels into other countries, battles between cartels, confiscations of drug shipments, accusations of government collusion with cartels, murders, etc., etc.

For example, a week later, the murder of Carlos Martínez (leader of the Cartel Nueva Plaza) is still making news. That’s because his murderers, the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion, kidnapped him, trotted him out and had him make a confession saying he was working with various government officials, including a high-up in the Mexican police hierarchy, one Omar Garcia Harfuch. The video was released on social media a week ago, and a few hours later, Martinez’s body was found on a park bench in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco state. Today, it appears that Jalisco state still hasn’t opened an investigation into the allegations in the video.

This is much more important than a bunch of GOP senators being stupid at the border.

(I also read a longish article today about the ownership of confiscated small planes in Mexico and Central America. The thing that got me about the article is that these aren’t cheap planes. The governments have come across multi-million dollar planes that have been abandoned in the jungle, where very skilled pilots have set them down on dirt roads and then walked away. The article said that the cartels are making so much money that they can afford to just dump planes like that. Astonishing.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:10:49pm
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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:22:47pm

18 QAsshole Senators get on a gunboat and decide to play Apocalypse Now.

Hate to break it to Asshole Rafael but he ain’t Martin Sheen.

But Trump is every bit the bloated Brando.

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Belafon  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:25:14pm

re: #112 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Only if we pay for it.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:27:53pm

Uh oh! This Pulpit Pimp adds Fox to the GAWDLESS Media!

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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:31:42pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:42:23pm
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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:45:33pm

re: #117 Dave In Austin

And that man is still wealthy? I thought a fool and his money …

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:48:15pm

re: #117 Dave In Austin

And Daines doesn’t even to bother to state what Mexico’s purity is - probably because its better and cheaper….

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retired cynic  Mar 26, 2021 • 9:55:06pm

re: #119 Eric The Fruit Bat

What is better meth? Do your teeth fall out slower?

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danarchy  Mar 26, 2021 • 10:18:29pm

re: #119 Eric The Fruit Bat

And Daines doesn’t even to bother to state what Mexico’s purity is - probably because its better and cheaper….

He did it was just cut out of the clip. The rest of the quote was:

“Today, the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel. It has purities north of 95 percent. Far more dangerous, far more addictive, and it’s less expensive because they’re producing so much of it and then shipping it into our country,” he continued.

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wrenchwench  Mar 26, 2021 • 10:36:09pm

John Hiatt - Old People [Audio Stream]

It takes some chronological enhancement to sing about a phone booth.

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Teukka  Mar 26, 2021 • 10:42:50pm

re: #87 Belafon

Too spooky [y/n]?

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2021 • 10:44:13pm

Yes, the meth is purer, because less of it will likely get from the manufacturers to the dealers, meaning they can then cut it with other fillers to make more money. And their labs probably don’t go up like bombs with regularity.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:05:09pm

I love when people call me on a sold-out weekend, get told that we’ve no rooms, and ask some variation of “Do you know what’s going on? Everybody’s sold out this weekend!”

Have you considered the possibility that everybody had the same idea you did and booked rooms earlier in the day, instead of waiting until o’dark thirty to desperately call every hotel within a 5 mile radius?

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:28:02pm

YouTube

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sagehen  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:30:20pm

re: #121 danarchy

He did it was just cut out of the clip. The rest of the quote was:

“Today, the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel. It has purities north of 95 percent. Far more dangerous, far more addictive, and it’s less expensive because they’re producing so much of it and then shipping it into our country,” he continued.

wow. Even Walter White and Jess Pinkman only got to 92%.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:35:42pm

re: #117 Dave In Austin

This is the new angle they are using, because being pricks and fear mongers about refugees isn’t working. They rolled a giant d20, and picked something off the random GOP bullshit table.

DRUGS!!!!

It’s in between satanic cluts and rap music.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:40:56pm
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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:46:46pm

re: #129 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I’ve said in the past that we have a choice of two futures: Star Trek or Mad Max.

Actually there’s a 3rd option: The Cyberpunk (or Blade Runner/Robocop) future. It’s what Libertarians *really* want badly.

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Targetpractice  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:49:13pm

re: #130 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I’ve said in the past that we have a choice of two futures: Star Trek or Mad Max.

Actually there’s a 3rd option: The Cyberpunk (or Blade Runner/Robocop) future. It’s what Libertarians *really* want badly.

At the rate things are going, we’re more likely to end up with a future like The Expanse: Earth reduced to a polluted, flooded shell of its former self as humanity begins settling other planets just to get away from its mistakes.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 26, 2021 • 11:52:24pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

At the rate things are going, we’re more likely to end up with a future like The Expanse: Earth reduced to a polluted, flooded shell of its former self as humanity begins settling other planets just to get away from its mistakes.

That’s basically the cyberpunk future extended out to a few hundred years high-tech dystopia.

Or as the saying in the Cyberpunk genre goes: High-tech, Low-Life. The only good thing about Earth in the Expanse is Universal Basic Income.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 12:07:05am

re: #132 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

That’s basically the cyberpunk future extended out to a few hundred years high-tech dystopia.

Or as the saying in the Cyberpunk genre goes: High-tech, Low-Life. The only good thing about Earth in the Expanse is Universal Basic Income.

Except it’s not an income, it’s Basic Assistance. You get guaranteed housing in the form of shared rooms in gov’t housing, you get guaranteed food in the form of bland-tasting protein paste and enriched rice, you get guaranteed medical care in the form of minimal care at gov’t health clinics, and you get guaranteed clothing that’s made from recycled paper. There’s no guaranteed income at all.

Yeah, theoretically you won’t starve to death, freeze to death, or watch your body rot from a preventable disease. But you also have no real agency, you’ve no real future, and your only options besides the job lottery is either joining the UN Navy or getting a job as virtual slave working in The Belt.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 27, 2021 • 12:08:58am

re: #133 Targetpractice

I was going to say “Universal Basic Income, but even that is totally half-assed”.

But you put it better.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 12:10:15am

re: #134 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David

I was going to say “Universal Basic Income, but even that is totally half-assed”.

But you put it better.

Yeah, I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks binge-watching the series after years of sitting on my “To Do” list.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2021 • 12:42:44am

.

Ben Webster - Somewhere Over The Rainbow



..

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:00:11am

Highway Star (Belter Version)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:11:47am

Yeah, fuque those atheists. (And Hindus, and Buddhists, and pagans, and… .)

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A proposal in North Dakota to shield schools and teachers from lawsuits arising from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional and would spur costly and unwinnable legal fights, attorneys and education officials told state lawmakers Wednesday.

Despite the cautionary advice, the House Judiciary Committee gave the legislation an 11-3 “do-pass” recommendation, hoping that a requirement that the Ten Commandments be included in a display with other historical documents would fend off legal challenges. The full House will consider the bill later.

The Republican-led North Dakota Senate approved the measure 34-13 last month.

Attorneys and education officials said the bill likely violates the clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by the government.

“Should the Legislature enact (the measure) it will likely precipitate costly litigation for which public school will be liable under federal law,” the American Civil Liberties Union said in written testimony.

Proponents of the legislation say it is intended to promote moral behavior in schools.

“No religion opposes the Ten Commandments — atheists do,” said Edinburg GOP Sen. Janne Myrdal, who sponsored the bill.

(more)

North Dakota warned Ten Commandments bill will spur lawsuits (Omaha World-Herald)

Bear in mind, when Republican legislators bring these bills designed to undermine the Constitution, they are not all Evangelicals. Republicans of all Christian sects support them.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:16:20am

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Yeah, fuque those atheists. (And Hindus, and Buddhists, and pagans, and… .)

(more)

North Dakota warned Ten Commandments bill will spur lawsuits (Omaha World-Herald)

Bear in mind, when Republican legislators bring these bills designed to undermine the Constitution, they are not all Evangelicals. Republicans of all Christian sects support them.

American Christians: “HELP! HELP! WE’RE BEIN’ OPPRESSED!!!”

Also American Christians: “THE ONLY RELIGION THAT DESERVES GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION IS OURS!!!”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:19:29am

re: #139 Targetpractice

American Christians: “HELP! HELP! WE’RE BEIN’ OPPRESSED!!!”

Also American Christians: “THE ONLY RELIGION THAT DESERVES GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION AND PROTECTION IS OURS!!!”

And the bit that the Ten Commandments promotes moral behaviour is laughable on its face.

One of those testifying against the bill was the state attorney general who fought in 1980 to keep such a law in place from the Twenties and lost. His position is it is discriminatory and the state will lose again.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:21:28am

re: #139 Targetpractice

Plus, what about the other 513 commandments in there. There is nothing in Exodus that singles out those particular ten as more important than the other 513.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:22:00am

re: #140 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And the bit that the Ten Commandments promotes moral behaviour is laughable on its face.

One of those testifying against the bill was the state attorney general who fought in 1980 to keep such a law in place from the Twenties and lost. His position is it is discriminatory and the state will lose again.

Repubs hate wasteful spending…unless that spending nets them brownie points with their base, then they can’t burn the money fast enough.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:23:37am

re: #142 Targetpractice

Repubs hate wasteful spending…unless that spending nets them brownie points with their base, then they can’t burn the money fast enough.

And this whole Ten Commandments thing is just another virtue-signal and culture war argument.

They can’t really run on their real agenda: Cut all taxes for the rich, pile them all on the poor, and eliminate democracy.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:24:59am

re: #143 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

And this whole Ten Commandments thing is just another virtue-signal and culture war argument.

They can’t really run on their real agenda: Cut all taxes for the rich, pile them all on the poor, and eliminate democracy.

Between Biden out-flanking them on most policy issues that still matter to the public, and the others that they’d usually fall back upon now rendered toxic by Trump’s legacy, the only thing they have left is God-bothering and scaremongering.

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ericblair  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:33:00am

There is a new videogame on Steam called “The Tenants”. Based on my experience, I guess it falls in the survival horror category.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:45:44am

(5:40, caution for coarse language and hate speech, Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail from Christians on his 80th birthday, March 26)

Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 27, 2021 • 1:54:21am

Another new day in ‘Murca:

Two people were killed and at least eight injured in Virginia Beach shooting incidents

Two people are dead and at least eight have been injured after multiple shootings near the oceanfront in Virginia Beach, Virginia, police said Saturday.

Police discovered at least eight shooting victims at “the original crime scene” near 20th Street and Atlantic Avenue when they arrived shortly after 11 p.m. Friday night, Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate told a press briefing.
While police were investigating the first crime scene, shots were fired about a block away near 20th Street and Pacific Avenue, resulting in “an individual being confronted by a uniform Virginia Beach police officer,” Neudigate said. The officer shot and killed the person in what the chief described as a “police intervention shooting.”
A second person was killed in a separate nearby shooting incident, Neudigate said. He said police were still trying to determine what happened but did not believe it was related to the first two shootings.

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:06:28am

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

“No religion opposes the Ten Commandments — atheists do,” said Edinburg GOP Sen. Janne Myrdal, who sponsored the bill.

Jews don’t oppose the Ten Commandments, per se, we just think Christians don’t have them in quite the right order.

Also, Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t say the pledge of allegiance, salute the flag, or sing the national anthem. Because it’s just too close to a religious ritual, and thus an insult to God.

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Targetpractice  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:06:51am

re: #147 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

Another new day in ‘Murca:

Two people were killed and at least eight injured in Virginia Beach shooting incidents

*sigh*

Glad I don’t work at the Oceanfront anymore, else I’d have been getting frantic calls last night to ask if I was alright.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:08:21am

re: #2 PhillyPretzel

This is the very reason why we must always be on guard regarding voting rights. It should be a very easy to vote. That is why mail-in ballots were such a success in PA (also COVID-19 had a lot to do with it).

There is still an ideology that says that voting should be an EFFORT…as if we were all landed gentlemen who could ride to the polling place in our coach-and-six on the appointed day.

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:10:26am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Plus, what about the other 513 commandments in there. There is nothing in Exodus that singles out those particular ten as more important than the other 513.

oh, honey, there’s 613 commandments. 248 “thou shalt”s, and 365 “thou shalt not”s. I dunno how the frum remember them all.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:11:33am

re: #151 sagehen

oh, honey, there’s 613 commandments. 248 “thou shalt”s, and 365 “thou shalt not”s. I dunno how the frum remember them all.

Frum doesn’t care. He’s after the narrative, not any sort of accuracy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:14:36am

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Why am I seeing Donald Trump’s name in mah news tonight? Isn’t the universe tired enough of this wretched fuckstick?

Our Infotainment industry loves him. Now they have to go back to doing news, and most of them are so out of practice that they don’t know how or where to start…

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:15:22am

re: #152 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Frum doesn’t care. He’s after the narrative, not any sort of accuracy.

(not that Frum. frum lower-case F, the ultra-observant ultra-orthodox. You can recognize them by how they dress. The kind of parents who if their kid is caught smoking pot, are relieved that at least he’s not eating a cheeseburger.)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:19:01am

re: #147 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

That’s only a few blocks from where I used to live (12th and Atlantic, also 9th and Pacific)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:20:19am

re: #151 sagehen

oh, honey, there’s 613 commandments. 248 “thou shalt”s, and 365 “thou shalt not”s. I dunno how the frum remember them all.

Typo on my part.

Plus there are two versions of the Ten Commandments (the other being in Deuteronomy).

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:21:15am

re: #97 jaunte

It’s extraordinarily hard, almost impossible, to pass a law that violates constitutional “rational basis” review, but I think a law that bars one citizen from giving another citizen food and water lacks any rational basis and violates the Constitution.

It takes away any incentive on their part to get out there and find water on their own! It will ruin America’s moral fiber!!!!

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:23:07am

re: #120 retired cynic

What is better meth? Do your teeth fall out slower?

much more addictive

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:26:41am

Poland reported a record daily rise in coronavirus infections for the third consecutive day on Friday, confirming 35,143 new cases, the most since the pandemic hit the country more than a year ago.

polskieradio.pl

The death toll increased by 443, according to public health authorities.

A total of 2,189,966 people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Poland since the start of the pandemic, and 51,305 have died in connection with the COVID-19 respiratory disease so far, officials said on Friday.

Of the new cases confirmed on Friday, 5,264 were in the central region of Mazowieckie, which includes the national capital Warsaw.

Meanwhile, 5,095 new infections were reported in the southern coal mining region of Silesia.

The western province of Wielkopolskie, which is home to the major city of Poznań, had the third-highest number of new infections confirmed by officials on Friday, at 4,141.

The latest deaths in Poland’s coronavirus outbreak are 318 people with pre-existing medical conditions and 125 who died directly because of COVID-19, the Polish health ministry said.

(more)

Also from Radio Poland, UPDATE: New swathe of restrictions in Poland amid COVID record

Poland on Thursday announced a swathe of new COVID restrictions as officials reported another record daily rise in infections and the health minister warned the country was “in a crisis situation.”

Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, meanwhile, said Poland was experiencing its most difficult moment in the pandemic, with over 70 percent of hospital beds with ventilators occupied.

He added that Poland’s public health service was approaching the limits of its capacity to cope.

Under new rules that will kick in for two weeks from Saturday, large retail outlets and churches will be able to admit fewer people, hairdressers and beauty parlours will be shut, while kindergartens will be closed to children apart from those of medics, soldiers, police and firefighters.

Large furniture and building supply stores will be closed, while sports facilities will be open only to professional athletes.

(more, with audio, 3:39)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:27:16am

re: #138 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

A proposal in North Dakota to shield schools and teachers from lawsuits arising from posting the Ten Commandments in classrooms is unconstitutional and would spur costly and unwinnable legal fights, attorneys and education officials told state lawmakers Wednesday.

I recall when this issue came up under the GW Bush administration. Some smartass journalist (probably one with a couple of semesters of Comparative Religion under his belt) asked the Prez which translation of the Ten Commandments should be used.

To which Bush replied “The standard one”.

He did not clarify what he meant by that, but I assume in his pea brain he meant the King James one with all the Thou-shalt-nots.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:27:51am

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

much more addictive

Tastes great, less filling.

It’s a dessert topping and a floor wax.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:29:36am

re: #161 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Tastes great, less filling.

It’s a dessert topping and a floor wax.

and if you are trying to work three jobs and still care for a family, it is the only way that you can get through your week

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No Malarkey!  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:29:43am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:45:19am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:54:03am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 27, 2021 • 2:55:17am

This is not about the concept of conservatorship, it is about a white trash pop celebrity.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 3:03:27am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is not about the concept of conservatorship, it is about a white trash pop celebrity.

In her case, this has been going on since 2008. Her father controls all her money.

She is extremely wealthy because of her music career. For those who do not have vast sums of money, it is impossible to get out from under conservatorship due to the lack of money to fight it out in court.

From the article:

One issue, Low said, is the lack of training and oversight of conservators who are not licensed professionals. Oftentimes, courts will appoint a family member to act on behalf of a person who is deemed to be no longer able to care for themselves. [Evan] Low’s [D-San Jose] Assembly Bill 1194 would require anyone appointed as a conservator who is not a licensed professional to receive 10 hours of training in financial abuse. Nonprofessional conservators, such as Spears’ father, would also be required to register with the state’s oversight agency, the Professional Fiduciaries Bureau. That oversight would only apply to estates valued at $1 million or more, with Low’s office saying that threshold will be added in upcoming bill amendments.

If a court finds that a conservator did not act in the best interest of a client, the fiduciaries bureau would be required to suspend or revoke the license or registration of that person and they could face a civil penalty of up to $50,000 payable to the estate of the conservatee.

(more)

latimes.com

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 27, 2021 • 3:07:52am

I’m going to hit the rack. I’ll catch y’all later.

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sagehen  Mar 27, 2021 • 3:50:28am

I don’t particularly like this year’s Maccabeats Passover song, but Six13 has a good one.

Six13 - The Red Sea Shanty: A Pirate Passover

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 4:04:34am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s only a few blocks from where I used to live (12th and Atlantic, also 9th and Pacific)

east coast and west coast?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 27, 2021 • 4:45:27am

We, naturally, become very focused on our own social ills.

But there has been big news elsewhere, that gets very under-reported in the US:

Protesters Warned They ‘Could Be Shot in the Head, Back’ as Over 60 Killed in Myanmar

Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed Saturday at least 64 protesters, including a young boy, news reports and witnesses said, a brutal crackdown on dissent that came as the leader of the ruling junta said the military will protect the people and strive for democracy.

Protesters against the February 1 military coup came out on the streets of Yangon, Mandalay and other towns, defying a warning that they could be shot “in the head and back”, while the country’s generals celebrated Armed Forces Day.

[…]

It’s the same old story of unelected men grabbing power, and using double-speak to defend themselves.

The generals in Myanmar will “strive for democracy” in the same vein as Georgia Republicans claim to be defending elections.

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 27, 2021 • 4:50:41am

re: #40 b.d. (America is Great Again)

At this pace the pro bowling tour is going to be the only sport the wingnuts can watch.

Pro Axe throwing as well.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 4:54:29am

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:01:46am

re: #173 Dangerman

There are a few female mass killers/spree killers out there. Very few. When crimes of that nature are perpetrated by a woman, it’s definitely notable.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:24:40am

re: #33 Dave In Austin

And we’re off….

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Hawks and Braves players should protest having to play at home.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:30:54am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:41:11am

So, this morning, the Czech government proudly unveiled their online census website, to make things more efficient for this year’s count.

It promptly collapsed.

This - presumably - was the server used by the Czech Statistical Office….

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:45:39am

re: #177 Dr Lizardo

I see not one, but two dead mice in that pic.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:46:06am

re: #177 Dr Lizardo

So, this morning, the Czech government proudly unveiled their online census website, to make things more efficient for this year’s count.

It promptly collapsed.

This - presumably - was the server used by the Czech Statistical Office….

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Objection: That case is far too clean. A computer dedicated to such an important task would undoubtedly be full of dust and/or cat fur.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:53:10am

re: #178 darthstar

re: #179 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

All jokes aside, this is actually the fourth time this has happened; first, with auto registration, again with highway toll sticker e-shop, then yet again with COVID vaccination registration, and now this.

It’s a running joke here. Apparently, the government is utterly incapable of coming up with e-services and that’s most likely because none of them are even remotely familiar with IT. Hell, the Prime Minister doesn’t even know how to do anything more sophisticated than post photos on Instagram.

“Czech Republic - The Country of the Future” as the government here is fond of touting itself as. 😂😂😂

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:57:08am

Local news of a sort:

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 5:58:18am

re: #159 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Poland reported a record daily rise in coronavirus infections for the third consecutive day on Friday, confirming 35,143 new cases, the most since the pandemic hit the country more than a year ago.

polskieradio.pl

(more)

Also from Radio Poland, UPDATE: New swathe of restrictions in Poland amid COVID record

(more, with audio, 3:39)

Poland may have seen its first cases a year ago but it doesn’t appear that it really had any significant outbreak until the fall — it appears that Eastern Europe missed the first wave that struck Western Europe in spring, but now these nations are making up for lost time. Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria etc are all experiencing a major surge.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:06:31am

re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

Czech Republic’s numbers are declining. Most likely because the SARS-CoV-2 virus has almost effectively burned through the whole country. At least, that’s the conclusion of leading epidemiologists here…it’s simply running out of people to infect.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:13:40am

re: #180 Dr Lizardo

All jokes aside, this is actually the fourth time this has happened; first, with auto registration, again with highway toll sticker e-shop, then yet again with COVID vaccination registration, and now this.

It’s a running joke here. Apparently, the government is utterly incapable of coming up with e-services and that’s most likely because none of them are even remotely familiar with IT. Hell, the Prime Minister doesn’t even know how to do anything more sophisticated than post photos on Instagram.

“Czech Republic - The Country of the Future” as the government here is fond of touting itself as. 😂😂😂

Yep, that makes sense. To be fair, most governments are pretty incompetent when it comes to that sort of thing, simply because it is in the nature of government bureaucracy to farm things out to the lowest bidder, and in IT, that never ends well.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:16:30am

re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yep, that makes sense. To be fair, most governments are pretty incompetent when it comes to that sort of thing, simply because it is in the nature of government bureaucracy to farm things out to the lowest bidder, and in IT, that never ends well.

Fast, cheap, or good. Pick two.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:17:59am

re: #185 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Fast, cheap, or good. Pick two.

The ACA online marketplace is one recent example of the US government doing a damn fine job of picking the first two and being surprised when the third didn’t happen.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:22:39am

re: #186 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

The ACA online marketplace is one recent example of the US government doing a damn fine job of picking the first two and being surprised when the third didn’t happen.

Or they spec for an expected hit rate on the site without appreciating that when the site initially goes up there will be a literal flood of access requests. It is something you can prepare for by adding resources to the site to handle the initial surge with the expectation that you can draw that down later on as things settle.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:24:23am

re: #187 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

Or they spec for an expected hit rate on the site without appreciating that when the site initially goes up there will be a literal flood of access requests. It is something you can prepare for by adding resources to the site to handle the initial surge with the expectation that you can draw that down later on as things settle.

Yes. This happens a lot, even in industries that should be prepared for that sort of thing. Video game development company Bungie launched their immensely popular Destiny several years back, and their servers literally caught fire.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:25:05am

Q family suing CNN

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:27:00am

Another republican goes there

Ma’am, other than assassination, I have no way of voting out, okay.”

— Michigan GOP chairman Ron Weiser, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked what the party can do about Rep. Peter Meier (R-MI) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), who voted to impeach Donald Trump.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:27:45am

re: #183 Dr Lizardo

Czech Republic’s numbers are declining. Most likely because the SARS-CoV-2 virus has almost effectively burned through the whole country. At least, that’s the conclusion of leading epidemiologists here…it’s simply running out of people to infect.

Czech Republic had its first surge in fall, the second after-Christmas, and then the third in mid-late February. As you have pointed out over the past few days, the numbers are on a decline — but let’s wait to see if there is an after-Easter surge. The questions are how long immunity lasts after recovery and whether the new variants will unleash a new wave of illness. Your third wave may have been due to the UK variant and maybe that is dying out.

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:27:55am

Former guy still fomenting.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:34:03am

re: #191 Hecuba’s daughter

Czech Republic had its first surge in fall, the second after-Christmas, and then the third in mid-late February. As you have pointed out over the past few days, the numbers are on a decline — but let’s wait to see if there is an after-Easter surge. The questions are how long immunity lasts after recovery and whether the new variants will unleash a new wave of illness. Your third wave may have been due to the UK variant and maybe that is dying out.

The current third wave is almost entirely the UK variant.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:36:34am

re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Yep, that makes sense. To be fair, most governments are pretty incompetent when it comes to that sort of thing, simply because it is in the nature of government bureaucracy to farm things out to the lowest bidder, and in IT, that never ends well.

Were watching how to get away with murder
Hampton IT Services was just launched so maybe he’s available

(Oliver was dissuaded from calling it “Control Oli Delete”)

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jeffreyw  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:36:37am

Good morning!

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:43:46am

re: #189 darthstar

Q family suing CNN

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Not a chance

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:46:03am

re: #133 Targetpractice

Yeah, theoretically you won’t starve to death, freeze to death, or watch your body rot from a preventable disease. But you also have no real agency, you’ve no real future, and your only options besides the job lottery is either joining the UN Navy or getting a job as virtual slave working in The Belt.

Until a Marco Inaros comes along and tries to behead the UN.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:46:30am
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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 6:51:31am

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:00:33am

Two jokes about Adam and the rib

Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam’s ribs.

Later in the week his mother noticed him lying down as if he was sick, and said. “Johnny what is the matter?”

Little Johnny responded, “I have a pain in my side. I think I’m going to have a wife.”

And

After a sermon on creation, a curious young boy asked, “Dad? How did we get here?”
“Remember God created EVERYTHING in six days. On the sixth day, he scooped up some dust and made Adam. He took one of Adam’s ribs and made Eve. They had kids and their kids had kids and so on, so that’s how we’re here.”
Not entirely convinced, he asked his mom the same question.
“It began with microorganisms you couldn’t see without a microscope. Over time they evolved—creating algae, fish, birds, tadpoles, for example. Eventually, who knows, but something—tadpoles or algae—-evolved into monkeys and apes and eventually humans!!”

Mom’s explanation seemed more logical so the boy approached his dad. “You lied to me! Mom told me about evolution.”

Dad responded, “no, Son. I didn’t lie. Your mother was just telling you about HER side of the family.”

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Jay C  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:08:39am

re: #192 darthstar

Former guy still fomenting.

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SO even after all the supporting information (basically everything everybody else has uncovered), Trump is still blathering away about the Russian influence on his 2016 campaign STILL being a “hoax”, and/or an “FBI vendetta”? And still harping on the “Durham Report” that even his toady Bill Barr didn’t want to close up and release?

Go back to the golf course, Donald: stop fucking wasting our time…

(Though I was somewhat surprised to find that (at least as of February) John Durham is still “on duty” as Special ProsecutorCounsel . Not sure what he’s doing with his time, but he is still alive….)

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:12:08am

re: #198 Dangerman

In the replies:

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:12:52am

re: #201 Jay C

He stepped down at the end of February I believe.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:13:44am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Regional news:

(more)

Group forms Cannabis Industry Association to help develop state’s marijuana industry (Rapid City, SD Journal)

So around me:
South (Colorado): Legal
West (Wyoming): Working on it
North (South Dakota): Setting up shops now
East: Pete Ricketts invokes “Reefer Madness” to continue opposition.

Cannabis Industry Association - CIA

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:21:04am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:21:32am

re: #203 darthstar

He stepped down at the end of February I believe.

According to Wiki, he resigned as U.S. Attorney, but continued his tenure as Special Counsel. The question is: is his loyalty to the GOP or to the truth? Let’s see whether he comes up will anything worth noting.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:21:36am

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:21:50am
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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:23:25am

re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Regional news:

(more)

Group forms Cannabis Industry Association to help develop state’s marijuana industry (Rapid City, SD Journal)

So around me:
South (Colorado): Legal
West (Wyoming): Working on it
North (South Dakota): Setting up shops now
East: Pete Ricketts invokes “Reefer Madness” to continue opposition.

Turning states green is the first step in turning them blue.

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:30:21am
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:36:49am
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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:40:16am

In other words, white people are a big problem:

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darthstar  Mar 27, 2021 • 7:56:28am
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wrenchwench  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:06:25am

Next month I get some paid vacation, which I have not had any of since 1995.

Woohoo.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:08:20am

re: #214 wrenchwench

Next month I get some paid vacation, which I have not had any of since 1995.

Woohoo.

I will also soon be receiving paid vacation days, and paid holidays, which makes me happy. I can finally take time off and not have to worry about losing money.

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KingKenrod  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:14:17am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:17:42am

re: #195 jeffreyw

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Good morning!

Western good morning!

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:19:20am

re: #146 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(5:40, caution for coarse language and hate speech, Richard Dawkins Reads His Hate Mail from Christians on his 80th birthday, March 26)

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Video

I’m sure several brainwashed relatives have sent their special kind of Xtian love to Dawkins…

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:22:53am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is not about the concept of conservatorship, it is about a white trash pop celebrity.

Which is why I stopped watching local newscasts in Los Angeles years ago when half of the news involved asshole “celebrities”.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:26:00am

re: #218 🌹UOJB!

I’m sure several brainwashed relatives have sent their special kind of Xtian love to Dawkins…

Dawkins is pretty used to that, I’m sure. The man has kinda made his name out of painting a target on his back for “fine, upstanding” (///) Christian folks to shoot at.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:27:40am

re: #216 KingKenrod

Just look at all those caravans of MS-13 he’s stopping from invading ‘Merica!

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:28:07am

re: #179 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Objection: That case is far too clean. A computer dedicated to such an important task would undoubtedly be full of dust and/or cat fur.

Actually their state of the art machine could only handle 8 responses.

When the 9th one came in, it overloaded…

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:38:41am

re: #212 Belafon

Remember that whole “you don’t stop racing just because you can see the finish line?”

THIS IS FUCKING WHY.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:39:16am

re: #181 William Lewis

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:45:03am

re: #224 🌹UOJB!

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Punish Domestic Terrorists  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:47:02am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

Remember that whole “you don’t stop racing just because you can see the finish line?”

THIS IS FUCKING WHY.

Is This Joker Right That ‘COVID’s Over, Baby’? (Snopes)

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:48:56am

re: #213 darthstar

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 8:54:32am

re: #222 🌹UOJB!

Actually their state of the art machine could only handle 8 responses.

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When the 9th one came in, it overloaded…

Also, some software systems are not scalable. Too often, testing of new systems fails to conduct realistic load modeling in determining whether it has the capacity to handle real world experiences.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:03:15am

re: #228 Hecuba’s daughter

Also, some software systems are not scalable. Too often, testing of new systems fails to conduct realistic load modeling in determining whether it has the capacity to handle real world experiences.

That’s almost certainly what happened….yet again. For some reason, load modeling is, quite inexplicably, never tested. Then when the system goes live, it crashes almost immediately.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:04:27am

re: #224 🌹UOJB!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:08:42am

re: #230 Hecuba’s daughter

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gwangung  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:10:50am

Sorry…this just pisses me off.

All 23 Democratic governors sing letter condemning anti-Asian violence

Not that all 23 Democratic governors signed this…but that 24 Republican governors DIDN’T.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

Why is this even up for debate??????

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:14:23am

For those of you in the Dallas area and you ro your 16+ year old needs a shot, you might be able to sign up here: utsouthwestern.edu

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:23:05am

re: #232 gwangung

Sorry…this just pisses me off.

All 23 Democratic governors sing letter condemning anti-Asian violence

Not that all 23 Democratic governors signed this…but that 24 Republican governors DIDN’T.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

Why is this even up for debate??????

Because for the most of the GOP, the only racism is anti-white racism promoted by the “woke” and BLM. Not only don’t they believe that there is any problem with white supremacism, they rail against the attempt to purge the military of white supremacists, claiming that it’s an assault against those who don’t share the lefts’ progressive values.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:26:36am

re: #232 gwangung

23 and 24 is 47.

What happened to the other 3 Governors?

Also, this is the usual Republican schtick of refusing to support anything Democrats put forward. The GOP base eats this shit up.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:29:23am

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

23 and 24 is 47.

What happened to the other 3 Governors?

Also, this is the usual Republican schtick of refusing to support anything Democrats put forward. The GOP base eats this shit up.

2 East Coast GOP governors - Hogan and Baker - also signed the document

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:37:33am

re: #232 gwangung

Sorry…this just pisses me off.

All 23 Democratic governors sing letter condemning anti-Asian violence

Not that all 23 Democratic governors signed this…but that 24 Republican governors DIDN’T.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

Why is this even up for debate??????

Why don’t we ask the GOP Governors why they refuse to sign during their current meeting?

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:45:31am

OT — at the end of last night’s sermon, our rabbi discussed the continuing debacle of Israel’s effort to elect a stable government. He suggested we could discuss that around our dinner tables, as a diversion from our politics. The anti-Netanyahu coalition consists of groups that disagree on every issue except one: getting rid of Netanyahu. Israel has certainly demonstrated the potential instability of parliamentary systems, when the legislature is fragmented across multiple parties and there isn’t a single dominant party or one with a couple reliable partners that holds a majority of the vote.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:46:43am

This is a very nice problem to have.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:47:41am

re: #239 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

This is a very nice problem to have.

Send that shit to other countries, stat!

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:48:02am
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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:48:04am

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

Remember that whole “you don’t stop racing just because you can see the finish line?”

THIS IS FUCKING WHY.

…and as the hare approached the finish line, he looked back and saw the tortoise plodding along, a few steps from the beginning.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:49:19am

re: #238 Hecuba’s daughter

OT — at the end of last night’s sermon, our rabbi discussed the continuing debacle of Israel’s effort to elect a stable government. He suggested we could discuss that around our dinner tables, as a diversion from our politics. The anti-Netanyahu coalition consists of groups that disagree on every issue except one: getting rid of Netanyahu. Israel has certainly demonstrated the potential instability of parliamentary systems, when the legislature is fragmented across multiple parties and there isn’t a single dominant party or one with a couple reliable partners that holds a majority of the vote.

That’s the problem when the threshold for proportional representation is set too low.

If the threshold was raised to 5% that would knock out most of the fringe parties.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:51:23am

This is unlikely to escape the notice of college recruiters.

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retired cynic  Mar 27, 2021 • 9:56:34am

re: #227 🌹UOJB!

Without the humor.

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Dangerman  Mar 27, 2021 • 10:15:08am

re: #243 🌹UOJB!

That’s the problem when the threshold for proportional representation is set too low.

If the threshold was raised to 5% that would knock out most of the fringe parties.

Or look at it from the other end
No individual or party inspires half the country
There is no Netanyahu alternative

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Belafon  Mar 27, 2021 • 10:25:44am

re: #239 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

This is a very nice problem to have.

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I suspect the Biden Administration isn’t grappling with it.

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steve_davis  Mar 27, 2021 • 10:31:18am

re: #232 gwangung

Sorry…this just pisses me off.

All 23 Democratic governors sing letter condemning anti-Asian violence

Not that all 23 Democratic governors signed this…but that 24 Republican governors DIDN’T.

WHAT.

THE.

HELL.

Why is this even up for debate??????

Were they able to find a comfortable key for everyone?

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mmmirele  Mar 27, 2021 • 11:06:17am

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

I recall when this issue came up under the GW Bush administration. Some smartass journalist (probably one with a couple of semesters of Comparative Religion under his belt) asked the Prez which translation of the Ten Commandments should be used.

To which Bush replied “The standard one”.

He did not clarify what he meant by that, but I assume in his pea brain he meant the King James one with all the Thou-shalt-nots.

I’m sure you’re aware that Catholics and Protestants number the Ten Commandments differently. Actually, now that I’ve gone to look, I see that the Wikipedia article has eight different numberings, with no Protestant numberings included.

en.wikipedia.org

I’m sure the local religious freedom orgs will be shopping around for plaintiffs for the inevitable lawsuit.

I honestly wish there’d be a discussion about “thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thy neighbor’s wife, or anything of thy neighbor’s” and note how it puts women into the class of chattel property. Uhm, we’re not property, folks, and I don’t care how you interpret your holy book, you can just take that interpretation, fold it up and shove it where the sun don’t shine.


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