A Genuinely Creepy Short Horror Film From Buried Hatchet Productions: “Motion Detected”

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After coming home from a business trip, a man discovers a strange figure in his home security footage that has been appearing every night at 9PM.

(Confused? Just to clear up some confusion, the person in the previous recordings is NOT the main character. As the description says, he comes home from a business trip so those previous days he was not there, and needed someone to watch over the house. He is simply looking back at those tapes of the dog sitter. Hope that clears up some confusion.)

Directed/Edited/Shot/Written by Vincent Dormani
Starring/Score by Frank Dormani
Featuring Vincent Dormani

#ShortHorrorFilm #Horror

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:27:44pm

Temperature reached 85F here today. This happens in early spring around these parts, until “June gloom” sets in with dense coastal cloud cover.

We didn’t get anywhere near enough rain during the rainy season. Plants will be pretty brown come summer.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:37:40pm
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:38:25pm

Wine bag at Kroger:

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gocart mozart  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:43:36pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:47:02pm

Re: Republican gun fantasies

I don’t know if these guys play too much Call of Duty or watch too many Schwarzenegger movies or what but I don’t personally enjoy the thought of killing someone.

In fact the last thing I hope to ever have to do with my guns is shoot someone.

And I certainly don’t worry about a group of armed men busting my door down.

I’d rather work towards building a better works so that’s just not a thing that ever happens to me.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:49:32pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s funny is, if it actually came down to it - the majority of them physically could not pull the trigger. To shoot someone without hesitation, and shoot to kill, is either programmed into someone (military training) or the result of some kind of psychopathy. An ordinary, functioning human being has an innate resistance to outright killing another human being, which is why modern military training was developed in the first place.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:51:43pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

Several generations ago churches railed against rock and roll music for being “demonic”. This is just a fresh coat of paint on a very old outrage.

Sure, I think the shoes are rather dumb but I also think plenty of Christian products are dumb too.

And aren’t these the same people always espousing the awesomeness of a free and open marketplace?

///

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:57:22pm
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Jay C  Mar 28, 2021 • 3:57:47pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Personally, I find the “Satan Shoes” to be ludicrous (and the sputtering reaction to them by the wingers to be even more so): but $1,018??
Now that’s a mortal sin……

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:00:23pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

Noem is okay with voter suppression, migrant children separated from their families and caged and other atrocities but she’s triggered by sneakers.
Go figure.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:00:55pm

GFS surface temp anomalies through 10 April shows that early spring is expected to be quite warm across the US:

Image: gfs-T2ma-us-fh-54-300.gif

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:06:59pm

re: #10 Patricia Kayden

Noem is okay with voter suppression, migrant children separated from their families and caged and other atrocities but she’s triggered by sneakers.
Go figure.

Oh and she also enjoys seeing the virus kill thousands of South Dakotans.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:12:35pm

It is pouring outside right now in Philly. It appears as though we are in the middle of the storm.
weather.gov

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:16:08pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:17:31pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

That chart is dated. Minnesota has announced that this coming Tuesday, all Minnesotans 16+ will be eligible.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:27:00pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Years ago, I was researching concealed carry in a state very supportive of it. One aspect that I looked into was the cost of actually shooting someone. The numbers that I ended up with, assuming that it was a perfectly legal and justifiable shooting were legal costs in the area of $35,000 and about 2 years of investigation. Which ignores emotional cost for those involved.

At the time there were a lot of extremely loud boosters for civilians shooting other civilians.

I concluded that with a cost of $35k and two years of my life hostage, assuming that I guessed and acted perfectly correctly, anything short of long term physical safety was probably not worth shooting someone. And, unfortunately, I am not one of those who are infallible.

That conclusion has illuminated how I behave with respect to firearms.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:27:35pm

I know zero about him, and I don’t know the district, but:

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JC1  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:27:56pm

re: #6 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

What’s funny is, if it actually came down to it - the majority of them physically could not pull the trigger. To shoot someone without hesitation, and shoot to kill, is either programmed into someone (military training) or the result of some kind of psychopathy. An ordinary, functioning human being has an innate resistance to outright killing another human being, which is why modern military training was developed in the first place.

The thing is, they obviously don’t see some people as ‘human beings’.

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JC1  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:28:40pm

re: #9 Jay C

Personally, I find the “Satan Shoes” to be ludicrous (and the sputtering reaction to them by the wingers to be even more so): but $1,018??
Now that’s a mortal sin……

Why 1018? Why not $666/shoe?

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:29:21pm

re: #18 JC1

The thing is, they obviously don’t see some people as ‘human beings’.

…and that, unfortunately, is part of the conditioning. Militaries train their soldiers to treat their opponents as non-human, in order to defeat the instinct. Which is why you see police officers who have no problem shooting or otherwise killing Black people.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:30:22pm

re: #19 JC1

Why 1018? Why not $666/shoe?

Apparently 666 will be the total number of pairs made.

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ckkatz  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:35:11pm

Sounds like we are facing a severe case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia!

(Yay, I finally got use hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia in a sentence!)

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:35:36pm

re: #22 ckkatz

Sounds like we are facing a severe case of hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia!

(Yay, I finally got use hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia in a sentence!)

That is a hell of a word.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:36:19pm

nugs.tv Video Archive!

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plansbandc  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:36:33pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:36:48pm

re: #17 Belafon

He can be up front with his republicanism then.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:42:49pm

re: #25 plansbandc

The operator is really skilled.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:50:25pm
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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:51:44pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL! How typical! He owns that bed, too.

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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2021 • 4:52:16pm

re: #9 Jay C

Personally, I find the “Satan Shoes” to be ludicrous (and the sputtering reaction to them by the wingers to be even more so): but $1,018??
Now that’s a mortal sin……

I’m still unhappy I didn’t bid on a pair of Prince’s shoes when there was an auction of his stuff a couple of years back. The starting price was $750. Still wish I had. He had one guy making his shoes, they were hand made. And all I would do is look at them because there ain’t no way I’m shoving my 9.5 foot (yeah, it’s women’s) into a 5.5 shoe.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:01:33pm

re: #30 mmmirele

Prince was a 5.5 shoe size? Hot damn that’s tiny.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:02:09pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

Prince was a 5.5 shoe size? Hot damn that’s tiny.

He was not a large man. Mrs. Fish had him in her house once. He kind of… disappeared into the furniture.

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:02:36pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

I wear a 5.5 shoe.

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:04:08pm

re: #33 PhillyPretzel

My mother wore a 4.5 when she was younger. Her wedding ring I keep on a chain. It won’t fit on my little finger.

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DesertDenizen  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:04:27pm

re: #32 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

He was not a large man. Mrs. Fish had him in her house once. He kind of… disappeared into the furniture.

Okay, there must be a storythere on why The Purple One was in her house.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:05:07pm

re: #29 retired cynic

LOL! How typical! He owns that bed, too.

Neighbors’ cats are apparently a thing…lots of them in the thread replies

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:05:07pm

re: #34 retired cynic

My mother wore a 4.5 when she was younger. Her wedding ring I keep on a chain. It won’t fit on my little finger.

I wear my grandfather’s wedding ring. I’m the only one in the family who can wear it. I have large knuckles, but otherwise thin and spindly fingers, so the ring fits over my knuckle whereas the rest of my family it just slips off.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:06:37pm

re: #17 Belafon

I know zero about him, and I don’t know the district, but:

[Embedded content]

It’s Texas.

But his district does appear to be slowly changing.

His Republican opponents are quite the gang of Trump sycophants.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:08:25pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:09:42pm

re: #35 DesertDenizen

Okay, there must be a storythere on why The Purple One was in her house.

Alright, it’s CSB time… (Spoilered because personal details)

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:12:20pm

I like Mehdi Hasan because he takes no shit, even if he does cross over into dirtbag left territory sometimes.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:14:26pm

re: #4 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Weird, yes. To me no creepier than buying/wearing jewelry with the imagery of a dead person nailed to a cross.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:14:35pm
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:16:32pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

Prince was a 5.5 shoe size? Hot damn that’s tiny.

He was like 5’2” or 5’4”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:16:32pm

re: #33 PhillyPretzel

I wear a 5.5 shoe.

I wear a 6 mens myself. I’m not a large man but I always through Prince was a little bigger than me.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:17:27pm

re: #9 Jay C

Personally, I find the “Satan Shoes” to be ludicrous (and the sputtering reaction to them by the wingers to be even more so): but $1,018??
Now that’s a mortal sin……

Yeah. They should have at least forgone the big payday and sold them for $666.66 (and here in PA we add the 6% sales tax).

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:17:34pm

So what’s the verdict on that short film I posted above? I try to only post these when they’re better than average - there’s a lot of sub-par horror videos on YouTube so I don’t find good ones very often.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:17:50pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:21:22pm

re: #42 Eventual Carrion

Weird, yes. To me no creepier than buying/wearing jewelry with the imagery of a dead person nailed to a cross.

There are multiple churches around the world who claim to be in possession of pieces of the wood from the cross Jesus was nailed to.

Someone is obviously a good salesman.

/

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:30:53pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Re: Republican gun fantasies

I don’t know if these guys play too much Call of Duty or watch too many Schwarzenegger movies or what but I don’t personally enjoy the thought of killing someone.

In fact the last thing I hope to ever have to do with my guns is shoot someone.

And I certainly don’t worry about a group of armed men busting my door down.

I’d rather work towards building a better works so that’s just not a thing that ever happens to me.

Lindsey is not gonna shoot anybody

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Dangerman  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:31:19pm

re: #3 Belafon

Wine bag at Kroger:

[Embedded content]

sangria is for sure

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:32:30pm

re: #20 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

…and that, unfortunately, is part of the conditioning. Militaries train their soldiers to treat their opponents as non-human, in order to defeat the instinct. Which is why you see police officers who have no problem shooting or otherwise killing Black people.

There is a company, the Killology Research Group, that goes around the country giving that same military training / conditioning to police officers (and yes, “Killology” is really their name).

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:34:07pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

So what’s the verdict on that short film I posted above? I try to only post these when they’re better than average - there’s a lot of sub-par horror videos on YouTube so I don’t find good ones very often.

I enjoyed it. I watch a lot of YouTube DUST science fiction shorts and horror. There are always gems among them. One I watched a couple weeks ago was funny strange I liked.

Sci-Fi Short Film “Science+” | DUST

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mmmirele  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:34:15pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lil Nas X also has an exquisite sense of timing. When are the Chik Fil A people NOT working? Why yes, that’d be Sunday. The company makes a huge point of being closed on Sunday. Dude knows his stuff.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:34:20pm

re: #52 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

There is a company, the Killology Research Group, that goes around the country giving that same military training / conditioning to police officers (and yes, “Killology” is really their name).

That is very much on-brand. Sigh. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:43:05pm

Update: seems they deleted the tweet now…

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:50:23pm

re: #33 PhillyPretzel

I wear a 5.5 shoe.

Me?

My feet are size 15EEE.

Birkenstock 54 Extra Wide.

I have to custom order shoes.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:51:06pm

re: #57 🌹UOJB!

Me?

My feet are size 15EEE.

Birkenstock 54 Extra Wide.

I have to custom order shoes.

I wear size 13’s. Not a special order, but it is rather difficult to find properly fitting shoes in most shoe stores. Especially dress shoes.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:52:35pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 5:53:00pm
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(((Archangel1)))  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:04:26pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:08:42pm
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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:12:19pm

re: #23 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

That is a hell of a word.

I see what you did there.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:13:48pm
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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:14:06pm
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Dave In Austin  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:16:34pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:20:01pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

So what’s the verdict on that short film I posted above? I try to only post these when they’re better than average - there’s a lot of sub-par horror videos on YouTube so I don’t find good ones very often.

Far better than most. Not my favorite genre but well worthy of my time.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:21:59pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:23:04pm

re: #68 jaunte

“Incident has been resolved.” Only for a white male. Anyone else would be reporting an “officer-involved shooting.”

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:24:57pm

re: #67 Rightwingconspirator

Far better than most. Not my favorite genre but well worthy of my time.

I’d agree with this. I don’t get into horror much at all but I’ve learned to trust your postings, Charles.

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:25:54pm

re: #66 Dave In Austin

Wait a second!

I don’t see Rafael’s “FAFO” tattoo!

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:26:48pm

re: #69 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

“Incident has been resolved.” Only for a white male. Anyone else would be reporting an “officer-involved shooting.”

Probably though the national park rangers are better than the average bear LEO…

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:27:31pm

re: #72 William Lewis

Probably though the national park rangers are better than the average bear LEO…

That is true. They are pretty good, at that. One of the few agencies armed with guns that I’d actually trust, at this point.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:59:14pm
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 28, 2021 • 6:59:39pm

re: #74 Dread Pirate Ron

I’m tagged in this post and I don’t like it

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:05:51pm
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plansbandc  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:06:00pm
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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:24:53pm

Disagree

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:29:06pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:34:07pm

Ghost - If You Have Ghosts (Live at Music Feeds Studio)

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sagehen  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:37:45pm

re: #78 Patricia Kayden

what hill are y’all willing to die on?

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:43:09pm
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cat-tikvah  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:49:38pm

re: #82 Patricia Kayden

She trashed her reputation for Trump. I hope that every waking moment (and every sleeping one) she is haunted by a vision of 500,000 plus faces of dead Americans.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:52:13pm

Sad.

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:53:31pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

He voted to Leave but wants to Remain?

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:59:07pm

re: #81 sagehen

What hill are y’all willing to die on.

I tried one of those strings and entered “American beer is not beer,” only to find near-universal agreement except among yokels and goobers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 7:59:33pm

re: #85 jaunte

He voted to Leave but wants to Remain?

Just like the GOP who try to have their shit both ways.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:07:42pm
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:08:45pm

re: #88 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

DipShip

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:10:07pm

re: #86 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I tried one of those strings and entered “American beer is not beer,” only to find near-universal agreement except among yokels and goobers.

Oh, it’s beer (grain, water, yeast hops). It’s just usually foul beer. I have tomorrow night off; thanks to you I now hear a nice brown ale calling my name :D

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sagehen  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:14:41pm

re: #90 William Lewis

Oh, it’s beer (grain, water, yeast hops). It’s just usually foul beer. I have tomorrow night off; thanks to you I now hear a nice brown ale calling my name :D

It’s making love in a canoe.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:15:01pm

Guns N’ Posers

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William Lewis  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:18:08pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Guns N’ Posers

Rancid White Underbelly

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Dave In Austin  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:33:15pm

re: #78 Patricia Kayden

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A Cranky One  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:35:13pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Guns N’ Posers

The Dry Heaves

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:38:50pm
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BlueSpotinAL  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:40:17pm

For the Ghost fans out there - a Papa Emeritus IV sighting

The Hellacopters & Papa Emeritus IV (Ghost) - Sympathy For The Devil (Live “På Spåret” 2021)

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danarchy  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:41:59pm

re: #86 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

I tried one of those strings and entered “American beer is not beer,” only to find near-universal agreement except among yokels and goobers.

What is “American Beer”? There are like 8000 breweries in the country making just about every kind of beer imaginable, many of them quite good.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:56:00pm
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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:56:13pm

I’ll let Eric Idle address the subject of American beer:

Monty Python American Beer

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:57:18pm

re: #99 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips

Somebody’s earned themselves a raise.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt'n😷Trips  Mar 28, 2021 • 8:59:07pm
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gocart mozart  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:01:19pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:08:57pm

Never thought I’d be so happy watching a damn cargo ship floating down a canal.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:13:11pm

Looks like she’s underway.

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gocart mozart  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:16:11pm
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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:31:46pm
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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:33:47pm

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

In their fantasies it’s always a group of black men they’ll be killing.

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:35:09pm

re: #107 Dread Pirate Ron

[Embedded content]

This bit got me:

The GQP at the state and local level regularly push consumption taxes in the form of sales taxes while cutting others (ex: income taxes) that would fall largely upon the rich. And they insist that this is actually “better” for the poor because they “keep more of their money.”

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2021 • 9:43:34pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

So what’s the verdict on that short film I posted above? I try to only post these when they’re better than average - there’s a lot of sub-par horror videos on YouTube so I don’t find good ones very often.

It was well made. I found it a bit confusing though.

Couldn’t tell if it was a haunting or a supernatural, and malevolent, home security system.

With a name like Dormani though, I’m leaning towards the latter. The name makes me of Dormammu from the Marvel Universe.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:13:59pm

re: #109 Targetpractice

This bit got me:

The GQP at the state and local level regularly push consumption taxes in the form of sales taxes while cutting others (ex: income taxes) that would fall largely upon the rich. And they insist that this is actually “better” for the poor because they “keep more of their money.”

My state senator Steve Erdman is doing that right now in the Unicameral (combined with repealing the state income tax).

He put an op-ed in every paper in the district explaining how a consumption tax is not a sales tax (LOL).

I wrote a letter to every paper rebutting the notion, and how such taxes fall primarily on the poor and middle class. You would be unsurprised to learn no newspaper printed my letter.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:23:20pm
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sagehen  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:26:04pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:26:30pm

Omaha World-Herald:

You can now eat a Reuben at the hotel where Omahans (correctly) say it was invented

The chef at the newly opened Kimpton Cottonwood Hotel faced a pressing question.

Could the Reuben sandwich go home again?

The Reuben was born at the Blackstone Hotel on the very ground Chef Ryan Arensdorf’s kitchen now occupies, or so Omahans believe. (Misguided New Yorkers claim it, too.)

When developers revived the Blackstone as the Cottonwood last year, they embraced elements of the historic hotel’s past. The Reuben was one of them, and Arensdorf wanted his version to steal the spotlight from similar sandwiches at restaurants across town.

“It was basically mandatory that we take this sandwich seriously and try to put out the best Reuben that we can,” he said.

(more)

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stpaulbear  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:30:05pm

re: #105 Dr Lizardo

Looks like she’s underway.

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I bet the ships rounding the southern tip of Africa are pissed.

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:30:32pm

re: #111 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

My state senator Steve Erdman is doing that right now in the Unicameral (combined with repealing the state income tax).

He put an op-ed in every paper in the district explaining how a consumption tax is not a sales tax (LOL).

I wrote a letter to every paper rebutting the notion, and how such taxes fall primarily on the poor and middle class. You would be unsurprised to learn no newspaper printed my letter.

They try to avoid calling it a consumption tax because they don’t want to be compared to those “socialist” countries over in Europe that rely upon such. Plus leaning heavily upon referring to it as a sales tax allows them to lie to voters that everybody who buys something in a red state has “skin in the game,” when the reality is that rich guy living down the street is having things shipped to him from states with lower sales taxes and makes very few purchases in-state.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:33:00pm

re: #116 Targetpractice

They try to avoid calling it a consumption tax because they don’t want to be compared to those “socialist” countries over in Europe that rely upon such. Plus leaning heavily upon referring to it as a sales tax allows them to lie to voters that everybody who buys something in a red state has “skin in the game,” when the reality is that rich guy living down the street is having things shipped to him from states with lower sales taxes and makes very few purchases in-state.

Sen. Erdman is trying to make a point of it not being a sales tax, because people here have finally caught onto the scam of sales taxes against the poor.

He’s using “consumption tax” for his proposal because the term is less well-known.

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Sherlock Hound  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:36:11pm

re: #115 stpaulbear

I bet the ships rounding the southern tip of Africa are pissed.

I’ll bet many of them either can’t go through the canal, or they were already underway.

Or, like these skippers in the Suez, they’re thinking, “There, but for the grace of God/Allah, go I…”:

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:39:33pm

re: #118 Sherlock Hound

I’ll bet many of them either can’t go through the canal, or they were already underway.

Or, like these skippers in the Suez, they’re thinking, “There, but for the grace of God/Allah, go I…”:

Someone posted to Twitter yesterday that the traffic around South Africa is normal for this time of year, comparing it to last year.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:46:58pm

It’s Canada.

YouTube

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:49:35pm

Op-ed, LOL

The EU is lashing out because it’s terrified that Britain will make a success of Brexit (The Telegraph, by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Party politician and former party leader)

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Targetpractice  Mar 28, 2021 • 10:58:23pm

re: #117 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Sen. Erdman is trying to make a point of it not being a sales tax, because people here have finally caught onto the scam of sales taxes against the poor.

He’s using “consumption tax” for his proposal because the term is less well-known.

Let me guess, he’s insisting that a “consumption tax” is good for the state because it means that everybody will be taxed regardless of social status, thus everybody has “skin in the game.” And as it’s a flat tax, it also means that everybody is getting taxes the same, so it’s “fairer” than an income tax where the rich would “pay more.”

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:20:21pm

re: #122 Targetpractice

Let me guess, he’s insisting that a “consumption tax” is good for the state because it means that everybody will be taxed regardless of social status, thus everybody has “skin in the game.” And as it’s a flat tax, it also means that everybody is getting taxes the same, so it’s “fairer” than an income tax where the rich would “pay more.”

All of that except the “fairer” part. Even the Republicans here are aware that “don’t tax the rich” is not a winning statement.

Erdman is very wealthy as well. In the past he ran on the platform of “I’m a veteran” while the Democrats put no one up against him because our party really was in disarray here.

If I do run against him next time (I’m still thinking about it), I can take that talking point away from him.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:23:26pm

The storm two weeks ago brought over 2 feet (60 centimeters) of snow to large areas of southeastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado.

Blizzard was hard on Wyoming wildlife but moisture will help (Scottsbluff, Nebr. Star-Herald)

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife biologists say a recent blizzard probably killed some big game animals in Wyoming.

The storm two weeks ago brought over 2 feet (60 centimeters) of snow to large areas of southeastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado.

Bigger animals such as moose, elk and deer were probably big enough to get to places where the wind had blown snow away from plants they eat, said Robin Kepple with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Pronghorn antelope probably fared worse due to their smaller size and smaller feet, Kepple told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.

(more)

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:27:45pm

LOL, this is great.

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Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:28:30pm

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Op-ed, LOL

The EU is lashing out because it’s terrified that Britain will make a success of Brexit (The Telegraph, by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Party politician and former party leader)

No…

No it isn’t, and no it won’t.

This episode of “Look It’s The Consequences of Our Actions” Brexit Edition, has been brought to you by stupid racists.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:30:37pm
A small protest camp on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation plans to remain in place until the criminal cases against two of its members are finished and all infrastructure related to the Keystone XL Pipeline is removed.

“The camp will remain until we confirm all KXL construction sites have been shut down and the pipes removed,” Oscar High Elk, founder of Roots Camp, told the Journal earlier this year.

High Elk and camp member Jasilyn Charger are facing criminal charges, some directly related to protests and acts of civil disobedience against pipeline infrastructure being built near the reservation on land promised to the Lakota people in treaties that were seized by settlers and the federal government.

More at the Rapid City, SD Journal.

Small protest camp plans to remain until Keystone XL infrastructure removed

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sagehen  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:34:21pm

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

All of that except the “fairer” part. Even the Republicans here are aware that “don’t tax the rich” is not a winning statement.

Erdman is very wealthy as well. In the past he ran on the platform of “I’m a veteran” while the Democrats put no one up against him because our party really was in disarray here.

If I do run against him next time (I’m still thinking about it), I can take that talking point away from him.

If you do, I will donate.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:56:24pm

re: #128 sagehen

If you do, I will donate.

!!

Thanks.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 28, 2021 • 11:59:01pm

I was thinking about low temperature rechargeable batteries being important for northern latitudes and renewable power as well as electric vehicles. It seems there was a twitter tag but only three post from one company so far.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:06:04am

(Rock Springs, Wyo. Rocket Miner)

CASPER — Wyoming’s Senate approved a bill on Friday morning that would allow the state to charge drivers a toll when trekking across Interstate 80.

The Wyoming Department of Transportation faces a multi-million budget deficit. But legislators have been largely adverse to backing any revenue-generating bills.

Senate File 73 has become one of very few tax bills advanced this session to help the cash-strapped state.

The lead sponsor of the bill, Sen. Cale Case, R-Lander, said the proceeds generated from a toll on the state’s main east-west thoroughfare would go toward much-needed road and bridge maintenance, traffic safety improvements or wildlife management.

“Suffice it to say, I’m asking you to think really big,” Case told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. “Because we have a unique opportunity to change our future course in a way that makes a significant contribution to Wyoming’s revenue needs (and) makes a significant contribution to keep I-80 a world-class highway that will pay its own way for maybe the next half century.”

(more)

We normally use secondary roads and dirt roads to get to Cheyenne.

Speaking of which, I have to go to Cheyenne in the morning to see the orthopaedic surgeon and ophthalmologist, so I’ll be headed off to bed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:08:00am

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

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Guns N’ Posers

Pablo Escobar Cruise

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:08:15am

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Rock Springs, Wyo. Rocket Miner)

(more)

We normally use secondary roads and dirt roads to get to Cheyenne.

Speaking of which, I have to go to Cheyenne in the morning to see the orthopaedic surgeon and ophthalmologist, so I’ll be headed off to bed.

I remember taking my wife back to my home in Canada. I told her about all the roads being gravel. When we got there all the roads in town were paved. You can never go back.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:09:13am

re: #98 danarchy

What is “American Beer”? There are like 8000 breweries in the country making just about every kind of beer imaginable, many of them quite good.

If you refer to the mass-produced brands like Budweiser or Miller, then I can only agree, but I stopped drinking that stuff decades ago.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:11:22am

re: #112 Dread Pirate Ron

In Omsk, the head of the department of the local emergency hospital Rustam Agishev, where Navalny was treated last summer after poisoning with Novichok, died at the age of 63. In February, a deputy head of the same hospital, Sergey Maximishin, “suddenly” died at the age of 55.

Now we know what is contributing to the decline in life expectancy among men in Russia…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:12:10am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you refer to the mass-produced brands like Budweiser or Miller, then I can only agree, but I stopped drinking that stuff decades ago.

Me too. I found my ambrosia in SNPA. It is my gold standard.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:12:49am

re: #115 stpaulbear

I bet the ships rounding the southern tip of Africa are pissed.

not really, there is still going to be a backed-up queue that will take weeks to fully clear.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:16:16am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Success:

Exports to EU plunge by 40% in first month since Brexit

In the first month since leaving the EU on terms agreed by Boris Johnson’s government, the Office for National Statistics said goods exports to the bloc fell by £5.6bn, while imports fell by 28.8%, or £6.6bn.

Exports of food and live animals to the EU were the hardest hit by Brexit, collapsing by 63.6% in January. Consignments of fish and shellfish collapsed by 83% from the level a year ago to only £16m.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:17:26am

re: #133 Dread Pirate Ron

I remember taking my wife back to my home in Canada. I told her about all the roads being gravel. When we got there all the roads in town were paved. You can never go back.

No one is planning to pave the roads here.

There are only two paved streets in my town, US-26, and a street on the east edge (N County Road) paved up to the cemetery.

There is a project on the village board agenda to pave the street between my house and the Lutheran church (just that block), because the church wants paved parking (but doesn’t want to pay for it).

Much of the town is opposed to the paving project because “it would take away from the character of the town.”

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:17:49am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:21:17am

I’m driving through this tomorrow.

…HIGH WIND WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 3 PM MDT MONDAY…

* WHAT…West winds 30 to 40 mph with gusts up to 60 mph
expected.

* WHERE…In Wyoming, Niobrara County, Goshen County, Central
Laramie County and East Laramie County Counties. In Nebraska,
Dawes, Box Butte, North Sioux and South Sioux Counties. This
includes the cities of Cheyenne, Lusk, Torrington, and Chadron.

* WHEN…From 6 AM to 3 PM MDT Monday.

* IMPACTS…Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be a high risk for
vehicle blow overs.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:24:22am

re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s Cheyenne’s weather. My weather is similar:

…HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY AFTERNOON
THROUGH MONDAY EVENING…

* WHAT…Northwest winds 25 to 40 mph with gusts 55 to 60 mph
possible.

* WHERE…Areas across the southern Nebraska Panhandle,
including Box Butte, Scotts Bluff, Banner, Morrill, Kimball
and Cheyenne Counties. This includes the cities of
Scottsbluff, Kimball, and Sidney.

* WHEN…From Monday afternoon through Monday evening.

* IMPACTS…Mainly to transportation. Strong cross winds will be
hazardous to light weight and high profile vehicles, including
campers and tractor trailers. There will be a high risk for
vehicle blow overs.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:29:22am

re: #142 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

That’s Cheyenne’s weather. My weather is similar:

That must be the winds we had a couple days ago. Then it got warm after.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:32:49am

Temps pushing 70°F here on the Rhine in coming days, pumping up the spring vibes big time.

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:33:02am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Op-ed, LOL

The EU is lashing out because it’s terrified that Britain will make a success of Brexit (The Telegraph, by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Party politician and former party leader)

The fishing industry is just pining for the fjords.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:37:47am

re: #143 Dread Pirate Ron

That must be the winds we had a couple days ago. Then it got warm after.

It’s supposed to get warmer here as well: Tomorrow’s high is scheduled to be 73°F. By Saturday it is expected to be near 80°F.

It appears we’ve survived the worst part of Winter without a furnace. Only two weeks ago it was a massive blizzard.

The latest I’ve seen it snow here was a couple years ago on May 31.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:40:53am
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:48:21am

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

Wells Fargo trying to dodge, gets called out.

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sagehen  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:49:56am

re: #147 Dread Pirate Ron

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that was quick. Not even 90 days.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 12:52:32am

re: #149 sagehen

that was quick. Not even 90 days.

America’s attention span is about 3 days, at best.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:03:50am

Coca-Cola makes a weak push against the continuation of Jim Crow.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:06:55am

re: #121 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Op-ed, LOL

The EU is lashing out because it’s terrified that Britain will make a success of Brexit (The Telegraph, by Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Conservative Party politician and former party leader)

I’d offer detailed commentary about the op-ed, but I’m not paying the Telegraph for the privilege of reading this wankstain’s excuse-making for why the UK is totally not getting economically cornholed by the EU, despite every British news outlet squealing about how the EU is eating their lunch amid empty threats from Tories to “retaliate.” Like how they promised to “get back” British fishing waters from the EU, only to sign that away for five years just to get an exit deal. Or all the British nationals bitching up a storm that they can’t remain on tax-free holidays/retirements in Spain because they’re getting the very same treatment they voted “Leave” in order to visit on Spaniards who wished to work in the UK.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:10:18am

re: #151 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Coca-Cola makes a weak push against the continuation of Jim Crow.

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It’s always easy to “believe” something. I believe that all Americans should be given $1 million tax-free to do with as they please. But I don’t see anybody in D.C. rushing to make that happen.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:11:29am

re: #152 Targetpractice

There will probably be a few waiter positions available at hotels in Torquay.
///

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:22:05am

re: #153 Targetpractice

It’s always easy to “believe” something. I believe that all Americans should be given $1 million tax-free to do with as they please. But I don’t see anybody in D.C. rushing to make that happen.

They are getting universally dragged for their weak statement after supporting the GOP (tax cuts).

The Guardian reports that the boycott of Coca-Cola products is starting to become worldwide, which is probably what prompted them to make that much of a statement.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:23:07am

re: #152 Targetpractice

… Or all the British nationals bitching up a storm that they can’t remain on tax-free holidays/retirements in Spain because they’re getting the very same treatment they voted “Leave” in order to visit on Spaniards who wished to work in the UK.

People bit in the face by leopard disappointed in the Leopard-Who-Will-Bite-Your-Face Party.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:35:51am

re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

They are getting universally dragged for their weak statement after supporting the GOP (tax cuts).

The Guardian reports that the boycott of Coca-Cola products is starting to become worldwide, which is probably what prompted them to make that much of a statement.

This is the sort of statement that a legal department churns out when they want to straddle the fence. It’s the buck-passing you expect when a major corporation doesn’t want to involve itself, throwing its hands up and declaring it “did all it could.” They totally “believe” in voting rights…they just believe in tax cuts more.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:37:33am
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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:38:43am

re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

People bit in the face by leopard disappointed in the Leopard-Who-Will-Bite-Your-Face Party.

Well, when they say that they didn’t vote for this and this wasn’t supposed to happen, they’re right. But that’s because they were voluntarily transporting themselves into an imaginary right-wing world where Glorious Albion was the indispensable country, where the UK leaving the EU would cause the whole rotten Europe project to collapse, and the wogs would come groveling to England for scraps. In the real world, not so much.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:39:19am

re: #158 Dread Pirate Ron

Trump wandered into a wedding reception at Mar-a-Lago, but instead of toasting the couple proceeded to run through a laundry list of personal grievances.

“I get all these flash reports … they’re telling me about China, they’re telling me about Iran.”

These people have paid him big money to have the Biggest Day of Their Lives…on the other hand, this is Mar-a-Logo town, deal with it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:40:31am

re: #159 ericblair

Well, when they say that they didn’t vote for this and this wasn’t supposed to happen, they’re right. But that’s because they were voluntarily transporting themselves into an imaginary right-wing world where Glorious Albion was the indispensable country, where the UK leaving the EU would cause the whole rotten Europe project to collapse, and the wogs would come groveling to England for scraps. In the real world, not so much.

“This is not what I voted for!” is a common complaint.

And the apologists insist that Brexit is not to blame, it is “government policy”…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:41:50am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“This is not what I voted for!” is a common complaint.

And the apologists insist that Brexit is not to blame, it is “government policy”…

But, the government policies fulfill the conditions of the Brexit agreement….

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:42:22am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:48:14am

re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron

But, the government policies fulfill the conditions of the Brexit agreement….

the last-minute Brexit agreement cobbled together with little or no time to inform citizens on how to implements its terms and conditions…

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:50:37am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the last-minute Brexit agreement cobbled together with little or no time to inform citizens on how to implements its terms and conditions…

It’s not like all of this was predicted. Oh wait, it was.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:51:26am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“This is not what I voted for!” is a common complaint.

And the apologists insist that Brexit is not to blame, it is “government policy”…

The response to that is most of the same assholes who voted “Leave” then voted in successive Tory governments on the promise that they’d negotiate an exit deal that would be “honorable” while also getting one over on Brussels. And their response every time people pointed out that things would not work that way was “We know what we voted for!” and “GET ON WITH IT!”

Blaming “government policy” at this point is as ridiculous as those folks who insist that communism works “if implemented correctly/properly.”

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:54:55am

re: #166 Targetpractice

The moral of the story is, “Don’t believe conservatives!” It only takes an IQ of 120 to understand these simple things, which is why we are in the minority.

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 1:56:56am

re: #162 Dread Pirate Ron

But, the government policies fulfill the conditions of the Brexit agreement….

This is the pesky reality problem again.

It was clear from the very start, that in order to avoid a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, you needed to have one of two things: either freedom of movement between the UK and EU (like Norway); or a hard border in the Irish Sea between the island of Ireland and Britain. The Tories liked neither of these scenarios, so they…just…ignored the whole thing. Then they simply agreed to the Irish Sea border because it was the easiest thing for them to do, and now they don’t want to actually implement the consequences. Of course this is the EU’s fault.

Same with every other problem. The whining from the UK conservative press tends to boil down to “the bureaucrats in Brussels aren’t taking the UK’s concerns seriously enough!” Well, they’re YOUR concerns now, and their looking after their own concerns, just as you wanted.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:04:59am

re: #168 ericblair

They made themselves “The Others”. One if my favorite memes from “Lost” The tribal nature of man. I noticed the Brexit ‘racism’ in England was mostly directed at Polish migrants. That surprised me.

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sagehen  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:09:59am

re: #169 Dread Pirate Ron

They made themselves “The Others”. One if my favorite memes from “Lost” The tribal nature of man. I noticed the Brexit ‘racism’ in England was mostly directed at Polish migrants. That surprised me.

Because the black and brown people were mostly colonials, from commonwealth countries. Even the most racist of Brits, especially if they want to be able deny that they’re racist, realize it looks slightly less offensive to whine about white people who don’t even play cricket.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:13:57am

re: #170 sagehen

Because the black and brown people were mostly colonials, from commonwealth countries. Even the most racist of Brits, especially if they want to be able deny that they’re racist, realize it looks slightly less offensive to whine about white people who don’t even play cricket.

and Catholics at that.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:14:44am

re: #170 sagehen

To be fair, cricket is just fucking weird. I say that as a subject of the Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:14:59am

.

Delius: Appalachia - prt 3.



..

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:16:57am

re: #172 Dread Pirate Ron

To be fair, cricket is just fucking weird. I say that as a subject of the Her Majesty Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.

I understand it not so much as a sport as a cultural institution, the notion of spending all day/weekend out in the sun, lazily whacking and chasing balls while consuming ale, porter, stout and sherry seems fine to me.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:19:43am

Some noteworthy news out of Czech Republic:

He was heliskiing when the chopper crashed. As noted, Mr. Kellner was the richest Czech. As not noted, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” He made his fortune during the privatization era here in the 1990s, and there was a whole lotta shadiness going on back then.

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sagehen  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:24:27am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

and Catholics at that.

Guy Fawkes was Catholic, the IRA was/is Catholic, Germany and Italy are Catholic, Catholics have been bombing England ever since Henry VIII told the Pope to go fuck himself.

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:29:07am

re: #175 Dr Lizardo

Some noteworthy news out of Czech Republic:

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He was heliskiing when the chopper crashed. As noted, Mr. Kellner was the richest Czech. As not noted, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” He made his fortune during the privatization era here in the 1990s, and there was a whole lotta shadiness going on back then.

That’s another billionaire down due to private aviation. It’s like the leader of the international proletarian revolution is Bell Helicopter Services Incorporated.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:29:47am

re: #176 sagehen

Guy Fawkes was Catholic, the IRA was/is Catholic, Germany and Italy are Catholic, Catholics have been bombing England ever since Henry VIII told the Pope to go fuck himself.

Not to mention a Civil War and a Highland Uprising all over their refusal to accept a Catholic Monarch.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 2:36:16am

re: #177 ericblair

That’s another billionaire down due to private aviation. It’s like the leader of the international proletarian revolution is Bell Helicopter Services Incorporated.

Heh.

There’s a lot of legitimate questions out there about exactly how Mr. Kellner amassed his fortune, questions which have thus far gone unanswered; he was also a media oligarch with questionable business ties to China and was very well-connected with leading political figures here too.

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Targetpractice  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:09:49am

re: #159 ericblair

Well, when they say that they didn’t vote for this and this wasn’t supposed to happen, they’re right. But that’s because they were voluntarily transporting themselves into an imaginary right-wing world where Glorious Albion was the indispensable country, where the UK leaving the EU would cause the whole rotten Europe project to collapse, and the wogs would come groveling to England for scraps. In the real world, not so much.

One of the big things that Brexit was sold on was that Downing St, once it had seen to the exit from the EU, would be free to work out a network of trade deals with the governments of Europe that would not only ensure no disruption of existing trade, but would lead to deals far more favorable to the UK because the whole of Europe was desperate for their goods. That anyone believed Brussels would sit idly by while that happened, or that if they did that Berlin and Paris would allow that to happen, is a true testament to the power of mass delusion.

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Dread Pirate Ron  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:12:08am

YouTube

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:12:31am

re: #180 Targetpractice

One of the big things that Brexit was sold on was that Downing St, once it had seen to the exit from the EU, would be free to work out a network of trade deals with the governments of Europe that would not only ensure no disruption of existing trade, but would lead to deals far more favorable to the UK because the whole of Europe was desperate for their goods.

They also failed to realize that it was very much in the interest of the EU to take a hard line on negotiations in order to make an example of the UK and deter any other EU countries from trying the same thing.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:22:55am

re: #128 sagehen

If you do, I will donate.

I will as well.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:25:48am

re: #134 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you refer to the mass-produced brands like Budweiser or Miller, then I can only agree, but I stopped drinking that stuff decades ago.

At least you can probably get the decent Czech Bud easily.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:26:48am

re: #184 William Lewis

At least you can probably get the decent Czech Bud easily.

Budweiser and Pilsner Urquell. Two of my favorite brands.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:30:42am

re: #184 William Lewis

At least you can probably get the decent Czech Bud easily.

In the US, Czech Bud is usually marketed as Czechvar. Look for that.

Pilsner Urquell is frequently found in major chain supermarkets in the US, at least on the West Coast.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:42:32am

There was a major legal blowup in the run-up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

It centered around the beer concession. It would have been seen as a major blow to Germany if they lost out to a foreign brand, especially Anheuser-Busch.

Now they already had to change their brand name in Germany to “American Bud” because Czech Budweiser is an established brand.

In a last-ditch effort to get them disqualified, German lawyers argued that “American Bud” sounded too much like the motto of Bitburger Pils, a popular national brand: “Bitte ein Bitt!”.

Imagine ordering “Bitte ein Bitt!” and winding up with a Bitter Bud…

But as I recall, Anheuser-Busch did win the concession, and Germany did not win the title.

But it was a fun World Cup and did a lot to show that Germans can party as well as the rest and do so in a well-organized manner.

If only they could do half as good a job of organizing vaccinations so we could get back to partying…

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:54:30am

Regarding the helicopter crash that killed Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, it’s being reported here (and yes, it’s still early and it’s a developing story) that conditions at the time of the crash weren’t anything that would seem to contribute to the accident - visibility was reported as good, about 16 km, clear weather and low winds. The helicopter involved in the accident was an Airbus AS350 B3 Eurocopter.

Sounds to my admittedly non-professional ear like perhaps either a case of pilot error or some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:55:59am

Just watched Rachel Bitecofer on Morning Joe talk about the fact that the GOP is gearing up to install Trump or another fascist as dictator in 2024. This is why it’s critical to reform the filibuster and get HR1 passed. January 6 was not the last effort the GOP will make to seize power.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:56:13am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

Sounds to my admittedly non-professional ear like perhaps either a case of pilot error or some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure.

Or Karma

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:58:40am

re: #189 No Malarkey!

Just watched Rachel Bitecofer on Morning Joe talk about the fact that the GOP is gearing up to install Trump or another fascist as dictator in 2024. This is why it’s critical to reform the filibuster and get HR1 passed. January 6 was not the last effort the GOP will make to seize power.

Yes, they way that so many state legislatures are changing laws to allow them to override votes is disturbing.

They should not be allowed to do so unless there is clear and overwhelming evidence of irregularities or illegal acts, not just spurious claims and suspicions raised by political hacks and shady lawyers.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2021 • 3:59:03am

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

In the US, Czech Bud is usually marketed as Czechvar. Look for that.

Pilsner Urquell is frequently found in major chain supermarkets in the US, at least on the West Coast.

Good to know info. When I get done this morning, I have my weekend will be starting and I will need to buy some beer later today.

A good pils or ale - either is fine.

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steve_davis  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:08:44am

re: #5 Eclectic Cyborg

Re: Republican gun fantasies

I don’t know if these guys play too much Call of Duty or watch too many Schwarzenegger movies or what but I don’t personally enjoy the thought of killing someone.

In fact the last thing I hope to ever have to do with my guns is shoot someone.

And I certainly don’t worry about a group of armed men busting my door down.

I’d rather work towards building a better works so that’s just not a thing that ever happens to me.

Especially in Seneca. The worst thing you’ve got to worry about in Seneca is getting jeered at by residents of Westminster because you insist on saying “Westminister.”

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steve_davis  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:25:48am

re: #18 JC1

The thing is, they obviously don’t see some people as ‘human beings’.

There’s a fascinating story from a collection of various memoirs put together by Folio Society by folks who fought on the British side of the Spanish campaign. In one of them, as I recall (and some of this is very foggy), a couple of British cavalry officers are riding along during the tail-end of a battle doing mop-up duty. A French infantryman down in the tall grass gets surprised by them. He leaps up, fires his musket, which surprisingly kills no one, considering it’s a musket ball fired at almost point-blank range. Somehow, the two cavalry officers, rather than riding the man down and slashing him to death with those bloody great cavalry sabers, decide to spare him and watch him run away into the distance. Later, they discover the reason neither of them was killed was because the musket ball penetrated partially into some very thick piece of leather on the horse’s kit (maybe an ammunition bag with a heavy flap? can’t remember) and thus did not mortally wound someone in the leg. Even trained officers apparently had quirky feelings about when killing the enemy was appropriate. Once the musket had been fired, he was no longer a threat to them, so they just basically dismissed him out of some kind of honor system. Even WWI fighter pilots were occasionally known to avoid killing enemy pilots who were experiencing engine issues or who were clearly out of ammunition and hence, not really part of the game anymore on that given day.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:30:40am

Trump crashes a wedding at Mar-a-Lago.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:31:03am

re: #194 steve_davis

As I recall, there was a well-known incident in WWII where a Luftwaffe pilot escorted a badly-damaged American bomber out of German airspace instead of going in for the kill.

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William Lewis  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:33:52am

re: #196 Dr Lizardo

As I recall, there was a well-known incident in WWII where a Luftwaffe pilot escorted a badly-damaged American bomber out of German airspace instead of going in for the kill.

This is the story you’re thinking of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:38:55am

re: #197 William Lewis

This is the story you’re thinking of Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident

Yep, that’s the one.

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:46:13am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

Yep, that’s the one.

Great, I’m going to have the Snoopy’s Christmas earworm rattling around my head for the rest of the day.

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:50:12am

I WILL NOT SUFFER ALONE

Snoopy’s Christmas vs. The Red Baron - The Royal Guardsmen

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Florida Panhandler  Mar 29, 2021 • 4:51:14am

re: #88 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo

The Not Swift Boaters

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jeffreyw  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:13:36am

Homerdammit

Good morning!

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:16:54am

re: #144 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Temps pushing 70°F here on the Rhine in coming days, pumping up the spring vibes big time.

It is 20C in my garden (Champigny sur Marne, France). Doors open, heating off.

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:18:13am

re: #145 ericblair

Brexiters should stop worrying. The new once a week ferry route to Morocco will give the UK the massive export boost it needs.

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:20:39am

re: #154 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

There will probably be a few waiter positions available at hotels in Torquay.
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That series was when I started to realise what a piece of shit Cleese is.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:22:00am

re: #203 John Hughes

It is 20C in my garden (Champigny sur Marne, France). Doors open, heating off.

Today is supposed to reach about 68 °F (20 °C), with wind. Then we get two days of winter cold again, with the low down to around 20 °F (-6.7 °C) Tuesday night. Then we’re back up to the warm temps for the weekend.

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:26:57am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

Sounds to my admittedly non-professional ear like perhaps either a case of pilot error or some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure.

It was a helicopter. “Pilot error” and “Catastropic mechanical failure” are always seconds away.

Especially “catastropic mechanical failure” — not for nothing is a vital part of most helicopters called the Jesus nut.

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:31:55am

re: #206 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

Today is supposed to reach about 68 °F (20 °C), with wind. Then we get two days of winter cold again, with the low down to around 20 °F (-6.7 °C) Tuesday night. Then we’re back up to the warm temps for the weekend.

Point of order, it’s 20C, (twenty Celsius), not 20 °C (unless you’re being very old-fashioned and using “degrees centigrade”).

This has been your moment of units pedantry for the day.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:34:15am

re: #207 John Hughes

It was a helicopter. “Pilot error” and “Catastropic mechanical failure” are always seconds away.

Especially “catastropic mechanical failure” — not for nothing is a vital part of most helicopters called the Jesus nut.

If the Jesus nut were to fail in flight, the helicopter would detach from the rotor

Well….that’s disturbing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:42:18am

re: #205 John Hughes

That series was when I started to realise what a piece of shit Cleese is.

?!? In what sense?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:43:40am

re: #208 John Hughes

Point of order, it’s 20C, (twenty Celsius), not 20 °C (unless you’re being very old-fashioned and using “degrees centigrade”).

This has been your moment of units pedantry for the day.

I like my cool little ° key °*°

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 29, 2021 • 5:45:44am

re: #211 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I like my cool little ° key °*°

You have a key for that?

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John Hughes  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:02:09am

re: #210 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The hideous way Manuel was depicted.

Was anyone surprised when Cleese came out as a Brexiter?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:14:37am

re: #213 John Hughes

The hideous way Manuel was depicted.

Was anyone surprised when Cleese came out as a Brexiter?

The bit with Manuel the dismal waiter struck me as the sort of going-around-a-corner humor to make the boss look bad for hiring someone unqualified just because he was cheap and easily exploited.

But I did not know that Cleese had come out pro-Brexit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:18:46am

re: #212 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..

You have a key for that?

German keyboard, alsö with full ümläüts and the double “S” ß

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:27:48am
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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:31:41am
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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:40:48am

“Biden said we would get 200 million shots by May 1st. We achieved 210 million, but that’s really a failure since he didn’t exceed our expectations of him exceeding our expectations.” - Fox or Chuck Todd

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:41:10am
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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:43:26am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:44:53am

re: #220 Belafon

I will take whichever vaccine is available at this point.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:45:48am

re: #217 Belafon

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Here it is stuck in the Niagara River Whirlpool.

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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:46:38am
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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:53:42am

re: #219 darthstar

Well, the SCA will certainly try to pretend it never happened, rather than owning up to what a colossal fuckup it was on the part of their pilots.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 6:56:39am

Gotta raise taxes *and* collect em

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:04:36am

re: #225 Dangerman

Gotta raise taxes *and* collect em

collecting them costs money, and we need to cut the budget!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:05:06am

re: #222 Eventual Carrion

Here’s the Ever Given stuck in the Vltava River in Prague, near Charles Bridge. Yeah, that’d be a fine mess, LOL.

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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:05:10am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:07:40am

re: #228 Belafon

“He’s toast,” said Jay Williams, a Georgia-based Republican strategist. “I don’t know that there’s a single elected official who would put their neck out for Brad Raffensperger right now.”

Between now and 2024, we are going to see a purge of all GOP-controlled state election officials who will not toe the party line. They are not going to repeat the “mistake” they made in 2020 of letting people with a conscience and sense of civic duty interfere with producing their desired outcome

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:07:40am

re: #216 Patricia Kayden

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Does that logic work for gun and ammo manufacturers?

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ericblair  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:08:37am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

collecting them costs money, and we need to cut the budget!

Funnily enough, increasing IRS enforcement is pretty much guaranteed to be the biggest financial return on investment in the Federal budget. It makes money! I wonder why the GOP doesn’t want to do it, wait no I don’t.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:09:31am

re: #222 Eventual Carrion

Here it is stuck in the Niagara River Whirlpool.

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We put it in the pond
It crushed the whole neighborhood

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:10:27am

re: #226 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

collecting them costs money, and we need to cut the budget!

Use the Mueller model

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:11:19am

re: #223 Belafon

Note that neighboring Ontario is experiencing another wave of cases.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:12:24am

re: #219 darthstar

The high-tide must of worked?

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:14:09am
Dan Pfeiffer: “The messaging problems we were confronting in 2013 are the same ones that Joe Biden and his White House are confronting in 2021 as they figure out how to sell the American Rescue Plan. As I learned firsthand, a strategy that depends primarily on the White House Press Corps is doomed to fail.”

“The traditional media has neither the reach nor the inclination to tell the public about the ins and outs of the American Rescue Plan. A reality that was on full display during Biden’s first ‘formal press conference’ and one with which all Democrats need to come to terms.”

Certainly not the inclination
Or ability
As they so well demonstrated

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:14:21am

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:14:26am

re: #231 ericblair

Funnily enough, increasing IRS enforcement is pretty much guaranteed to be the biggest financial return on investment in the Federal budget. It makes money! I wonder why the GOP doesn’t want to do it, wait no I don’t.

I remember when Sheriff Joe Arpaio introduced random traffic stops in high crime neighborhoods in Arizona.

I also suggested that the IRS institute random stops in neighborhoods with a high incidence of white-collar crime: “Can we see some driver ID and your withholding forms for the past ten years, please?”

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:20:53am

re: #219 darthstar

Just in time too, as the crowd of ships parked off of Port Said were starting to look like quite the upside down Christmas tree:

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:22:21am

re: #236 Dangerman

Certainly not the inclination
Or ability
As they so well demonstrated

More observations re “the white house press conference”

-Biden knows what Trump could never learn or understand. If you want to punish the media you don’t yell at them, you ignore them.

-Reagan and W Bush showed you can only hold them when you want to make some news

-Doocy is freaking out because Biden isn’t going to yell at him, as Trump did to Acosta. He’ll just ignore him.

Also rando 1
Press conferences are an anachronism anyway, a relic to a time of phone booths and telegrams, before computers or even fax machines existed.

For Reagan or Nixon or LBJ or Ike, this was the event for the press to jot down answers to notebooks and storm the phone banks.

Now? When Biden or staff can go on TV on two minutes notice without leaving their desk? Social media and videoconference?

The media may not like it but press conferences are passé. And the press corps “need a crisis, highlight conflict” angling will hasten the irrelevance.

Rando 2

The one thing Trump figured out is that it’s possible to tell the media to go fuck themselves if you have avenues to get your message out to your supporters directly (I.e., Twitter, friendly blogs and slanted media operations).

It would be one thing if the press conference they demanded even had the veneer of trying to cover important topics in depth. But that’s not what that was. It was the media searching for a gotcha moment.

So why would anyone stand for an hour to a hostile process that serves no other purpose than to placate journalists’ egos and help the corporations that own these media outlets get clicks and sell ads?

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mmmirele  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:24:28am

re: #148 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Wells Fargo trying to dodge, gets called out.

The article itself has been updated:

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Wells Fargo did not break its giving pledge. Due to a clerical error at the NRSC, a Wells Fargo subsidiary was reported as making a donation to the group. The NRSC acknowledged to The Daily Beast that donations made in Wells Fargo’s name were an error, and the story has been updated throughout.

thedailybeast.com

At this point I’m not going to send an irate note to “Political Programs.” Not yet.

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O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:25:05am

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just in time too, as the crowd of ships parked off of Port Said were starting to look like quite the upside down Christmas tree:

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More worrisome to me were the northbound ships parked off Suez in the Red Sea. That’s not exactly the safest place in the world to be parking billions of dollars of the world economy, and I even read a story somewhere that people were making inquiries to the US 5th Fleet if they would provide security for everybody while they were waiting.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:27:46am

re: #208 John Hughes

Point of order, it’s 20C, (twenty Celsius), not 20 °C (unless you’re being very old-fashioned and using “degrees centigrade”).

This has been your moment of units pedantry for the day.

That’s because metric measurement of temperature uses homeopathy.

20°Commie is also valid.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:28:31am

re: #131 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

(Rock Springs, Wyo. Rocket Miner)

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We normally use secondary roads and dirt roads to get to Cheyenne.

Speaking of which, I have to go to Cheyenne in the morning to see the orthopaedic surgeon and ophthalmologist, so I’ll be headed off to bed.

Sounds like a pain
Don’t make a spectacle of yourself

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:29:46am

re: #244 Dangerman

Sounds like a pain
Don’t make a spectacle of yourself

LOL

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:30:34am

re: #240 Dangerman

The one thing Trump figured out is that it’s possible to tell the media to go fuck themselves if you have avenues to get your message out to your supporters directly (I.e., Twitter, friendly blogs and slanted media operations).

And like in Life of Brian they would respond by simply asking “How and where should we go fuck ourselves, Mr President?”

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:34:19am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Yes, they way that so many state legislatures are changing laws to allow them to override votes is disturbing.

They should not be allowed to do so unless there is clear and overwhelming evidence of irregularities or illegal acts, not just spurious claims and suspicions raised by political hacks and shady lawyers.

They’ll apply both those standards, depending on who appears to be winning the election.
///

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:37:11am

May All Our Shoes Be Satan Shoes (Wonkette)

The fact is, the Christian right has been responsible for far more evil and caused more damage to society in its quest to root out “Satanism” and “demonic influences.” That’s just a fact. Even if we don’t count the witch trials, in which they murdered young women because they thought Satan gave them magic powers, it’s a fact.

For years, they claimed Satanists were out there trying to molest children. They sent innocent people to prison, they tore families apart, and created a toxic environment where people were terrified their kids were constantly in danger of being molested by Satanists, and where good people were terrified of being accused of doing that and having their lives ruined.

And yet, it turned out the child molestation calls were coming from inside the house. I don’t know how you go through the kind of massive and far reaching child sex abuse scandal the Catholic church did, or Josh Duggar, or however many thousands of incidents of pastors and clergy molesting kids, and still manage to get all het up over imaginary Satanists and their apparent intrinsic desire to hurt children. But they do.

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plansbandc  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:44:38am

Look at this beautiful little bug. It’s called a Picasso bug. I think someone should use the color scheme on a shirt.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:45:06am

re: #123 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

If I do run against him next time (I’m still thinking about it), I can take that talking point away from him.

re: #128 sagehen

If you do, I will donate.

So will I! We can’t win if we don’t participate.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:46:25am

Ipsos poll:

64% of Republicans say that a higher priority is protecting the right of Americans to own a wide variety of guns than restricting gun ownership.

64% makes all these arguments nonstarters
- databases, registration, 2A / the militia clause, limits, bans, assault weapons

IMO, this is why we have to change the framing from gun control to gun accountability

D’s protect the 2nd amendment with policies that protect everyone, including all responsible gun owners
R’s hate the 2A. Their policies protect mass shooters at the expense of everyone else.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:53:40am

re: #251 Dangerman

Ipsos poll:

64% of Republicans say that a higher priority is protecting the right of Americans to own a wide variety of guns than restricting gun ownership.

64% makes all these arguments nonstarters
- databases, registration, 2A / the militia clause, limits, bans, assault weapons

IMO, this is why we have to change the framing from gun control to gun accountability

D’s protect the 2nd amendment with policies that protect everyone, including all responsible gun owners
R’s hate the 2A. Their policies protect mass shooters at the expense of everyone else.

Republicans support policies to kill police officers.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:56:01am

re: #248 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

May All Our Shoes Be Satan Shoes (Wonkette)

Moral or theological arguments notwithstanding, these shoes were marketing genius: all they had to do was announce them and the righteously enraged Fundamentalists would provide the best possible publicity and advertising free of charge…

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:56:18am
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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:56:54am

re: #167 Dread Pirate Ron

The moral of the story is, “Don’t believe conservatives!” It only takes an IQ of 120 to understand these simple things, which is why we are in the minority.

There are plenty Brexit supporters and Trump supporters with higher IQs; racism and nativism know no intellectual barriers

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 7:58:31am

re: #255 Hecuba’s daughter

There are plenty Brexit supporters and Trump supporters with higher IQs; racism and nativism know no intellectual barriers

High intelligence can also be selective intelligence.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:00:43am

re: #170 sagehen

Because the black and brown people were mostly colonials, from commonwealth countries. Even the most racist of Brits, especially if they want to be able deny that they’re racist, realize it looks slightly less offensive to whine about white people who don’t even play cricket.

Brexit had nothing to do with free movement among nations in the British Commonwealth but only the overwhelmingly white nations in Europe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:02:47am

re: #257 Hecuba’s daughter

Brexit had nothing to do with free movement among nations in the British Commonwealth but only the overwhelmingly white nations in Europe.

The Threat of Polish Plumbers.

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:05:40am

re: #235 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The high-tide must of worked?

Full moon. If they didn’t get it today it’d be another month.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:06:50am

re: #259 darthstar

Full moon. If they didn’t get it today it’d be another month.

As much as I enjoy Schadenfreude, I am glad to hear that it is cleared up.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:09:25am

re: #201 Florida Panhandler

The Not Swift Boaters

The Deliverance Redux Cover Band?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:11:36am

re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter

The Deliverance Redux Cover Band?

The Paddle Faster Boys

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Nojay UK  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:13:37am

re: #258 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Threat of Polish Plumbers.

It’s about the same as Americans facing the threat of lawncare specialists, roofing contractors, meat packers and agricultural workers from across the Mexican border.

Long time back we had a Jones Safari press report here in the UK after Brexit was going to happen, interviewing a florist who owned a shop in one of the Welsh valley towns. He really didn’t like the foreign food shops and the Poles and others in his town so he voted Leave with great gusto and he’d be happy to see the back of those foreign types. He was quite openly xenophobic.

It’s just, he got a refrigerated truck delivering fresh cut flowers from Holland every week and that was going to continue, wasn’t it? Surely they could make an exception for florists so that the Dutch flower growers could make seamless no-paperwork deliveries like they did when we were in the EU? No?

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:15:52am

re: #253 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Moral or theological arguments notwithstanding, these shoes were marketing genius: all they had to do was announce them and the righteously enraged Fundamentalists would provide the best possible publicity and advertising free of charge…

i would have liked to be in that marketing meeting

our strategy is to do…nothing?
just wait?
what if they don’t…?
you’re sure they will?
ok, go for it

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A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:16:27am

re: #202 jeffreyw

[Embedded content]

Good morning!

Western good morning!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:20:16am

re: #263 Nojay UK

Long time back we had a Jones Safari press report here in the UK after Brexit was going to happen, interviewing a florist who owned a shop in one of the Welsh valley towns. He really didn’t like the foreign food shops and the Poles and others in his town so he voted Leave with great gusto and he’d be happy to see the back of those foreign types. He was quite openly xenophobic.

It’s just, he got a refrigerated truck delivering fresh cut flowers from Holland every week and that was going to continue, wasn’t it? Surely they could make an exception for florists so that the Dutch flower growers could make seamless no-paperwork deliveries like they did when we were in the EU? No?

They of course assumed that free trade of goods would continue, just without the free movement of people. Or that their leaders would at least negotiate a reasonable trade deal in sufficient time for them to make arrangements and contingencies to deal with it.

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:22:08am

re: #239 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Just in time too, as the crowd of ships parked off of Port Said were starting to look like quite the upside down Christmas tree:

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Watch three of them race in and jam up the north end together.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:22:23am

re: #266 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They of course assumed that free trade of goods would continue, just without the free movement of people. Or that their leaders would at least negotiate a reasonable trade deal in sufficient time for them to make arrangements and contingencies to deal with it.

the only privilege, which is my privilege, i deny is a privilege

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TedStriker  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:22:27am

re: #266 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They of course assumed that free trade of goods would continue, just without the free movement of people. Or that their leaders would at least negotiate a reasonable trade deal in sufficient time for them to make arrangements and contingencies to deal with it.

So they Fucked Around and, now, they’re Finding Out, only they’ve dragged the whole UK into the morass.

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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:23:41am
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Belafon  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:25:12am
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:25:20am

re: #269 TedStriker

So they Fucked Around, and now, they’re Finding Out, only they’ve dragged the whole UK into the morass.

Those who have the means to ride it out will probably find that things will have recovered five years down the line or so.

But how many Britons have the reserve assets to hold out that long?

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:25:39am

This looks interesting…

THE NIGHT HOUSE | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:27:16am

Ever Given enjoying a concert at the Sydney Opera House.

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JC1  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:28:27am

re: #194 steve_davis

There’s a fascinating story from a collection of various memoirs put together by Folio Society by folks who fought on the British side of the Spanish campaign. In one of them, as I recall (and some of this is very foggy), a couple of British cavalry officers are riding along during the tail-end of a battle doing mop-up duty. A French infantryman down in the tall grass gets surprised by them. He leaps up, fires his musket, which surprisingly kills no one, considering it’s a musket ball fired at almost point-blank range. Somehow, the two cavalry officers, rather than riding the man down and slashing him to death with those bloody great cavalry sabers, decide to spare him and watch him run away into the distance. Later, they discover the reason neither of them was killed was because the musket ball penetrated partially into some very thick piece of leather on the horse’s kit (maybe an ammunition bag with a heavy flap? can’t remember) and thus did not mortally wound someone in the leg. Even trained officers apparently had quirky feelings about when killing the enemy was appropriate. Once the musket had been fired, he was no longer a threat to them, so they just basically dismissed him out of some kind of honor system. Even WWI fighter pilots were occasionally known to avoid killing enemy pilots who were experiencing engine issues or who were clearly out of ammunition and hence, not really part of the game anymore on that given day.

War was seen as sport at times and had sporting rules, at least among the non peasants.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:35:31am

re: #275 JC1

War was seen as sport at times and had sporting rules, at least among the non peasants.

many of those “rules” came about in reaction to the barbaric and gruesome excesses of the religious wars of the 16th and 17th Century in Europe.

They were later codified and became the basis for our Geneva Convention.

But needless to say, their application and enforcement are often as not subject to rather arbitrary and self-serving criteria

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:41:12am

re: #261 Hecuba’s daughter

The Deliverance Redux Cover Band?

Ship of Fools

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JC1  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:41:52am

re: #199 ericblair

Great, I’m going to have the Snoopy’s Christmas earworm rattling around my head for the rest of the day.

Just listen to the Sabaton song about the event instead. ‘No bullets fly’ according to the Wikipedia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 29, 2021 • 8:42:29am

re: #277 Barefoot Grin

Ship of Fools

Boat Rodeo

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steve_davis  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:11:45am

Noon and no word yet from realtor. I put a strong bid in on a house Friday afternoon. Supposedly all bids were being looked at today. Some asshole will come in with a cash offer. I can feel it in my bones. Cash is king. No inspection. No appraisal.

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Renaissance_Man  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:15:31am

re: #228 Belafon

[Embedded content]

Guarantee he has no regrets about supporting Trump.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:32:02am

thegreatpoolpondconversion - 210328 edition ———————->
“All Systems Go”

Here’s an index of all the postings in #thegreatpoolpondconversion

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🌹UOJB!  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:33:18am

re: #281 Renaissance_Man

Guarantee he has no regrets about supporting Trump.

Of course not. Loyalty to the Party is #1 even if Chairman Mao Ze-TRUMP declares him to be a non person.

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:35:55am

Gunhumper girl fucked around with Lil Nas X and found out.

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Dangerman  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:45:49am

re: #284 darthstar

Gunhumper girl fucked around with Lil Nas X and found out.

[Embedded content]

pick a fight
throw a punch
get punched back worse than you thought you would or could do yourself
blame who hit you for the whole thing

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darthstar  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:47:18am

re: #285 Dangerman

pick a fight
throw a punch
get punched back worse than you thought you would or could do yourself
blame who hit you for the whole thing

Now she’s calling him a pedophile. I hope he sues her for defamation. He can afford to drag her to court for shits and giggles.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 29, 2021 • 9:50:26am

re: #286 darthstar

Now she’s calling him a pedophile. I hope he sues her for defamation. He can afford to drag her to court for shits and giggles.

A pedophile? For what, his comment about her dad? I would guess her mom would have more to worry about in that respect if her dad is underage.


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